Steam Updates and Releases 19 May 2011

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

• Improvement: Player can rename stops.
• Improvement: Line number is shown in the box above player vehicles.
• Improvement: Bus and tram stops can be upgraded by constructing new stop at the same place.
• Fixed bug: Secondary viewport doesn�t move with citizens when shadows are off.
• Fixed bug: Catchment area is not shown after disabling underground mode when creating stops.
• Fixed bug: Info sheet in secondary view shows wrong stop expenses.

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

Fixed:

• Fixed a deadlock caused by selecting a ship as it was about to dock.
• Advanced Parts Assembler used up resources even if there was no space to put advanced parts.
• Fetch orders automatically assigned by construction bays no longer attempt to fill more cargo than available.
• Mega Construction had a link to itself.
• Linked sub system modifiers did not work for designs made by multiplayer clients.
• Ships parked in orbit would not de-park after moving for multiplayer clients.
• Crash related to supply orders for construction resources.
• Internal Defenses would not function on ships without crew.
• Keybinds specified as key numbers with # would not load from controls.cfg.
• GUI Script keybinds no longer override options menu keybinds, which was leading to being unable to bind certain keys.
• The natural terraformers race trait would remove the ringworld bonus from ringworlds.
• "Close" preferred engagement range was not being calculated.
• Planets moved into deep space would be invisible upon loading a game.
• Fixed a bug that made trading food behave strangely when a planet had cargo storage.

Changed:

• Dry Docks can now have rally points.
• Drag selecting will select only military ships if there are any military ships in the selection (can be turned off from the options menu).
• Multiplayer games start paused until all players have finished loading.
• Order strings ("Attack ...", "Defend System", etc) can now be localized.
• Auto-colonize now picks the largest planet in the closest system first, rather than always the closest planet.
• Supply orders for ships in fleets now only supply ships in that fleet.
• The "Efficient" race trait now also affects EcoStore.
• Changed how objects are ticked to make planets behave more similarly, rather than the first planet in a system getting more resource priority all the time.

Balance:

• Slightly reduced planet reproduction rate, and decreased effectiveness of their passive Damage Reduction.
• Repair Bays and Salvagers are now linked to the Material Sciences technology, and Salvagers are unlocked sooner.

Added:

• "Automatically Retrofit" automation order that can be added to blueprint AI orders.
• "Allow other ships to supply resources" AI behavior setting. Tankers will not supply ships with this set to deny.
• When undocking, you can choose specific types of ships and the amount of ships to undock.
• When using control to build multiple ships of the same type, a checkbox "Batch construction" can now be checked. This completes all the ships before launching them all together.
• An entirely new AI that should provide a harder challenge. The old AI is still available as separate AI profiles, but will not be chosen when selecting "Random".

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Important notes

• If you were previously crashing on startup, please have Steam verify the integrity of your game cache
  
  • Update your game to the most current version
  • Right-click on the game and select "Properties"
  • Click on the "Local Files" tab
  • Click on the "Verify Integrity of Game Cache" button
• If you were previously crashing when connecting to a server, please run once with "-autoconfig" to reset your graphics state
  
  • Update your game to the most current version
  • Right-click on the game and select "Properties"
  • Click on the "General" tab
  • Click on the "Set Launch Options..." button
  • Add "-autoconfig" to the launch options and click OK
  • Restart your game
  • After doing this, you should remove -autoconfig from your launch options

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

• Fixed several client crashes on game startup, shutdown, and replay interaction
• Updated the materials used on models to ignore the $ignorez flag, to make it harder to create wallhacks on sv_pure 0 servers

Team Fortress 2

• Added an Advanced Options button to the main menu to allow tweaking of many gameplay options
• Fixed server crashes related to replays and new items
• Added "per_class_loadout_slots" and "attribute_controlled_attached_particles" sections to the GetSchema WebAPI call

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