Jul 5, 2010
Garry's Mod Update Released
Garry's Mod - Valve
Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Garry's Mod
  • Fixed flying ragdolls
  • Fixed vehicle view offset
  • Fixed hulls not changing
  • Fixed broken achievements
  • Increased max particles
  • Restored OpeningURL HTML panel callback
  • Added HTML:RunJavascript()
  • Added HTML:GetHTMLMaterial()
Jul 4, 2010
Last Day "Perils of Summer" Steam Sale - Top Sellers Encore
Announcement - Valve
You have made it to the last day of the sale - your last chance to stock up on enough great games to get you safely through the rest of the summer.

Today's games were picked from the summer sale's top sellers. These are bonafide hits, at these prices there is no reason you shouldn't have them all.

www.steamgames.com.

Jul 3, 2010
"Perils of Summer" Steam Sale: Day 10
Announcement - Valve
In the mildest cases, mosquito bites result in an itchy bump which eventually disappears if not obsessively scratched. In the worst cases, mosquito bites result in - you guessed it - death. Given the circumstances, it is a wonder modern housing still include doors and operable windows as standard features.

For more ideas on how to have a safe and enjoyable summer go to www.steamgames.com.

Jul 2, 2010
Final Days For Steam's Perils of Summer Sale
Announcement - Valve
July 2, 2010 - If you are reading this - congratulations! You have survived farther into summer than most and have taken to heart our cautionary tales about the dangers of summer activities. As if good health wasn't reward enough you have until 10 am PST Monday, July 5 to stay safe, stay inside, and save big on today's top releases, classic titles, and publisher catalogs at www.steamgames.com.

Sadly, not everyone has heeded our warnings over this first week of summer, to those who have recklessly fallen, been crushed, or stung (and the care givers reading this to you now), we hope for your speedy recovery - but would also like to point out that we told you so.
Jul 2, 2010
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Update Released
Product Update - Valve
Updates to Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

- Added server-side lag compensation for bulleted and close range weapons when hitting other players. This makes those weapons hit where you aim, even at high pings (in versus modes).
- Automatic matchmaking system. It tries to find a server with a good ping and with some players already in - if possible.
- Deathmatch mode is forced to the front of game mode list, so users always select it by default when choosing versus modes (if they just continue pressing OK when joining).
- Fixed several exploits on Bear City.
- Fixed cases where Palenque Demo couldn't be completed in some game modes (most notably when using warmup).
- Fixed cases where Land of Damned could not be finished on tourist/easy difficulty in coop modes.
- Several optimizations in network bandwidth used by projectiles. Fights with a lot of flying projectiles should now be more responsive.
- Several improvements regarding tighter packing of data in network messages.
- Sometimes, under conditions of packet loss, some enemies would not get deleted but would stand as zombies around or their corpses would never get deleted.
- More optimized bandwidth use for voice chat.
- Fixed regression in standard menu font size. The font is now smaller, as it was before.
- Some improvements in support for multimonitor setups.
- Added workaround for wrong version report from ATI driver.
- Driver version detection is now controlled by an external .lua script, which can be easily updated when drivers change.
- Steam.dll was missing from the dedserver installation, causing it to report warnings on the stdout.
- Fixed "Secret.santa" typo.
- In some rare cases, unreliable RPC compacting could randomly drop some other message from the message queue.


Jul 2, 2010
Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released
Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
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:

Left 4 Dead 2
  • New mutation: Versus Survival
  • Updated default configuration for Intel HD Graphics card
Jul 2, 2010
Napoleon: Total War Update Released
Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition - Valve
Updates to Napoleon: Total War have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Napoleon: Total War
  • Portuguese Infantry units for Great Britain faction no longer refer to themselves as Revolutionary Guards / Guards in acknowledgement voice over when selected on the battle map.
  • Husares de Valpenas units now have acknowledgement voice over when selected on the battle map.
  • Husares Francos Numantios units now have acknowledgement voice over when selected on the battle map.
  • Rain can no longer be heard on buildings / boat structures during battles with the weather set to dust storm or snow storm.
  • Portuguese units for Great Britain faction now speak Portuguese instead of Polish.
  • Light Foot infantry units for Great Britain faction now have correct acknowledgement voice over when selected on the battle map .
  • Fire intensity audio fix for ships on medium fire.
  • Fixed 5-in Howitzer artillery units acknowledgement voice over when selected on the battle map.
Jul 2, 2010
"Perils of Summer" Steam Sale: Day 9
Announcement - Valve
Sasquatch (a.k.a. Bigfoot) sightings have been recorded in wilderness areas around the world. Those who have encountered Bigfoot and survived have described the ape-like forest dweller as "non-confrontational" and "business-like". Because reliable statistics on death and dismemberment as a result of surprise encounters are not publicly available, it is recommended that you avoid potential Bigfoot habitat, especially during the summer mating season.

