Updates

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The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is now available for the PC and Xbox 360, free of charge to all owners of the game. The full change list for the PC release is below. In addition, both the retail and Steam versions of the game (PC and 360) are now available for a special price. Check Steam and local retailers for pricing details. For more information about L4D, please visit www.l4d.com

Survival Mode
* New gameplay Mode
* 16 maps including Last Stand
* Leaderboards
* 7 new achievements

Versus Changes
* Fixed a case where versus team score would continue to be recalculated after the score panel was displayed
* Fixed an issue with recalculating the versus score health bonus for a player when they are rescued from being incapacitated
* Fixed being able to start a swing as an infected, then teleport to the survivors and have the claw swing hit a survivor
* Fixed a case where teleporting to the survivors would not reset the ability timer
* Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key
* Fixed a case where it was not possible to join a game while it was in a finale
* Fixed a rare case where listen servers would speed up the game over time
* Removed convars related to melee fatigue
* Fixed a case where infected players would get a respawn time on their initial spawn into a map

Server Changes
* Made ms_force_dedicated_server not require cheats
* Add a message when queuing a heartbeat
* Simplified setting of game mode
* Removed convars director_no_human_zombies and director_holdout_mode
* Added mp_gamemode [coop,versus,survival]

General
* Added lobby join and leave messages

[rekon]

A-MAZING

[Slurms Mckenzie]

Couldn't have said it better.

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April 23, 2009 - Left 4 Dead Update Released
Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Survival Mode Changes

Darkened the Lighthouse background movie and increased the contrast with the user interface elements
Chapter selection is now available when creating a Survival lobby
Single player coop now works correctly after playing Survival online
The correct game mode will be set when playing back a demo
Changed holdout server spew to be development only
Stats are no longer updated while viewing a demo
Correctly update the leaderboard based on the player's personal time, not the team best time
Show the player's best time in the scoreboard
Removed Survival exploits from The Terminal, Last Stand, The Crane, The Boathouse and The Warehouse
Fixed tanks sometimes not spawning after 15-20 minutes

[Slurms Mckenzie]

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April 27, 2009

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released

Left 4 Dead
* Removed a survival related command exploit
* Achievements with multiple critera can now be expanded to show progress
* mp_gamemode is now included with other console variables for server logging