Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike: Source

New Features/Improvements

• New Source remake of classic Counter-Strike map cs_assault


• New "Phoenix Connection" Terrorist model (replaces existing model)

New Player Animations

• Walk/run cycles now include whole-body motion


• Players automatically raise their weapon and aim through the sights when they stop to fire


• Weapon-specific reload animations with removable ammo clips added


• Shotgun reloads animate each individual shell reload


• Animated the bolt pull for each shot of the AWP


• Added upper-body recoil animations for shotguns and AWP


• New grenade throw and knife animations


• Spectator UI now resizes controls to account for long map names


• A notification is now displayed to all players when auto-balancing teams


• Added message for players who try to defuse the bomb while another player is already doing so


• Added item_nvgs and item_ entities for fy_ maps


• Can no longer stab with the knife while defusing or during freeze time at the start of a round


• Player count in dedicated server interface now includes bots


• Dedicated servers can now use the "timeleft" command


• Dedicated servers are now secure by default, add "-insecure" to the command line to run in insecure mode.

Bug fixes

• Dedicated servers no longer crash when setting "name" via the console


• Fixed bug that would occasionally make player weapons disappear


• Low-violence death animations no longer float if the player dies while in the air


• Fixed bug that caused the grenade throw animation to incorrectly play when spectating in the game


• Fixed view jitter caused by prediction errors when near physics objects


• Spectators now hear weapon pickup sounds


• Armor is now given with game_player_equip


• Extra pistol ammo no longer given at round restart


• Weaker flashbangs effects no longer cancel out stronger ones


• maps/cfg/.cfg aren't exec'd if they don't exist (fixes console warnings)


• Fixed bug that caused hostage scenario HUD icon showing 1 hostage left when all were rescued or dead


• game_player_equip removes player equipment before adding new items

Bot Changes

• Bots can use sloped ladders now


• Bots open +use doors better


• Bots don't think they're stuck when hiding


• Bots using knives can break breakables while pursuing enemies now

Navigation Mesh generation improvements

• Nav generation ignores doors and breakables better


• Non-planar nav areas aren't merged into larger areas


• Added nav_generate_incremental to generate additional nav areas starting from a walkable marker, without destroying existing mesh


• Areas no longer get connected to ladders multiple times (caused a crash if the ladder was deleted)


• Added nav_restart_after_analysis


• Fixed bug where some areas would be incorrectly marked as crouch

Navigation Mesh Editor changes

• Nav areas draw a background color, making them more visible


• Nav_update_blocked warps the local player to the first blocked area


• Added nav_build_ladder (point at a climbable surface so the cursor is green, and type nav_build_ladder to automatically create a nav ladder)


• Added nav_no_hostages, to mark an area as not suitable for hostage navigation


• Added nav_remove_unused_jump_areas to remove extraneous jump areas


• Fixed a crash caused by manually creating an area before doing a nav_generate on a new map