- Fixed new weapon firing integration causing some guns to over-fire on single taps
- Fixed a couple of cases where machine guns could skip slightly with enough lag
- Fixed c4 explosion pre-caching
- Added precise audio timing fixes for client-side prediction
- Increased the tolerance for skip detection in client side audio to prevent sound dropping out due to client clock drift
- Completed work on clan tag strings validation

Jason

Want a CSS Server?

So report in Freshmeat! Now’s the time you choose your arsenal and get ready for battle

Quote by DysPatch, Development Lead

Below are some images from the game.

Demonstrations of some of the awesome weapons from in game.

All images and video remain the property of their respective creators and owners firearms-source.com

You can download the client files from the following links.

Firearms source client EXE

Firearms source client ZIP

21/07 – TF2

An optional update for Team Fortress 2 is now available.  Here are the specific changes:

Server Browser:

- Fixed the server browser not saving filter settings properly.

Team Fortress 2:

- Fixed a speed exploit related to benchmarks.

- Fixed Parasite hat not being posed correctly on class loadout panels.

- Fixed a level change crash.

Jason

21/07/2010 – L4D2

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:

Left 4 Dead 2

- Added additional protection for critical files

- All add-on files will be loaded when connecting to a Non-Official server regardless of game mode

- Only approved custom maps will be loaded when connecting to an Official server

- Player’s can print the contents of the consistency list with “cl_print_consistency_list”. If the server has sv_consistency disabled, the user will be notified when they attempt to print the list

- Improvement to Hammer load times

22/07/2010 – CS 1.6

A beta update to the Counter-Strike 1.6 dedicated server is now available.  To access the beta, run the update command with “-beta hl1beta”.  The specific changes include:

- Potential fix for svc_bad network errors (thanks to Sorin)

Jason

22/07/2010 – L4D2

The Linux dedicated server for Left 4 Dead 2 has been updated.  The specific changes are:

- Fixed Linux dedicated server crash when path to dedicated server installation included uppercase characters

Jason

23/07/2010 – Counter Strike Source

A required update for Counter-Strike: Source is now available.  The specific changes include:

- Added Steam Clan Tag support ( Set yours in Options->Multiplayer->Advanced )

- Added new achievement “CLAN WARFARE”: Win a match of at least 10 players where the entirety of each team is composed of a single clan.

- All weapon fire rates now tuned to match their pre-update, tickrate 100 equivalents. (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1368659)

- Added automatic server tagging for some server convars ( “mp_startmoney”, “mp_friendlyfire”, “bot_quota”, “sv_nostats”, “sv_allowminmodels” )

- Fixed some issues for players who were experiencing stat corruption.

- Fixed several server crash exploits.

- Fixed server commands “sv_disablefreezecam” and “sv_nowinpanel” not working on dedicated servers.

- Adjusted some DX9 shaders to look more like their DX8 counterparts, e.g. flashbang effect.

- Community Requests:

- Fixed entity I/O messages “OnPlayerPickup” and “OnPlayerUse”.

- Restored UTF-8 support in the console.

- Added env_hudhint entity, for use in custom maps (The allplayers flag must be set for the hint to work in Counter-Strike.)

- Added client convar “sv_hudhint_sound” to turn off emit sound for hud hints.

- Restored the “cl_minmodels” client convar.

- Added server convar “sv_allowminmodels” that allows them to prevent clients from using “cl_minmodels”.

- Added a button to Options->Multiplayer that allows players to reset their in-game stats.

- Note:  Due to the nature of stats corruption, it is not possible to automatically fix all types of stats (such as weapon statistics reflecting usage of the wrong weapon).  Players who suspect their stats are incorrect and wish to start fresh may want to use the new stat reset feature.

Jason

[gssimon@INX-236-135 srcds_l]$ ./start.alienswarm: ./srcds_run: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

So had a Google around the error and found that it was todo with a Linux textfile being corrupted by being opened in notepad so used a Linux command to fix it and its still broken.

So I looked through the HLDS Linux mailing list and found this in it:

Upon further investigation, the Alien Swarm dedicated server has not been released for Linux. We shipped some of the Linux files by accident.

M.

Then:

That doesn’t sound good, “by accident”? Will we be getting Linux files tonight?

Jim

Just to confirm:

Sorry if I wasn’t clear. Alien Swarm is not currently supported on Linux.

M.

So we can chalk another mark on the wall for another botched Steam release!

Stay tuned when we hope to have good news soon….(well this is Valve time we are referring to)

Team Fortress 2

- Added a Parasite hat to celebrate the release of Alien Swarm (http://www.alienswarm.com/)

- Fixed a client crash when opening the backpack while running in a language other than English.

- Fixed not being able to pick-up buildings in Arena mode.

- Fixed an exploit that allowed team kills with Wrangled sentries.

- Fixed a bug where teleporters could be given more than their normal amount of health.

- Fixed old demos with different data tables thinking the SourceTV player entity was burning.

- TF Bot Changes

- Improved performance of bot computations that are done when a point is captured, a round starts, or a checkpoint reached.

- Fixed Engineer bot infinite build-destroy behavior loop regression

- Fixed Medic bots losing their charge if they touch a resupply cabinet

- Fixed a crash due to having multiple types of bot systems running in-game simultaneously

- Fixed bot behavior issue resulting in bot pile-ups near level 3 teleporter entrances

- Bots no longer consider sapped sentries a dangerous threat

- Bots will not try to navigate through enemy spawn rooms (unless they have won the round)

- Bot Engineers will avoid building teleporters on steep slopes which can hinder teammate movement

- Added tf_bot_pyro_always_reflect cvar. Set to 1 to make Pyro bots always reflect projectiles, regardless of difficulty level.

