After the Xbox 360 got its anti-exploit update a while ago, PC fans of Left 4 Dead have been left waiting for their update and wondering why there's a wait. Responding to expectations of simultaneous patching on the 360 and PC, Valve has stated that game fixes will be released independently, and that a PC-specific delay was no reason to hold back the 360 update.
"For the patching, the real key is to patch more often and not wait for everything to accumulate," stated Valve's Chet Faliszek. "Because of a perfect storm of events, this patch got larger than we would have liked and that really snowballed the time it is taking.
"The problem on the PC side was a few large bugs affected other systems that we were going to rewrite on the PC so we ended up waiting to fix a whole class of bugs instead of just individual bugs. The patch should be out this week.
"Sadly Microsoft has nothing to do with the PC patch... that delay is all us. The PC and 360 will be patched independently, not sure where people picked up that exploit/bug fixing was tied together. Only the DLC will be simultaneous."
So there you go. No conspiracies or anything are afoot. Now let us all wait for this DLC and prepare to happily give Valve more of our money.
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10:20 AM on 01.13.2009
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what the hell?
theres like a billion expolits i know about and none of them were patched
BTW
I'd love some change to make cowardclosets/corners impossible (or harder). It's simply not funny to defend there, or attack such a "position". Def just press "shove" and wait for last zombie to die with head smashed by the butt of the rifle.
I even thought about 2 ways to do that, maybe I'll send Valve guys a suggestion ;)?
Smoker might get extra attack - after realeasing tongu u'd press claw attack and his togue would explode in thick smoke-screen. Smoker would be left with claws only after this. Smoke would do constant damage to everyone in it, but with a delay, so humans could just move few meters and don't care about it any longer. However it would deny them some little part of map for long enough to make corners/closets less efficient.
Other way to deal with it would be limit shoving. After, say 10 successful shoves you'd get exhauset. Also "successful" would be for shoving a friend too, so in tight closet it would go down pretty fast and in normal game rather rarely.
BTW Ofcourse I hope PC gets free patch...
but ...
with this game Valve has my monies whatever they release.
You sure it isnt because the game is super short and repetative?
DLC should have been independent as well. Now I have to suffer through that awful approval process.
your reading comprehension is poor and you need to go back to 1st grade. PC gamers don't have to wait for shit, they were delayed because of bugs. valve is releasing the PC stuff on its own because of that.
I can think of at least 50 different ways you could've said that without sounding like an absolute fucking cockhole.
You're also gravely mistaken. It isn't I who needs a lesson in comprehension, half wit. I said nothing about the patches. I know patches for the PC version of L4D are released when Valve is ready.
Perhaps you should have read the following quote that is in the damn story:
"Sadly Microsoft has nothing to do with the PC patch... that delay is all us. The PC and 360 will be patched independently, not sure where people picked up that exploit/bug fixing was tied together. Only the DLC will be simultaneous."
I was talking about the real DLC content being released on the same date for both PC and 360. The XBOX 360 has a certification process for all content that is released on the console. If they're going to be released on the same date, then this means the PC content will be sitting out while we wait for Microsoft's god awful cert process.
It's nice to think about things before you hit the "add comment" link. Try it sometime.