Left 4 Dead 'Survival Pack' lunges for Xbox 360 on April 21
by David Hinkle 
on Mar 23rd 2009 12:29PM
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:27PM latin trident said
Free?! That is ridiculous! Why not charge $5 like their competitor Capcom with the RE5 DLC? That makes sense... Oh wait, Valve is much better than that.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2009 3:15AM (Unverified) said
Companies only charge for DLC because people have to actually work to get this stuff out. It doesn't make itself. And because it is DLC you don't have to purchase it. It's just like buying a small expansion of any other game. If it's a good game I never have a problem with paying for it.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 12:46PM (Unverified) said
"Let the undead griefing begin!"
This is one of the greatest and easiest games to "grief" with hahaha
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This is one of the greatest and easiest games to "grief" with hahaha
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 12:48PM CannabisPrime said
A new version of the game releases on the same day IIRC that includes the DLC as well.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 12:50PM (Unverified) said
so there are no new maps? just versus for existing maps?
i LOVE this game, but am getting very sick of the 4 campaigns.
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i LOVE this game, but am getting very sick of the 4 campaigns.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 12:52PM (Unverified) said
No. There will be one new map (not campaign) that will be a part of the survival mode but not the campaigns. It is a lighthouse area. IGN has a few videos of it.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 12:51PM (Unverified) said
Wow. I am super excited. I just wish it was coming a bit sooner. For free though I can't complain. Too bad that is right when I start finals.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:03PM Mazrael said
The 2 other versus maps should really have been on the disc already, maybe it was a disc space issue.. I been thinking that maybe MP components of games should be downloaded (free of course), to reduce compression on textures/sound. just then hopefully MS will release a much larger HDD.. It may be just me, but there are times, where it starts looking a bit youtube, like on Halo Wars cut scenes
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:07PM JambiBum said
It wasn't a disc space issue. It was a time and balancing issue. Valve has already said that they were running short on time to correctly balance the other two campaigns for versus. There are certain things that they have to remove from the campaigns in order to make it balanced for versus. Take the closet in the No Mercy finale for example. They completely removed that.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:13PM Van Faulk said
OK this really has to stop.
Giving something away for free that you have no business charging for in the first place is not a good deed.
This is not DLC. It's a glorified patch. I've nothing against L4D. I thought it was fun, but let's call a spade a spade.All it is is adding support for features which should have been standard form the beginning.
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Giving something away for free that you have no business charging for in the first place is not a good deed.
This is not DLC. It's a glorified patch. I've nothing against L4D. I thought it was fun, but let's call a spade a spade.All it is is adding support for features which should have been standard form the beginning.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:49PM JambiBum said
For fucks sake. First it's complaining when something costs money. Now it's complaining when something is free or "Oh noes!! They are calling a patch DLC when it isn't!" It adds an entirely new game mode. Patches don't do that. So please, do us all a favor and just keep your opinion to yourself..
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 2:16PM (Unverified) said
And yet, in spite of all the odds, it is content that is downloaded.
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Posted: Mar 24th 2009 2:10PM (Unverified) said
You, squire, are a spaz.
It's new content. New things are being added as well as old things being fixed. So it's a patch and DLC (i think, i don't care for the 360 since L4D is better on the PC).
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It's new content. New things are being added as well as old things being fixed. So it's a patch and DLC (i think, i don't care for the 360 since L4D is better on the PC).
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:19PM TheDrizzle659 said
Still no orange box update? C'mon valve these maps are getting old and i'm sick of people hacking the game.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:37PM chdude3 said
I gave up on Orange Box months ago and traded it while Blockbuster still gave me a decent value for it. The single player stuff was all great. TF2, while great in theory, is outright busted on the 360. I just grabbed it for $10 on Steam during one of the sales.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:33PM xGeneral DEATHxDEETH82 said
I know it's been said that it may be possible before, but does anyone know if there will ever be a PS3 port for this game?
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:40PM chdude3 said
In the interest of full disclosure, I have a 360 only. I'd like to get a PS3, I'm waiting for a price drop.
L4D is a great game. I feel it is a shame that it's not on PS3, but Gabe Newell seems to have such a hard-on for the 360 and such a hate-on for the PS3 that I don't think it'll make the leap.
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L4D is a great game. I feel it is a shame that it's not on PS3, but Gabe Newell seems to have such a hard-on for the 360 and such a hate-on for the PS3 that I don't think it'll make the leap.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:42PM xGeneral DEATHxDEETH82 said
Yeah, I knew that Newell seemed to hate it, but I've owned only 1 PS3, and my newly-refurb'ed 360 is console #5 on the Microsoft side. Quite frankly, this is the only title that's kept me from selling my 360 thus far.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:44PM Nadril said
Generally the PS3 is just not worth the extra development time. Because valve develops for the PC first and foremost porting it over to the 360 is easy, but the PS3 is much more difficult because of how it handles things (especially all of the cores).
So it probably will never come over to the PS3. It just really isn't worth the time for Valve.
