L4D UPDATE! Options

[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

[MonkeyFiend]

ok, I've made some code to turn tank spawns back to the old way

Will test it later tonight


Posting some bumpf here to remind me:

"director_tank_bypass_max_flow_travel" = "1500"
game cheat
"versus_boss_flow_max_intro" = "0.75"
game cheat
- Max fraction of map flow for tank/witch spawn location within the first map of a campaign
"versus_tank_chance_finale" = "0.1"
game cheat
- Chance of a tank spawning within the finale map of a campaign
"versus_tank_chance" = "0.75"
game cheat
- Chance of a tank spawning within a regular versus map
"versus_boss_spawning" = "1"
game cheat
- Enable alternative spawning logic for tanks and witches in versus mode
"versus_boss_flow_max_finale" = "0.6"
game cheat
- Max fraction of map flow for tank/witch spawn location within the finale map of a campaign
"versus_boss_flow_max" = "0.9"
game cheat
- Max fraction of map flow for tank/witch spawn location
"director_ai_tanks" = "0"
game cheat
"versus_boss_flow_min_intro" = "0.5"
game cheat
"versus_boss_flow_min" = "0.1"
game cheat
- Min fraction of map flow for tank/witch spawn location
"versus_boss_padding_max" = "0.3"
game cheat
- How far apart the tank/witch have to be along the flow
"versus_boss_flow_min_finale" = "0.25"
game cheat
- Min fraction of map flow for tank/witch spawn location within the finale map of a campaign
"versus_boss_padding_min" = "0.1"
game cheat
- How far apart the tank/witch have to be along the flow
"versus_tank_chance_intro" = "0.3"
game cheat
- Chance of a tank spawning within the first map of a campaign

setting it so that both teams get a tank, but the point from which you can get the tank on the map is up to 100% the distance of the map means that the 2nd team will get the tank anywhere on the map, hence random again

Autospawns will probably be harder... I'll take a look