April 24th, 2009 at 8:52 pm by Matt Schuler under Entertainment
Kill or be killed. Rather, kill for as long as you can, but you're going to die eventually.
Valve continues to impress me. The company delivers updates to games its released for free. For Team Fortress 2, those updates come in the form of class changes, new game modes, new maps and other various goodies. For its Left 4 Dead players, Valve’s done it again.
The Survival mode was released this past Tuesday to the PC and Xbox 360 as a free update. What’s amazing to me, is that almost any other company would have charged for an update of this quality. In fact, most do. I look to Fallout 3 as a great example of a game that’s charged for updates, but Valve goes the other route. It adds a new game mode and releases new maps for free.
The patch actually has more to offer than just a new game mode too. (more…)
April 17th, 2009 at 6:37 pm by Matt Schuler under Entertainment
When the hunter pounces your friend, you should shoot it. (click to enlarge)
A big content patch is coming next week to Valve’s Left 4 Dead. The patch will add a new game mode, dubbed ‘Survival’ and official versions of Versus maps ‘Dead Air’ and ‘Death Toll.’
On the Left 4 Dead Blog, a post from Kerry Davis and Scott Dalton said Survival mode will be more than just trapping players in a small part of a map, unleashing the hordes and recording the longest time.
Valve wants Survival games to last less than ten minutes. It will be a mode of play “distinct from Campaign or Versus.”
Davis and Dalton wrote about the pacing offered in a Survival map, saying they needed “to define as precisely as possible how the difficulty ramps up during the course of a round.” (more…)
January 15th, 2009 at 11:37 am by Matt Schuler under Entertainment
If you’ve been playing the Versus mode in Left 4 Dead, there are some changes to the gameplay that are going to have a pretty big impact. (Read my original review here.)
Valve released a pretty massive patch last night, full of bug fixes. Inside, there are also some balance changes for the versus multiplayer mode. Affected, almost every special infected, the only one left out is the Boomer.
Watch out when going to the hospital, the improved smoker will hurt you a lot more now if he snares you.
The full patch notes follow:
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