L4D 2 annouced.

[Shadowhusky]

Haha, I knew you could play music on this thing but I had no idea it would play THAT song.

That song is pretty common actually. It's in the final version too.

[Qeomash]

Supposedly the Portal Song (also by Jonathan Coulton) is in there, too.

[geno]

I'm certain that is what Aru was talking about in the first place (its in the second part of the video).

[Qalbert]

http://kotaku.com/5426167/first-left...is-zoey--louis

Valve has revealed the first downloadable addition to Left 4 Dead 2, a new episode named "The Passing." The campaign, set after the events of "Dead Center," features a meet up between Ellis, Coach, Rochelle, and Nick and Bill, Francis, Zoey and Louis.

"The Passing" offers more than just a friendly Survivor get-together, adding one new "uncommon common" infected type, new weapons—one melee, one firearm—and "a new co-operative challenge mode of play." The new campaign will naturally be playable in Survival, Versus and Scavenge modes in addition to that still unannounced newer mode.

The new episode is "set in a small town in rural Georgia," according to Valve's release, keeping players in the role of Left 4 Dead 2's cast "as they meet with the L4D1 characters." Could "The Passing" offer 4-plus-4 cooperative multiplayer action, or are we just aiming too high?

Left 4 Dead 2's "The Passing" is scheduled for release in "early spring" for the PC and Xbox 360. Pricing has not yet been announced.

[Shadowhusky]

http://kotaku.com/5426167/first-left...is-zoey--louis

Wow, just...wow. If I remember, Valve said the old survivors wouldn't meet the new ones. Guess you can't trust their word on much of anything anymore huh?

[Qalbert]

Can't tell from your tone, are you seriously complaining?

[Sonomaa]

Wow, just...wow. If I remember, Valve said the old survivors wouldn't meet the new ones. Guess you can't trust their word on much of anything anymore huh?

they never said they wouldnt meet, they just said they couldnt get the games to be compatible.

[Metah]

They said that L4D's cast wasn't finished yet.

I'm excited for this. I'm hoping the melee weapon is a little bit more unique than the others though.

[Qalbert]

banjo pls
or zombie leg

[Akucaen]

Oh god yes. Zoey & Bill = <3 <3 <3

[Shadowhusky]

Sorry for the necro but The Passing is coming out next week.

http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=3715

[Deband]

Yeah pretty excited about tomorrow Anyone else still play this or the 1st one? (the better one for my money)

[Lebzile]

I would play the first one if the second one didn't kill it's community, every time I tried I couldn't find a game and if I did it made it passed one level and that was it. So, I uninstalled it.

[Shadowhusky]

http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=3729

Blog update explains the new 'game modes'. It's called mutations and you have a different mode every week. One week you can have chainsaws with unlimited fuel, or have realism versus.

[Deband]

Sounds good. Wasn't able to add the devs as friends on Steam yet though.

[Kaisha]

Yeah pretty excited about tomorrow Anyone else still play this or the 1st one? (the better one for my money)

Played L4D1 a lot, but when L4D2 came out the problem I have with Steam became unbearable.

The problem is that I can never fetch more than 300 servers from the Steam master lobby before it chokes my router for some reason, which makes it an absolute bitch to find people doing some of the less likened game modes. It kinda killed my interest when the majority of games I could actually find were just the first two campaigns on normal difficulty.

[Kwijiboe]

Wow, why do they charge 360 owners? lol

[Kaisha]

Wow, why do they charge 360 owners? lol

Because Microsoft wants money for content they host on their servers, where-as Valve owns Steam and can host it at a minimal cost to themselves for PC users.

[Insanecyclone]

Guess who dies?

spoilers like no other

Spoiler: show

http://i41.tinypic.com/2h86zrc.jpg

Son of a bitch

http://i42.tinypic.com/2chstc.jpg

[Lucavi]

Wow, why do they charge 360 owners? lol

Microsoft is a greedy shit, that's why. They push the server costs onto the consumer and developers, who charge for DL content to break even.

Get a PC, yo.