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Left 4 Dead DLC announcement "before summer's out" says Valve
Posted: 03.07.2009 06:58 by Technet2k Comments: 4
Doug Lombardi of Valve has revealed they plan on making an announcement this summer on more Left 4 Dead DLC, proving they will "keep supporting Left 4 Dead 1."

The devs "haven't shown everything" coming in Left 4 Dead 2 yet, and in "8, 9 months" people will see "the method of our madness". Plans free weekends for L4D2 "post-launch."

"We plan to keep supporting Left 4 Dead 1. There will be some announcements coming before summer's out about what's coming there, and then we haven't shown everything that's in Left 4 Dead 2 yet," Lombardi told CVG.

"I think 8, 9 months from now once everything's been out for a while and everyone's had time to see the complete product of Left 4 Dead 2 and see continued support for Left 4 Dead 1, they may sort of see what we were up to and what the method of our madness was there."

The announcement of a Left 4 Dead 2 hasn't gone down too well with portions of the fanbase, but Valve hope to prove that they aren't abandoning the original game.

"With Left 4 Dead in particular we've found that word of mouth really is the strongest thing," he told OXM. "With Left 4 Dead 2 we plan 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."

Left 4 Dead 2 is being released on Xbox 360 and PC later this year.

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By YouriRevenn (SI Member) on Jul 03, 2009
YouriRevenn
I think this game only a skin pack to L4D 1. any new weap, new enemy, new map and nothing more. But not bad.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jul 03, 2009
herodotus
I'll stick with L4D and leave the sequel to Valve addicts. More DLC is required for the original, and was promised so hand it over guys. As for free weekends, never taken part in one yet.
By FoolWolf (SI Core) on Jul 04, 2009
FoolWolf
Well I'm dubious. The changes to L4D 2 sounds nice and improvements that should have been in the first one, so I think that these things should have come as a DLC plan and/or a costier DLC to the original game perhaps?

Now you will feel cheated anyway you turn really unless you skipped the first game, but then you won't have played the excellent maps in that one. Best for players would be to merge the two games or somehow give the owners of the first one options to use the L4D 2 mechanics into the old one or something..
By stuntkid (SI Core Veteran) on Jul 05, 2009
stuntkid
Exactly what FoolWolf said.