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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:


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

• Fixed a regression in the Mac's minimum system check
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added new audio lines for Merasmus to use when he attacks
  
• Fixed a Linux dedicated server crash related to Mann vs. Machine mode
  

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The latest Indie Royale bundle has arrived just in time for Halloween. The Halloween Bundle is on sale now for the next five days, and includes Home by Benjamin Rivers, all five episodes of Telltale's Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Ice-pick Lodge's Pathologic, MacGuffin's Curse by Brawsome, and EvilQuest by Chaosoft Games. Those that pay more than $8 for the bundle will receive a bonus chiptune album by C-jeff called "Preschtale."

Additionally, the top bidder for the bundle will win the Home: Old-School Collector's Edition signed by the game's creator. The top bid for the previously sold-out collector's edition bundle is just over $160 as of this writing.

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Colin Northway describes how indie life in Honduras created Quozzle, the creature in his PC game Incredipede. What's your game called and what's it about?

Incredipede is a game about playing with nature and life. Quozzle is a creature that can change her shape by growing new bones and muscles wherever she wants so you can build any kind of animal you like. After you build your creature, you control it to overcome obstacles and rescue Quozzle's kidnapped sisters.

It's also a very beautiful game. Thomas Shahan and I worked hard to make the visuals unique and he did a truly amazing job.

What inspired you to make Incredipede?

Incredipede was inspired by the jungles of Honduras. My wife, Sarah, and I made the game over two years while also traveling the world. When we were in Honduras we lived in a little house slung out over the water at the end of a terrible dirt road. We climbed in the mangrove trees and snorkeled on the reef. Crabs scuttled and fish swam under the house, ants invaded the kitchen, birds ate our fruit and lizards and boa constrictors hid in the trees. Life was everywhere. I have always loved the creativity and variety of life and had to make a game about it.

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:


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

• Added mat_viewportupscale and mat_viewportscale to enable rendering the world at a reduced resolution. ("mat_viewportupscale 1" and "mat_viewportscale 0.5" will downscale world rendering by 50%.)
  
• Added a new convar mp_mapcycle_empty_timeout_seconds to trigger a changelevel when the server is empty
  
• Added positional audio support for Mumble clients
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented consecutive clicks on scrollbar buttons
  
• Performance and stability improvements
  

Team Fortress 2

• Scream Fortress Event 2012
  
• Fixed a bug where buildings would be invisible during their setup time
  
• Mann vs. Machine
  • Added the map Mvm_coaltown_event with a special Halloween mission
    
  • Fixed a bug where players money would not be set properly when restoring a checkpoint
    
  • Fixed server crash on vote to restart mission

Frontline Tactics is now available on Steam and is Free to Play!

Frontline Tactics lets you command a modern, elite fighting unit over various missions; from defending and controlling a location or asset to all-out elimination and survival. Equip your soldiers with modern weapons, armor and equipment and give them the skills to succeed on the battlefield. Play against a merciless and cunning AI in single player or battle it out in multiplayer in versus or coop modes over multiple platforms; PC, Mac and iOS.

Also available as DLC are 3 additional personnel packages: the Close Quarter Combat Pack, the Medic Pack and the Sniper Pack. These packs are available for purchase individually or as an entire Bundle.

All personnel packages are available for 20% off until November 2nd at 10AM Pacific Time.

Visual C++ package has been remade - to make it work correctly make sure you uninstall, reinstall the game (through Steam), let Steam install new driver AND restart the computer

Achivements are now working when you select "Yes" to enable Steamworks.

Remapping keys are now available with movement and restart. You access this in the CONTROL section (TITLE MENU)

Game can now run in lower resulutions. That should now take care of the problem some people had getting stuck while entering stairs or elevators.

Masks perks have been fixed and tweaked.

Game saving grade on the wrong stage have been fixed. However, we are not able to move the grade you already unlocked, so to make sure you have A+ on a stage, replay it and kick its ass one more time to make sure the A+ displayed is the correct A+.

Most reported bugs have been taken care of and should not cause more trouble. If they still persist or you encounter any new ones please report them here on the forum or at support@devolverdigital.com.

Hope this patch works as it should and that you can now enjoy playing the game as it was meant to be played!

Controller WILL work in the next update. Sorry for the delay, we had to make sure everything works as it should and will test it a bit further.

