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Patch Notes 1.2.1:
* Fixed performance issues.
* Now Ai takes side of disconnected player.
* Medium sized maps are now bigger.
* Removed confusing movement path visualization while attacking enemy unit with spell.
* Chat window improved
* Problem with text input partially fixed

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store!

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• the Civilization series
  
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  
• Crysis series
  
• Magicka
  
• F.E.A.R. 3
  
• Red Orchestra 2
  
• Driver: San Francisco
  
• Dungeon Defenders
  
• Indie Bundle IX - featuring Capsized, Revenge of the Titans, Zeno Clash, VVVVVV, and Jamestown
  

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Iron Front: Liberation 1944 Patch 1.03
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Copyright (c) 2012 AWAR & X1software. All rights reserved.

Version 1.03 Changelog
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*New: New exe, fixing several crashes.
*New: Different damage model of the vehicles - they don't change anymore suddenly to an odd, burning piece of metal.
*New: New system of hitching the anti-tank guns to vehicles, now it needs only one simple action, and can be hitched also by the driver inside the vehicle.
*New: BattlEye anti-cheat system added.
*New: New, wider window of the list of the multiplayer servers.
*New: SVT soviet rifle added.
*New: G43 german rifle added.
*New: New german camo units (Sturmers, infantry and tank crew) added - an official mod made by Nick Leyland aka Stagler.
*New: Flare pistol added to the unteroffices.
*New: New mine system, does not need the "Using mines and tripwires" module anymore.
*New: Now M3 scout can close the armor plate now (need to get out from the car to do it, as in the real one).
*New: The M2 machine-gun on M3 scout is switchable.

*Fixed: Fixed the work of multiplayer, fixed several crashes.
*Fixed: Fixed various bugs of Soviet and German campaign.
*Fixed: Fixed some errors of the anti-tank weapons, especially in the multiplayer.
*Fixed: The bombs can damage the tanks in the multiplayer now.
*Fixed: Fixed the wrong sound of the steps while running with the ready weapon.
*Fixed: Hanomag crew can be killed now by the M2 machine-gun.
*Fixed: Fixed the problems with the small anti-tank weapons against tanks in Multiplayer (no more "Panerfaust not working")
*Fixed: Fixed various errors of the mines.
*Fixed: Fixed several building issues, doors, geometry problems, crashes due to errors.
*Fixed: Fixed the problem with the breakable parts of the vehicles in the multiplayer.
*Fixed: Reduced the thickness of the wooden fences against the bullets.
*Fixed: Now the tank riders die by HE shells.
*Fixed: Hanomag and M3 scout don't have anymore so big zoom at the machine-guns.
*Fixed: Sometimes the crew of anti-tank guns was not dying from enemy fire.
*Fixed: The static machine-guns couldn't turn around in multiplayer.

*Updated: Updated several multiplayer missions, fixed several bugs.
*Updated: Updated the trenches, fixed some errors.


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HIGHLIGHTS
- Added Naga Siren!
- Added new stats dropdown feature when spectating!
- Enabled Naga Siren in Captain's Mode

GAMEPLAY
- Added Naga Siren!
- Enabled Naga Siren in Captain's Mode.
- Beastmaster: Fixed the path that Wild Axes take. It should now work the way it was originally intended.
- Disruptor: Fixed Glimpse affecting Warlock's Golem and Spirit Bear.
- Rubick: Fixed Warlock's Shadow Word refreshing its debuff version when stolen and cast as a buff.
- Rubick: Fixed Dazzle's Weave refreshing its debuff version when stolen and cast as a buff.
- Rubick: Fixed restealing an ability (stealing another ability in-between) not restting its cooldown.
- Silencer: Fixed Curse of the Silent affecting Warlock's Golem and Spirit Bear.
- Storm Spirit: Fixed Static Remnant blocking creep camps.
- Templar Assassin: Fixed Refraction being dispellable.
- Undying: Fixed a case where early game zombies could sometimes get stuck with an earlier or invalid level of Deathlust into the late game.
- Undying: Fixed Zombies being controllable when their target goes invisible.
- Wisp: Fixed Spirits detonating on non-hero units like Spirit Bear.
- Fixed Diffusal Blade stopping Force Staff movement.
- Fixed Templar Assassin's Refraction and Pipe causing Blink Dagger to not get disabled.
- Fixed illusion item locations not matching the source hero.


