- Enabled equipped Pennants showing up in your base.

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed Illuminate going 400 further than intended.
- Fixed Psi Blades being slightly too wide in its spill.

UI
- Fixed range cursor always using the player's main hero instead of the currently casting unit.
- Fixed bug where connecting during CM pick stage resulted in a broken pick/ban view.
- Added control groups 7, 8, 9, and 10.
- Added team profile page, accessible from the profile page of any player in a team.
- Filtering live games by hero now matches on localized hero names and supports keyboard shortcuts.

AUDIO
- Added custom sounds when Tiny has an ultimate scepter equipped and is attacking with a tree.

BOTS
- Added Luna bot.
- Added Dazzle bot.
- Only use suggested heroes if we have bot implementations for them.
- Lich bot will now use Frost Nova when laning to harass, if he has plenty of mana.
- Fixed bug that would cause Viper to use Poision Attack on creeps when laning.
- Bots will now sell TP scrolls if they need the inventory space to buy an item from the Secret Shop.
- Made Bane bot less likely to use abilities when doing a mild retreat.
- Fixed Razor's Plasma Field usage in-lane which was just completely broken. He should spam it less now.
- Tiny will now Avalanche at a slightly further distance when trying to do his combo.
- Windrunner will try to Shackleshot when retreating less now, and only when Windrun isn't active.
- Bots will no longer want to do Roshan when they aren't sufficiently tanky.
- When buying TP scrolls, bots will now try to purchase two of them since they tend to run around without any too often
- Fixed bug where bots wouldn't lower their farm desire when they reached enough money to make a big purchase, resulting in them farming forever.
- Fixed bug in Armlet toggling.
- Fixed bug that was causing bots to use Mekansm when no one needed healing.
- Fixed bug that was causing bots to incorrectly extrapolate movement positions (breaking abilities that need to lead their targets like Torrent or Light Strike Array).

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:


Shared Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM)

• Improved the performance and stability of the libraries used for in-game HTML display
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added new promo items
  
• Fixed hats sometimes appearing multiple times in incorrect locations when changing classes
  
• Fixed Demoman shields not reducing explosive damage in non-MvM games
  
• Fixed the tf_bot_add command using the same name for all of the bots when adding multiple bots simultaneously
  
• Updated the localization files
  
• Moved map descriptions into the localization files
  • Map descriptions will still be loaded from the maps folder first if they exist
• Updated Mann vs. Machine
  • Fixed a bug where players could only buy 1 upgrade at a time from the upgrade station
    
  • Fixed a bug where the Victory dialog would sometimes show during incorrect times

An update to Counter-Strike: Source has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Counter-Strike: Source. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash bug caused by overflow of the audio cache
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed server browser network activity to continue after choosing a server
  

Updates to Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Updated with other Orange Box client/server fixes

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:


Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM)

• Fixed a client crash bug caused by overflow of the audio cache
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed server browser network activity to continue after choosing a server
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added new promo items
  
• Unlocked the "What's in the Sandvich Box?"
  
• Unlocked the "What's in the Companion Square Box?"
  
• Fixed a server crash related to Demoman bot AI
  
• Updated the Tin Pot to use the correct skin for each style
  
• Fixed seeing the fire texture on Gold Botkiller items in DirectX 8
  
• Updated the localization files
  
• Updated Mann vs. Machine
  
  
  • Matchmaking search criteria supports selecting multiple missions
    
  • Mann Up servers will retry notification of mission victory to game coordinator, to ensure loot is eventually granted in the case of service disruption
    
  • Matchmaking will prevent late joining into the a server near the end of the last wave
    
  • Added a new currency UI element to indicate money that is active in the world
    
  • Added the tour number to the information on the scoreboard
    
  • Fixed the Medigun overheal duration attribute causing the overheal effect to decay faster, rather than slower
    
  • Added the ability to buy projectile penetration for the Crusader's Crossbow
    
  • Fixed a false positive for the achievement "Clockwork Carnage"
    
  • Added a new command "bot_hurt"
    • Parameters -name [bot name], -team [red/blue/all], -damage [amount]
  • Fixed the Demoman shields not saving their upgrades upon round reset
• Updated koth_king
  • Reflections fixed for the floors and some glass windows
    
  • Modified model file for the sign 6 through 9 to avoid Red signs on Blu side of the map
    
  • Modified light pole to merge bulb and pole into a single model for perf
    
  • Fixed location where mini-sentries can shoot through a bush without being seen
    
  • Clipping pass
    
  • Added glass on footbridge roof and lights nearby
    
  • Prop reduction for perf
    
  • Some props changed to non-solid for player mobility
    
  • Adjusted health and ammo in various spots
• Community requests:
  • Add a new server ConVar "tf_avoidteammates_pushaway" to control whether or not teammates push each other away when occupying the same space
    
  • Add a new server ConVar "tf_arena_override_team_size" to allow server owners to set the maximum team size in arena mode

9/19/12
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- In the Test client, heroes will now randomly equip cosmetic items every time they spawn.

