An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The major changes include:

• Added 64-bit Support. 64-bit binaries will automatically be launched on systems with a 64-bit OS.
• Added a borderless window option to video settings
• Added bicubic lightmaps (from Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update)
• Added radial fog (from Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update)
• Added support for Steam Networking
• Added UI scaling for high-resolution screens
• Added avatars to the scoreboard
• Added console convar "hl2mp_allow_pickup" to allow picking up objects without Gravity Gun
• Added kill, weapon equip, and health pickup events for Steam Game Recording
• Brought over the HUD/UI changes from HL2 Anniversary update
• Increased the hardcoded maxplayers to 100 to allow for more chaotic times
• Increased default maxplayers from 2 to 24
• Improved networking precision for local player positions, resulting in less prediction errors and better game-feel
• Made viewmodels use the proper Half-Life 2 viewmodel bob/sway behaviour
• Made the default server name for listen servers include the player's name
• Made the game launch in native resolution by default instead of 640x480
• Client-side prediction fixes (these fix 'jank'/rollback in certain situations)
  • Implemented prediction for SMG1, AR2, Crossbow and basic prediction for the Gravity Gun
  • Fixed prediction for Crowbar and Stunstick animations
  • Implemented prediction for sprinting and AUX power
  • Implemented prediction for crouching
  • Implemented prediction for duck-jumping
  • Implemented prediction for climbing and getting on/off ladders
  • Fixed player hull being mis-predicted in certain instances causing rollbacks every frame when e.g. crouching or against a wall
  • Fixed prediction errors when picking up ammo or taking damage
  • Fixed a prediction bug where if the player was moved on the client, their input-based movement for that tick was not taken into account in non-player actions
  • Improved prediction for walking on props and other entities
  • Made certain client-side entities only trigger local prediction errors
    • e.g. If the viewmodel experiences a prediction error, the player will not experience a prediction error
  • Fixed prediction of viewmodel sway
  • Fixed a prediction error regarding weapon idle animations
• Fixed a bug where the SourceTV player would get stuck in limbo if mp_allowspectators was set to 0
• Fixed ALT/AMMO text and related icons not showing on HUD
• Fixed weapon sounds and effects for Gravity Gun, SMG1, AR2 and Crossbow
• Fixed the AR2 playing the animation for alt fire twice
• Fixed the SMG1 and AR2 not playing their bob animations when moving
• Fixed the Crowbar always playing flesh hit sound effect
• Fixed the Grenade having the SLAM's impact sound effects
• Fixed the RPG laser dot not showing up
• Fixed a bug where if the alt fire was the last in the clip, it would play the dry-fire sound instead of the shooting sound
• Fixed death feed not showing player names
• Fixed a bug where player weapons could spawn below them at spawn and not be properly equipped
• Fixed certain breakable props not gibbing correctly
• Fixed an issue where certain variables like position would not be updated correctly to match the server in certain situations
• Fixed the player's base velocity (eg. conveyors, moving items etc.) getting subtly out of sync from client/server

[ 2025-02-18 20:01:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Fixes

• Fixed player model selection in the options menu.
• Fixed slam not being able to be detonated if you were too close to a wall
• Fixed view bob with the SMG equipped.
• Fixed using the Gravity Gun to yo-yo grenades, sometimes causing the server to disconnect or crash.
• Fixed missing sound effects for the Gravity Gun.
• Fixed characters playing a missing animation when switching weapons while jumping and moving.
• Fix weapons being invisible when being given another weapon of the same class.

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Maps

• Increased player spawn point count in many maps.
• Fixed prop placement in maps that would allow players to escape the world.
• Fixed floating props in dm_runoff.
• Fixed the area portal on the blast door in dm_runoff causing the world to no longer render when the door was shut.
• Added geometry to many maps where the player could see outside of bounds.
• Fixed several areas where the player could see out of the world.
• Moved the blue barrels in dm_resistance that you could pick up with the Gravity Gun through the chainlink doors.

