Then I have good news for you! I’ve got the details on how you can play as one of the Infected in the hot new title! Please note that this does require the server, or local server to have sv_cheats set to 1. “How can I be an infected!” you say? Here’s how:

Once the game has loaded up, open up your game console and type, “ent_fire !self setteam 3″. This will set you as joining the Infected side.

From there, enter in “ghost” and you should respawn as a Boss Infected! Otherwise, you can force a Boss to spawn using the following commands.

z_spawn boomer

z_spawn tank

z_spawn hunter

z_spawn smoker

Patch ahoy! Hopefully you’ve already noticed it if you are playing the game, but if not, here’s what you should know about this update!

- Fixed several issues with matchmaking and password protected servers
- Tuned matchmaking to provide better search results
- Fixed bug where servers could stay reserved by matchmaking forever
- Performance optimizations and fixes to networking layer
- Fixed issue where game could cause Steam executable to use too much CPU
- Fixed music resetting when changing video settings
- Fixed some issues with not being able to chat and/or connect to other users

In addition to those, we’ve also added some early features to help enable “private” servers. There are two ways to enable this:

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