L4D update - Survival Mode released

New update, Survival is out, the new Versus maps are out! Come on NBR, lets do some survival

 

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

 

I only have one thing to say.


w00t!

 

Double W00t and about time

Also, posts have been made into a new thread since it adds different update and adds different features.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/2433/

 

It's insane! Me and my team lasted for 11:45minutes on No Mercy-Generator Room, the lighthouse map is incredibly hard! Can't get past 5minutes on that one!

 

I just finished playing it and it is awesome. I only played the air port where the escalator is and the last stand. The last stand is freakin hard but so fun.

 

Finally this is released!! If only I wasn't so busy the next few days

 

Almost hit 6:21 in Last Stand, it was incredibly tough. Haven't had a chance to try the other yet though

 

Can't wait to try this out when I get a chance! Thanks for the heads up!

 

What is even more amazing is that Valve is releasing it free for both the PC and 360.


The costs of making this DLC must have been pretty high... so therefore Valve is awesome for giving it to us for free.


And yes, the Lighthouse level is absolutely amazing.

 

super pumped, trying this out RIGHT NOW!

lol i just went on to play campaign, was not expecting this.

and i never have played versus either so ill try that too.

 

This for example has more and better content than Soviet Assault had for WiC and they charged for that. I hope though they bring out some more maps for versus and campaign soon.

 

Longest time on lighthouse for me and my buddies was 6:01. Really fun but hard! Walls break everywhere! Even brick walls! Will try other maps another day. Back to studying! haha.

 

I have yet to play this game online. Love the single player campaigns though.

 

Survival Mode is awesome! Pretty hard but loads of fun.

 

I'm liking Death Toll a lot already in Versus. I don't like that they removed the ability for Hunters to perch on the edge of tall buildings, it makes getting those 25 damage pounces difficult.

 

I took a 30 minute break to try out the new Survival mode, and I have to say it's pretty fun. We played on one of the chapters in Dead Air and managed to last for >11min on our second try! Can't wait until I get more time to play it

 

thats exactly what i was thinking.

 

Why is that?!?! The whole game is based upon it's multiplayer components.

 

Us 360 users got the melee fatigue yesterday, I <3 balance now.

 

I spent an hour or so with 3 other people on the lighthouse map, and we got to about 5:25. They eventually left, and it was me and the 3 bots, and we got 6:15... hmmm...

 

Can't wait to try this out tonight with my, totally going to be a blast!

 

Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key

Aww I liked that glitch

 

Made shotguns OP

 

Got my first gold medal in Lighthouse!


That is a difficult map...

 

yes, it's very difficult...

i played it like 2-3 times last night cause we wanted to do the other versus maps.

survival seems to remind me of how L4D first was for me when i played it: chaos.

the other maps i became accustomed to and got used to it, but survival is an onslaught and it's so much fun!

 

It's really scary too, because almost all the walls are breakable.


It's a sense of "delaying the inevitable" really, much like most horror movies.


Damn we just tried again and we can't get past 8 minutes... SO stressful lol.

 

Yeah, I don't understand that, even brick walls can be broken with easy, it's like every zombie has the strength of a tank!

 

I was playing by myself on a really laggy server and got to 5 minutes or so, three people turned up and for the next few rounds we couldn't seem to last more than 3 minutes.

 

Whenever I see these patch updates I think to myself "Why did I not know about this glitch before they patched it?"

 

LOL... it might not be realistic, but it sure adds to the tension.


The only problem I have with survival mode is that it pretty much forces you to use the autoshotgun. M16 ammo runs out too quickly and the hunting rifle doesn't work at that range.


However it does make sense, autoshotguns are the best thing when you are defending a close range position from hordes of unarmed attackers. Especially if they are zombies.

 

Also autoshotty are good against tanks up close. But really you can use any weapon to defend yourself. I use m16 the most cause I can easily hit head shots with them.

O and in Last Stand it is terrifying and funny when you are up on the light house running around as a tank is chasing you and when you think you out run him, he is right in front of you and next thing is your body flies all the way out to sea.... Also, if im the last one alive I would just jump off the cliff, because its better to kill myself than to get kill by them, lol.

 

Kinda like why 4 people can't carry more than one pipe bomb or molotov cocktail each? Or at least move them to a different spot

 

I already found a glitch in last stand though, my team and I got nearly 13 minutes using it. Without it we could only get to 7:47. I'm pretty sure once more people discover it as well they'll patch it up. I was jumping around in the trees and got sucked into the middle of 3 trees and a rock, and was floating in mid air and couldn't move. I told the rest of the team to jump in and have one guy start the thing and we lasted 12 minutes without killing a single infected. What was kind of funny yet weird is that every time a tank approached, it would walk up to the tree, then just fall over and die without anyone firing a shot. Finally one tank didn't die, and smacked us all out of the spot, where we were overwhelmed by hunters and smokers.

 

Zombie-shootered out, but I'll give this a try. Thanks for the heads up!

 

Yea, i just downloaded it and gave it a few rounds. Looks like i'm back for a while.

 

I like how the rounds are short (usually <10 min). It makes it easier to jump in for a few rounds and then leave whereas a whole game of versus often lasts close to an hour if you have good teams.

 

It's amazing how much 'Hunter Game' has improved my Versus skills. Those 25 damage pounces are more and more frequent for me now.

 

damn exams!

8 days from now I'll be all over this. MAYBE i'll toy with it a bit this weekend.

couldn't have come at a worse time.

 

Wait, what was that glitch about?

 

Where you could melee and reload at the same time

 

You can still do that. The glitch says something about reloading by holding down the melee button. I didn't know about it either before this patch.

 

hey is this game worth getting ?

 

The answer is yes.


Thank us later.

 

Can you be more specific where this exploit is or post a screen shot, cause I would love to try it.

 

it was a fairly serious exploit if you were playing something like versus,

by doing it you basically fired a full clip of ammo from the uzi and carbine (never tried it with the shotguns or sniper rifle) in one shot, nasty against witchys or a tank but wasted your ammo extremely quickly, there are plenty of videos on youtube demonstrating it, just search "left 4 dead powershot"

 

I never knew about it until the update, but it is now patched already.

 

But it was such a common thing, I assumed it was part of the game.

 

It's a different glitch.


It allowed you to fire an entire M16 clip in half a second. Of course, that is seriously overpowered... like a cannon more than anything else.


You can still reload while meleeing.