Details Galore on Left 4 Dead 2

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The Eurogamer Expo is the gift that just keeps on giving when it comes to Left 4 Dead 2 news. Valve's Chet Faliszek was on hand to give event goers a good deal of new information concerning the game including specifics on the rumored DLC, and campaign information.

Let's take a look at some of the highlights from the presentation.

• The "Hard Rain" campaign will have the Survivors revisiting an area they encountered previously in the campaign only it's been flooded and altered slightly.
• The Survivors start off only with a pistol in the Hard Rain campaign, the "catch" being that they forgot the gun bag from the previous campaign.
• Due to Hard Rain's backtracking, those items that the Survivors use on the initial run will not be there to use again when they return to the area later in the campaign.
• About five witches in an area around the sugar cane plant. Apparently they like sugar.
• The uncommon common infected, the Worker, has ear muffs on and will ignore pipebombs.
• Hard Rain incorporates both evening and night segments.
• Spoiler: The finale involves lighting a "Burger Tank" sign up to signal for help.
• Past survivors from L4D are "not dead" nor are they "undead."
• Left 4 Dead authoring tools will be released at launch
• "Apparently the DLC mentions in the demo code were erroneous and down to the fact that to do test submissions for Microsoft you have to simulate DLC, among other things."

There you have it, the best bits from Chet's talk at the Eurogamer Expo 2009. Check out the full list of bits and pieces over at, where else, Eurogamer!

[Cicchetti]

This game is going to be awesome!

[ch3ch3n]

they are taking a big risk though releasing L4D2 at the same time as MW2. They will feel some empty pockets i think. Only the hardcore L4D ppl are going to buy this over MW2

[Munra]

they are taking a big risk though releasing L4D2 at the same time as MW2. They will feel some empty pockets i think. Only the hardcore L4D ppl are going to buy this over MW2

Maybe for the 360 but not the pc

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

MW2 sucks so there really isn't much to debate L4D2.

[ATM743]

for the pc, people will be all over this.

i bought the 4 pack of left 4 dead 2 (clan members pooled in the $) I was going to buy assassins creed 2 for pc but that got pushed back. im thinking about getting it for console cause i really like how that game plays with a controller over mouse and keyboard and im an achievement whore

MW2 is a lost cause. im going to borrow it from a friend it so i can play the single player then uninstall.

[ch3ch3n]

for the pc, people will be all over this.

i bought the 4 pack of left 4 dead 2 (clan members pooled in the $) I was going to buy assassins creed 2 for pc but that got pushed back. im thinking about getting it for console cause i really like how that game plays with a controller over mouse and keyboard and im an achievement whore

MW2 is a lost cause. im going to borrow it from a friend it so i can play the single player then uninstall.

assassins creed sux big time !! sure the gfx are nice but did you played the first one ? all the missions wher the same never played such a boring game in my life.I dont even looked at one trailer of assasins creed 2 and not even interested in it

[TheEn|gma]

This is does pretty cool, I liked the mention of the characters in L4D1

assassins creed sux big time !! sure the gfx are nice but did you played the first one ? all the missions wher the same never played such a boring game in my life.I dont even looked at one trailer of assasins creed 2 and not even interested in it

Yeah I wasn't a fan either I got it with my PS3 and I didn't think it was very good, got old fast for me.

[5t3v0]

MW2 is a lost cause. im going to borrow it from a friend it so i can play the single player then uninstall.

if you have a console, borrow it for there. MW2 is now tied to your steam account, so you cant borrow a friends copy and uninstall.

[RYKUU]

if you have a console, borrow it for there. MW2 is now tied to your steam account, so you cant borrow a friends copy and uninstall.

i like the sound of that, maybe some better held stats.

[Cryptik]

if you have a console, borrow it for there. MW2 is now tied to your steam account, so you cant borrow a friends copy and uninstall.

I thought that was only the steam version

[TheEn|gma]

So I sold out and bought pre-ordered L4D2. Feel Dirty

[VoraciousBear]

I thought that was only the steam version

Yeah I don't think that they would force you to create a steam version in order to play online.

[PPSKevin]

thanks for the info