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Counter-Strike: Source Beta Update Released

Product Update - Valve

Aug 17, 2010

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source Beta have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Counter-Strike Source Beta ( Available for PC only. )

Improved Smoke Grenade:
- Made them expand faster.
- Made the smoke thicker.
- Fixed bug that made smoke less opaque to someone standing in it.
Added check to prevent clients using plugins from connecting to VAC secured servers.
- Listen servers no longer load plug-ins unless -insecure is added to the command line.
- Clients running with -insecure cannot connect to VAC secure servers.
Added console variable sv_competitive_minspec that enforces the following restrictions on the client:
- r_drawdetailprops 1
- r_staticprop_lod (-1 to 3)
- fps_max minimum 60 (or 0)
- cl_detailfade minimum 400
- cl_detaildist minimum 1200
- cl_interp (0 to 0.031)
- cl_interp_ratio (1 to 2)
Fixed ragdolls popping with mp_fadetoblack 1

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