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Scheduled Maintenance Downtime Underway

Friday, 05 February 2010 02:00

The schedule maintenance for Steam is now underway and will last three hours at most ending at 9:00 PM Pacific time.

Some Steam services are now offline during this time including the Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases from the Steam store. Games that do not rely on Steam matchmaking services should remain playable.

News updates and any further information will be posted in this space.

We will work to make this downtime as short as possible. Thank you for your patience!

Scheduled Maintenance Downtime Has Been Completed

Friday, 05 February 2010 07:41

Steam maintenance was completed shortly after 2100 PST tonight. All Steam services are now online.
Thank you for your patience!

Secret of the Magic Crystals Update Released

Friday, 05 February 2010 18:48

Updates to Secret of the Magic Crystals have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Secret of the Magic Crystals

• Allow the use of lower screen resolutions
  

Left 4 Dead 2 and the Left 4 Dead 2 SDK Update Released

Friday, 05 February 2010 21:00

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. XBOX 360 users will see these changes in an upcoming title update. The major changes include:

Gameplay

• Now ghost PZ's can never be staggered
  
• Enabled PZ bots
  
• PZ bots use their more aggressive survival mode behavior in versus and scavenge
  
• Enabled finale manual spawn by default
  
• Fixed human PZ players not getting counted when they were dead, allowing extra PZ bots to spawn
  
• Reduced effectiveness of melee weapons against the Tank ( 5% of max health, from 10% )
  
• Fixed a case where a player who dies, then is rescued from a rescue closet, and then is revived from a ledge hang receives the secondary weapon that he lost when he was initially killed
  
• Improved SurvivorBot AI in cases where the bots refused to shoot through their teammates and became non-responsive
  
• Fixed issue with witch sometimes taking on uncommon common properties
  
• Fix for cheaters quitting before the vote to kick them would succeed and avoiding ban on server
  
• VAC banned users can now play L4D2 single-player, commentary mode and credits
  

Map Fixes

• Dark Carnival Fair Ground: added env_player_blocker to keep special infected from getting stuck
  
• Dark Carnival Fair Ground: added navigation area that was missing
  
• Dark Carnival Fair Ground: Disconnected drops that were blocked by the top of a fence
  
• Swamp Fever Plank Country: Deleted 2 nav areas that connected between tree trunks you can't pass through
  
• Swamp Fever Shanty Town: Redrew ladder thinner so special infected could climb up to the roof
  
• The Parish Waterfront: Fixed various navigation areas
  
• Mall: Tuned spawning for difficulty
  

SDK Content

• Added missing nature/blend tooltextures added
  
• Added missing cs models/textures
  
• Added missing acunit01 model/texture
  
• Added missing ammo_can_02 model/texture
  
• Added missing patio_chair model/texture