By Jim Rossignol on April 22nd, 2010 at 6:02 pm.
The Left 4 Dead blog has some info on the “mutations” (ie game mode variants) that are being introduced with The Passing:
Our first Mutation is Realism Versus.
For this Mutation, Survivors have all the Realism changes working against them, no glows on items or survivors, tougher zombies, instant kill witches, etc. The Infected have all those changes working for them. This makes the Jockey one of the most powerful Specials for his ability to steer a Survivor out of view. You will want to make sure you have a working microphone so your teammates can hear your screams for help. This Mutation is only available in Versus.
Trailer posted below. Francis hates stuff, obv. Reckon I might be re-deading some zombies later…
22/04/2010 at 18:09 3klsadjgklmw says:
I hate that trailer. I hate Rochelle. I hate waiting for The Passing. I hate zombies.
22/04/2010 at 18:24 Chizu says:
I hate your comment.
22/04/2010 at 18:28 Tei says:
hatters gonna hate.
PRO-TIP: wen you hate something, turn it a positive thing. like: “I love Zoey. I miss Zoey sooo much”. See? I can ignore Rochelle, because I don’t like Rochelle either (I will not say hate, because is a strong sentiment) , but I don’t have to say “hate” because I could turn everything into a miasm of positive happy happy lalala pancake. Hating is easy,… get pro and talk in positive. Positive is a PLUS+. /highfive
22/04/2010 at 18:28 DarkFenix says:
I hate haters.
22/04/2010 at 21:36 Tyshalle says:
I hate hating haters who hate hatting on haters who hate hating haters.
But I do.
22/04/2010 at 22:14 Inigo says:
I hate hatters. I hate dormice. I hate hares.
22/04/2010 at 18:32 Heliocentric says:
I liked mutations better when they were called mutators and they were on unreal games.
Just saying.
22/04/2010 at 18:38 the army of none says:
Mutators were brilliant. I only can hope that these mutations become mutators after the cycle of them finishes so we can enjoy them at our own leisure.
22/04/2010 at 18:41 Lambchops says:
This is exactly what I though of as well. Good old instagib was always a favourite.
22/04/2010 at 19:14 Barts says:
@lambchops
InstaGib was great! One shot, one kill rule was totally changing the feel of the game. Ah, the long hours we spent playing it…
22/04/2010 at 19:19 Vandelay says:
@The army of none – That is what I thought they would do. Unfortunately, it is looking like that won’t be the case, as they are going to have votes to find out which Mutation people want repeated.
22/04/2010 at 18:34 Lobotomist says:
What game is that again ?
22/04/2010 at 18:37 westyfield says:
I hate sarcasm.
22/04/2010 at 18:47 Alexander Norris says:
That was some pretty appalling voice acting compared to Valve’s usual. This saddens me.
22/04/2010 at 18:54 nine says:
This. Maybe the L4D2 voice acting just raise the bar and all of L4D1 sounded that bad, but I hope not.
22/04/2010 at 19:32 DXN says:
The bridge is SO stupid.
22/04/2010 at 19:32 DXN says:
Also COME ON GOD DAMNIT VALVE
22/04/2010 at 19:53 phuzz says:
exactly, sat here, drunk now, still waiting, grr valve time
22/04/2010 at 20:52 rocketman71 says:
THIS.
Fuck, Gabe, release it already!. All the xboxers have played The Passing 20 times already!
22/04/2010 at 20:05 Iain says:
RIP BILL NEVAR FORGET
22/04/2010 at 20:51 Gorgeras says:
Can anyone get on to the Steam forums?
22/04/2010 at 21:30 phuzz says:
It’s released, restart yr steamz
22/04/2010 at 21:34 phuzz says:
yuk, 1Gb to download, getting 200kps :(
22/04/2010 at 21:32 DXN says:
It’s downloading, yaaaaaaaaay!
22/04/2010 at 22:13 Howl says:
*so excited*
>.<
22/04/2010 at 21:55 z3r0 says:
Its downloading alright.
Verrrrrrrrry slowly.
22/04/2010 at 22:09 Frosty says:
I’ve just been told what they do in the Passing.
DAMN YOU VALVE! BOO VALVE! etc
22/04/2010 at 22:39 RakeShark says:
The update on steam so far hasn’t broken 60kbps, so I’m downloading that (whenever it decides to spurt) along with BFBC2 which I was gifted recently.
22/04/2010 at 23:52 Brumisator says:
I played the passing a couple of times through (on PC of course, how dare you even question me!?)
And it’s every bit as fun as advertised.
The L4D1 cast crossover though…meh…I found it unnecessary, boring and pointless tbh.
23/04/2010 at 13:25 airtekh says:
Campaign’s good, and I am LOVING the new midnight riders song.
RIP Bill. *sniff*
23/04/2010 at 16:06 iQue says:
I really like the map. The finale is awesome.
They really didn’t use the L4D1 survivors enough though. I mean you only talk to them like three times and they barely… do anything. Still cool. :)