Left 4 Dead Patch Update (Released January 15, 2009)



Left 4 Dead patch changelog

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
  • Survivors 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

The Left 4 Dead patch can be downloaded via Steam. Steam automatically downloads the patch when Left 4 dead has been launched.

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  1. Left 4 Dead Patch up for download | Left 4 Dead Patch changes - Patch Downloads - Curse — January 16, 2009 @ 3:04 am

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  2. SOMEWHERE — January 17, 2009 @ 8:34 pm

    GIVE ME THE FUCKING DeMO UP..!!!

  3. JS — January 23, 2009 @ 5:46 am

    Where the h$% do I download this patch? I haven’t found it anywhere. My Steam doesn’t show that I have Left 4 Dead installed, so I can’t do it through there. Is there another way?=???????

  4. papa — January 24, 2009 @ 4:04 am

    sdasfaef

  5. Nastyman — January 24, 2009 @ 9:59 am

    I agree, where do I download the patch? I bought a retail copy of the game and would like to burn the patches to a cd for future use.

  6. sasa — February 10, 2009 @ 11:35 pm

    hi i wont to down load patch left for dead ok pleeeeeez

  7. kevin — March 21, 2009 @ 12:07 pm

    how to download this game left4dead??????? can u help me?

  8. wanggig00 — April 3, 2009 @ 10:36 am

    where can i download the left 4 dead patch?
    can you help me?

  9. Markaviles — April 7, 2009 @ 12:12 pm

    where can i find the patch of left 4 dead???
    i want to play this game…….

  10. vajcak — April 19, 2009 @ 4:23 pm

    hej i have left4dead and i havent play onlineeeee why??????????????????????????????????????????

  11. xRoguex93 — May 5, 2009 @ 6:07 pm

    hei,i love play left 4 dead lol so happy
    wakaka………….
    Thank
    good
    i love play
    ……….

  12. soner — May 23, 2009 @ 2:19 am

    selamlar

  13. Boyet — June 3, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

    how to download left 4 game?

  14. Unhappy — June 4, 2009 @ 3:25 am

    F*** you Valve. Are you to stupid to solve the problem with the shaderapidx9.dll file, or arent you interested. I liked your games till today. After 2 days in the inet without any useful help i decided to kill the game. And now the fonts are doing what they want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    This game is SHIT!!!!

  15. Daz — July 4, 2009 @ 5:51 pm

    The game keeps freezing?, Ive even tried a reforfat!, but it still freezers?, Do i need an update patch?. Pleaese help coz i do like the game. Cheers Daz.:-)

  16. glenn — July 27, 2009 @ 5:21 pm

    how 2 downloads L4d?plz!

  17. zoeygroupie1 — August 19, 2009 @ 10:45 am

    where do i fucking download the patch? fucking hell, u shud’ve just put it here freaking assholes!!

  18. malik — October 26, 2009 @ 3:02 pm

    how do i can download the patch without using steam? plese!!!



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