Friends

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Wednesday May 31, 2006 - Friends Beta closed

Friends has been officially released, and the beta phase is over. Click here (http://neocodenetworks.org/steam/redirect.php?url=steam://open/friends) to launch the final client in Steam.

Tuesday January 31, 2006 - Welcome to the Friends Beta!

We're going to run a short beta on Steam to test the new version of Friends. To run the beta you'll need to run Steam & activate Friends Beta from the Friends list.

If you find any bugs with this beta, please use the bug reports page.

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Beta News Archive

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Monday March 13th

The Steam update (http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=516) rolling out the beta to the public has been released. Running with the beta parameters now has no effect.

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Friday March 10th

Friends beta going public next week

The Friends system is nearing the end of its beta phase, and will soon be available to everyone running Steam. Friends allows you to see when your friends are playing games, and lets users chat with each other both inside and outside of many Steam games. There are also a number of additional features we'll be adding to it over time. Early next week, we'll be updating Steam with a convenient way to join the Friends beta. See the Steam Update (http://www.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/March10.2006//?l=english).

Changes

  • Added friends beta opt-in button and dialog
it is now necessary to opt-in to Friends to access its functionality.
  • Added 'System information' option in the help menu to re-access the survey hardware data
  • Updated survey with some detection fixes
  • Fixed serverbrowser not displaying mod names correctly in game
  • Fixed bug with offline mode not working for users who account names that are all digits with leading zeros
  • Changed Friends desired persona state (online/away/busy/offline) to be saved across client sessions
  • Localization updates
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Friday March 3rd

Click here for update release notes

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Thursday Mar 2nd 7pm PST

Click here for update release notes

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Thursday Feb 9th 5pm PST

We've updated the beta again to fix some of the stuttering issues people are experiencing. Please update and re-run these tests in Half-Life 2. Add any test results down in the stuttering subheading of the bug report page.

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Tues Feb 7th 5pm PST

Also included in the Friends beta are some changes to help narrow down the 'stuttering' problem in Half-Life 2. If you experience this, please run through a scenario that would previously stutter for you in and see if that problem still occurs. The useful format for feedback would be to add your experience to the stuttering subheading on the bug report page, along with:

  • A description of the stuttering event
  • The area in Half-Life 2 where this happens
  • Your experience of what happens when you try to reproduce the bug when you run without the beta command line (was it better/worse/the same?)
  • A short description of the hardware you're testing on (CPU Speed and type/Video Card/amount of RAM)
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Wed Feb 1st 3pm PST

Click here for update release notes
Note that these are only currently applied to Friends running outside of the game, in-game changes coming later.
All bugs that have been purportedly fixed have been moved down into the 'awaiting verification' section.

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