035Left 4 Dead PC Patch Today

posted by Meister on March 25th, 2009

Valve announced this morning that a new patch for PC will be released sometime today with a melee re-work. This could mean trouble for the Survivors. There were also some points mentioned about server tweaks. Xbox360 users can expect the same patch to be applied on April 21st, which might also coincide with the SDK release.

Stay tuned for the patch notes once it’s released!

Patch Notes:
Game and client changes
-Introduced fatigue to the melee attack in versus mode. You will see a HUD display when your melee swing is cooling down
-Boomer vomit will now pass through common infected
-Addressed some surround sound detection issues
-Fixed a rare crash when exiting Left4Dead on Windows Vista
-Fixed a case where the complete all expert campaigns achievement was not being rewarded

Dedicated server changes
-Corrected an issue where Windows based dedicated were sending spurious shutdown notifications to the master causing them to delist temporarily
-Fixed dedicated servers not resetting the versus team swap correctly–you could join a dedicated server that had a previous game that was swapped and arrive on the other team than what was selected in the lobby
-Renamed the tags for sv_search_key to use “key:” in the server tags instead of “sv_search_key.” This should help with issues of the 63 character limit of server tags

Fixed an occasional server crash related to voting

Source: L4D.com