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[BuddhaRockstar]

Nice a classic creepy night level, it looks great.

It would be cool if the fallen survivors ran from you, making you hunt them down to get items, since they believed they were immune. Would add a good risk/reward, let your guard down to SI/hordes to chase down the fallen or let him go?

 

[Red Scarlet]

There's youtube vids of the fallen survivor UI, they catch fire when you kill them iirc.

 

[SundaySounds]

I hope that's not just a bullshot and they have officially upped the number of zombies onscreen at once.

That zombie is carrying a molotov...

 

[xero273]

There's youtube vids of the fallen survivor UI, they catch fire when you kill them iirc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiPxnaLiQ8

Here's the video. You can spawn him with the following commands

sv_cheats 1
z_forcezombiemodelname common_male_fallen_survivor
z_forcezombiemodel 1
z_spawn

 

[Dogenzaka]

What the hell is wrong with Coach??? His head is planet-sized and his wrist is as thick as a pencil. AND he's ridiculously tall and his torso is as long as a snake??

What??????

 

[Sibylus]

- The upcoming L4D campaign sounds like it'll slot in between The Passing and Blood Harvest.

- Night level! I like shooting zombies in the dark.
- New gun looks like it could be a limited ammo weapon like the GL.
- Yay Fallen Survivor, rise from yo gwave! I'm guessing he's different from the cut version in some way, so perhaps the molotov won't explode (which would kind of be really dangerous for survivors AND dangerous for hordes). The item dropping is pretty cool.

 

[rezuth]

Valve doesn't really do bullshots unless they're snapped from a CG intro like L4D2's. Looks legit to me, might be a bigass "ambient" horde (one of the new features of L4D2, you come across a passive horde jammed into one area now and then).

Bigger hmm is the fact that the flashlight is casting a third-person dynamic light, but eh.

Why is that a hmm? The flashlight does that in L4D and L4D2 on PC.

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

Where has all this come from? This is brilliant.

I hadn't realised that The Passing was due out in March, much sooner than I originally anticipated.

 

[xero273]

Where has all this come from? This is brilliant.

I hadn't realised that The Passing was due out in March, much sooner than I originally anticipated.

Coming from the xbox event today.

 

[Dogenzaka]

Due in March means coming in May.

 

[jas0]

What the hell is wrong with Coach??? His head is planet-sized and his wrist is as thick as a pencil. AND he's ridiculously tall and his torso is as long as a snake??

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/163380-/L4D2-Poster_ThePassing_Q!01-noscale.jpg

What??????

I guess they pushed them all to the left to show the silhouettes of the original 4 on the right.

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

Coming from the xbox event today.

Ahh cheers dude, I forgot that was going on.

More things I need to spend my money on, cannot wait for this.

I have neglected the 360 version. I need to play more.

 

[CommieCaptorS]

What the hell is wrong with Coach??? His head is planet-sized and his wrist is as thick as a pencil. AND he's ridiculously tall and his torso is as long as a snake??

What??????

And Nick looks like he's actually eaten all of Coach's Chocolate Helicopters, in the process turning into a bald middle aged man.

 

[Mar]

http://kotaku.com/5469905/left-4-dead-2s-the-passing-coming-march-followed-by-comic-more-l4d-dlc

Not much but we know they want to release it in March. And new L4D DLC

Non playable characters? Lame. I was really looking forward to playing Francis in L4D2. The new characters just don't do anything for me.

Disappointed.

 

[Sibylus]

Why is that a hmm? The flashlight does that in L4D and L4D2 on PC.

Third-person, brah. In-game the flashlight has only been dynamic in first-person.

 

[ToyMachine228]

I didn't play L4D2 nearly as long, or as much as I did the original L4D. Depending on how The Passing is put out on 360 I might get back into it again. We'll see.

 

[dragonlife]

Night-time level...awesome

 

[Tubobutts]

Non playable characters? Lame. I was really looking forward to playing Francis in L4D2. The new characters just don't do anything for me.

Disappointed.

