Left 4 Dead Update Released (1/23/2008)

[anonymouse187]

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Left 4 Dead


Fixed an exploit with melee where swapping weapons ignored the intended delay between swings.
In Versus mode, the Tanks' health now reflects the damage he takes from burning.
Fixed an exploit related to the "joinclass" command


It's about time they fixed the melee glitch...

[Cobalt]

The tank fix was also very important. Either way, this patch fucked my fps and the game as well. I freeze in around 1/3 of the loading screens, crash, my game got fucked by it. I got the latest nvidia driver last night, lets see if it helped...

[Mr. Hasselhoff]

Yeah most of the patches made by FPS worse, and after the last one, I started crashing.

[speedtouch]

My fps is fine. Only problems I get is the gui getting messed up in windowed mode, and the game "disconnecting" when I alt+tab, when I'm not in a game.

[Cobalt]

I lost 10-60 fps. Prior to these patches, I ran the game at 90-150 fps. Now I'm running it 20-60 and sometimes when it's quiet, I can get to 80-90.

[thepreacha619]

FPS is about the same here.

[Mr. Hasselhoff]

The joinclass command was an exploit for spawning as any infected class you want, ie: you could all spawn as hunters.

[BrownPaperBag]

Update before this made my game wacky. Wouldn't load sometimes. This probably didn't fix it.