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Improvements:
— Turn resolution code has been optimized, resulting in speed improvement during AI turns.
— Better support for scaling interface windows.
— Provinces under AI control will now trigger random events just like the player’s provinces do.
— Maximum zoom level on strategic map has been increased a little; the camera can be brought even closer to the ground level now.
— AI construction decisions have been improved.

Fixes:
— Fixed an error with the body of a slain hero taking too long to be delivered to stronghold.
— Fixed an error with AI heroes’ level computation, resulting in AI heroes gaining levels too fast.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to engage into battles with hopeless odds of victory.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to ignore the construction limits, such as constructing 5 first tier military buildings instead of 4.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to overspend on mercenaries.
— Fixed an error in construction window, when clicking to select the Great Temples set of buildings caused selection of the Matter Transmutation set instead.
— Fixed an error with unlocking the “Viva la Revolucion!” achievement.
— Fixed an error where the unit selected in the garrison window sometimes could not be deselected and dropped from cursor, resulting in the game getting stuck in the garrison window.
— Fixed a misguiding tooltip on a bottom panel button in the citadel interface.
— Fixed a tactical combat interface error with ending turn while a spell is selected.
— Fixed an error with a medal being awarded after winning a shard for conquering every province therein.
— Fixed erroneous display of access conditions for the third foreign quarter building of lizardmen allies.

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:


Source Engine Changes

• Fixed server CPU spikes caused by compression of string tables and packets.
  
• Added sv_netspike, sv_netspike_sendtime_ms, and sv_netspike_output convars for investigating server performance
  
• net_compresspackets_minsize default value increased to 1024. This convar now also determines the threshold to determine when a "fragment" (logical game network message, before being broken up into network packets) is compressed.
  
• Added vprof_vtrace and vprof_report_oninterval convars, and tweaked vprof_dump_spikes and vprof_dump_oninterval to reduce output
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added the Robotic Boogaloo community update: http://www.teamfortress.com/roboticboogaloo/
  
• Fixed a chat exploit that would cause other clients to timeout from dedicated servers
  
• Updated the Mann Co. Store
  • Added RoboCrate Keys
    
  • Added A Random RoboKey Gift
    
  • Added Pile of RoboKey Gifts
    
  • Backpack Expanders on sale at 80% off
• Updated the localization files