14 DAY TRIAL // Zombies have been an integral part of the video game industry for quite some time, as a lot of titles have prominently featured them as the main targets of the player, in which he or she needed to shoot all of their ammunition.
Left 4 Dead is one of the most recent titles to feature the undead, but it has also brought a new and interesting way to play the game through the Versus mode, which has pitched the survivor and the infected one against each other, both being played by human gamers.
Now, Left 4 Dead fans will take part in a brand new experience, as the first DLC for this title has been just released by Valve on the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the title. Dubbed Survival Pack, the DLC contains a brand new gameplay mode entitled Survival Mode, which puts the survivors against never-ending hordes of zombies.
But besides the new gameplay mode, the free Survival Pack also brings with it a variety of fixes for the problems that have been experienced by players since the last patch went live a few weeks ago. A lot of recalculations and problems with the servers are now solved, which will surely prompt a lot of people to start fighting as the survivors and the infected once more.
Survival Mode
– New gameplay Mode; – 16 maps, including Last Stand; – Leaderboards; – seven new achievements.
Versus Changes
– Fixed a case where versus team score would continue to be recalculated after the score panel was displayed; – Fixed an issue with recalculating the versus score health bonus for a player when they are rescued from being incapacitated; – Fixed being able to start a swing as an infected, then teleport to the survivors and have the claw swing hit one of them; – Fixed a case where teleporting to the survivors would not reset the ability timer; – Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key; – Fixed a case where it was not possible to join a game while it was in a finale; – Fixed a rare case where listen servers would speed up the game over time; – Removed convars related to melee fatigue; – Fixed a case where infected players would get a respawn time on their initial spawn into a map.
Server Changes
– Made ms_force_dedicated_server not require cheats; – Add a message when queuing a heartbeat; – Simplified setting of game mode; – Removed convars director_no_human_zombies and director_holdout_mode; – Added mp_gamemode [coop,versus,survival].
General
– Added lobby join and leave messages.
All in all, some pretty big changes that will further polish the great experience that Left 4 Dead brings to players who are fans of shooters. The free Survival Pack will automatically download when you start up the title via Steam, or on the Xbox 360.