New steam UI, wheres the updates bit?

[Maximilian]

I dont see any updates, remember in the old UI you could right click the game and go to update news and it would give a list of every little update the game has had and what that update did. Wheres that gone? I found a "view left 4 dead 2 update history" button but it just takes me to the news section. What gives?

 

[Zenoth]

Click on "Library", you'll have a games list, and when you just single left-click on games individually you'll see all the related news to that game on the window to the right side, and give it some time after you click, it may not be the same for everyone, but in my case it takes around three to ten seconds or so before the news actually appear, but if they don't appear for some strange reason there's still a "news" sub-link in that same window to the right side, right under the "LINKS" column (where you have "Achievements", "Forums", etc., including "News").

 

[Maximilian]

Thanks but thats just the news bit, i dont think the updates bit im talking about exists anymore, theres people only the L4D2 forum complaining about it:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1269150

Its this thing im talking about:

http://martindoms.com/scratch/steamupdate.PNG

Not just the updater but those little drop down notes which say exactly what each little update does, they could be accessed easily in the old UI for each game that has been downloaded, with the new one theyre not there. These are pretty important imo as people should know what is changed with each little update i mean theres still a few people in L4D2 that think if they set fire to themselves all the time they do extra damage as infected lol, this was patched aggges ago i believe and it only applied to hunters in L4D1.

 

[Zenoth]

Indeed that specific UI isn't there anymore about individual game updates, but you can still view updates by games individually via the new UI. A "better" method than the one I suggested would be to:

1) Click on "View", then select "Small Mode".

2) You'll then see the old style games list UI, and from that UI you select the game you want to see the updates news about by right-clicking on it/them.

3) When you right-click on the said game(s) you'll have a new small window with new options, from there chose "View News" (and why selecting the news from the UI of the Small Mode is because it acts like a filter that would otherwise wouldn't be possible to apply as far as I know, a filter that compiles all the related news to the game).

4) Let's say you right-click on Portal, then select View News, it will then bring you back to the regular newer big UI window of the News section for Portal... BUT... from there you'll have a "Full Stories" and a "Headlines" filter to the left side of the column that is to the right side of the window where you can see options such as "Channels", etc., so select "Headlines" instead because by default you'll have Full Stories.

5) By searching your game-specific news via the Headlines method it just simplifies everything (at least as far as the new UI is concerned). Then in the Headlines you'll have to look for the «Game Name» Update Released ones, and those actually do contain the "change log"-style update news that you're looking for.

So, in other words, it's still possible to see what changes in what updates for specific games, but you have to go through a longer research process thanks to a less effective GUI (certainly better looking, but not quite as fast and just effective as to "get the job done" as it was before).