Mar 13, 2013
Towns - Valve
Version 11a

Change: Reduced the heroes appearing rate
Change: All the roofs but the broken one and the straw one will block fluids
Change: Cooking a fish now takes a bit longer
Fix: Health points being reset to a living entity base stats while receive any effect
Fix: Snow birds missing graphics for older save games

Version 11

Add: Citizen jobs and groups
Add: Light items
Add: Configurable FX and music volume
Add: Fishing dock and fishing set items, used for fishing
Add: Food variety bonus
Add: "Interior" roofs
Add: Possibility to set a square area for certain actions instead of a row (IE. planting wheat, building scaffolds)
Add: New customizable priorities (move_to_caravan, build_buildings and feed_animals)
Add: Toggable 3D mouse. Useful to build things on other layers than the current one
Add: New walls and, a new wooden road item, a well and a pond
Add: Ogre, werewolf, snickers, fire head and ghoul isometric graphics
Add: New living, the Snoat! (Snow goat). It replaces the old reindeers and does
Add: Flat blocks for the wheat and all the roofs
Add: Chance to idle livings to move more than 1 cell
Add: Animated living entities even when they do not move (birds, brownie bar rider, ghosts and fire head)
Add: Enemies stats when you right click on them
Add: New damage types and resistances to weapons, armors and monsters
Change: Spanish names for the armor sets
Change: Almost all the effects but the direct ones will not notify with a message when a living receives it
Change: Military items are not displayed on the livings panel if the living have the graphic change effect (IE. Citizen turned to a pig)
Change: Townies will stop the "Move to caravan" and the "Autoequip" tasks to eat if necessary
Change: Big sieges will not stuck the citizens when search a path
Change: Menu item "Delete" by "Delete scaffolds"
Change: Dynamic pile/container configuration panel
Change: Items and livings now are shadowed if they stand in a dark cell
Change: Reduced drop percentage to heads and bones
Change: Green block and green road now needs green color instead of yellow flowers to be built
Change: Wooden block and Wooden moss block removed from the utilities type
Change: Increased the difficulty of the last dungeon
Change: Bone carver item has been removed from the bone armor prerequisites (still in the menu for save compatibility)
Change: Now you can set the maximum stock you want in the "burn items" actions
Change: Military prices increased a bit. Spider bow value reduced.
Remove: Snow birds
Fix: Empty group names no longer allowed
Fix: Mini issues/typos in the xmls
Fix: Citizens no longer will change their mining point after other citizens ends their mine tasks
Fix: Crash when a citizen decides to drop an item when he just died (over a stockpile)
Fix: Incorrect coins ammount was being displayed when loading a saved game (The issue didn't affect the real coins ammount)
Fix: Occasions when a citizen has two rooms while changing personal room owner
Fix: Tooltips in a soldier panel when the soldier list is empty
Fix: Citizens won't move locked items on certain conditions
Fix: Only 1 auto-production item was placed on the queue on some circumstances
Fix: Freeze when a wounded citizen uses a 2nd level dormitory bed
Fix: Projectiles data are loaded properly when you load a game (this avoids the "null sticks null" messages)
Fix: Equipment menus are no longer partly rendered out of the screen

Modders: New tag on the livingentities.xml. Possible values are true or false (default). Used on birds, brownie bat rider, ghosts and fire head
Modders: New tag on the items.xml. Possible values are true or false (default). Used on windows and glass walls
Modders: New tag on the items.xml. It allows a numerical value (default 0). Used on items that produce light
Modders: New , and tag on the items.xml. It allows the values FULL, HALF or NONE (default). Used on items that produce light
Modders: New tag on the actions.xml. Possible valueas are true or false (default). Used on the "burn items" actions. This way the stock number acts as a maximum
Modders: Property "COLOR" removed from the graphics.ini
Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Valve
A Civilization V update has been released. Change list:

[BUGS]
- If you build defensive structures in your city, then save and reload, the hit-point bonus would disappear.
- Hun Battering Ram promotion which allows it to only attack cities is now lost upon upgrade
- Civ5 Touch - Fixes the oddness when rotating tablets
- Graphical - Fix issue with Rock of Gibraltar not showing up correctly.
- Fix the bug where the Maya AI didn't have to pick a different GP for each Baktun
- Fix an issue on a city flip/gift which would cause loss of city plots forever.
- Fixed a bug where liberated CS would not show their vote correctly in the Victory Progress UI screen
- Fix graphics bugs when the game was restarted too many times in a row.
- Shortcuts created through the launcher now function correctly.

[CRASH]
- Fix a crash that happens when an AI loses its capital, but still has units, so is still alive.


