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AirMech Version 11330

Updates:
- New Osprey Variant: N-Vision
- New Pilot: Husky
- New Item: Red Tracers
- New Survival Map: Last Stand
- Slight buff to Warthog Air/Ground damage
- Doubled Honeypot supply range
- Slight Bucky buff for anti-tank purposes. Range was increased from 20 to 23
- Reduce AirMech repair/recharge rate in CTF mode when carrying the Core
- Reduce Air damage range falloff
- Tweaks to Survival map Wave 7,8,9 and general rebalancing on Spiral and Survival maps
- Updated Missile trail effects
- Flair shot colors now cycle if you have more than 1 equipped
- Updated translations from Steam Translation System
- Added /mute and /unmute commands

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed bugs related to Warthog ground Airmech targeting
- Various collision bugfixes for unit projectiles
- Fix target ranging bug on attack fort order
- Fixed a bug related to Team Color not showing up correctly when coming out of network game
- Fixed a bug where AIs could get locked in place, doing nothing, trying to pickup a built unit
- Fixed a bug where the Bomber's Mantis Strike could be shot down
- Fix spectator pan keys to use correct key bindings, and minor cleanup to Spectator UI

Age of Empires Online: Anniversary Update 8/14/2012

Major Features
Now Available: Babylon Pro Civilization
Command the masters of Mesopotamia in this new Pro Civilization.

Now Available: The Fertile Crescent Booster
Looking for more quests? The Fertile Crescent Booster offers 30 all-new quests for level 20 cities and beyond.

Now Available: Empire Vault
Need more space? Find yourself constantly mailing items to your other civs? This is the feature you need. Release your inner hoarder!

Now Available: Rename your Capital
Ever made a poor decision that you wish you could reverse, but couldnt? Now you can! For a fee.

Now Available: New Empire Consumables
This update features six powerful new Empire Consumables. Destroy your enemies in style with Palintonons of the Empire, Resources of the Empire, Crocodile Rampage and more.

Now Available: Vanity Ticket, Golden Ticket
There is now a chance to get two new, hard to find items: the Vanity Ticket and the Golden Ticket. Turn in the Vanity Ticket for a random piece of Vanity Gear in Vanity Island. Or, if youre lucky enough to find a Golden Ticket, you can turn it in to Marcus Pollux for a random assortment of level appropriate gear (up to level 30).

Now Available: New Vanity Gear
This update includes four new sets of Vanity Gear! Outfit your units with the Dragon Slayer, Wizard, Lunch Knight, and Pirate sets! Visit Vanity Island today to purchase your own set.

Now Available: New Legendary Items
You asked, we answered. 20 new Legendary items are waiting to be discovered, including Belly Bows, Axes, and Scepters. Find them where you find all of your favorite Legendary items!

New Feature: Milestone Techs
With this new feature, you will now get access to powerful new Milestone techs at levels 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40. Once you pick these Milestones, you can choose one per Civilization to affect your other Civilizations. The more Civilizations you play and level to 40, the more Milestones you'll get.

New Feature: Spectator Mode for Arena PvP
Like to watch? As Spectator, you have your own UI that lets you see what all players are doing, what resources they have, their build queues, how many idle workers they have, and you can switch between perspectives to see intel. All of these panels can be moved anywhere on the screen. Cast away!

Other Features

• Added support for "Battle Music."
• Variable item effectiveness. Items you craft or find from treasure will now have small differences in their effectiveness. All items found before this patch will remain unchanged.
• PvP and Skirmish Hall updates
• General quest and repeatable quest improvements
• Lots of UI changes
• Lots of Champion Mode PvP balance changes
• Lots of bug fixes

See the full patch notes for details: http://www.ageofempiresonline.com/en/articles/blog-20120808

Valve has previewed the second part of its master plan to upgrade Steam communities, today previewing a handful of changes coming to user groups.

Under the update, user groups will feature a group-specific discussion area and a new layout with better member visibility, making it "easier to see what a group is really about."

Groups can also affiliate themselves with their favorite games and set language settings, which Valve says will make finding groups of interest an easier endeavor. And no, you can't make a group professing your love for Half-Life 3 just yet. Valve isn't talking about it!

