Counter-Strike: Source is still being updated, believe it or not. New features -- available for both the new Mac version and on PC -- include: improved player stats, Steam achievements, updated scoreboards, and a few other additions that bring CSS up to speed with newer genre conventions.
Already own the game for PC? You now own it on Mac, too. And for those who don't have it, there's a temporary price slash that brings CSS down to $6.80.
Valve has whipped up a fancy custom Steam page for this news, which includes pictures of said newness and a link to purchase CSS. I don't know who would hold off on buying the game for this long only to decide 2010 is the year to get it, but crazier things have happened.
And yeah, if you literally only own a Mac, you have an excuse. That goes without saying, but I've been doing this long enough to know that "oh wait, no it doesn't!"
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.
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8:00 PM on 06.23.2010
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Thanks but no thanks valve. I don't give a crap if it's free content. It's a down grade and people shouldn't be forced into it.
Anyways, nothing really big other than the MAC conversion, brings some attention to the game and I have to admit, new blood will be very welcome indeed! >:D
BAWWWW WE WANT UPDATES WHY DOES VALVE HATE US
Steam forums today:
BAWWWW VALVE HAS RUINED THE GAME THEY DESERVE TO DIE HOW DARE THEY UPDATE THEIR OWN GAME
*ahem* aside from the.....transitional complaints.....This update is quite good in my opinion :D
The problem with being so awesome is some of their fans are stupidly demanding and think they're entitled to constant free stuff.
Mouse and keyboard for FPS makes aiming so much easier man, after you get used to it you'll hate playing FPS on consoles.
Mouse and keyboard for FPS makes aiming so much easier man, after you get used to it you'll hate playing FPS on consoles.
Otherwise your complaints fall on deaf ears.
Gamers have to be some of the whiniest human beings on the face of the planet.
"Don't be such a stereotype, you'll make all of us PC gamers look like the Elitistjerks many people claim we are"
I don't know if he really managed to pull that off by just offering his opinion. But you sure just filled the "gamers are full of rage and take it out on passing internet forum goers" stereotype.
Plus I think it actually plays better.
What did we gain for all this? Some achievements? What a pile of crap. I thought Valve knew better than this. Counter-strike is still popular to this day because people liked it the way it was. That's not good enough though... No Valve had to "improve" it. I don't remember anyone asking for an update yet right now I know there are a ton of people asking for it to be reverted.
Face it. Valve fucked the CS community over for no reason. If this update was optional there'd be far less bitching. But no it's fucking required and forced on people. That's why we're pissed.
The only thing I can compare this to... What if Bungie came along and put out a Halo 3 update that added more achievements but also reduced the framerate and made it so that CTF was no longer playable (Equal to the mods and plugins being broken).
I think Halo 3 players would be pretty upset... Just like CS players are now.
As for the update, just a bunch of stuff to make Counter-Strike fit in with the rest of the Valve collection, bug fixes are negligible, and the dominations and stuff are just nice additions for pub players. I've never been a big CS player, but it would still be nice to see a CS2 that builds on CS' strengths instead of rewriting it. Still, continued support is always great, and Valve is very good at it. If you haven't played Counter-Strike, Source is an alright place to start.
Such a smartass.
1. The censorship got to non censored players because when the update came out steam servers were busy, so many changed their download server to another countries.
2. Mods and plugins break all the time with updates, give it some freaking time. I mean its not like this update was a huge surprise, they had the entire month where it was in beta mode for people to prepare for the transition.
3. the update did not just include achievements. Maps were recompiled using features of the new engine. A lot of old bugs from the previous engine were repaired. more detailed stats as well.
4. For your information, the CSS community has for some time now complained to valve about wanting updates, so you cant honestly say its being "forced on people". Especially since within the few hours of it being live there are already plugins to change it back.
Stop being afraid of change and the inevitable transition that has to come with it. Its not as simple as renaming a single file to change the entire engine. If any other company was doing this big of a change, there would still be problems regardless. If your really that pissed about the new update, go get plugins to change it. Not that hard.
You should be grateful that Valve don't charge for additional content like Activision etc.
(Half life episodes don't count!)
CounterStrike is THE REASON I sit and play hours of MAG or BFBC2, or why I'm looking forward to Medal of Honour (the videos really make me think CS) I loved that game and if I had a gaming suitable PC I'd probably still be playing it now.
The major game play change they did was the cencored german version, lets face it thats taking a step back, from ragoll phsyics to death animations, i feel for the germans as they have lost a big entertainment aspect. They dont get the random phsyics twitches such as some 1 jumping as they are shot and flying 7 metres in the air. Other thing is that you can tell which way you are killed just by which way your body falls.
Oh and how can i change my background the new one is a bit too light?(in css i mean)
If a countries censorship regulators want something to be changed the developer has to comply or face having their product banned in said country.
Valve had no choice but to comply, most CS players have a brain and will find a way round it I am sure :)