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Counter-Strike: Source and Source Engine Updates Available

April 5, 2005, 4:05 pm - Valve - Product Update

An update is available for Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike: Source

  • Enabled support for SourceTV
  • Fixed a rare bug that caused some bullet impacts to be counted twice
  • Improved map overview support
  • The message of the day file is now required to be in the main game directory
  • Fixed an issue with player names being out of sync with the server
  • Fixed "purple checkerboard" problem for Message of the Day scrollbars
  • Fixed some localization issues related to player chat
  • Death notices are no longer displayed while blind
  • Death notices retain the correct team color even if the player quickly changes teams
  • Bots immediately change their names to match the bot_prefix when it changes
  • Bots join dedicated servers immediately if the bot_quota is nonzero
  • Fixed bug where bots would repeatedly fail to join with an invalid Steam ID
  • Added mp_logdetail at the request of server administrators

Source Engine
  • Player sprays now persist through round restarts. The number of rounds a spray survives is determined by r_spray_lifetime
  • Fixed a bug causing the first message from a plug-in message to be colored incorrectly
  • Consistency checking is now skipped during demo playback
  • Added sv_visiblemaxplayers
  • Fixed timing precision error causing slower framerates on servers running continuously for more than a few days

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