Left 4 Dead patch released

June 25, 12:14 PMLA Gaming News ExaminerErik Johnson

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Valve has released an update for their survival shooter Left 4 Dead, now available on Steam.

The update brings support to add-on campaigns, fixes an infinite ammo exploit and adds a handful of authoring tool fixes and improvements.

From the full notes:

Client

Removed an infinite ammo exploit for molotovs

The team swapping issue in Versus has been fixed

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