Faliszek details L4D2 Avatar Awards

By Robert Purchese Published 2 November, 2009

T-shirts, health kits, "cool stuff".

Valve's Chet Faliszek has told Eurogamer that Left 4 Dead 2 will reward Xbox 360 players with Avatar clothing for accomplishing certain things.

"Yeah, so, in Left 4 Dead 2 on the 360 you can actually win - it's called Awards. It's this weird thing that we thought people had done already, and we started working on it and then, once we started talking about it, realised that no one knew what we were talking about," explained Faliszek.

"They're like Achievements, where you do some activity and you win something for your Avatar. You can unlock a Depeche Mode t-shirt or Left 4 Dead 2 t-shirt or the health kits or other cool stuff. You can't have weapons, but all the other stuff is from the game."

Chet Faliszek was at the London leg of the Eurogamer Expo 2009, shambling around the Left 4 Dead 2 pods, meeting and greeting fans.

"For Left 4 Dead 2 we wanted to come to the Eurogamer Expo 2009 and show, for the first time, to the public, Scavenge Mode. So we hold that back for here," he said, with Infectious excitement.

'Faliszek details L4D2 Avatar Awards' Screenshot chet

Chet Faliszek: friendly.

"And it's just a great chance to watch people in the community to play it and interact with the game and get their feedback on it. It's been a ton of fun watching; there are some teams that get it and there are some that, er, just run around shooting zombies. It's a really great show and it's got a really clean feel in here."

Faliszek also hosted a Developer Session, revealing secret behind-the-scenes design decisions before opening himself for a lengthy Q&A bombardment. We reported live from the talk.

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  • Syrette #1 2 years ago

    Lame, I wanted a frying pan for my avatar.

  • Fleisch #2 2 years ago

    Yeah its a shame some of the household ojects won't appear...guitars ontop of ^^

  • sneetch #3 2 years ago

    Avatar Chainsaws please. Loving the demo and although I was worried that the new special infected would remove the ability for a "quad cap" (all four survivors being incapped at the same time, you need three hunters and a smoker to pull it off in L4D) but the charger and jockey can "pin" survivors like the hunter and smoker do. I can hardly wait for the full release.

  • XdarXideX #4 2 years ago

    Weird.. only 5 reported elsewhere?

    This was in the PC demo code...

    Med Kit (Prop): "Unlock the Med Kit by beating all five campaigns on any skill level."
    Frying Pan (Prop): "Unlock the Frying Pan by killing 10,000 Infected."
    Garden Gnome (Prop): "Unlock the Garden Gnome by rescuing Gnome Chompski."
    Bull Shifters Shirt (Top): "Unlock the Bull Shifters shirt by winning 10 games of Versus."
    Left 4 Dead 2 Shirt (Top): "Unlock the Left 4 Dead 2 shirt by winning 10 games of Scavenge."
    Zombie Hand Shirt (Top): "Unlock the Zombie Hand shirt by killing 10,000 Infected."
    Depeche Mode Shirt (Top): "Unlock the Depeche Mode shirt by rescuing Gnome Chompski."
    Edited by 2 at 02/11/09 @ 11:33

  • penhalion #5 2 years ago

    Only regret is that you can't use more than one prop at a time. It would have been cool to eventually have your avatar jitted out as a proper L4D survivor i.e. taped up gun, health pack, pipe bomb and tattered survival clothes.

    Still a day one purchase for me though I still feel I'm paying too much for it.

  • psychokitten #6 2 years ago

    The gnome? Score.

  • Shadders #7 2 years ago

    Bungie have just announced these too for ODST, maybe MS have started asking devs to include avatar stuffs, that'd explain why the Valve guy thought that other people were doing it too.

    I like that they're not directly linked to achievements too. :)

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #8 2 years ago

    ODST awards? Where and when? I completed the game (on Hardcore, not Legendary, mind) and got nowt.

  • Shadders #9 2 years ago

    They're coming when they launch the Halo Waypoint I think, it was in this weeks update on Bungie.net

  • sinelinden #10 2 years ago

    And Mr Faliszek was a really nice guy to boot

  • XdarXideX #11 2 years ago

    The ODST avatar awards are live (I have the ODST helmet and a couple shirts) you just need access to Halo Waypoint which will scan your achievements and give you the awards for specific achievements. I want the ODST armour which requires you to unlock the achievement for not killing the floating things.

    Awards don't seem to be kept seperate from achievements, but not every achievement will give you an award. I expect in future they will do awards for combinations of achievements.