All you need to know about Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter game. It is the sequel to the award winning Left 4 Dead. The games current release date is set for November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Window and the Xbox 360. Like the origonal, Left 4 Dead 2 takes place during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, and focuses on four survivors fighting against hordes of the infected. Several new features will be introduced, such as new types of infected, melee weapons, and a story-arc that connects each of the game's five campaigns together into one full game.


Campaigns:

The Parish, Swamp Fever, Hard Rain, Dark Carnival, Dead Center


Weapons:

Firearms:

50 CAL
Auto Shotgun, Auto Shotgun SPAS, AWP, FX, Grenade Launcher, Hunting Rifle, Minigun, MP5 Navy, Rifle, Rifle AK-47, Rifle Desert, Scout, SG-552, Shotgun, Shotgun Chrome, SMG, SMG Silenced, Sniper Military


Secondary Firearms:

Dual Pistol, Magnum, Pistol, Pistol Silver


Melee Weapons:

Axe, Bat , Chainsaw, Guitar, Katana, Knife, Machete, Pan, Tonfa


Supplies:

Main Supplies:

Health kit, Defibrillator, Ammo pack


Secondary Supplies:

Pills, Adrenaline


Explosives:

Molotov, Pipe bomb, CEDA Jar


Ammo upgrades:

Incendiary Ammo, Explosive Ammo, Laser Light


Special Infected:

Charger, Spitter, Jockey, Boomer, Hunter, Smoker, Tank, Witch


Common Infected:

Hazmat, Mudmen, Riot Cops, Clowns, Dogs? (Infected Dog sounds found in L4D2 Demo folder)

Left 4 Dead 2 features a new cast of human survivors, which will include Coach, a high-school football coach with a bad knee; Rochelle, a news reporter for a local television station; Ellis, a mechanic; and Nick, a gambler and conman. While the game was intended to be a continuation of the original, occurring a week after the first game begins, it was decided to create a new group of survivors because of the change in location. In addition to the four playable characters, Left 4 Dead 2 also features a support character in the form of Virgil, a Cajun boat captain, who appears in the game's later three chapters. This differs from the original game, where NPCs made little more than a single appearance.

L4D2 Enthusiasts [Yes-L4D2] was created so Enthusiasts looking forward to Left 4 Dead 2 could talk and get daily news updates about the game that they are looking forward to. We plan on explanding our group, by merging with The Animated Dragon Gaming Community, to create Left 4 Dead 2 servers, later upon the release of the game.

Play as infected in the demo

Here we go
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1008519&page=4
this one even has lots of pics
http://img230.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=c5m1waterfront0002.jpg

But... He does not tell a thing. Though he said that he WILL tell us how. Maybe even today.

1DC FOOTAGE

Not throughout the whole video, but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfop_a_eEww

Also, a confirmation of a nice german localization, hazmats in 1DC and a reskinned cricket bat. ETC ETC ETC.

L4D2 weapons

List of all of the weapons in Left 4 Dead 2.

50cal, andrenaline, auto shotgun, auto shotgun spas, awp, axe, bat, ceda jar, chainsaw, defibrillator, dual pistol, flash, fx, grenade launches, guitar, hegrenade, hunting rifle, katana, knife, machete, magnum, minigun, moltov, mp5navy, pan, pistol, pistol silver, rifle, rifle ak47, rifle desert, scout, sg552, shotgun, shotgun chrome, smg, smg silenced, sniper military, tonfa.

These names were taken from the files included in Left 4 Dead 2 folder.

Want more from your L4D2 demo?

Want more from your L4D2 demo? Try out some of these console commands!

Please note that the following requires that sv_cheats be set to 1. All of the commands must be entered via the console. This automatically makes this no more real - the latest update disabed them, so, a minute of silence.

Grenade Launcher
give weapon_grenade_launcher

Laser Sight
upgrade_add LASER_SIGHT

Explosive Ammo
upgrade_add explosive_ammo

Incendiary Ammo
upgrade_add INCENDIARY AMMO

Dead Center inside

Three screens and hell lot of info, what not to love?
German language.
http://www.hlportal.de/?site=news&do=shownews&news_id=7366
If you need the whole thing in English, here it is
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http://www.hlportal.de/%3Fsite%3Dnews%26do%3Dshownews%26news_id%3D7366&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=


screens
http://www.hlportal.de/?site=image&do=showimage&image_id=29892
http://www.hlportal.de/?site=image&do=showimage&image_id=29893
http://www.hlportal.de/?site=image&do=showimage&image_id=29894

Poorly translated by Google Translator part about Dead Center.
We played right the first campaign, "Dead Center" in Coop mode. We had agreed on the Normal difficulty. If it would be too easy for us, so we could always switch to "Advanced". In Dead Center, the survivors begin on the already well known from the intro trailer roof. The map therefore plays a day and you fight, bit by bit through the city from a shopping center. For there will be a sports car that could fly with the Survivors. In the Mall (as shopping centers in the United States are usually called) arrived, one must now pave its way through the rather large building. Nice to see here, for example, that can be seen at the entrance to a building plan, where it should go is usually long. But no matter how simple it is not, of course, because it always comes back to places where the passage is blocked and you alternative ways to go. A nice place is also a toy store, in which one enters through a back entrance.

Now we have to break the shop windows come to shoot further, but so stupidly out triggers an alarm. Then you have to fight through as quickly as a few floors up in a room there to turn off the alarm. At this point, we unfortunately failed at the first attempt, but the second try it worked finally. In contrast to Left 4 Dead 1 you can put up with these "crescendo event" not just in a corner and fend off waves of zombies, but must run together to meet one another in this and switch to disable the alarm then. This much more varied and more sophisticated intermediate events have struck me very positively.

actually, the translation is by Wahey from steamforums, who was the first one to google-translate it. So, +rep him if you liked it.

Level names confirmed.

Here we go, keeeedz. Now you know the names of the levels - no need to think that they'll be changed, 'course HR does not count, hell knows how will they actually name the last chapters.

Yes, you are right, game files.


Dead Center
1: The Hotel
2: The Streets
3: The Mall
4: Atrium
5: Unknown and most likely unexistent, though mentioned in the game files

Dark Carnival
1: The Highway
2: The Fairgrounds
3: The Coaster
4: The Barns
5: Concert Finale

Swamp Fever
1: The Plank Country
2: The Swamp
3: The Shanty Town
4: Plantation Finale

Hard Rain
1: The Mill Town
2: The Sugar Mill
3: The Mill Escape(bullfrickinstrange name for a third chapter)
4: Return to Town
5: Town Finale

The Parish
1: The Waterfront
2: The Park
3: The Cemetery
4: The Quarter
5: The Bridge Finale



by R3tro Guy, l4dwiki and me.