Left 4 Dead Update Available (9-29-09)

[Mooga]

Jason Wrote:A required update for Left 4 Dead has been released. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:

- A new campaign, "Crash Course", is now available for play in Campaign, Versus and Survival modes
- In Versus mode, all weapons, pills, health packs, molotovs, pipe bombs and other items will now be identical for the second round of a chapter
- Matchmaking has had several improvements to make finding and joining games even faster
- Ten all new "Crash Course" achievements have been added

Jason

[Mooga]

Supposedly many people are having issues with the windows version. I'll post up any updates.

[Mooga]

Jason Wrote:A new, highly recommended Left 4 Dead update is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:

- Made the variable "mp_gamemode" available again. Note that you can also load maps directly with different game modes by specifying it in the map command. For example, "map l4d_garage01_alleys versus" will set mp_gamemode versus for you automatically and load the first map of Crash Course
- Added "mm_dedicated_force_servers" to allow specification of a list of dedicated server addresses manually used for searching (ms_force_dedicated_server is depreciated)
- Updated shared libraries and DLLs preventing dedicated servers listing correctly, appearing on Steam groups, and being found via sv_search_key

[fermortcis]

I updated my server, but now it's broken. I had it listed under a group, but no servers are showing up under any of my L4D Groups. My server used to run Versus, but now, when people join, it's stuck in a broken version of Campaign mode. Can't even use +sv_searchkey to directly connect to my server from lobbies.

Anyone else experiencing these issues?

[Mooga]

On the listserv, others are still having some issues.

[fermortcis]

I read through the summary of the update, and apparently, you can do:

"map [map_name] versus"

This will let you play a map in versus mode, but I don't think that'll work if you're trying to play campaigns or if your server has a campaign rotation going.

I'm going to test it.

*EDIT* CONFIRMED

You can do "map [map_name] versus" as a work around, but it's kind of weird. You might replay the map you choose twice, before it kicks into the full campaign in versus mode. Still waiting to see how it handles campaign rotation.

EXAMPLE OF USE:

"changelevel l4d_vs_hospital01_apartment versus"

NOTE: It has to be from the console, and it will kick you out, but once you return to your dedicated server, everything will work as described above.

FROM VALVE:
Made the variable "mp_gamemode" available again. Note that you can also load maps directly with different game modes by specifying it in the map command. For example, "map l4d_garage01_alleys versus" will set mp_gamemode versus for you automatically and load the first map of Crash Course

Added "mm_dedicated_force_servers" to allow specification of a list of dedicated server addresses manually used for searching (ms_force_dedicated_server is depreciated)

Updated shared libraries and DLLs preventing dedicated servers listing correctly, appearing on Steam groups, and being found via sv_search_key

*EDIT* CONFIRMED

If you have a campaign rotation and use the above console command while in the server, it'll provide a temporary work around. If you reboot your server, you'll obviously need to re-use the work around.

[mthoene]

Any word on how to get servers back on the master list? I see a few on there but can't seem to figure out how to get my four up there!