Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream DLC coming July 24
After over a year of public testing, Valve will officially launch Left 4 Dead 2's Cold Stream DLC for PC and Xbox 360 on July 24, alongside a patch making all mutations available at all times.
After over a year of public testing, Valve will officially launch Left 4 Dead 2's 'Cold Stream' DLC later this month. It packs versions of original Left 4 Dead campaigns Blood Harvest, Crash Course, Dead Air and Death Toll, as well as the community-made Cold Stream. On top of that, a patch launching alongside will make all of the game-altering mutations available at all times.
The DLC and accompanying patch will launch on July 24, Valve revealed in a blog post. Valve put Cold Stream up for public testing last March, followed by the remaining L4D campaigns (No Mercy had launched before). Now, thanks to the wonders of Valve time, it's finally ready to roll out.
Valve has been rotating mutations weekly since February 2010, with only one available at any time. Their weird and wonderful effects have included turning all enemy infected in Versus into tanks with 'Taaannnkk!,' the infinite ammo M60 madness of 'Gib Fest,' and mode-mashup 'Versus Survival.' When the new patch launches in the 24th, you'll be able to play any of them whenever you want.
While the Cold Stream DLC will be free on PC, Valve will most likely charge on 360.
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After over a year of public testing, Valve will officially launch Left 4 Dead 2's Cold Stream DLC for PC and Xbox 360 on July 24, alongside a patch making all mutations available at all times.-
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Sweet.
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The post-launch support for L4D2 has been straight up unparalleled, I think, especially on PC. The game is now just about double in size of what it was when I bought it for $30 at launch, both in terms of GB and maps. All for free.
Plus the mutations, HEART Valve.-
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Extremely serious. Why would you think otherwise?
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There are games that have paralleled and exceeded post-launch support on the PC.
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Start listin'.
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Have you not played any Blizzard game?
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Sure have! You can't really count something like WoW, as that's an MMO. Plus isn't all that paid content, anyway?
What else? SC2 has a huge expansion coming, but is that free or paid? I'm sure D3 will have paid DLC.
What I'm getting at is that L4D2's postlaunch support added a shitload of maps and game modes (what, like 15+ of them?) for FREE.
I don't think it gets any better.-
Look, free is free and it's great that they do this.
But you are avoiding obvious choices of much better supported post-release games from Blizzard, and even Valve.
Valve, in my opinion, really fucked up with L4D franchise. 1 had a booming community map/mod scene the likes I had not personally experienced with the quake days and it died almost instantly when L4D2 came out. They didn't fulfill promises made for L4D1, and possibly even 2 I don't remember. While they have added some maps, they haven't been that good and (here is a great example) take forever.
Free is free and who can complain about that but to go all crazy and say "straight up unparalleled" is crazy, but such is shacknews posting.-
So you played L4D1, quit when L4D2 came out, and declared the scene dead? Shacknews posting, indeed.
L4D2 thrives, son. There's a shitload, and I mean a fuckin' shitload of quality user-made maps available, campaign, VS. and survival. Check out l4dmaps.com (I think that's the one). You claiming that the maps they added aren't very good is subjective, and I'm guessing you don't play them much. I have. They're excellent. Especially Cold Stream (which has been available for a year on PC, so there goes your 'take forever' point).
So yeah, I have yet to see any game company offer this much content/support (regular patches come with the mutations) for free, pretty much ever.-
Don't forget Helms Deep Reborn. I fucking love that map.
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So you played L4D1, quit when L4D2 came out
No, I didn't do that, nor did I write that. ( Shacknews posting, indeed. ) Reading comprehension failure detected, further irrational and inaccurate posting from bill crystals likely
L4D2 thrives, son. There's a shitload, and I mean a fuckin' shitload of quality user-made maps available, campaign, VS. and survival. Check out l4dmaps.com (I think that's the one). You claiming that the maps they added aren't very good is subjective, and I'm guessing you don't play them much. I have. They're excellent. Especially Cold Stream (which has been available for a year on PC, so there goes your 'take forever' point).
So yeah, I have yet to see any game company offer this much content/support (regular patches come with the mutations) for free, pretty much ever.
Irrational? Incorrect?
Confirmed!
