12 levels

meh i found a server which had them on versus o_o

Not official though, Valve balance them so it's easier to play as the specials (Tank usually, I can imagine them raping the finale of dead air to make it easier for the tank to get up close and personal with the survivors)

I've played the 2 maps in versus, but they weren't very well done. The official ones should be a lot better.

UPDATE TIME!

Noteable changes;

Tank buff (hit multiple survivors!)
Altered VS mechanics (winning team plays survivor first, tank/witch spawns are more flexible)
Smoker buff, slight boomer change
NUMERIC PING!

I like these updates, they look very nice

remember first survivors have no idea where stuff is second team have a basic idea.

yeh i know ^^

and you can join games in the finale

A Hunter nerf! Burning Hunters now do less damage?
Now I for one think that is outrageous. A Hunter on fire is easily noticed, he cannot walljump and is burning to death with no way to stop it. He deserves to be doing 10 damage per swipe @ 2-3 swipes a second if he can land a pounce on someone whilst on fire.
Never mind, those where the good old days when the Hunter could also slash 10 health away from a survivor and do 2x more damage on fire. Now it is reduced and only 6 health per slash.

The Smoker buff looks interesting... I've always had a thing for Smoker, so it looks like he will be easier to play as now. I'll check this out later.

I think the burning hunter thing may have been a bit OP.

However, on a random note, I had a L4D themed birthday cake

Impossible. A Hunter on fire was the most easily noticed thing in L4D. He also is unable to wall-jump so his superb ability to frighten and quickly pounce someone from the other end of the corridor is removed (it is possible to use the wall-jump to literally fly through the corridor at terrifying speeds.... from the Survivor's point of view that is). Therefore even landing a pounce on an unaware survivor is difficult.
He'll probably now do standard damage + burning damage to the person he's on so instead of 10 x 2 or 3 per second he does 5 x 2 or 3 + 2 to 5 damage per second for the flames on the Hunter.
I need to thoroughly test this then I'll get back to this with a full report.

Epic

I know, it was awesome, they'd done the blood around the 4 out of raspberries but replaced the 4 with a 19 (made of of chocolate drops)

As for hunter, they probably reduced it to about 7 per strike, I'm guessing.

According to the people of jH, the damage on fire is now not much as they have reduced it quite a bit.
I myself am absolutely FURIOUS about htis. I'm off to the rant and rage section, see you there.

Burning hunters were capable of killing a survivor within seconds.

Since the survivors are supposed to survive, Valve nerfed this damage bonus.

Not really. They were capable of incapping in under 5 seconds but usually you would expect Survivors to be close enough to each other to knock the Hunter off immediately (which 99% of the time happens). And since the Hunter can easily spotted, it is their fault for not expecting the Hunter to come or seeing a great big fireball leaping towards them.

Interesting...

That the only update?

And that melee nerf is probably to stop the "Melee Wall" that people do and use weapons more/move around....

Nah, but it's the only really interesting stuff.

hmm a good update I feel, stops people going to a corner and right click whoring D:

It nerfs me!

I like this new update - it's good.

i don't feel safe any more i got covered in yukkie stuff then everything attacks me and im right clicking but they wont go away. I'm so scared

But right clicking was kinda OP before, you could pretty much just deal completely with a hoard pressing right click constantly .