Patch notes of Steam update #165, released on July 27th, 2024:

Maps

• FoF Fistful

  • Fixed screen fading to black for some players

NPCs

• Fixed HL2 Fast Headcrabs using wrong model

Weapons

• Fixed Rear Gas grenades changing sides when damaged in Shidden game mode (for real)

User Interface

• Fixed duplicate team change message

• Updated admin activity notifications

Effects

• Fixed the far Z clip plane turning black regardless of the current fog color when using RTT shadows

• Fixed missing effects when hitting mud

Miscellaneous

• Fixed client crash on attempt to join a server with resized players (regression since patch 164)

• Fixed velocity of HL1 grenades dropping significantly when not in water (regression since patch 164)

• Fixed area portals not opening correctly (regression since patch 164)

• Stability fixes related to area portals (regression since patch 117)

• Fixed lightmapped surfaces not updating when dynamic lights change their pattern (regression since patch 164)

• Fixed lightmapped materials not loading $baseTexture2, $detail, and $envmap textures (regression since patch 164)

• Surfaces visualized with _rdrawclipbrushes convar will now be drawn fully textured

• Fixed areas where _pointcamera entities are at not being added to the player's PVS

SDK tools

• Xwad

  • Implemented support for Quake 1 sprites, _TYPPALETTE and _TYPQFONT WAD entries

  • Implemented special handling of gfx.wad and Quake 1 skies

  • Removed hard max texture resolution limits