Release notes for 8/14 Update

Gameplay:
• Addressed recently reported performance issues.
• Living players can now hear the dead spectators in Casual game mode.

Effects:
• Improved muzzle flash dynamic light performace and optimized bullet hit impacts effects

UI:
• Added options to select the position of the steam toast notification.
• Fixed an issue with the Scoreboard where it was not showing a Tie or Loss properly.
• Fixed an issue where players were not getting updated in the Mini-Scoreboard.
• The Money HUD element now flashes more when it increases.
• The Scoreboard now allows you to view a player's profile.
• Updated the Alerts and Win panel spacing to match each other better.
• Updated the Win panel to be overall smaller and streamlined in all the states for modes.

Bug Fixes:
• Fixed an issue in the HUD player count where players who left or changed state quickly were not getting updated in the scoreboard as such.
• Updated the Play With Friends screen to enable the private/public toggle.
• Boot invites should now be accepted after the game loads from an invite click in steam message.
• Fixed description text for the Achievement: Awardist.
• Fixed server crash caused by taking environment (falling) damage while defusing.
• Fix for firing delay after weapon switching during a reload.
• Fix for cash awards not be applied properly for grenade kills.

Matchmaking:
• By default the input device is locked to keyboard and mouse.

Community Support:
• Fixed a bug where custom server map lists wouldn't populate if CT models werent specified. Server now sends information about slots, models, arms and maplist before serverinfo so that correct models could be loaded.
• When hashing the community server response we take into account game mode/type/numslots so that we rebuild extended kv when mode changes, but the map remains the same.
• Added commandline argument "-maxplayers_override" that, if exists, trumps any maxplayers values read from gamemodes files.
• Added -gamemodes_serverfile command line parameter that allows specifying a file other than the default gamemodes_server.txt
• Network stringtables will not be using dictionaries on community servers even if convar is enabled. This allows clients to actually download map since resources are referenced by strings and the client will not have the dictionary until they have the map.
• Client will defer .bsp file preload until after required resources are available. For the case of a missing map, this allows the client to reach signon state "new" and kick off downloader thread while retaining their spot on the server. This allows community servers to essentially run 3rd party maps that clients will download when played.

Cladun X2 is now available on Steam and is 20% off until August 21st at 10AM Pacific time!

Cladun X2 is a hack n' slash dungeon crawler with a retro RPG finish and a nearly infinite level of character customization. From stats to equipment to character classes to creating your own hero, Cladun X2 promises an addicting experience that gamers new and old will fully enjoy.

Tower Wars is Now Available on Steam!

Pick it up before August 28th at 10am Pacific Time and save 10%!

Tower Wars is a new and unique spin on the competitive multi-player tower defense genre! The game combines elements of tower defense, real-time strategy, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style.

Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition is Now Available on Steam!

Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which you are in control of humanity's destiny.

The year is 2178, the Terran Alliance has invented a new technology -- Hyperdrive. But the secret has leaked to the other civilizations starting a race for all the inhabitable worlds in the galaxy! As leader of United Earth, you must research new technologies, build an economy, create a powerful military force, all the while carefully balancing your political, diplomatic and trade skills.

Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition combines the award-winning Galactic Civilizations with the Altarian Prophecy expansion pack to create a stellar adventure.

As an added bonus, owners of Galactic Civilizations II get 25% off Galactic Civilizations I.

Saints Row: The Third - Unlockable Pack is Now Available on Steam!

The Unlockable Pack gives access to all unlockable items, upgrades and bonuses that weren't chosen during normal gameplay. Now you can have it all!

Today's Deal: Save 75% off The Guild II Collection

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

Save 75% on the Dead Space Franchise during this week's Midweek Madness!

In Dead Space™ 2, you join Isaac Clarke, the Systems Engineer from Dead Space, as he wakes up three years after the horrific events on the USG Ishimura. The Ishimura was a Planetcracker-class starship besieged by grotesque reanimations of its dead crew, known as Necromorphs. After unearthing a strange artifact known as the Marker, Isaac finds himself on the Sprawl, a giant space station in orbit around Saturn. Unable to remember how he got here and plagued with demented visions of his dead girlfriend Nicole, he must survive another nightmarish outbreak of Necromorphs as he fights his way towards an answer he hopes will end all the chaos.

