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Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2, and Portal Update Released

June 23, 2009, 3:21 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2, and Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2, Episode 1 & 2, and Portal

• Added support for the Novint Falcon
  

• Added an option to the advanced multiplayer menu to select left or right handed view models
  
• Fixed a bug where a spectator's wearable items could be seen floating around the player they were spectating
  
• Fixed a bug where a fake Spy hand would appear on the screen of other players
  
• Custom death animations now only play 25% of the time
  
• Fixed teleporters not being build-able in some places where they should be (such as within the pit at the end of Badwater Basin)
  
• Fixed rare client crash on connection and level change
  
• Removed refract from water ripples caused by bullet impacts for performance reasons
  
• Added log entries for player extinguished events using the medigun, jarate, flamethrower and dispenser
  
• Started tracking localization settings to help make decisions regarding localization in the future
  
• Fixed the blank progress bar in the upper-left of the screen when the client scheme is reloaded
  

• Added spawn flag to func_respawnroomvisualizer that allows it be non-solid to players
  
• Added SetSolid input to func_respawnroomvisualizer to change solidity to players dynamically
  
• Added OnWonByTeam1 and OnWonByTeam2 outputs to the TFGamerulesProxy
  

• Fixed a bad detection case in the "Friendship is Golden" achievement
  
• Changed the description of the "Triple Prey" achievement so it better describes how to get it
  
• Critical arrows now have a trail and correctly deal enhanced damage
  
• The Huntsman now defaults to be right handed
  
• Friendly arrows will no longer trigger the near miss sound on you
  
• Fixed several sources of floating arrows
  

• Fixed disguised Spies occasionally looking like they have invulnerability, instead of the correct fake Spy mask
  
• Disguised spies will no longer lose their disguise weapon when they interact with a weapon locker
  
• Fixed a bug where the spy's watch would randomly change models during play
  
• Fixed uncloaked spies flickering in and out of the cloak effect when taking damage
  
• The Cloak and Dagger now always regenerates at its intended rate. Previously it only regenerated at the correct rate when the spy was cloaked
  
• Increased the Cloak and Dagger regeneration rate slightly
  
• Capped the rate of energy loss from moving faster than run speed (falling / air toss) while cloaked with the Cloak and Dagger
  
• The Dead Ringer's cloak consume rate has been slightly reduced, giving about an extra second of cloak time on a full meter
  
• Emerging from the Dead Ringer's cloak now drains up to 40% of the cloak meter instead of 100%. This drain only happens if the meter is at least 60% full
  
• The Dead Ringer's cloak meter can now be regenerated from ammo sources
  
• The Ambassador now only crits when fully accurate and no longer penetrates enemies
  
• The Spy can no longer change weapons from the knife while shocked by the Razorback
  
• Force-A-Nature & Flamethrower air blast knockback effects no longer work on disguised spies
  
• Fixed disguised Spies showing the wrong teleporter effects when using an enemy teleporter
  

Orange Box Engine Update Released

February 20, 2009, 3:25 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Orange Box Engine

• Fixed stats and achievements not working in Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Portal
  
• Fixed incompatibilities with MODs
  

Orange Box Engine Update Released

February 17, 2009, 3:16 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Orange Box Engine

• Updated the engine to report SteamIDs using the Steam_0 format instead of Steam_1
  
• Fixed problems in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, and Source mods running the current Orange Box engine
  
• Reverted the change that capped rate at 30000
  

Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Update Released

June 9, 2008, 4:57 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode 2

• Added a new advanced video option that allows the user to easily change the field of view to any value they wish between 75 degrees and 90 degrees
  
• Updated the particle rendering code and particle data files to make them compatible with the particle editor included in the Source SDK
  

Half-Life 2: Episode Two/Portal Update Released

January 25, 2008, 11:16 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life 2: Episode Two/Portal

• Fixed crash when attempting to update the achievement count
  

Source Engine Update Released

November 27, 2007, 12:06 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Source Engine

• Fixed surround sound not working properly when running Windows Vista
  
• SourceTV relay proxies can record demos now with tv_autorecord 1
  
• Fixed jittery demo playback
  

Source Engine Update Released

November 26, 2007, 11:51 am - Valve - Product Update

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

Source Engine

• Fixed a crash in Half-Life 2: Episode Two when exiting This Vortal Coil