Left 4 Dead Survival Mode now on LIVE

Valve has released the much-awaited Left 4 Dead update on the Xbox 360 today, adding a new ‘Survival Mode’ as well as a bunch of fixes and changes. The best part is that it’s free.

The ‘Survival Mode’ comes with the mode itself, sixteen new maps including ‘Last Stand’, leaderboards to keep track of who’s on top, and seven new achievements. Throw that in with fixes and changes in the Versus mode, servers, and lobbies.

Read on for the list of updates.

Survival Mode
– New gameplay Mode
– 16 maps including Last Stand

– Leaderboards
– 7 new achievements

Versus Changes
– Fixed a case where versus team score would continue to be recalculated after the score panel was displayed
– Fixed an issue with recalculating the versus score health bonus for a player when they are rescued from being incapacitated
– Fixed being able to start a swing as an infected, then teleport to the survivors and have the claw swing hit a survivor
– Fixed a case where teleporting to the survivors would not reset the ability timer
– Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key
– Fixed a case where it was not possible to join a game while it was in a finale
– Fixed a rare case where listen servers would speed up the game over time
– Removed convars related to melee fatigue
– Fixed a case where infected players would get a respawn time on their initial spawn into a map

Server Changes
– Made ms_force_dedicated_server not require cheats
– Add a message when queuing a heartbeat
– Simplified setting of game mode.
removed convars director_no_human_zombies and director_holdout_mode
added mp_gamemode [coop,versus,survival]

General
– Added lobby join and leave messages

Left 4 Dead Survival Mode Is Now Live [Kotaku]