Left 4 Dead Mod Tools Released

IT IS ABOUT GODDAMN FUCKING TIME.
Jesus fucking christ, this game could have been sooooooooooooooooooo huge, I hate to use a stupid gaming journolist term but the engine and game could've been a platform damnit, the kind of things they could've done with it would be huge!

The ongoing persistent support Valve offer to their games, ensures the community remains vibrant, it ensures the customers get value for money, ensures loyalty to valve and of course it ensures ongoing sales for years to come.
The non chargable DLC route is fantastic.

See: TF2 model
See: Burnout Paradise
See: Half Life 1 / 2 (CS etc)
See: Diablo 2, free online - continued patches, ongoing sales many masny years later

Here's my previous post on the topic.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19732780#itemanchor_19732780

FWIW, I played Survival mode for 2 nights, it could have done with some small, simple tweaks, features, options to greatly extend its life, it really doesn't feel very fleshed out for something we waited so long for :/
NOTE: I totally got great value for money from L4D, it really was a fantastic single player / co-op extravaganza, like an awesome movie, campaign rocks! but sadly I really feel its true potential has been ignored.

goddamn this should've been out much, much much sooner - it's fucking mid May.

I'm confused--it says 'SDK' but I don't see anywhere about releasing source code. How are we supposed to make mods when we don't have L4D-specific code? Or am I missing something?

... you realize that it's only been about six months since release and the game is still massively played? And that just because someone is playing another game, doesn't mean they can't come back to play custom created content?

Anybody in for doing the
FAB 4 DEAD mod?

will someone make naked zombies? (male and female duh)
also shemale too

I was actually tempted to mess with this for a while now. Right now I'm kinda busy with messing the Q3 engine...but I think I'm going to have to mess around with this when I have free time during my free time (I've had this idea for a zombie mod since the old Q3 days...a sort of co-op mod that had a LOT of similarities to L4D but was built around the idea of everyone potentially being out for themselves...and it'd be based in large levels that are fairly open and you're goal would be to survive for a period of time with this huge zombie hoard just out to get you along with crazy stuff like black dogs and what-have-you (though they wouldn't be a dominant part of the game...just a secondary thing to really fear...imagine your running across people's front yards with this deformed dog chasing you like a cheetah on crack and you aren't armed (weapons/ammo would be semi-scarce and the sort of guns/stuff that you'd normally find in people's homes or other places in irl)...so you're trying to get to saftey and its dark as hell with only garage lights and the occasional telephone pole light to give you illumination). One player would take on a sort of dungeon master role whereby he/she would have some control over the zombies and other hazards to really mess with the players (sort of an RTS setup).

Players could barricade themselves in a house and could form sort of make-shift improvised teams...zombies would slowly work to get through barricades or get through remaining ways in and the players would have to survive until a helicopter arrived or some other time goal was reached. Communication would be limited in that you could talk to people around you for as far as your voice could carry...there would be phones (perhaps houses would have 2 or 3 or 4 digit numbers you could even dial or perhaps we'd just have some sort of simplified game-y system for phones) so you could communicate that way or with walkie talkies (but you'd have to find those) or with a cell-phone if you managed to find one. Maybe if you're trapped in a house you could get help from guys in another less surrounded place to bring a car to run down some zombies so you could run into it (and shoot the zombies in your way with what little firepower you had) and make your get away.

It'd mostly have a rural/isolated setting...both for gameplay reasons and because thats what I know (and because the original motivator for this idea was a series of dreams I had involving the undead...and those were the sort of settings...there was also this tree that created undead...and it was evil and when you went near the thing everything just got really dark and evil and clouds would move by really fast and its influence kept spreading).

I doubt I'll ever get around to it (espcially since I'm messing with GLSL lighting/shadows in the Q3 engine and I barely have enough free time for that)...but hey maybe I gave someone a good idea or two.

Now my XBOX sits and looks pretty :(

Holy shit, now I can make a zombie mod! This will be awesome.

It's about F'ING TIME VALVE! I'm not even going to begin to express my discontent for this delay. Your timing couldn't be more perfect though .. as of yesterday I decided to shut down my popular servers due to the lack of no SDK and user content being public available. *sigh*, Nice move Valve ..

Sorry to shackers who think I may be over reacting. I feel sorry for you. Even though we might have played the same games such as Fallout 3. Your experience pales in comparison to mine. Why? Go to www.fallout3nexus.com and you might understand why the modder community isn't something to snicker at.

Now ... bring on the gravy my beautiful modders! I love you :)

For anyone wanting a quick tut on sketchup
http://www.fpsbanana.com/tuts/6015

Wow, Sketchup tools? That program is ridiculously easy to use. Exactly how powerful is this in terms of L4D?

LET THE GAMES BEGIN MOTHER SQUASHERS

LEFT 4 DEAD 2.0 BEGINS... NOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW

Ho damn NM1 is fucking complex looking in from hammer.

Finally! The potential here is just massive. I'm long since bored with the official campaigns, but I can't wait for someone to remake Doom in Left 4 Dead.

Wow fucking sweet! Valve are ON FIRE right now.

GET IN!!!

Fly freely modders and deliver us delicious delights!

Oh shit. And I thought I was gonna relax and do nothing this weekend.

Alright bring on those Lucky star and Hatsune Miku mods.

about time... now there will be bunch of crappy kill-box style of maps

so wait, i thought they were waiting all this time to release tutorial videos for l4d modding? Are they included in this, or was that a ruse?

yeeeeeees

I can't wait to see what people come up with.

modders kick ass.

AWESOME!!!!

Valve is on a fucking roll today.

Well, wow.