NOTE: THIS ALSO WORKS FOR THE GERMAN VERSION.
NOTE2: You can only play with people of your region code if you want to play uncensored. If you change your AppID to 510 and you try to play with someone who's AppID is 590, your game will be censored again.
NOTE3: If you're getting the "Could not load library client" error, apply all Steam client and L4D2 Demo updates, load L4D2 Demo through Steam, then apply the AppID changes again and run through the left4dead2.exe again.

Thanks to Grimezy15's suggestions and my testing, we can remove the censor on the Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2's demo. This fix allows you to play Online and in Single Player without risk. That means ABSOLUTELY NO RISK OF GETTING VAC'D.

All you need to do is change TWO text files and you're set. You'll have to launch the game through the left4dead2.exe instead of through Steam. Steam will disconnect you immediately.

First file is found in \Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2 demo


Second file is found in \Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2 demo\left4dead2


That's it! Just run the game through the left4dead2.exe and you'll be able to play with all the gorey goodness the OFLC didn't want you to have.

EDIT: I had to re-upload the images to Cubeupload because of Photobucket's monthly bandwidth limit. Good work spreading the word enough to use 8GB bandwidth in just over a week.

Yay, someone made a thread.
Enjoy, Aussies.

No now they'll find out about it and fix it. Spread it through private chats, not threads :(

This looks good but i ain't gonna do it.

If I didn't create a thread, someone will have created a thread on the Steam forums, or a YouTube video, or a Facebook group, or something.

Also works with German version

Cheers, added that in.

Grats, Aussies!



"Good on ya, mates!"

I'm still hesitant to buy the game because it will likely get fixed.

Now all i got to do is buy left4dead 2....

Buy it from the UK store, it's less likely they will fix the purchase location.

Couldn't that violate the terms and conditions in some way? Or get my Steam account flagged?

Not at all. Several people have done it already.

Heck yeah.

Re-purchasing on Saturday, can't wait.

Ah, but this fix may not be permanent. This seems like it'll only be temporary.

someone mind lending me 20 bucks? lol
guess i got to wait till next week to get paid.

And it sucks that 510 people can only play with other 510 people.

Awesome. I knew I could count on you guys to bring back the gore. <3


hurr

Gonna be buying from the UK store anyway.

This is actually fucking violent game. I WANT IT. NOW.

Oh awsome, This is fucking amazing good work guys XD

Didn't expect to see a fix that long after the release.

Edited:

Usually it takes a week or two.

And I dont think Valve will remove this from the final game want to know why? because we had to "Modify" game files in order to get gore, its not illegal to mod, and Valve cannot be held responsible for what the tech-savy online community does. This isnt the vanilla game, its modded so we can have gore. Simple as that.

Why would Valve want to enforce it? I don't believe they can get in trouble for this.

I'm willing to gift an uncensored version for PayPal cash. PM me.

So guys, whenever I search for an online game it always says "No games found, creating public game"
Is that normal? D:

Yeah, doesn't work online.

Stupid Aussie Government censoring you poor Aussies.

Why don't you guys go and protest, if your guy who is in charge is that retarded.

Wait, it does, just got it workin then.

Too bad I didn't need this
Dunno what happened, but I get full gore in both MP and SP, uncommon common in SP,

I know how to get it completely uncensored with Online play.

and?

PM to your brothers man :P

You can only play with other people using the same ID (510)

Why exactly do you have to launch it from the .exe file? If Steam disconnects you, I would suspect that this will probably get you banned.

Not really, this is the same way that people were tricking people into thinking they were playing the L4D2 demo when it first became available for pre-load.

Just want some kind of confirmation.

But wait...
Do you remember the Hot Coffee mod of GTA: San Andreas? The code for it was already in-game, but it was disabled, waiting for some guy to unlock it. That caused a shitstorm.
This? Probably not so much, but it might cause some controversy.

This is switching the game to the non-Australian/German version. The content shipped in the "real" version of the game doesn't have this. Therefore, Valve can't get in trouble for not censoring properly, because the fix doesn't use the Australian/German version.

Valve still might prevent the fix from working, though, if they feel like they need to watch their backs.