Demo Updated: No More Infected Play - 11/10/08

Valve has released an update to the Left 4 Dead demo, and the exploit to play as Infected no longer works. The update notes:

• Tuned matchmaking to provide better search results
• Added UI to host a game on a local server
• Improvements and performance optimizations to network layer
• Improved handling of unsupported graphics hardware
• Fixed a rare crash when kicking people from lobby
• Fixes for demo exploits
• Localization fixes
• Increase automatic port range when running a Linux dedicated server with -fork

I opened up the demo and most cheats still work (z_add, noclip, z_spawn, etc) but the command ent_fire !self setteam 3 which used to allow you to play as Infected no longer does anything.

Meh. It's really hard to complain when there's only a week until the full game is released. It was a pretty buggy cheat and it's easy to understand why Valve would do this.