The Left 4 Dead Thread

[Ruki]

Hopefully people like TOE, EDDIE, ZERO, FITZY, HUGGER, MAXX, ROCKSTA, AND CO. will be reading this thread.

[EddieRuckus]

I'll be up for playing, just send me an invite if I'm on.

[Ruki]

One more and it will be team EWB vs. Random people

[Toe]

I'm going out to watch a movie in half an hour.

[Ruki]

Better be back by 11

[Ruki]

We got a patch.

Whole list:

Spoiler: Click here to view

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.

- Survivor's 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.

"- Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break."

Wasn't it always this way?

But overall, seems like good fixes.

[oldskool]

If you melee'd someone getting tongue-dragged, it broke the tongue. Not any more, I guess. It was required for versus, Smokers were practically useless.

[Ruki]

The Smoker was the most important part of my trap!

[oldskool]

aaaaaaaand crash to desktop bugs in the patch. There go my evening/early morning plans. I'm left to *gasp* go to bed at a reasonable hour for a change, wonderful.

[Plubby]

Is PC L4D discussion welcome here? I just got this for PC tonight, so will be looking to play if anyone else has it

[Zaz]

Ahoy ahoy, Steam us up, Scotty.

[Toe]

I should be available to play some L4D tonight with my XBOX brethren.

[LL!]

I'm over this game.

[RoyWill Rumble]

I should be available to play some L4D tonight with my XBOX brethren.

Same, depending on the time.

[Toe]

Probably after 9 because I want to watch some of the Leafs game first.

Is it weird that, now that I have no job, I have less time to play video games online?

[Ruki]

How do you have less time?

[Toe]

How do you have less time?

Less time for video games. I still have a ton of free time, I just find more and more friends keep popping up and dragging me places.

[Ruki]

How do you have less time?

Less time for video games. I still have a ton of free time, I just find more and more friends keep popping up and dragging me places.

You and your friends suck

[Spee]

I return.

[Ruki]

Where were you? We needed you!

Edit: Also, Kaney, where the fuck were you?

Edited January 15, 2009 by Ruki the Driller