A sprig of news on the dlc tree. Original article here:


http://kotaku.com/5469905/left-4-dead-2s-the-passing-coming-mar%20ch-followed-by-comic-more-l4d-dlc


The first bit of DLC for L4D2 titled 'The Passing' is slated to be coming out some time in March. This is the DLC that is going to have the original Left 4 Dead's Zoey Bill Francis and Louis, appear as NPC's apparently to help the new survivors beat a chapter of the campaign. So to be clear, the original survivors don't seem to be playable characters in this DLC.

Now, mentioned is also planned DLC for Left 4 Dead the original. This one's for us! More news for it will come out "about a month or so" after the sequel DLC is released, but it's supposed to be an original-game-only campaign that shows how the survivors get to Lousiana.


I saw Spykedude saw this article too, and I'll second what he said about the first game being all but killed by now (or in a few months when we finally get it). It's been a pretty dry run ever since L4D2 has been released, hard to compete online with little unique content. I don't know that L4D dlc can revive much of the online play for the original considering it's been months and months still until we even get a release date, but I'm surprised something may actually be coming out, and potentially in April some time we'll finally see that elusive L4D dlc.

That said If it does come out, I hope some servers are up to handle the original L4D play. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it's substantive or good, and unpleasantly unsurprised if they release the sequel DLC and declare that there's no interest for the first and instead release it exclusively for the sequel. But we'll see.


More updates as they come.