Steam News

Counter-Strike 1.6 Update Released

July 15, 2009, 11:15 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Counter-Strike 1.6 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life Engine

• Added -sys_ticrate command line option to allowed forced override of ticrate
  
• Prevent more cases of server redirection
  

• Added -nobots option to allow forced override of bots on servers
  

Counter-Strike and Condition Zero Update Released

April 20, 2009, 4:06 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Counter-Strike and Condition Zero have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike and Condition Zero

• Prevent Russian Walking exploit
  

• Fixed players being kicked from servers with an INVALID_STEAM_TICKET rejection
  
• Added a message to the server console to show when the server has reconnected to Steam
  
• Made map name and other variables reported by the server stay more current
  
• Fixed mp_timeleft not updating in server rules (or any unlogged cvar for that matter)
  
• Show HLTV being connected in the player count for pings
  
• Fixed HLTV staying in players list even after disconnect
  
• Fixed server hang when a user connects with a specially crafted info string
  
• Fixed occasional crash under Linux on startup for SMP machines (Linux)
  
• Cleaned up hlds_run script (Linux)
  

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

November 14, 2008, 6:12 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 crash caused by specially crafted connect string
  

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

October 24, 2008, 4:25 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 UI crash when running a MOD
  

Counter-Strike 1.6 and Condition Zero Update Released

October 24, 2008, 10:15 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Counter-Strike 1.6 and Condition Zero have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike 1.6 and Condition Zero

• Fixed crash on level change
  

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

October 22, 2008, 4:40 pm - Valve - Product Update

A new set of Steamworks features have been released for all Half-Life 1 engine multiplayer games: Counter-Strike 1.6, Condition Zero, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet, Day of Defeat and Half-life 1 Deathmatch. The update includes Steamworks features such as player avatars in the scoreboard when playing Counter-Strike and Condition Zero. The update also contains several bug fixes, listed below. Note that this update will require all game servers to restart.

Bug Fixes

• Removed the need to manually re-login and re-authenticate to Steam while in game
  
• Fixed a crash on startup when running windowed with a non-standard desktop resolution
  
• Removed the display of saytext (in-game chat text) from players whom you've blocked in Steam friends
  
• Locked down several engine cvars to prevent malicious script exploits
  
• Enforced file consistency on several sprites in Counter-Strike
  
• Removed "ex_extrapmax" cvar (no longer needed)
  

• Added "-noaff" command-line option to disable setting of thread affinity
  
• Added "bannedcfg" cvar so admins can choose which file is written to by the "writeid" command
  

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

April 14, 2008, 2:46 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to 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

• Prevented various cvar exploits

Counter-Strike and Condition Zero Update Released

January 9, 2008, 3:29 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Counter-Strike and Condition Zero have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike and Condition Zero

• Fixed add current server button layout in the serverbrowser
  
• Don't allow the '&' character in usernames
  
• Prevented empty chat spam
  
• Fix for upscaling decals in software renderer
  
• Duplicated the in-game advertisements from Counter-Strike in Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

January 9, 2007, 12:22 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 game exiting when recieving a very large Friend's message

Half-Life 1 Engine Updated

October 25, 2006, 5:03 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to 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 crash when downloading content in game if IE7 was installed
  
• Fixed viewdemo command not working correctly with some demos
  
• Fixed getting duplicate friends message when in game