Oct 9, 2023
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
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:

  • Updated zi_woods to add missing content
Oct 9, 2023
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
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:

  • Updated the Constructor's Cover to fix an issue with the materials
  • Updated zi_woods to fix missing Zombie Infection assets
  • Updated cp_degrootkeep_rats to fix an issue with the xylophone triggers
Oct 9, 2023
Steam Next Fest: October '23 Edition is on NOW!
Steam News - jennyj


Check out Steam Next Fest

Hundreds of Free Demos
It's time to kick off the October 2023 edition of Steam Next Fest! Today through October 16 at 10am PDT (UTC-7), play what's next from first-time and veteran developers alike from all over the world. From hundreds of free demos to livestreams and developer chats, there are upcoming games of all kinds to play before they're even released. Just don't forget to wishlist your faves to be notified when the game officially launches!

Official Livestream Kickoff
We're kicking off the full week of developer livestreams with our own live show starting at 11am PDT on October 9th. Join us on the Steam Next Fest front page for the kickoff, and stick around for developer livestreams and chats all week long.

Explore and Discover
With so many amazing games to choose from, it can be hard to know where to start. We've got your back, with lots of easy ways to explore Steam Next Fest!
  • Browse by category, or a game’s primary tags, to find demos in your favorite genre; you can even search by sub-genres or specific features.
  • Check out the Broadcast Schedule for developer-hosted livestreams and chats, and set reminders for everything you don't want to miss.
  • Explore your personalized Steam Next Fest Discovery Queue to find popular demos similar to games you already play.
Even More Steam Next Fest
Worried one week won't be enough? No problem. We'll be featuring this edition's most played games for another week after Steam Next Fest concludes, so feel free to make more room in your calendars!


Check out Steam Next Fest

#SteamNextFest
Oct 9, 2023
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
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:



Scream Fortress XV has arrived!
  • Featuring 12 new community maps: Perks, Slime, Lava Pit, Mannsylvania, Sandcastle, Spineyard, Corruption, Murky, Atoll, Woods, Sanitarium, and Devastation
  • Added the Bone-Chilling Bonanza Case
    • Contains 25 new community-created cosmetic items that make up the Bone-Chilling Bonanza Collection
    • Has a chance to give one of 4 new community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
    • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
  • Added 4 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
    • Taunt: The Crypt Creeper
    • Taunt: Roar O'War
    • Taunt: Neck Snap
    • Taunt: Borrowed Bones
  • Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects
    • 13 new effects for Unusual hats
    • 7 new effects for Unusual taunts
  • All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't already have one
    • Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
    • Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected
  • All Halloween Contracts have been reset, allowing them to be completed again
  • Added new Contracts for this year's featured community maps
  • Completing a Halloween Contract will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Bone-Chilling Bonanza Case
  • Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
  • All cosmetic and taunt Cases will grant Halloween 2023 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include Crates.
  • Join Halloween matches by using the Special Events category in Casual
  • Scream Fortress XV runs through November 7th, 2023
General
  • Changes to help improve load times
  • Fixed ghost_pumpkin effect not playing correctly for the Horseless Headless Horsemann
  • Updated the Horror Shawl's second style to fix a problem with the materials
  • Fixed missing outro sequence for the Taunt: Surgeon's Squeezebox
  • Updated pd_farmageddon to fix blood particles for the scarecrows
  • Updated vsh_distillery and koth_cascade with localization fixes
  • Updated arena_lumberyard_event and plr_hacksaw_event to fix problems with the materials
Sep 29, 2023
Steam Client Hotfix, September 29
Steam News - philipla
General
  • Fixed an issue with art for some games not properly updating. A client restart may be required for some art changes to fully appear.
  • Fixed some DLC art displaying in the wrong language.
Sep 25, 2023
Steam SHMUP Fest, now through October 2nd!
Steam News - rachelt77


Steam SHMUP Fest is live now, with an entire week of discounts and demos celebrating shoot 'em ups, twin-stick shooters, and bullet hell games.

We're not talking first person shooters here: inspired by the chaos of old arcade shooters, these games feature power-ups, lots of enemies, and more bullets than can be counted.

Head HERE to join in the action!


Sep 11, 2023
Indonesian now fully supported on Steam
Steam News - kaci
After a few weeks in beta, we have officially launched Indonesian language support on the full Steam client. Players can now switch their language preferences in both the Steam desktop client and mobile app to Indonesian language.