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Rock of Ages is joining the season fun with a PC update that includes a redesigned matchmaking system, the ability to practice against the AI while waiting for online opponents, and most importantly of all, a new ghost boulder with cool cloth physics. That's right - cool cloth physics. Tell your friends.

The update also includes other Halloweeny treats, such as a jack-o-lantern GUI and tiny themed characters surrounding defensive units.

Rock of Ages has a free weekend on Steam now through Sunday, October 28, at 1 p.m. PT, and is 75 percent off (that's just $2.50) through Monday, October 29. Rock and roll out!

- Added Centaur
- Implemented 6.76b gameplay changes

UI
- Fixed XP going the other way if you're leveled up with a command.
- Fixed scoreboard not updating properly after a hero swap
- Added party invite ignore options to the party invite dialog and settings screen
- Visual updates to spell button states
- Fixed Show Dota Profile not working properly

VISUALS & AUDIO
- Fixed several "missing lane" line bugs for Puck, Mirana, Meepo, Lina, Keeper, Shadow Demon, and Windrunner.
- Fixed spell button sounds triggering on mouse clicks only and not hotkey press
- Fixed certain effects on workshop items that were incorrect or missing

BUGS
- Fixed a recent bug that caused Zombies to get Deathlust sooner than intended
- Fixed how Meepo attribute sharing was calculated

GAMEPLAY
Alchemist
- Unstable Concoction now explodes around you if you are killed while charging it up
- Goblin's Greed cap increased from 26 to 30

Ancient Apparition
- Chilling Touch attack count increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6

Bane
- Enfeeble cooldown decreased from 12 to 10
- Bane can now wake himself up from Nightmare with a subability

Batrider
- Strength gain decreased from 2.7 to 2.4

Centaur
- Strength growth increased from 2.6 to 3.8
- Replaced Great Fortitude with a new skill (Stampede)
Grants you and all allied player units on the map max movement speed and zero unit collision for a short duration. Any enemy units you or your allies come into collision with take some damage and get stunned. Enemies can only be affected by stampede impact once.
Duration: 3/4/5
Damage: 100/150/200 + 2x your str
Stun: 1.25 seconds
Stampede Collision AoE: 120
Cooldown: 65
Mancost: 50
Note: Does not affect magic immune enemies

Chen
- Hand of God cooldown increased from 120 to 140/130/120
- Penitence damage amplify increased from 7/14/21/28% to 8/16/24/32% (matches the slow values now)

Clockwerk
- Hookshot now pulls Clockwerk to allies instead of getting blocked by them
- Hookshot Aghanim's upgraded cooldown decreased from 15 to 12

Crystal Maiden
- Arcane Aura has twice the effect on Crystal Maiden

Dark Seer
- Vacuum cooldown increased from 19 to 22

Doom Bringer
- Doom duration increased from 13 to 15 (and scepter from 14 to 16)

Drow Ranger
- Precision Aura mechanics reworked
Global Aura. Gives you and all allied ranged units a portion of your agility as bonus damage.
Bonus Damage: 14/18/22/26% of your agility as damage
Note: Can be toggled on and off to affect creeps or not

- Changed how Marksmanship bonus agility is granted
Passively provides bonus agility. If there are no nearby enemy heroes, your focus improves and the bonus agility is doubled.
Bonus Agility: 20/30/40 Agility
AOE: 375 (for double bonus)


Gyrocopter
- Homing Missile distance required for max damage reduced from 2000 to 1500
- Homing Missile stun duration rescaled from 2.5 to 2.2/2.4/2.6/2.8
- Rocket Barrage damage increased from 11/14/17/20 to 11/15/19/23

Jakiro
- Ice Path creation delay increased from 0.4 to 0.5
- Ice Path manacost increased from 75 to 90

Krobelus
- Exorcism base ghost count increased from 4/10/18 to 4/12/21

Kunkka
- Tidebringer level 4 AoE increased from 500 to 600

Lina
- Laguna Blade cooldown rescaled from 90/70/50 to 70/60/50

Lion
- Mana Drain break threshold range increased from 850 to 1100
- Finger of Death cooldown rescaled from 170/105/40 to 160/100/40
- Finger of Death cast range increased from 700 to 900

