Dead Air Beta Released

July 21, 2011 - L4D Team

Thanks to your hard work a few weeks ago, we are releasing a beta version of Dead Air for Left 4 Dead 2 today. This will be available on the Xbox 360 later this summer as part of the full Cold Stream DLC.

Besides adding melee weapons, we have made some changes to the 4th and 5th maps of the campaign. Give them a few play throughs and let us know what you think. Make sure to try some different strategies – especially in the finale.

We have also tried something new with the Scavenge map in this campaign. I won’t give away the experiment here but it should be interesting to see how people choose to play the map.

Cold Stream and the rest of the Left 4 Dead 1 maps will be out later this summer as part of the Cold Stream DLC.

Fans of the original Left 4 Dead series, Relive the fun as Dead Air Beta has now been released for Left 4 Dead 2. Time to gather up 3 friends and prepare for a night of zombie slashing fun. Am I right, Bill?

Versus Survival
Can you survive against your friends?

The first Survivor team sets the time. The second team tries to beat it. Then the first team tries to beat the second team's time. Then the second team tries to beat the first team's time. And then the... you get the idea. Rounds keep switching until someone fails to beat the previous time.

This is a great way to try Versus. Rounds are only as long as you can keep beating each others' times. There are no rushing Survivors. Infected spawns get quicker as the time increases. It is mayhem filled with all the weapon perks and items. What’s not to like? Give it a try.

As avid L4D-ers, my buddies and I gave this new insertion a go from the very moment it was made available through the update.

This Versus Survival is simply your survival mode with the exception of an opposing human team playing as infected to mar your chances of survival.

What I feel is that the concept is interesting, however, it has room for improvements. Prior to this update, most of the best 'Survival' maps, I played were from the custom map makers. (i.e Helms Deep) Hence, if there is an option for custom map makers to be able to create customized versus survival map, it will definitely bring the game to a whole new level.

Till then, its good ol' Versus games for me.