Ok I am very nearly finished with the site for the group and decided to rename it.
I think www.left4deadleagues.com is better than www.left4deadclans.com so in preperation for the new site I have setup a new group in Steam.
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/Left4DeadLeagues
I will be sending invites around to everyone today to join the new group.
Please can you ask as many "decent" players over to this group.
The site should be ready for launch for the weekend (its all working just need some tweaking and I am a perfectionist in my work ;) and I am looking for about 5 players to Beta test the site and see if there is anything that I have missed on the site.

Contact me to be a beta tester and I will give you the URL of the test server.

Thanks a lot all and be patient - we are nearly there...

Snow|Crash

Valve has released a small patch to Left 4 Dead, getting rid of the melee exploit.

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

Left 4 Dead

* Fixed an exploit with melee where swapping weapons ignored the intended delay between swings.
* In Versus mode, the Tanks' health now reflects the damage he takes from burning.
* Fixed an exploit related to the "joinclass" command

Hoprfully this will work this time!! still no news on the crap lobby system update....

Left 4 Dead has been updated with a host of fixes, tweaks and new features, including enhancements to Versus mode for improved competitive play. The full change list is below. For PC users the update will be applied automatically via Steam. Meanwhile, the update will be made available to Xbox 360 players in the coming weeks.

General
- Fixed Survivors being able to climb surfaces marked for versus infected only.
- Fixed a class of SurvivorBot bugs dealing with rescuing downed players.
- Players can no longer grab ladders while flying through the air after a Tank punch.
- Shooting near a car with an alarm that has already fired the alarm will no longer make chirping noises.
- Improved loading time.
- Fixed mini-gun physics exploit.
- Fixed propane tanks (and other physics objects) causing players to fall through elevators.
- Fixed rare achievement bug issues.
- Fixed several map exploits.
- Fixed various match making issues.
- Fixed NAT traversal issues.

Versus Changes
- Added HUD elements to show status of other infected players.
- Changed color of infected player name in chat to red.
- Fixed exploit where players could spawn infected bots
- Fixed instance where a Survivor changing to the infected team would be attacked by infected bots.
- Normalized special infected melee damage.
- Made the following client commands cheat protected: "Kill" and "explode".
- Fixed exploit where infected players could run away and teleport back to gain health.
- Players can only change teams once per map.
- Players can't change teams while other players are still loading.
- Tank spawns at the same % through the map for both teams in versus mode.
- Made the Tank and Witch spawn directly on the escape route.
- Increased chance of getting the Tank or Witch.
- Fixed team swap issue.

Hunter
- Easier to pounce a Survivor who is meleeing.
- Increased Minimum damage a Hunter pounce does.

Smoker
- Fixed Smoker tongue tolerance.
- Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break.
- Survivor's cannot bash someone off the tongue until the Survivor being pulled is paralyzed or hanging
- Tongue attacks that fail to paralyze or hang a Survivor will use the shorter ability delay timer.
- Fixed cases where the ability timer was not using the correct time.
- Fixed case where you could point at a Survivor but not register a tongue hit
- Fixed Smoker tongue not targeting and landing properly through PZ ghosts.
- Smoker tongue does damage every second while dragging paralyzed Survivors.

Tank
- Bashable objects now appear with a red glow.
- Tanks hitting a car with an alarm disables the alarm permanently.
- Tank frustration timer is only reset by hitting Survivors with rocks or fists.
- Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks.

Witch
- Witch spawns at the same % through the map for both teams.
- Avoids spawning within a certain % of the tank.
- Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors.

Ok the first of many server were setup today, here is the IP 85.236.109.5:27115

Please add this to your favourites in the server browser.

I have added some mods to the server listed below.

NoMercy map3 Shutter Door Exploit - Server will warn everyone if someone tries this - try it 3 times for an instant BAN! - The door is now IMPOSSIBLE to break down ;)

Alternative NM3 Shutter Door Exploit - Allows the tank to still break the door, prevents only survivors from doing so.


Kill command blocker - prevents survivors abusing the kill command to grief other players by killing themselves then leaving.


Team Switch Bug Unscrambler - Switches teams back to how they were before the new map loaded


Infected Spectate & Spawn Exploit Fix - Prevents exploiting spectate to spawn lots of boss infected - it simply kills the BOT that the player leaves behind each time they enter spectate. Also, as a nice bonus, the mod stops players from automatically entering the game when they connect after the map has started (when the players have left the safe room). Instead, the player is loaded into spectate and is given the team selection window, to choose their team and then play. This stops survivors stopping and standing still while the player loads.

Extra GORE - omg this is COOL! more blood everywhere!! bodies shower u in blood in now.

Infected HUD - The infected team now get an extra HUD telling the team of char types and spawn times.

Ok so see you on OUR server ;)

Snow|Crash

As well as being SUPER busy with making the site I have had time to oder our first public server. This server will be hosted in London UK and will have 8 slots for public use.

Also I can password the server for tournement matches so we get the best of public and private servers.

New maps! yes on the Vs mode I can get Death Toll and Dead Air playable! and as new maps are made these can be uploaded too.

I should have the server up and running after the weekend if all goes will.


Cya all soon - Snow|Crash