Left 4 Dead: Crash Course out next week News
Xbox 360 PC News by Tom Bramwell
Valve has announced that the Crash Course downloadable content for Left 4 Dead will be released for PC and Xbox 360 on 29th September.
Elsewhere, Joystiq reports that Valve's Kim Swift announced a 27th October demo release date for Left 4 Dead 2 during an EA press conference in Tokyo, although specifics were not discussed.
In yet more Left 4 Dead news, the developer also issued an Xbox 360 patch yesterday that introduces elements like the special infected HUD tweaks showing team-mates' recharge times.
That's presumably so that people who choose not to download Crash Course still have parity with the people who do when they come together on other campaigns.
However, the patch has upset a few people on the Valve forums, where there are some impressively moany rants about the volume of item spawns in Versus mode. Attagirl!
Valve hasn't said anything about whether that's a bug yet, but we should find out by this time next week.
Crash Course bridges the gap between the No Mercy and Death Toll campaigns in the original game, and has been designed for shorter, 30-minute Versus mode games, as matches using the existing campaigns can take around two hours to complete.
Look out for our review of Crash Course around release. It's free on PC and 560 Microsoft Points (£4.76 / €6.72) on Xbox 360, something Valve explained to us recently.
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bodypopper
23/09/09 @ 09:02
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Dear Valve,
I want Half Life 3 tomorrow. I don't care if it's buggy and unfinished I want it and I want it now or I will cry and cry and cry because you are so mean for being a business that makes money and doesn't force people to buy its games. Yours faithfully. Mr B Popper esq. Tunbridge Wells |
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@RedPanda
Valve do a great job most of the time. I just hate it when people think that they should ignore the community just because of a few muppets within it. It's also silly to think that Valve can do no wrong and that the community should be greatful to them for anything they do. At the end of the day the reality is that Valve simply wouldn't be where they are today without the very community that people are now slagging off. It's ironic that Valve themselves seem to be the only ones that recognise this and are trying their best to please the loyale fans they have. |
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BlitzwingHaz
23/09/09 @ 09:08
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Its all fair enough saying that these people are just whining, but have any of you played the update yet? I really hope it hasn't unbalanced things the way they're suggesting. I thought the versus mode was fine as it was.
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donnie080208
23/09/09 @ 09:54
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Its funny how the sainted valve can knock out a sequel to the hugely sucessful L4D (but cheap to make/short dev time) but it takes them 4 years to make a new half life game which doesnt carry the weight it once did as its main market is on console. they could have HL3 ready for release early next year if they had a financial incentive to do so.
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The 360 patch has also fixed the exploit of being able to fire all 50 Uzi / Assault Rifle rounds in one pop, which certainly helped on Expert difficulty against the tanks and witches but hey, it was an exploit all the same.
Some people are just whiney bitches, especially with HL / Source based games in particular, I can't imagine the number of people pissed because they'd relied on it, or other exploits that they previously used! Carry on as you are Valve, it's your game, have people play it the way you intend! |
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Ashen-Shugar
23/09/09 @ 10:32
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"Its funny how the sainted valve can knock out a sequel to the hugely sucessful L4D (but cheap to make/short dev time) but it takes them 4 years to make a new half life game"
It's kinda foolhardy comparing the two games though. One is a very simple idea, simply implemented with repeatability at it's core and the other is a sprawling epic with lots of narrative to place, physics puzzles and a gajillion times more locations and textures to create. They release things when they are ready (unlike many devs these days), and the result is always worth the wait. |
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Bad Devotions
23/09/09 @ 10:47
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hooooooray! i have been literally hanging for this!
/clears up mess in his trousers |
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have to aggree i love L4D its the best game ive played in years.
but the much talked about DLC never really happend which was a massive shame i mean two stages a year later WTF? Now 2 is a couple of months away i think it would be a waste of time to carry on churning out DLC for the first one, they may as well concentrate on 2 and make sure it has a lot more support this time round. |
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carlitoswagon
23/09/09 @ 14:41
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"the boats here, run, get on the fucking boat!"
"fuck him, he'll never make it!" |
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PlugMonkey
23/09/09 @ 15:20
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Forget it, we all know it's turned into a quick and easy money making scheme pumping out Left4Dead games every year (perhaps with the odd year off in an attempt to appease the die-hard fans).
Christ. Personally, I judge games on the merit of the content they bring me, not on how long they've been in development. If L4D2 has enough content to justify a purchase, I'll buy it. If L4D3 has enough content to justify a purchase, I'll buy that too. Whether it comes in 2010, 2011 or 2012 is utterly irrelevent. Any 'die-hard' fan who is 'appeased' by a year's hiatus can fuck off and die, as far as I'm concerned. They are a waste of functioning kidneys. |
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Forget it, we all know it's turned into a quick and easy money making scheme pumping out Left4Dead games every year (perhaps with the odd year off in an attempt to appease the die-hard fans).
Hilarious. I suggest you visit the Dictionary site of your choice and look up the words 'industry' and 'business'. Then have a long, hard think at what this might have to do with a group of people working (for actual real-like non-Monopoly money) to produce a product to sell to other people. Also - longer development times appease die-hard fans? What the hell? I usually steer away from antagonism but... dude. Seriously. |
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TheTingler
23/09/09 @ 16:53
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Wait, wait, wait. There's something there I just can't get my head around.
People... play Left 4 Dead... on something other than a PC? :P |
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I don't care about HL, honest
L4D gave me hours of fun with my friends, it's simple as fuck yet entertaining but there's no way I'm gonna spend 560msp on one campaign - btw what kind of price is this? why not 534msp? oh, and I don't buy this "MS forced us" thing - but that's my problem and my paranoia cheers, |
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BlitzwingHaz
23/09/09 @ 22:43
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Its not even a full campaign you'd be getting apparently, just the first 2 chapters.
I want it but its not worth the price imo, especially with the map packs for Arkham Asylum being free (plus I'm skint) :( |
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