SPECTATOR:
- The Director will now acknowledge all Ultimate usages not just the ones that damage, so you can no longer pretend that Echo Slam in the jungle by yourself didn't happen.
- Tweaks to Directed camera framing and movement.


UI
- Added chat spam throttling.
- Players that have not purchased a Tournament Pass will no longer be able to watch that Tournament's replays.
- Sellback times no longer expire when moving items to the courier.
- Commendations are now only allowed from within games.
- Commendation totals are not incremented until the game is finished.
- Commendation totals are not incremented if the game was less than 10 minutes long.
- Fixed item stocks not restoring correctly when multiple items are sold back within the sellback time.
- Added a message when a player destroys the Aegis.
- Added confirmation dialog before starting a Tournament game with one or more teams not specified.
- Added client-side console variables allowing spectators to locally disable certain announcer lines. Especially useful for broadcasters. The cvars are:
- cl_dota_speech_spec_towerattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_towerfalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_barracksattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_barracksfalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_ancientattack, cl_dota_speech_spec_enemybasefalls, cl_dota_speech_spec_idles .
- Set any of them to '0' to prevent that line from playing. (Broadcasters will almost always want to set cl_dota_speech_spec_idles 0 ).
- Multiple players who have the same announcer equipped in the same game should now hear the same line being spoken.


BOTS
- Enabled AFK and leaver penalties for co-op bot matches.
- Re-enabled rewards for co-op bot matches.- Added new stats dropdown feature when spectating!

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store!

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Witcher Franchise
  
• Sniper Elite V2
  
• Krater
  
• Fallout: New Vegas
  
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  
• Alan Wake Franchise
  
• Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
  
• Gratuitous Tank Battles
  
• Indie Bundle VIII - featuring Wings of Prey,Demolition, Inc.,Swords and Soldiers,HOARD,Sol Exodus
  

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Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.9 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• checking the unlisted box on the Upload to YouTube dialog now sets the Steam video private as well
• fixed time jumping when shift-draging a new time selection with the playhead locked
• fixed the stretching lines problem in maps without HDR lightmaps, and added a warning for this case
• added a warning for low-end graphics cards that cant render HDR bloom in the SFM (aka white line bug)
• fixed water rendering as static tiled squares

Nexuiz - Duel Mode DLC, a new expansion for Nexuiz, is now available on Steam!

For centuries the Kavussari and the Forsellians have waged war. They have a fragile truce but due to their seething disgust of each other they still pit their warriors against each other in arenas rather than on the fields of war. Now you can duel other Nexuiz players 1 vs 1 with 3 new maps specifically made for 1 vs 1 combat with this DLC!

Changelog:
- Fixed fullscreen issue on OSX 10.6.8
- Fixed double pointer issue
- Fixed Steam Cloud on Mac
- Fixed ability to delete save files
- Fixed location of console.log
- Fixed sound crash (hopefully) with new OpenAL library

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Fixed server crash when over 32 players

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• L.A. Noire
  
• Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
  
• Thief Franchise
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Franchise
  
• Super Meat Boy
  
• Age of Empires Online
  
• Carpe Fulgur Collection
  
• Total War Mega Pack
  
• Indie Bundle VI - featuring Avadon, Zombie Driver, QUBE, Dungeons of Dredmor, Vessel
  

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Alan Wake's American Nightmare v1.03 release notes:
* Added text localizations for Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Russian.

#screengrab Reddit user nathanbatson made this image to represent the utter damage done to his wallet after the start of the Steam summer sale. We had our own suggestions for you, but there are plenty of games people are gobbling up at heftily discounted prices for you to also melt your wallet with. More »

X3: Albion Prelude update 2.1a

- Fixed plot stopper bug in Lasertower deployment mission

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• Call of Duty: Black Ops
  
• Wargame: European Escalation
  
• Spec Ops: The Line
  
• Stronghold 3 Gold
  
• Grand Theft Auto Franchise
  
• Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012
  
• Company of Heroes Franchise
  
• LIMBO
  
• Indie Bundle V - featuring Defcon, Aaaaa for the Awesome, Ticket to Ride, TRAUMA, SpaceChem
  

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We heard that a Linux version of Steam was in the works back in April and now Valve have set up an official blog to share the details of their Linux team’s plans and progress.

The goal of the Steam client project is a fully-featured Steam client running on Ubuntu 12.04. We’ve made good progress this year and now have the Steam client running on Ubuntu with all major features available. We’re still giving attention and effort to minor features but it’s a good experience at the moment. In the near future, we will be setting up an internal beta focusing on the auto-update experience and compatibility testing.