Mar 13, 2013
Don't Starve - Valve
Update Notes - March 12th

NEW FEATURES:
-Rain comes during the summer to ruin your fires and dampen your spirits. Watch out for lightning strikes!
-Sandbox custom mode sliders are all unlocked. You can make the game really, really hard now.
-Pathfinding works over long distances.
-Day length changes throughout seasons
-Modders can now bring up an interactive lua console with the ~ key

ADVENTURE MODE:
-Put in very rough sketches of the actual adventure levels. It’s very rough at this point, and the ‘story’ bits are missing, but the basic structure is in place.
-Added lots of little setpieces using new objects that try to impede your progress.

NEW CREATURES:
-Clockwork Knight
-Merms
-Guardian Pigs

NEW ITEMS TO BUILD:
-Drying Rack and Jerky
-Honey Poultice
-Gunpowder
-One Man Band
-Purple Gem
-Fire Staff
-Shadow Manipulator
-Rainometer
-Umbrella
-Ham Bat

NEW STUFF IN THE WORLD:
-Mushrooms (3 kinds)
-A bit of Maxwell ground is starting to creep into the world around some Teleportato parts
-Pig Torches
-Killer Bee Hives
-Variant Berry Bush
-(In)sanity obelisks that block areas when you are (in)sane
-Hound Mound
-Now two types of ponds - frog ponds and mosquito ponds
-Marble pillars
-Evil flowers and petals
-Gears
-Nitre
-Eggs
-Carpet Flooring
-Marble Tiles
-Treeguards drop special, magical wood that is used in some recipes

TUNING:
-Magical recipes have mostly been moved the Shadow Manipulator
-Icebox now require Gears to create
-Tallbirds spawn more often
-Ponds freeze in the winter, and stop spawning things
-Beefalo mating season is shorter, and there are fewer babies
-Ranged weapons actually shoot projectiles
-Health and Sanity effects of foods have been reduced (you restore these by other means now)
-Monster meat perishes faster
-Blow dart causes more damage
-Graves have gems, gears, and nightmare fuel in them sometimes

BUG FIXES:
-You can kill small creatures directly in your inventory / toss them into fires
-Season onsets work better in Adventure mode
-AOE attacks cause area damage even if the targeted hit misses
-Deerclops can not be stunlocked, and doesn’t panic when he is lit on fire
-Koalefants can no longer fly across water when you aren’t watching
-Koalefant tracks point more accurately in the correct direction
-Attempting to store a weapon in Chester no longer attacks him
-Chester follows through wormholes when using a backpack
-Right click an equipped tool with another item no longer destroys the tool
-When wilson uses up a tool, he automatically equips a replacement if one is available
-You can no longer light Beefalo (or other creatures) on fire by using a torch on them
-Mandrakes get picked up properly when using Spacebar

Team Fortress 2 - Valve
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

  • Unlocked the "What's in the Portal 2 Soundtrack Box?"
  • Added new promo Items
  • Removed Salvage Crate #40, Crate #49 and Crate #54 from the drop list
  • Added Salvage Crate #50, Crate #56, and Crate #57 to the drop list
  • Updated the localization files
Counter-Strike 2 - Valve
Release Notes for 3/11/2013

[ MISC ]

- Fixed the end match map vote sometimes selecting the wrong map as winner
- Fixed a crash in dedicated servers related to the end match map vote
- Players can no longer cast a vote outside the range of maps in the end match map vote list
ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition - Valve
VIRTUAL AWAKENING (1.0.65)
CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
- Add-On introduction and illustration
- Victory warnings alert messages
- Improved blockade effects: now activated on guard and invasion only
- New scrapping button for unnecessary improvements on the Empire view
- Tax rate tooltip in the Empire view
- Reworked game speed effects:
+ Outpost are converted into colony in 15 turns (fast), 30 turns (normal), 45 turns (slow)
+ Ownership progresses 2x faster in fast and 2x slower in slow
+ Bushido, revenge and other traits linked to a turn limit are now bind to the game speed
+ Locus point limit is now affected by the game speed
+ Invasion progress is multiplied by 2 in fast and divided by 2 in slow
+ Max Invasion Limit is now 50% in fast and 12% in slow

FREE WEEKEND REWARDS
- 4 new heroes with their own biography and illustration
+ Pirate
+ Deuyivan
+ Automaton
+ Virtual Endless
- 1 new Technology
+ Gas Giant Transformation
- 2 new Buildings
+ Deep Space Facility (G2G)
+ High Energy Array
- 3 new Planet Anomalies
+ Hostile Dust
+ Endless Trouble
+ Humeris Insidentes
- 4 new random events including stackable/escalating game events
+ Mad Scientist (G2G)
+ New Religion (G2G)
+ Sleeping War machines (G2G)
+ Endless Facility
- 6 new Exploration Rewards
+ Pool of heroes is refreshed (G2G) reset or replaced
+ Unveil surrounding systems
+ Boost industry or approval (4 rewards)