Hi Everyone!

We need your help playtesting our Gamescom and PAX build. The instructions inside the game will explain all. If you need more info:
mail us at tokitori2@twotribes.com.

Thanks for helping out!

Two Tribes

New features announced each day this week, beta access available soon

A new set of features are being previewed today, focusing on improvements to user groups in the Steam Community.

With this update, the 2.5 Million user groups on Steam will be upgraded, adding discussions, customization, and a fresh new layout making it easy to see whos in the group and what the group has been up to recently.

The new discussion feature gives each group their own forums where members can post questions or discuss the topics and issues that are important to them. Groups can even set up sub-forums for more focused discussions.

Groups will also be able affiliate themselves with their favorite games and set the default language for the group, making it easier for gamers to find groups of interest to them.

Please visit www.steamcommunity.com/communitycontent for more details and be sure to check back each day through August 16th for a preview of more great features.

There are, believe it or not, a few drawbacks to growth at such a rapid rate that your fiscal reports probably include statements like “on track to consume the Earth – in a fashion not unlike that of Galactus, devourer of worlds – by late 2013.” For one, organization becomes really, really tricky. Infinite virtual shelves, as it turns out, can’t be tamed by a simple afternoon of taking inventory, so new solutions are needed. It is, then, nice to see Valve attempting to grab the reins of Steam’s Community functionality and steer it toward better usability – especially with Steam Greenlight on the way. Honestly, though, Steam – for all its community-oriented innovation and constant evolution – is still dropping the ball in some seriously important areas. That’s not to say I don’t love Steam, mind you. It is – warts and all – easily the best option out there. But, in the interest of encouraging Valve to do some more under-the-hood tweaks before resuming its Olympic-caliber sprint into The Future, let’s break down what else needs fixing.

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Pre-Purchase Tryst and get 20% Off* and Immediate Access to the Beta!

Tryst is a competitive Real Time Strategy Game that aims to provide a unique, fast paced spin to the established strategy model that combines player choice with unit customization.

War has erupted on the lonely planet of Ishtonia IV. Humans and a sentient, mechanical alien race known as the Zali former collaborators in the mining and processing of the rare compound, Lohum now see each other as threats to their continued existence on the planet both had so tenuously shared.

Wade into multiplayer as either the Ishtonian Alliance or the Zali, fighting for control over resources while trying to outwit your opponent and survive the worst Ishtonia can throw at you.

*Offer ends August 28th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Sword of the Stars 2 Changelogs

1.0.22773.3
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Critical fixes:
+ Added a fix for old save games that would crash when reloaded.

Other fixes:
+ Addressed odd rider behaviour when carriers were captured.
+ Clients now receive Intel reports again.
+ Fixed incorrect post-combat data being displayed for meteor encounters.
+ Fixed retreat missions that were mistakenly labelled as piracy missions.

Other Changes and Additions:
+ The game version is now displayed on the main menu.


1.0.22773.2
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Critical fixes:
+ Fixed a new parsing error related to diplomatic treaties that was causing intermittent crashes between turns.

Known issues:
- There is an issue with the upgrade of old save games that will lead to various forms of crashes while playing. Until this is resolved, only new games should be attempted.

Hotline Miami, Dennaton Games' over-the-top, top-down action game, is making housecalls this year on Steam, Get Games, and other unspecified PC download platforms. In addition, publisher Devolver Digital re-confirmed plans to put the games on consoles, though details have yet to be announced.

The trailer accompanying the news should ensure that you don't forget about the game until its release. The imagery is ... memorably violent. Yes, let's go with "memorably."

Sanctum is now available on Mac and 10% off!* Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC!

You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong!

Valve is preparing an update for Steam, revealing a host of new features over the course of this week for Steam Community. The first feature revealed is Game Hubs, a kind of anchor that will present everything associated with a game on Steam in one convenient place.

