AI War: Fleet Command - Valve
Ancient Shadows, all new content for AI War: Fleet Command, is now available on Steam and is 10% off* !

Splinter factions of humans, zenith, neinzul, and spire all dwell in those backwater nebulae. Some are hiding. Some are plotting. Some have gone totally insane. It is there, in the shadows, that your champion can find relics from the ancient race which constructed it. What power awaits? At what cost?

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Solar 2 - Valve
Solar 2 is now available on Mac and 66% off!* Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC!

Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems in an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe.

*Offer ends October 26th at 10am Pacific Time.

Alpha Protocolâ„¢ - Valve
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Oct 19, 2012
Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
- Fixed player movement using joystick settings when playing with keyboard and mouse.
- Fixed a secure convar warning when scrolling the mouse wheel as a player infected.
Product Release - Valve
Vanguard: Sage of Heroes is now on Steam and free to play!

Enter the vast world of Telon, an ancient world of magic, intrigue and adventure. Facing the challenges of a war-torn world, the diverse people here struggle to rebuild their once great civilizations. A fragile alliance has been struck and with the lands set upon by invading forces, the races must band together to survive. In the north, the sprawling green hills of Thestra are plagued by an unstoppable undead menace. To the south, the deserts of Qalia have been besieged by an elemental threat spawned from the depths of the earth; and to the east, inhabitants of the tumultuous jungles of Kojan fiercely battle encroaching otherworldly fiends. Telon is in desperate need of heroes. Your journey begins now.

Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition - Valve
1.0.23741.2
Critical fixes:
- Fixed crash when entering a multiplayer game with a dead player.
- Fixed CTD caused by Nodecannon.
- Fixed MP post combat CTD.

Other fixes:
- Fixed beams not rendering when origin is not on the screen.
- Fixed news events for meteors being shown for every colony in system.
- Fixed bug making platforms un-scrappable.
- Fixed Colony Established dialog population slider not working properly.
- Fixed Independents not showing up in star system dialog.
- Fixed Meson Projector beams not hitting planets.
- Fixed repair widget issues.
- Fixed trade stimulus not building freighters for all dock slots.
- Fixed bug causing dialogs to hang on screen after being disconnected from host.
- Fixed Locust behavior.
- Various fixes to Assimilation plague.
- Fixed strings related to plagues.

Other changes and additions:
- Hotkeys + Hotkey editor in menu.
- Hooked up many missing news event images.
- Survey missions will now cancel if they are unable to defeat hostiles at the system.
- AI will now show more discretion when selecting fleets for combat.
- Stations belonging to an assimilated colony will now be destroyed.

Rock of Ages - Valve
Updates to Rock of Ages have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

-Improved & redesigned matchmaking system.
-Players can practice against an AI while waiting for the matchmaking to find opponents.
-Game automatically searches for other open games while in the lobby or when practicing against an AI.
Dota 2 - Valve
- Added a Hall of Fame section to the community tab, featuring a different group of high skill players each week.
- Added a Team Browser section to the community tab. This shows teams that have participated in leagues that are available through the client.
- Added a Replays Highlight option when watching games. Watch the best moments from a match with a click of a button.

GAMEPLAY
- Dark Seer Fixed Ion Shell damage interval and it triggering Cold Snap
- Disruptor: Fixed Glimpse interaction with invulnerable units
- Magnus: Fixed enemies being able to cast and attack while in Skewer pull
- Rubick: Fixed Telekinesis Land sub ability proccing magic stick
- Viper: Fixed Nethertoxin damage not being critable
- Visage: Fixed Familias attack timings taking much longer than intended
- Fixed Illusions placing Orb of Venom debuff

UI
- Added a right click option for some items to alert allies that you want to cast them (Arcane Boots, Smoke, Mekansm)
- Fixed being able to sometimes move your hero before hero picking was done
- Enabled pause cooldown in co-op bot games.
- Fixed various hero swap bugs
- Fixed HUD element covering Armor bonus values in 4:3

VISUALS & AUDIO
- Increased Magnus model size
- Fixed Ravage visual timings
- Fixed some buffs not showing the correct cooldown frame ( slight gap at the top for aura provided buffs )
- Tweaking the scale and offset of visage and his units
- Tweaks for some neutral creep sounds, generally reducing volume and increasing range

CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
- Fixed a bug that caused some items to not be equippable for Morphling and other heroes that recently had their item slots shuffled.
- Fixed Doombringer's missing tail.
- Fixed the 'Uldorak's Hide' set not properly displaying as a set of items.
- Reduced the size of the stumpy treants created by Nature's Prophet when using the Call of the Dendrochron.
- Fixed Invoker's head disappearing when head items were equipped. These items may need to be re-equipped.
- Fixed a bug with Multi-Hero Chronosphere not detecting its scoring condition.
- Fixed several item sets having incorrectly tagged rarities, relative to the contents of the set.
- Fixed Sword of Sir Davion being white for some users.
- Fixed overly bright specular on the Runed AiIlettes.

BOTS
- Fixed bug that would cause bots to not ever want to go to the Secret Shop if they want to buy a TP scroll.
- Fixed bug where bots would always think they could push towers unopposed.- Optimized tango tree search.
- Juggernaut bot now better estimates Omnislash damage (will no longer think it'll bounce to out-of-range creeps).
- Bots will now consider whether their laning opponents are ranged or not to determine their desired lane position.
- When a hero is farming a lane, bot desire to push that lane is now lessened.
- Lowered the desire to help out with an under-control tower defense when in the laning phase.
- Fixed incoming defense evaluation.
- Lowered defend desire when not in late game.
- Adjusted Juggernaut's loadout.
- Made Blade Fury focus on its target better
- Trying something different with determining when and how to lead a target.
- Bots laning with a hard carry should now harass enemies more.
Mark of the Ninja - Valve
Update notes:
-Fixed issue in "Breaching the Perimeter" level where Ninja would sometimes be killed instantly when restarting a particular checkpoint.
-Fixed potential hindering issue where a vent would not unlock in "The Trail of Shadow" level.
-Fixed issue where fuseboxes would not reset in the Challenge Room of "An Ancestral Home" level.
-Fixed random crash which was occurring when loading a level or checkpoint.
-Mouse cursor is now constrained to game window in Fullscreen mode.
-Fixed crash when failing to initialize DirectInput8 at start-up.
-Added warning dialog when advancing from Gamma Correction screen with a low gamma setting.
-Minor localization fixes to the UI.
-Fixed issue where Parachute Cloth item would sometimes stop working.
Oct 18, 2012
Krater - Valve
Krater version 1.0.18 Hot Fix 1 - content revision 23785

Fixes:

DUG TOO DEEP QUEST AND SAXHAND QUEST FIXED

IMPORTANT
This patch is preparing the game for the coop update October 23. The Coop Menu (accessed with short key K ingame) is disabled until that date. Your old save will be named Default in the new profile list.
If you are experiencing any issues with the new save and would like to restore your old saves you can do that by:

1. Right Clicking the game in your Steam Library
2. Choose Properties
3. In the General tab write, click the SET LAUNCH OPTIONS
4. Write reset_save in the field
5. Start the game and press Restore Save button in the bottom left corner. This will delete all your progress from this update (non-reversible)

Main features added
- Support for creating several profiles with different saves
- Polish language support
- Engine upgrade for improved performance

Overhaul in the following areas:
- Loot drops and item generation
- Menu and HUD
- Enemy AI (aggro ranges and threat generations)
- Added timer to revive (to make it coherent with coop gameplay)
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