October 22, 2008 - Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

A new set of Steamworks features have been released for all Half-Life 1 engine multiplayer games: Counter-Strike 1.6, Condition Zero, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet, Day of Defeat and Half-life 1 Deathmatch. The update includes Steamworks features such as player avatars in the scoreboard when playing Counter-Strike and Condition Zero. The update also contains several bug fixes, listed below. Note that this update will require all game servers to restart.

Bug Fixes


Removed the need to manually re-login and re-authenticate to Steam while in game

Fixed a crash on startup when running windowed with a non-standard desktop resolution

Removed the display of saytext (in-game chat text) from players whom you've blocked in Steam friends

Locked down several engine cvars to prevent malicious script exploits

Enforced file consistency on several sprites in Counter-Strike

Removed "ex_extrapmax" cvar (no longer needed)


Server

Added "-noaff" command-line option to disable setting of thread affinity

Added "bannedcfg" cvar so admins can choose which file is written to by the "writeid" command