Product Update - Valve

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released and the game is now available on the Mac. To celebrate this update, Counter-Strike: Source will be on sale for 66% off until Friday. For more information, click here.

The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

General

• 144 achievements added
  
• New lifetime player stats and summary screens
  
• New match player stats and summary screens
  
• New end of round display with MVP and interesting fact about a player
  
• Updated scoreboard with new icons, visual style, MVP stars, and avatar pictures
  
• New cinematic death camera
  
• New domination and revenge system
  
• Added avatar icons to voice chat, scoreboard, and end of round display
  
• Incorporated many source engine updates
  
• Disallowed the use of arbitrary command strings for the message of the day screen. Now only a specific list of commands is allowed.
  
• Addressed issue in which AWPs and Scouts sometimes did not make the zooming sound.
  
• cvar mat_showlowresimage is now a cheat command.
  
• Many development console commands which would crash the server removed.
  
• Updated source engine addresses many issues:
  
• Better flashlight effect
  
• Better HDR behavior
  
• Multicore rendering support
  
• 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.
  
• Removed -tickrate command line option and defaulted tick rate to 66 rather than 33. This addressed a number of issues, including:
  
  • Tick rate affecting how fast doors open / close
    
  • Tick rate causing players hitting the ground to stutter
    
  • Tick rate affecting the firing mechanisms of certain guns
    

UI

• Added the following cvars to allow players to customize their scoreboards.
  
• cl_scoreboard_ct_color_red
  
• cl_scoreboard_ct_color_green
  
• cl_scoreboard_ct_color_blue
  
• cl_scoreboard_t_color_red
  
• cl_scoreboard_t_color_green
  
• cl_scoreboard_t_color_blue
  
• cl_scoreboard_dead_color_red
  
• cl_scoreboard_dead_color_green
  
• cl_scoreboard_dead_color_blue
  
• Changed the screen that appears when the message of the day fails to load to display proper error text.
  
• Made the CT silhouette for the auto-select option in the Choose a Class screen smaller and corrected its aspect ratio.
  
• Addressed a problem that occasionally caused characters to be colored incorrectly on the Change a Class screen.
  

Gameplay

• Made ladders easier to climb. Added cvars sv_ladder_dampen and sv_ladder_angle.
  
• Fixed issue that awarded three points when the bomb explodes after the round ends by elimination criteria instead.
  
• Fixed issue in which you weren’t given credit for grenade damage if you fired a weapon at someone then hit them with a grenade (in that order). Also fixed problem in which grenading a player and then killing them with another weapon showed as ‘*** in 1’ on console.
  
• There’s now a priority order for displaying win conditions when multiple win conditions are set.
  
• If timelimit exists and is not 0, then show timelimit.
  
• If timelimit does not exist, show maxrounds if not 0.
  
• If both timelimit and maxrounds are 0, show winlimit.
  
• If timelimit, maxrounds, and winlimit are all 0, show nothing.
  
• Added a cvar to ignore win conditions: mp_ignore_round_win_conditions.