[ 2024-11-15 22:06:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The major changes include:

• Numerous security and stability improvements

[ 2021-07-02 20:54:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include:

• Various stability and security updates
  
• [SDK2013] Fixed NPCs not blinking
  
• [DoD:S] Fixed being able to switch weapons while holding a primed grenade

[ 2019-10-08 22:09:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include:

• Fixed physics not operating at the correct tickrate when specifying non-standard -tickrate options on the command line
  
• Fixed viewing demos recorded at a non-standard tickrate causing the next listen server hosted to be at that tickrate
  
• Various security and stability improvements
  
• Updated localization files

[ 2018-07-24 20:22:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include:

• Fixed being unable to start any map in single-player mode

[ 2017-06-19 21:00:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include:

• Improved Steam Voice support
  
  • Removed sv_use_steam_voice convar. Steam voice is now selected via "sv_voicecodec steam"
    
  • Fixed demos not properly recording Steam Voice status, resulting in potential corrupt voice in demos with differing default settings
    
  • Will now use the native Steam Voice sampling rate, instead of clamping to 11kHz
    
  • Improved compatibility with Steam client beta
• Added CELT audio codec currently in use in TF2 and CS:GO
  
  • Server operators may enable use of this codec via "sv_voicecodec vaudio_celt"
    
  • Steam voice remains the default voice codec in all SDK2013 games
• Updated spec_player command to match recent improvements in TF2
  
  • Now accepts partial player names, Steam IDs, etc.
• Fixed security issue reported by Amat Cama via GeekPwn
  
• Fixed security issues reported by Justin Taft from One Up Security, LLC
  
• Updated engine with recent stability and bug fixes from TF2
  
• Updated handling of game language setting to match Team Fortress 2 behavior:
  
  • Steam per-game language setting is now properly honored and syncs with the in-game setting
    
  • In-game UI language now honors above language setting, rather than improperly using the Steam client's UI language setting
    
    • Users wishing to have separate UI and audio languages may pass -audiolanguage on the command line
• Updated the localization files
  
• [DoD:S] Updated custom loading error dialog to include numerous tweaks and fixes that have previously been applied to the base version

[ 2017-06-16 00:27:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

An update for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and the Source SDK 2013 Base has been made available.

Important note for SDK mod authors: This update replaces the current main branch of the SDK 2013 Base with what was previously the "beta_test" branch. The previous SDK 2013 release branch as well as the outdated "upcoming" branch are now available for a short time as "previous" and "previous_upcoming" respectively.

The major changes include:

• Fixed potential security issues (thanks to Justin G. (aka sigsegv), Nathaniel Theis, Simon Pinfold for these reports)
  
• Fixed a case where changelevel2 would print a map not found error and fail to function in SDK2013 mods
  
• Fixed an exploit that could be used to crash dedicated servers
  

[ 2016-05-12 00:22:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

A mandatory update for Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, as well as the Source SDK Base 2013 beta branch has been made available. The patch notes are below.

• Fixed a security issue related to the file system (thanks to Simon Pinfold for this report)


• Fixed mp3 sounds causing occasional hitching and framerate stuttering


• Fixed OS X players being limited to medium texture quality


• Fixed maps compiled with static prop lighting causing crashes for players on medium or low texture quality


• [SDK] Fixed steam.inf not being loaded from the base directory for SDK mods


• [CS:S] Fixed server crash when running with 64 players plus SourceTV

The following fixes were already included in the previous update for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch:

• Fixed ent_teleport causing a crash when issued by the server


• Fixed buildcubemaps command not working for maps that already have cubemaps embedded


• Fixed -buildcubemaps command line option generating black non-HDR cubemaps

[ 2016-02-04 22:15:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart the game. The major changes include:

• Fixed "You do not have this 3rd party mod installed" error when joining game servers via the Steam server browser
  
• Fixed ent_teleport causing a crash when issued by the server
  
• Fixed buildcubemaps command not working for maps that already have cubemaps embedded
  
• Fixed -buildcubemaps command line option generating black non-HDR cubemaps
  
• Fixed a potential cause of graphical corruption for OS X and Linux users
  

[ 2015-11-09 23:22:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and Half-Life Deathmatch: Source have been released. The major changes include:

• Fixed a problem with the Steam Overlay for Mac clients
  
• Fixed maps using static prop lighting producing bad lighting in some conditions
  
