A required update for Left 4 Dead has been released. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:
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. Jason _______________________________________________ hlds_announce mailing list hlds_announce@list.valvesoftware.com http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_announce
