News New Left 4 Dead DLC coming this summer

Gabe Nevell needs to get his company coordinated and get everyone up to speed with his plans.

 

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That is, updates to the engine, not a whole new one. Although that is not a definitive answer, but I cannot find any info on a new engine being developed.

 

Remember how much HL2 was originally pushed back? I'll tell you - a very long time.

Admittedly the source engine was created for HL2, but if they have to make vast changes to it, and that takes time - so be it.

We can't really do anything to rush them, and if quality takes time, I'd rather the nurtured the changes over time, than the alternative of taking half the time and having a buggy game to play.

 

Greetings!

So a new DLC in the Summer for L4D, then a full-price expansion in November?

Whoever boycotts L4D2 will become even more entrenched in L4D;
Whoever buys L4D2 without having played L4D will have the feeling of missing something.

 

HL: November 19, 1998

So.. Could be anywhere up to six years!

 

This is a mentality I never understood. A sequal does NOT need an engine upgrade. Did we see people boycotting Doom 2 because it uses the same engine as Doom 1? Did the world give up on Mortal Kombat 2 because it used the same engine as MK1?

Funnily enough: no.

Sequals often take ages because the devs decide the want a new engine. If the dev chooses to keep with the same engine, often sequals come out much quicker. Ala L4D2.

 

I know what Onyx is saying - for it to be a new game in an age of expansion packs and DLC it has to be noticeably different to the previous incarnation.

 

Greetings!

Totally!