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Left 4 Dead Update Released

Product Update - Valve
Dec 18, 2009
Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

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  • Teams that prefer listen servers will no longer be matched with teams that prefer dedicated servers
  • Official dedicated servers are now preferred when searching for team matches
  • More populous lobbies are now preferred over less populous ones when searching for games
  • Players who crash or have failed to load are no longer banned if they have been kicked
  • Fixed exploit allowing players to end games prematurely using the 'outtro_stats_done' console command
  • Reduced Dedicated Server max search ping to 150 ms
  • Fixed a common crash

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