Ah, thanks for the heads up. Damn internetlingoCyrax-Sektor wrote:
Intellectual Property.Sisco10 wrote:
What is an IP?
I think Interplay owns MDK, so they're going to come back to the gaming industry by taking advantage of their IP, which is MDK 3.
But it definitely looks like it. The 2 letter shortform that is, not the word itself.Flecco wrote:
It's not internet lingo m8....
wat. IP is a term used by anything that involves IP, thats films, books, games, music, etcFlecco wrote:
Nah. IP is mostly gaming lingo. Most of the magazines use it too, even the Time mag game writer dude.
Yes but the place I mostly used to see it was in gaming magazines. I didn't read any music mags or anything and I was trying to think of published examples of the use of the acronym.Vilham wrote:
wat. IP is a term used by anything that involves IP, thats films, books, games, music, etcFlecco wrote:
Nah. IP is mostly gaming lingo. Most of the magazines use it too, even the Time mag game writer dude.
From IGNValve's VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi reacted to the news in an interview late last week, telling RockPaperShotgun, 'There's more content coming for Left 4 Dead in the fairly near term, that I think will sort of add to this picture and hopefully change some people's opinions of what's happening right now.'
Is it a £30 dlc with four new character some new campaigns and melée weapons but have to open the new content from a different launcher?Spidery_Yoda wrote:
First there isn't more L4D content coming, and now apparently there is:From IGNValve's VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi reacted to the news in an interview late last week, telling RockPaperShotgun, 'There's more content coming for Left 4 Dead in the fairly near term, that I think will sort of add to this picture and hopefully change some people's opinions of what's happening right now.'
DoctaStrangelove wrote:
Yeah that footage sucked, but my guess is it's because it cuts ever two seconds.
It's like how, when you're watching one of those free preview videos from a porn site, and just when it starts getting hot the clip ends and you gotta download the next clip but it doesn't start where the last one ends, kinda like that.
This should give you a bit better understanding of the game.
Despite the video showing them struggling for a second, then dying? Like they already do in L4D1?They're a little more challenging to kill. Shoot off an arm and they won't just lie down. They'll keep coming.
You mean the 1 or 2 surviving zombies, which don't seem to be any more powerful/tougher than normal zombies, which are easily picked off through fire as shown in the video? HOW DANGEROUS.Infected that wear haz-mat suits won't burn when you set them alight with a Molotov cocktail and the rank and file zombie becomes a more serious challenge.
Oh great, make it EASIER to light a Tank.new incendiary rounds—which thankfully set a Tank on fire with a little more reliability—
It takes a full freaking Tank to break up a corner full of Survivors already, and this takes less damage? You'd be shredded before you even got close enough to be a threat.Charger class, the half-Tank that addresses on of the problems with the original Left 4 Dead's game design.
Yes, there are problems. Characters stacking themselves upon each other during crescendo events, for example, backing into closets and behind gurneys and rendering zombie horde rushes moot.
The Charger will fix some of that, Valve's Chet Faliszek says. Designed to break up tightly packed groups, then pounce upon one of the Survivors like a Hunter, the Charger is big and bulky, like a Tank, but doesn't take nearly the amount the amount of gunfire to take down.
And lol at thisFenris_GreyClaw wrote:
Oh great, make it EASIER to light a Tank.new incendiary rounds—which thankfully set a Tank on fire with a little more reliability—
"Doing a sequel in one year is new for Valve. But providing ongoing support for our titles after the initial launch isn't - it has been part of our philosophy since Half-Life was released ten and half years ago," said Valve president Gabe Newell in a statement to Kotaku. "We see no reason to change that and will continue to support the over three million customers in the L4D community.
"E3 is a trade event where developers and publishers come to announce new games for the coming year. L4D2 — like any new product — requires an appearance at the show," Newell said.
tl;dr"Some in the community are concerned that the announcement of L4D2 implied a change in our plans for L4D1. We aren't changing our plans for L4D1."
"In addition to the recently released Survival Pack, we are releasing authoring tools for Mod makers, community matchmaking, 4x4 matchmaking, and more new content during the coming months for L4D1," Newell says. "We also agree with our customers that there needs to be an interoperability plan for players of L4D1 and L4D2, as multiplayer games are driven by the cohesiveness of their community."
So. I guess we wait and see.Faliszek said at E3 that he very much understood the "gut reaction" to the uncharacteristically Valve move to launch such a quick follow-up. But, he said, as people learn more about the game over the next few months, they'll see why "none of the additions [in Left 4 Dead 2] are trivial."
DoctaStrangelove wrote:
Yoda posted this in another thread, it also gives a good idea of what the deal will be with L4D after L4D2 comes out.
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/69643 … rview.html
Personally I'm pretty hopeful.
CONFIRMED: DRAGONS COMING TO TF2Gabe Newell wrote:
The nice thing is that clearly people are super excited about what’s happening and the fact that 18 months out, the number of people playing [TF2] have doubled the all-time high is an indication of how much people value that sort of on-going investment and commitment to those products. The same thing can happen with Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 and our other products. It’s a much better way to grow and continue to develop an audience. And there’d also be drama along the way as things go in and people go, “Dragons?! What?!”
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