Valve get all updatey - TF2, HL2:E1, HL2:E2, Portal, Steam
By Jessica Citizen - Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:58am
Today, we have a special treat for you - a couple of treats, actually. Firstly, there's an update out now through Steam which tweaks not just one game, but four, bringing with it fixes for Team Fortress 2, Half-Life Episode One, Half-Life Episode Two, and Portal! (Admittedly, most of the changes are for TF2, but the other games do get a look-in.)
Before you can grab that though, you'll have to make sure your Steam client is up to date, because there's a new update out for that one, too.
Before you can grab that though, you'll have to make sure your Steam client is up to date, because there's a new update out for that one, too.
Team Fortress 2, Episode 1 & 2, and Portal General
- Added support for the Novint Falcon
Mapmaker requests
- Added an option to the advanced multiplayer menu to select left or right handed view models
- Fixed a bug where a spectator's wearable items could be seen floating around the player they were spectating
- Fixed a bug where a fake Spy hand would appear on the screen of other players
- Custom death animations now only play 25% of the time
- Fixed teleporters not being build-able in some places where they should be (such as within the pit at the end of Badwater Basin)
- Fixed rare client crash on connection and level change
- Removed refract from water ripples caused by bullet impacts for performance reasons
- Added log entries for player extinguished events using the medigun, jarate, flamethrower and dispenser
- Started tracking localization settings to help make decisions regarding localization in the future
- Fixed the blank progress bar in the upper-left of the screen when the client scheme is reloaded
Sniper
- Added spawn flag to func_respawnroomvisualizer that allows it be non-solid to players
- Added SetSolid input to func_respawnroomvisualizer to change solidity to players dynamically
- Added OnWonByTeam1 and OnWonByTeam2 outputs to the TFGamerulesProxy
Spy
- Fixed a bad detection case in the "Friendship is Golden" achievement
- Changed the description of the "Triple Prey" achievement so it better describes how to get it
- Critical arrows now have a trail and correctly deal enhanced damage
- The Huntsman now defaults to be right handed
- Friendly arrows will no longer trigger the near miss sound on you
- Fixed several sources of floating arrows
- Fixed disguised Spies occasionally looking like they have invulnerability, instead of the correct fake Spy mask
- Disguised spies will no longer lose their disguise weapon when they interact with a weapon locker
- Fixed a bug where the spy's watch would randomly change models during play
- Fixed uncloaked spies flickering in and out of the cloak effect when taking damage
- The Cloak and Dagger now always regenerates at its intended rate. Previously it only regenerated at the correct rate when the spy was cloaked
- Increased the Cloak and Dagger regeneration rate slightly
- Capped the rate of energy loss from moving faster than run speed (falling / air toss) while cloaked with the Cloak and Dagger
- The Dead Ringer's cloak consume rate has been slightly reduced, giving about an extra second of cloak time on a full meter
- Emerging from the Dead Ringer's cloak now drains up to 40% of the cloak meter instead of 100%. This drain only happens if the meter is at least 60% full
- The Dead Ringer's cloak meter can now be regenerated from ammo sources
- The Ambassador now only crits when fully accurate and no longer penetrates enemies
- The Spy can no longer change weapons from the knife while shocked by the Razorback
- Force-A-Nature & Flamethrower air blast knockback effects no longer work on disguised spies
- Fixed disguised Spies showing the wrong teleporter effects when using an enemy teleporter
Team Fortress 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
PortalValve
Steam Client
- Improved Steam startup performance
- Fixed a crash when clicking on very long URLs in friends chat
- Fixed the in-game overlay not showing over some D3D9 games that set a texture as the render target
- Fixed a case where the overlay could go temporarily unresponsive due to using a skin that generated bad geometry
- Fixed some cases of trying to send data to Steam servers while disconnected
- Fixed chats in the overlay which have existing text from out-of-game not scrolling to the bottom by default
- Fixed log files from in-game overlay corrupting some output
- Fixed app cache download issue for users with slower connections

