Left 4 Dead 2 'The Passing' DLC Revealed, More Left 4 Dead 1 Content Detailed, Comic Announced

How many promises of DLC for the original have we heard now over the last fucking year? I've lost count, seriously.

Just let L4D1 die Valve, you failed, stop making it worse.

dlc for l4d?? omg i can't believe it....

I'm really happy about something this concrete being shown. Stylistically, the DLC looks fantastic. They did an excellent job of finding a compromise between L4D1 and 2's colour palettes. New commons, uncommons, and weapons along with maps is *exactly* what everyone wants too. To me, this restores much of my respect for Valve's support policies that was tarnished when 2 was announced.

To do this properly though, they will definitely have to add some *real* cross-compatibility between the games so that the community doesn't remain divided (just like everyone in the boycott correctly said it would be). IIRC they have in fact hinted about a new game mode being released at the same time as this, so it would stand completely to reason that there would be some game-crossing 8 player mode or the like.

Time will tell. Good news either way.

While I still expect this to be a free DLC on PC simply based on Valve's history, I wouldn't be surprised if it came out with a small fee like $1.99.

I wonder if we'll get to play as the original 4 characters inside L4D2 maps once it ships. Or better - they open the entire series up so any maps from 1 or 2 can be played with either of the 8 characters.

Well, Hello there M60!

yaya cant wait for this.

fab four??

you saw lebron james's docu didn't you?

I hate the word DLC in this case. I prefer "Content Patch"

Yay! Now fix the Steam group server lists in-game support.

Those of us that have played on custom servers with some of the more...provocative plug-ins are already familiar with the "Fallen Survivor" (and Jimmy Gibbs Jr.)

I wish default servers allowed more than 32 common infected. :(

The new uncommon common is the Fallen Survivor? Do you think it's possible that we may have to fight the original L4D surviors? Maybe they go crazy from losing the others and just defending their area (kind of like the church in L4D1, except without the infection taking over). Anyone who has played Dead Rising may remember the psychos, what if Louis goes nuts when everyone else dies, so he just locks himself in a bathroom and eats all the peelz, Louis ran out of peelz and he wants yours!

Maybe the original survivors apparently aren't immune (lol, wouldn't make sense, but trying to figure it out) and they have uncommon zombie forms.

My other thought is maybe zombies that hold weapons and appear like a survivor (medpack on their back) maybe they have a machete to smack you with. I dunno...should be interesting to see what they come up with to merge the two groups.

I see Ellis has what looks like a Browning Automatic Rifle. No sign of the original cast in the screens though :(.

http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=13810&game_id=7589&id=148632#img148632

And does it seem like there are A LOT more zombies then in the other campaigns?

http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=13810&game_id=7589&id=148632#img148640

omg @ amount of zombies on those stairs
*revs chainsaw*

All hail GABE and VALVE!!!

Still waiting for the reveal that the original gang will be playable. *crosses fingers*

OMG *huge* Oeming fan. Can't wait to see the comic! with a Saxton Hale crossover?

woot!