Jason

GameUI
- Fixed the desktop resolution not appearing in the list of valid resolutions when using windowed-mode.

Server Browser
- Fixed a crash caused by leaving the server browser open while playing.

Engine
- Added client/server version check on client connect.
- Fixed a crash caused by hitting ctrl-alt-del while playing.

Counter-Strike: Source Beta
- Added sv_disablefreezecam cvar to turn off the freezecam on a server.
- Added sv_nonemesis cvar to turn off domination/revenge on a server.
- Added sv_nomvp cvar to turn off MVP stars on a server.
- Added sv_nostats cvar to turn off stats on a server.
- Added avatar images to the scoreboards.
- Added stats report to scoreboard to show whether a server has stats enabled or not.
- Fixed achievement tab so it now updates at the time you earn an achievement.
- Fixed bug causing achievements to be listed as earned in July 2009.
- Fixed issue where you couldn’t chat during intermission.
- Fixed player stutter while moving in water.
- Fixed player stutter when running into other players.
- Fixed issue that caused footsteps to play when walking.
- Fixed miscellaneous consistency, spelling and grammatical errors in the string tables.
- Fixed grenade velocity problems.
- Updated a few audio effects.
- Updated scoreboard
- Changed layout to make it more readable.
- Changed scoreboard opacity to make the action behind it more readable.
- Supports Unicode and lowercase letters.
- Grayed out the names of dead players.

Team Fortress 2
- Added community submitted deathnotice icons for the community submitted weapons.
- Changed the deathnotice text color to use black instead of white when the local player is involved.
- Fixed domination/revenge messages not using team colors for the player names.
- Fixed an issue where sequences with an activity weight of 0 never get selected.
- Updated Koth_Nucleus:
- Changed side spawn exits to prevent sniping from inside the spawn door.
- Fixed graphical glitch on platform floor.
- Fixed blue-colored models in RED area.
- Updated Tc_Hydro:
- Added respawn time advantages when a team begins to cap any point.
- Resets when the cap progress resets.
- Fixed various nobuild and playerclip issues reported by the community.
- Removed logic that reduced spawn times based on roundtime.

A required update for Team Fortress 2, and an optional update for Day of Defeat: Source and the Counter-Strike: Source Beta is now available.  Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update.  The specific changes include:

Linux Dedicated Server:

- Fixed srcds_run to work properly with the Counter-Strike: Source beta dedicated server when autoupdating.

Engine:

- Fixed the startmovie command not using the codec dialog.

Team Fortress 2:

- Fixed dropped weapons and ammo kits not being affected by explosions.

- Adding missing “+lookup” and “+lookdown” keybind options.

- Added SetCTFCaptureBonusTime tf_gamerules input to allow map authors to set the length of crit bonus time (in seconds) for CTF captures.

Jason

Available immediately, Valve has launched an extensive update to Counter-Strike: Source, now in beta.

The update includes a host of new features and functionality developed in collaboration with Hidden Path Studios. These include 144 new achievements, a new domination and revenge system, player stats, and more.

This beta will run for a limited time, and once complete, the update will be deployed to all Counter-Strike: Source owners for free via Steam.

The dedicated server files are available via the HLDSUpdateTool using “-game cssbeta” in the command line.

Want your own Counter Strike Source Server?

Thursday the 6th of Mays update:

A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available.  Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update.  The specific changes include:

- Mann Co. badges updated

- Added new “Primeval Warrior” employee badge

- Moved badges start date to the official TF2 release date of October 10th, 2007

- Gave “Primeval Warrior” badge to anyone who played in the TF2 Beta prior to the official release

- Adjusted existing badges based on the new start date

- Fixed player avatars being squashed in the Arena win panel

- Fixed a client crash caused by players calling for a Medic

- Fixed a server crash caused by receiving invalid data in player commands

- Fixed wearables attached to ragdolls not setting their skins and bodygoups correctly

- Fixed deflected remote-detonate pipebombs becoming mini-crits when detonated

- Fixed deflected remote-detonate pipebombs becoming full crits if the Pyro is critboosted

- Prevented custom models from showing domination particles in PropHunt

Jason

Saturday the 8th of May update:

A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available.  Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update.  The specific changes include:

- Fixed players seeing cloaked Spies when they should be fully cloaked

- Updated the Homewrecker

- It now damages enemy sappers on friendly buildings

- Fixed items not displaying correctly while playing back a demo

- Badge hire dates now display the time in GMT

Jason

A required update to Team Fortress 2 is now available.  Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update.  The specific changes include:

- Added further PropHunt mode support:

- Added a “SetCustomModelRotates” input, which will enable/disable whether the custom model should rotate yaw (enabled by default)

- Added a “SetCustomModelVisibletoSelf” input, which will set whether or not the local player should see his own custom model

- Fixed the Engineer being able to build more than 1 of each type of building

- Fixed old Engineer build keybinds not working with the new system

- Fixed a client crash on shutdown

- Fixed the Gunboats not properly applying the damage reduction when Spectators are nearby

- Fixed post-processing bug which could cause tone mapping to become stuck at highest setting

Jason