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Counter-Strike 1.6 Update Released
Posted May 20, 2009 8:42 pm by DarMonkey | Comments (13)
Updates to Counter-Strike 1.6 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike 1.6
Counter-Strike 1.6
- Rolled back recent silent walking exploit fixes as we investigate less impactful ways of preventing the bug
- Adjusted bomb bounding box to prevent silent plant exploit
- Fix to eliminate or significantly reduce "flashbugs"
- Fixed status icons (buy zone, bomb zone, etc) disappearing when starting a recording, or issuing a fullupdate
- Prevent creating aliases using the same name as existing cvars
- Rate limit fullupdate and some other commands to prevent spamming
- Fixed an issue with grenades where they could go into an area and bounce infinitely, causing the server to choke and or crash

Steam Client Update Released
Posted May 20, 2009 8:40 pm by DarMonkey | Comments (3)
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
Steam Client
- Fixed reconnect issues with chat rooms
- Fixed clients in chat rooms getting into 'ghost chats' if they disconnect and reconnect from the Steam servers
- Fixed client hang if the server browser window was closed while the "Add server" window was open
- Fixed the name of mods being played not always showing to friends
- Fixed switching between fullscreen and windowed mode in a DX7 game with the overlay enabled
- Fixed texture corruption in OpenGL games with the overlay enabled
- Steamworks: added more logging & warning info for the networking API






