Left 4 Dead news, new content! (Q1-09)

[Ned]

05-Feb-09

For those of us who love nothing more than to slaughter hordes of zombies and take-on 'special infected' ...and sometimes survivers! there's some new content on the way!

The first L4D DLC — dubbed the L4D Survival Pack -- is due for release this spring and introduces a new multiplayer game mode entitled, Survival, plus two complete campaigns for Versus Mode . A Critic's Choice Edition of the game will be heading to retail stores this spring, and will include access to all the content introduced in the L4D: Survival Pack.

>> Steam News | Left 4 Dead Critic's Choice Edition, DLC and SDK Details Revealed

• Left 4 Dead | Offical Site
• Left 4 Dead | Steam Users' Forums
• Left 4 Dead 411 | Fan Site


Intro clip for those that don't know the game!
-or for those who just love to watch it repeatedly!-

TOG has it's own Left 4 Dead division.
If you'e a member, check it out..
- TOG private forum | Left 4 Dead -

[Ned]

Good news for Left 4 Dead owners, this new content is free
Steam News | L4D DLC: Free on 360 & PC

[Farcough]

Just downloaded this from Steam last night, quick blast today & it's a great game.

Half price offer on Steam this weekend too. Grab it while you can

[Ned]

...and with the SDK coming soon we can expect some custom maps and mods to start popuating servers!

Keep an eye on these sites..
• Left 4 Dead Maps - Left 4 Dead Maps and Campaigns.
• Left 4 Dead Mods - Left 4 Dead Maps, Skins, Mods, Scripts & Custom Content

[Swaag]

Hail Gents!

Was just accepted into the TOG family and am poking about tonight. I bought L4D on sale a few weekends ago and this game is just great if you are into the whole Zombie Apocalypse thing. The initial game is over way too fast, but plenty of replayability.

Can't wait for the new maps sure to be comin' soon to a theatre near you.

Glad to see a few TOG'ers here playing L4D. See you at the Farmhouse~~~~

[Dummy!]

Ooooo this is gona be fuuun!!

[Ned]

05-Mar-09



More news!

SOURCE: IGN: Left 4 Dead | Valve Takes the Gloves Off: Left 4 Dead DLC Hands-on

Survival mode doesn't waste time building up. After the initial wave of zombies you'll start getting hit by waves of special zombies; these are the hunters, smokers, boomers, and tanks. You'll get multiples of them at a time

Survival mode is playable on 12 levels, 11 of which are taken and modified from the existing four campaigns. We played in Dead Air's airport terminal, Blood Harvest's farm house level, and No Mercy's hospital level. There is one entirely brand-new level in the DLC called Lighthouse which the designers say may be the toughest level of them all.

The Survival mode is perfect for a quick fix, while the new Versus campaigns should provide plenty of gameplay.

Valve will also release the SDK for the PC version

[DirtySnachez]

Theres a bunch of new info and some videos of the new "lighthouse" map in survival mode over at gamesradar

DLC Video 1
DLC Video 2

[Ned]

Looking good Dirty! Some fun nights ahead with that update

Here's some other update news, not THE update but some nice fixes and adjustments.

Steam News - 11-Mar-09 | Left 4 Dead Update Released
THANKS TO TOG UNKNOWN FOR THE HEADS-UP ON THIS!

Versus Mode Changes
• Tank melee attack can now hit multiple Survivors in one swing
• Fixed Tank punch being able to hit targets behind walls
• Fixes to 'Tank parking'. The Tank will now run back and attack the Survivors if he becomes AI due to two players expiring the frustration meter
• Fixed a case where a Tank frustration meter could run out right as he was in his death animation and he would come back to life
• Fixed a case where the Tank was moving too slowly while crouching and being shot
• Tanks now have the possibility of spawning in a slightly different position for the first and second teams
• The order that the teams play as Survivors is now determined by which team has the higher overall score. The winning team will play as Survivors first
• The Smoker tongue can now target and grab victims through common infected
• Increased the cone in which a Smoker can grab a target
• The Witch no longer cuts Smoker tongues in a radius around her
• Boomers that explode in mid-air will now hit Survivors directly below them with Bile
• Reduced the damage that burning Hunters do to pounced victims
• Adjusted the time at which players take over from bots to avoid 5 seconds of the bot standing idle while the player finishes connecting.
• Fixed some cases where versus score was not being recalculated properly. It is no longer beneficial to pass pills between players at the end of the round or heal other players and then shoot them
• Fixed a case where it was possible to spectate an AI infected and hit +use to take them over

Server Changes
• Added convar sv_gametype that allows server operators to limit the types of games that will start on their server. Default value is 'coop,versus'. Can be changed to just 'coop' or just 'versus' to limit to those game types

General changes
• Fixed a case where players would join as a dead Survivor when a living Survivor was still available
• Fixed a case where restarting a level due to the team dying would give more than the max primary ammo on restart
• Fixed the speaking icon showing up on the local player during level transition if voice_vox was set to 1
• The scoreboard now shows the numeric value of a player's ping

GameUI
• Quick match will now try to match to any campaign. Removed the preference to match to games according to the player progressing through all campaigns
• Games in a finale are now joinable via the Friends and Steam Group games list

[maximuskain]

This is bar none the greatest shooter I ever played. Short and sweet and keep on blasting until you drop. Played it at a friend's house and I was thinking of getting this game as soon as the DLC are released. the initial content seems too - inadequate for me to get one yet. But with the DLCs I am sure I'll be playing on nights on end none stop.