Left 4 Dead 'Survival Pack' lunges for Xbox 360 on April 21

by David Hinkle { Mar 23rd 2009 at 12:29PM }

Valve has revealed that its upcoming DLC pack (which is free, by the way) for Left 4 Dead will be available to Xbox 360 gamers on April 21. For the unaware, the pack includes a new Survival mode, which pits the human survivors against wave after wave of attacking zombies. The update also includes Versus campaign support for two more maps: Death Toll and Dead Air. Let the undead griefing begin!

Tags: dlc, fps, l4d, left-4-dead, valve-software

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

umm....hello??? @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:34PM

well, at least that gives me a whole month to get better at this game before the DLC hits...

Brucie B @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:37PM

Can't Wait, Good Stuff!

Neuromancer @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:42PM

Glad it's free is all I can say.

Latin_Trident @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:27PM

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.

iag25 @ Mar 23rd 2009 2:11PM

zing!

Obie @ Mar 23rd 2009 3:42PM

Yup, it's free. But the PC will get new achievements for the new modes, and the 360 gets shafted because "MS does not give achievements on free content".

Thanks M$!

syrik zero @ Mar 24th 2009 3:15AM

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.

syrik zero @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:46PM

"Let the undead griefing begin!"

This is one of the greatest and easiest games to "grief" with hahaha

~Snipes~ (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ Mar 23rd 2009 5:38PM

i shot the witch but i did not shoot the zombies...

CannabisPrime @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:48PM

A new version of the game releases on the same day IIRC that includes the DLC as well.

Nate @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:50PM

so there are no new maps? just versus for existing maps?

i LOVE this game, but am getting very sick of the 4 campaigns.

EtOH @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:52PM

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.

EtOH @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:51PM

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.

Kevin @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:52PM

One would assume that the PC dlc will be available on or before the 21st as well.

Einhanderkiller @ Mar 23rd 2009 6:27PM

It's coming before the 21st.

Deeznuts420 @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:53PM

I GOT GRIEF HERE!!

xGeneral DEATHx @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:30PM

I HATE GRIEFING...

Cubivore @ Mar 23rd 2009 12:53PM

Love that price. Can't wait to get back into it...

Mazrael @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:03PM

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

Jambi_Bum @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:07PM

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.

Doug @ Mar 23rd 2009 7:04PM

Lol, it's free. Who gives a shit.

Van Faulk @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:13PM

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.

uncle jesse @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:18PM

...and it's free. Sheesh, calm down.

Alex @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:21PM

Why should have Survival Mode been included? It isn't a bug fix. It is a whole new feature, that they are giving for free. If they can get a new campaign DLC that would be great too.

Jambi_Bum @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:49PM

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..

Robert Maynard @ Mar 23rd 2009 2:16PM

And yet, in spite of all the odds, it is content that is downloaded.

Lee @ Mar 24th 2009 2:10PM

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).

TheDrizzle @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:19PM

Still no orange box update? C'mon valve these maps are getting old and i'm sick of people hacking the game.

Viridium @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:37PM

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.

xGeneral DEATHx @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:33PM

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?

Viridium @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:40PM

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.

xGeneral DEATHx @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:42PM

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.

Nadril @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:44PM

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.

Trev @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:47PM

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.

Jambi_Bum @ Mar 23rd 2009 3:56PM

Death, I'm on the exact opposite end of the spectrum of you. I'm still on my first 360 but I'm currently waiting on my second PS3 to get back from repairs.

Rob Bourne @ Mar 23rd 2009 2:34PM

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.

Biggie @ Mar 23rd 2009 3:35PM

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.

The Dark Wayne @ Mar 23rd 2009 10:53PM

no Death! then how will we play L4D together and I get to run towards the engine on dead air as it crashes?!

xGeneral DEATHx @ Mar 24th 2009 7:57AM

Hehe...Dark Wayne...that ish will always be classic. I was thinking to myself "Has he NEVER played this game before now?!"

syrik zero @ Mar 26th 2009 5:41PM

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

tboy123 @ Mar 23rd 2009 3:56PM

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?

Mazrael @ Mar 24th 2009 6:27AM

read the highlighted comment below my greyed out one further up the page...

cleary states - they ran out of time because they need to balance the maps for versus - from my experience, that goes out of the window when people start quiting

Kevin949 @ Mar 23rd 2009 4:00PM

now fix TF2 on xbox please, thanks.

PooBone @ Mar 23rd 2009 5:38PM

Awesome

JohnHeist @ Mar 23rd 2009 6:17PM

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

grudgeoms @ Mar 23rd 2009 7:13PM

Now this is one game I wish the PS3 had.

sniping_dreamer @ Mar 23rd 2009 8:26PM

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.