This update makes Indonesian Steam’s 29th core language to be added to the desktop client, store, community, and mobile app, which all include ongoing translation work to support the many special events, sales, promotions, and new features that Steam launches every year.

We’re always working to make Steam accessible (and enjoyable!) to as many people around the world as we can, and supporting different languages makes it easier for folks to find and play great games, write reviews, share community content, and chat with friends.

As we’ve worked toward this milestone, which included forming a team to translate over 500,000 words, we’ve also been encouraging game developers to bring the Indonesian language version of their games to Steam. As of today, we now have over 900 games on Steam that support the Indonesian language (also includes games that don’t have words and thus work in any language).

To switch languages in Steam, follow these instructions or watch the short video below.


[smalltext]Video demonstrating how to change language in the Steam desktop client[/smalltext]

You can also set additional language preferences within the Steam store, which allows players to more easily find games that are available in other languages. The primary selection (which follows the Steam client selected language) will determine the language used to display content in the store, while secondary or additional selections will allow recommendations and discovery of games that are available in additional languages.

The Steam mobile app itself by default will follow the language selected in the Steam client, but can also be updated independently in the mobile app itself if desired.
Sep 11, 2023
Steam Client Update - September 11th
Steam News - Lawrence
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

General
  • Added support for Indonesian language
  • Allow the settings window to be resized.
  • Fixed empty folders not being re-created when verifying a game installation.
  • Improved reliability of Back button.
  • Fixed a case where non-steam games could disappear from the library.
  • Adjusted the low battery notification for laptops/handheld PCs to only fire in the overlay or the main BPM window
  • Fixed windows being able to set minimum sizes larger than their display dimensions.
  • Fixed issue where some steam:// protocol handlers were not handled correctly due to case sensitivity. Example: steam://url/communityfilepage/<ugcid> was not working correctly.
  • Fixed issue with steam://connect/<gameserver ip>:<game server port>/<optional password> was not handled.
  • Fixed clicking "Play Game" links in event news causing client popup windows to close.
  • steamwebhelper support dialog is now shown if the main client window cannot be created at startup.

Big Picture Mode
  • Fixed switching from fullscreen to windowed mode when a full-screen video is dismissed.
  • Fixed notifications stealing focus when shown in overlay.
  • Fixed overlay freezing when a file dialog is shown.

Steam Overlay
  • The overlay tabbed browser will now wait until the overlay has been activated for the first time before restoring saved tabs.
  • Added an option to In Game settings that allows toggling whether overlay browser tabs will be restored when starting a game.
  • Fixed bug with Steam Overlay in DirectX12 not releasing resources

Steam Input
  • Fixed touchpad input when using the Victrix and Qanba PS4/PS5 arcade sticks
  • Reduced lag when switching between pages in the "Edit Layout" view for configurations with large numbers of action sets/layers/mode-shifts
  • Fixed the DualSense firmware update dialog from popping up when the controller was connected over Bluetooth and already up to date
  • Added the ability to bind Steam Input API trigger actions to button inputs

Steam Cloud
  • Fixed a case where Steam Cloud saves could be synced to a computer that did not have the game installed if the game was available for streaming from another PC

Remote Play
  • Fixed controller buttons being stuck down
  • Added support for 4K high quality streaming presets
  • Fixed occasional crash when streaming using NVIDIA NvFBC capture
  • Fixed occasional crash directly launching a game from the Steam Link UI
  • Added support for HEVC video encoding when streaming to macOS
  • Fixed device authorization dialog not showing if Steam Link connects while Steam is starting up

Server browser
  • Fixed a bug which could cause a server browser query to stop prematurely without pinging all of the servers

Library
  • Fixed some screenshot thumbnails on the activity feed not being properly obscured when marked as spoiler

Linux
  • Fixed a case where a Library Folder could be forgotten when a drive was unplugged from the system.

macOS
  • Fixed keyboard shortcuts not working in store Paypal web view.
Aug 31, 2023
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
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:

  • Fixed a client crash related to the dispenser and the recent addition of -unrestricted_maxplayers
  • Fixed the floor particles for the Pastel Trance Unusual taunt effect sometimes drawing full white
  • Fixed SourceTV not recording in-game chat for Mann vs. Machine defenders
  • Added SetStepHeight and SetMaxJumpHeight inputs to the base_boss entity
  • Updated the Beaten and Bruised cosmetic item
    • Fixed a floating triangle when equipping the Ultra Violence style on Sniper
    • Reduced the clipping for Soldier and Sniper
  • Updated Clubsy The Seal to be an assister in Pyrovision
  • Updated the models/materials for the Brimmed Bootlegger and Prohibition Opposition to fix clipping, skinning, and UV issues
  • Updated/Added some tournament medals
  • Updated Taunt: The Head Doctor
    • Fixed skinning on lower LODs
    • Fixed team coloring for both teams
    • Adjusted animation to reduce prop clipping
  • Updated Taunt: The Road Rager
    • Fixed skinning on lower LODs
    • Adjusted animation on wheels to better match character movement
  • Updated pd_selbyen
    • Fixed door stuck exploit
    • Major optimization improvements (thanks yrrzy!)
      • Added/moved some func_occluders
      • Hinting adjustments
      • Added skyboxes and func_areaportals to separate areas better
      • Added func_areaportalwindows to unload spawn building interiors
      • Turned some small brushes into func_details
      • Adjusted some prop fades
      • Fixed slight misalignment of the yellow center buildings roof structure
      • Better lighting under the docks
      • Minor detailing changes
  • Updated cp_steel
    • Added additional clipping where needed
    • Fixed some windows clip and trip spots
    • Adjusted Red respawn base times to not go over 10 (could get to 11 and 12)
    • Capture point HUD layout now matches its map kin (Gravelpit and Sulfur)
    • Updated map menu images to the present day (1970)
    • Reduced one-way door speed to stop ejecting players into orbit
    • Rebuilt B Red spawn exit to a cleaner style to alleviate spawn trapping and potential camping
    • Fixing some props that fade too early
    • Moved medium healthpack to the side between D->E to avoid accidental pickups
    • Reduced speed of handrail deployment so it doesn't overtake the bridges in the rare case that Blu captures C and D in quick succession
  • Updated koth_synthetic_event
    • Brightened and evened out lighting in play space
    • Fixed missing soundscape
    • Fixed missing detail sprites
    • Minor detail changes
  • Updated pl_venice
    • Added new exit for initial Blu spawn
    • Added new balcony outside Attic room above Point B
    • Added new balcony inside near Point D
    • Moved door on balcony near Point A (Thanks Billo)
    • Bridges now have solid side walls
    • Raised bridge is now less steep
    • Small building next to raised bridge is now taller
    • Added cover at Point C
    • Slightly adjusted balcony above Point D
    • Fixed being able to place turrets above Point D
    • Initial Blu spawn doors now close
    • Replaced fences at Blu spawn with buoys
    • Removed some interior props near Point D
    • The payload now sinks
    • Moved some health and ammo around
    • Updated navmesh
    • Lots of minor bug fixes
    • Lots of minor other changes
  • Updated vsh_distillery, vsh_nucleus, vsh_skirmish, and vsh_tinyrock
    • Failing to capture the point in 3 minutes after it opens results in Stalemate
    • Powerjack, Ali Baba's Wee Booties and Bootlegger on-kill effects now work on-hit
    • Hale's abilities now get affected by Vaccinator resistances
    • Fixed Ubercharge rate bonus applying only with the Ubersaw
    • Fixed self-damage counting towards Airstrike bonus rockets and Frontier Justice revenge crits
    • Fixed Natasha and Huo-Long Heater having incorrect damage penalty
    • Community servers now can expand the Script even further by creating a new file at scripts/vscripts/vsh_addons/main_pre.nut. While previously added main.nut gets executed last, main_pre.nut gets executed prior to most of the Script.
  • Updated vsh_skirmish (additional changes)
    • Fixed an out of bounds exploit
    • Fixed not being able to wall climb certain trees in the main arena
Aug 28, 2023
Steam Strategy Fest, now through September 4th!
Steam News - rachelt77


Steam Strategy Fest is live now, with an entire week of discounts and demos that celebrate games of deep strategy.

Enjoy procrastination? Planning literally nothing? Completely unconcerned with what your opponents might be up to? This is not the fest for you! (Although might we suggest giving it a try anyway?) Steam Strategy Fest rewards the over-planners, the out-thinkers, and the out-smarters-of-opponents.

Strategy games come in all forms, from tower defense and city builders, to tabletop games, card games, and board games! (But not bored games, amirite?)

Head HERE to join in the action!
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