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[MonkeyFiend]

Valve have just updated Left 4 Dead, the changelog is:

January 14, 2009 - Left 4 Dead Update Released


Left 4 Dead has been updated with a host of fixes, tweaks and new features, including enhancements to Versus mode for improved competitive play. The full change list is below. For PC users the update will be applied automatically via Steam. Meanwhile, the update will be made available to Xbox 360 players in the coming weeks.

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

[=R6= Raile]

to answer your question about the patch, i havn't found anything i dont like.. with the exception of the same tank/witch thing which i think is borderline going to ruin the game and they better do something quick.. last nights games i was in, only one tank came throughout 2 campaigns. no joke. but that one tank that came, for the first round, it rocked the survivors, for the second round, we smoked it without much fuss. i'm expecting it to only get worse as people figure out more ways to exploit the knowledge they have of where the tank will spawn. people who are saying that the infected get the equal knowledge, are wrong IMO. while sure you know your tank is going to come in at a certain area, you have no control when the survivors cross that mark, and the guy who takes control of it usually doesn't even take control of it till its already half way run to the survivors. last night some dude took control of it after we already had it at half health. i dont see how that knowledge for the infected helps them much at all.

the smoker isn't as powerful as people were making it sound. the tongue seems to be knocked off just as easily as before, which is annoying.. however, the fact that it does damage now while its dragging you back, as opposed to only doing damage once it gets you to a point where you aren't moving any more, really makes the smoker start to be as powerful as the other infected.. all in all the smoker is better.

adjusting the melee of the hunters down is great. it was almost so powerful before that pouncing on a guy wasn't worth it unless it was a kill shot. now, the pounce and the melee are similarily damaging so they both are good in their own right