# Changed Survivorbot item hunting behavior
# SurvivorBots now stay closer to human players in all game modes
# Fixed Survivorbot navigation issue in The Passing: Riverbank
# Fixed bug where a SurvivorBot could become catatonic when attempting to save another Survivor from a Smoker
# Fixed condition where SurvivorBots would not enter the saferoom
# Increased self-inflicted friendly fire damage from the Grenade Launcher
# Fixed bug where the M60 would reset its ammo if dropped in certain situations
# Car Alarms will now trigger anytime a Special Infected pushes/pulls/rams a Survivor into an alarm car. This change only affects game modes with human-controlled Zombies

Match Making Changes

* Server searches for Official Dedicated servers no longer automatically fall back to Best Available. Lobby leaders will be given the option.
* Lobby leaders can select "Steam Group Server" as a server option. This will allow them to select individual servers.

While not removing Defibrillators, we have made some changes to them. We scaled dynamic Defibs based on map length. This means unless the Defib was expressly set by the level designer to have more, the Director will only spawn them on a long map. The Director will also cap the number to one per map.

Using the Defibrillator is no longer free; there is now a 25 point scoring penalty for using a Defib. That means each time you use one, you will have 25 points removed from your final score. Will your revived Survivor make it far enough to be worth it?

Health kits will also be less numerous as we have removed the Director's dynamic Pill conversion. Previously if the first team was injured, the Director would spawn First Aid Kits instead of Pills for both teams. Now the Director will always just spawn Pills.

The Jockey received some minor buffs. His damage per second was increased and we removed his damage delay.

moar good tweaks:
http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=3962 I can live with defibs if I know they are rare. And yay for jockey loving and less fucking kits. All we need now is a tank that spawns in the same place and not randomly forward or back. Though it usually seems to spawn later for the 2nd team, does it not? If it has to spawn at a different time, shouldn't it spawn a little earlier to balance the advantage of knowing when to expect it?

Or maybe it -does- spawn in the same place, but it seems to spawn later because the 2nd team is more cautious about triggering it. In that case, i'd hope they'll have the tank randomly spawn a little bit earlier.

Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse, What is your favorite finale? What is your favorite Melee Weapon?

Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse
Four Swords against plenty of apocalypse!

Armed with only swords the survivors face near continuous streams of Special Infected ready to be sliced and diced.

I'm guessing you moved through the rest pretty quickly. It's hard to keep 4 humans together - that's why if a player or two gets killed you still have a good chance of finishing a level if you just run through.

Bullets that first pass through an infected character before striking a Survivor are now ignored as friendly fire.

Tanks go into a stasis when they spawn and leave stasis when the human player takes over.
Tanks do not attack when they are in stasis.
Tanks in stasis are invisible but still show a glow to the infected team.
Tanks in stasis cannot be set on fire.
The updates aren't over and you should expect to see some more shortly

When we did our blog poll on rage quitting we mentioned we would be working on some of the underlying issues....

That would be good. As of right now I've lost interest in versus mode, but that could change if they come up with some sort of penalty system for quitting. Perhaps like we talked about... prevent players from joining a server for a period of time if they just left another game.

Hey guys, looks like we got 6 in the channel why dont we split up and form 2 squads. OH WAIT WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT 5 MINUTES FUCK.

Yo, Im playing with a bunch of randoms but now my buddies are here and I want to game with them... OH WAIT I CANT BECAUSE I WILL HAVE TO WAIT FIVE MINUTES FUCK.

etc.

solution? Penalty does not take affect if you leave your current game for another game or lobby where you have a steam friend.