For more ideas on how to have a safe and happy summer go to www.steamgames.com.

Jul 1, 2010
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Team Fortress 2 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Server Browser
  • Server browser now starts centered onscreen when it opens up.
  • Filter panel now starts expanded, instead of hidden.
  • Added a warning dialog that pops up to warn players joining games with more than the recommended number of players.
  • Added a "max player count" filter setting.
  • Renamed quick list checkbox from "Show Map List" to "Simplified List".
    • Mouseover the checkbox now explains the simplified list in the status bar.
  • Quicklist now shows the number of other servers running each map.
  • Fixed a couple of bugs related to toggling the quick list, which were resulting in you needing to refresh again.

Team Fortress 2
  • Added missing earbud particles for DX8 players.
  • Added new ConVar mp_windifference_min to be used with mp_windifference.
  • Added Engineer to the list of classes that can equip Max's Pistol.
  • Rebuilt sound cache files that were out of date.
  • Source TV:
    • Fixed unlockable items not being visible.
    • Stopped "player is carrying X" messages looping forever.
    • Fixed overhealed particle effect being visible on your current view target when in first-person spectator mode.
  • Changed in-game button colors to be less eyepoppingly bright.
  • Improved Steam Web APIs for TF2 items (see http://www.teamfortress.com/)

Engine
  • Fixed some graphical issues when alt-tabbing during a game.
  • Fixed bullet penetration problems with Linux dedicated server.
  • Removed an exploit that allowed people to change their names to something other than their Steam profile name
Jul 1, 2010
Steam client update released
Client Update - Valve
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam Client
  • Added UI to disable Steam Cloud per-game and per-account.
  • Added an icon in list view for uninstalled games that support cloud.
  • Steam Cloud will now download files for installed games on logon.
  • Fixed Steam Cloud sync failures that occurred because of deleted files.
  • Improve text hit testing in chat windows.
  • Make player names in chat windows clickable, taking you to that user's profile.
  • Fixed tabs in the settings dialog sometimes not drawing correctly.
  • Fixed a regression that prevented steam from automatically validating and repairing damaged game caches on launch.
  • Shortened the delay between launching steam and being offered offline mode in the case of no network connectivity.
  • Fixes the label under the dropdown on the game properties updates page for non-cloud games.
  • Shows the "cloud disabled" icon in list view for games with cloud disabled that are not installed.
  • Fixes players paying mods showing up as "in-game" rather than "in-mod" in the friends window.
  • Fixes the login button in the login dialog becoming enabled when the dialog is dragged after the button is pressed.
  • Improves whitespace detection in chats.
  • Fixes a confusing error message when attempting to back up to a directory that doesn't exist (it would tell you the disk doesn't have enough space).
  • Fixes weirdness with radio buttons when pressing the 'back' key on the backup wizard.
  • Fixes game manuals not opening in an external browser.
  • [OSX] Makes player names in chat windows clickable
  • [OSX] Fixed a class of bugs that could cause steam to hang while shutting down, especially if network settings had changed.
  • [OSX] Fixes tooltip flickering.
  • [OSX] Cmd+Left/Right now go to beginning/end of line.
  • [OSX] Option+Left/Right now go to word boundaries.
  • [OSX] Option+Enter now inserts a newline.
  • [OSX] Fixes some Windows-specific wording about the notification tray in the preferences/settings window.
  • [OSX] Prevents backing up files to the file system root.
  • [OSX] Treats the return key the same as the enter key.
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