L4D2 tweaked in new update

By Oli Welsh Published 29 July, 2010

Changes to Charger, Tank and friendly fire.

Valve has updated the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 with a few small changes intended to stop players "rage quitting".

They are the start of a response to a recent request for players' feedback on what was frustrating them about the game. "We have many more changes we are working on, some ideas failed, some were exploitable, and some were just bad ideas," Valve said on the Left 4 Dead 2 blog.

"What we are releasing today is not the sum of our answer to the problem but simply some of the updates that are ready to ship. More are coming."

The Charger and Tank infected are being tweaked in Versus mode. The scoring has been changed for the Charger to reward doing the right thing, and Tanks go into an invisible stasis when they spawn during which they cannot be set on fire.

In both Versus and Co-op, the rules for friendly fire have been changed so that bullets that go through an infected before striking a Survivor do not count as friendly fire.

Valve promises more updates to the game soon.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • geeza2020 #1 2 years ago

    so is this update coming the the 360 version any time soon? Or is it another case of valve giving pc gamers everything and MS preventing them giving it to the 360 owners without charging them?

  • TOOTR #2 2 years ago

    What Geeza said.

    /sings The Communards to Valve

    'Don't leave me this way-ay'

  • Phishfood #3 2 years ago

    Its a title update, I think its going to head to 360 soon after they get it green lighted by Microsoft.

  • matrim83 #4 2 years ago

    Good call IMO. Chargers really needed some tweaking.

    Also get us some more DLC while you are at it Valve, would you?

  • brigadier #5 2 years ago

    How about that Mac version please?

  • Xeaon #6 2 years ago

    Nice to see you'll finally get some credit for taking survs out of windows as a charger, tired of getting 0 for killing someone :/
    Edited by 1 at 29/07/10 @ 11:46

  • Collymilad #7 2 years ago

    Rage quitters should burn in hell!!

    Seriously though, these people quit but they would expect you to stay in a losing game. Good thing everyone isn't a rage quitting asshole, eh? :D

    Oh well, my 360 RROD a week ago anyway :(

  • HoriZon #8 2 years ago

    @RyanGraubner, you what ?? the 360 and PC were neck and neck before this update. Yes TF2 is miles behind but as it stands L4D2 is the same well it was till this one. We will get the update after they have tested it all out on the PC as more updates are to follow very soon.

    Not only that but a lot of the updates can be changed server side for the 360, yes some cant and require the client to be updated too.

    360 will get it in a few weeks or so.
    Edited by 1 at 29/07/10 @ 13:07

  • BadDevotions #9 2 years ago

    i am sure last time they tweaked the pc version the tweaks came to 360 too. not straight away, but they did come.