Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Encore Mutation: Gib Fest!

The following changes are for the PC and will be available for the XBOX 360 in a future update.

Competitive Modes

• Removed Special Infected spawn music in competitive modes.

• Added a glow outline to the witch, visible only to the infected team.

• Added cvar “director_allow_infected_bots” for confogl and other configs.

• Survivor health glow changes:

  • Adjusted glow color transitions to match movement speed transitions.

  • Use combined regular and temp health when calculating glow color.

  • Glow pulses slightly when the Survivor is on temp health.

• Realism Versus

  • Cut Special Infected spawn times by half in Realism Versus.

All

• Fixed limping Survivors moving slightly faster in water.

• Fixed voice recording intermittently stopping on Mac OS X

• Client-side plugins

  • Clients must run with –insecure to load unsigned plugins.

  • Insecure clients cannot connect to secure servers.

  • Servers can opt to allow insecure clients by running with –insecure.

  • Secure clients can connect to both secure and insecure servers.