Zombies have always been an integral part of the gaming industry, despite the fact that they were almost always at the receiving end of a high-power weapon wielded by the main characters of a lot of video games. But Valve's recent
Left 4 Dead brought something new, with the ability of actually playing as the zombies in the Versus mode of the title.
The game went on to become very popular, thanks to its seamless interaction with Valve's Steam online service, which provided a solid multiplayer and sold extremely well, on the PC and on the Xbox 360. A few weeks ago, PC users of Left 4 Dead
received a patch that addressed a lot of issues and solved some balance problems between various weapons or characters.
Now, Xbox 360 users will also receive said patch for their console version of the game as Valve announced that the download notice would appear as soon as they would start up the game. This is great news for console gamers who have been plagued by quite a few glitches and problems in their zombie-shooting experience since the game launched.
Here are some of the major issues that the patch will solve, as found on Kotaku:
General Fixed Survivors being able to climb surfaces marked for versus infected only
Players can no longer grab ladders while flying through the air after a Tank punch
Shooting near a car with an alarm that has already fired the alarm will no longer make chirping noises
Fixed mini-gun physics exploit
Fixed propane tanks (and other physics objects) causing players to fall through elevators
Fixed rare achievement bug issues
Fixed several map exploits
Versus Changes Added HUD elements to show status of other infected players
Fixed instance where a Survivor changing to the infected team would be attacked by infected bots
Fixed exploit where infected players could run away and teleport back to gain health
Players can only change teams once per map
Players can't change teams while other players are still loading
Tank spawns at the same % through the map for both teams in versus mode
Made the Tank and Witch spawn directly on the escape route
Increased chance of getting the Tank or Witch
Hunter Easier to pounce a Survivor who is meleeing
Increased Minimum damage a Hunter pounce does
Smoker Fixed Smoker tongue tolerance
Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break
Survivors cannot bash someone off the tongue until the Survivor being pulled is paralyzed or hanging
Tongue attacks that fail to paralyze or hang a Survivor will use the shorter ability delay timer
Fixed cases where the ability timer was not using the correct time
Smoker tongue does damage every second while dragging paralyzed Survivors
Tank Bashable objects now appear with a red glow
Tanks hitting a car with an alarm disables the alarm permanently
Tank frustration timer is only reset by hitting Survivors with rocks or fists
Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks
Witch Witch spawns at the same % through the map for both teams
Avoids spawning within a certain % of the tank
Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors
All in all, it seems that Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead users will certainly have a much more balanced experience from now on. All that's left for them to do is start up the game and start shredding some zombies or survivors.
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