Topic: Left 4 Dead 2 announced

[MysterD]

Whats funny is after this next update, they pretty much will have done that. The hardest thing to do would be to get the original cast of characters into L4D2, which Valve is now doing for the No Mercy port.

Which, knowing Valve and Valve Time, will probably take 1 year or so to do just that.

All the original campaigns have already been ported to L4D2 by the community. So once this update hits there won't be much of a reason to buy or play L4D1 anymore.

So pretty much, The Community did most of the work already for Valve.

[gpw11]

Played with Pyro tonight; great fun, we all need to get together for a game.  Seriously.

[idolminds]

The Sacrifice update is now out. Beware, L4D2 owners, the update is over 3GB! No idea what it is for L4D1.

Its about time Valve combines the games into one. If you have both L4D1 and 2 installed, you have a lot of wasted space and bandwidth. You'll be downloading The Sacrifice twice, plus a duplicate copy of No Mercy (with all the sounds, maps, textures, etc). Just seems stupid how its been done.

[MysterD]

Idol, yeah - I was getting horrible DL speeds on Steam for those new DL's for L4D2. Servers must be getting hammered. I'm gonna wait and try again later...

EDIT:
Okay, got all L4D2 updates DL'ed.
Gonna try The Survival out.

[W7RE]

The Sacrifice update is now out. Beware, L4D2 owners, the update is over 3GB! No idea what it is for L4D1.

I just came back to my PC and saw Steam downloading L4D2, was wondering what it was doing. It's 96% done already though, it must have been going for a while.

[Xessive]

I just spotted the download but it's going quite slowly. L4D is done but L4D2 has two separate separate downloads with a total of about 7GB!  Specifically, one is is just labeled L4D2 and is 3551.7MB, the other is labeled L4D2 Add-on Support and is 3573.9MB. Weird.

[MysterD]

L4D2: The Sacrifice (DLC #2) is only 3 chapters. Took me around 35-40 mins or so to finish. Been through it twice - it is good.

[K-man]

10 bucks and change for both games on steam today.

[MysterD]

1Up -> Everybody who has secured themselves a copy of L4D2 since the game was originally released by the time of 4pm PST tomorrow, you'll get some items unlocked for yourself in TF2.

Specifically, Team Fortress 2 players will gain access to the frying pan melee weapon and a stylin' trucker cap modeled after the one Ellis wears in Left 4 Dead 2. Furthermore, these items are apparently compatible with all nine classes in the cartoonish shooter.

[MysterD]

More L4D2 DLC coming.

Left 4 Dead 1's other THREE campaigns are being moved over to L4D2.

Cold Stream is the new DLC content for L4D2 being worked on by Matthew Lourdelet (who made 2 Evil Eyes) - with a focus on new gameplay elements and NOT story.
Valve wants the community to have an input in what directions the gameplay and how everything goes, so they set up a forum for this.

[idolminds]

More L4D2 DLC coming.

Left 4 Dead 1's other THREE campaigns are being moved over to L4D2.

So is this where they laugh at the people that bought L4D1?