Steam News - November 30, 2007

[CSN NewsBot]

With another week, comes another hot steamy dose of a weekly Steam news update. Without further ado, here's the weekly news fresh from the oven.

New achievement packs will be added to Team Fortress 2 in the coming weeks. First up: a batch of 36 achievements for all the hard-working medics out there. Here's a sneak peek:

We usher in the holiday season with new merch in the Valve company store...



We’re pleased to offer three new lithographs in our collector's edition prints. Each of the lithographs features concept art from Orange Box games-Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Team Fortress 2. The first hundred of these limited-edition runs are hand-signed and numbered by the artist and embossed with the Valve lambda.



If Portal’s Weighted Companion Cube and cake could express holiday cheer-and we remind you that they cannot-they’d send an Aperture Laboratory Holiday Greeting Card. This limited-edition pack includes 15 Portal-themed greeting cards-three each of five different sets, each with a unique holiday greeting inside. Slip in a new Aperture Laboratories parking sticker, available separately, to warm the heart of your favorite Portal jumper.



Also in stock for the holidays: The Orange Box gift certificate pack. You get two gift certificates for the Orange Box, each presented in an Aperture Laboratory Holiday Greeting Card. As a bonus, the gift certificates save you 10% off the regular retail price.



You can pick up Activision’s action-adventure game GUN for just $9.95 USD, a 50% savings, this weekend only. Saddle up.

That just about wraps it up for this week's news update. No stories, no remarks, no witty anecdotes.

[FatboyTim]

I <3 achievements.

[Roady]

more achievements \o/

i'd prefer more maps, but for now im happy.

[kerosine99]

That is awesome! I can't wait for more achievements.

[Ryosuke T]

Haha. I thought the achievement idea for TF2 is cool. Enjoy it alot. More maps and achievement please. =)

[Diamond Dust]

more achievements = more gooder

[kalabalana]

first thing they need is a decent balancing system

[DevgruSeal H.E]

And a console variable for criticals (their frequency).



And a backstab exploit fix (They didn't fix it the first time, like the Gravelpit exploit) -- I just witnessed this earlier on a 2Fort match. I know it was a frontal backstab because I had my crosshairs and flames focused entirely on him, and he was directly in the front of my FOV.

[snkcube]

DevgruSeal H.E wrote..

And a console variable for criticals (their frequency).



And a backstab exploit fix (They didn't fix it the first time, like the Gravelpit exploit) -- I just witnessed this earlier on a 2Fort match. I know it was a frontal backstab because I had my crosshairs and flames focused entirely on him, and he was directly in the front of my FOV.

Did you report this at the Steam forum?

[Roady]

kalabalana wrote..

first thing they need is a decent balancing system

That would be nice.

A couple of days ago, I joined a game on 2fort. A few minutes in I managed to steal reds flag and get it to the edge of their base. Then as I died, I got switched to red and spent the next few minutes frantically defending the flag I had just stolen. Then when I died again it put me back on blue, by which time reds flag had returned to the base.

Frustrating to say the least.