Valves latest post on the official L4D blog outlines some great matchmaking features that will be coming with the April 21st Survival Pack. Cheif amongst these (from my perspective) is the ability to form a team and be automatically matched against others for a versus game.

One thing in the post worried me a little though. Part way down the post is the following paragraph:

This is part of the L4D SDK rollout, which is currently in a closed beta and will be released shortly after the launch of the L4D Survival Pack.

Hmm… Let me have a quick look to see what ’shortly after’ means in Valve Time. Uh oh…