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Left 4 Dead Updates!

Deathsythe | September 19, 2008 | News | PC XBOX 360 
The Team Fortress 2 team has been helping the Left 4 Dead staff work on their multiplayer by incorporating many of the things they learned while developing TF2.

Some of the things improved/finished:

  • Critical hits
  • Respawn waves
  • Auto-team balancing
  • Facestabs

Yes - you read correctly - facestabs...

Oh dear...
Well, it's been a couple of weeks since we updated the blog, and we thought it was time to let you know why we've been so quiet. The last couple of weeks we've actually been moonlighting on Left 4 Dead. While the L4D team has been focusing on finishing up the core cooperative gameplay, we've been helping them by working on their Versus mode. Versus is the recently-announced competitive mode where one team plays the Survivors and one team plays the Infected. We've learned a lot while working on TF2 in the last year, and we were able to apply some of those lessons to Versus mode. As a result, we've just finished adding critical hits, respawn waves, flawless auto-team balancing, and facestabs to L4D, while removing anything that looked remotely like a grenade.
I kid, I kid.

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    Red 9 | September 19, 2008
    Under PS3 Headlines WTF???
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      Deathsythe | September 20, 2008
      Because its linked to TF2/Orange Box.
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        Red 9 | September 20, 2008
        That really isn't reason enough. That's like listing Halo 3 under PS3 because it's part of the gaming industry.
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          tekmosis | September 22, 2008
          Cleaned up the categorization a bit so it's under PC and 360. Unfortunate for PS3 owners Valve commented there wont be a PS3 version....yet
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    Seeker X | September 20, 2008
    This is probably the only game that's keeping me from just getting rid of my 4th 360 instead of trading it in for ANOTHER one.
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    Red 9 | September 20, 2008
    -DUPLICATED POST REMOVED-

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