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Left 4 Dead Survival Pack Out Now
Post by trog @ 09:28am 22/04/09 | 51 Comments
The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack has been released!
Survival Mode:
- New gameplay Mode
- 16 maps including Last Stand
- Leaderboards
- 7 new achievements
There have also been a stack of changes to Versus mode:
- Fixed a case where versus team score would continue to be recalculated after the score panel was displayed
- Fixed an issue with recalculating the versus score health bonus for a player when they are rescued from being incapacitated
- Fixed being able to start a swing as an infected, then teleport to the survivors and have the claw swing hit a survivor
- Fixed a case where teleporting to the survivors would not reset the ability timer
- Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key
- Fixed a case where it was not possible to join a game while it was in a finale
- Fixed a rare case where listen servers would speed up the game over time
- Removed convars related to melee fatigue
- Fixed a case where infected players would get a respawn time on their initial spawn into a map
Time to call in sick? If you're lucky enough to be able to take it for a spin, let us know what you think!






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Martz
Posted 09:34am 22/4/09
fark I took yesterday off bah! :/
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TiT
Posted 09:39am 22/4/09
how big is the download?
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d^
Posted 09:56am 22/4/09
Hmm, should be good.
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ctd
Posted 10:18am 22/4/09
Hmmm survival is a nice addition.
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`ViPER`
Posted 10:25am 22/4/09
- Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key


Sounds like they fixed the issue of being able unload a whole magazine in one shot exploit, good move.
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ViscoS
Posted 11:32am 22/4/09
I liked that exploit :\

Glad they fixed that thing where the server randomly speeds up though.
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ctd
Posted 01:36pm 22/4/09
any girl going survival mode tonight?
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Pinky
Posted 01:49pm 22/4/09
Anyone tried yet? Feedback?
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HERMITech
Posted 02:02pm 22/4/09
I'll be giving it a beating tonight for sure..
That witch just gets me hot
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Mitch
Posted 03:50pm 22/4/09
Ive tried it and its hard :\. Not fun at all
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Vell
Posted 05:15pm 22/4/09
Tried it with a random group. Most we got was 3minutes and 20seconds.
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Vell
Posted 05:15pm 22/4/09
Tried it with a random group. Most we got was 3minutes and 20seconds.
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Superform
Posted 05:23pm 22/4/09
i'll give it a crack tonight
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ctd
Posted 05:33pm 22/4/09
The server I joined got to 3.56 but I joined at like 3mins in - on the new map.
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Mephz
Posted 05:48pm 22/4/09
6mins 03secs on the new map second try with random group, and one of our guys crashed after 2mins or so... so was 3 + bot for the remainder 4mins.

Its really not very fun with randoms though, too painful getting setup and trying to explain.

Best locale so far is the staircase in the lighthouse definately.
Everyone stands on staircase, one person on bookcase.. Tank climbs onto bookcase, as he does so, bookcase person jumps to staircase.
By then, tank = dead.
Can molotov the floor all you like and nobody gets burnt etc.
Only threat is smokers.
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Minxy
Posted 05:55pm 22/4/09
Gonna give it a bash now
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ctd
Posted 06:19pm 22/4/09
I love it that no matter what mode or whatever this game gets simplified down to which closet is the best room to camp in :P
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Crakaveli
Posted 06:20pm 22/4/09
I really need to get this game, loved the demo.
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Minxy
Posted 09:01pm 22/4/09
Only tried a couple so far. Hospital is super easy - the bit before the lift. Stand in the back room opposite the lift, using pistols only for everything until the tank comes and then switching to shotty. Gold first go. Got up to 9 minutes 30 on another one and then died, but two of my team survived so I got the gold anyway!
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Martz
Posted 09:07pm 22/4/09
15min 36sec

loving it!
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HERMITech
Posted 11:41pm 22/4/09
Grrr, have to wait freakin ages to get a server...
First attempt was 6:42sec
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Pinky
Posted 09:21am 23/4/09
Survival mode is excellent fun. Here's a screeny from a bit of a hack we did - used gas cylinder, hit freight container and you can move them to get onto the airplane.

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

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greazy
Posted 08:01am 23/4/09
thats a huge screen shot pinky, wanna make a thumbnail or atleast link to it instead?
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ravn0s
Posted 08:13am 23/4/09
i thought imageshack automatically resized images.
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mission
Posted 08:27am 23/4/09
So are these packs and add-ons also available for the 360 version or PC only?

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greazy
Posted 08:34am 23/4/09
both.
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trog
Posted 09:15am 23/4/09
I had a quick bash last night and got stuck with a team that didn't reaaaaaallly seem to get it. One of the guys thought it'd be a good idea (in this lighthouse map) to take all the flammable stuff up to the top level and throw it down and shoot it. Unfortunately after about 2 minutes a zombie that was on fire from a Molotov climbed up and exploded something, which then exploded everything (or someone newbly just shot it, it was a bit confusing). It was sort of hilarious for me cuz I was watching these 3 guys scurrying around taking all the explosive stuff to one location and then they wanted to stand next to it so I thought it was pretty obviously going to resolve that way.

