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HL2DM, Source SDK, Source Engine Update Released

December 2, 2004, 5:41 pm · valve Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Source SDK, and Source Engine updates are available and will be applied automatically when Steam is restarted. The changes include:

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

• Players now play grenade throw animation and RPG fire animation
  
• Items and weapons punted from their original spawn position now return after x time has passed (sv_hl2mp_weapon_respawn_time, sv_hl2mp_item_respawn_time)
  
• Improved player crouch animations
  

Source SDK

• Included support for making HL2DM maps
  
• Included sample source HL2DM map: dm_lockdown.vmf
  
• Added xwad, vtf2tga, and glview tools
  
• Fixed problems running vrad on certain machines
  
• Fixed bugs adding game configurations with long paths
  
• Improved detection of bad game paths

Source Engine

• Fixed server plugins not loading under Steam
  
• Fixed rcon kick failing
  
• Fixed UDP logging functions not working properly with quoted strings

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