
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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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?=???????
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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.
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.:-)
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