The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack has been released!

Survival Mode:
- New gameplay Mode
- 16 maps including Last Stand
- Leaderboards
- 7 new achievements

There have also been a stack of changes to Versus mode:

- 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 a survivor
- 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

Time to call in sick? If you're lucky enough to be able to take it for a spin, let us know what you think!

fark I took yesterday off bah! :/

how big is the download?

Hmm, should be good.

Hmmm survival is a nice addition.

- Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key

Sounds like they fixed the issue of being able unload a whole magazine in one shot exploit, good move.

I liked that exploit :\

Glad they fixed that thing where the server randomly speeds up though.

any girl going survival mode tonight?

Anyone tried yet? Feedback?

I'll be giving it a beating tonight for sure..
That witch just gets me hot

Ive tried it and its hard :\. Not fun at all

Tried it with a random group. Most we got was 3minutes and 20seconds.

Tried it with a random group. Most we got was 3minutes and 20seconds.

i'll give it a crack tonight

The server I joined got to 3.56 but I joined at like 3mins in - on the new map.

6mins 03secs on the new map second try with random group, and one of our guys crashed after 2mins or so... so was 3 + bot for the remainder 4mins.

Its really not very fun with randoms though, too painful getting setup and trying to explain.

Best locale so far is the staircase in the lighthouse definately.
Everyone stands on staircase, one person on bookcase.. Tank climbs onto bookcase, as he does so, bookcase person jumps to staircase.
By then, tank = dead.
Can molotov the floor all you like and nobody gets burnt etc.
Only threat is smokers.

Gonna give it a bash now

I love it that no matter what mode or whatever this game gets simplified down to which closet is the best room to camp in :P

I really need to get this game, loved the demo.

Only tried a couple so far. Hospital is super easy - the bit before the lift. Stand in the back room opposite the lift, using pistols only for everything until the tank comes and then switching to shotty. Gold first go. Got up to 9 minutes 30 on another one and then died, but two of my team survived so I got the gold anyway!

15min 36sec

loving it!

Grrr, have to wait freakin ages to get a server...
First attempt was 6:42sec

Survival mode is excellent fun. Here's a screeny from a bit of a hack we did - used gas cylinder, hit freight container and you can move them to get onto the airplane.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6625/l4dgold.th.jpg

thats a huge screen shot pinky, wanna make a thumbnail or atleast link to it instead?

i thought imageshack automatically resized images.

So are these packs and add-ons also available for the 360 version or PC only?

both.

I had a quick bash last night and got stuck with a team that didn't reaaaaaallly seem to get it. One of the guys thought it'd be a good idea (in this lighthouse map) to take all the flammable stuff up to the top level and throw it down and shoot it. Unfortunately after about 2 minutes a zombie that was on fire from a Molotov climbed up and exploded something, which then exploded everything (or someone newbly just shot it, it was a bit confusing). It was sort of hilarious for me cuz I was watching these 3 guys scurrying around taking all the explosive stuff to one location and then they wanted to stand next to it so I thought it was pretty obviously going to resolve that way.

Seems fun but (like everything in L4D) something you want to do with no newbs.

that's why you play with people in ya friends list.

Yeah people are copying this survival tactics to group all the explosive stuff and then back into a campy closet, room, or corner. No doubt some newb always shoots the pile of explosive stuff and you all die.

I am really enjoying just playing versus through dead air and whatever the riverside one is called.

heh some people are getting 30+ mins in survival. and apparently tanks stop spawning at 14mins.

Was gonna buy this but paypal takes like 7 days to transfer money into it. lame.

Just link it to a credit card, or link it straight to your bank account. I have paypal setup so I can pay for things with paypal, and it takes it straight out of my bank account, no waiting.

Oh really? So i dont have to actually transfer the money to paypal? Sweet as.

you nominate a bank account, they make two small random deposits into it, you have to go back to their site and enter the exact amounts they deposited which confirms in their eyes that you are authorised to use the account

Yeah, I use Paypal the same way. It also doesn't charge you a conversion fee for buying stuff from overseas, which my bank usually does if I just order straight from my credit card.

After reading all the bad stuff about Paypal there's no way I'm giving them access to a bank account or credit card. Never ever ever ever ever ever.

Just set it up then, says 2-3 working days. Lame as.

Was impatient so used my Step dads CC.

Installing now bitches.

After reading all the bad stuff about Paypal there's no way I'm giving them access to a bank account or credit card. Never ever ever ever ever ever

What type of bad stuff? I've been using them for over 3 years and I've never had anything dodgy happen.

same, for work and personal

http://paypalsucks.com/
http://paypalsucks.org/

And there have been two cases where my friends have been ripped off by sellers on eBay and Paypal not giving a s***.

I'm sure there's lots of people who've used it without any problems. They're just less likely to make a website like paypalrules.com I guess.

last edited by reso at 16:39:46 23/Apr/09

Love this game !!! have not had this much fun since Q3, i have Gold silver and bronze in Survival mode and best of 12 mins on the street map ( f*** knows what its real name is)

playing L4D again...

the new survival modes are lots of fun.. there's even more to be said for playing with good team mates instead of bots though :/

survival mode doesn't interest me much, don't mind a short bash at it for a break in between normal vs mode rounds though
playing the other two campaigns now that they're better set up for it is a lot more fun for me

15:21.40
On The Terminal [Dead Air].
With a 543 ping XD...

Pretty epic though.
897 common
3 hunters
21 smokers
1 boomers
15 tanks!

Must vent frustration at Survival. So managed to do 13 levels of it over the weekend, surprisingly many the first time. But I go to check the achievements: 12 bronze, 11 silver, 10 gold. Puzzled, I go look at the leaderboards and see 13 gold times.

I really love this game at times.

So managed to do 13 levels of it over the weekend, surprisingly many the first time. But I go to check the achievements: 12 bronze, 11 silver, 10 gold. Puzzled, I go look at the leaderboards and see 13 gold times.

it's a known issue. there's a current fix for the incap one from the command line that resets the achievement for you, though you've got to do it again in VS mode. the fix for the Survival achievments will prolly be the same down the track.

on a brighter note, I got 12 mins with 3 bots on Warehouse today :)

last edited by koopz at 21:43:28 26/Apr/09

Seems fun but (like everything in L4D) something you want to do with no newbs.

sif you aren't a newb

only thing with survival mode is setting everything up again everytime you lose, placing fuel and lpg cans everywhere for eg...

only thing with survival mode is setting everything up again everytime you lose, placing fuel and lpg cans everywhere for eg...

yeh, I think it would be massively improved if you could save the state of those objects at some point before the round starts, so you can try it again with minor variations. As it is, it gives me the s***s when playing with randoms when at the start of every level they want to spend 15 minutes laying out the gas cans in a precise order. I just want to shoot zombies.

only thing with survival mode is setting everything up again everytime you lose, placing fuel and lpg cans everywhere for eg...

some maps are definately like that Martz..

it'd be good if you could force bots to only use pistols and pull out the shottie for tanks.

actually it'd be good if you could force other players to use pistols and only pull out the shottie for tanks :P