Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

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  • Oli

    #1

    Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

    A large update for Left 4 Dead has been released and features some pretty significant changes:
    General

    • Fixed Survivors being able to climb surfaces marked for versus infected only
    • Fixed a class of SurvivorBot bugs dealing with rescuing downed players
    • Players can no longer grab ladders while flying through the air after a Tank punch
    • Shooting near a car with an alarm that has already fired the alarm will no longer make chirping noises
    • Improved loading time
    • Fixed mini-gun physics exploit
    • Fixed propane tanks (and other physics objects) causing players to fall through elevators
    • Fixed rare achievement bug issues
    • Fixed several map exploits
    • Fixed various match making issues
    • Fixed NAT traversal issues

    Versus Changes

    • Added HUD elements to show status of other infected players
    • Changed color of infected player name in chat to red
    • Fixed exploit where players could spawn infected bots
    • Fixed instance where a Survivor changing to the infected team would be attacked by infected bots
    • Normalized special infected melee damage
    • Made the following client commands cheat protected: "Kill" and "explode"
    • Fixed exploit where infected players could run away and teleport back to gain health
    • Players can only change teams once per map
    • Players can't change teams while other players are still loading
    • Tank spawns at the same % through the map for both teams in versus mode
    • Made the Tank and Witch spawn directly on the escape route
    • Increased chance of getting the Tank or Witch
    • Fixed team swap issue

    Hunter

    • Easier to pounce a Survivor who is meleeing
    • Increased Minimum damage a Hunter pounce does

    Smoker

    • Fixed Smoker tongue tolerance
    • Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break
    • Survivors cannot bash someone off the tongue until the Survivor being pulled is paralyzed or hanging
    • Tongue attacks that fail to paralyze or hang a Survivor will use the shorter ability delay timer
    • Fixed cases where the ability timer was not using the correct time
    • Fixed case where you could point at a Survivor but not register a tongue hit
    • Fixed Smoker tongue not targeting and landing properly through PZ ghosts
    • Smoker tongue does damage every second while dragging paralyzed Survivors

    Tank

    • Bashable objects now appear with a red glow
    • Tanks hitting a car with an alarm disables the alarm permanently
    • Tank frustration timer is only reset by hitting Survivors with rocks or fists
    • Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks

    Witch

    • Witch spawns at the same % through the map for both teams
    • Avoids spawning within a certain % of the tank
    • Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors

    Changes will automatically be applied when you restart your Steam Client.
  • Yukiism
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2006
    • 1578

    #2
    Re: Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

    I saw these notes and i jizzed in my pants. :awes

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    • RW-RogueWolf

      #3
      Re: Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

      Gotta say i am well happy with that, go valve, finally a team that make the right choices!

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      • TheEn|gma
        Member
        • Jun 2005
        • 5247

        #4
        Re: Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

        Originally posted by Oli
        • Fixed NAT traversal issues
        God I hope this fixes my retarded ping/disconnect issues.

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        • RocketChild
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2005
          • 3949

          #5
          Re: Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

          Originally posted by Oli
          • Fixed several map exploits
          I wonder if these are the exploits like, jumping over the obstruction that you have to burn, or the critical spots that you can hide-out at during the final rounds that make it hard for the horde or tanks to get to you. Or even the knocking down the door trick in the loading docks.

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          • Texas

            #6
            Re: Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

            Originally posted by Oli
            • Improved loading time

            I experienced first hand that that is not necessarily true, actually I think it may have gotten worse because yesterday after the patch I was in the game, and to start the game it took about a minute to load, thats longer than usual for me, than change maps after the second round took about 4 minutes, and I know I didn't freeze because I was able to open up my game overlay like steam and x-fire, and when it finally did load I was like the second person in there, people were still bearly finishing loading, and nobody had left the safe-room yet.


            Also, Im quite satisfied with the patch, especially for smoker, but I was really hoping they were gonna make death toll and dead air for versus =[ and the new map for campaign

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            • Yukiism
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2006
              • 1578

              #7
              Re: Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

              This is a patch, not an actual DLC update.

              This patch was released to fix some mayor issues on L4D and was released seperately from the Xbox. The Xbox will get the patch in a few weeks, while the DLC will get released simultaniously( sp? It's morning ) with the Xbox.

              So my guesses are that the patch of the Xbox will get released with the DLC, in other words when the Xbox get their patch the PC and Xbox players will get their DLC.

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              • Pinetree09

                #8
                Re: Major Left 4 Dead Update Released

                repost: http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/ma...d.php?t=184276 but of course, nobody cares

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