WEEK 13

July 16, 2010 - L4D Team

Mutation Week 13: Hard Eight, What is your favorite Melee Weapon?, What else are you playing?

Hard Eight
Double the specials, quadruple the fun!

Face eight Special Infected at one time, this is double the standard number! And if that wasn’t trouble enough, we also increase the spawning frequency so it is raining Specials.

What is your favorite Melee Weapon?
Last week we asked, what is your favorite Melee Weapon? I see I am not alone being a Katana man. It is interesting to see that Xbox 360 users prefer the Chainsaw that much over PC users. Is it all about the controller and that rumble?

Here are the votes by platform.

Xbox 360
34% Katana (Sword)
17% Chainsaw
12% Machete
10% Fire Axe
 7% Baseball Bat
 6% Golf Club
 3% Frying Pan
 3% Electric Guitar
 3% Crowbar
 3% Cricket Bat
 1% Tonfa (police baton)

PC
44% Katana (Sword)
12% Machete
11% Fire Axe
 9% Chainsaw
 5% Baseball Bat
 4% Golf Club
 3% Frying Pan
 3% Electric Guitar
 3% Crowbar
 2% Cricket Bat
 2% Tonfa (police baton)

What else are you playing?
Besides of course playing L4D2, what are you playing the most?

To vote enter the game, view the in-game blog, and click to vote.

Next week's mutation: Healthpackalypse!

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WEEK 12

July 9, 2010 - L4D Team

Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse, What is your favorite finale? What is your favorite Melee Weapon?

Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse
Four Swords against plenty of apocalypse!

Armed with only swords the survivors face near continuous streams of Special Infected ready to be sliced and diced.

What is your favorite finale?
Last week we asked, what is your favorite finale? The answer is in and The Parish: Bridge and Dark Carnival: Concert are the winners. In parenthesis is the ranking and percentage the overall campaign had in our favorite campaign poll.

Here are the votes by platform.

Xbox 360
40% Dark Carnival: Concert (1/33%)
26% The Parish: Bridge (3/17%)
11% The Passing: Port (2/21%)
 9% Swamp Fever: Plantation (6/5%)
 7% Dead Center: Atrium (5/12%)
 7% Hard Rain: Escape (4/13%)

PC
32% Dark Carnival: Concert (1/27%)
32% The Parish: Bridge (2/21%)
10% The Passing: Port (5/15%)
10% Dead Center: Atrium (3/16%)
 9% Swamp Fever: Plantation (3/16%)
 7% Hard Rain: Escape (6/5%)

What is your favorite melee weapon?
This week’s mutation limits you to the sword, but if you could pick any melee weapon which one is your favorite?

To vote enter the game, view the in-game blog, and click to vote.

Next week's mutation: Hard Eight

360 Update

July 2, 2010 - L4D Team

Besides the Versus Survival Mutation update today, last night the following updates were applied to the Xbox 360 version.



Versus Changes

• Added a 25 point scoring penalty for using a Defibrillator.

• Scaled dynamic Defibrillators based on map length with a maximum of 1 per map.

• Removed dynamic Pill conversion to First Aid Kits.

• Removed Explosive Ammunition.

• Increased Jockey damage per second.

• Removed Jockey’s damage delay.

• Car Alarms will now trigger anytime a Special Infected pushes/pulls/rams a Survivor into an alarm car. This change only affects game modes with human-controlled Zombies .

• Special Infected bots spawn within 10 seconds of the Survivors leaving the safe room.



Survivor Bot Changes

• Improved SurvivorBot’s ability to support players who stop moving to fight infected.

• Improved SurvivorBot’s ability to support players in tight spaces.

• Changed Survivorbot item hunting behavior.

• SurvivorBots now stay closer to human players in all game modes.

• Fixed Survivorbot navigation issue in The Passing: Riverbank.

• Fixed bug where a SurvivorBot could become catatonic when attempting to save another Survivor from a Smoker.

