Building a Better Apocalypse

Valve will be releasing several updates along with the April 21st DLC:

• Free new versus maps
• Free new Survival Mode
• Exploit fixes and Versus balancing
• Server issue fixes
  
• Change to the melee mechanic in Versus and the soon-to-be-released Survival Mode

The plan is to release more frequently on the PC, and then group those updates for the 360. With the upcoming release of the SDK, and the community servers already available on the PC, matchmaking is one place where the two platforms will diverge. Details to follow in the future.

In Versus, the update has flipped the order in which teams play the next round based on who was winning the round before it. This was done to better balance the game and give neither team a lasting advantage. Since making that change, the percentage of games being played to the end has increased 5%.