Left 4 Dead Patched on Xbox 360

Valve today released an update to the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead, including a "host of fixes, tweaks and new features."

The patch encompasses a number of fixes seen in the last patch of the PC version, including class balancing and Witch regularity.

The full patch notes follow:

General

• Fixed Survivors being able to climb surfaces marked for versus infected only

• Fixed a class of SurvivorBot bugs dealing with rescuing downed players

• Players can no longer grab ladders while flying through the air after a Tank punch

• Shooting near a car with an alarm that has already fired the alarm will no longer make chirping noises

• Fixed mini-gun physics exploit

• Fixed propane tanks (and other physics objects) causing players to fall through elevators

• Fixed rare achievement bug issues

• Fixed several map exploits

Versus Changes

• Added HUD elements to show status of other infected players

• Fixed instance where a Survivor changing to the infected team would be attacked by infected bots

• Normalized special infected melee damage

• Fixed exploit where infected players could run away and teleport back to gain health

• Players can only change teams once per map

• Players can't change teams while other players are still loading

• Tank spawns at the same % through the map for both teams in versus mode

• Made the Tank and Witch spawn directly on the escape route

• Increased chance of getting the Tank or Witch

• Fixed team swap issue

Hunter

• Easier to pounce a Survivor who is meleeing

• Increased Minimum damage a Hunter pounce does

Smoker

• Fixed Smoker tongue tolerance

• Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break

• Survivors cannot bash someone off the tongue until the Survivor being pulled is paralyzed or hanging

• Tongue attacks that fail to paralyze or hang a Survivor will use the shorter ability delay timer

• Fixed cases where the ability timer was not using the correct time

• Fixed case where you could point at a Survivor but not register a tongue hit

• Fixed Smoker tongue not targeting and landing properly through PZ ghosts

• Smoker tongue does damage every second while dragging paralyzed Survivors

Tank

• Bashable objects now appear with a red glow

• Tanks hitting a car with an alarm disables the alarm permanently

• Tank frustration timer is only reset by hitting Survivors with rocks or fists

• Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks

Witch

• Witch spawns at the same % through the map for both teams

• Avoids spawning within a certain % of the tank

• Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors