Left 4 Dead 2 and SDK Update Released
No, this is not The Passing, but has some of the promised new features.

Gameplay:

• Now ghost PZ's can never be staggered
  
• Enabled PZ bots
  
• PZ bots use their more aggressive survival mode behavior in versus and scavenge
  
• Enabled finale manual spawn by default
  
• Fixed human PZ players not getting counted when they were dead, allowing extra PZ bots to spawn
  
• Reduced effectiveness of melee weapons against the Tank ( 5% of max health, from 10% )
  
• Fixed a case where a player who dies, then is rescued from a rescue closet, and then is revived from a ledge hang receives the secondary weapon that he lost when he was initially killed
  
• Improved SurvivorBot AI in cases where the bots refused to shoot through their teammates and became non-responsive
  
• Fixed issue with witch sometimes taking on uncommon common properties
  
• Fix for cheaters quitting before the vote to kick them would succeed and avoiding ban on server
  
• VAC banned users can now play L4D2 single-player, commentary mode and credits

Map Fixes:

• Dark...

2010-02-05 1:15 PM PST by godjonez View entry - 2 comments - views: 232

Changes to Versus mode coming
As part of getting closer to The Passing, changes to gameplay will be made.

Some of the biggest changes regarding Versus mode will be allowing bots playing special infected to balance the teams. Survivors always had 4 players, bots filling in the missing humans, but infected team was only limited by the number of human players, making the games without 8 players unfair.

Another change will be removing auto-spawning on finales when playing Versus. Previously when the finale was playing on, infected players were automatically spawned by the server. From the next big update players will be able to manually spawn just like outside finales, unless the development team has something else in mind. We can only see what the final outcome will be when the update is released.

Discussing these changes, why they will be made and what the team tries to achieve with them along with news about the progress of the upcoming add-on The Passing can be read on the Left 4 Dead blog: They Live

2010-01-23 2:25 AM PST by godjonez View entry - 1 comment - views: 730

Free gold on Xbox 360!
Is this some kind of in-game gold selling advertisement? Nope, it is Microsoft giving free multiplayer weekend for Left 4 Dead 2 on Xbox 360. This means that Xbox 360 players without Live Gold account can access the multiplayer features for free this weekend.

Remember to tell your Xbox 360 friends about this special chance, it doesn't happen often! Read the details at the official Left 4 Dead Blog (www.l4d.com).

We might also see some more news about the upcoming big add-on "The Passing" soon, so stay tuned to the news!

2010-01-12 4:09 PM PST by godjonez View entry - 1 comment - views: 524