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I’m going to be pushing out an update to the website later this week. It will require that the blog, along with the rest of the website, will be unavailable while the changes are made (which will take a few hours). Most of it is a re-design change, as well as moving the blog to the front page; and amongst other things.

Every day we post a list of threads from the Steam Users’ Forum that we find interesting. We highlight interesting discussions, heated debates, community content, good humour and so on. There are a lot of forums, and we try to read all of them on a regular basis, so if you have any suggestions feel free to send them in!

Half-Life 2: Episode 2
I want to go Gordon Freeman on someone
City 16 is a whole lot nicer than City 17

Team Fortress 2
Would you like tf_vanilla 0/1?
10 hours = 1 scrap metal

Left 4 Dead 2
[Video] Valve, please fix the Charger’s hit-detection
Petition to Add Console to Lobby

Every day we post a list of threads from the Steam Users’ Forum that we find interesting. We highlight interesting discussions, heated debates, community content, good humour and so on. There are a lot of forums, and we try to read all of them on a regular basis, so if you have any suggestions feel free to send them in!

BioShock Series
Just finished my first playthrough and…
BS2 Gamerscore Matchmaking

Team Fortress 2
Soldier should be able to look through scope on DH
The new highlander mode is pretty cool valve.

Trine
Trine’s Soundtrack
And the prize for the most tedious achievement goes to…

A new Left 4 Dead 2 update was rolled out today, finally bringing the long awaited removal of finale auto-spawning. The full news release can be viewed here but we have kindly supplied some of the changes below:

• 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

Every day we post a list of threads from the Steam Users’ Forum that we find interesting. We highlight interesting discussions, heated debates, community content, good humour and so on. There are a lot of forums, and we try to read all of them on a regular basis, so if you have any suggestions feel free to send them in!

General Steam Discussion
List of Steam Games with DRM – Discussion, Details and Information
What’s your favorite “full price” bought game?

Steam Community Discussion
Achievement cheating ruins the value of achievements
Complete list of games missing from community

Suggestions / Ideas
The Add this game to Steam THREAD
Steam needs a Wish List option like Amazon.

Over on the Team Fortress 2 Blog, the team have posted a bunch of runners-up from the 11,000 submissions to the propaganda contest in the not-so-long-ago WAR! Update. We’ve posted a few of our favorites below, but you can view all of them here: http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3391

Hot off the presses it was announced that starting today until the February 14th, every single item in the Valve Store is 10%-50% off. Do note that the updated prices will only be reflected in the cart, rather than the store pages.

In addition to this awesome sale, Valve are also offering a free do-it-yourself kit for making your very own Left 4 Dead 2 Valentines Cards. The PDF with instructions and the cards themselves are here.

Lastly, happy Valentines day from all of us at Steamcast!

In a recent Team Fortress 2 update, a new game mode was added dubbed ‘Highlander’. Without going into too much detail, the basic premise is:

• 9 players allowed per team
• Restricts each team to 1 of each class

If you’re interested in trying this out on your server, or even on a local server with bots, you can execute the following:

• Use mp_highlander (0/1) to toggle off/on: default is 0

This should finally be an official fix to a common problem in Team Fortress 2 where certain classes with certain load-outs (such as the Eyelander with the Chargin’ Targe) would be stacked on a team.

Every day we post a list of threads from the Steam Users’ Forum that we find interesting. We highlight interesting discussions, heated debates, community content, good humour and so on. There are a lot of forums, and we try to read all of them on a regular basis, so if you have any suggestions feel free to send them in!

Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Episode 4
Strider: SElf-Excited Tripdeal Dynamic Experimental Robot

Team Fortress 2
Stutter on death? Update related?
You are now the BLACK SCOTTISH CYCLOPS.

Left 4 Dead 2
What if the Passing…
Does this game just hate me or what?

Every day we post a list of threads from the Steam Users’ Forum that we find interesting. We highlight interesting discussions, heated debates, community content, good humour and so on. There are a lot of forums, and we try to read all of them on a regular basis, so if you have any suggestions feel free to send them in!

Battlefield series
BF:BC2 and PhysX
Copy Protection for BFBC2 SecuROM…….

Garry’s Mod
Garry’s Mod Helped Me in Class
Screenshot Thread!

Mass Effect series
Were you faithful to your ME1 love interest in ME2?
USE/RUN/COVER??