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Warcelona, the fan-made campaign for Left 4 Dead 2, is now available for download. The campaign’s four maps recreate the route between the Sant Roc church and the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona. As PC Gamer notes, installing the campaign is a bit “complex at the moment,” but all complexities for such content will be alleviated once the Left 4 Dead 2 Workshop beta has finished, and becomes available to the public. The Left 4 Dead 2 Workshop, currently in test beta, will be expanded into an invite only private beta soon. Get more information on the beta and instructions on how to download Warcelona through the L4D Blog. A video for the campaign is below.

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Left 4 Dead 2 had some DLC planned at one time based on the films Cabin in the Woods, according to the movie’s director Drew Goddard.

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Left 4 Dead 2 is getting Steam Workshop support as well as an “expanded scripting tool” so folks can create “deeper and more varied experiences inside of Left 4 Dead 2.” These features are planned for Linux users,” and will start in the middle of next month. More information is available through the Left 4 Dead blog. Thanks, PC Gamer.

The free Mercy Hospital DLC is out today on Steam for Payday: The Heist. The content includes a map from Left 4 Dead, and those who own the first version of Valve’s shooter or L4D2 will get a zombie mask to wear in Payday. There’s more, though: “We also have some extra candy hidden in there for those who just can’t help ending up in the hospital,” said the game listing. Hit up the link for more.

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Valve has announced via the Left 4 Dead blog the Cold Stream DLC, which consists of the Cold Stream, Blood Harvest, Crash Course, Dead Air, Death Toll and No Mercy maps will be released on Mac, PC and Xbox 360 July 24.

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It looks as though the Overkill and Valve cross-over project with left 4 Dead undertones is the No Mercy map.

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Valve has updated L4D2′s Mutation mode this week with Hard Eight, which throws eight special Infected at players, thus the name of the mode.

But wait – there’s more.

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Valve has sent over a lovely mail, reminding us The Sacrifice DLC for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 is out now available, as well as L4D2 on Mac.

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Valve plans to release the first part of its online comic book, The Sacrifice, detailing Bill’s demise on September 14.

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Valve’s posted stats for Mutation modes in Left 4 Dead 2, and according to its findings, Realism Versus and Chainsaw Massacre were the two most popular of the lot.

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Those who haven’t played Left 4 Dead 2 on PC in a while may wish to log in and load up the latest title update for the zombie shooter.

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This week’s Mutation in Left 4 Dead 2 is Headshot, and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

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Update: Valve has detailed The Passing a bit more, citing the single-player, multiplayer and co-op modes that will be present in the DLC. It will also include weekly game mode events called “Mutations.” These week-long runs of new gameplay modes range from “Realism Versus” mode to “Chainsaw Massacre,” which gives all players chainsaws with an unlimited supply of gasoline. YES!

There are over 20 Mutations planned, each playable on all L4D2 Campaigns. Mutations are exclusively available to owners of “The Passing” DLC.

It will run you 560 MSP on XBL and will be free for PC.

More below the break.

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Valve has revealed over on the Left 4 Dead Blog that L4D2 players have killed over 28 billion zombies in the first two months of release.

Good lord. That’s a lot of zombies!

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Valve has revealed during X10 that some DLC is heading to the original Left 4 Dead, in order to help explain how the original survivors came to be included in The Passing for Left 4 Dead 2.

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Valve’s running a preorder incentive on the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2, where you not only get 10 percent off the cost of the game, but Bill’s beret from Left 4 Dead 1 for your Team Fortress 2 character.

If you already preordered the game, Valve said to fire-up your TF2 game and the beret will be ready and waiting for you.

Check with your local retailer to make sure it’s participating, though, just to be sure.

Full thing’s over on the TF2 blog.

Valve’s Chet Faliszek has talked a bit about Left 4 Dead’s upcoming DLC, Crash Course, which was announced yesterday.

This time around, the focus is on Versus Mode.

“It has the co-op Campaign, and also has Survival, but the focus is Versus,” he told Edge. “One of the problems with Versus – well, perhaps it’s not quite a ‘problem’ because there are actually equal player minutes between Versus and co-op – but it’s a two hour game. And we look at our statistics and we see that players ideally want to play between 20 and 30 minutes. So we wanted to create a Versus campaign which you could play through in 30 minutes – a quick competitive thing that slots in between TV shows.

“It’s a two map campaign with a finale, so it’s almost a three map campaign. Obviously if the teams are bad and get wiped quicker then it goes quicker.

“We’ve also added some things – you can now see your teammates’ statuses and their recharge timers. The world also stays exactly the same between team changes, so there are no complaints about it being imbalanced any more. We’ve actually been working on this a bit, but we’re finally close enough that we’re comfortable to talk about it.”

Chet says that Valve is working on how to integrate the DLC with L4D2, and one of the things it has discussed is letting the maps dictate the characters you are playing.

“That’s one of the routes we’ve talked about going, and maybe adding the new creatures, or whatever. There’s a lot of back-and-forth. We haven’t fixed on what we’re doing yet, so we don’t want to talk about it and make people think something is going to happen when we don’t know ourselves.

“We’re still struggling with how interoperability is going to work, right now [with Crash Course]. When we talk about L4D, the story stuff – there’s actually a lot of character dialogue that’s based in each map.”

More through the link.

Valve opened the public beta for the Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools yesterday.

Authoring Tools include modified versions of the same tools the devs used to produce  the game, and players can use these tools to create their own 3D models, campaign maps, character skins, music and sound effects for the game.

Along with an updated version of Hammer, command line compiling utilities, the particle editor, Faceposer and example maps, props and explosives, the release also includes plug-ins for SketchUp.

The Authoring Tools set is available as a free download for all owners of the PC version and can be found under the “Tools” tab in Steam.

Hit the link for the rest of the details.

Valve is extending the matchmaking system in Left 4 Dead for PC.

Additional support for a party system and third-party campaign servers will be added, along with changes to the skill-based auto-match system.

Currently in closed beta, this is part of the L4D SDK rollout, and will be released after the Survival Pack launches.

Get the full thing over on the official site.

Valve has release the promised Left 4 Dead patch for PC. 360 owners however, will have to wait as Valve has said that the console patch will be ready “in the coming weeks.”

Want to know what it fixes? Loads of stuff.

Full patch notes below.

By Mike Bowden

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