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The ones that’s logged on Steam during the last 24 hours might have found out that their Left 4 Dead 2 game got updated. This is due to the release of the DLC called “The Passing”.

This brings the Left 4 Dead survivors down south for a metting with the L4D2 cast. I have missed the Left 4 Dead survivors, so this should be fun.

“The Passing” features 3 new maps, new weekly modes (mutations), a new “uncommon common” zombie class (the fallen survivor), melee weapon (golf club), weapon (M-60), support for infected bot play in Versus, 10 new achievements, and even more!

To celebrate all this, you can get Left 4 Dead 2 and the 4-pack for 33% off until Monday! Get it here.

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

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• Lobbies and games you’ve recently joined and left will be ignored for two minutes. This will prevent a player from ending up in the same lobby or game when quickly searching for another
• Restored Find a Game Lobby/Find a Game in Progress to the Create Lobby screen available from the Lobby Browser
• Updated localization text
• Fixed an issue where VPK.EXE would not extract all files

Left 4 Dead has been updated to include a lobby browser. The lobby browser (under Play Online) will show you a list of optimal games available for you to join. The browser pares down the thousands of lobbies and games currently being played to show you the best list of games available to you. This list includes official and add-on campaigns, including add-on campaigns you have not yet installed, making it a great way to discover them. You can filter by difficulty, official and/or add-on campaigns and by lobbies and/or games in progress. The specific changes include:

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• The Play on Steam Group Server screen now displays which Steam group it’s searching while updating the list
• After calling a vote to change difficulty in game it is now correctly updated in matchmaking

Add-on Campaigns

• When downloading a new version of an add-on and installing it (by double clicking the .VPK file), it will now correctly overwrite the previous version, even while Left 4 Dead is currently running
• Addressed a crash when two mission files with the same name are installed
• Steam Group Servers now will now correctly offer download links when running add-on campaigns

Server

• The server will now warn if the public or private tags exceed their limits. Public tags are limited to 63 characters. Private tags used for matchmaking are now limited to 1024 characters. Note that the private tags include the name of each add-on campaign installed on the server, so an excessive number of add-on campaigns can hit this limit

SDK

• The VPK tool should be able to handle campaigns larger than 500MB now
• You can now drag and drop or pass a VPK file to the vpk.exe tool to have it extract the contents of the add-on to a folder. This mirrors the functionality of passing a folder and having it create a VPK file
• Detail.vbsp and lights.rad have been added to the distribution

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

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• Removed the “Are you ready to play Versus?” confirmation
• Fixed a crash when using mouse wheel or keyboard to select Campaign chapters
• Fixed sv_steamgroup_exclusive servers advertising for public lobbies
• Restored the ability to vote for a new campaign in Versus mode

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

Client

• Removed an infinite ammo exploit for molotovs

Add-on Campaign Support

• Players download third party campaigns as single .VPK file
• Players can manage and select add-on maps and campaigns via game UI
• Added matchmaking support and download/update prompt for add-on campaigns
• Custom campaign support in Leader boards
• If not already registered, left4dead.exe registers .VPK extension to allow automatic install of add-ons
• Servers and the steam API have been extended to allow servers to send up a list of keys for matchmaking up to 1200 bytes in size

Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools

• Fixed missing fgd error
• Added vpk.exe command line tool for extracting, creating, and appending .VPK files
• Removed info_versus (not used)
• Added info_gamemode which fires outputs for Coop, Versus or Survival depending on what game mode the map is loaded in
• Updated tutorial_standards example map, repackaged as ‘Dead Line’ campaign example add-on
• Sample content now includes source files for official maps