Luna
- Lunar Blessing bonus damage increased from 14/20/26/32 to 14/22/30/38

Magnataur
- Shockwave distance increased from 700 to 1000
- Shockwave cooldown decreased from 11/10/9/8 to 10/9/8/7
- Shockwave cast range increased to match its travel distance (visual thing only)
- Skewer AoE increased from 95 to 125
- Skewer range increased from 800 to 1200
- Skewer now only considers heroes a valid target for dragging in consideration with its unit cap

Meepo
- Poof cooldown decreased from 14/12/10/8 to 12/10/8/6
- Divided We Stand Aghanims upgrade now gives clones 100% stat sharing

Mirana
- Elune's Arrow cooldown decreased from 20 to 17
- Moonlight Shadow manacost decreased from 175 to 75

Morphling
- Cast animation time improved from 0.45 to 0.4

Naga Siren
- Rip Tide cooldown rescaled from 10 to 19/16/13/10

Necrolyte
- Heartstopper Aura damage increased from 0.6/0.8/1/1.2% to 0.6/0.9/1.2/1.5%

Nyx Assassin
- Vendetta damage increased from 225/375/525 to 250/400/550

Nyx Weaver
- Base Damage increased by 4

Outworld Destroyer
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 310

Ogre Magi
- Multicast now increases cast range of Ignite by 150 per level, this is in addition to the existing AoE increase

Omniknight
- Purification cooldown decreased from 12 to 10
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 305

Phantom Lancer
- Collision size decreased from 24 to 8

Puck
- Base Damage increased by 5

Pugna
- Life Drain break threshold range increased from 900 to 1100
- Nether Ward AoE increased from 700/1000/1300/1600 to 1600

Razor
- Eye of the Storm strike interval decreased from 0.85/0.75/0.6 to 0.75/0.65/0.55 (Scepter 0.65/0.55/0.45)

Rubick
- Fade Bolt damage decreased from 75/150/225/300 to 70/140/210/280

Silencer
- Global Silence cooldown decreased from 160 to 140
- Global Silence duration increased from 3/4.5/6 to 4/5/6
- Base Intelligence increased by 6
- Base Damage reduced by 6
- Curse of the Silent duration rescaled from 5/6/7/8 to 6
- Curse of the Silent hp drain rescaled from 20/30/40/50 to 20/35/50/65
- Curse of the Silent mana drain rescaled from 10/15/20/25 to 8/16/24/32
- Int Steal moved from Last Word back to Glaives of Wisdom
- Glaives of Wisdom now steals Intelligence from outside of the AOE if Silencer gets the kill
- Int Steal aoe increased from 850 to the standard 900 aoe range
- Last Word replaced with new active skill
Targets an enemy unit placing a debuff on it. While the debuff is active, casting any spell causes the target to become silenced and take damage. If the duration of the debuff runs out without the target casting a spell, it will still take damage and be silenced but also be disarmed.
Debuff Duration: 5
Damage: 150/200/250/300
Silence/Disarm Duration: 3/4/5/6
Cast Range: 900
Cooldown: 36/28/20/12
Manacost: 100
Note: You have basic vision over the last word target while the initial buff is on them

Sniper
- Assassinate cast range increased from 1500/2000/2500 to 2000/2500/3000
- Headshot procs cannot be evaded (the entire attack gets through)
- Headshot chance from 25/30/35/40 to 40
- Headshot damage from 30/45/60/75 to 15/40/65/90
- Headshot ministun from 0.01/0.1/0.2/0.2 to 0.25
- Shrapnel provides vision in the targeted area
- Shrapnel cast range increased from 1200 to 1800

Templar Assassin
- Psionic Trap now requires a buildup time to reach it's maximum slow. Starts at 30% and increases by 5% each second until it reaches 50%

Tidehunter
- Ravage damage decreased from 250/350/450 to 200/325/450

Treant Protector
- Strength growth increased from 2.8 to 3.3
- Living Armor HP regen increased from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/13

Venomancer
- Venomous Gale manacost rescaled from 90/105/120/135 to 125
- Venomous Gale initial damage rescaled from 50/70/70/100 to 25/50/75/100
- Venomous Gale damage per tick increased from 10/20/40/50 to 15/30/45/60
- Poison Sting duration rescaled from 7 to 6/7/8/9

