Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Left 4 Dead Update - Wednesday March 25th

Well, there are no doubt a few welcome changes in this update. I am most happy to see melee fatigue, Boomer vomit passing through common infected, and server fixes. I have never been able to get the sv_search_key (now just "key") to work ...

Game and client changes:
  • Introduced fatigue to the melee attack in versus mode. You will see a HUD display when your melee swing is cooling down
  • Boomer vomit will now pass through common infected
  • Addressed some surround sound detection issues
  • Fixed a rare crash when exiting Left4Dead on Windows Vista
  • Fixed a case where the complete all expert campaigns achievement was not being rewarded

Dedicated server changes:

  • Corrected an issue where Windows based dedicated were sending spurious shutdown notifications to the master causing them to delist temporarily
  • Fixed dedicated servers not resetting the versus team swap correctly--you could join a dedicated server that had a previous game that was swapped and arrive on the other team than what was selected in the lobby
  • Renamed the tags for sv_search_key to use "key:" in the server tags instead of "sv_search_key." This should help with issues of the 63 character limit of server tags
  • Fixed an occasional server crash related to voting

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