Steam News

Half-Life 1 Deathmatch and Team Fortress Classic Update Released

April 23, 2007, 3:40 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Half-Life 1 Deathmatch and Team Fortress Classic have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life 1 Deathmatch and Team Fortress Classic

• Fixed game server crash when lastinv was inappropriately used

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

November 21, 2005, 5:42 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Half-Life 1 Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life 1 Engine

• Fixed Asian language versions displaying corrupt characters
  
• Fixed Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes not loading cz_alamo2 correctly
  
• Fixed being unable to launch Half-Life: Blue Shift if you didn't own Half-Life 1
  

• Added new clientcvar2 cvar query interface for developers
  
• Fixed "-sport" and "+ip" command line options being ignored on startup
  

Source Engine and Half-Life 1: Engine Updates Available

October 3, 2005, 5:11 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Source Engine and Half-Life 1: Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Source Engine

• Fixed loading error when trying to debug Source MODs using the SDK
  
• Fixed a startup crash in Windows 98
  

• Fixed name exploit causing client crash

Half-Life 1: Engine Update Available

August 12, 2005, 5:11 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Half-Life 1: Engine for Linux have been released. Run the hldsupdatetool to apply the update. The specific changes include:

Half-Life 1: Engine

• Fixed crash on startup due to bad hostname settings
  
• Fixed crash on startup in threading library
  

Update for All Steam Games Released

February 9, 2004, 6:26 pm - Greg Coomer - Product Update

An update for all Steam games has just been released. See below for a list of what's included. As always, Steam will update your games automatically. Dedicated Servers will be required to restart. If you're a server admin and you have trouble using the HLDS update tool, you can download the latest dedicated server updates here.

ENGINE (all games)

• Small CPU optimizations
  
• Stop motdfile from having "..","","/" or ":" characters in filename


• Added new command line option "-dll"; Syntax is -dll [game_dll_to_load]


• Fix for updated files on the server not getting to the client when using compression


• Fixed extremely large rcon packets not being returned correctly


CSTRIKE

• Increased hit damage for elite pistols (slightly)


• Decreased price for elite pistols to $800


• Optimized entity lookup routines to reduce CPU load


• Fix xm1014 and m3 from making endless empty clip sounds when out of ammo


• Fixed shield bug where client could purchase multiple primary weapons


• Cstrike spectator health fix (switching players sometimes left health display incorrect)


• Cstrike lastinv fix (lastinv works at start of round, after picking up items, etc)


• Cstrike corpse popping fix


• Cstrike FL_FAKECLIENT fix (3rd-party bots should work fine in cstrike once more)


• Fixed file leak in ReadWaveFile() function


DEDICATED SERVER

• Change white background to black for status bar on console app


DEATHMATCH CLASSIC

• Added support for command menu