What a Wonderful, Zombie filled World
This is quite the montage of Left 4 Dead gameplay action set to Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. The creator did a great job of matching up L4D footage to the "appropriate" parts of the song; Rainbows indeed. Give the video a watch and laugh your ass off! (if the flesh eating zombies don't try to eat it first that is).
Left 4 Dead 2 Pre Release Demo
At a preview event in London, Doug Lombardi confirmed that Left 4 Dead 2 will be getting a pre release demo:
"With Left 4 Dead in particular we've found that word of mouth really is the strongest thing," Lombardi told us. "With Left 4 Dead 2 we plan to do a demo before the game comes out that'll have multiplayer in it. And hopefully we can continue the free weekends with the full game post-launch."
It seems that Valve is hoping that the recent announcement of DLC for Left 4 Dead by the end of summer and the L4D 2 demo will help quell the angry mob of videogamers. Even though Valve is trying to show people that they have no plans to drop support for Left 4 Dead, some gamers still believe that the release of Left 4 Dead 2 will fracture the community. It does make sense; owners of L4D will have interoperability with L4D 2 owners to a point. The problem is that gamers who don't have Left 4 Dead 2 will be unable to join their friends playing the L4D2 content.
Although, despite the outraged from the community and the gamers boycotting Left 4 Dead 2, a lot of people really want to play the game. Valve is reporting that pre orders for the sequel are doubled that of Left 4 Dead had from the same place in the release cycle. That is a whole hell of a lot of pre orders since Left 4 Dead had more pre orders than the Orange Box! It seems that most people don't care ( and I am in that boat myself) that L4D 2 is coming out so soon. Yes, its only a year later, but I had TONS of enjoyment with L4D; plus all of the new content wouldn't have been able to be shoe horned into the original L4D. The Left 4 Dead 2 pre release demo will give us a good idea of how much content is new.
In other news, I have to decide if I want to kill one or both of my Left 4 Dead dedicated servers and possibly make them Left 4 Dead 2 servers. I doubt the setup guide for a Left 4 Dead 2 dedicated server will change much from the first one, but I will post up my guide as soon as I get my hands on that L4D 2 demo. That is, if I'm not too busy playing it myself that is. Also, how did a cricket player and bat get into Left 4 Dead 2? It is a mystery.
i would love to hear your ideas and thoughts on Left 4 Dead 2, so why don't you leave a comment?
Left 4 Dead Mod adds Versus in Survival Mode
I've been playing the new Left 4 Dead survial mode and sometimes I would think "gee, I wonder what this would be like with humans controlling some of the horde". Well, I don't have to wonder about it too much more. It seems that two modders put out a video detailing their exploits, and they hope to release the config files (if Valve doesn't patch how they did it).
On one hand, this could be extremely fun, but survival mode is tough enough as it is, let alone having 4 special infected being controlled by humans. It seems that their mod also bring is four more survivors (I am guessing bot controlled ones) so there is eight survivors vs the horde and the special infected. Needless to say, the special infected go down REALLY fast. Check out their page for any updates!
Left 4 Dead Maps and Mods
So, you have this crave to kill zombies, but are sick of the current Left 4 Dead map situation? Well dust off your copy of Left 4 Dead and grab these maps and mods from Fileplanet! Well, 10 Left 4 Dead maps and mods to be exact and they include new campains, weapons and clothing. Although, the Zoey Left 4 Dead skin seems pretty worthless, the rest of the offerings from Fileplanet seem worth it. The Hello Kitty Left 4 Dead hunter skin looks amazing ( and I would DEFINITELY use it).
Now, the issue with Left 4 Dead custom maps is that not only does the server need a copy, each client will need that exact same map as well. It seems that auto downloading in Left 4 Dead does not work; Valve really needs to enable that so servers can have custom Left 4 Dead maps and it isn't such a hassle to play them. Grab the custom campaigns for Left 4 Dead and give them a try!