[-]March 11, 2009 - Left 4 Dead Update Released

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

-- Versus Mode Changes
* Tank melee attack can now hit multiple Survivors in one swing
* Fixed Tank punch being able to hit targets behind walls
* Fixes to 'Tank parking'. The Tank will now run back and attack the Survivors if he becomes AI due to two players expiring the frustration meter
* Fixed a case where a Tank frustration meter could run out right as he was in his death animation and he would come back to life
* Fixed a case where the Tank was moving too slowly while crouching and being shot
* Tanks now have the possibility of spawning in a slightly different position for the first and second teams
* The order that the teams play as Survivors is now determined by which team has the higher overall score. The winning team will play as Survivors first
* The Smoker tongue can now target and grab victims through common infected
* Increased the cone in which a Smoker can grab a target
* The Witch no longer cuts Smoker tongues in a radius around her
* Boomers that explode in mid-air will now hit Survivors directly below them with Bile
* Reduced the damage that burning Hunters do to pounced victims
* Adjusted the time at which players take over from bots to avoid 5 seconds of the bot standing idle while the player finishes connecting.
* Fixed some cases where versus score was not being recalculated properly. It is no longer beneficial to pass pills between players at the end of the round or heal other players and then shoot them
* Fixed a case where it was possible to spectate an AI infected and hit +use to take them over

-- Server Changes
* Added convar sv_gametype that allows server operators to limit the types of games that will start on their server. Default value is 'coop,versus'. Can be changed to just 'coop' or just 'versus' to limit to those game types

-- General changes
* Fixed a case where players would join as a dead Survivor when a living Survivor was still available
* Fixed a case where restarting a level due to the team dying would give more than the max primary ammo on restart
* Fixed the speaking icon showing up on the local player during level transition if voice_vox was set to 1
* The scoreboard now shows the numeric value of a player's ping

-- GameUI
* Quick match will now try to match to any campaign. Removed the preference to match to games according to the player progressing through all campaigns
* Games in a finale are now joinable via the Friends and Steam Group games list

Boomers that explode in mid-air will now hit Survivors directly below them with Bile

For some reason, when I was playing today, everyone on my team achieved "Outbreak" (which all of us already had), and we also all got "Lamb 2 Slaughter" which we didn't already have, and we got while playing as survivors. I have no idea why this happened.

- The order that the teams play as Survivors is now determined by which team has the higher overall score. The winning team will play as Survivors first

i'm not quite sure about this, i like the variety of alternating and not having to play either side too long. i guess its meant to be an anti rage quit measure

Oh also, Valve said on the steam forums that they realised the tank *isnt* actually hitting all survivors in one swing (like the patch notes said it should), and that they are working on a fix, so I'd expect another update sometime soon.

It's not so much the achievements that are bugged, it's that the game doesn't count you as having played the whole campaign if you didn't see the opening movie/pan/thing. If you don't see that when you start, none of the achievements that require you to do something through a whole campaign will work.