"Somehow it still hasn't fallen out of the top 100 games played on the platform, averaging around 10,000 players a day." "As you're seeking out that elusive perfect score and being added to rage quit Steam groups, you'll notice it feels as spry as it was in 2009," Oloman wrote. Left 4 Dead 2 turned 10 in November 2019, and to mark the occasion writer Jordan Oloman penned a superb feature on the Valve game that won't die, speaking to its creators about its enduring popularity. The Last Stand is the work of over 30 members of the Left 4 Dead community, who partnered with developer Valve over the course of 11 months to create new content for the beloved zombie co-op shooter. There are also 30 new achievements, melee weapons, animations, dialogue and competitive balance adjustments. It includes over 20 new survival arenas, four new scavenge arenas and a campaign based on The Lighthouse survival map.
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The Last Stand is an update for Left 4 Dead 2 "created by the community, for the community", that arrives eight years after the Cold Stream DLC came out in 2012. "If people tell us by the amount of play time and purchases on the Xbox side of this that they want more, then we'll probably make more.The irrepressible Left 4 Dead 2 gets its first major DLC in eight years today.
"We haven't quite arm-wrestled that one out." Doug adds. I have to ask Chet, and marketing director Doug Lombardi, if there's a cut off point for making Left 4 Dead 1 DLC. In a separate interview, Valve MD Gabe Newell told me, "the thing that makes me happy is when you look at the customers who self-identified as boycott members, they actually bought Left 4 Dead 2 at a higher rate than any other group of Left 4 Dead 1 owners." In other words, the backlash was quelled by some diligent PR by Valve - including flying boycotters to their offices to let them play the game ahead of release. "We're going to update the Sniper Rifle to be more like the one in Left 4 Dead 2," says Chet, "because people seem to like that one better." With this update, they'll even be adding in some improvements from Left 4 Dead 2 into the first game. That clearly hasn't happened - this will be its second DLC campaign, on top of the Survival mode they added in April last year. Most of the fuss over Left 4 Dead 2 was down to a fear that the first game would be abandoned.
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Those who only own Left 4 Dead 1 could be put out that L4D2 players are getting a better version of their DLC, plus a whole campaign from their game. But that doesn't always mean it'll go down well.
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The DLC will be available for all three versions - free on Mac and PC, the usual 560 points (£4.80/$7) on Xbox 360.Įverything in this announcement is positive: L4D1 players are still getting what they were promised, and L4D2 players are getting extra.
The final twist is that the launch of this DLC will coincide with the launch of the Mac version of Left 4 Dead 2. You'll know exactly how and why Bill died." "The final part that explains what happens to Bill takes place the same time as the game," says Chet, "so you can either play it or read it - or both. It'll be released in episodes starting in early September, and the final chunk will cover the same ground as the DLC itself. The short films they've made for Team Fortress 2, and that game's own comics, have been incredibly successful - both in pleasing players, and attracting sales. The comic is part of a conscious effort by Valve to expand their game worlds into other mediums.
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