With a little extra sun; hopefully night will fall on that city when l4d2 is release because a zombie game in bright daylight feels like a game of whack-a-mole.

It's certainly a lot harder to do this style of game in the day, darkness covers a multitude of sin as they say, and was used to great effect in l4d in pretty bland boring areas. Without the benefits of this they will have to up their game graphically for it not to look seriously old hat by modern standards.

Also with it being daylight the idea of using brightly lit areas in the distance to guide you the right way won't be so effective either, wonder how they will get around that.

Way too soon for a sequel, has got to be coming out bang on a year after the first.
DLC i get, even paid for if what they say ends up in the game, would be happy and buy on release, this i think i will wait for a free weekend then decide, just seems too soon.

Daytime look strange, would be good if it goes to night during play, could see that getting interesting, melee weapons will be a step in the right direction, should have been in from the start.

Just hope they don't price it around £30, could be too high for a sequel out too soon.

BWWAAHAHAHHHAHAHAAHaaahaha

C'mon guys expect it Xmas soonest! if not 1st Quarter 2010! This is Valve-time they're working with after all




But IF its released early Nov like they say it better be MUCH more than a glorified patch! I'm guessing they've got something up their sleeves to be so bold with the sequel date, although I acknowledge this is a 360-driven industry now.

I like the path blocking idea- although tbh barricades and physics barriers were promised way back on the original brief too!
More Zombies- Definately needed, even now imo... Bosses? Bosses always a good thing in my world.

and ofc any more possible updates to Source to keep it competitive graphically. Let's not forget HL2E2 has some nice bits in the Sun!

*keeps his eye on the price*

i think the original l4d was a bit of a risk for valve, they were testing the waters a bit with something so unique, and now that the risk has paid off they are gonna run with it.

i'm not gonna moan about the sequel coming to soon, we've all been around long enough to know that yearly updates are a staple of the gaming industry. it never did Call of Duty any harm so why shouldn't valve try the same thing.

also yearly updates are something that EA pretty much started, so i'm sure they've had a big hand in getting valve to make a sequel so soon, seeing as they are distributing the xbox version.

as for zombies in daylight, it worked in resident evil 5, so why not l4d.

Got to agree with Khola on this, since when has vlave ever, ever in it's entire history released anything on time?

I'd be surprised if it comes out in 2010 forget November 2009...

Still, unless they plan on turning this into their version of fifa xx this feels too early to release a new game...

And EA is clearly the best game company because it cares about it's player base and less about milking money until the tit goes dry.


That aside, the thing that pisses most people off isn't the fact that L4D 2 is coming, it's the fact that L4D is unfinished, they promised new maps, models, characters, weapons, SDK, and yet we've seen nothing but 1 extra map which is quite short (Lighthouse) and 2 remade maps which should have been in release.

I'll be happy if they give a discount to current L4D users so I don't have to think of valve as money hunters

do i sense a bit of sarcasm there



a discount for l4d users will never happen, and i will eat my hat if it does.

they have said that they will continue to support l4d, so i hope that we will get some more content to make it worthwile before l4d2 comes out.

there are new features in l4d2 which clearly can't be implemented in l4d with just an update, and i understand that valve want to get these new features out as soon as possible.

Most of what ive seen is just reskin and new maps and sum new guns witch is not hard to update i.e cs riotshield famas etc! I wont be at all suprised if the community lets valve know how they feel about this, and the fact valve will probaly do something about it!

I do hope you have a tasty hat because it's the only way to keep l4d users from going on a murderous rampage through valve HQ