Call of Duty: Black Ops Update Released

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Updates to Call of Duty: Black Ops have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Call of Duty: Black Ops

• Improved threading performance on computers with only 2 cores.
  
• Additional performance optimizations
  
• Added an option to pre-cache all shaders during load time. This fixes hitching related to shader compiling on some video cards when viewing an area of the map for the first time.
  
• Fixed random freezes in certain computer configurations.
  
• Allow Team Change on Ranked servers when it does not unbalance teams (this is a server admin option).
  
• Allow Team Change grace period at start of match (server admin option).
  
• Added 4 more reserved slots (server admin option)
  
• Added /connect
  
• Improved quickmatch results (server side change)
  
• Fix for watching films through Combat Record
  
• Fixed compassSpectatorsSeeEnemies exploit
  
• Fixed 3rd person fov exploit
  
• Fix for infinite supply drop exploit.
  
• Fixed crosshair flickering when stereo is active.
  
• Various spawn improvements
  
• Various sound improvements
  
• Fix for Zombies – Teammate shadows not displayed properly.
  
• Fix for radar not staying on in One in the Chamber when it should.
  
• In a Domination match, the Position Secured medal is no longer delayed.
  
• 'Hardened: Equipment Shot' Challenge can now be completed by destroying a 'Camera Spike'.
  
• Fix for choppy final killcam in dedicated servers.
  
• Various map glitches fixed.
  
• Weekly and Monthly leaderboards will now track all kills, deaths and assists properly (All Time leaderboards were not affected by this)
  
• Added mixed hardcore playlist
  
• Added mixed barebones playlist
  Added 12 player versions of all playlists
  

Rcon

• Reduced timeout values. Connect (or failure to connect is faster).
  
• Added all white-listed dvars for Ranked and Unranked. Admins have rcon access to ALL available dvars.
  
• Added Settings and Console tabs for Ranked servers.
  
• Fixes a bug where the “Server” tab doesn’t update values when connecting to a new server.
  
• Added version number to the title bar.
  
• Fixed a bug where UI state didn’t persist after switching to another server.
  
• Added “disconnect” button.
  
• Fixed map “set” to not use admindvar.
  
• Changed all dvars which could be possibly float, to float. Mostly these are time-type dvars.
  
• Fixed bug where entering a value of zero for Message Duration would cause a unhandled exception error.
  
  Truncated all message fields to 140 chars.
  

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