L4D Update, New Competition Ladders - 12/5/08

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released, fixing the Witch exploit and the Infected large object exploit.

- Fixed Infected Players melee pushing large objects to block the survivors path
- Fixed +lobby exploit
- Fixed exploit of "hugging" the Witch from behind where she can't hit you
- Fixed players not being kicked from a vote by changing their name before it succeeds
- Disabled difficulty change votes from the console in versus mode

We had been wondering if the Witch exploit was meant to happen, as community member Marat pointed out to us the following graffiti in the spawn of map 3 in Death Toll:

Looks like it was just meant to be a good sneaking up point, not to totally disable the Witch.

MSNBC posted an in-game video interview with Chet Faliszek telling the basics of L4D.

YouseiTeikoku posted the following neat trick for defeating the Tank in certain spots:

GameBattles.com has a Left 4 Dead Arena for L4D competition. It launched a week or so ago, has Xbox and PC ladders that end in March 2009 with playoffs in April.

If you're in Florida, Hard Knocks in Orlando is hosting a L4D Versus Mode ladder starting on Tuesday.