052SDK/DLC Released!

posted by Meister on April 22nd, 2009

After a long and restless wait, Left 4 Dead players have finally gotten what they’ve been waiting for, the DLC/SDK release. The patch came around 3 pm EST for PC users and around 6 AM EST for Xbox players. In addition to the Survival gameplay mode, Valve also released two new Versus campaigns (Dead Air and Death Toll) as well as the SDK tools which will allow users to create custom campaigns.

Currently, I’m up to 18 minutes in Dead Air Terminal and 12 minutes on Last Stand. Are you ready to take on the horde? Also, this release seems to have updated a few glitches along the way. Here’s the patch notes.

Patch Notes Left 4 Dead 4/21/09:

Survival Mode

• New gameplay Mode
  
• 16 maps including Last Stand
  
• Leaderboards
  
• 7 new achievements

Versus Changes

• 2 new versus campaigns
  
• 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

Server Changes

• Made ms_force_dedicated_server not require cheats
  
• Add a message when queuing a heartbeat
  
• Simplified setting of game mode
  
• Removed convars director_no_human_zombies and director_holdout_mode
  
• Added mp_gamemode [coop,versus,survival]

General

• Added lobby join and leave messages

Source: L4D.com