AI IMPROVEMENTS
- Option to allow AI governors to auto-scrap buildings
- Enhanced hero management
- Better affinity and faction traits management

FIXES
- Fixed an issue with hero commander class skill tree that could lead to misunderstanding
- Fixed an issue with hero pilot class skill tree that could lead to misunderstanding
- Changed influence calculation to fix the bad value of the income applied during the first turn

1.0.61
FIXES
- Fixed an issue where the list of available heroes could be empty at the beginning of a game (after creating games many times without restarting Endless space)
- Fixed a potential desync occurring when a player just destroyed a pirate fleet which was blockading a system.
Tomb Raider - Valve
We have just made public a new version of the PC version of Tomb Raider, build 1.0.718.4. This patch will be applied by Steam automatically when you next start the game. If your game does not update, please restart the Steam client.

This update addresses a variety of issues that we either found out about shortly before release or immediately after.

Fixes include:

- Addressed some stability and startup issues on machines that have both Intel and NVIDIA graphics hardware.
- Fix for players being unable to progress related to the boat in the beach area.
- Some fixes for crashes on startup and when selecting Options.
- Some small improvements to TressFX hair rendering.
- Fixes for various graphics glitches, including certain effects not being visible in fullscreen mode.
- Fixed a problem that caused some users to not be able to use exclusive fullscreen.
- Added support for separate mouse/gamepad inversion for aiming, as well as support for x-axis inversion.
- Fixes related to the benchmark scene and benchmark mode.
- Various other small fixes.

While we expect this patch to be an improvement for everyone. If you do have trouble with this patch and prefer to stay on the old version we made a Beta available on Steam, Build716.5, that can be used to switch back to the previous version. Please note however that you can only play multiplayer with people that share your version.

Counter-Strike 2 - Valve
Release Notes for 3/8/2013

[ MISC ]

- The convar mp_endmatch_votenextmap (defaults to 1) is now accessible to everyone.
- If a server is running a map group with more than 10 maps in it, a random set of 10 maps will be selected from the group and will be shown to clients at the end of the match in the map vote list.
- Added mp_endmatch_votenextmap_keepcurrent (defaults to 1) that forces the current map to stay in the list of end match voting options. If not set, the current map is not guaranteed to be in the list and will randomly enter the list like any other map.
- Resolved a few bugs with the new random map selection.
Champions of Regnum - Valve
Champions of Regnum: Realm Guard Pack, all new content for Champions of Regnum is Now Available on Steam.

Plus, Champions of Regnum - first update


Less than 10 days after the Steam release, we are happy to release the first update taken straight from the Steam Community’s feedback.
See the summarized list of changes below:
• Modified: XP for killing another player has been raised 50%.
• Modified: Creatures with "Normal" rating or less no longer evade players’ hits.
• Modified: Mages and Arches initial weapons now have medium and fast speeds respectively.
• Modified: Some of the initial powers has been modified to make the first levels more dynamic.
• Modified: Under level 11 Characters no longer require 15 days to be deleted. This allows new players to experience different realms.
• New: "Brothers in Arms" Quest, rewards a 7 days mount and health and mana elixirs. – All Realms.
• New: Visual effect over interact able objects when they are part of the current quest.
• Several other improvements and fixes

Dota 2 - Valve
GAMEPLAY
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Rocket Barrage firing while under effects like Disruption/Chronosphere/Doom/Hex.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon hurting nightmared units without waking them up.
- Naga Siren: Fixed being able to purge Song of the Siren aura off of Naga Siren.
- Nyx: Fixed Spiked Carapace affecting Juggernaut during Omnislash.
- Outworld Devourer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment not draining enough mana from enemy heroes.
- Timbersaw: Fixed Whirling Death not doing enough damage against strength heroes.
- Fixed Maelstrom and Mjollnir being unable to proc if the initial target is Magic Immune.
- Tweaked Neutral Creep chase timings for the two small camps.
- Fixed a number of bugs in Mechanics I, including all known showstoppers.

UI
- Fixed holding alt causing smoked hero names to be shown on minimap when near truesight.
- Fixed your status showing as playing a local bot game if you were spectating a game
- Hero performance page is now sorted by total number of games played.
- Fixed Dire wins in the Team Game History tab showing up as losses.
- Fixed bug where Team Game History wasn't refreshing properly.
- The Teams List under Community now displays Teams in order of their most recently played match.
- There's now a dialog asking the player to rate their currently-used hero build (if it's not yet been rated).

AUDIO
- Music now plays in spectator and replay modes.

ITEMS
- Added Fiery Soul of the Slayer item for Lina.
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