Left 4 Dead 2 Upcoming Update

[Hurmoth]

On April 20th, the guys over at Valve posted this minor update to the L4D blog stating that an update was coming with the final Cold Stream map. I'm a huge fan of the L4D franchise, but it seems that it is being left out of Valve's routine updates. No doubt they're working on a ton of stuff for only 300 employees, but I guess I made the assumption that Valve would be releasing more DLC like they do with TF2.

Cold Stream has been in beta for a year or more (I believe) and it isn't even their map, it is a community map that they're refining. The last official map/campaign was released in Oct 2010 if I'm not mistaken.

I hate complaining about this, but I guess I just expected a little more.

If Valve were to update L4D2, what would you like to see added, changed, etc.?

I'd like to see some new weapons. They've got a chainsaw, I'd like to see a flamethrower in the same sense. I think the chainsaw is a bit underpowered. The chainsaw's fuel just doesn't last very long. A better rocket launcher, maybe more like a bazooka. And a better AI, that can change map elements (especially weather elements), levels and components so each play through is totally different.

[Doli]

The Mod community is keeping L4D2 alive, if it wasn't for them i would have stoped playing a long time ago. 10 vs 10 games are crazy fun.

[c3ntury]

New maps, perhaps additional types of enemy and new weapons :)

[bjoswald]

I agree with Doli; if it weren't for the mod community, this game would've been dead by now. Personally, I don't play it often because the gameplay is too frantic. I like little to no ammo, slow (but massive) hordes of zombies and zombies alone. The goofy other "monsters" make it kind of a joke or "kiddie game" to me. I want survival to be nearly hopeless (little food/water, fighting amongst other survivors for dominance, robbing abandoned stores for supplies, etc) so winning actually means something. Also, the companions are so annoying that I usually ignore them when they're in trouble and explore on my own.

[Hurmoth]

I agree with Doli; if it weren't for the mod community, this game would've been dead by now. Personally, I don't play it often because the gameplay is too frantic. I like little to no ammo, slow (but massive) hordes of zombies and zombies alone. The goofy other "monsters" make it kind of a joke or "kiddie game" to me. I want survival to be nearly hopeless (little food/water, fighting amongst other survivors for dominance, robbing abandoned stores for supplies, etc) so winning actually means something. Also, the companions are so annoying that I usually ignore them when they're in trouble and explore on my own.

That's exactly what I've been doing. I used SourceMod to turn all the other specials off, except for witches and tanks, and I have a ton of zombie hordes.

[ViperAFK]

Valve has never given this series proper attention. I love l4d2, its my most played game (almost 900 hours), but its sad to see the lack of content/patches (really, all we've gotten was one super short campaign, a few old maps, and one pretty "meh" community map?) there's also frequent connection/server issues where the master server and/or steam friends goes down so no one can find games, and the official servers are garbage because they often give everyone high ping/lag for no reason, even when we are close to the server.

/rant

[Elliot B.]

<snip>10 vs 10 games are crazy fun.

Details, please!

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Details, please!

Yeah, what this guy said.

And it is just now getting it's final version? Damn I remember playing a very early beta version of that map and climbing a giant rope ladder to a helicopter that didn't leave till the tank knocked me off lol.

[Hurmoth]

Could be wrong, but I think it is just a plugin/mod. There's a lot of them, but here's one I've used before: http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=134032