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    New Left 4 Dead 2 Level Appearing At PAX, As Are We

    Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console

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    Image of ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom
    08/26/09

    In reply to New Left 4 Dead 2 Level Appearing At PAX, As Are We
    This makes me want a new CarnEvil so badly...
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    08/26/09

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    PAX: The Game Convention of the Future!
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    08/26/09

    In reply to New Left 4 Dead 2 Level Appearing At PAX, As Are We
    Sweet. This is going to be my second PAX, and I hesitated to sit through the L4D line or the Fallout 3 ones last year since I was only there one day.

    But this year I have a three day pass.
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    08/26/09

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    for every person who feared clowns as a child, this level is for you
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    08/26/09

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    X is for... episode? :-D
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    08/26/09

    @drawp: Expo, I meant. Argh
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    Image of excaliburps excaliburps
    01/07/09

    In reply to Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console
    I seem to remember something a couple of days ago about Valve adding 2 new stages. Thing is, they might won't be able to offer this for free over XBL. I'll try to look for the link and post it here or submit it as a tip.
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    Image of ThisCharmingMan ThisCharmingMan
    01/07/09

    In reply to Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console
    Valve really should be going DLC crazy for this game. There is so so so much potential for new campaigns, multiplayer maps, and other little goodies in a game that essentially relies multiplayer gaming. I'll gladly pay a smalll premium to extend this experience.
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    01/07/09

    @ThisCharmingMan: Please don't say that, you'll give them ideas. If they start thinking PC owners will pay for the content they are going to start charging for it. I want this support free for as long as possible.
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    Image of CartBlanche2 CartBlanche2
    01/07/09

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    Where is the Left 4 Dead PC demo? I can't find it anywhere on Steam?
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    01/07/09

    @CartBlanche2: It was a limited demo. You won't get it now. It was only downloadable and playable for the 2 weeks/1 month leading up to the release.
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    Image of SunKing SunKing
    01/07/09

    In reply to Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console
    Add the two other campaigns, fix the bugs and exploits and then we can start talking about DLC imo. As it stands, versus mode is unplayable and that's where most of the replay value is imo.
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    01/07/09

    @SunKing: The DLC will be the other campaigns. As for bugs and exploits I haven't noticed a whole lot. The melee could certainly use some kind of restriction or limitation but other tahn that it's a pretty solid game.
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console
    Less time waiting to spawn as Infected would be nice. I know it's to give the Survivors a breather, but if they could cut the wait by 5 seconds, I'd be a happy bunny. The time is more than made up by trying to find a spawn space that's out of sight.
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    Image of Ehardergardens Ehardergardens
    01/07/09

    @Stevil_T: I liked the suggestion of letting dead infected control the mindless ones some how if you wanted... at least might kill the time... the respawns I believe are shorter if you have less than 4 infected playing, and they are set at the times they are for fairness and game balance... but yes infected tend to die fast and spend a lot of time waiting to respawn.... and when infected co-ordinate together (as opposed to coordinate to spawn separately) they will all tend to be dead around the same time, and live them twiddling their frantic thumbs.

    Course you could say infected get a break while Survivors are always on edge.
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    01/07/09

    @Ehardergardens: Yeah, the way it works is it adds 5 seconds for each infected. 1 infected = 5 seconds, 2 = 10 seconds, 3 = 15 seconds and 4 =20 seconds. If a Tank spawns, the respawn jumps up to 30 seconds. It can be annoying but it does manage to be fair.


    The only problem I see with it is that the team playing as the infected have to wait those 20/30 seconds when they have a full team. It would be so much better to be able control one of the regular horde during this period, if even just to make things less boring.

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    01/07/09

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    Let me get this straight, Valve are giving us PC gamers an SDK and console owners are getting the DLC? Why can't we get the DLC now too? I mean sure we'll most likely get it free 3 months down the line but seriously, the only decent mode in it is versus and I'm sick to death of No Mercy and Blood Harvest. Not good, Valve, not good at all.
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    01/07/09

    @-MasterDex-: Thats what I thought when I read the title too.


    It reads like:


    PC getting sdk

    360 getting DLC!


    But I think what it means is we'll be getting info on the SDK, and info on how the DLC is going to work on the 360. We don't need to know how the updates will work on the PC because we've been getting them for years.

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    01/07/09

    @Spidery_Yoda: I hope your right but the possibility of them holding back the PC DLC just to get money out of the console crowd is fairly high.
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    Image of DragonYen DragonYen
    01/07/09

    In reply to Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console
    Someone may have already said this, and I'm leaving now, so I'm not going to be able to see if they have... but if L4D gets downloadable content before Orange Box, I will never buy a Valve title again. I thought Valve was against console users, but I guess it's just Console users who bought Orange Box.
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Major Left 4 Dead Update Coming Very Soon to PC, Console
    as great as it is to hear L4D news, what I really want to hear from Valve is : "Episode Three and Portal 2 coming soon!"
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    01/07/09

    @Fieldy: how the hell could we have a portal 2?
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    Image of Dr Durdon Dr Durdon
    01/07/09

    @Fieldy:

    I think Episode 3's announcement would include some Portal goodies that we would be happy with (ie the Portal gun).


    But with the popularity of GLaDOS, I doubt they can quell the nerd masses enough without bringing her back.

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    01/07/09

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    Whatever it is, i'm sure i'll enjoy it.
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    01/07/09

    @Dead Giveaway:


    Same here.

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    01/07/09

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    I just hope they get rid of the generator in front of the elevator and the dumpsters in front of the hospital and BS stuff like that.
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    01/07/09

    @thud3333: Thought they already made it so infected can't move big stuff like that anymore.
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    01/07/09

    @AngerII: It was fixed for the PC version. Problem still remains with the Xbox 360.
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    Image of Dillon Barfield Dillon Barfield
    01/07/09

    @QuackerJacks: reason #10526 that I'll opt for a PC version of a game over a console version ...
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    01/07/09

    @Dillon Barfield: Hope you enjoy spending tons of money to have the best video card for about 6 months before you need to upgrade again.
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    01/07/09

    @Daniel House: Hope you enjoy being completely ignorant of the facts.
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