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Sterling, Jim (July 4, 2009). "Exclusive preview: Left 4 Dead 'Crash Course' campaign". destructoid.com. Archived from the original on August 6, 2009 . Retrieved March 7, 2009. VGChartz Interviews Valve's Doug Lombardi on Left 4 Dead". vgchartz. Archived from the original on December 19, 2008 . Retrieved December 1, 2009. Carless, Simon (July 31, 2008). "In-Depth: How Valve Makes Art To Enhance Gameplay". GameSetWatch. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008 . Retrieved October 26, 2008. Left 4 Dead contains four game modes: Campaign, Versus, Survival, and Single-Player. Campaign consists of up to four human-controlled survivors who attempt to make their way between safe rooms and eventually to rescue. In this mode, the special infected are controlled by the AI. Valve Has Balls, Play With Them". Left 4 Dead 411. November 22, 2008. Archived from the original on May 25, 2009 . Retrieved May 11, 2009.

McWhertor, Michael (February 11, 2010). "Left 4 Dead 2's "The Passing" Coming March, Followed By Comic, More L4D DLC". Kotaku. Archived from the original on November 21, 2018 . Retrieved February 11, 2010.

Steam Workshop is coming to Left 4 Dead 2!". Valve. 2012-09-20. Archived from the original on 2012-09-24 . Retrieved 2012-09-24. Plunkett, Luke (2009-09-09). "Left 4 Dead 2 Boycotters... Flown To Valve To Play The Game". Kotaku. Archived from the original on 2012-10-15 . Retrieved 2009-10-03. In response to these complaints, Valve marketer Doug Lombardi stated that the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 at E3 should not be taken to indicate that Valve would no longer support the first game. [164] [168] He asked the community to "trust [them] a little bit," and told them that while their team was eager to get new material to players of Left 4 Dead, they determined that a sequel would be the best option for several reasons: [82] the demand for new campaigns, enemies and weapons could not be met as a simple DLC; [82] both Faliszek and project lead Tom Leonard found that too much of the content relied on each other, making it very difficult to release incremental patches in the same style as Team Fortress 2; [73] [75] the development team liked the idea of rolling up the content into a sequel to be released a year after Left 4 Dead 's release. [73] Faliszek stated that Newell was skeptical of the idea when the team brought the sequel forward, but still allowed the project to go through. [75] Left 4 Dead is a 2008 first-person shooter game developed by Valve South and published by Valve. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in November 2008 and for Mac OS X in October 2010, and is the first title in the Left 4 Dead series. Set during the aftermath of a zombie outbreak on the East Coast of the United States, the game pits its four protagonists, dubbed the "Survivors", against hordes of the infected.

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Machkovech, Sam (November 22, 2023). "15 years later, Chet Faliszek dishes on the making of Left 4 Dead". Game Developer . Retrieved November 22, 2023. Valve released a server patch in December 2008 to stop players on Xbox Live from using PC-style cheats. [61] A spokesman from Valve said, "The fix is designed to halt the cheating behavior on the dedicated servers, which accounts for the majority of the co-op and versus modes of play." [62] After release [ edit ] Survival: a timed challenge where the Survivors are trapped in a section of the campaign maps, and try to survive as long as possible against an unending onslaught of Infected. Vlachos, Alex (2010-03-09). Rendering Wounds in Left 4 Dead 2 (PDF). 2010 Game Developers Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-01 . Retrieved 2010-08-09.

Parker, Laura (2013-01-16). "Valve investigating R18+ options for Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2013-01-23 . Retrieved 2013-01-17. Since Left 4 Dead, the primary gameplay has remained unchanged. The player is still looking through the eyes of one of the survivors as he fights his way through hordes upon hordes of zombies with his three teammates. Instead of fighting mainly in the dark, most of the content in the five campaigns takes place both in the open and in daylight. This also helps a new feature called weather effects. The third campaign’s second section is centered on a powerful storm striking a little settlement on the outskirts. Hall, Charlie (August 27, 2020). "Left 4 Dead 2 is getting an update, The Last Stand, made by the community". Polygon. Archived from the original on August 27, 2020 . Retrieved August 27, 2020.

Valve On Left 4 Dead Servers & Matchmaking". Voodoo Extreme. November 10, 2008. Archived from the original on January 29, 2009 . Retrieved December 10, 2008. Review: Left 4 Dead 2". Edge. 2009-11-17. pp.1–2. Archived from the original on 2013-01-21 . Retrieved 2017-03-31.

Williams, Bryn (2010-03-08). "Left 4 Dead 2: Mac and PC Versions are Cross-Platform Compatible". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10 . Retrieved 2010-03-09. Steam'd Penguins". Valve. 2012-07-16. Archived from the original on 2013-08-12 . Retrieved 2012-07-16. McWhertor, Michael (2009-07-27). "How Did Depeche Mode Find its Way into Left 4 Dead 2?". Kotaku. Archived from the original on 2012-01-01 . Retrieved 2009-07-29. Kill Southern zombies with four new characters in Left 4 Dead 2". Joystiq. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11 . Retrieved 2009-09-07.McWhertor, Michael (June 10, 2009). "Valve Responds To Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott, Vows Support For Original". Kotaku. Archived from the original on June 13, 2009 . Retrieved March 7, 2009.