Just thought I'd say, Valve put out a patch for the gore on steam. It's a free dlc found on the L4D2 store page on steam. Just dl it and go, and no messing around with files.

Check out my video, will explain it all, remember to like :) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpThdFrZGS8

I've had really good results with Left 4 Gore, even on the beta linux version

Everytime I start playing (Means that I click "Start playing as ****") in a game, means I can even spectate and see the gore, but when I take controll over the bot (Even if it's my own server) I get the message ; "Server is enforcing consistency for this file: left4dead2/steam.inf"
After it kicks me out.... what to do? D:

I tried changing the values anyway (from 223530 to 510), but after staying on the loading screen for a million years it dumped me out with the same error, saying that steam isn't running.

I'm having a little problem with mine (linux beta version)
I can change the .inf file alright, but I can't seem to open the steam_appid.txt file properly - my usual text editor (gedit) doesn't recognize the encoding. (It's a flipping text file! It shouldn't be so hard!)

I've also tried with different text editors with slightly better success. Nothing gives me the number 550 but rather 223530, and one text editor follows this up with a "#", the other with that little square a lot of text editors use for symbols they can't read.

Any ideas?

Thanks, this really helped me out! They just ruined the game by censoring it

It's not working for me,can anyone help? :(

This doesn't work for me either, it drops out with the same error as R3nGr4v3 I love how our censorship board treats us all like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ children.

Not working for me. Getting message "Steam is not running. You must start Steam in order to play this game."

Steam is currently running. I launched the game through the shortcut I created rather than through the Steam client.

Patched out?

yep it still works for me on latest version, windows 7 64bit.
anyone know if this still works on macs?

hey thavius, does this fix still work with the newer patches?