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Valve Provides Details On Left 4 Dead Survival Pack DLC
A post on the Left 4 Dead blog shares details of the Survival Pack downloadable content due out next week. It will be free, and available for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game. "Our goals for Survival Mode are to deliver a mode of play distinct from Campaign or Versus, have games that regularly last under ten minutes, and emphasize competition with team play through leaderboards. Survival Mode draws on the planning and communication aspects of a successful Finale or Crescendo event, while taking it to another level. It rapidly hits a fever pitch that only a well coordinated team will be able to successfully survive. ... Given the extreme pace of Survival Mode, the number of zombies killed in a single round often outnumbers an entire campaign."
I'm not sure what you want..... You say you don't want it to be DLC, but how do you want them to get it to you? It's already free. I'm not sure what you mean by MORE unless you are angry about having to pay your ISP. Anyway, $50 for a game is... kinda standard. I mean, it's more than the average on Steam, but off Steam, it's pretty normal. I'm not sure what you want. Maybe content that you already have that is only unlocked after some period of time? Because that's the only way around download it. Giving it to you and not letting you use it. You are a very strange consumer, and I don't think it's worth targeting you.
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I think he just didnt realize that it was free. I would agree with him if it were not free. Left 4 Dead needs a lot more content. It was a pretty shallow and under developed game. It was fun online with friends but way too short. It easily needed 10 more story campaigns or a much longer well thought out scenario. Perhaps 4 "movies" all sequential to each other, each film featuring newer "zombies" with different features than the movie before it.
Left 4 Dead really is what Valve did to the game. They left it without much content. If valve was asking for money for this extra content, i would tell them to go fuck off. However Valve is doing the right thing and adding more to the game for free. They have done this for TF2 as well and many other games because they realize it increases the value of the game, rather than forcing you to pay for updates, they hope to sell more units of the game at full price.
Valve has been pretty fair with gamers and I think they're the good guys. Say what you want about Steam, it has gotten much better, and its a pretty nice service now.
What a ridiculous comment. I agree that L4D is overpriced, but they're giving you this content, for free, just like all the TF2 content.
IT WILL BE FREE... Even the summary says that.
As trolls go, you didn't even try. Either that or you're a moron.
Can't wait for this content. Hoping Survival is playable in single player mode. A lot of people whine and say L4D is crap in single player mode, but I like taking it at my own pace. If I want to dash straight for the safe room and to hell with my partners, I can. If I want to shoot them in the head, I can. If I want to stand in one spot and just wait for waves to spawn, I can.
Online is fun, but I like firing up single player and doing speed runs through No Mercy. (I find the rooftop finale so damn easy now...)
Having played multiplayer online FPS games since Quake 1, L4D is the first one that really felt like a different game to me. Part of that is the intense teamwork required - much more so than other 'team' games like the BattleField series. I'm not really into the whole zombie theme, but the gameplay and design are so well done that I can't help but love playing it anyway.
Thanks Valve for making a fantastic and innovative game better, and giving away the new content for free!
It'll be nice to have an option to hop into a game for a little bit without committing to an hour+ long campaign or versus match. One of the main reasons I don't play very much is that I can rarely sit down for a couple hours and get a full round in.
One new map especially catering to the Survival mode, is released (called "Lighthouse"). Other than that, they also make the other two campaigns available to be played in Versus.
Other than that, you should really have a look for the multitude of custom maps/campaigns already available: Definitely with the SDK going to be released, this is only going to grow.
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