Massive Steam Updates!!

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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2, and Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2, Episode 1 & 2, and Portal


  • Added support for the Novint Falcon

General

  • Added an option to the advanced multiplayer menu to select left or right handed view models
  • Fixed a bug where a spectator's wearable items could be seen floating around the player they were spectating
  • Fixed a bug where a fake Spy hand would appear on the screen of other players
  • Custom death animations now only play 25% of the time
  • Fixed teleporters not being build-able in some places where they should be (such as within the pit at the end of Badwater Basin)
  • Fixed rare client crash on connection and level change
  • Removed refract from water ripples caused by bullet impacts for performance reasons
  • Added log entries for player extinguished events using the medigun, jarate, flamethrower and dispenser
  • Started tracking localization settings to help make decisions regarding localization in the future
  • Fixed the blank progress bar in the upper-left of the screen when the client scheme is reloaded

Mapmaker requests

  • Added spawn flag to func_respawnroomvisualizer that allows it be non-solid to players
  • Added SetSolid input to func_respawnroomvisualizer to change solidity to players dynamically
  • Added OnWonByTeam1 and OnWonByTeam2 outputs to the TFGamerulesProxy

Sniper

  • Fixed a bad detection case in the "Friendship is Golden" achievement
  • Changed the description of the "Triple Prey" achievement so it better describes how to get it
  • Critical arrows now have a trail and correctly deal enhanced damage
  • The Huntsman now defaults to be right handed
  • Friendly arrows will no longer trigger the near miss sound on you
  • Fixed several sources of floating arrows

Spy

  • Fixed disguised Spies occasionally looking like they have invulnerability, instead of the correct fake Spy mask
  • Disguised spies will no longer lose their disguise weapon when they interact with a weapon locker
  • Fixed a bug where the spy's watch would randomly change models during play
  • Fixed uncloaked spies flickering in and out of the cloak effect when taking damage
  • The Cloak and Dagger now always regenerates at its intended rate. Previously it only regenerated at the correct rate when the spy was cloaked
  • Increased the Cloak and Dagger regeneration rate slightly
  • Capped the rate of energy loss from moving faster than run speed (falling / air toss) while cloaked with the Cloak and Dagger
  • The Dead Ringer's cloak consume rate has been slightly reduced, giving about an extra second of cloak time on a full meter
  • Emerging from the Dead Ringer's cloak now drains up to 40% of the cloak meter instead of 100%. This drain only happens if the meter is at least 60% full
  • The Dead Ringer's cloak meter can now be regenerated from ammo sources
  • The Ambassador now only crits when fully accurate and no longer penetrates enemies
  • The Spy can no longer change weapons from the knife while shocked by the Razorback
  • Force-A-Nature & Flamethrower air blast knockback effects no longer work on disguised spies
  • Fixed disguised Spies showing the wrong teleporter effects when using an enemy teleporter
 
Don't know about that, but this update has caused me major grief.

On logging into steam the program would stop responding.

Ok, Off I go and try and reinstall steam client. Get the download and run. Ok options are repair or uninstall. Repair it is then. Hmm error within steaminstaller msi file.

Can you guess what noobish option I followed it up with next time around.

Yep uninstall. Ok uninstall zipping along nicely, reinstall the client and be up & running in no time. Right at the end of the uninstall it seems to be taking it's time somewhat.

What does that little bit of text say "deleting local content" aaargghhh.

Currently reinstalling Orange box and Left 4 Dead from disk. Other games will just have to wait.

Is there away to uninstall just the client only, not the whole freaking steam directory and content?
 
Don't think you can tell it not to uninstall the local content but you can make a copy of steam from program files, when you reinstall it just copy the folder back into program files and all your games will be there already again
 
Thanks for that Jak.

You can be sure I'll remember that advice, if my steam client goes belly up again in the future.
 
after this update my steam games stopped working, was not very happy.

i had to do a complete reinstallation.
 
this update broke my tf2, had the "steam has found a problem with a game file" or something, had to verify cache files to fix, which took an hour and then i was too tired to play doh. all fixed though :)
 
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