It's The Passing: Left 4 Dead 2 and Left 4 Dead Collide Thursday

[Johnny Cain]

One weekend planned

 

[Magnalian]

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod.

(That's basically all I can think right now, I should probably do something about that... Would killing zombies be an effective treatment?)

 

[silver wolf009]

Shame if its bill as ive been hearing. But this sound good.

 

[theironbat46]

If I have my new machine built by then... millions of zombie will die.

Fallen Survivor? That's kind of a spoiler. That one the survivors from L4D was in fact, not immune at all. Hope it's Louis.
Those mutations sound a lot like Bungie's Halo2/3 playlists, which is a very good thing.

Edit, really looking forward to doing Rambo (or Topper Harley) impressions with the M60.

Its not Louis, its just another survivor, from some where else. He runs away from you, and when you kill him, he drops a health pack.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

Yay and waaaaah.
I like the original survivors, why does one of them have to die?
ENIWAY
The new campaign sounds fun. Do they charge again for the L4D1 campaign?

 

[theironbat46]

Spoilers, obviously:

Spoiler

I was really pissed when I found out Bill was going to die - I knew something was up after Crash Course's lack of dialogue, but I wasn't prepared for his death. On the bright side, at least it's not Louis.

EDIT: Heh, forgot my HTML there and just did a strikethrough...

Too quote a certain cartoon character/ adventurer... "HUBBAWHA!"

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

For example, there will be "Realism Versus" - which applies the Realism rules to a standard match and will ensure that no Survivors ever make it more than halfway to the end - as well as "Chainsaw Massacre," a gametype that gives all of the Survivors chainsaws and infinite gas.

Infinite gas with chainsaws? *Begins drooling* That is gonna be AWESOME! And I'm glad that it is gonna come out this month. I can't wait for Thursday now!

 

[Vilcus]

Stupid PC Elitism. I've got nothing against PC users, but I really don't understand why some of them seem to hate Consoles so much...

Anyway I'll just wait for the $30.00 Game of the Year edition on consoles that will include the DLC.

Its Microsofts policy to not allow free content. They forced valve to put a price on it because microsoft pays for the servers.
Its the console guys from microsoft you gotta flame^^

Yeah, I responded to that above. Frickin Microsoft, why allow free Mass Effect 2 DLC, but not Left 4 Dead 2. (Not that I don't love ME2 DLC, but c'mon, be consistent.)

Microsoft allows free content, but only if it doesn't add achievements. Those are what make DLC cost something.

OT: Realism Versus will be funny, most teams won't last 6 seconds before running around like headless chickens.

 

[oppp7]

It would be nice if my connection didn't kick me off Live every 10 minutes, or if I had my Xbox here at college, or if the DLC was free to Xbox users...

 

[Ldude893]

This song shows how I feel:
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[Irony's Acolyte]

Wait from what I heard the players will get to choose who is left behind as a sacrifice. Did that change when I wasn't looking or is it still gonna be choice driven. Cus I like the idea of players choosing who gets left behind rather than its just one survior that always dies. Because then NOBODY will want to play that surviour. Or are you guys talking about the "default" choice for the dead survior that would always be dead in L4D2 if you didn't play the first's DLC?

 

[Laughing Man]

Woah what's that I hear is that the sound of the Valve servers under the strain of a new L4D addon, It was pants when Crash Course came out and it will be pants this time, not the content or the new gameplay but the fact that the servers will be so strained we will have to wait 8 bazillion years for it to download and then spend the rest of all time trying to find a server with a decent ping in the quick match option.

Still it's free so can't complain.

 

[obisean]

Stupid PC Elitism. I've got nothing against PC users, but I really don't understand why some of them seem to hate Consoles so much...

Anyway I'll just wait for the $30.00 Game of the Year edition on consoles that will include the DLC.

Ask Microsoft, they're the ones forcing Valve to charge for it, Valve would release it for free otherwise, that's why they haven't released any DLC for Team Fortress 2, as it would be unfair on people who wern't willing to pay for the new weapons, however they released this as it doesnt effect anyone who doesn't have it aside from they can't play on the map.

I don't get why console people complain about DLC being free on the PC side, they get about 90% of the DLC, PC owners usually get the finger and a stock game for life. Or we have to wait for the GOTY or DLC collection (Liberty City Stories). Though LCS is the fault of Microsoft signing the deal, and PS3 had to wait. Seriously though, PC games have so little DLC as it is.

PS cause I couldn't fit it in,
This really is M$ pushing for the price, not Valve, he didn't lie. So calling it "PC elitism" is a bad term. I think it falls better into the category of "M$ greed".

 

[Aurora219]

Wait, what?

I thought the survivors survived because they were immune - how can they become uncommon common?

 

[Daedalus1942]

Yet another reason the own the game on PC. Valve... I could kiss you!

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Ah, Valve. Gotta love their PC elitism.

I don't have money for Microsoft points. I'm gonna go rage now.

It's not Valve that's forcing that, it's Micr$oft. Valve have said before they want it to be free on the Xbox.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I wonder just 'cause he seems more like a hindrance to the infected than the survivors.

I see this as a test of players' skill and sense, really. Since he's almost guaranteed to be carrying a superb weapon, lesser-disciplined players will immediately rush after him, losing the safety of the group and becoming a prime target for Special Infected. And, there's also the flip side- a cohesive group who brings him down has to figure out who gets the big boom-boom maker.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Wait, what?

I thought the survivors survived because they were immune - how can they become uncommon common?

It's a non-immune survivor (NPC) that gets infected, like the Police/Clowns or CEDA agents.