Warlock
- Golem attack damage increased from 50/75/100 to 75/100/125

Witch Doctor
- Death Ward Aghanim's upgrade changed from 3 target split attack to 5 target bounce
- Death Ward multi attack bounce AoE increased from 550 to 650
- Death Ward cooldown decreased from 90 to 80

Zeus
- Thundergod's Wrath damage increased from 210/335/460 to 225/350/475
- Thundergod's Wrath Aghanim's damage increased from 400/500/600 to 440/540/640

Boots of Speed
- Price decreased from 500 to 450
- Move speed bonus from 55 to 50
Arcane Boots
- Move speed bonus decreased form 65 to 60
Phase Boots
- Move speed bonus decreased from 60 to 55
Power Treads
- Move speed bonus decreased from 60 to 55
Tranquil Boots
- Move speed bonus decreased from 80 to 75

Armlet of Mordiggian
- Armlet cooldown increased from 1 to 2 seconds

Force Staff
- Recipe reworked
Old Force Staff:
============
Requires:
Staff of Wizardry (1000)
Quarterstaff (900)
Recipe (500)
Total: 2400
Grants:
+10 Intelligence
+10 Damage
+10 Attack Speed
Force (600 units forward, 25 mana, 20 cd, 800 cast range)

New Force Staff:
=============
Requires:
Staff of Wizardry (1000)
Ring of Regeneration (350)
Recipe (1000)
Total: 2350
Grants:
+10 Intelligence
+3 Regeneration
Force (600 units forward, 25 mana, 20 cd, 800 cast range)

Null Talisman
- Recipe cost decreased from 155 to 145

Rod of Atos
- Cast range increased from 800 to 1200
- Slow increased from 50 to 60%

Shadow Amulet
- Fade time decreased from 2.75 to 2.6

Updated vision values on these abilities: Unstable Concoction, Phantasm, Waveform, Storm Bolt, Mirror Image, Spirit Lance, Requiem of Souls, Spectral Dagger, Venomous Gale, Earthbind, Dream Coil, Shackleshot, Wall of Replica, Flamebreak, Deafening Blast, Ghost Ship

The Call of Duty: Black Ops II Season Pass is available for Pre-Purchase!

The Call of Duty : Black Ops II Season Pass is the ultimate way to get more of Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It includes 4 Epic DLC Map Packs for 1 Great Price.

Get four Call of Duty: Black Ops II downloadable content Map Packs, delivering a variety of new content, including Multiplayer and Zombies playable content
Content expected to be available in 2013, following the games launch on 11/13/12.

Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.15 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Updated assets from Team Fortress
• Added time scale editing and freeze time on particle systems in animationset editor
• Added ability to upload images to the SFM steam community
• Added quick way to save an image from the current viewport
• Added Set Offset Time to timeline
• Renamed Blade Clips to Blade Clips And Bake Time Offset, and added new Blade Clips on shift-B
• Improved YouTube upload dialog
• Fixed performance bug when switching windows in the SFM
• Film clips are now always locked to frames during interactive editing operations
• Any film clips that are not on frames now cause the film strip to draw red
• Script editor improvements
• Updated Qt to version 4.8.3
• Removed Python 2.5 and unused Maya 2008 and 2010 directories
• Fixed sdklauncher garbage mod string bug
• Various crash fixes

Two new Starter packs for Bloodline Champions are now available on Steam!

Each pack offers you additional Bloodlines, team slots, Blood Coins, and timed Boosts to enhance your gameplay experience!

Lair of the Seamstress, new DLC for Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3, is now available for FREE on Steam!

This brutal bonus dungeon features unique mechanics designed to test players, and find them wanting.

Trains Vs Zombies 2 is Now Available on Steam and 50% off*.

Theres something strange taking a bite out of New York in our ghoulish Halloween special, Trains vs. Zombies 2.

New York City has been overrun by toxic slime, turning normal humans into mindless zombie-like creatures, and it is your job to rescue passengers from the Halloween nightmare that is taking over the Big Apple.

With zombies, carnage and plenty of Halloween fun, are you ready to save the world one platform at a time?

This is a standalone product and does not require the base product Train Simulator 2013 in order to play.

*Offer ends November 8th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Kick off the weekend by playing the full multiplayer mode for Rock of Ages for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time.

