L4D 2nd Update, March 11th Options

[MonkeyFiend]

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

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

Mostly good changes... however....


STILL NO SDK! :'(

[MonkeyFiend]

First impressions....

Smoker: The changes are a lot better for the smoker. Boomer starting followed by a smoker is now lethal
Boomer: some good, but nothing too different
Hunter: Not keen on the reduction on the flaming hunters. The flaming damage and normal damage are now so similar it renders getting lit pointless
Tank: tis all good

Like the order of play determined by score - this will help stop Fox scrabbling to be on infected first

Hiding in the lift shaft on NM4 won't save you from the tank now!

Bad: Lost some achievements (including nothing special and I'll be fucked if I'm doing that again - hopefully just a bug)
[EDIT: was just a bug, am now back to 50/51]

BAD: NO SDK

BAD: No new play modes - they did previously mention survivor mode, but I see no evidence of it

BAD: Dead Air/Death Toll still not playable on versus :'(

[Magik5]

BAD: NO SDK

BAD: No new play modes - they did previously mention survivor mode, but I see no evidence of it

BAD: Dead Air/Death Toll still not playable on versus :'(

i thought u new as well as everyone that these wont come until they re-release the game in shops etc as a special pack.

happy about the changes, but theres always one that has to fuk you off. flaming hunters.

but tbh, its price worth pay for these changes, and i feel its going to make the gameplay much more interesting. for a week at least ;p