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The ones that’s logged on Steam during the last 24 hours might have found out that their Left 4 Dead 2 game got updated. This is due to the release of the DLC called “The Passing”.

This brings the Left 4 Dead survivors down south for a metting with the L4D2 cast. I have missed the Left 4 Dead survivors, so this should be fun.

“The Passing” features 3 new maps, new weekly modes (mutations), a new “uncommon common” zombie class (the fallen survivor), melee weapon (golf club), weapon (M-60), support for infected bot play in Versus, 10 new achievements, and even more!

To celebrate all this, you can get Left 4 Dead 2 and the 4-pack for 33% off until Monday! Get it here.

Finally! It’s here! The new background!

And it’s all thanks to laban! Or “nub” as he’s called here. Enjoy!

Hello! It’s been a while!

Valve just released a new DLC for Left 4 Dead, called Crash Course. This is a new campaign for co-op, single-player, and multiplayer (versus). It is the “missing link” in the story, from when you took the helicopter from the roof of No Mercy hospital, to the beginning of Death Toll.

A new, long campaign you say? That is where you are wrong. This is the perfect map for anyone wanting a quick coop/VS match. The campaign contains two different maps/parts. They do not last for long, and are littered with weapons, gas cans, propane tanks, etc. It seems like the amount of guns you normally find in 5 parts, you now find in 2 parts. So you can imagine, it’s pretty often.

In part one, you have to shoot with an anti tank-gun to get to the safe room. This, of course, alerts all the Infected that you’re in the area, and they come rushing in two waves. The usual deal you find in many of the parts in Left 4 Dead. Great fun, with an MG and all!

In part two, at the end, you have to hold in the use key, in order to do the objective, which is to start the generator. I have, currently, only played it once, but right before the second tank, you have to power it up again. Atleast that’s what we had to do. :p

All in all, it’s a fun campaign, which doesn’t last very long. Too bad the achievements you unlock currently gets locked again when you restart Left 4 Dead. It doesn’t save.

Also, Left 4 Dead is 50% off! If you don’t have this game, it is recommended that you get it. Click here to buy!

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

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• Lobbies and games you’ve recently joined and left will be ignored for two minutes. This will prevent a player from ending up in the same lobby or game when quickly searching for another
• Restored Find a Game Lobby/Find a Game in Progress to the Create Lobby screen available from the Lobby Browser
• Updated localization text
• Fixed an issue where VPK.EXE would not extract all files

Left 4 Dead has been updated to include a lobby browser. The lobby browser (under Play Online) will show you a list of optimal games available for you to join. The browser pares down the thousands of lobbies and games currently being played to show you the best list of games available to you. This list includes official and add-on campaigns, including add-on campaigns you have not yet installed, making it a great way to discover them. You can filter by difficulty, official and/or add-on campaigns and by lobbies and/or games in progress. The specific changes include:

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• The Play on Steam Group Server screen now displays which Steam group it’s searching while updating the list
• After calling a vote to change difficulty in game it is now correctly updated in matchmaking

Add-on Campaigns

• When downloading a new version of an add-on and installing it (by double clicking the .VPK file), it will now correctly overwrite the previous version, even while Left 4 Dead is currently running
• Addressed a crash when two mission files with the same name are installed
• Steam Group Servers now will now correctly offer download links when running add-on campaigns

Server

• The server will now warn if the public or private tags exceed their limits. Public tags are limited to 63 characters. Private tags used for matchmaking are now limited to 1024 characters. Note that the private tags include the name of each add-on campaign installed on the server, so an excessive number of add-on campaigns can hit this limit

SDK

• The VPK tool should be able to handle campaigns larger than 500MB now
• You can now drag and drop or pass a VPK file to the vpk.exe tool to have it extract the contents of the add-on to a folder. This mirrors the functionality of passing a folder and having it create a VPK file
• Detail.vbsp and lights.rad have been added to the distribution