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Left 4 Dead: Crash Course is targeted for release in September and will be available free of charge on the PC

Mhmmmm. Honestly I wasn't that pleased with L4D, I don't really see all the replayability. Will deffo give this a go, though.

That is one of the issues, seems all the steam players around here are UK and Aus -_-

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

Bevo wrote:

That is one of the issues, seems all the steam players around here are UK and Aus -_-

Myself, Miggle, Haffey and MutantBear used to rock L4D all the time. Then MB and Haffey got into WoW.



They are missed.

I play it every once in a while too, but it doesn't keep my interest enough.  It just seems like mindless repetition, like most zombie games.  However, new free content is always good.

Good news. Just read about this in on a Finnish gaming magazine site. I still play this game quite a lot. A buddy just got it a couple weeks ago so we have good frustrating rounds with survival. This one map, factory or sumtin, I went apeshit because the time stopped at 09:59:45

Yesterday I got the runway to gold. Found out a nice little way to that too.

Btw I keep reading that this campaign is only 2 chapters instead of 5 .

I hope they put all the lessons learned in L4D1 (ie the changes in map design that they're using in L4D2) to good use in this new mini campaign.

Edit: http://www.destructoid.com/exclusive-pr … 2570.phtml

There's a written preview of the stuff. Sounds pretty cool. Also. Why has Source Engine Games section been so dead lately .

I stopped reading the preview at this part:

The second chapter, by far, is one of the most awesome yet seen in Left 4 Dead. There are a number of surprises in store, so be warned that from here on in, I'm giving out spoilers. If you want to be spooked by this game's grand finale, stop reading. The rest of you, carry on ...

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2009-08-06 10:44:42)

You're not the only one. With the standard Valve have set themselves the past few years, L4D support can only be described as 'abysmal' in comparison.

It's a huge shame.

Good point, but it must be remembered how much Valve promised. They were even promising "Meet the Survivors" videos. I believe I read one interview where it was stated that they hope to be bringing out new campaigns in the first few moths after release, (which I might add was part of their defence for "only having four campaigns" in the initial product.)

Also L4D does have a dedicated team - Valve South. Of course this team is currently working on L4D2 so therein lies the differece.

As I understand it Valve simply promised more than they could deliver. I mean that's fine, there's nothing worse than me bitching and moaning abouit how I'm not going to get "my" free stuff that I deserve well... just 'cause. However Valve made promises and those promises meant that people were more inclined to buy the game. Not me, I was going to buy it anyway but others who maybe thought, "this looks okay but only four campaigns? Only five main weapons?" and were made to think, "oh but Valve said they'd be adding more content almost immediately so I'll buy this," it amounts to a certain degree of false advertising.

Valve may or may not continue adding more to L4D, they said they would but updates have been fairly few and far between for a game that was "almost immediately" going to start getting some serious add-ons. I think adding a new simplistic game mode, (survival,) and a mini-campaign, (Crash,) is a start, hardly what was promised but whatever. Adding Death Toll and Dead Air to Versus doesn't count as an add-on as they should have been Versus mode campaigns at the very beginning.

I still think Valve screwed up. They promised too much and I don't see them delivering anything comparable to what they said they would do either now or after L4D2 is released. It's forgivable but I can understand why people are a tad miffed.

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

You're not the only one. With the standard Valve have set themselves the past few years, L4D support can only be described as 'abysmal' in comparison.

It's a huge shame.

Not really. TeamFortress 2 was above and beyond any previous standards of any developer, not only that but TF2 has it's own dedicated team that is working under the command of Robin Walker, and apart from the rest of Valve. After the Crash pack, L4D will have received roughly the same amount of additional content as Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat, people just like to bash L4D's support because of how great TF2's was, that they forget that even by Valve's standard TF2's support was much higher than one would think it should be.

But that's the problem, they promised TF2 levels of support! Every time future content was mentioned they compared it to TF2 support. Not only that but Doug said in an interview that content would be out 'much more quickly' than TF2's was.

So yes. Abysmal.

Yay!

Uzique wrote:

i hope the matchmaking actually works for me so i can at least try it

Indeed. We pretty much had to buy a server to be able to enjoy, or even play this game earlier.

Hey so the Xbox 360 version had a title update today.

That might mean that Crash Course will follow shortly. Not that I can download it at the moment but you know

whens this shit out?