The Survival Pack for Left 4 Dead has, after months of waiting, been released. If you haven’t downloaded it already, then boot up Steam and start updating Left 4 Dead so you can get in on the action.

One of the main features of the Survival Pack is the new game mode dubbed, suprisingly Survival Mode. This features 16 new maps, new leaderboards and 7 new achievements. Additionally the final two co-op campaigns have been brought into the world of Versus. The full update list is quite extensive, so check it out below:

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

If you have had the pleasure of surviving the new world of Left 4 Dead then feel free to share your thoughts on it in the comments.