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[Twiggeh]

Doubt this will be much interest to the more casual players but some interesting stuff to those who play regularly:

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

Versus Mode Changes


Tank melee attack can now hit multiple Survivors in one swing

Fixed Tank punch being able to hit targets behind walls

Fixes to 'Tank parking'. The Tank will now run back and attack the Survivors if he becomes AI due to two players expiring the frustration meter

Fixed a case where a Tank frustration meter could run out right as he was in his death animation and he would come back to life

Fixed a case where the Tank was moving too slowly while crouching and being shot

Tanks now have the possibility of spawning in a slightly different position for the first and second teams

The order that the teams play as Survivors is now determined by which team has the higher overall score. The winning team will play as Survivors first

The Smoker tongue can now target and grab victims through common infected

Increased the cone in which a Smoker can grab a target

The Witch no longer cuts Smoker tongues in a radius around her

Boomers that explode in mid-air will now hit Survivors directly below them with Bile

Reduced the damage that burning Hunters do to pounced victims

Adjusted the time at which players take over from bots to avoid 5 seconds of the bot standing idle while the player finishes connecting.

Fixed some cases where versus score was not being recalculated properly. It is no longer beneficial to pass pills between players at the end of the round or heal other players and then shoot them

Fixed a case where it was possible to spectate an AI infected and hit +use to take them over


Server Changes

Added convar sv_gametype that allows server operators to limit the types of games that will start on their server. Default value is 'coop,versus'. Can be changed to just 'coop' or just 'versus' to limit to those game types


General changes

Fixed a case where players would join as a dead Survivor when a living Survivor was still available

Fixed a case where restarting a level due to the team dying would give more than the max primary ammo on restart

Fixed the speaking icon showing up on the local player during level transition if voice_vox was set to 1

The scoreboard now shows the numeric value of a player's ping


GameUI

Quick match will now try to match to any campaign. Removed the preference to match to games according to the player progressing through all campaigns

Games in a finale are now joinable via the Friends and Steam Group games list

[Dodgy]

I haven't played versus in a while, what exactly is 'Tank parking'?

Also, I notice they didn't fix the 'Lamb2Slaughter' achievement. 

[Junta]

Fix currently downloading on our L4D server. Ty twig

EDIT: There seems to be an issue with steamupdate on our L4D server - support call will be raised.

[Chaos]

we seriously need to start praying to the gods of luck to get some servers that just work!
Maybe if I go back into oblivion and enchant Junta a ring or two...
hmm

[mark]

*Enchanted ring of superior server handling created*

[LtMama]

I can think of a better "ring" you could give him  :

[Nineblade]

I can think of a better "ring" you could give him  :

Better conjure up some magical lube as well

[claws]

Fixed Tank punch being able to hit targets behind walls

Boo! This was fun when they thought they were hiding in the vents on No Mercy

The Smoker tongue can now target and grab victims through common infected
Increased the cone in which a Smoker can grab a target
The Witch no longer cuts Smoker tongues in a radius around her
Boomers that explode in mid-air will now hit Survivors directly below them with Bile

Excellent - Smoker still needed a buff, and this helps.

The scoreboard now shows the numeric value of a player's ping
Games in a finale are now joinable via the Friends and Steam Group games list

Yay!

[mark]

Still a little pissed that they can't check the password that you enter when you press "Join" against the server password but you have to verify it when you get in

[Twiggeh]

I haven't played versus in a while, what exactly is 'Tank parking'?

Basically:

- As an infected, the Tank spawns in a "bad" position or you would prefer it to be elsewhere, i.e. the saferoom.
- Player who gets it runs to the new location, until the frustration meter expires
- The player whom the tank gets passed to will continue the journey to the new location
- When the second frustration meter expires the tank will switch to AI and "camp" the new spot until it can see the survivors
- Since its an AI bot it's a bit dim, like will try to kill whatever survivor it attacks, etc

Some called it strategic, others an exploit, Valve agreed with the latter it seemed.

Also, I notice they didn't fix the 'Lamb2Slaughter' achievement.

Bizzarely - I went onto the game last night (not in-game, just to the menus) just before going to bed, and as soon as I quit I suddenly achieved L2S, but lost Outbreak. This also shows up on my steam community page which has got me thinking as to whether it was permanent or not. I've just got Outbreak back under rather strange circumstances, so now I have both.

Note: I have actually done the thing you need to do to get L2S but since it was bugged I didn't get it, so I've finally got what I deserved assuming the achievement doesn't reset itself again!

[Junta]

L4D server update applied

[AmS]

At last, L4D stats are here....
http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2460

maybe it came along with survival pack, but i didnt notice it until now, i dont think there were even a mentioning in update notes

[Junta]

June 29, 2009 - Left 4 Dead Update Released

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


Removed the "Are you ready to play Versus?" confirmation

Fixed a crash when using mouse wheel or keyboard to select Campaign chapters

Fixed sv_steamgroup_exclusive servers advertising for public lobbies

Restored the ability to vote for a new campaign in Versus mode

[AmS]

unbelievable, after all that time they finally made atleast some simple lobby browser

July 17, 2009 - Left 4 Dead Update Released

Left 4 Dead has been updated to include a lobby browser. The lobby browser (under Play Online) will show you a list of optimal games available for you to join. The browser pares down the thousands of lobbies and games currently being played to show you the best list of games available to you. This list includes official and add-on campaigns, including add-on campaigns you have not yet installed, making it a great way to discover them. You can filter by difficulty, official and/or add-on campaigns and by lobbies and/or games in progress. The specific changes include:

Left 4 Dead

The Play on Steam Group Server screen now displays which Steam group it's searching while updating the list

After calling a vote to change difficulty in game it is now correctly updated in matchmaking


Add-on Campaigns

When downloading a new version of an add-on and installing it (by double clicking the .VPK file), it will now correctly overwrite the previous version, even while Left 4 Dead is currently running

Addressed a crash when two mission files with the same name are installed

Steam Group Servers now will now correctly offer download links when running add-on campaigns


Server

The server will now warn if the public or private tags exceed their limits. Public tags are limited to 63 characters. Private tags used for matchmaking are now limited to 1024 characters. Note that the private tags include the name of each add-on campaign installed on the server, so an excessive number of add-on campaigns can hit this limit


SDK

The VPK tool should be able to handle campaigns larger than 500MB now

You can now drag and drop or pass a VPK file to the vpk.exe tool to have it extract the contents of the add-on to a folder. This mirrors the functionality of passing a folder and having it create a VPK file

Detail.vbsp and lights.rad have been added to the distribution

[PapaFade]

'bout fookin' time!