Spontaneous Monotony

According to various sites, Valve have released a second update for Orange Box on the 360, and this one is aimed at Team Fortress 2. The fixes are:

• Reduced network bandwidth usage in multiplayer (so fewer lagspikes hopefully)
• Improved overall game performance (ditto)
• Arranged search results to favour preferred host conditions (so no more having to scroll down to find one with maximum signal strength)
• Improved searching for ranked games (this has been one of the big problems - often the server browser would tell you there were no ranked games available, something Orange Box’s player numbers show to be patently untrue)
• Fixed a problem with the game falsely reporting ‘not enough space’ on the 120gb Elite hard drives

Apparently though, those who have the update say it doesn’t seem to fix the annoying bug that causes the game to freeze and take the 360 with it (requiring a turnoff). Hopefully Valve can sort that one out before too long