Steam Updates and Releases 20 January 2012

Flatout 3: Chaos & Destruction Update Released

Improvement allowing cars not to get locked up with one another
Roll of certain classes have been improved.
The default settings of Classic cars have been switched with the new settings. (eg: standard setting is now the chaos&destruction setting)
Smashing destructable objects now will earn you boost and supermove, but are currently due to work on multiplayer functional in singleplayer only.
Speed game mode now has the same functionality / game logic as race mode.
"Classic Mode" now renamed to "Game Speed" because of reviewer setting the game to chaos&destruction meanwhile complaining game is way too fast.
Fixed "monstertruck wheels crushes my car" issue
Improved physics for the �default� Classic class tuning setting.
Added �Classic� setting for the Muscle Class.
Added new loading screens.
Tempered reaction for all explosions and other impact effects.
Upgraded first skin for default car, Grinder.
Streamlined �CrashSiteX� track. Go give it a try!
Reduced default A.I count for both race and challenge mode.
Player can now easily bash their way through opponents.
Balanced / tweaks for damage system.
Tweaks and feature improvements for the A.I.
Reduced default startgrid count for race and challenge mode.

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Item density pass.
Minor visual bugs fixed across all maps.

Death Toll 1:

Fixed a case where several rock props were intruding through a wall near the safe room.

Death Toll 2:

Fixed an case where survivors could jump into infected-only areas using an electrical box in the bridge holdout room.

Death Toll 3:

Removed an exploit where players could jump from the wheel pedestal of a flatcar onto a train car to skip the balcony area and exit the train yard.
Altered the PZ spawn area near the train yard exit. Instead of a tanker and a pile of gravel, it is now an overturned truck and van.
Church guy zombie returns!

Death Toll 4:

Blocked survivors jumping onto the left bus from the fence near the start, which allowed players to skip the beginning of the map.
Fixed pipe hanging in the middle of a room during end-level onslaught.
Removed the mounted gun, as this was causing players to try to outlast an infinite horde.
Added tooltip to prompt players to fight to the safe room when the onslaught begins.
Fixed a case where survivors could climb an electrical box prop into infected-only areas during the onslaught.
Fixed end-level trigger size exploit, which allowed players to stall the end of the map trigger by standing on top of a water-cooler.

Death Toll 5:

Swapped out the L4D2 mounted gun for the L4D1 mini-gun.

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Dota 2 Update Released

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

GAMEPLAY

Enabled Invoker!
Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture not hurting heroes when they blink.
Bounty Hunter: Fixed Track ignoring Linken�s Sphere.
Morphling: Fixed Morph removing Curse of the Silent.
Puck: Fixed Ethereal Jaunt from triggering Last Word/Magic Stick.
Puck: Fixed Phase Shift autocasting if you were already stunned before.
Puck: Fixed being able to move in certain situations while auto-casting Phase Shift.
Silencer: Fixed being unable to steal Int from dying magic immune heroes.
Silencer: Fixed Last Word silencing invulnerable units.
Silencer: Fixed stealing intelligence from Reincarnating heroes.
Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness picking units that are invisible or in the fow when it tries to find a new target.
Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness ignoring Hex.
Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greater Bash working with illusions
Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greater Bash bonus damage working on Towers, Wards and Denies
Spiritbreaker: Fixed Charge of Darkness and Greater Bash going through Magic Immunity
Storm Spirit: Fixed Ball Lightning costing draining more mana if you cast it again while still in it.
Tiny: Ultimate Scepter upgrade is now enabled.
Tiny: Fixed Toss damaging allied units.
Fixed Dagon int bonus being off by 1.
Fixed Arcane Boots giving 300 mana instead of 250.
Fixed night vision radius being a little smaller than intended.
Standing right next to a tree no longer removes its vision obstruction.
Silencer: Fixed Global Silence silencing only heroes.
Enabled Silencer and Spirit Breaker in Captain�s Mode.
Fixed Healing Ward and Windrunner auras� sticky durations to 2.5 seconds.
Fixed Dagon�s incorrect intelligence bonus values.
Fixed Heaven�s Halbred�s disarm allowing attack-spells to be cast through it.
Fixed Orchid using the old values at the new price.
Fixed Pipe not costing any mana.
Fixed Flying Courier HP not being upgraded after the last update

Added Steam avatars to the dashboard.
Added Dota Profile page to the main menu, showing your personal match history, commendations and most successful heroes.
Fixed a bug where your control could be lost if you were selecting a enchanted/converted unit. It now goes back to your hero.
Party area of miniprofile now uses Steam avatars.
Party area of miniprofile now shows rich presence for friends
Party area of miniprofile now shows "View Steam Profile" link for non-friends
Party chat channel automatically gets focus when you join a party
Added a �*� to channel tabs with pending messages
Fixed being able to sell back an item for full price if it was combined using an item that had an active ability.
Added spacebar to pause games during replays.
Fixed clicking on the minimap border and then dragging into the minimap resulting in the camera getting stuck to the cursor.
Chat channels now get deleted if the last member in the channel goes offline.
Fixed clicking on blank space in the UI sending move orders to invalid locations.
Default private lobby version is now Tournament Mode.
When player names draw they now draw with player color instead of white.
Added leave party button in mini profile.
Now when attempting to cast-attack a target while hard disarmed, the error message "Can�t Attack" will appear when you reach attack range of the target.
Holding now spotlights your hero.
Illusions now copy the number of charges in source unit�s inventory items.
Fixed Courier purchase having no cooldown (now 7 seconds, primarily for accidental purchases early on).

BOTS

Fixed bots repurchasing a courier when their courier died.
Fixed a case where bots would buy duplicate flying courier recipes.
Improved Earthshaker bot�s Echoslam logic -
he�ll now search for optimal places to Blink + Echoslam.
Made bots better about detecting attacking units without cheating and detecting other units� right-clicks.
Fixed Windrunner�s buildout which broke due to the new Orchid recipe build. Also added force staff to her build.

A.R.E.S. Update Released

Release note for A.R.E.S. version 1.42

Add Steam Cloud support
Remove unnecessary code
Minor bug fix