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Valve "Trying To Work Out" Cross-Game Play Between L4D1 & 2 News

Doug Lombardi reveals that Valve is "working on" bringing cross-game play to L4D1 & 2...

By Gwynne Dixon
Posted: 03/07/2009

Valve's VP of Marketing, Doug Lombardi has revealed to TVG that the developer is looking at providing cross-game play between the original Left 4 Dead and its incoming sequel.

Such a feature, which would allow players of the original Left 4 Dead to play alongside other users running Left 4 Dead 2, is one of the demands made by the now 37,000 member strong Left 4 Dead 2 boycott group on Steam.

"That's something that we're trying to work out the details of right now," Lombardi said of the cross-game play feature. "So nothing specific to say today, but we understand that it's a very valid thing to be working on and looking at."

On the MOD front, Lombardi revealed that Valve is building Left 4 Dead 2 with the aim of allowing MODs to be easily transferable between L4D1 and L4D2:

"With the MOD stuff, if you're making stuff for Left 4 Dead it will work in Left 4 Dead 2 with very minor amounts of work to bring it over. So we feel we've made good steps on that side and now we're looking at how we manage that for folks who buy the first game and sequel."

Check out our full interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi for more details.

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	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 09th Nov 2009 04:45, Post No: 87 the new infected are charger,haggard,wandering witch, and the jockey
	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 22nd Oct 2009 12:24, Post No: 86 reply 2 post 85 i thought u said it was before l4d i understand k
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 19th Oct 2009 22:34, Post No: 85 reply to post 76. left 4 dead clearly stated "2 weeks after first infection". while l4d2 whill take place three weeks after first infection were the survivors are still not wanting to belive the situation. Kaleb Reese Valve animation tech.
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 30th Sep 2009 23:33, Post No: 84 ok i understand srry
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 16:20, Post No: 83 actually post 76 lfd2 actually starts off before the infected reached savvanah where they were and they were hearing about these things that were happening in lfd ....so they are around the same time roughly
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 04th Aug 2009 05:23, Post No: 82 post 79 that sneaking mode isnt exactly new there was an achievement on the 360 where you had to sneak past all the witches on what ever sinario you were playing on.
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 04th Aug 2009 03:14, Post No: 81 [#@!?] awesome
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 03rd Aug 2009 18:40, Post No: 80 i have a felling l4d2 new game mode will have thumbthing to do with mely wepon in know spelling is wrong
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 03rd Aug 2009 16:05, Post No: 79 The new gameply mode should be instead of fighting through zombies you have to sneak around them.
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 02nd Aug 2009 06:37, Post No: 78 I can't believe there is a second one of L4D. I just want it to come out more quicker!!!!!!!!!