Left4Dead updated yet again, Game killed lol
Here’s the straight, my comments in red:
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.
Broken. This doesn’t kill corner camping, but makes being the last survivor alive fucked. No use for the uzi or assault rifle anymore, its shotty or nothing.
Boomer vomit will now pass through common infected -
Its about time.
Addressed some surround sound detection issues
Never had this issue so bugfix I guess.
Fixed a rare crash when exiting Left4Dead on Windows Vista
Had this problem daily, so good job.
Fixed a case where the complete all expert campaigns achievement was not being rewarded
People play campaign? lol
Dedicated server changes
Corrected an issue where Windows based dedicated were sending spurious shutdown notifications to the master causing them to delist temporarily
OK, bugfix.
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
Fix for the stuff the last patch broke.
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
Bugfix.
Fixed an occasional server crash related to voting
Now if we could only fix the asshats who call votes when they are bored.
Overall, things are better, but the melee nerf doesn’t really help in the right way. One strat to pick up a downed teammate was to melee while you pal picked up the one on the ground, this is now ineffective. If you get boomed as the last left standing, there is no long term chance of survival. They should have addressed the problem of corner camping by making survivors not clip each other.
Tags: L4d, Left4Dead, zombie apocalypse
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April 21, 2009 at 7:04 am
just got the Survival pack… the Melee is now completly worthless. this is the second or third time since buying this game that it has been “updated” and changed in such drastic measures that you have to re-learn how to play the game. while it is nice to have extra maps and all that, was is really neccasary to kill the melee attack?…or for that matter tone down the distance a hunter can jump? it seems that VALVE only listens to the UBER GEEKS who use the valve blog and only complain because they cant figure out how to use a certain character. i fell in love with the FIRST VERSION of this game that was released…THIS IS NO LONGER THE SAME GAME. too many changes have Usurped the title of favorite game, and i logged in probably a hundred or so hours online with this game since purchase, but now it will be relagated to the bottom of the stack of games, perhaps never to be played again.
April 21, 2009 at 7:05 am
OH, is there a way to delete the updates from your harddrive so you can play the older version?