Steam Updates and Releases 14 May 2011

Updates to Sanctum have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Towers
• Scatter Laser Range buffed
• Client side prediction of Anti Air Projectiles fixed.
• The client can now hear the towers shooting

Weapons
• Greater trace distance for Build Gun, needed on Glade.
• The host can now hear the clients weapons shooting
• Freeze gun - Freeze projectile can now be shot in mid air causing it to explode. Slow projectile now "magnetic". Slow Projectile falls to the ground when stuck enemy dies, not just one of the affected. Fixed a typo in the info screen.

Enemies
• Hoverer HP Scaling down ~34%
• Blocker HP Scaling up 10%
• Walker HP Scaling down 10%
• Armour now reduces damage after the damage multiplier has been multiplied instead of before.
• Big Walker aim point heightened to allow the Scatter Laser to always fire if the BW is in range.
• Big Walker HP scaling down 5%
• Tank Head collision slightly larger.

Achievements & Leaderboards
• Five new Achievements added.
• A lot more Achievements now work in co-op. Ex: Players can build 25 block towers each to achieve "You Shall not PASS!".
• Big Game Hunter fixed.
• Legion on Arc fixed.
• New leaderboards for Glade.
• New leaderboards for the new co-op difficulty.

Levels
• A new level has been added! We call it: GLADE.
• Mine - More tower bases in MP. Adjusted SP balancing slightly
• New Level selection screen

General
• New music for Glade
• Modified level selection screen.
• You can now chat on the win/lose screen.
• Made the chat spam restrictions more loose.
• Range indicator only seen by your self.
• Range indicator update when aiming at different tower.
• Range indicator is set to hidden when client presses Ready.
• Scoring system no longer based on damage, but rather damage percentage. Scoring now comparable across difficulties.
• The "Casual"-difficulty has been renamed "Experienced".
• Easier difficulty mode added. It is called "Casual".
• Hardcore rebalanced - Starts out harder, Difficulty increases more slowly than before
• Money gain ratio changed
• Starting resources changed
• Added a party window in the upper right corner
• Health bars on enemies now properly scale the color from green to red.
• Sanctum version upped to 1.1

Bugfixes
• Fixed client crash bug when server was shutdown incorrectly
• Fixed so the client now falls down when in overview and the server is selling the tower the clients on
• Alt-tab now works for more computers
• Client doesn’t need to teleport to start a wave when both player is in overview
• Fixed so that you can’t build your head into a towers on slanted surfaces

Lobby
• Filters added to public games (Map filter, Difficulty filter)
• Friend games now gets into the the lobby as soon as they are found, and not when all are updated

Updates to Trine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Trine

• Support for Leopard OS (10.5.8.)
• Support for new MacBook Pro 13" models with Intel graphics

Fable III is now available to pre-load. Download the game and be ready to play as soon as it is released next week!

Who will you become? A rebel without a cause, the tyrant you rebelled against, or the greatest ruler to ever live?

Last Chance - take advantage of the Steam exclusive pre-purchase offer now and receive the Rebel’s Weapon & Tattoo Pack -- a collection of four exclusive weapons and five exclusive tattoo sets to customize their rebel hero.
(see Fable III store page full details.)

The expansion for Drakensang: The River of Time, Phileasson’s Secret is now available on Steam!

Phileasson’s Secret continues the popular Drakensang franchise with an epic new chapter. Ending some weeks before the events of ’River of Time’, the "Phileasson Campaign" enjoys a similar setting and atmosphere, creating a great opportunity for expanding the adventures of the famous Thorwaler Phileasson.

General:
Fixed issues with custom ui_fov settings when playing as a client
Added support for 2560x1440
Slightly improved start up times
Fixed crash when clicking in blank area on Training Videos menu
Fixed memory leaks on shutdown
Fixed Be More Objective leaderboards being incorrectly named

Graphics:
Fixed “texture gridding” issues on certain graphics cards
Fixed settings being incorrectly applied on the advanced video options screen
Improved performance when using Ambient Occlusion
Fixed halos not rendering correctly

AI Bots:
Removed bot intelligence inhibitors for Freeplay games
Adjusted bot behaviour in Campaign games to make teams more evenly matched
Changed bots’ objective priorities across all game modes
Fixed issue with bot difficulty continually dropping

User Interface:
Fixed poor server browser performance for users with a large number of items in their history
Made server browser refreshes much more responsive
Changed server browser to no longer group player counts by max players
Added new pop-up text for server browser filters
Fixed not being able to sort by favourites column
Server browser now retrieves favourites correctly from Steam
Fixed arrow keys not working when exiting out of a chat submenu
Made it easier to select a default secondary weapon
Disabled chat options in solo mode

Dedicated Servers:
Can now use net_ip command to assign IPs to server instances
Dedicated server binary can now be run as a service, which won’t have a CSIDL_PERSONAL virtual folder

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Added a “Show in Backpack Order” setting to the loadout slot select screen
  
  • This flag also affects the Quickswitch dialog
• Updated the Furious Fukaamigasa, the Hero’s Hachimaki and the Connoisseur’s Cap to be craftable
• Updated the localization files
• Replay
  
  • Added a new command line parameter “-replay” that will increase maxplayers by 1 at startup and automatically execute replay.cfg for the server
  • Fixed another bug that caused Mac replay renders to be blurry
  • Fixed a bug where Replay FTP offloading was not using "replay_fileserver_offload_port"
  • Improved detection of Replay server config problems
  • Replay is automatically disabled on servers if the Replay publish test fails
  • Saved Replay movies that were exported as TGA’s/WAV will report more descriptive errors if YouTube(TM) upload or "Export" is attempted

Updates to Portal 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Portal 2

• Fixed Portal 2 Authoring Tools failing to load on WinXP
• Enabled cl_fov convar
• Minor localization and subtitle fixes for Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish

Updates to Mount&Blade: With Fire & Sword have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Added German Language

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam

• Fix browser cookies not persisting across Steam client restarts
• Windows - Fix rendering of select boxes in web control being broken
• Mac OSX - Improved mouse scroll for trackpads/magic mouse
• Mac OSX - Improved Lion support
• Fix bug in local-file validation that affected some games
• Change Steam to not initialize the microphone output device when voice is used in Team Fortress 2