Updated: Dead Air for Left 4 Dead 2 release date announced

[Texashiker]

From the official left 4 dead blog

http://www.l4d.com/blog/

What’s your prize? If 20,000 people can earn the Stream Crosser achievement (Survive a campaign of Cold Stream on any difficulty) by the end of day this Sunday, we will give all Steam players a reward - On July 22nd we will release Dead Air from the upcoming Cold Stream DLC early.

I am pretty sure its some kind of stunt to get more people to play Cold Stream and Left 4 Dead 2, but why not get achievement while your playing.

~~~ UPDATE ~~~

Dead air is supposed to be released on or before July 22nd

http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=5803

~~~ July 20, 2011 update ~~~

The l4d developer account on twitter posted dead air has gone to the staging for release.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Cold Stream was pretty fun, I'll give it another go on Sunday.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

is this a new achievement? I already beat it.

 

[KeithTalent]

I don't think I've ever played any of the campaigns. :hmm:

KT

 

[Texashiker]

is this a new achievement? I already beat it.

I think this is a new achievement, part of the summer campaign thing steam has going on.

People on the steam forums are posting that steam has to update before the achievement is visible.

 

[Phobic9]

I bought L4D2 for $5 during last years Christmas sale and I've never installed it. I'm not sure this will get me to do it but if I'm bored with ALL the games I've been buying lately, I'll give it a shot.

 

[Texashiker]

I bought L4D2 for $5 during last years Christmas sale and I've never installed it. I'm not sure this will get me to do it but if I'm bored with ALL the games I've been buying lately, I'll give it a shot.

If you dont have any buddies that play l4d2, join one these steam groups

andandtech - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/anandtech

One of the groups I am a member of - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/survivalistboards

l4d and l4d2 single player is kinda lame, its best played with a group of friends.

 

[Phobic9]

If you dont have any buddies that play l4d2, join one these steam groups

andandtech - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/anandtech

One of the groups I am a member of - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/survivalistboards

l4d and l4d2 single player is kinda lame, its best played with a group of friends.

Awesome thanks. Lack of friends is the main reason I haven't played.

 

[PowerYoga]

Awesome thanks. Lack of friends is the main reason I haven't played.

You mean pubbies aren't good players!?!?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

ill do my part. probably only completed half the campaigns, but id love to have dead air ported.

 

[jackstar7]

Doing my part!

 

[dlock13]

I beat it. I'm so glad they updated the ending of the level. It was ridiculously easy to sprint to the finish prior to them releasing it full stream like they are..... (terrible pun...)

Anyway, I think all of you should just play it for the heck of it. Definitely a good map.

 

[Zap]

Sounds like we get Dead Air anyways. People doing this will only get them to release it earlier.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

It kind of reminded me of a custom map I played several months ago

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Sounds like we get Dead Air anyways. People doing this will only get them to release it earlier.

yeah i think they said the rest of the l4d1 campaigns were coming with the same release/patch as cold stream. sounds like dead air is ready.

 

[gorcorps]

Played through Cold Stream yesterday with a couple folks. It was a good time... first time I played with real people too. Definitely a game where you need some real people to play with as the AI is pretty stupid. It gets even better if you know those people.

 

[Texashiker]

Definitely a game where you need some real people to play with as the AI is pretty stupid. It gets even better if you know those people.

Last night I played through cold stream 3 times, twice I died right before getting on the helicopter, the third time I was able to complete the achievement.

The first two times I played through cold stream was with noobs that wanted to look at the pretty graphics. They would walk forward a little bit and stop, walk forward a little bit and stop, look around, move forward,,,,,,.

Sometimes the bots are better then a total noob.

 

[jackstar7]

Sounds like we get Dead Air anyways. People doing this will only get them to release it earlier.

That's exactly it. I'd like Dead Air sooner rather than later.

As I understand it, they're still making tweaks to the other L4D1 maps (adding events possibly, based on something said about Blood Harvest), but Dead Air might be ready to go and hopefully they've messed with that finale enough that it'll be fun in Realism Vs. and not a cake-walk for the survivors.

But if it's ready now, I'll gladly push through cold stream to get it faster.

 

[Texashiker]

That's exactly it. I'd like Dead Air sooner rather than later.

I can use the achievement in my l4d2 stats, and if it helps convenience Valve to release dead air early, then so be it.

Its a win-win situation, we get the achievement, and we show Valve how many people are interested in getting the old maps converted over.

The maps that came with l4d2 are fun, but the original maps had a certain "atmosphere" to them that really added to the game. The dark maps with a haze made the original l4d seem more eerie then l4d2.

I am really looking forward to playing the original maps, all of them.

 

[gorcorps]

Last night I played through cold stream 3 times, twice I died right before getting on the helicopter, the third time I was able to complete the achievement.

The first two times I played through cold stream was with noobs that wanted to look at the pretty graphics. They would walk forward a little bit and stop, walk forward a little bit and stop, look around, move forward,,,,,,.

Sometimes the bots are better then a total noob.

I suppose... depends on the noob. I'm a total L4D newbie but we got through it after a death or two. I didn't think the visuals were all that great so I didn't spend much time looking around. They're not BAD, just not something worth noting. It's a dated game on a dated engine but that means zombies can flood the screen like mad and I can still push 120+fps.

 

[Texashiker]

Ok guys and gals, the number are in

http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=5803

We asked for 20,000 players to get the Stream Crosser achievement by Sunday night. You started playing at 10am on Wednesday morning. Four and half hours later you surpassed the 20,000 target. By 5pm you passed 30,000. By this morning at 10am – a mere 24 hours later you hit 60,774!

It looks like Dead Air is getting close to be released.

Since you hit your mark, this means we are going to unlock Dead Air early. We are going to try and release it as early as possible but will release it on July 22nd the latest. It isn’t currently ready for release as we have been working on The Terminal and Finale maps and need to test them more internally.

In 24 hours, 60,774 people got the stream crossing achievement.

Hopefully, the longest we will have to wait for dead air is 2 weeks.

There is even more good news, it looks like Valve is developing a new finale for Dark Carnival

 

[KeithTalent]

There is even more good news, it looks like Valve is developing a new finale for Dark Carnival

This is good news. I hate the finale of Dark Carnival; it's so slanted toward the surviviors until the very, very end when the tank can rip them to shreds in the chopper.

KT

 

[Dankk]

Played Cold Stream last night. Pretty good campaign, I didn't survive it though. Scumbag teammate left everyone behind in the final stage, we were either pinned down or dead and he just got right onto the rescue chopper and flew away. Feels bad man.

 

[Red Storm]

I haven't finished Cold Stream yet, but me and and a friend were playing it the other night and I absolutely loved the part with the flooding water down that one staircase. I was hoping it would have more of a game play effect (hard to move back/up against the flow) and also be used more often, but it was pretty neat.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Sounds like we get Dead Air anyways. People doing this will only get them to release it earlier.

lol, and if its anything like trying to get Portal 2 released early it will only be a day in advance at best