Additionally, pickup Rock of Ages all this weekend at 75% off the regular price! Sale ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time.

If you already have Steam installed you can click here to install or play. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ - Arctic Strike and the Season Pass are Now Available on Steam!

In Ghost Recon Future Soldier join an elite team of highly trained, cut-throat special-ops soldiers. Armed to the teeth with unrivalled combat technology and cutting-edge military hardware, Ghost Recon takes you to the globes most deadly warzones to hunt down the highest value targets.

The Arctic Strike Map Pack, takes you from the streets of Moscow to the far reaches of the Arctic. It includes new multiplayer maps, a new multiplayer mode, a new Guerrilla Mode co-op map, and six additional weapons to give you the supreme edge over your enemies.

The Season Pass brings you access to the entire range of downloadable content for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It includes the Arctic Strike Map Pack and future all-new playable maps and game modes, extra weapons for Ghosts and Bodark units, additional Uplay achievements, and more!

We need your help saving the world! Play Left 4 Dead 2 for FREE starting now through Monday at 10AM Pacific Time.

You can also pickup Left 4 Dead 2 at 75% off the regular price!

If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play Left 4 Dead 2. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here.

Deadlight is now available on Steam and is 15% off until November 1st at 10am Pacific time!

The world has ended. There is no hope. No new beginning. Only the survivors. DEADLIGHT follows the journey of Randall Wayne, a man searching for his family across Seattle during the aftermath of a 1980s event that has decimated life on earth. This visually stunning Cinematic Survival Platformer will challenge you to run, jump, climb, and struggle for your life as you look for answers and the ones you love.

Update 171082

It includes following changes:
- Added support for VAC.
- Leaderboard for SV_TripleTrouble now works.
- Fixed player banning not working and re-enabled player time ban in voting menu.
- Ammo items are no longer allowed in case infinite ammo game mode is enabled.
- Fixed a bug in warmup mode where the player's body would remain in the game when they switched into spectate mode.
- The game can now start even if XInput is not (properly) installed. Dedicated server can now also run without it.
- Crouching now doesn't emit any footsteps.
- Added a HUD element that shows the names of people currently transmitting via voice chat.
- Added support for colored chat messages in chat console.
- Changed the color of kill messages in chat console.
- Fixed formatting errors with player names with special characters in spectator mode and when voting.
- Fixed a formatting error in French locale with DeathMessage.Suicide.
- When picking up a sniper weapon item, player will receive five bullets in non-campaign modes, and fifteen bullets in campaign modes.
- Adjusted Sniper weapon and ammo availability and respawn times on versus levels.
- Fixed possible spawning of multiple sniper items on JumpOver.
- Now allowing powerups to be disabled in Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch.
- Fixed that the scoreboard in versus matches would sometimes show the score outside of the box.
- Added an XML tag "roundstart" at the beginning of a match containing information about the gamemode.
- Added playerid to logged Xml tags for playerjoined, playerleft, kill and chat.
- Fixed a very rare crash when formatting times (e.g. in save/load menu).
- Added additional subtitles for Sam's quotes on HDTSE.
- Fixed a kamikaze getting stuck in a wall.
- Fixed an issue with trigger not being spawned in coop mode on final level of FE.
- Fixed players erroneously receiving minigun on a chapter on 3rd level of HD DLC Legend of Beast.
- Fixed a few collision bugs in some Legend of the Beast levels.

Farming Simulator 2013 is Now Available on Steam!

Animal husbandry, crops, sales… It's up to you to manage and grow your own farm in a huge, totally new world! As you progress in your career and complete different missions, you'll control more than a hundred farming vehicles and machines faithfully recreated from the biggest names in the industry. It also comes with an online mode and online services, so you'll be able to manage a farm with up to 10 other players.

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- Fixed fire from incendiary ammo re-igniting itself and never burning out.
- New achievement: "Good Guy Nick - Plays games with free weekend players and helps them survive a campaign."

Celebrating the pre-Halloween weekend, Left 4 Dead 2 will be free on Steam this weekend. Valve announced that starting Thursday the co-op shooter will be gratis to play and is currently available to pre-load.

This weekend adds a new achievement titled "Good Guy Nick" for current players who join up with a free weekend warrior.

