Left 4 Dead 2 DLC: The Passing
Valve has just announced the first DLC addon for Left 4 Dead 2, “The Passing”. The new DLC, set to be released in early spring 2010 for the PC and Xbox 360, will include a “huge offering” of gameplay content, including a new cooperative campaign and narrative; new Survival, Versus, and Scavenge maps; a new Uncommon Common Infected; and a new melee weapon and firearm. Oh, and there’s one more thing…
The Left 4 Dead Survivors will be in it!
You heard us right! After months of speculation on Valve’s promised “ode” to the original Survivors, the studio has decided to call all the Survivors together in one campaign.
The story will be set just after Dead Center, in a small town in rural Georgia. Players will take the role of the L4D2 Survivors when they encounter and interact with the original ones. So, if you’ve been missing your favorite eye candy, pill-pilferer, geriatric gunman, or leather-clad misomaniac, this spring, Valve has just the right medicine for you.
The developers also mention that there will be a brand-spanking-new cooperative “challenge mode” of play. We don’t have any specifics on what this new game mode might be. It could be another difficult campaign-style mode, like Realism, or it could be a competitive game mode that pits two teams of Survivors against each other, much like some on the official forums have been suggesting for months. The latter theory seems particularly plausible, considering that both groups of Survivors will be in it.
We should also mention that this should settle the debates about whether or not the original Survivors died at Last Stand (and thus about its canonicality).
See the official Steam News bulletin, quoted below. ▼
I am starting to undestand how they planned this entire launch schedule out for L4D and L4D2… They started with the question:
“How can we maximise the exposure and acquisition of gamers with the release of content for L4D”?
Now I am so heavily invested in the game (money and time-wise) I feel that the DLC is partially the same content I payed for in L4D (same chars are back) and some new weapons and maps… I was really impressed with the ‘free’ user generated maps for L4D and well I guess I’m having a relapse of the LD42 announcemnet from a few months back…
OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!
WHO WANTS TO SPECULATE WEAPONS?
I’m hoping for the AUG as the new weapon, it’s overdue, but another Assault Rifle may seem mundane. Barrett .50 Cal would be another epic choice, it could still be semi-auto, just at a slightly slower rate than our current Combat Sniper, but at the same time packing more of a punch.Possibly for a new shotgun, I’d like to see the Armsel Striker, another weapon seeming to be gaining popularity in the world of video games.
Flamethrower, while I’m thinking unlikely would be heaven above all. Like the Grenade Launcher though, it obviously shouldn’t be able to be refueled at ammo dumps.Melee Weapons? What about a Pitchfork? It is the south after all. Plus it said Rural Georgia. So I could totally see that happening.
But dear god its going to be so great to finally hear “Grabbin Pillz” in glorious Left 4 Dead 2 environments.
Ellis vs Francis! This is gonna be sweeeeeet
Ellis x Francis. This is gonna be sweeeeeeet!
Porting the old survivors into Left 4 Dead 2… something tells me I might end up being insanely annoyed after some of the coverage of this DLC.
But then it’ll have a new game mode, that’ll make me happy.
I wish it was after Dark Carnival though, there’s an opening and it would probably leave an opening leading to Nick and Zoey’s brilliant hobby of shooting helicopter pilots. <3
dude…cOOL
Finally. I was waiting for something like this to happen. Valve better continue making DLC’s for L4D and L4D2, because they’re both great games.
Im hoping the weapon would be either, 1.Carbine 2.Winchester 1700 (like kermite’s or the skin on fpsbanana) 3. Double barrel 4.Crossbow 5. MP5
Im hoping the new melee would be 1.Keyboard 2.Sledgehammer 3.Shovel 4.Wrench 5.Metal bat 6.Pipe 7.Hammer
And i know you didnt mention anything about new ammo, but bile ammo would be cool, since you usually shoot a infected but it doesent die, bile ammo would be cool.
And a new uci, well, i have no idea’s.
Hey guy’s! I just realised Sumtin! SIMTIN IMPORTANT! Portal’s theme song is in l4d2, and portal is in the same world as hl2, so portal, hl2, and l4d2 are in the same world (maybe). It would be cool if css and dod were in the world with those games too.
that’s because they’re all made by the same people.
Okay I’m sorry but that is insainly wrong. It’s a song! Besides in the Left 4 Dead world they appear to be in this world. For example when Louis gets a gun one of his lines are “This is just like Counter-Strike!” Also there are ads for The Orange Box. There is also a box for Team Fortress 2 “Collect all 10″ Which is also brought into question wondering what the tenth one is.
But no, Left 4 Dead does not appear to be related to Half-Life or Portal. Think about this, while Portal an take place at any time in any world because it all takes place in a secluded building and there is just a taste of the outside at the end. However in Half-Life, the world is taken over by the combine which obviously there are no combine in Left 4 Dead, and even if it takes place before Half-Life, then shouldn’t there be some zombies in Half-Life (Not counting headcrab zombies)
So just let me say there is no or an extremly small connection between the games if anything Half-Life is just a video game in Left 4 Dead.
I should also point out that this dosen’t fit in this thread if anywhere it should be in the L4D2 topic or just a whole new one.
Yay know I have something to search for on the web for weeks until this comes out!!! But seriously this is awesome can’t wait to hear bills old battle cry (BULL FREAKIN HORSe SHIT) rushing into kiddie land. I’m lookin forward to the gamemode most but I think the weapon may be a flame thrower. Like a home made one with air freshenr and a lighter. It fits in perfectly. Still melée weapons? Hmmm i think a hockey stick might be it. Not so much of the sledge hammer as some steam guy already made it but u never no. Still sounds great can’t wait
ellis and zoey. that is sweet
I want to delete this comment ;p
Agreed
OMG GUYS
I FOUND THE CSS WEAPONS ON L4D2 XBOX VERSION (just the mp5 though)