Game Hubs will "highlight the most popular user-created screenshots, videos, and Steam Workshop items as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location," Valve PR rep Doug Lombardi says.

Each day of this week, a new feature as part of this update will be shown. Beta access for the new Steam Community section will be available "soon."

#steam Steam is changing. Soon, every game on Valve's massive network will have its own "Game Hub" that features user-submitted screenshots, videos, and mods. It will also feature news articles and updates. More »

New features announced each day this week, beta access available soon

August 13, 2012--Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a major update coming to the Steam Community.

This update focuses on highlighting and enabling the best user-created screenshots, videos, and Workshop items for games across Steam while making it easier for the community to discuss their favorite games.

Every game on Steam will have a new Game Hub. The Hubs highlight the most popular user-created screenshots, videos, and Steam Workshop items as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location.

"The New Steam Community is all about showing off the best content that gamers have created," says Emily Kent at Valve. "With over 89 million screenshots, videos, Steam Workshop maps, levels, mods, and items, plus news articles and product updates, the community has created an unbelievable wealth of content around their favorite games."

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games and digital entertainment, with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2000 titles offered.

Check back each day (August 13-16th) for a preview of a new set of features at www.steamcommunity.com/communitycontent.

Iron Brigade is now available on Steam and is 20% off until August 20th at 10AM Pacific Time! Additionally, save even more when you grab the Four pack to get you and three friends in on the action!

Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace in this Tower Defense Shooter from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions! Use a combination of mobile firepower and stationary defenses to turn the tide of war in our favor. Customize your trench with thousands of possible loadouts. March side-by-side with allies from around the world as you fight your way through Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.

Today's Deal: Save 50% off Double Fine Bundle

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Indie Royale's latest gaming bundle is now live, and features seven indie games. Labeled the "Gone Fishin' Bundle," the pack will be available for the next full week, and includes Seamless Entertainment's SOL: Exodus, All Zombies Must Die! by Doublesix Games, and Squids, the colorful RPG from TheGameBakers.

VectorGeddon and Cubemen from 3 Sprockets are also included in the the bundle, alongside two platforming games by Magiko Gaming: Platformance: Temple Death and Platformance: Castle Pain. Each game in the bundle is available for PC, and some are on the Steam and Desura platforms. Check out the trailer for the entire bundle above, and head over to Indie Royale to buy it.

Today's Deal: Save 66% off the Adam's Venture Episode 3: Revelations!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

- Game crashing fixed
- Small enemy bullets highlighted to make them stand-out more
- 4th Boss is less difficult
- Various smaller fixes/changes

Today's Deal: Save 75% off the RUSH!

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#dota Some 25,000 players who had bought a community-created weapon within Dota 2 discovered a new item in their inventories after Valve learned it had been copied directly from the MMO Aion. More »

According to the folklore of our culture – relayed by minstrels sweetly crooning out their dulcet tones in the backs of taverns and also, like, every Hollywood movie ever – heroes always arrive just in the nick of time. So it shouldn’t be a problem for an academy‘s worth of medieval-themed do-gooders, right? You’d think so, but then Hero Academy‘s planned release date of August 8th came and went with nary a peep – even from Heavy weapons guy. Thousands of lives were lost. Better (slightly) late than never, though, and Robot’s provided a TF2-tinged launch trailer to make it official. Because things aren’t real until they have trailers.

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1.0.22773.1
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Critical fixes:
+ Fixed a combat auto-resolve crash related to bio-missiles.
+ Fixed a network transport bug that may cause de-syncs and sometimes crashes in two-player networked games.

Other fixes:
+ Mirage psionic effect can no longer be spammed.
+ Fixed known boarding action issues.
+ Fixed the fleet of empty retreating ships that could appear in networked games.
+ Fixed cases where attached boarding pods were super-sized.
+ Fixed an issue that could cause stations under construction to appear inside planets.
+ Fixed an issue where multiple Admiral dialogs could appear on mission screens.
+ Diplomacy point generation tuned.

Other changes and additions:
+ Reinstated piracy mission.
+ Reinstated Lobbying.