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So it probably will never come over to the PS3. It just really isn't worth the time for Valve.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 1:47PM (Unverified) said
Technically, there's no reason there couldn't be a port. Legally, there's probably a piece of paper stopping it. The port may even exist already, given the recurring rumors, but as with any port rumors I stand by "no" until there's a press release. I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 2:34PM Rob Bourne said
Valve could always let EA port - and consequently ruin - it.
I feel sorry for PS3 Orange Box owners.
But yeah, don't hold your breath on a PS3 version any time soon.
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I feel sorry for PS3 Orange Box owners.
But yeah, don't hold your breath on a PS3 version any time soon.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 3:35PM bigE said
I just don't see Valve doing a PS3 port anytime soon. I just don't think the cost of doing the port would outweigh the potential revenue Valve would get from the game.
I'm sure when Valve does make their next major engine, not an incremental update to source as they have been doing, they will support PS3. Then again by that point maybe the PS4 will be near release, 2012 anyone?
It is nice to see Valve sticking to the free DLC policy, I wish more developers/publisher would reward their customers for holding on to their games and not reselling them.
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I'm sure when Valve does make their next major engine, not an incremental update to source as they have been doing, they will support PS3. Then again by that point maybe the PS4 will be near release, 2012 anyone?
It is nice to see Valve sticking to the free DLC policy, I wish more developers/publisher would reward their customers for holding on to their games and not reselling them.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 10:53PM TheDarkWayne said
no Death! then how will we play L4D together and I get to run towards the engine on dead air as it crashes?!
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Posted: Mar 24th 2009 7:57AM xGeneral DEATHxDEETH82 said
Hehe...Dark Wayne...that ish will always be classic. I was thinking to myself "Has he NEVER played this game before now?!"
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Posted: Mar 26th 2009 5:41PM (Unverified) said
Is there a way to make the engine kill you?! I have tried over and over (on the 360) and my body moves out of the way without me moving and I never get hit... Sad times. I wants to be engine killed
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Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 3:56PM (Unverified) said
How hard is it to take existing maps, transform then into versus mode, and allow them to be downloaded?
I think that all 4 campaigns should have been available in versus from the beginning. I have downloaded some good custom campaigns, and many of them INCLUDE VERSUS modes with them...
Now, the survival mode, and the SDK (pc version), might take a little longer to develop, but why not release it at a later date than the other two "new versus" maps?
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I think that all 4 campaigns should have been available in versus from the beginning. I have downloaded some good custom campaigns, and many of them INCLUDE VERSUS modes with them...
Now, the survival mode, and the SDK (pc version), might take a little longer to develop, but why not release it at a later date than the other two "new versus" maps?
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 6:17PM (Unverified) said
crybabies.
This isn't a DLC that was released right when the game came out.
I'm sure they took a little break after L4D came out, then they started on this pretty quickly. It takes time.
Yes it should have been available on all 4 maps from the beginning. Valve WANTED that. It's not like they held these two back on purpose to release months later and charge you $15.
No.
They started working on it, and now are releasing it for free and people still aren't happy.
DEAR VALVE
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This isn't a DLC that was released right when the game came out.
I'm sure they took a little break after L4D came out, then they started on this pretty quickly. It takes time.
Yes it should have been available on all 4 maps from the beginning. Valve WANTED that. It's not like they held these two back on purpose to release months later and charge you $15.
No.
They started working on it, and now are releasing it for free and people still aren't happy.
DEAR VALVE
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 8:26PM (Unverified) said
Thank God I'm a PC gamer.
Title says for Xbox 360, right? From past experience, us PC gamers would probably have that patch a bit earlier? Like those Versus fixes. Took Valve to patch them up in the 360.
Also, to anyone who's whining about "content that should've been on the disc already", Valve cares enough to actually give us new content. Why, they could just sit in their wads of cash and do nothing (Well, console versions of The Orange Box...>_>).Instead, they fixed the two up for multiplayer. Balancing issues would have risen up if they didn't modify the maps to suit.
In a little side note, "Valve Time" is at work here. Weren't we suppose to get these patches "before or on" Christmas :P Ah well, better late than never.
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Title says for Xbox 360, right? From past experience, us PC gamers would probably have that patch a bit earlier? Like those Versus fixes. Took Valve to patch them up in the 360.
Also, to anyone who's whining about "content that should've been on the disc already", Valve cares enough to actually give us new content. Why, they could just sit in their wads of cash and do nothing (Well, console versions of The Orange Box...>_>).Instead, they fixed the two up for multiplayer. Balancing issues would have risen up if they didn't modify the maps to suit.
In a little side note, "Valve Time" is at work here. Weren't we suppose to get these patches "before or on" Christmas :P Ah well, better late than never.
Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 11:59PM vgxtremist XBLA IllWill3387 said
I see countless more hours put into this game in the future...
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Posted: Mar 24th 2009 2:25AM meth0dical said
pretty stoked for this update, pretty sure it'll get me back into l4d for at least a while
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