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Left 4 Dead PC patch reclosing doors in ‘Crash Course’ DLC [update]

Left 4 Dead Fan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Aside from fixing pressing issues like "campaign image not updating correctly when creating a lobby" and increasing "the reliability of the Steam Group server display," Valve's recently released PC patch updates a crucial issue with Left 4 Dead's latest DLC: keeping doors closed. Apparently, during Versus mode in the game's "Crash Course" DLC, players were able to release teammates from "rescue closets," assuredly stopping rampant R. Kelly syndrome. The game may be fixed, but will that cure your urge to micturate on people? Only time will tell.

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Left 4 Dead PC patch reclosing doors in 'Crash Course' DLC [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Latest L4D Patch Adds Falcon Novint Support

Left 4 Dead Fan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:19:51 +0000

Falcon Novint

Now everyone can enjoy the Left 4 Dead experience using the Novint Falcon which allows players to feel realistic weapon recoil, enemy attacks, and interactions with the environment, including a variety of specialized forces. With the Novint Pistol Grip accessory the First Person Shooter gaming experience gets even more immersive.

“As both the reviews and the sales figures show, Valve’s Left 4 Dead has been an absolute hit, and it is one of our strongest Falcon supported titles to date,” said Novint CEO Tom Anderson. “The Falcon makes the experience of being attacked by Zombies ultra-realistic, and it has been our most popular title with our early testers. We’re very excited to add Left 4 Dead to our ever-expanding list of Falcon-compatible titles.”

Lobby Browser Added to Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead Fan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:44:12 +0000

Valve released a Left 4 Dead patch, adding a lobby browser to the multiplayer-focused co-op shooter and very few other changes to the PC version of the game. The Xbox 360 version remains unchanged to date.

“The lobby browser (under Play Online) will show you a list of optimal games available for you to join,” writes Valve. “The browser pares down the thousands of lobbies and games currently being played to show you the best list of games available to you.” “This list includes official and add-on campaigns, including add-on campaigns you have not yet installed, making it a great way to discover them. You can filter by difficulty, official and/or add-on campaigns and by lobbies and/or games in progress.”

The full patch notes follow:

Left 4 Dead

* The Play on Steam Group Server screen now displays which Steam group it’s searching while updating the list
* After calling a vote to change difficulty in game it is now correctly updated in matchmaking

Add-on Campaigns

* When downloading a new version of an add-on and installing it (by double clicking the .VPK file), it will now correctly overwrite the pervious version, even while Left 4 Dead is currently running
* Addressed a crash when two mission files with the same name are installed
* Steam Group Servers now will now correctly offer download links when running add-on campaigns

Server

* The server will now warn if the public or private tags exceed their limits. Public tags are limited to 63 characters. Private tags used for matchmaking are now limited to 1024 characters. Note that the private tags include the name of each add-on campaign installed on the server, so an excessive number of add-on campaigns can hit this limit

SDK

* The VPK tool should be able to handle campaigns larger than 500MB now
* You can now drag and drop or pass a VPK file to the vpk.exe tool to have it extract the contents of the add-on to a folder. This mirrors the functionality of passing a folder and having it create a VPK file
* Detail.vbsp and lights.rad have been added to the distribution.