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December 14th, 2009 at 04:00pm
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Not content with unleashing a full-blown zombie apocalypse, Valve has come up with the second most socially awkward event imaginable: inviting characters from the original Left 4 Dead to hang out in the sequel’s first DLC campaign. Bill, Louis, Zoey and Francis will meet with the stars of Left 4 Dead 2 in “The Passing,” which Valve VP of marketing Doug Lombardi calls “the most important campaign in the Left 4 Dead story, as all the Survivors are being called together in one campaign.” It’s targeted for release in early 2010 on Xbox 360 and PC.
In addition to a co-op campaign (set in rural Georgia) and a new “co-operative challenge mode of play,” The Passing will offer new content for Survival, Versus and Scavenge modes. Playing as the L4D2 cast, you can also expect to encounter a new melee weapon, firearm and “uncommon common” zombie.
We can’t wait to meet up with last year’s survivors again … oh, assuming they really are still survivors.
Left 4 Dead 2 DLC ‘The Passing’ to feature L4D1 cast originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 10th, 2009 at 03:00pm
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In its ongoing support of Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC, Valve has issued another patch for the game, fixing a number of problems including physics crashes and hit boxes on the Charger, Jockey and Spitter. Some of the exploits PC gamers have stumbled upon have also been eradicated, including incapped survivors improving their weapon accuracy by holding the crouch button — though we wouldn’t call that an exploit so much as a natural evolution in the face of the zombie threat. Good, old-fashioned human ingenuity is what will win us this war, people!
You can head past the break for the full patch notes. An update for the Xbox 360 will be available “later this month.”
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Left 4 Dead 2 patch on PC now, Xbox 360 ‘later this month’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 19th, 2009 at 08:30pm
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Zombie obliterators who’ve managed to survive Left 4 Dead 2’s “Dark Carnival” campaign are probably familiar with the Southern rock outfit known as the Midnight Riders. While they’re not exactly an enormous focus in the game’s overarching story, a teaser page featuring the heavily bearded band (and a cryptic “Coming Soon”) is leading some folks to believe that the Riders will soon play a much larger role in the game’s proceedings.
Given the number of facial hair-sporting members of the band (see: four), we’re really hoping to get some form of DLC that turns them into playable characters. Perhaps even a new campaign, in which they cure the global zombie infection using nothing but the power of their rock music. How about it, Valve?
Left 4 Dead 2’s Midnight Riders get a gloriously bearded teaser page originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 17th, 2009 at 05:32pm
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We’d usually say it’s a
good thing when a zombie invasion gets postponed, but not when we’re talking about
Left 4 Dead 2 releasing in the UK a couple days after the rest of the world. According to Valve’s own
L4D2 blog, “copies of the game are still arriving” across the pond, with assurances from the developer that it will “have everyone in the UK playing
Left 4 Dead 2 by Friday morning.” Wait —
everyone in the UK? Whoa now guys!
While Xbox 360 owners and PC gamers who still buy physical copies of software are out of luck, Valve says that everyone in the region who pre-ordered L4D2 via Steam can play it right now. Of course, those left waiting can pretend they’re fighting to survive the scariest of all Left 4 Dead campaigns: “Delay of Game” (tagline: “Patience never killed anyone — until now!”).
Left 4 Dead 2 delayed in UK, due ‘by Friday morning’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 16th, 2009 at 06:30pm
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Thanks to Eric Ruth and his PixelForce NES “de-make” of Left 4 Dead, we now have an idea of what the zombie apocalypse simulator would have been like had it released in the ’80s. Valve is apparently aware of the project and finds the concept “hilarious.” Ruth reveals that he plans to release the full game as a free download in early January 2010 for PC. It features all the campaigns from the original game, including 8-bit incarnations of the special infected, for two players to play through — it is a NES game after all, fancy four-player wasn’t standard.
Check out a video of the game after the break. The only thing we’d wish this “de-make” had was a sprite flickering zombie rush, so all the youngins could experience the glory of NES flicker when there were too many things on the screen at once for the system’s 2KB of RAM.
