The Left 4 Dead Thread

[King Ellis]

After Match of the Day, sure.

[Cactus Drags]

Me/Ad/Ellis/Who?

[9 to 5]

Me, if you are one short. And want a shit player. >_>

[alldaws1]

Let's do it do it.

[King Ellis]

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/959/959549p1.html

DLC Preview

[Ruki]

March or April? Yay! So excited for this!

[Maxx]

Wow, sounds like we'll be doing Survival forever. I do like that they created a whole new stage for it too. Cannot wait!

[abundant]

I got bored of L4D quickly, but Survival mode looks like it's going to pull me back in. Lighthouse sounds interesting; lots of supplies for your team but there's no place to hide/camp.

[Maxx]

Sure there is! Behind Kaney

Edited March 5, 2009 by Maxx Is Awesome Teammate

[Maxx]

Sure there is! Behind Ruki

[King Ellis]

I see that Maxx is conducting important experiments into the best placement of a shifty.

[Maxx]

My findings say the end of the sentence is best!

[Maxx]

Yay for patch!

LEFT 4 DEAD

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

[Toe]

Sounds good. I need to find some time to come back to this game in the near future.

[Ruki]

We all do.

DLC date announced yet?

[Maxx]

I'll be back and able to play at our usual times on Sunday

[zero]

Yeah, I definitely want to get back into the game... I've just been consumed by Fallout 3 these last few weeks.

[Cactus Drags]

Don't think they've been any more specific than March/April for the DLC release date. Another patch though? Quality.

[Ruki]

Versus or Expert after Raw?

[Toe]

Versus or Expert after Raw?

I am in.