November 10th Update

Valve have released a new patch which includes an update to their Source engine and some changes to Team Fortress 2. Here’s the release:

Updates to Team Fortress 2, 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:

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

  • Added rate limiting for connections and added the following ConVars to support that:
    • sv_max_connects_sec
    • sv_max_connects_window
    • sv_max_connects_sec_global

Team Fortress 2

  • Added a full moon background for the main menu
  • Added new promo items
  • Fixed a Linux dedicated server crash when using +randommap on the command line
  • Fixed some bugs with the way items appear in the Steam Community and Steam Trading
  • Optimized several materials to improve performance
  • Updated the localization files

Undocumented Changes

Fixed environmental texture error on blue pickup prop

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