Counter-Strike 1.6 update released

[COSMIN]

An update for Counter-Strike is now available:

Changes and Additions

• Prevent texgamma and lightgamma and brightness cvars from affecting lighting in multiplayer
  
• Added support for player avatars in scoreboard for lower display resolutions
  
• Added scoreboard cvar to show shortened, simple headers for columns: scoreboard_shortheaders, set to 0/1 to disable/enable
  
• Added scoreboard cvar to enable/disable showing avatars: scoreboard_showavatars, set to 0/1 to disable/enable
  
• Added new server cvar, mp_infinite_ammo, set to 0 to disable, 1 for infinite ammo in guns, 2 for infinite reload ammo

• Added money and health columns to scoreboard and player/server cvars to control their display
  
  • Player cvars are: scoreboard_showhealth and scoreboard_showmoney, can be set to 0/1 to disable/enable the column from showing
    
  • Server cvars are: mp_scoreboard_showhealth and mp_scoreboard_showmoney, they can be set to the following values:
    
    Value

    Description

    0

    Disable showing health/money altogether

    1

    Show Terrorist health/money to all teams

    2

    Show CT health/money to all teams

    3 (default)

    Show CT health/money to teammates only and Terrorist health/money to teammates only

    4

    Show health/money for all players to all other players

    5

    Show CT and T health/money to teammates and to spectators

Fixes

• Fixed shotgun shell reload delay when holding +attack while magazine is empty
  
• Fixed non-translucent crosshair being slightly off-center
  
• Fixed UMP45 +attack being canceled when +attack2 is pressed

General

• Fixed setting monitor refresh rates through -freq when used with -nofbo
  
• Fixed unnecessary texture rescaling with NPOT textures
  
• Fixed slist command, will now show servers on the local network
  
• Fixed progress bar for individual files in resource download always showing at 100%
  
• Added auto-saving of several cvars (HL #2237)
  
• Fixed missing localizations in spectator UI
  
• Reordered columns in server browser to prevent game descriptions from being used to fake server player count
  
• Fixed sv_cheats being settable by players in a multiplayer game (sv_cheats is now controlled by the server)
  
• Security fixes to console commands
  
• Security fixes to resource loading

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