The DOD Source beta has now been wrapped and merged into the main game as of today. The update is called Palermo after the dod_palermo map bundled with the update. The patch includes the achievements, stats tracking and all the other updates we have mentioned previously in our beta updates. Go get it!
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Two highly addictive games have received updates today. I might have some spare time soon to go back to CivIV - it’s a very slippery slope.
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
- Added option to disable espionage
- Cavalry and Cuirassiers can Flank attack Cannons and all earlier siege weapons
- Gunships can Flank Attack Cannons, Artilley, Mobile Artillery
- Flanking damage now depends on strength of defending unit, not on strength of siege weapon
- Flank attack now has a maximum number of siege units it can affect
- Horse archers no longer receive attack bonus against Trebuchets
- Destroyer: no longer upgrades to anything
- Stealth Destroyer: lower cost, 2 first strikes, no bombard, no interception
- Attack Submarine: Increased cost
- Airship no longer gets bonus attacking ships
- Fixed bug with building culture bonus mouseover
- Fixed multiplayer hang when loading a game without all human players present
- Fixed reload crash
- Fixed info screen demographics Import/Export rank reversal
Day of Defeat: Source Beta
- Updates to official maps to improve lighting and fix exploits
- Fixed 4 grenade kill achievement being awarded with less than 4 kills
- Adjusted grenade trail particle effect
- Fixed achievement particle effect
- Changes to smoke grenade particle effect to increase perf
- Increased screen fade radius of smoke grenade
- Snipers can no longer sprint while zooming their sniper rifle
- Steam community avatar image now includes friend status
They keep coming and we keep reporting.
Day of Defeat: Source Beta
- Achievements are now all stored locally as well for offline achievement dialog
- Fixed view model lag being jittery
- Fixed some viewmodels occasionally skipping their fire animations
- Fixed quickswitch exploit
- Fixed some overlays being too transparent
- Fixed a case where an enemy player could be credited for an area capture
- Playtime statistic now records time spent as class, not time alive as a particular class
- Upload stats when we join spectator, change class and on changelevel
- Fixed crash with ai_test_los console command
- Adjusted global bloom scale
- New nemesis icon
Team Fortress 2
- Allow Mods to set which ConVars control the sv_tags settings
- Support custom Russian TF2 fonts
- Particle rendering/simulation performance increase (missed from the previous update)
Source SDK
- Particle Editor, Material Editor, and Commentary Editor are now included in the Source SDK
- Updated SDK source code for Orange Box mods
- Added example particle system files to SDK content
- Updated Linux binaries and makefiles for dedicated servers and server plugins
- The Faceposer phoneme editor now pops up a warning message when a phoneme cannot be saved
A feature mentioned when the Day of Defeat: Source beta was first released, but not actually included, was full stats tracking akin to Team Fortress 2. Today sees a large update that includes that functionality plus a bunch of fixes.
Full changelog,
- Added Steamworks stats
- New team identifier icons as rewards for completing achievements - 1 per class achievement, and 1 for completing all achievements
- Added cvar dod_friendlyfiresafezone - units around the player where they will do no direct damage on FF on servers ( default 100 units )
- Dropping a weapon in the spawn and changing class will now fizzle out the dropped weapon
- Fixed unducking while jumping potentially getting you stuck in the roof
- Player model fixes to address the ‘left peek’ issue
- Fixed kb_act default binding for large map being broken
- Marked r_screenfademinsize and r_screenfademaxsize as cheats
- Players now respawn even if they have the class menu up - changing class will respawn them instantly now
- Fixed “Don’t Tread On Me” achievement triggering off of bomb defuses
- Fixed long range rocket achievement being awarded when you kill an ironsight k98 or garand
- Fixed picking up an mg42 with an empty clip playing the wrong animation
- Achievement progress now stored in steam
- Added more default crosshairs
- Adjusted scoreboard to make the local player a bit more readable
Today has seen the release of two updates, one substantially bigger than the other!
The first is a new update for the Steam Client, and has the following changes and updates:
- Enabled ClearType fonts if they are enabled in Windows
- Improved in-game status and play time tracking for games with launcher apps
- Improved in-game overlay input handling in a variety of games that previously did not capture or block keyboard input correctly
- Added D3D10 support to the in-game overlay
- Made voice chat requests ignored if you’ve blocked communications from the caller
- Fixed the original Half-Life not getting to 100% complete downloading when it should
- Improved server selection logic for Friends and VAC server connections
- Improved Steam network connectivity in the face of dropped UDP packets
- Fixed the overlay not recognizing the Tab key in some games (breaking the default hot-key)
- Improved Friends duplicate name collision detection
The other update is a small fix for the Day of Defeat: Source Beta, which fixes a possible crash when launching rockets!
Both can be installed by a restart of your client (as per usual)
Better late than never (finding a new HQ for SteamReport.com is time consuming).
Valve are allowing owners of Day of Defeat: Source to opt in to a new beta which brings to the game many of the Steamworks multiplayer and community enhancements found in Team Fortress 2. This includes 51 achievements, avatar display, stats tracking and the nemesis/revenge mechanic.
Not only that but the graphics engine is getting an overhaul to bring it up to the more modern Orange Box engine. Oh and they are even throwing in a new map called dod_Palermo!
I am blown away. As an old school DOD player I cannot wait to check out this new stuff that I don’t think anyone was expecting. It’s incredible that a free update this high in quality is made to a game that many people bought back in 2005. Of course this obviously means that Valve are willing to update their other games in the same way. Counter-Strike with achievements? It’s coming.
