Sat, Jun 16, 2012 | 14:27 BST
Payday: The Heist getting Left 4 Dead’s “No Mercy” map
It looks as though the Overkill and Valve cross-over project with left 4 Dead undertones is the No Mercy map.
According to a video posted by Overkill, and hastily removed, the video shows the bank robbers from Payday: The Heist inside the hospital from the first L4D campaign.
Speaking with Kotaku, Valve’s Chet Faliszek said players will see one of the L4D characters in the hospital and a “fun little easter egg with a payoff later in Left 4 Dead.”
Faliszek said this was Valve “having some fun with a studio we are friends with and who have also made a great co-op game.”
“This is a 100% Overkill made mission for Payday: Heist simply set in no mercy hospital from the Left 4 Dead series,” he said. “It is not telling the origins of the Infection and is not canon.
Earlier rumors pegged the two studios as working on a L4D prequel, but Faliszek said this was false.
As mentioned above, the video was removed, but not before someone else pulled it. Watch it below.
A released date for the map hasn’t been announced.
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Posted in: PC, Shooter, Steam, Valve
Tags: l4d, left 4 dead, No Mercy, Overkill, payday, PAYDAY: The Heist
6 comments
#1
roadkill
16/06/12, 3:42 pm
Hey how good is Payday? Should I get it?
#2
The_Red
16/06/12, 3:53 pm
@1
I didn’t like it. It did have a kickass Heat theme but the gameplay was nowhere as dynamic and awesome as L4D. Also, I was hoping to see a lot of elements from Fragile Alliance (Kane & Lynch’s multiplayer mode) which didn’t happen
#3
roadkill
16/06/12, 6:55 pm
OK. Thank you. I will not buy it then.
#4
YoungZer0
16/06/12, 7:30 pm
@3: Yeah, i second that. The idea is great, but the gameplay is nowhere near as fun as it could be, the shooting mechanics feel very unsatisfying, you really need to have a tight crew, because the AI is a joke. The biggest problem however, is that you have to grind the hell out of the game just to get the basic things. It also doesn’t help that you only have a handful of maps.
#5
DSB
16/06/12, 7:49 pm
It feels like a Unity game, pretty much.
Good enough to play on a free weekend, but I didn’t want more after that.
A lot of the ideas are pretty great though.
#6
roadkill
16/06/12, 8:24 pm
Understood. I’ll stick with L4D then. Thank you everyone!