Hello everyone,
We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some extra fixes.
Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible.
Change list
- Merged Episode 1, Episode 2 and Lost Coast mounting options into the Half-Life 2 mounting option
- Added sv_quota_stringcmd_kick convar - kicks players who exceed sv_quota_stringcmdspersecond
- Fixed crashes to do with entity render groups in Lua
- Fixed crashes with missing physics objects in bone followers and info_radial_link_controller
- Fixed crashes with particles getting insane particle count
- Fixed crashes to do with NPC:TaskFail & debug overlay
- Fixed crashes with CTriggerWind when loading a save
- Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed being called twice
- Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed always returning empty SteamID in singleplayer even when we have it available
- Fixed 2 exploits reported via HackerOne
- Fixed r_lightcache_zbuffercache 1 crashing the game if set after map load
- Fixed "material __error is missing" warning on map load
- Fixed .gma whitelist being different between game/gmad
- Fixed character blinking by making flex controller names case insensitive again
- Fixed degraded loading times for certain servers/addons due to spawnmenu changes from October 2024 update
- Fixed BRANCH being set to "prerelease" on NONE beta clients (dedicated servers will continue to report "prerelease" on NONE/"public" beta)
- Fixed Lua error with DTree node on rebuild when all its child nodes are deleted
- Fixed dying outside of the map displaying "Dropping weapon in solid" console messages - Player:StripWeapons still drops weapons before removing them, Player:KillSilent and other methods of dying no longer does
- Potential fix for family sharing owner SteamID being wrong in unknown cases
- Potential fix for server reconnect spam by malicious actors
- Removed a bunch of unused gamemenucommand commands - things like Half-Life 2's chapter selector, etc
- Removed __screenshot_internal - it was never used by the game, no reason to keep it
- Removed cl_soundfile - Unused, no reason to keep it, was trying to send itself to servers on join
- Removed unused systems - Source's bug reporter, benchmarking stuff, BonusMaps stuff, Mumble stuff
- Removed some debug related save/load related console commands
- Added some more known backdoor URL to HTTP blacklist
- Blocked "load" console command for Lua
- Disallowed players from using voice chat unless they are fully connected
- Do not set "commentary" to 0 on map start, since the console variable no longer exists
- Stop shipping Commentary Editor for -tools, since we removed the commentary system which was never used in the first place