Left 4 Dead Patched to Relieve a Few Issues
By Jonathan on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 8:23 AM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games, Patches, Valve
Valve has released a new patch for Left 4 Dead that should fix a few problems in the game. In all, the changes include:
- Finding a dedicated server when starting the game from a lobby is now faster and more reliable
- Versus mode is now locked to Normal difficulty
- Difficulty on a server is now locked to the one set by the lobby reservation
- Fixed lagouts/spikes after level transition
- Fixed directory issue with spray logs in some cases
- Fixed video settings not saving after closing video options dialog
- Corrected a boomer suicide exploit
- Several minor localization fixes
- Fixed disabling cheats incorrectly resetting data
Apparently, that “boomer suicide exploit” involved people binding a key so that they could instantly make themselves explode without being shot (luckily, you can still jump off a building and burst all over hapless survivors). I don’t know why they would have locked the difficulty to Normal in versus, but at least now we can get into a dedicates server faster.
Finally… been having loads of issues with finding ded servers -_-. I only hope that they fixed the bug where in versus after a map ends it switches to dead air. Has happened like 6 times in 1 day on all different servers.