How can someone not like Coach? That makes no sense to me.

 

[fallengorn]

Can't wait to play! But that poster needs work. Ellis is the only one that doesn't look off.

 

[dragonlife]

I don't think Rochelle looks bad, honestly--but, yeah, Ellis looks just fine.

I hadn't even noticed the weird proportions on Coach until a poster mentioned it :lol And I'm saddened that Nick looks kinda ugly =( Sexy pose, sure, but the face is unflattering.

 

[Dogenzaka]

How is this even anatomically correct?
And why do Valve's poster artists always mess up?

 

[Red Scarlet]

They love messing up arms/hands.

 

[BuddhaRockstar]

How is this even anatomically correct?
And why do Valve's poster artists always mess up?

I think after the Zoey double handed one they just do it to fuck with people.

 

[Daigoro]

sweet new L4D news!

anyone up for a game in like an hour? going to play a few rounds of DOW and ill be free.

be back in a bit.

 

[Sibylus]

The character art was probably taken from quick n dirty concept art from forever ago.

 

[Red Scarlet]

I think after the Zoey double handed one they just do it to fuck with people.

It has to be, since they messed up Ellis's arm on Dead Center anyway too.

sweet new L4D news!

anyone up for a game in like an hour? going to play a few rounds of DOW and ill be free.

be back in a bit.

I'll try to remember to come on at 1130 (1030 now) if you want to then.

 

[Daigoro]

eh its kind of random. i just woke up when i posted that, buts its usually really late like this. :/ hard to get games!

 

[marvelharvey]

sweet new L4D news!

anyone up for a game in like an hour? going to play a few rounds of DOW and ill be free.

be back in a bit.

I'll be on a few moments, so I'll add you to my fl.

Edit: I like the way Valve simply cut'n'pasted the original survivors from No Mercy into the background of The Passing's poster, screwing up the perspective. Also, is Coach missing his left arm?

 

[syllogism]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnfVEty_bBQ

 

[Crab Milk Mickey]

Ooh, rain. And Fallen Survivors confirmed to run away.

The latter no doubt being removed in Frusmod or whatever it's called, though.

 

[GoldandBlue]

When the Passing was announced I thought of the possibility of the original L4D crew ending up becoming infected. I thought this was gonna end up true after hearing about the Fallen Survivor but I see that he's just that survivor from Dead Center. Which I'm glad cause I wanna see more of Francis, Louis, Zoey, and Bill in the future.

Man I really need to play L4D2 more. I've only played it for about 2 weeks after I purchased it in December...

 

[Host Samurai]

OOOOOh shit. I think I might get L4D2. Gamestop is selling it used for $34.99 and I can get 20% off. I have been itching for a L4D session for a while now in between my Tales of Vesperia sessions.

 

[toastyToast]

What the hell is wrong with Coach??? His head is planet-sized and his wrist is as thick as a pencil.

The ends of Coach's gloves are white, coupled with the lighting it makes his wrist look really thin.

That's nothing compared to Rochelle and Nick looks like a latino club owner.

 

[The Lamonster]

LTTP here. Had this game sitting on my dresser unwrapped for weeks. Finally played the Highway level (first chapter of Dark Carnival) last night and it was fucking awesome.

Reminded me of the highway chapter in World War Z. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?

 

[LM4sure]

I want another level with those cool rain effects. It was awesome not being able to see shit and then a zombie comes out of no where to eat your brains! SICK!!

 

[fallengorn]

When the Passing was announced I thought of the possibility of the original L4D crew ending up becoming infected. I thought this was gonna end up true after hearing about the Fallen Survivor but I see that he's just that survivor from Dead Center. Which I'm glad cause I wanna see more of Francis, Louis, Zoey, and Bill in the future.

Man I really need to play L4D2 more. I've only played it for about 2 weeks after I purchased it in December...

After The Passing they're planning another L4D1 campaign to link up with The Passing.

 

[OmniAvenger]

That poster for The Passing has to be placeholder art or fan art or something. It looks awful.

