Left 4 Dead 2 - the gish
<b>Gib Fest</b>
Blast the infected to shreds with M60s.

Swords can slice up some fun. Chainsaws can tear apart the infected. But you need to get close for both and well… chainsaws are really loud! Time to go with the ultimate gun, you and three friends armed with M60s and unlimited ammo. This is going to get messy.

<b>Mobile</b>
We asked last poll if you play games on your phone. For PC players only 9% of you frequently play games on your phone compared to 16% for 360 players. The “Sometimes” answer was closer with 23% on the PC to 21% for the 360. “Rarely” saw 20% for the PC and 16% for the 360. 35% of PC players never play games on their phone compared to 31% for the 360. Finally 13% of the respondents on the PC and 16% on the 360 do not own phones to play games on.

<b>L4D2 in L4D1</b>
What Left 4 Dead 2 Special Infected makes the biggest impact/is the most dangerous in the Left 4 Dead 1 maps? For PC players this will be based on experience for 360 players this is a question about what you anticipate.

<b>Community Help</b>
Special thanks to LarryBrains for the Death Toll Finale changes and Rayman1103 for some survivor audio help/suggestions that are included in today’s update.
Left 4 Dead 2 - the gish
Gib Fest
Blast the infected to shreds with M60s.

Swords can slice up some fun. Chainsaws can tear apart the infected. But you need to get close for both and well… chainsaws are really loud! Time to go with the ultimate gun, you and three friends armed with M60s and unlimited ammo. This is going to get messy.

Mobile
We asked last poll if you play games on your phone. For PC players only 9% of you frequently play games on your phone compared to 16% for 360 players. The “Sometimes” answer was closer with 23% on the PC to 21% for the 360. “Rarely” saw 20% for the PC and 16% for the 360. 35% of PC players never play games on their phone compared to 31% for the 360. Finally 13% of the respondents on the PC and 16% on the 360 do not own phones to play games on.

L4D2 in L4D1
What Left 4 Dead 2 Special Infected makes the biggest impact/is the most dangerous in the Left 4 Dead 1 maps? For PC players this will be based on experience for 360 players this is a question about what you anticipate.

Community Help
Special thanks to LarryBrains for the Death Toll Finale changes and Rayman1103 for some survivor audio help/suggestions that are included in today’s update.
Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
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:

- Encore Mutation: Gib Fest
- Added FCVAR_RELEASE to the following rcon cvars: sv_rcon_minfailures, sv_rcon_minfailuretime, sv_rcon_maxfailures, sv_rcon_banpenalty and sv_rcon_log
- Fixed a bug with processing entity packets.
- Fixed various audio bugs for the Left 4 Dead 1 survivors.

Death Toll: The Boathouse
- Moved rope barrier closer to dock.
- Added rock for Infected Specials to spawn behind.
- Moved melee weapon spawn off picnic table to avoid floating weapons.
- Fixed finale scoring bug.

Cold Stream: Cut-Throat Creak
- Redesigned start of map. There is missing Audio use the handset and then the door in the big building to begin.
- Removed the ability for common infected to spawn on top of ridge along the first ravine.
Oct 7, 2011
Left 4 Dead
Gib Fest, Mobile, L4D2 in L4D1, Community Help

Left 4 Dead 2 - the gish
<b>Healthpackalypse</b>
No health in this versus game.

Grind down the Survivors and don’t worry about them bouncing back. With no Health kits in Versus, their permanent health is on a one way ride to zero.

<b>Glitches</b>
Last poll we asked if you exploit glitches. Both platforms have 40% of the votes fall into the depends category. Where they differed slightly is 14% of PC users will always use the glitch compared to 20% of the Xbox 360 users.

<b>Do you game on your phone?</b>
We know you are playing L4D2 on your Xbox 360, PC, or Mac but what we don’t know is – do you also game on your phone? If so, how much?
Left 4 Dead 2 - the gish
Healthpackalypse
No health in this versus game.

Grind down the Survivors and don’t worry about them bouncing back. With no Health kits in Versus, their permanent health is on a one way ride to zero.

Glitches
Last poll we asked if you exploit glitches. Both platforms have 40% of the votes fall into the depends category. Where they differed slightly is 14% of PC users will always use the glitch compared to 20% of the Xbox 360 users.

Do you game on your phone?
We know you are playing L4D2 on your Xbox 360, PC, or Mac but what we don’t know is – do you also game on your phone? If so, how much?
Sep 23, 2011
Left 4 Dead
Healthpackalypse, Glitches, Game on your phone?


Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
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 configurable weapon spawns not allowing Confogl mutation to override spawn behavior
  • Encore Mutation: Healthpackalypse
Left 4 Dead 2 - the gish
<img src='http://store.valvesoftware.com/product_images/main_images/l4d_deathtoll_poster.png'>

We are releasing the beta version of Death Toll today. We have made
a few changes based on issues we saw during internal testing. It will
be interesting to see what people think of those changes. No hints on what the changes are, we want you to play with fresh eyes.

Please post all feedback and bugs to the <a href="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=611">L4D2 Steam Forums</a>.

The most popular question these days is when will the complete Cold
Stream DLC be released? We have been saying end of summer, but that
looks to be slipping quickly by. At the current rate of testing,
feedback, and updating we are looking at around Halloween.

The second most popular question, when is the next update to the Cold
Stream Campaign? Soon. We have been working on some performance
issues. Before we officially release a campaign it needs to hit some
performance benchmarks and be able to keep a minimum number of frames
per second throughout the campaign. We are close.

We also have a change to the finale that we want to get some more
testing on. The change will come in a little rough at first and then
we will clean it up if people prefer it over the current version.

Thanks to your testing and feedback we have gotten more data on Blood
Harvest. This caused us to change the bridge collapse sequence a
little bit to give Infected more area to spawn above the bridge and to
fix an exploit in The Train Station. Thanks!
Left 4 Dead 2 - the gish


We are releasing the beta version of Death Toll today. We have made
a few changes based on issues we saw during internal testing. It will
be interesting to see what people think of those changes. No hints on what the changes are, we want you to play with fresh eyes.

Please post all feedback and bugs to the L4D2 Steam Forums.

The most popular question these days is when will the complete Cold
Stream DLC be released? We have been saying end of summer, but that
looks to be slipping quickly by. At the current rate of testing,
feedback, and updating we are looking at around Halloween.

The second most popular question, when is the next update to the Cold
Stream Campaign? Soon. We have been working on some performance
issues. Before we officially release a campaign it needs to hit some
performance benchmarks and be able to keep a minimum number of frames
per second throughout the campaign. We are close.

We also have a change to the finale that we want to get some more
testing on. The change will come in a little rough at first and then
we will clean it up if people prefer it over the current version.

Thanks to your testing and feedback we have gotten more data on Blood
Harvest. This caused us to change the bridge collapse sequence a
little bit to give Infected more area to spawn above the bridge and to
fix an exploit in The Train Station. Thanks!
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