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CrimsonGT
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Old 12-19-2008 , 22:06   INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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I just thought I would throw this thread up as I have been doing a lot of Left 4 Dead plugins over the last few days for various people, and some of them I have had to either completely turn down, or do their request in an alternate, not so appealing manner.

Whats different?

Round Restarts:
There is no server cvar to restart the game round like in past valve games. There is a cvar called "restart" that is supposed to restart the round, but it does not work. Me and Tsunami found the voffset for a round restart function, and made an SDKCall to it and it works, but seems a bit buggy. (Only 1 health pack spawned, screen went black for 15 seconds, etc). I will post this function up shortly as its the only working method of restarting the round at the moment.

Download Tables:
A fairly easy job was requested, and they had to be turned down due to this very major change. Me and Tsunami both attempted multiple methods, and it appears that there are no download tables for L4D, thus you cannot give any custom content to players. I am assuming this is because they took out the server connect box that every other game of theirs has had, so the client would not know what they are downloading. I am also assuming this is because they wanted to prevent heavily modified custom servers, but I do not really know.

Theres a few more missing features, but I am still testing them at the moment to see if there are any work arounds. I will keep this thread updated with more stuff that I find. I welcome additions as well.
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Old 12-19-2008 , 23:06   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Features
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They might want to keep the skins like they are and decided to block custom files. I wonder how would peoples download custom maps if it's disabled? L4D will fall if it stays... (I'm closing my server next month)
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Old 12-20-2008 , 00:59   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Features
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With the SDK comes a bunch of the custom maps stuff, including some tutorials and writeups from valve on mapping especially for Left 4 Dead. However, at the moment, im not even sure if a custom map would download.
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Old 12-20-2008 , 05:57   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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Custom maps won't download. You just get dumped back to the menu without a message. Server just sees "disconnect by user."
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Old 12-20-2008 , 10:05   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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I don't think valve really wanted it to be modded. Even custom maps.
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Old 12-20-2008 , 10:09   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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Ya, I have to agree VALVe didn't want L4D modified at all.

So I do see L4D having a early demise unless VAVLe fixes their mistakes.
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Old 12-20-2008 , 13:17   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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Valve has already stated that they're going to release an SDK (for mappers at least).
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Old 12-21-2008 , 15:37   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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I don't see a point for wasting time making a map while sharing it will be a pain. I also think the lobby won't send peoples to servers with custom maps.
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Old 12-21-2008 , 15:40   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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We are assuming valve will implement an automated map download like they have in all of their other games. But yes, I assume matchmaking will only find stock maps.
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Old 12-21-2008 , 21:07   Re: INFO: Left 4 Dead Missing Functions
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Assuming they did it and that lobby won't send you to custom maps. You'll have to find out how to connect to custom servers... Atleast there's a good point at all: No newbies.
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