Update 2: Check out Eric Ruth’s interview with sister site Big Download
Update: Changed “didn’t exist” to “wasn’t standard.” Nintendo released the NES Four Score adapter in 1990. Remember the one for the original Game Boy?
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8-bit Left 4 Dead leaves modernity behind originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 11th, 2009 at 08:00pm
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Honestly, you’d think licensed
Left 4 Dead 2 clothing would provide at least some
semblance of undead protection. Alas, it looks like the best that Glitch Gaming Apparel could provide is simple
T-shirts. Sure, the 100 percent cotton shirts provide ample breathability, but they provide next to zero zombie bite protection. Even worse, they’re
short-sleeved, leaving hapless survivors with plump, juicy and completely visible arms.
Still, the Ellis and Coach tees at least have a picture of a medical kit on the back, which might be enough to fool a zombie into thinking you’re prepared. Let’s hope that buys enough time to find yourself a Molotov.
Left 4 Dead 2 clothing is surprisingly unprotective originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 10th, 2009 at 01:00pm
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For those who have yet to face the shambling, undead hordes of the south in the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, now’s your chance. Previously available only for pre-order customers and Xbox Live Gold members, the demo is now open to all Xbox Live members. That means everyone can enjoy the hacking, slashing, shooting, shuffling goodness of Left 4 Dead 2 … well, two sections of it, anyway.
You might as well give it a try. It’s not like there’s anything else going on, right?
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Reminder: Left 4 Dead demo now available 4 all originally appeared on Joystiq Xbox on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 4th, 2009 at 05:20pm
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Just in case GameStop’s Left 4 Dead 2 commercial was a little too slow-paced for you, Valve has released a new TV spot that’s nothing but action. Of course, that action is culled entirely from the CG trailer that was leaked last month, so you won’t see anything new here. You will hear something new, however, as the commercial has been injected with a thumping blues-rock soundtrack, making the whole thing feel like a big, sprawling, undead bar fight.
Come to think of it, it sounds like Joystiq Publishing just found its next game. No one has the rights to Undead Bar Fight, right? While we go do a little research, watch the trailer above and, after the break, watch G4’s walkthroughs of the Scavenge and Survival modes.
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New Left 4 Dead 2 TV spot, Scavenge mode walkthrough originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 1st, 2009 at 12:30pm
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Remember those pair of error messages that a few folks found in the demo for Left 4 Dead 2, referecing “Miracle” and “Apocalypse” DLC? Yeah, those ain’t no thing. At least, not according to Valve’s Chet Faliszek, who recently addressed the error messages while speaking at the Eurogamer Expo. “What, those error messages?” he reportedly said, “Why, those ain’t no thing.”
Of course, Kotaku’s slightly more accurate transcription of this quote had Faliszek saying, “if you’re reading in the forums and you’re reading about the ‘Miracle’ DLC or whatever, that’s test code.” He added, “to get tested through Microsoft certification we had to do test scenarios with DLC. We haven’t actually come out internally with what we’re going to do yet.” Hmph. We liked our version better.
Chet Faliszek crushes Left 4 Dead 2 DLC rumors originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 29th, 2009 at 06:20pm
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When we first heard that Left 4 Dead 2 would feature a “Realism Mode,” our first reaction was to hide in the closet, swaddled in the comfort of old coats and dust bunnies. Left 4 Dead wasn’t exactly an easy game to begin with, so hearing that there would be an even more realistic, more punishing difficulty mode was a bit difficult to swallow. Now, G4TV has been kind enough to assemble a brief walkthrough of one level played in Realism Mode and … it really doesn’t look all that bad.
X-Play’s Abbie Heppe explains there are a few major differences. One, dead players will stay dead unless revived with a defibrillator — keep in mind that each player can carry a defibrillator or a med kit, not both. Second, zombies must be killed with headshots, though it’s hard to tell how strict this rule is in the video. Third, players have to be much closer to items in order to pick them up. Finally, there are many, many more witches. See it for yourself after the break.
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Video: Left 4 Dead 2’s Realism Mode originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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