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Left 4 Dead 2 DLC 'The Passing' Announced
by Chris Faylor, Dec 14, 2009 11:35am PSTThe first downloadable add-on for zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 is slated to hit PC and Xbox 360 in the "early spring," developer Valve announced today.
A crossover of undead proportions, "The Passing" sees the original Left 4 Dead survivors meet up with those of Left 4 Dead 2, with players taking control of the L4D2 crew.
You all play nice now, and be kind to Ellis. He's ...special.
The download will include a new campaign, set in a rural Georgia town after the events of L4D2's Dead Center campaign, along with a new firearm, a new melee weapon, a new type of "uncommon common" foe, and new arenas for Survival, Versus and Scavenge plus "a new co-operative challenge mode of play."
Valve noted that "pricing will be announced closer to launch." The company is known for its extensive free post-release support on PC--see Team Fortress 2--but has lamented that Microsoft forces it to charge for some Xbox 360 add-ons.
"The Passing will become the most important campaign in the Left 4 Dead story, as all the Survivors are being called together in one campaign," said Valve marketing VP Doug Lombardi. "It will also be a huge offering of new gameplay content, with something new for every game mode plus a new uncommon common and weaponry."
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From my in-game experiences and forum surfing over the last year, the three characters that get the most "complaints" by far have been Rochelle, Coach and Louis (not necessarily in that order). Do these characters have anything in common?
I have heard and read the word "nigger" in-game A LOT in reference to these characters. I am astonished not so much by the word's usage, but the casualty with which its used. As a black gamer, I'm occasionally offended, but almost never say anything because to each his own. I'm not going to get into an argument with some random individual over it, or try to "educate" them. However, offending players somehow never seem to receive healing or rescue for me unless I'm their only option ... strange. :)
What does this say about us in general? Does the fact that the characters are black actually have that much of a negative impact on your ability to play as the character? I mean, I'm not saying that Rochelle should have mounds of praise heaped on her, but why the disdain?
I know that in this desire for the original 4, Louis is getting some props, but I haven't forgotten the nasty things I've heard and read that outweigh the positive or indifferent. Let's not be revisionist. And let us have a mature conversation on this subject.
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Fuck Rochelle, Coach, Nick and Ellis. Give me some Louis, Zoey, Francis, and Bill any day in the zombie apocalypse.
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It seems strange to go that far in bringing the original 4 into the L4D2 engine and not bring them all the way.
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Pros: Sounds sweet. Yay original survivors!
Cons: Can't play as them? "The Passing"? Oh noes, they're all gonna die.
I'm sure the dialogue will be fantastic! Yay for Valve, and for us!
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Like the baseball bat that was only available to those who pre-ordered. As far as I'm aware, there's absolutely nothing to stop a custom campaign author from just dropping it into their map and having it available for all who play that particular campaign. Or am I wrong about that?
It seems to me that trying to stop that sort of thing would cost Valve a lot more as far as resources and man hours and public relations than they could possibly gain from restricting content in this manner. That's why I'd say it's unlikely that they will be charigng for this DLC.
If it was free, this would just be issued as part of a patch that everyone will upgrade to automatically, but if you right-click/properties on your L4D2 entry in steam, you will see that DLC has it's own little tab for DLC content.
Not that I mind..I'll buy it today!
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"Passing By (The survivors)"
"Passing the torch (To the new survivors)"
"Passing Away" - :(
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I can't wait to see the justifications people give out for deserving this for free IF it isn't.
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But still, even though I hate to admit it on the chance that it might encourage them to charge, I'd almost certainly pay for it if they did.
The question that interests me the most is what this move may mean for custom campaigns. If they allow modders the ability to bring in the old characters and the new ones on the same maps, that opens up all sorts of creative doors, and is potentially very exciting. I guess we'll see and we'll have more information when the SDK is released.
Which reminds me: the fact that they haven't mentioned the SDK in this press release is kinda worrying. Where the hell is it already?
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If it isn't then it's truely a sad day for PC Gaming with even Valve jumping on the fucking microtransaction bandwagon.
Don't let us down Valve. Keep your fans happy. Make it free on PC.
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I would gladly pay for this, although I don't see Valve charging for this because it would likely split the online community on the issue (those willing to pay vs those unwilling). That, and they're rolling in money bags so they don't need to.
wonder if that has something to do with me playing l4d2 little as none.. love all the new stuff in l4d2, new crew is kinda meh compared to zoey,francis,louis, bill but love melee (not fun when have little lag though).
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*Except that we don't get to play as the L4D1 crew. They are a bit more loveable than the new cast :[.
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Or has valve finally turned the corner on free dlc.
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It would be interesting to see NPCs that aren't infected become infected, kind of like the scene in 28 Weeks Later where everyone is crowded into a single room just as the outbreak hits and you can visualize the virus spreading across the entire room in just seconds.
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