Left 4 Dead 2 will be the first game ported and, indeed, there is already a working version. Before release, however, Valve aim “to have L4D2 performing under Linux as well as it performs under Windows”.

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Valve has a dedicated team of developers working to bring Steam to Ubuntu 12.04, a distribution of Linux, and is beginning its endeavor with a port of Left 4 Dead 2. The team has been working on Linux distribution since 2011, based on Steam's success with Linux-based and internal Ubuntu servers, a post on Valve's new Linux blog announces. Valve is calling the project "Steam'd Penguins," apparently.

Valve chose Ubuntu because it is "still experimenting" and Ubuntu is a popular distribution, but it will look to support others in the future. Right now the Valve Linux team is working on getting the Steam client on Linux with full functionality, optimizing Left 4 Dead 2 with a high frame rate and respectable graphics, and porting additional Valve titles. There will be an internal beta of Steam on Ubuntu in the "near future."

The Valve Linux team will post updates on its blog, complete with penguins.

Players generally have to use a compatibility layer such as Wine to play Steam games on Linux distributions, a process that can lead to some unwanted, unwarranted complications, no matter the platform.

Orcs Must Die! 2 is now available for pre-purchase on Steam and is 10% off until launch!

Youve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year!

#valve Valve's been openly talking about developing on Linux for a while now, but a new blog post on the company's site today has for the first time given us our first official information on the company's plan to bring Steam to the platfom. More »

#valve The Steam summer sale is underway, and all of our wallets are at risk. Oh hey look, it's The Legend of Grimrock for six bucks! Oh wow, Civilization V for cheaper than ever! Don't mind if I do! More »

If you made it this far into the Steam Summer Sale, plan on not buying that pizza you wanted for dinner tonight. Day five of the platform's annual deal-stravaganza features sales on Age of Empires III for $9.99, Metro 2033 for $4.99, RAGE for $9.99, and Assassin's Creed: Revelations for $13.59. Those four games add up to the cost of four large, one-topping pizzas alone.

Today's sale includes both Dear Esther and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for a reasonable price of $2.49 each, around the cost of one of those personal pan pizzas. Let's be honest, those don't fill anyone up anyway.

Patch Notes 1.2

Multiplayer and Diplomacy
• Players can now play Multiplayer games! (Steam is required).
• New Diplomacy system in Multiplayer and Single play: Now when a player sends a proposal to rival Mage it will be delivered on the beginning of his/her turn. You will receive an answer on your subsequent turn. The Diplomacy Screen was modified accordingly. Also a player will never know for sure if his\her proposal would or would not be accepted - there will be seen only a prediction of it before the message is sent.
• Changed diplomacy effect of relations with gods
• Behavior of AI Mages improved with personalities and new factors

"Lords and Artifacts"
• Mighty Lords come to your service! They can learn faster than normal units and receive many powerful abilities as they progress through level-ups. You can hire these heroes as they come occasionally searching for job, find them in monster layers or even receive them as quest reward.
• Lords can use powerful Artifacts which could be found in monster dens, received as quests rewards, gained and lost during battles, bought from Trader of Artifacts or smelted to mana.

Bug Fixes and Improvements
• A player may turn on/off Victory Conditions on the Game Start.
• Player can now destroy his buildings from city interface
• Mages, Veterans and Halberdies got new skills. Mages can learn to cast fireballs and Veterans now have ZoneOfControl perk.
• New actions for Galleons units of humans and mosters
• Implemented a News message when you successfully research a new spell.
• Implemented a News message when any of the Great Mages controls a certain percentage of Holy Grounds.
• The Unity Spell cannot be counterspelled anymore, but its casting time was made longer. Also starting to cast a Unity spell worsens relations with all Great Mages.
• A Message "A Great Mage is Defeated" now looks better.
• AI now uses Dispels smarter and more aggressively.
• Teleportation spells casting interface logic is more intuitive:
now you can select a spell, then a target unit, and then a hex to move.
• Fixed an issue: an enchantment cast on a unit in transport ship is now shown properly on unit when it disembarks.
• Game loading has become faster.
• Great Mages now think 10-15% faster.
• Settlers do not receive experience points any more.
• Fixed an issue when a player could remove a "self-destruct" perk from units summoned by other units.
• Fixed a crash on clicking on a News message about a new unit if the city was destroyed.
• Fixed an issue with the unit's experience when a unit is upgraded twice the same turn.
• Fixed an issue with game camera position at the game start.
• Fixed an issue when unit movement points and "cooldown" timers could be higher than their current maximum.
• Fixed some issues with duplicating perks.
• Fixed a rare crash when a player disbands his unit.
• Fixed bug with flying units teleportation on water hexes

Known issues
• Sometimes you cannot enter text - fixes with restarting game from menu
• Disconnect not always works well

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store!

