Tweaking Left 4 Dead 2 Versus Mode

[DigiQ8]

In a recent post on the official L4D Blog, Valve has revealed that they're making a few tweaks to Left 4 Dead 2's Versus mode. There will be two major updates which comes in the form of removing the auto-spawn feature in the finale and adding bots to the infected side.

Bots[br]
We are adding bots for the Infected team to help out the Infected when they are down a man or two. This will also make 1v1 Versus a bit more fun.[br]

Auto-spawning[br]
We've also been experimenting with a solution for auto-spawning in Versus finales. Even though it's pretty obvious from the L4D forums that EVERYONE LOVES auto-spawning in finales, we figured, what the hell-we'd just go ahead and remove auto-spawning anyway. But before we make any change to Versus we always need to see how the game is currently being played.

The blog post also mentions that the work on "The Passing" DLC is in full swing and the recording sessions should be starting soon.

First up in our recording sessions is everybody's favorite suit-wearing zombie killer Nick, played by Hugh Dillon. If you haven't already caught it, Hugh's show Durham County has been picked up by ION and is on Sunday nights at 10pm.

Full post here.

 

[Ren.182]

Bit late on the update, this was posted 3 days ago

Anyway, glad to see some infected bots coming in. Hopefully they wont suck too much. It'd be nice if they spawned or got allocated a class after the players do, so they wont spawn alone or steal a class which may have been better suited to being controlled by a player, like a boomer. Then again, some players suck with boomers too

Also nice if they attack the same time as the players, though I guess it'd be kind of hard to code some AI to do that.

Auto-spawning going will be nice. Some of the places the director spawned you were stupid, especially when it spawns you as a boomer the other side of the map, you had no chance of getting near the survivors.

 

[Marler]

Looking forward to infected bots

 

[Reginald]

Auto-spawning going will be nice. Some of the places the director spawned you were stupid, especially when it spawns you as a boomer the other side of the map, you had no chance of getting near the survivors.

This. I can't count the amount of times it spawned me, especially as a Boomer, in plain view of the survivors.

 

[Crazy_killer]

This sounds good, I really hate it when the survivors defend in the open corner on the finale map of Dark Carnival and I spawn as a Boomer on the opposite side of the map. :angry:

 

[Inanimate]

Awesome news! Now go fix the 300 ping servers you host, and get more people to play Scavange. My team has beaten every team on the ESL-ladder in the EU and that isn't the hardest thing I've done exactly.