Left 4 Dead Update 21/4/09

[Lykaios]

L4D PC DLC Out Now

The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is now available for the PC and Xbox 360, free of charge to all owners of the game. The full change list for the PC release is below. In addition, both the retail and Steam versions of the game (PC and 360) are now available for a special price. Check Steam and local retailers for pricing details. For more information about L4D, please visit www.l4d.com

Survival Mode


New gameplay Mode

16 maps including Last Stand

Leaderboards

7 new achievements


Versus Changes

2 new versus campaigns

Fixed a case where versus team score would continue to be recalculated after the score panel was displayed

Fixed an issue with recalculating the versus score health bonus for a player when they are rescued from being incapacitated

Fixed being able to start a swing as an infected, then teleport to the survivors and have the claw swing hit a survivor

Fixed a case where teleporting to the survivors would not reset the ability timer

Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key

Fixed a case where it was not possible to join a game while it was in a finale

Fixed a rare case where listen servers would speed up the game over time

Removed convars related to melee fatigue

Fixed a case where infected players would get a respawn time on their initial spawn into a map


Server Changes

Made ms_force_dedicated_server not require cheats

Add a message when queuing a heartbeat

Simplified setting of game mode

Removed convars director_no_human_zombies and director_holdout_mode

Added mp_gamemode [coop,versus,survival]


General

Added lobby join and leave messages

[Ryan]

just had a quick game of survivor mode seems good to me

[DevilsRefugee]

aye, nice to have some new fresh content. Enjoyed the airport map on versus.

[Humbug]

aye was pretty good.. just wish the bleeding ne server would work!!

[Lykaios]

Humbug it might work now with this NEW update

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Left 4 Dead


Fixed an incorrect DLL for windows dedicated servers

Corrected players not receiving the Lighthouse achievement

Added missing Survival only sounds

Fixed issue with awarding medal achievements

Corrected ghost icons appearing survival scoreboard

[Paranoia]

Updating now.

[Zofo]

Nice the way steam updates automaticaly  

[Humbug]

cheers para..

i knew u had updated it when i saw people on it in hlsw \o/

[Zofo]

Sooooo....whats the update like, I haven't played it but will later for sure, before Warfare night ofc because thats more fun atm

[SexuallyAbusedPanda]

I like it, Weapons fire slightly slower which is nice, reload+melee bug abuse is now fixed, Special Zombies are a bit harder ie boomer vomit and explosion range has been increased, smoker doesnt stop tounging his vitim if a mouse sneezes next to him now etc...

I love the new campaign maps as versus and survival really is hard and alot of fun

[DeathByDribbling]

Survival is limited fun imo.  Problem is to have any hope of beating your record you don't just need any team - you need the best team ever.  This means you don't want to play with most peeps.

Hence I still think campaign mode is my favourite - for that you could:
a) play expert which got rid of most people who didn't know what they were doing.
b) have a lot of fun when playing with less-skilled/less-sensible players - in fact it was often more fun - the sense of achievement in completing an expert campaign with a random bunch of peeps who had all died by the second zombie wave is amazing.

Also any game type where you are near guaranteed to fail every time (if succeed = breaking your record) is a bit of an exercise in frustration ...

[SexuallyAbusedPanda]

i would like a survival mode with 4 human zombies on the other team, would add in a whole new element and fun

[Ryan]

could be interesting

[DevilsRefugee]

i would like a survival mode with 4 human zombies on the other team, would add in a whole new element and fun

[Zofo]

So where are the 16 new maps then?  are they all for survival mode?