Left 4 Dead 2 "The Passing" DLC Achievements

Post by trog @ 11:27am 20/04/10 | 14 Comments

The official Left 4 Dead 2 blog is carrying word of the new achievements that are soon to land when "The Passing" DLC lands later this week. There's also an intriguing hint about some cool new stuff, but more details are still forthcoming:

And of course, we saved the best for last: the "Mutant Overlord" achievement, which you can only get by playing six Mutations.

Right about now you might be asking yourself, "What in the hell is a Mutation?" "Why do I have to play six of them?" "Are there more than six?" "Where's that smell coming from?" All good questions. Look for most of the answers in our Wednesday blog post.

As always, more information about this title is on our Left 4 Dead 2 game page.

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Python
Posted 11:46am 20/4/10

Haven't played l4d2 in so long! Might play this for about a week :O

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ravn0s
Posted 11:47am 20/4/10

cool. this will get me back into ld42 for a bit. hopefully it doesnt get delayed again. i wanna play it over the long weekend.

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trillion
Posted 11:48am 20/4/10

Unreal fans would be well adept at mutators

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parabol
Posted 11:55am 20/4/10

All of this achievement bulls*** is what made me stop playing TF2 and L4D, games I was playing heavily. When people refuse to play a normal team game, and instead try to grind their "Get X kills using Y without doing Z" achievement without giving a s*** that you're standing there DYING and need a f*****g heal ... that's when the fun stopped for me.

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trog
Posted 11:57am 20/4/10

All of this achievement bulls*** is what made me stop playing TF2 and L4D, games I was playing heavily. When people refuse to play a normal team game, and instead try to grind their "Get X kills using Y without doing Z" achievement without giving a s*** that you're standing there DYING and need a f*****g heal ... that's when the fun stopped for me.

pretty much why I stopped playing games entirely when Battlefield 2 came out with its ranking system and awards. The absolute best thing about playing games for me was the competition against other people. Now too often it's a bunch of people playing against themselves to get stupid awards.

Didn't really have that prob as much in L4D because I only ever bothered playing if it was with mates, but playing on pubs etc ... zzz

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Hogfather
Posted 11:59am 20/4/10

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Yeh, achievements should align to stuff you'd do to excel while pursuing normal game objectives.

Despite owning it, I could never get into TF2 because every time I started it up it was in the middle of some hat / class event and the game was all weird.

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ravn0s
Posted 12:04pm 20/4/10

l4d isnt too bad with the achievements. you can get all of them just buy playing the game normally. however, some tf2 achievements take some coordinating.

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infi
Posted 12:14pm 20/4/10

ah but i would have to stop playing bc2. ah damn what a choice. you still playing l4d2 jim?

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Jim
Posted 12:22pm 20/4/10

nah I suddenly got bored after 300 hours and just never loaded it up again. that's less than half the time played l4d1 :(

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Plasma
Posted 12:45pm 20/4/10

Yeah they really dropped the ball I reckon keeping L4D1/2 interesting, I haven't played this year either.

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blahnana
Posted 03:26pm 20/4/10

To be honest I don't think Valve dropped the ball that much w.r.t. L4D2... the main killer was the way the game has to be played.

In other games, you don't rely on having a team full of non-nubs as much as you do in L4D. In other games a single awesome player can prop up / even out teams. In other games the team sizes are much larger.. but in L4D you're very much reliant on everyone having a clue, and the team size is so small that one dud player pretty much wrecks the game.

For this reason, joining a pub server will usually result in one or the other team getting creamed. It's not impossible, but fairly uncommon to find two teams that are pretty evenly matched.

In summary, I think L4D is a victim of it's own creation of small, very close-knit teams.

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blahnana
Posted 03:28pm 20/4/10

Oh, and I'd argue that any game that has players that have played 300 hours worth hit its mark... even more so if they got 600 hours :)

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ctd
Posted 04:15pm 20/4/10

^ Pretty much.

Awesome fun when you hit the sweet spot but you don't hit it very often. Notched about 220 hours and I wont bother trying out this new campaign cause I am over it. Same thing happened with l4d1 when they finally put out versus modes for the 2 other campaigns. cbf'd.

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Trauma
Posted 10:12pm 20/4/10

I think the whole atmosphere was ruined by putting the game into daylight, totally ruined hunters and the lame jockey just makes me rage when I get it so I don't play it anymore apart from the odd campaign with mates. Unless w/e this DLC pack is is free I wont be playing.

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