Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updated

[CSN NewsBot]

Though not really Counter-Strike related, nobody minds an update to HL2: Deathmatch every now and then. This afternoon, Valve released an update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch


• Score in teamplay mode no longer wraps back to zero 0 when it goes past 127
  
  
• Fixed bug in player bounding boxes while crouching
  
  
• Added cvar "cl_autowepswitch" to allow automatic weapon switching to be turned off
  
  
• Flashlight no longer turns off when auxiliary power is drained
  
  
• Auxiliary power now resets when a player respawns after drowning
  
  
• Fixed explosive barrels to allow burning after respawn

While this update addresses a few of the complaints gamers have had, there are still a number of bug fixes needed for the game.

[CSN NewsBot]

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updated

Update: Server admins should update once more, as a new update has been released as of 12:45AM EDT.



Yes, believe it or not, an update was released for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch tonight. The update fixes a handful of exploits and includes a few additions in preperation for the upcoming Verizon FiOS Grand tournament.

• Players now respawn with a small amount of invincibility to prevent spawn camping
  
  
• Weapon bindings can now be configured from the UI
  
  
• Added a timeleft command
  
  
• Added a mp_restartgame command
  
  
• Added a sv_report_client_settings command. If server logging is enabled, setting this server variable to 1 will log the cl_cmdrate command from the client's machine
  
  
• Fixed an exploit with the shotgun reload
  
  
• Fixed an exploit with the gravitygun being able to move objects very quickly
  
  
• Fixed an exploit where certain players could hide and shoot from some objects
  
  
• Fixed an exploit where players could move around very fast if they suicide with a box on their head

Ladies and gents, restart those Steam clients!

[Slicer405]

The Flash light one is good.



weeeeeeeeeeeeee first post!

[FLeK0]

Edited by [user="3298"] @ [time="1117668218"]

That list is LONG. Good luck to whoever works on it, I guess it's only one person :/.

[AceR]

carecarecare

[jojojohanson]

Uhmmmm...yeah. BF2 gold, demo on Friday.

[entRo]

Seriously? I might as well uninstall HL2 now since I wont be touching it again after Friday.

[jojojohanson]

Well it's not 100% sure yet. Either today or next friday... :)

[duhhhh]

i haven't played hl2dm in ages

[Syx]

The invincibility sounds good.

One reason I hate deathmatch games is because you get spawn killed over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

[Zips]

The patch is a big bugged right now. Valve is aware of the issues and is working on a fix for them.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

I can't stand straight HL2DM personally. Despite the inherrent abuses, I'd take SourceForts over it any day. It just doesn't have the polished combat feeling like UT or Q3 have, imho.

[Zips]

-:Nighthawk:- wrote..

I can't stand straight HL2DM personally. Despite the inherrent abuses, I'd take SourceForts over it any day. It just doesn't have the polished combat feeling like UT or Q3 have, imho.

I'm not a huge fan of the HL2: DM either. You know... bring on TFC: Source or TF2 and I'll be in heaven...



But I fear those games may never be relesed.

[Gpig]

I like HL2M more than TFC and CS:S. I don't know what it is, but I fucking love it. It has the fun element that playing as_crazytank (1 & 3, fuck 2) from 2 to 5 in the morning has.

[entRo]

-:Nighthawk:- wrote..

I can't stand straight HL2DM personally. Despite the inherrent abuses, I'd take SourceForts over it any day. It just doesn't have the polished combat feeling like UT or Q3 have, imho.

I tried to get the SF dev team to move towards a more fast paced, twitch-oriented combat system like UT or Quake, but they're more in favor of a slow paced game, regardless of what the community wants.



I left the dev team because of shit like that. This update did fix the shotgun exploit that was used somewhat in SF.