Weekly Steam News Update - Sept 8

[CSN NewsBot]

Outside of the gameplay trailers that were released this week, it's been a relatively slow news week it seems. The weekly news update is here none the less.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is coming to Steam. This week we made the single player demo available to everyone. Try out the demo and find out what "Action RPG" really means�"the melee combat and spellcasting are a blast.



The fifth of five new gameplay movies from Half-Life 2: Episode Two is now available. This week's release of movies concludes with a look at the expansive outdoor environments, new creatures, and weapons included in Episode Two�"including a brand new way to take down striders. Targeted for release in Q1 2007 on the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Half-Life 2: Episode Two will also include Team Fortress 2 and Portal.



The changes coming to the Counter-Strike: Source weapon and equipment economy are still underway, but we're not quite ready to announce exactly what we have planned. The scope of the change involves changing the prices of every item in the game�"some more significantly than others. But that's just the beginning. We'll have more info on what's in store, soon.

Don't forget, we have some local mirrors for the videos if you don't feel like firing up Steam. The First & Second, Third, Fourth, and the Fifth videos are all right here if you'd like.



Can't wait to see what additional changes are in store for Counter-Strike: Source.

[FLeK0]

Edited by [user="3298"] @ [time="1157760122"]

I (don't) know whats happening.

To me it looks like Valve abandoned cs:s in the past year because they were working on a new CS game. They jumped on that project quickly because cs:source turned out to be a lot less popular than they expected, but the main idea sucked for some reason and the whole thing died like the first few tries of TF2. And now it's time to put some little ideas they came up with in source, to try to keep the players playing it.

[ukHazard]

It was a long time before CS reached 10,000 servers (probably during beta 6.x somwehere), and, albeit building on the sheer scale of CS' popularity, there are 30,000 CSS servers out there. It's probably the number 2 online fps game of all time, behind CS.



I wouldn't say that it didn't meet any popularity expectations.

[Helkite]

I'm disappointed that CS just hasn't been the same since the original. There doesn't seem to be nearly as much interest or support since the good old days.



Just look at CSN itself, the classic CS section's full of great (albeit outdated) content, but CS:CZ and CS:S has virtually nothing.



When was the last time we had a mailbag? A fat rizzuh counter-crap? What's Gooseman been up to all these years?



I'd love to see the distant but eventual release of CS2 in 2012 rejuvenate the community, but I think CS' golden era is gone forever...

[ukHazard]

Helkite wrote..

When was the last time we had a mailbag?

To cherry pick one question, About 2 1/2 weeks ago.

[borsdy]

Helkite wrote..

What's Gooseman been up to all these years?

I second this.

[Grimbal]

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The problem with the new CS:S is there isn't really any news to post..., In the good old days of CS beta's there was news but only bits say stuff like a new weapon is being introduced or new equipment....



Take for instance the news above why are they not releasing sneak peak pictures anymore?, Im sure they could release two screenshots of a map they are building or new weapons they where thinking of introducing even if it is a month or two away from being complete least we would know that something is coming and we have something to look forward to! its all fine and dandy putting it in text but if you have phyical evidence that changes are coming the view somewhat changes...



"Just a question"

Who is gonna get excited about a new HDR maps when they dont even use HDR?



So what about HDR yea it maybe the future but theres really only a hand full of people who really have a computer to maybe run it at its full potential!. I mean alot of people havent converted to CS:S yet because they cant even run CS:S on there outdated computer's, It seems the main focus point from Valve's view at the monent with CS:S is how good the game actually looks, But if you ask me do you really think CS would have come this far if it was just about how good the game looked... yes CS 1.6 is ugly as hell! But the gameplay is still far superior to CS:S at this moment in time and thats what gripped people not the bloody graphics.



I mean come on im sure they could start putting some of the old works back into CS:S..... New gameplay modes back VIP!, escape, maybe even a new gameplay mode were the counter-terrorist's have to defuse 2 bombs....so you have to have 2 squads that have to split up that maybe even bring abit of teamwork back into the game which the game is somewhat lacking these days...



Why not try and build up some hype get some people excited to the point where they cant wait for the new updates to be released! the whole way in which the article about the new CS:S updates is written is so boring and bland it seems like the person who wrote it didnt even want to write it at all!

[DevgruSeal H.E]

I wouldn't mind some new gameplay modes, but not two bombs. Not enough people get in to defuse one bomb, much less two bombs. I stopped defusing bombs completely in pubs, because no one else ever does, so why should I run in there, risk losing my weapon, and then wind up losing the round anyways? Just not worth it. In scrims, it's different of course.



Two planted bombs wouldn't really make people want to work as a team more..It'd make them stack Terr. However, if maybe one of the two bombs are defused (Making Terrs have to defend even more so), would let the CTs win, that might even it out just a tad bit..

[entRo]

How about some fuckin Capture The Flag?