 

[xero273]

http://www.gamespot.com/events/microsoftx10/story.html?sid=6250346&tag=previews;title;3

Gamespot has videos of the Passing.

EDIT: oops, already posted via youtube link. Sorry, can't watch youtube links at work so I didn't know

 

[BuddhaRockstar]

Looks great. Video gives more insight into the M60, it has one 150 round belt, so it looks like a grenade launcher type item that will run out pretty quick.

 

[Volcynika]

Not sure if posted but a random stat released:

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/702577/Over-28-Billion-Infected-Killed-In-Left-4-Dead-2-.html

28 billion zombies killed? Let's kill more!

 

[Subliminal]

Meh. The passing is only 3 chapters long..

 

[JesseZao]

Meh. The passing is only 3 chapters long..

One step up from crash course at least

 

[vazel]

http://www.gamespot.com/events/microsoftx10/story.html?sid=6250346&tag=previews;title;3

Gamespot has videos of the Passing.

Ah poo you only get to see L4D1 survivors at the bookends of the campaign. I'm happy they didn't add a L4D1 vs L4D2 survivor team deathmatch mode I was afraid they were going to do that. I'm hoping this'll add another scavenge map.

 

[Volcynika]

Ah poo you only get to see L4D1 survivors at the bookends of the campaign. I'm happy they didn't add a L4D1 vs L4D2 survivor team deathmatch mode I was afraid they were going to do that. I'm hoping this'll add another scavenge map.

This was part of the news of the unveiling of it

"The Passing" will also add a new infected type, The Fallen Survivor. These are humans who believed themselves to be immune to the infection, but ended up zombified anyway. They will sometimes drop health kits or ammo when killed. It will include new arenas for Survival, Versus and Scavenge modes, and feature Hot, a new co-op challenge mode.

 

[Sibylus]

M60: Called it!

Hoping for ultra-foggy weather or some kind of variant of the Hard Rain rain storm in The Passing (or some kind of weather system).

LTTP here. Had this game sitting on my dresser unwrapped for weeks. Finally played the Highway level (first chapter of Dark Carnival) last night and it was fucking awesome.

Reminded me of the highway chapter in World War Z. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?

I read World War Z for the first time a few weeks before Left 4 Dead 2 released, I definitely had a deja vu moment in that map.

Meh. The passing is only 3 chapters long..

Crash Course was only 2 maps, and yet those two maps were pretty darn long and full of areas to explore. My guess is that the first two maps of The Passing will be as long as Crash Course, with the finale being similar to Swamp Fever's (ie there's a long stretch to walk to get to the finale area).

 

[carbonbased]

yeah, crash course was plenty long for what it was. versus games on the traditional campaigns can often drag. we all know how willing people are to tough it out for the entire 5 maps after getting steamrolled at the start.

 

[NotWii]

What the hell is wrong with Coach??? His head is planet-sized and his wrist is as thick as a pencil. AND he's ridiculously tall and his torso is as long as a snake??

What??????

O_O

It's almost as bad as the man faced Zoey they had for the Last Stand and Crash Course posters

 

[vazel]

Sorry if I came across as whining about mics but I can't stress how much mics helps in coordination in this game.

And thanks for letting my friend Luxious play on your GAF server vert. He's really good we actually finished one map when he joined.

 

[vertopci]

Sorry if I came across as whining about mics but I can't stress how much mics helps in coordination in this game.

And thanks for letting my friend Luxious play on your GAF server vert. He's really good we actually finished one map when he joined.

Install mumble and you can be on an all mic team!

 

[Red Scarlet]

Well, sucks we didn't finish, but that game had a lot of lolclose moments. Here was our fun time on Dark Carnival 1: (skip to 31000) http://redscarlet.paragonsigma.com/L4D/crazyvalentinecarnival1.dem

or avi: http://redscarlet.paragonsigma.com/L4D/carnival1expertfun.avi

That server felt like it had stuff upped difficulty wise (plus it was kinda laggy for everybody). Was enjoyable to play though, Toku/Spot/Story.