• Fixed condition where SurvivorBots would not enter the saferoom.



Other Changes

• Increased self-inflicted friendly fire damage from the Grenade Launcher.

• Fixed bug where the M60 would reset its ammo if dropped in certain situations.

• Shortened spawn times for human Special Infected when the Infected team isn’t full. The time difference is added to the timer of the next bot in line to spawn.

• Fixed AI tanks sometimes not getting assigned to human players.

• Fixed exploit in The Passing where players could jump through a gap in the fence to skip a gauntlet.

• Fixed exploit in The Passing where players could get outside the world.

• Fixed commentary maps crashing on load, restored commentary option in main menu.

• Fixed team lobbies not working correctly for some game modes.

WEEK 11

July 2, 2010 - L4D Team

Versus Survival, Do You Play on More Than One Platrform?, Favorite Finale, Play with Devs.

Versus Survival
Can you survive against your friends?

The first Survivor team sets the time. The second team tries to beat it. Then the first team tries to beat the second team's time. Then the second team tries to beat the first team's time. And then the... you get the idea. Rounds keep switching until someone fails to beat the previous time.

Do you play on more than one platform? Last week we asked, do you own L4D1 or 2 on the Xbox 360 and PC. 30% of you do play on both the PC and Xbox 360. Xbox 360 users voted 57% No, 33% Yes and 10% Don’t Know. PC users voted 62% No, 29% Yes and 8% Don’t Know.

The Don’t Know votes scare us.

What is your favorite finale?
We previously asked your favorite campaign, but do you like the finales the same?

To vote enter the game, view the in-game blog, and click to vote.

Game with Devs!
Play with Devs games this Friday. We might even be forming Valve teams to take on your team! Look for us all this weekend using steam names - L4D2_DEV_1, L4D2_DEV_2, L4D2_DEV_3, L4D2_DEV_4, L4D2_DEV_5. All valid dev accounts are members of the Valve steam group. Or on the Xbox 360 L4D2 DEV 1, L4D2 DEV 2, L4D2 DEV 3, L4D2 DEV 4, L4D2 DEV 5. Our friends lists are full, but just play Versus Survival and look for us.

Thanks to everyone who submitted Avatar pictures last week. If you haven’t checked them out yet, visit facebook.com/left4dead2 to see them and other cool community content.

Next week's mutation: Four Swordsmen

WEEK 10

June 25, 2010 - L4D Team

Chainsaw Massacre, Encore Week Voting, Do You Play On More than One?, Have You Earned a New Friend?

Chainsaw Massacre
4 chainsaws, millions of zombies.

You are armed with the only thing you need to survive a Zombie Apocalypse, a chainsaw. Rip apart thousands of zombies on your way to safety.

This Mutation is available in Campaign Mode.

Encore Week Voting
On the Xbox 360 Chainsaw Massacre won the voting by a large margin. Chainsaw Massacre earned 44% of the vote, Last Man On Earth 26%, Headshot! 20% and Room For One 10%.

On the PC the voting was much closer with Chainsaw Massacre winning by only 500 votes! Chainsaw Massacre earned 33% of the vote, Headshot! 32%, Last Man On Earth 22%, and Room For One 13%.

Do you play on more than one platform?
We often hear people say that they play Left 4 Dead 1 or Left 4 Dead 2 on both the PC and Xbox 360. We are curious, for how many people is this true? Do you own either L4D1 or L4D2 on the Xbox 360 and the PC?

Have You Earned a New Friend?
Xbox 360 owners who have been playing the Mutations may have noticed a new Avatar award. You only need to play 6 Mutations to earn everyone’s favorite Gnome. With 8 Mutations released and 12 more to go, time to get cracking on that Avatar award. How cool does the Gnome look with your Avatar? Does he clash with your cat makeup? Show off your Avatar and Gnome by posting a screen shot of both on our Left 4 Dead 2 Facebook page.