Steam Updates and Releases 11 January 2012

PoxNora Wild Alliance Legends Update Released

About the Game
PoxNora is a collectible, turn-based, tactical, online fantasy game. Players command armies of fantastic creatures, cast spells of devastating power, and summon relics and equipment of ancient renown in order to defeat their opponents.

Key Features:
• Delve into classic turn-based strategy gaming with elements of table top miniatures, chess and TCG style gameplay all wrapped into one
• Choose a side of good, evil, or a little of both through full or split faction play
• Build your collection of runes over time and customize your decks through the rune manager
• Trade any or all of your runes with the entire community
• Battle and wage war against opponents through exciting player vs. player gameplay
• Join in draft tournaments to win prizes
• Earn experience for your champions through single player or pvp gameplay
• Save up and spend gold that you earn after every match to get your hands on runes through the Player Rewards store
• Free to play; optional content (including Wild Alliance Legends release) available for purchase

Wild Alliance Legends:
PoxNoras Wild Alliance Legends, released in January 2012, will once again unleash the power of wizards and warlocks upon the world of Poxanthuru. Fight for good (protectorate) or evil (wrath) and unleash the power of these unique characters on your opponent in tournaments, single player and pvp play. Heres a taste of some of the new abilities available in this purchase:
• Cast: Antimagic Field - For 6 turns, all spell damage is prevented.*
• Swarm: Arctic Beast - When this champion destroys a champion on a basic attack, a Level 1 Arctic Beast champion is spawned under your control in the location the destroyed champion occupied.*
*Abilities are subject to change

System Requirements
• Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista
• 500 MHz
• 512mb of RAM
• Java 1.5 or Higher click to download
• Nvidia or ATi Video Card with 64mb (minimum), 128mb (preferred) VRAM with current video drivers.
• 220MB of Hard drive space
• 56k Modem or better

Now Available - Choplifter HD

Choplifter HD is Now Available on Steam and 15% off until Wednesday January 18th 10AM PST.

In Choplifter HD, players take on the role of an up-and-coming rescue pilot asked to join the elite, international helicopter rescue team. Pilots will be trained to command a variety of helicopters deployed on 30 different missions. Pilots must bank, hover, touch-down and sometimes even shake zombies from their chopper during lift-off in order to make their rescue and complete their mission.

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Now Available - Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 Deck Pack 3

The third Deck Pack for Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 is now available on Steam!

This Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 deck pack includes two brand-new decks for Campaign and Multiplayer play. Beknighted is a white deck that relies on coordination and martial dominance to control the battlefield. Trinity of Elements is a blue, red, and green deck that features the haste ability to keep your opponent off-balance and the tempo in your favor.

Toki Tori 2 Beta Update Released

The Fourth Toki Tori 2 Development Build!

• Fire it up! It�s got too much new stuff to list here!

Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Reverted some new driver settings that caused bad glows on some video cards

Nation Red Update Released

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

• A new Bridge Barricade map has been added to the on-line coop and local coop maps

• Players can now join on-line games already in progress (Drop-In). You can also start a multiplayer game by yourself and let other players join. Works both with Public and Friends-only games.

• Added a new Stats section, visible when pausing or at the end of a game. Quickly visualize the number of kills/boss kills each player has, most-used weapons, current maximum killstreak, unpicked perk bonuses, etc. In on-line coop, the host can pause the game to compare player stats.

• Now supports up to 3 seperate Auto-Perk lists. For example use List #1 for Barricade games, List #2 for Free Play and List #3 for achievement hunting, etc.

• Now supports unlimited blood. To enable, set the �number of blood patches� slider in the game options to �unlimited�. Can be used to cover the entire arena in blood.

• Dynamite powerup now has a much larger damage radius and deals damage to up to 5x more zombies compared to regular grenades.

• Added perk icons (beta). Perks are divided into 7 icon categories: Armor-related perks, Health, Powerup, Scoring, Targeting, Dexterity and Offense perks.

• Moved achievement-tracking display. To track an achievement, go to the in-game achievement list and mouse click on any achievement.

• Player indicator circle now shows health status, ranging from green->yellow->red

• Grenade icon added next to the player grenade indicator

• Now supports loading all game assets from zip files for faster game startup

• Ghost perks in Auto Perk mode now stack quicker.

• Auto Experience perk now gives 2x more Xp

• Added new achievements:

• Pinpoint: In a single Free Play game, survive for 5 minutes without your accuracy dropping below 50% in the new stats section.

• Killstreak One, Two and Three: Reach a killstreak of 1000, 2000 and 3000 (refer to the new stats section). A Killstreak is obtained by zombie kills without receiving any damage.

• Increased visibility of crosshairs. Added a console option �cursor2� to change crosshairs to a different type.

• Snare now operates more smoothly in multiplayer games

• Firestarter now gives Xp when the perk alone kills a zombie

• Several small bug fixes

Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
 

• Fixed a bug where server tags were getting truncated, preventing players from finding Steam Group servers.

• Updated video card database with the latest hardware

Red Orchestra 2 Update Released

Modding and map making tools are now available free to everyone that owns Red Orchestra 2! While the limited functionality preview versions of the SDK have been available to select modders for a while, this release now makes the full capabilities of the Mod SDK available to everyone. Other changes in this update include:

General

• Settings menu bug fixes (e.g. Changing Vsync setting now requires a restart)
• Switching roles/teams while in a tank should now work properly
• Melee hit detection improvements. For example, it is now possible to hit a prone player with a bayonet while standing.
• The commanders order marker will now disappear properly when aimed at the sky instead of getting stuck at some location in the map
• Countdown maps will no longer show the improper amount of manpower when a new player joins during a match in progress

Performance / Stability

• Crash fixes based on .dmp files provided by players
• Fixed occasional freezing when spawning
• Updated Punkbuster to address framerate spike
• Overall performance optimization

SDK: How to use redirects to download custom maps (Modders)

• Publish your custom map using the publish button in the editor. This will �cook� twice because the server needs a different version.

• Grab the files from Published/CookedPCServer/ and give those to your server admins. Remember to clearly label these as server files.

• Grab the files from Published/CookedPC/ and give those to your server admins clearly labelled as client files. You must rename the published map files from .roe to .upk.

SDK: How to use redirects to download custom maps (Server Admins)

• Place the server content into ROGame/CookedPCServer

• Place the client content, removing any sub directories, at an http address. If the client content contains any .roe map they must be renamed to .upk.

• Add the following to ROEngine.ini:

[IpDrv.HTTPDownload]
RedirectToURL=http://pathtoyourredirect/

• Clients will now automatically download the custom content when connecting to your server