Valve improves multiplayer comms

Valve has made improvements to communications in Source multiplayer games in a new update now available - restart your Steam client to get it.

Voice communication is improved thanks to the use of a "much clearer codec", and the update also includes the first release "of a completely reworked in game text chat to which now includes a chat history and a filter to only see important chat messages".

In addition, Valve says it's fixed "not being able to use sounds, decals or models if they were downloaded from the server".

via cvg