From Jason Ruymen

A required update for Left 4 Dead is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive. The specific changes include:

- Fixed a crash related to a Crash Course achievement
- Fixed an issue were bots and computer controlled special infected were being reported via « View Game Info »
- Added Team Versus 4 on 4 competitive matchmaking

Linux:
- Add warning if +map is not specified on the command line
- Steam is located by searching .., . and $PATH
- Added -steambin option to specify location steam, overrides search
- Added -steamverify option to add -verify_all when updating with steam

Jason

From Jason Ruymen

A strongly recommened update for Left 4 Dead is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:

- Fixed campaign image not updating correctly when creating a lobby
- Increased the reliabilty of the Steam Group server display
- Made mm_dedicated_search_maxping available to allow users to set the maximum acceptable ping for a dedicated server. The default has also been lowered 150ms, down from 300ms
- Fixed an issue where rescue closet doors could be opened in Crash Course in Versus mode

Jason

From Jason Ruymen

A highly recommended update for Left 4 Dead is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:

- Item density calculation corrected for Versus games
- Fixed weapon density in Crash Course
- mp_gamemode now a valid command
- New localized audio for Crash Course now available
- Fixed achievement issues in Crash Course
- Fixed dedicated servers not updating correctly to master server
- Increased the timeout to fallback to listen server when searching for a dedicated server to 45 seconds

Jason

From Jason Ruymen

A new, highly recommended Left 4 Dead update is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:

- Made the variable « mp_gamemode » available again. Note that you can also load maps directly with different game modes by specifying it in the map command. For example, « map l4d_garage01_alleys versus » will set mp_gamemode versus for you automatically and load the first map of Crash Course
- Added « mm_dedicated_force_servers » to allow specification of a list of dedicated server addresses manually used for searching (ms_force_dedicated_server is depreciated)
- Updated shared libraries and DLLs preventing dedicated servers listing correctly, appearing on Steam groups, and being found via sv_search_key

Jason

From Jason Ruymen

A required update for Left 4 Dead has been released. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:

- A new campaign, « Crash Course », is now available for play in Campaign, Versus and Survival modes
- In Versus mode, all weapons, pills, health packs, molotovs, pipe bombs and other items will now be identical for the second round of a chapter
- Matchmaking has had several improvements to make finding and joining games even faster
- Ten all new « Crash Course » achievements have been added

Jason

From Jason Ruymen

An optional update for Left 4 Dead is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive it. The specific changes include:

- Lobbies and games you’ve recently joined and left will be ignored for two minutes. This will prevent a player from ending up in the same lobby or game when quickly searching for another.
- Restored Find a Game Lobby/Find a Game in Progress to the Create Lobby screen available from the Lobby Browser.
- Updated localization text.
- Fixed an issue where VPK.EXE would not extract all files.

Jason

From Jason Ruymen

Left 4 Dead has been updated to include a lobby browser. This is an optional update. The lobby browser (under Play Online) will show you a list of optimal games available for you to join. 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 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.

SDK:
- The VPK tool can now handle campaigns larger than 500MB.
- You can now drop an add-on a VPK file onto the VPK tool to have it extract it for you.
- Detail.vbsp and lights.rad have been added to the distribution.

Note that the Linux Steam objects have been renamed. This shouldn’t cause any issues.

Jason

Je remercie très sincèrement Nina, Sylvia, Clara, Carmella et Gianna pour nous avoir rendu tant de services. We’ll miss you girls.

An update for Left 4 Dead is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive it. The specific changes include:

- Removed the « Are you ready to play Versus? » confirmation
- Fixed a crash when using mouse wheel or keyboard to select Campaign chapters
- Fixed sv_steamgroup_exclusive servers advertising for public lobbies
- Restored the ability to vote for a new campaign in Versus mode

Jason