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Assassin's Creed Franchise
  
• RAGE
  
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
  
• Age of Empires III: Complete Collection
  
• Metro 2033
  
• Iron Front: Liberation 1944
  
• Men of War Franchise
  
• Dear Esther
  
• Indie Bundle V - featuring AudioSurf, Greed Corp, Gemini Rue, The Tiny Bang Story, Ys: The Oath in Felghana
  

Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go!

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

Steam's mobile apps now list genres of apps that go well outside of gaming, suggesting a massive expansion is in the future of the digital distribution service. A Verge reader alerted the site of the new genres found on the Android app (including "photo editing," "utilities," and the thrilling "accounting.") We found the same list of non-game genres on the iOS version (above). They do not appear on the Steam website or in the computer-based Steam app. All of the non-game genres are currently empty.

We wouldn't take this as indication that Steam will start selling TurboTax and the like right away (or at all). We have no idea how long these genres have been visible in the mobile apps, only that people began to notice them last night. They could also be there in error. In any case, we've contacted Valve for more information.

For now, if you want to buy something from Steam that isn't a game, there's always Indie Game: the Movie.

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store!

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Saints Row: The Third
  
• The Darkness II
  
• The Walking Dead
  
• The Hitman series
  
• The Mount & Blade series
  
• Serious Sam 3: BFE
  
• Cities XL 2012
  
• Trine 2
  
• Indie Bundle IV - featuring A Valley Without Wind, Atom Zombie Smasher, Blocks That Matter, Sanctum, and Superbrothers EP
  

Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go!

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

For those of us with poor self-control and a PC, the Steam Summer Sale is as fiscally dangerous as it is deeply satisfying. So far, the Joystiq Qrew has spent about four hundred thousand collective dollars on Genesis ports alone, so when if we suddenly go offline, that means we spent the last of the server budget on Ecco the Dolphin.

Anyway, today's deals include Skyrim for $29.79, Dead Island (one copy for $10.19 or four copies for $30.58), Borderlands for five damn dollars (or $14.98 for a four-pack), as well as a third Indie Bundle and even more. There will also be flash sales throughout the day, so be sure and obsessively refresh Steam every 48 seconds or so until the Summer Sale ends on July 22.

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store!

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  
• Dead Island
  
• Orcs Must Die!
  
• Dirt Showdown
  
• Tropico 4
  
• Two Worlds II
  
• Borderlands
  
• Frozen Synapse
  
• Indie Bundle III
  

Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go!

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition is Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam!

Dark Souls is the new action role-playing game from the developers who brought you Demons Souls, FromSoftware. Dark Souls will have many familiar features: A dark fantasy universe, tense dungeon crawling, fearsome enemy encounters and unique online interactions. Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demons, not a sequel. Prepare for a new, despair-inducing world, with a vast, fully-explorable horizon and vertically-oriented landforms. Prepare for a new, mysterious story, centered around the Kings Crowns and the original, now dying flame at the center of the world. But most of all, prepare to die.

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition will include an untold chapter in the world of Lordran where the player must stop the spread of darkness at all costs by facing and defeating the Dark Knight Artorias.

Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM)

• Fixed a client crash on exit (after connecting to a server using sv_pure)
  

Day two of the Steam Summer Sale has begun - did you remember not to spend every cent to your name yesterday?

The daily deals today include Max Payne 3 for $29.99, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for $7.49, Payday for $4.99, The Binding of Isaac for $1.24, and ... we intended to tell you the highlights, but we're realizing we're about to just list all the daily deals. Go see for yourself!

1.0.9
CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
- Added the G2G vote results concerning the "Anti-Expansionist" Horatio faction trait.

FIXES
- Fixed an issue where the ship design information will only display the first module of each class.
- Fixed an issue where the random event duration doesn't depend on the game speed.

All the version notes since the alpha version can be found at:
http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?446-Release-Notes