GAMEPLAY
- Pugna: Fixed Nether Ward briefly registering the incorrect team right after casting.
- Wisp: Fixed being able to Teleport a Tethered creep to the enemy base.
- Lich: Fixed Chain Frost being dodge-able.

UI
- The buyback button is no longer shown when the hero is reincarnating.
- Shift clicking a recipe now puts it in quickbuy.
- Fixed misaligned tooltips in the combine tree.
- Pennants now work for any game that's part of a tournament.
- New broadcaster select dialog.
- Added animated Firstblood, killstreaks and multikills notifications.
- Reduced opposing-team pause resume time down to 5 seconds (from 30 seconds). It remains 30 seconds if a player is disconnected.
- The top bar healthbars now show up any time a player is spectating.
- Fixed issues with the featured hero in the profile not showing the right hero, or not animating after toggling the dashboard.
- Stackable items now have their sellback time expired when they are stacked by a movement inside the inventory.
- The suggested items tab is now reloaded after a player swaps heroes with someone else.
- Added hero filter to live games list.

VISUALS
- Added a effect that plays the whole time Keeper's Mana Leak is active on a target, not just when the target moves.
- Player's chosen team pennant will display in the fountain area.

DOTA 2 BOTS
- Added Lich bot.
- Added Death Prophet bot.
- Added Viper bot.
- Bots will now select heroes their teammates have suggested in the hero picker.
- Increased the radius and strength of fountain avoidance.
- Tuned the strength of bots desire to place a ward, they should be somewhat more cautious about it now.
- Bots now wait 15 seconds after hero-picking to spring into action. This gives players the opportunity to buy their own couriers, if they want.
- Bots will no longer try to TP out of a fight if they're currently visible to the enemy team.
- Bots now try to path through FoWed areas when retreating.
- Bots now pay attention to multiple pings, and will use them to strengthen their desire to attack a hero, defend a lane, or push a lane.
- Bots that are disabled due to missing players on the opposing team are now also invulnerable so they cannot be farmed.
- Supports will now defer last-hitting to non-supports in their lane.
- Bots on easier difficulty levels will now be worse at retreating out of a gank.
- Fixed bug with the avoidance of Dark Seer's wall (only half the wall was being avoided).
- Slightly increased sticktoitiveness of bots overall, but moreso for medium and easy bots.
- Made Tiny bot less likely to Avalanche when retreating (so it's harder to harass him into using all his mana).

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Console commands update_addon_paths and unload_all_addons can't be used while connected to a server.
- Some custom UI's give the ability to change which add-ons are active from the in-game menu. Now those changes won't be applied until the player returns to the lobby or main menu.
- Melee weapon scripts can optionally define the HUD icon data inside the script, similar to other weapons. See golfclub.txt for a format sample.
- Fixed a rare crash in the Spitter attack.
- Fixed a rare crash in bot navigation involving ladders.

- Fixed departure elevators not properly playing their informational videos.
- Fixed overly shiny ground in certain maps.
- Reduced development spew from previous updates now that the Workshop bug that affected a small number of users has been corrected.

Release Notes for 9/14/2012

[ GAME ]
- Added third-person gunshot flinch reaction animations for all players
- Molotovs and incendiary grenades now explode in mid air if they haven't touched the ground after a small amount of time has passed
- Molotovs and incendiary grenades now no longer throw shorter than the other grenade types
- Fixed grenades bouncing really high if you threw them straight at the ground
- Fixed grenades that don't have a timer (like the smoke) not detonating if they found a spot to continually bounce and not touch what was considered "the ground"
- Fixed a bug in bullet penetration where a bullet would penetrate walls much thicker than intended when the first brush the bullet hit was a detail brush.
- Fixed a rare case when server reservation would not load correct map on official servers
- Flipped MP7 viewmodel fire selector from safety to full-auto

[ UI ]
- Fixed spectator glows not updating state often enough which could allow glows to show at the wrong time
- Fixed player target ID names not showing properly in some cases when observing/spectating
- Fixed the spectator UI showing in Arms Race
- Fixed player not auto observing their killer after the death camera if no bot was available to take over
- Fixed round in spectator screen not updating if you connected mid round
- If all players on a team share the same team tag, the scoreboard and spectator team names will display the players' team name (steam group name)
- Improved rendering performance of text UI elements

[ COMMUNITY ]
- Added default loading screen for direct connects and custom maps that shows loading progress
- Fixed server console say command to deliver text to all connected clients
- sv_password can now be set on community dedicated servers when they have no players connected and will be enforced.
- Matchmaking: blocking relationships do not prevent direct server joins, they only filter during matchmaking
- sv_pure: VPK files contain the necessary hashes so the dedicated servers do not need to compute them at startup but can be checked with the command “sv_pure_checkvpk”

An update to Counter-Strike: Source has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Counter-Strike: Source. The major changes include:

• Added a new command "kickall" which kicks all connected clients except for HLTV and the listenserver host if applicable
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed malicious servers to execute restricted console commands on players
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed malicious servers to prevent players from executing console commands
  
• Updated Steam binaries; fixes Linux crash on shutdown or restart
  
• Performance improvements