Valve has launched a brand new replace for Left 4 Lifeless 2 exhibiting that, regardless of the followers might imagine, somebody over there’s actually listening to all their complaints. It makes substantial, not-so-substantial, and in some instances barely bonkers modifications to the sport. Do this on for measurement: “Restored the knife’s authentic horizontal swing trajectory.” Knife is as soon as extra the perfect! Although the skillet will all the time maintain a particular place in my coronary heart.
Among the fixes appear to be issues that ought to all the time have been the case, resembling solely the unique attacker being credited for injury brought on by exploding props. Others are clearly in response to group requests, such because the addition of a bunch of latest script capabilities, together with “GetClosestCharacterWhoIsIT” which is able to return the closest character who’s IT. Feels like tag.
The true modifications are throughout the sport’s many maps, most of which have obtained some type of a touching up. In some instances this is so simple as fixing real bugs, like a spot on map 3 of Lifeless Middle the place gamers might get lodged on a merchandising machine: hey, might’ve taken 14 years, however Valve will get there in the long run. On Darkish Carnival they’ve patched “an elaborate SI out of bounds exploit.”
Maybe the perfect patch observe of all comes for the map Swamp Fever. The notes begin off robust anyway with the information that Valve’s patched a “janky ladder” close to the ferry occasion: I believed janky ladders had been simply the Supply default, however what do I do know. Then the information each L4D fan has been ready for:
“By in style group request the TLS Swamp gator is now canonically named Fred.”
I need to admit to zero data of the TLS swamp gator and the marketing campaign to have him named Fred, however that is clearly God’s work.
Just about each map within the sport has had one thing tweaked or fastened, as you’ll be able to see within the full notes, although most often it is fixing caught spots, collision points, moments the place gamers might gentle lock themselves from progressing, and (in Crash Course) stopping fuel cans from falling between the finale buses. In any case, they’re no use down there.
When it will get to Blood Harvest one will get the sense that whoever wrote these patch notes is losing interest, as a result of one among them simply reads “Caught in tree close to shed.” Who’s caught in a tree close to shed? Do they need assistance? Is that this a repair or a promise?
In addition to all of the bug fixes Valve has additionally rejigged the balancing in sure areas of the sport. The Final Stand’s finale now has easier problem scaling that solely will increase on superior and professional difficulties: “the intention is to curb participant fatigue and confusion along with bringing it extra in step with expectations from different finales.” It is also tweaked what number of fuel cans gamers require in numerous workforce configurations and difficulties.
There is a large previous checklist of tweaks to the Tank Run mode, most of that are minor with the ultimate two being fairly spectacular:
Mounted challenge the place Tanks wouldn’t retain their slowdown when biled, in the event that they had been hit with one other vomit jar whereas already being biled.Mounted challenge the place Survivors might get immediately revived when hit with a automobile.
Lastly, there are fixes for L4D1 Co-op, Survival and Versus modes (as it has been some time I ought to make clear: Left 4 Lifeless 2 contains all of Left 4 Lifeless’s content material). These embrace a change to the claw viewmodels which have apparently been incorrect all alongside, and altering the noise ranges to raised mirror the unique sport moderately than L4D2: making it tougher for frequent contaminated to note gamers. Defibrillators may even now convert to ache capsules as a substitute of medkits as a result of “beforehand, when transformed to medkits the sport saved attempting to spawn extra defibs which led to an over-saturation of medkits.” Then, and I am actually undecided methods to take this one, “Modified to make use of way more correct L4D1-like trying ragdolls.”
Naturally, group response to such sterling help for a sport that got here out in 2009 has been to demand Left 4 Lifeless 3. Which, y’know, I am down however appears as probably as any Valve sport with a ‘3’ within the title (the corporate’s final assertion was a couple of years in the past and boiled-down to “completely not”). Others are simply celebrating Fred. The perfect of all although are these followers piling in on a sport all of them love and nonetheless play, the last word zombie shooter, and saying with good irony: lifeless sport.