It should also be mentioned, in case you haven't paid attention the multi-million selling franchise in a while, that Left 4 Dead 2 added many of the maps from the original Left 4 Dead as free DLC on PC a while back.

[Thanks, Bean]

Conquest of Elysium 3 is now available on Steam and is 10% off until October 31st at 10am Pacific time!

Conquest of Elysium 3 is an old school turn based fantasy strategy game. Choose one of 17 different characters with wildly different abilities as you explore randomly generated worlds where no two games are the same!

7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover is now available on Steam!

The long-standing 7 Wonders series keeps getting better and better! The fifth installment, 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover, adds an entirely new game component, new Wonders and a new and exciting material Alien Energy!

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The Funfair Pack, new content for Worms Revolution is Now Available on Steam.

The Funfair Pack includes:

• - 5 new single player puzzle missions.
  
• - A stunning new Funfair theme for Worms™ Revolution that can be used in local and online matches.
  
• - Armageddon, Skunk, Napalm Strike and the brand new Knock Out weapon.
  
• - 2 new trinkets, 2 new accessories, 1 new gravestone and 1 new soundbank.
  
• - Matt Berry reprises his role as Don Keystone, the unseen narrator who will guide you through the 5 new puzzles.
  

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New Class

Sharpshooter
- Weak and quite slow but carries heavy firepower
- Carries a long range rifle, artisan flintlock pistol and a fancy dagger.
- As his special attack the Sharpshooter can throw his powder horn like a grenade.

New Maps

bt_townsquare
- A small peaceful wealthy town is raided by Pirates, Vikings, and Knights.
- Booty mode.

lts_gravedanger
- Graveyard where the dead spirits yearn for more blood and battle.
- Last Team Standing mode.

lts_town
- Night has landed on the streets and merchants come out to sell their apples.
- Last team standing mode.

tw_tortuga
- The infamous pirate haven has some unusual visitors from times passed.
- Trinket Wars mode.

Existing Map Changes

- tw_saints spawns fixed
- bt_island
* Palm trees are no longer able to be climbed.
* Viking spawn is unreachable.
* Chests cannot be thrown into unreachable areas anymore

General Changes

- Updated shaders for players.
- New effects for damage and explosions.
- Trinket wars particle effect replaced with a new low-cost effect.
- Updated animations for Captain and Skirmisher.
- Headshots added (SS rifle only).
- Jumps are now trackable.
- Updated main menu and loading screen.
- Several new music themes.
- Several new achievements, including 10 for the sharpshooter.
- Customizable colours for parrots, gained by unlocking achievements.
- Muting now also removes voice commands texts from the chat window.
- Updated Steamworks API.
- Added minimum and maximum values for rates.
- Master server legacy mode is off and heartbeat on by default.
- Several other bug and exploit fixes, including:
* Chest bonus score exploit fixed.
* Decals and dropped weapons are cleaned at round restarts.
* Fixed quirky font action on some resolutions.
* Scoreboard shows up to 24 players.
* Fixed players near their carrier having the wrong trinket effect.
* Fixed many errors causing character models to show "T" poses.
* Several missing and misplaced voices fixed.
* Added missing delays on round cheers.
* AFK status is now also checked against button presses and changes in view angle.

Combat and Game-Mode Changes

- Shield bash now has a short cooldown.
- Kegs are more easily pushed by shields.
- Large weapons are now generally slower to charge up but have faster swings.
- Spawning trinket can now be passed to a random teammate by pressing G.
- Chests now spawn quickly back into chest zone if just thrown out.
- Chest pickup delay removed.
- Chest carriers have 10% damage reduction to incoming ranged attacks.
- Developers and testers have the Midas touch.

Class Balance Changes

Berserker
- Sword/axe combo easier to land strikes with.
- Big axe is much faster but deals less damage and has shorter range.
- Movement speed increase.
- Special bar is easier to fill.

Huscarl
- Two handed axe is slower but does more damage and longer range.
- Slightly increased health and armor.

Gestir
- Seax damage lowered.

Heavy Knight
- Claymore is slightly slower but does a bit more damage.
- Small increase in armor.

Captain
- Cutlass is a bit slower but does more damage.
- Blunderbuss has a limited range for its pushback.
- Special shot now passes through teammates.
Pirates, Vikings and Knights II - Beta 2.5 Change Log