Portal 2 Updated

Valve release an update for Portal 2 that brings with it a plethora of tweaks.

Avinash Bali|May 03, 2011, 11:10:39 IST

Valve has released an update (via Steam) for their most excellent first person platformer, Portal 2. Here’s what the patch brings to the table:

Up, up and away

Fixed: Occasional crash after Alt-Tab/minimizing or running in a window on certain graphics hardware.
Fixed: Crashes and/or graphical glitches after changing video settings without exiting game
Fixed: Player stuck at the beginning of Chapter 6
Fixed: Crash attempting to use other weapons (e.g. mods) with Portal 2
Fixed: Mouse cursor doesn’t highlight UI elements in game on Mac OSX
Fixed: Numerous localization bugs and improvements (also added Czech and Turkish localized text)
Fixed: Overflow bug in keyvalues
Fixed: Voice functionality regression (voice again enabled by default)
Fixed: Joystick now defaults to off in order to avoid issues with non-joystick hardware that registers itself as a joystick
Fixed: French sentences are not wrapping correctly in subtitles and commentary
Improved: Handling of Mac OSX crashes
Improved: Updates and bug fixes to Robot Enrichment
Improved: Reliability on unsupported Intel Mobile Series 4 Express chipsets
Removed: Unsupported console commands (“retry”, “switch_teams”) that caused problems if used

If you’re in the mood for more Portal action, you’ll be glad to know the first batch of DLC for Portal 2 is incoming real soon. And it’s FREE!

By Avinash Bali

Nash, as he prefers being called, woke up to the wonders of gaming rather late but don't bring that up around him. It's a touchy subject. A self confessed Battlefield veteran, Nash spent a good part of 2010 on the Steam Battlefield - with Bad Company (see what we did there?). He has a zero tolerance policy towards RTS games but is currently showing an interest by picking up and moving people - who he refers to as units - in the office. Thank God he's not that enthusiastic about Angry Birds or we'd be seeing women flying all over the place. Bali... Bali, put the receptionist down now.