Square Enix, IO Interactive, and Nixxes are making a first patch (1.0.438.0) available for Hitman: Absolution on PC.

This patches provides the following improvements:

- Players using the Russian language will no longer crash as soon as they use the sniper rifle.
- Various issues that have been seen on specific configurations that caused the game to not be able to start up at all have been addressed.
- Problems with the Sniper Challenge Unlocks not carrying over into Hitman: Absolution have been addressed. On first starting the patched game you will receive your unlocks.
o Note that North American users that have been provided the Sniper Challenge by Gamestop will need a separate unlock key in addition to this. Gamestop can provide these.
- Problems with negative level-scores have been fixed. Newly accomplished positive scores will be needed to erase your incorrectly remembered negative scores.
- A problem with keyboard and mouse controls where users would accidentally melee attack a person next to them when they intended to throw an item has been addressed.
- Legal and Intro movies can now be skipped immediately on startup after the game, on all launches but the very first on a machine.
- DirectX 10 hardware can now enable the simplest version of the Depth Of Field effect.
- Problems with audio occasionally being muted after ALT-TAB have been fixed.
- Various localization fixes.
- Miscellaneous other stability and general improvements based on crashes we have seen coming in.

Note that the above is really just our first set of fixes. We are continuing to monitor things and expect to provide further patches in the future.

We hope this patch will help everyone enjoy Hitman: Absolution!

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 problem with some materials not being displayed correctly
  
• Fixed weapon pickup sounds not being played for some weapons
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added The Tuxxy
  
• Added a new promo item
  
• Fixed some HUD clipping issues when using cl_hud_minmode
  
• Fixed Mann vs. Machine popfiles not properly resetting on changelevel
  
• Fixed seeing an error model when watching replays with missing models
  
• Fixed missing materials in the control point HUD on attack/defend maps
  
• Fixed a problem that would cause Halloween spell effects to appear on some items
  
• Updated the Mann Co. Store
  • Cosmetic items purchased in the store moving forward can be used in crafting
    
  • Class starter bundles now contain a Name Tag instead of a class-specific hat