Just a few updates for you this week:
A really nice little update has been released for Audiosurf, which makes the following changes:
- Audiosurf friend lists are now automatically populated with friends from Steam
- Forced match collections can no longer reset the chain multiplier
- Soundtrack CDs now use correct artist names instead of “various artists”
Especially pleasing about this update for me is the addition of Steam friends list importing. This is a feature that I felt was severely lacking in the first instance and am very glad it has finally been implemented!
Updates news has also been posted on the Official Team Fortress 2 Blog regarding new environments. This is quite exciting - moving away from the old ‘wild west’ look and into new places is a really interesting development, and it will be good to see how the manage to make the characters fit into a new world…
Finally, there is a huge update to Savage 2: A Tortured Soul. Full list of changes after the break:
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Fairly substantial updates for these games are available now, the changes are as follows.
Audiosurf
- Players can now easily experiment with custom game modes by
combining special tags in song names. More info is available on the
forums
- [as-4lane] Play with 4 lanes
- [as-monoonly] Mono characters required
- [as-everybodymono] All characters have only 2 block colors
- [as-lessgrey] Mono characters have less grey blocks
- [as-allgrey] Mono characters have all grey blocks
- [as-nogrey] Mono characters have no grey blocks
- [as-monoptX] Base points for Mono characters (default 3)
- [as-nostlth] Remove Stealth and cumulative hit bonuses
- [as-swind] Sidewinder camera mode
- [as-bankcam] Banking camera mode
- [as-first] First-person camera mode
- [as-caterp] Block caterpillars
- [as-mszX] Minimimum match size (number for X)
- [as-wbX] Percentage of white/black blocks
- [as-mtX] Match collection ticks (default 10-25)
- [as-prowsX] Puzzle row count (0-8)
- [as-hidepuz] Play with an invisible puzzle grid
- Fixed bug finding CD tracks in drives beyond the first
Children of the Nile
- Lots of fixes for French, German, Italian, and Spanish where strings would be missing or have extra nonsense at the end of them. Cheats work again in French, German, and Italian. Some messages appearing with a “” marker in them have been taught to speak proper German
- When running the game on Vista, you can now open scenario info screens without crashing, regardless of your user privileges. This will let you start a campaign or load a scenario without any of the fiddly rigamarole with properties and options you had to go through before
- Fonts are now installed in-game if needed, fixing a problem where you’d lose most text and could crash if the game was updated without your machine being restarted
- Steam achievements now work properly. IMPORTANT: On some machines, this will prevent you from running the game directly from the “steamapps/common/children of the nile” folder. You’ll need to start the game from the Steam client, or use the client to create a shortcut (right-click on the game in “My Games”, select “Create desktop shortcut”, and move that shortcut wherever you like)
- The latest version of DirectX is automatically installed if you need it when you first run the game
This week has been a pretty busy one, what with a little expo known as E3 happening, but in between the lack of any Steam news, there have been a few updates and releases on the Steam network.
The releases are a collection of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Games; Warfighter, Desert Siege, Island Thunder, Advanced Warfighter 2 and the original Ghost Recon. These games are all well and good, and definitely worth checking out, however, I for one can’t play them… blame Ubisoft. Come on Ubisoft - please get it sorted!
As for the updates (which thankfully all can get), new fixes have been released for Garry’s Mod, Audiosurf, and Race 07.
First up, we have another new update for Garry’s Mod with the following fixes:
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…but you can only unlock it in upcoming radio songs! It might be time to dive back in to this one. Anyway, here is the official change list:
- Adds “Everybody Mono” mode (to be unlocked only in upcoming radio songs)
- Upgrades online CD track data searches to use XML
The bug fixing continued this week for some of top titles on Steam.
Team Fortress 2
- Reduced
Medic’s unlockable requirements to match that of the Pyro’s. Medic
players now meeting the requirements will receive their unlockables
shortly after joining a server
- Fixed Spy sapper viewmodel animation popping
- Fixed another issue with the Hot on your Heels achievement
- Incorporated
the new Russian fonts into the base Team Fortress 2 fonts. Fixes the
missing fonts problem when running in Russian with English VO
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to access certain console dvars during multi-player matches
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a Chinatown Sabotage match would go into over-time
- Fixed a bug where the MP icons (Bomb, Defend, Capture, etc) were always showing up as English regardless of the install language
Audiosurf
- Added special track conditions for upcoming radio songs
- Restored normal Mono scoring
- Enabled Pointman to throw blocks into lane four on 4-lane songs
A couple of updates have been released today for both Team Fortress 2 and Audiosurf.
The Audiosurf update simply fixes a crash that could occur on song loading, where as the TF2 update fixes a number of bugs:
- Fixed several issues with the Family Practice achievement. Players with 10/10 progress that have not been awarded the achievement will get the achievement the next time they UberCharge any Steam friend
- Fixed toggle-fire option for the Medigun preventing players from earning the Second Opinion achievement
- Fixed The Kritzkrieg not charging faster than the Medigun
- Fixed issue that was preventing players from using their new Medic items on some servers
- Fixed melee weapons not being affected by The Kritzkrieg’s critboost
- Fixed Server Browser sometimes refreshing in the background on startup when it wasn’t visible
Another minor update has been released for Audiosurf to top up Monday’s mammoth release. This release fixes the following bugs, and as always, will be installed on a Steam client restart:
- Fixed overfill warnings flashing when they should not be
- Fixed Repeat Song failing when used from the scoreboard screen
- Fixed mouse cursor could disappear after using the steam overlay
A surprise update for Dylan Fitterer’s popular Audiosurf has been pushed out onto Steam today. This looks like a great patch with a ton of new features for this wonderful game. Here is the colossal changeset in its entirety.
New Features
- Comments tab on every song’s scoreboard
- Customized player news on the song loading screen (when friends last played, songs you’re champion of, etc…)
- Command interface for 3rd party mod apps (extensions)
- New hover vehicle for Eraser Elite
- Added Vegas ability: generate a random powerup every 60 seconds
- You can play freeride as a music visualizer on your desktop while other
applications are running, and it will automatically advance to the next
song in your current folder or current m3u playlist
And even more after the break…
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