Steam News - Left 4 Dead Update Released

[TNR-RSS Poster]

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

Game and client changes

• Introduced fatigue to the melee attack in versus mode. You will see a HUD display when your melee swing is cooling down
• Boomer vomit will now pass through common infected
• Addressed some surround sound detection issues
• Fixed a rare crash when exiting Left4Dead on Windows VistaFixed a case where the complete all expert campaigns achievement was not being rewarded

Dedicated server changes

• Corrected an issue where Windows based dedicated were sending spurious shutdown notifications to the master causing them to delist temporarily
• Fixed dedicated servers not resetting the versus team swap correctly--you could join a dedicated server that had a previous game that was swapped and arrive on the other team than what was selected in the lobby
• Renamed the tags for sv_search_key to use "key:" in the server tags instead of "sv_search_key." This should help with issues of the 63 character limit of server tagsFixed an occasional server crash related to voting

Source

[Mike-KT]

oh wow

Is there anyone on the l4d servers? I could reset them right now but I can't see population cause i'm on my laptop

[Kraven]

Good job, I like all the changes.

NOW GET YOUR ASSES ON THOSE F$%@%$# VERSUS MAPS

[lefty]

NOW GET YOUR ASSES ON THOSE F$%@%$# VERSUS MAPS

but why? everyone is super happy with playing the first map over and over again.

[Nekkris]

but why? everyone is super happy with playing the first map over and over again.

people seem happy enough playing dustbowl over and over again

[Wesley Crusher]

people seem happy enough playing dust2 over and over again

[lefty]

difference is that CS and TF2 enjoy the use of multiple weapons and multiple ways of doing things... while l4d is about as linear as it gets.

[fAc3bOn3s]

It's quite annoying the fatigue meter. But I guess people will get used to it. Just take turns stepping out front to melee them back. Hunters can pounce much easier when they are grouped together.

[The Killing Joke]

C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

Ninja Edit: I fail. Lol.

[Mr Fax Sender]

I freakin' hated melee. Thank god for this update.