• Fixed a Linux client crash related to the sound system
  
• [Day of Defeat: Source] Fixed client consoles being spammed with a message about invisible weapons
  

[ 2015-10-15 16:20:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The major changes include:

• Fixed several security issues
  
• Latest fixes and updates from the Orangebox engine and shared game code
  

[ 2015-09-16 22:18:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically. The major changes include:

• Fixed a case where some clients/servers would crash during map load
  

[ 2014-05-19 21:10:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically. The major changes include:


Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

• Fixed the skybox on 3rd party maps when using certain sky materials
  
• In Hammer, while using the Vertex Tool, pressing CTRL+B will snap selected vertices to the grid
  
• Allow about:blank in the MOTD
  
• Marked mat_texture_list as a cheat to prevent client exploits
  
• Removed the sv_voicecodec convar because it isn’t necessary anymore and was being used as an exploit
  
• Updated the con_logfile convar to checking for invalid filenames
  
• Updated the network resource download path to check for invalid filenames
  
• Updated the plugin_load command
  • Servers can only load plugins if they are not running a map
    
  • Clients can only load plugins if they are not connected to a server

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed a bug that would cause the Sentry’s health to look overhealed when it wasn’t
  
• Fixed an exploit with the Red-Tape Recorder and Sentry where the Sentry could build up a large amount of health
  
• Fixed a bug where the Spy could not place a sapper without switching weapons first
  
• Fixed the Engineer being able to purchase the Disposable Sentry Gun upgrade in Mann vs. Machine, build a disposable Sentry, and then refund the upgrade without the Sentry being destroyed
  
• Improved client-side critical attack prediction for rapid-fire weapons (i.e. Flamethrower, Minigun)
  
• Updated the equip_region for the Pyromancer's Mask
  
• Fixed the equip_region for tournament medals conflicting with other items
  
• Added the LBTF2 Season 9 tournament medals
  
• Updated the localization files
  

[ 2014-05-15 22:57:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically. The major changes include:

• Fixed another issue where compressed community maps would not be decompressed by clients if the file size was too large
  

[ 2014-04-29 20:56:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically. The major changes include:

• Fixed an issue where compressed community maps would not be decompressed by clients if the file size was too large
  

[ 2014-04-25 21:35:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically. The major changes include:

• Fixed an issue where plugin_load may load a non-binary file type
  
• Fixed an issue where decompressed file sizes were not being checked by the engine
  

[ 2014-04-24 23:12:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically. The major changes include:

• Updated Orange Box games with server, client, and engine fixes from Team Fortress 2
  

[ 2014-04-20 00:54:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Updated with other Orange Box client/engine crash fixes
  

[ 2013-09-18 21:19:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The major changes include:

• Fixed dedicated servers not correctly identifying their version
  

[ 2013-07-04 20:06:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The major changes include:

• Fixed a regression in the client prediction code
  

[ 2013-07-04 00:49:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

An update to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. The major changes include:

• Fixed a regression that was causing jittery game play
  

[ 2013-06-27 01:06:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Added "Only allow map files" to the possible selections in the download filter option for clients
  
• Network interpolation and update convars can no longer be changed when playing. To configure these convars, players must not be connected to a server or must join the spectators.
  
• Fixed a client crash related to the material system
  
• Fixed a client crash when downloading custom maps for the Mac version
  
• Fixed browser cookies not persisting across game restarts
  
• Fixed the in-game UI not using the Language setting from the game's Properties dialog in the Steam UI
  
• Fixed the game failing to launch on Mac OS X 10.5
  
• Fixed mat_viewportupscale using an error material for clients using DirectX8
  
• Removed range restrictions from viewmodel_fov_demo
  
• Updated the Linux version
  • Fixed triggers never registering as "released" on certain game controllers
    
  • Fixed clipboard issues on some window managers, most notably KDE
    
  • Fixed a bug where the map list would be reversed
    
  • Made loading custom fonts for third party HUDs work on certain fonts
    
  • Improved performance and stability

[ 2013-06-25 22:41:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Fast multiplayer action set in the Half-Life 2 universe! HL2's physics adds a new dimension to deathmatch play. Play straight deathmatch or try Combine vs. Resistance teamplay. Toss a toilet at your friend today!