[Kigen]

You can easily increase the toughness of the zombies and have them constantly attacking the Survivors. noob cannon lol is right, it was an upper bound. I've played with survivor_limit but it doesn't seem to affect the visible max players. All it seems to support is crashing the server at the end of the map if it isn't set back to 4.

[Sammy-ROCK!]

I don't know if you'd find it interesting but I've typed in rcon maxplayers and sv_visiblemaxplayers (map: l4d_vs_hospital01_apartment) and it replied weird things:

maxplayers
"maxplayers" is "14"
"mininum_maxplayers" is "14"
"absolute_maxplayers" is "14"
"default_maxplayers" is "14"
"max_splitscreen_players" is "2"

sv_visiblemaxplayers
"sv_visiblemaxplayers" = "-1"
- Overrides the max players reported to prospective clients

Weird things are that it's a 8 slots server. maxplayers says 14 and visiblemaxplayers -1 which means it's not hiding any slots.

[Kigen]

Yeah, I already tried out those cvars.

It seems to be possibly hard coded to switch based on director_no_human_zombies between 4 and 8 respectively.

[Sammy-ROCK!]

They probably wanted to save time and coding. I don't think there are many things we can do until they finaly release SDK (Which doesn't seem to be done until most of bugs are fixed).

[Kigen]

I'm curious as to if VALVe really wants to release an SDK at all for L4D.

[Sammy-ROCK!]

Same here. Maybe they wanna protect it against mod like what they tried with tf2 (and failed). If they release it they might take a while. I heard for tf2 it took 2 months.

[msleeper]

I am pretty sure Valve knows that it would be death of L4D if they didn't release some sort of SDK update.

[ChillyWI]

They've already mentioned in two different interviews that an SDK for L4D will be released "soon". The TF2 one took a bit before it came out... give the L4D one a bit longer.

[r00tage]

They sure do take their time releasing SDK Updates -.-