Originally posted April 21, 2009, 05:14PM

And so the Survival Pack for Valve's Left 4 Dead has finally landed - for free! Coupled with this news is that of a special new price for both the retail and Steam versions of the game (Xbox 360 and PC).

You want a piece o' me? Huh? Huh?

The Steam version of the game is now selling for just US$ 39.99. Meanwhile, stores are reportedly selling it cheaper, although you'll have to go to your local shop yourself to find out by how much.

In the meantime, here's the list of the new things you can do with the Survival Pack:

Survival Mode

• New gameplay Mode
• 16 maps including Last Stand
• Leaderboards
• 7 new achievements

Versus Changes

• 2 new versus campaigns
• 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

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*UPDATE*

Well Valve really does act fast. It was only a few hours ago that the Survival Pack was launched for Left 4 Dead for both the Steam and retail versions, and now we have a quickfix patch update sent out.

The said update should tidy up some issues spotted on the Steam version after the release of the DLC:

• Fixed an incorrect DLL for windows dedicated servers
• Corrected players not receiving the Lighthouse achievement
• Added missing Survival only sounds
• Fixed issue with awarding medal achievements
• Corrected ghost icons appearing survival scoreboard

Okay, you can go back to headshottin' them undeads now.

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• Valve details Left 4 Dead Survival Pack