Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

December 18, 2009 – Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

* Reduced Dedicated Server max search ping to 150 ms

* Teams that prefer listen servers will no longer be matched with teams that prefer dedicated servers

* Official dedicated servers are now preferred when searching for team matches

* More populous lobbies are now preferred over less populous ones when searching for games

* Players who crash or have failed to load are no longer banned if they have been kicked

* Update Russian subtitles

* Fixed not being able to interlink teams in team-on-team mode

* Fixed not being able to properly migrate team lobby after team leader would leave the lobby

* Fixed not being able to invite friends if player was not team leader in a team-on-team game