Seems fun but (like everything in L4D) something you want to do with no newbs.
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Martz
Posted 09:50am 23/4/09
that's why you play with people in ya friends list.
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ctd
Posted 10:46am 23/4/09
Yeah people are copying this survival tactics to group all the explosive stuff and then back into a campy closet, room, or corner. No doubt some newb always shoots the pile of explosive stuff and you all die.

I am really enjoying just playing versus through dead air and whatever the riverside one is called.
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ravn0s
Posted 12:27pm 23/4/09
heh some people are getting 30+ mins in survival. and apparently tanks stop spawning at 14mins.
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Crakaveli
Posted 01:49pm 23/4/09
Was gonna buy this but paypal takes like 7 days to transfer money into it. lame.
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Khel
Posted 02:01pm 23/4/09
Just link it to a credit card, or link it straight to your bank account. I have paypal setup so I can pay for things with paypal, and it takes it straight out of my bank account, no waiting.
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Crakaveli
Posted 02:27pm 23/4/09
Oh really? So i dont have to actually transfer the money to paypal? Sweet as.
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Jim
Posted 02:28pm 23/4/09
you nominate a bank account, they make two small random deposits into it, you have to go back to their site and enter the exact amounts they deposited which confirms in their eyes that you are authorised to use the account
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Midda
Posted 02:29pm 23/4/09
Yeah, I use Paypal the same way. It also doesn't charge you a conversion fee for buying stuff from overseas, which my bank usually does if I just order straight from my credit card.
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reso
Posted 02:40pm 23/4/09
After reading all the bad stuff about Paypal there's no way I'm giving them access to a bank account or credit card. Never ever ever ever ever ever.
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Crakaveli
Posted 02:41pm 23/4/09
Just set it up then, says 2-3 working days. Lame as.
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Crakaveli
Posted 03:31pm 23/4/09
Was impatient so used my Step dads CC.

Installing now bitches.
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Reverend Evil™
Posted 04:01pm 23/4/09
After reading all the bad stuff about Paypal there's no way I'm giving them access to a bank account or credit card. Never ever ever ever ever ever

What type of bad stuff? I've been using them for over 3 years and I've never had anything dodgy happen.
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Jim
Posted 04:31pm 23/4/09
same, for work and personal
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reso
Posted 04:39pm 23/4/09
http://paypalsucks.com/
http://paypalsucks.org/

And there have been two cases where my friends have been ripped off by sellers on eBay and Paypal not giving a shit.

I'm sure there's lots of people who've used it without any problems. They're just less likely to make a website like paypalrules.com I guess.

last edited by reso at 16:39:46 23/Apr/09
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Reverend
Posted 04:40pm 23/4/09
Love this game !!! have not had this much fun since Q3, i have Gold silver and bronze in Survival mode and best of 12 mins on the street map ( fuck knows what its real name is)
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koopz
Posted 05:36pm 23/4/09
playing L4D again...

the new survival modes are lots of fun.. there's even more to be said for playing with good team mates instead of bots though :/
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Jim
Posted 08:14pm 23/4/09
survival mode doesn't interest me much, don't mind a short bash at it for a break in between normal vs mode rounds though
playing the other two campaigns now that they're better set up for it is a lot more fun for me
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Mephz
Posted 12:05am 24/4/09
15:21.40
On The Terminal [Dead Air].
With a 543 ping XD...

Pretty epic though.
897 common
3 hunters
21 smokers
1 boomers
15 tanks!
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step
Posted 09:20pm 26/4/09
Must vent frustration at Survival. So managed to do 13 levels of it over the weekend, surprisingly many the first time. But I go to check the achievements: 12 bronze, 11 silver, 10 gold. Puzzled, I go look at the leaderboards and see 13 gold times.

I really love this game at times.
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koopz
Posted 09:43pm 26/4/09
So managed to do 13 levels of it over the weekend, surprisingly many the first time. But I go to check the achievements: 12 bronze, 11 silver, 10 gold. Puzzled, I go look at the leaderboards and see 13 gold times.


it's a known issue. there's a current fix for the incap one from the command line that resets the achievement for you, though you've got to do it again in VS mode. the fix for the Survival achievments will prolly be the same down the track.

on a brighter note, I got 12 mins with 3 bots on Warehouse today :)

last edited by koopz at 21:43:28 26/Apr/09
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Obes
Posted 08:32am 27/4/09
Seems fun but (like everything in L4D) something you want to do with no newbs.

sif you aren't a newb
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Martz
Posted 08:58am 27/4/09
only thing with survival mode is setting everything up again everytime you lose, placing fuel and lpg cans everywhere for eg...
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trog
Posted 09:26am 27/4/09
only thing with survival mode is setting everything up again everytime you lose, placing fuel and lpg cans everywhere for eg...
yeh, I think it would be massively improved if you could save the state of those objects at some point before the round starts, so you can try it again with minor variations. As it is, it gives me the shits when playing with randoms when at the start of every level they want to spend 15 minutes laying out the gas cans in a precise order. I just want to shoot zombies.
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koopz
Posted 09:29am 27/4/09
only thing with survival mode is setting everything up again everytime you lose, placing fuel and lpg cans everywhere for eg...


some maps are definately like that Martz..

it'd be good if you could force bots to only use pistols and pull out the shottie for tanks.

actually it'd be good if you could force other players to use pistols and only pull out the shottie for tanks :P
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