Valve ha deciso finalmente di aggiornare Steam, la piattaforma di gestione di tutti i giochi sviluppati dalla casa statunitense. Per il gioco in multiplayer e l’upgrade release, infatti, bisogna connettersi con il sito steampowered.com, e sperare… perché dal suo lancio ha dimostrato ampiamente di essere bizzoso e “permaloso”.
Ecco allora questo intervento per far ritornare il buonumore agli appassionati di Gordon Freeman, l’occhialuto scienziato dal grilletto facile. Per la versione Deathmatch le novità riguardano:
- Added SLAM, Stunstick and Crowbar
- Added dm_steamlab
- Fixed game_score entity not awarding points
- Added team specific spawn points ( info_player_combine, info_player_rebel)
- Optimized weapon firing effects bandwidth usage
Per quanto riguarda invece l’editor di mappe novità sotto il profilo del Source SDK:
- Added source code for Half-Life 2 multiplayer (Run the 'Create a Mod' link)
- Added ability to create new shaders. See Authoring Shaders In Source for documentation
- Added new tool and source code of DemoTool.exe -- which shows the high-level structure of .dem files
- Added source code for Source Model Viewer included (srcutilshlmviewer)
- Added source for Half-Life 2's Airboat model
- Fixed issues with Steam account names with ".."
- Fixed FacePoser flex sliders
- Hammer limits framerate in 3D views to 300fps -- eliminates overheating problems
Infine, sono stati risolti gli ultimi bug che infastidivano il codice sorgente:
- Fixed screenshots/save games being saved in the wrong place
- Fixed hang in rcon server
- Fixed server crash where banned players could retry/cancel quickly during connection
- Fixed crash when a user specifies a heapsize that is too large
- Fixed "play" command crashing on dedicated servers
- Fixed bspzip'd assets in maps not loading properly
- Added FCVAR_CHEAT to r_shadowids
- HLTV port/server can be completely disabled by command line parameter "-nohltv"