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Sure you didn't write that, but it's pretty easy to infer when you DO write stuff like this "L4D1 had a booming community map/mod scene the likes I had not personally experienced with the quake days and it died almost instantly when L4D2 came out.'
Being that this is an objectively false statement, as anyone who plays L4D2 can tell you, I have to conclude that you were butthurt over L4D2 being released so quickly and stopped playing.
In any case, you're totally wrong, L4D2 owns, son.-
You excel at trolling, that can't be denied. Here I am posting again, taking the bait on another terrible post.
Sure you didn't write that, but it's pretty easy to infer
It is easy to infer that I didn't play L4D2 is your statement here, and that is false.
you DO write stuff like this "L4D1 had a booming community map/mod scene the likes I had not personally experienced with the quake days and it died almost instantly when L4D2 came out.' Being that this is an objectively false statement, as anyone who plays L4D2 can tell you, I have to conclude that you were butthurt over L4D2 being released so quickly and stopped playing.
As anyone who played both games can tell you, it's 100% true, in fact it eventually led to the collapse of a second website that was just as, if not more popular than l4dmaps.com which is still around. The maps and campaigns came to halt.
They still come out, its been years after all, but at the time it was a massive blow to the original game, and new maps for the second game were mostly ports from the original and took a lot of time and were bug filled.
My only point in my frist response to you, that is now long lost in your trolling here is that when you say something as ridiculous as "the post-launch support for L4D2 has been straight up unparalleled" that it is not correct. Ninjase pointed out an obvious and immediate example.
Free stuff is great, even if it takes years and is medicore. Nobody can complain about free! But to say it is "straight up unparalleled" is ridiculous and wrong.
But your hillbilly reading comprehension failure led you to get all "butthurt" and make wild accusations and incorrect statements, and change your point with each subsequent post.
In any case, you're totally wrong, L4D2 owns, son.
I never wrote that it didn't own, L4D2 is a great game. Also, I aint your son Jethro.
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I agree with you. TF2 is "unparallelled". L4D was neutered by L4D2 so I would say it was just merely okay. L4D2 has been better though. Mutations if you're into that, The Passing, The Sacrifice, but Cold Stream spent over a year in beta and isn't even a Valve map. The L4D additions to L4D2 were nice, but unneeded. But I can't complain. I even said it was good, just not unparallelled. Way better than Portal though. Portal's post-launch support was a major fuck up if you ask me. Great game, but they never supported it despite building in a support system. Portal 2 has been much better, though I feel the map editor should have been in from the get go. I think the map editor should actually be a universal Source feature actually.
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The Passing and The Sacrifice were terribly mediocre. I also really hated how Bill was treated as some "achievement" and didn't even get a cool send-off. Kill one of the cooler characters in the cast and give him a shitty ending. Ah durrr, read the online comic.
They really felt about as non-Valve as possible.
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SC is only supported because it's huge in the tournament scene, they're kinda obligated to support it. I would guess that they started patching D2 in the last few years again to build some hype for D3. But hey, I remember when D2 was new and they were saying how easily they could add horadric cube recipes and made it sound like it would happen frequently; it didn't.
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Game released: June 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_II
Last patch: October 2011
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Yeah, that's badass, but high quality, free, original content is always going to trump periodic maintenance/bug fixes in this argument, in my humble opinion.
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Well that's awesome.
Looks like we've established that Blizzard and Valve do it right when it comes to post-launch support.-
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It was pretty much sarcasm due to the retarded thread-squabble above.
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EVE Online has been making expansions and upgrading the engine for free.
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Ayup
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I feel that their post launch support is commendable
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Substantial content that any other company would charge money for. The maps, items. Including the replay function and editor? Crazy.
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Need 24/7 TANK!!! servers. Our society doesn't have nearly enough RUNNING FOR OUR DEAR LIVES these days.
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Finally! They did say there was going to be another suprise in the DLC if I remember correctly. Anyway can't wait to play the L4D1 campaigns again I always felt they were better and I can't wait for Death Toll!
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Yeah it's still decently lively. It's a shitty scene (for VS) due to the type of game it is, but I have great games all the time!
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Well maybe MS has changed their policy, it was a while ago: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/25/gabe-newell-on-xbox-live-restrictions-hope-for-steam/
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