Left 4 Dead Update

Valve announced the release of a new update for "Left 4 Dead", which includes fixes, tweaks, and new features. This update will be applied automatically via Steam for PC players.

Changelist:

General

• Fixed Survivors being able to climb surfaces marked for versus infected only.
• Fixed a class of SurvivorBot bugs dealing with rescuing downed players.
• Players can no longer grab ladders while flying through the air after a Tank punch.
• Shooting near a car with an alarm that has already fired the alarm will no longer make chirping noises.
• Improved loading time.
• Fixed mini-gun physics exploit.
• Fixed propane tanks (and other physics objects) causing players to fall through elevators.
• Fixed rare achievement bug issues.
• Fixed several map exploits.
• Fixed various match making issues.
• Fixed NAT traversal issues.

Versus Changes

• Added HUD elements to show status of other infected players.
• Changed color of infected player name in chat to red.
• Fixed exploit where players could spawn infected bots
• Fixed instance where a Survivor changing to the infected team would be attacked by infected bots.
• Normalized special infected melee damage.
• Made the following client commands cheat protected: "Kill" and "explode".
• Fixed exploit where infected players could run away and teleport back to gain health.
• Players can only change teams once per map.
• Players can’t change teams while other players are still loading.
• Tank spawns at the same % through the map for both teams in versus mode.
• Made the Tank and Witch spawn directly on the escape route.
• Increased chance of getting the Tank or Witch.
• Fixed team swap issue.

Hunter

• Easier to pounce a Survivor who is meleeing.
• Increased Minimum damage a Hunter pounce does.

Smoker

• Fixed Smoker tongue tolerance.
• Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break.
• Survivor’s cannot bash someone off the tongue until the Survivor being pulled is paralyzed or hanging
• Tongue attacks that fail to paralyze or hang a Survivor will use the shorter ability delay timer.
• Fixed cases where the ability timer was not using the correct time.
• Fixed case where you could point at a Survivor but not register a tongue hit
• Fixed Smoker tongue not targeting and landing properly through PZ ghosts.
• Smoker tongue does damage every second while dragging paralyzed Survivors.

Tank

• Bashable objects now appear with a red glow.
• Tanks hitting a car with an alarm disables the alarm permanently.
• Tank frustration timer is only reset by hitting Survivors with rocks or fists.
• Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks.

Witch

• Witch spawns at the same % through the map for both teams.
• Avoids spawning within a certain % of the tank.
• Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors.