Ho ho ho, l4d2 authoring tools released

Posted: December 24th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead 2, Tech stuff, updates | Tags: | Comments Off

Left 4 Dead 2 Add-on support and Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring tools can now be found in your tools tab in Steam.

Hopefully this will lead to some custom campaigns being released soon. Dead before Dawn is a personal favorite that I would love to see in l4d2.

Read all about it here.

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Metamod:Source 1.8.0 released

Posted: December 20th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Plugins, Team Fortress 2 | Tags: , , | Comments Off

The l4d and l4d2 servers have received the new version. TF2 will probably get them later today. The TF2 servers have been updated as well.

http://www.metamodsource.net/

A formal announcement at the SourceMod site, as well as planned release date for the upcoming SM 1.3 set to January 15, 2010.

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=112595

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First DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 announced

Posted: December 16th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, updates | Tags: , | Comments Off

Read all about it here. It seems like the original cast will team up with the new cast somewhere.

The question everybody is asking is – how much will they charge for the DLC?

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Left 4 Dead 2 update released

Posted: December 10th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead 2, updates | Tags: , | Comments Off

Another bugfix update. The servers are updating now. Pity Valve won’t make forked servers autoupdate.

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. These and all previous fixes will be coming to the 360 later this month. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2

  • Changed rules for ghost placement in Scavenge Mode
  • Player controlled Special Infected are no longer forced to un-crouch and lock strafe when they crouch attack
  • Spitter spit that damages players on a moving elevator will now fizzle quickly
  • Allow the survivor and infected to rotate the camera yaw while being attacked by a Charger or Smoker
  • Smoker that has dragged a survivor to the end now gets the same cinematic flashlight as the Hunter and Charger
  • Fixed a crash in physics
  • Updated the Charger’s hit boxes
  • Updated the Jockey’s hit boxes
  • Updated the Spitter’s hit boxes
  • Fixed player health on being revived after a Charger slam over a high ledge
  • Fixed versus scores not resetting after a vote to change campaigns
  • Fixed being able to use defibrillator on dead players who were far above or below you
  • Fixed pink glow on dead survivors
  • Fixed being able to hold crouch while incapped to get better weapon accuracy
  • Fixed players pushing against some props causing them to accumulate downward velocity and then take falling damage when they let go of the forward key
  • Fixed a case where an incapped survivor inside a rescue vehicle would trigger both the escape sequence and a round restart
  • Fixed the helping hand from getting stuck when extended
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Left 4 Dead 2 update released

Posted: December 5th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead 2 | Tags: , | Comments Off

The servers are being updated now.

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2

  • Fixed crash on startup when using FAT32 file system
  • Fixed in-game chat input where the local encoding differs from the input language’s
  • Fixed bug where Survivor Bots would sometimes become unresponsive in Scavenge games
  • Updated subtitle localization files for Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian and Russian
  • Fixed exploit that allowed players on the Infected team to spawn directly next to the Survivors
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Left 4 Dead 2 update released

Posted: December 2nd, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead 2 | Tags: , | Comments Off

Updating the servers now. My game client crashed in a finale when this update was released..

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2

  • Fixed case where game failed to launch in certain machine configurations
  • Fixed bug where a burning witch could get into a state where she’s invincible
  • Fixed bug where bots would not shoot at Jockeys and Chargers while approaching to save a teammate
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Left 4 Dead 2 update released

Posted: November 27th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead 2, updates | Tags: , | Comments Off

Update just in time for the fredags mys! Hopefully the charger bug is really fixed – we have seen it a number of times this week. Thanks to sourcemod and noclip you can get away, otherwise we would have been really stuck.

The servers have been successfully updated.

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2

  • Updated stats collection and related steam pages
  • Fixed issue where players could be stuck if caught in charger pound
  • Updated CPU detection
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Sourcemod beta support for Left 4 Dead 2

Posted: November 22nd, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead 2, Plugins | Tags: , | Comments Off

There is a new 1.3 snapshot with backported fixes for getting l4d2 support. Read the news here.

I have installed the latest metamod and sourcemod snapshots on the servers now, so it is possible to start looking for useful server plugins.

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Left 4 Dead 2 update released

Posted: November 22nd, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead 2 | Tags: , | Comments Off

Some much needed fixes have been relesased – rcon responses now work on linux servers!

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2

  • Fixed performance problem when rendering lots of decals, notably when fighting tanks with shotguns
  • Fixed rcon response not working on Linux dedicated servers
  • Fixed matchmaking problem matching into Advanced and Expert games
  • Fix bug that would cause other specials to try to pummel a player a Charger disconnects or reconnects
  • Fixed versus mode results panel being cut off in transition stats screen in non-english
  • Found games: fixed non-player entries drawing the wrong type of icon in the selected item name label
  • Game mode selector on main menu now takes keyboard input
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Possible to play the original campaigns with the l4d2 engine

Posted: November 21st, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Tech stuff | Tags: , | Comments Off

The guys over at l4dmods have posted a step-by-step howto on how to get the original campaigns playable in Left 4 Dead 2.

Read all about it here.

I hope someone releases a .vpk edition soon so that the dedicated servers can be updated easier.

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