Left 4 Dead 2

If you like writing, and you like Left 4 Dead 2, then here’s something that you might be interested in.

The folks here at Left4Dead2.org are looking for some dedicated people who enjoy writing about Left 4 Dead 2. It can be about anything related to Left 4 Dead 2. You can write a guide, a review, a tutorial/strategy, or anything else that’s related to the game. Whatever you write will be then posted here on Left4Dead2.org for publicity. It will be seen by the thousands of people that visit this site daily.

You can write as many articles as you want, however, there are some rules you must follow:

-Use appropriate language
-Must not be copied & pasted from another website
-Must show no any “hate” to Left 4 Dead 2 (ex. an article titled “Left 4 Dead 2 Sucks” is something we are not looking for)
-Minimum 100 words

Once you’ve completed writing up your article, you have two options for submitting it:

1) Email it to: bryanon@live.co.uk

2) Register on http://www.Left4Dead2Forum.com and post it there.

Once your article has been submitted, it will be reviewed, positively edited (with all due respect), and posted here on Left4Dead2.org.

So you’re probably thinking, “why the heck would I want to do this?” Well first of all, it’s a good experience for yourself. Sometime later down the road, somebody is going to ask you if you’ve ever had any article writing experiences. You can say “I wrote some articles for a website.” Secondly, this is the oppurtunity for YOU to be heard. If you have something about Left 4 Dead 2 that you want many other people to know, here is your chance.

If you are not interested in this offer, simply do not participate and ignore this post.

Thanks and I hope to see some of your articles!

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

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* Fixed case where game failed to launch in certain machine configurations
* Fixed bug where a burning witch could get into a state where she’s invincible
* Fixed bug where bots would not shoot at Jockeys and Chargers while approaching to save a teammate

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Despite early concerns that it was too soon for a sequel, Left 4 Dead 2 has sold more than 2 million copies at retail, doubling the sales to date of the original game.

Gamers made noise when the sequel to last year’s cooperative survival horror title was announced earlier this year, but the quick follow-up doesn’t seem to have hurt Left 4 Dead 2′s sales figures. More than 2 million copies of the PC and Xbox 360 versions have sold at retail, a figure that doesn’t even take Steam purchases into account. That’s great news for Valve, who in turn have more great news on the way.

“Left 4 Dead 2 is off to a great start with strong support at retail and great reviews from the press,” said Doug Lombardi, VP of marketing at Valve. “Meanwhile the title has already been played by over 1 million Xbox LIVE Gold account holders, and news regarding L4D2 DLC 1 is coming very soon.”

I’d urge our readers to keep their eyes on this site for said DLC news, but that’s no way to survive the zombie apocalypse.

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Someone on the official forums found a very special Infected while browsing the population.txt file: common_male_jimmy, otherwise known as the Infected version of Jimmy Gibbs, Jr, the famous Super Cup racecar driver from Dead Center!

The Infected model, which has no known placement naturally in the game, has a thousand health, no gibs, and a set of unique dialogue reactions from the Survivors, including:

* “Sorry about this Mr. Gibbs, but we need your car.” ~ Coach
* “HEY! Jimmy Gibbs!” ~ Coach
* “HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPP!” ~Ellis
* “Dibs on Gibbs.” ~ Rochelle
* “God damn that Jimmy Gibbs Jr.!” ~Nick

To spawn him yourself, use these commands:

map
sv_cheats 1
z_forcezombiemodelname common_male_jimmy
z_forcezombiemodel 1
z_spawn

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According to the official L4D blog:

We have upgraded our network infrastructure to better accommodate the huge response to L4D2. 360 players will now have lag-free servers. We’ve also added more dedicated servers.

We will continue to monitor the situation and add resources as needed.

Thank you for your patience. Now quit reading this, get out there and kill some zombies!

Some people wonder why L4D2 cannot handle more than four survivors at any one time. Well, this video should be more than enough to tell you why Valve decided to limit it. This little clip shows the chaos that ensues when 16 people are allowed to join a L4D2 server, before it decides to crash.

Yesterday, Valve released the second update for the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2. This patch, downloaded automatically when you start Steam, corrects matchmaking issues and a few other bugs.

* Fixed performance problem when rendering lots of decals, notably when fighting tanks with shotguns
* Fixed rcon response not working on Linux dedicated servers
* Fixed matchmaking problem matching into Advanced and Expert games
* Fix bug that would cause other specials to try to pummel a player a Charger disconnects or reconnects
* Fixed versus mode results panel being cut off in transition stats screen in non-english
* Found games: fixed non-player entries drawing the wrong type of icon in the selected item name label
* Game mode selector on main menu now takes keyboard input

If you bought Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC, you might be pleased to hear that some modders have figured out a way to import all of the maps from Left 4 Dead into Left 4 Dead 2, playable with the new infected, new survivors, and the baseball bat. It’s a complex process compared to most mods, and it suffers from a few major problems at the time of writing, unfortunately.

The only new weapon that works is the bat, most of the campaigns crash on certain events, and some of the switches don’t work. If you can get past this, however, you’ve got 5 new expertly designed maps to play around with. I’m expecting that at some point someone (possibly even Valve) will create working versions of all of these maps for Left 4 Dead 2, so for now my advice is to keep your game files safe, and admire the work from a distance. I just hope that they patch in Francis as a playable character. I miss him terribly.

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With reports of players failing to get through the ‘Easy’ difficulty due to the stupidity of AI companions in Left 4 Dead 2, a video has backed this up by showing just how hilariously bad the AI can be in the sequel.