Thanks to both Fonze and xWeston for the heads up on this release posted in our forums. The following was taken from CS-Nation:
I"m sure Valve is already regretting a semi-public beta. In the spirit of journalism, we"re going to post the following preview/review from Venom, obviously a tester:
- Had a chance to play with the 1.4 Beta, and it"s got some pretty cool new additions so far. The bodies now STAY when shot for the duration of the round. Bunny hopping has been removed completly by causing a player to move really really slow when the jump continuously. At first every time you jump it made you slow/stagger for a sec, but Valve apparently has that fixed and will be upgrading it for us soon (not true, the fix was a laggy feeling. slow landing remains -rizzuh). Lastly, they have integrated the spec cam and 1st person view into the dead viewing options which is really cool, and have drastically FIXED the hitboxes to I"d say 95% accuracy now. (Still a small one by the head they are working on)
The new maps are pretty cool.
As for steam, it appears to be a central login system to play CS. We are still fooling with it, but i"m not sure if it"s going to be soley to facilitate easy updates and anti-cheat additions, or if you wil lbe able to subscribe to play without acutally owning a copy installed on your system. (it will be free for those who own HL/CS -rizzuh)
I"ll keep you posted if anything else makes an appearance, but so far, thats it. :)
-Venom