Steam Workshop is coming to Left 4 Dead 2!

The Steam Workshop website will allow you to browse, rate, and discuss thousands of community created add-ons and even install them directly to your game with just one click of the mouse. We are also going to try an experiment with the L4D2 Workshop that will allow content to appear in the L4D2 world even more seamlessly based on the community’s response. 

To compliment the new access to maps, weapons, and items, we are also creating an expanded scripting tool to allow deeper and more varied experiences inside of Left 4 Dead 2. Similar to the current Mutations, these experiences can be laid on top of existing maps or included with brand new maps. These new style Mutations will also be available from the Steam Workshop.

All of this will also be available not just on the PC and Mac, but also for Linux users as well starting in the middle of next month and rolling out from there. We will have more details as we get closer to launch.

Valve announces Steam client development and Left 4 Dead 2 for Linux

Steam’d penguins? Is it a recipe for an exotic South Pole dish? Perhaps it’s one of those bizarre YouTube videos of penguins in a sauna cavorting with the Swedish Bikini team?


The truth is that this is the first post of the Valve Linux blog. This blog is where you can find the latest information from Valve about our Linux development efforts. Avoid the rumors and speculations that multiply on the Web. Instead, come to the source – a blog where people who are interested in Linux and open source game development can get the latest information on Valve’s efforts in this arena. In this initial post, we’ll introduce the team (and a bit of its history) and then give you a snapshot of what we’re currently doing.

Big Things Have Small Beginnings

For some time, Gabe has been interested in the possibility of moving Steam and the Source game engine to Linux. At the time, the company was already using Linux by supporting Linux-based servers for Source-based games and also by maintaining several internal servers (running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu server) for various projects. In 2011, based on the success of those efforts and conversations in the hallway, we decided to take the next step and form a new team. At that time, the team only consisted of a few people whose main purpose was investigating the possibility of moving the Steam client and Left 4 Dead 2 over to Ubuntu.

Why Ubuntu? There are a couple of reasons for that. First, we’re just starting development and working with a single distribution is critical when you are experimenting, as we are. It reduces the variability of the testing space and makes early iteration easier and faster. Secondly, Ubuntu is a popular distribution and has recognition with the general gaming and developer communities. This doesn’t mean that Ubuntu will be the only distribution we support. Based on the success of our efforts around Ubuntu, we will look at supporting other distributions in the future.

After successfully porting L4D2 to Ubuntu, interest grew within Valve and, as a result, the team and projects we were working on also grew. Currently, our focus is on the following projects:

getting the Steam client onto Linux with full functionality
optimizing a version of L4D2 running at a high frame rate with OpenGL
porting additional Valve titles
Current Projects

The goal of the Steam client project is a fully-featured Steam client running on Ubuntu 12.04. We’ve made good progress this year and now have the Steam client running on Ubuntu with all major features available. We’re still giving attention and effort to minor features but it’s a good experience at the moment. In the near future, we will be setting up an internal beta focusing on the auto-update experience and compatibility testing.

Since the Steam client isn’t much without a game, we’re also porting L4D2 to Ubuntu. This tests the game-related features of the Steam client, in addition to L4D2 gameplay on Ubuntu. Over the last few months, excellent progress has been made on several fronts and it now runs natively on Ubuntu 12.04. We’re working hard to improve the performance and have made good progress (more on that in a future post). Our goal is to have L4D2 performing under Linux as well as it performs under Windows.

We’ll be posting more information about those projects (and others) on a regular basis. Since this is a new effort for the team, we’d love to hear your opinions about the blog so shoot us an email. We also encourage you to leave comments and ideas for future postings. We want this to be a community of game developers, communicating with each other and talking about current efforts and future efforts in a powerfully creative environment.

After all, isn’t that what open source is all about – the idea that collaboration and teamwork achieve amazing things?

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/

Charger melee Headshot training

Remember: your timing might be different from this one, since you got to deal with ping and conection issues. Also low you lerp for a better chance of hitting. The guy in this video is using  a 0.100 lerp and is training in a local server with 0 ping. This lerp value is not recommend for Charger levelling.

Don't you know what is lerp? Check the Lerp Tutorial and learn why it's so important

How to install custom campaigns and content (addons)

All Left 4 Dead 2 custom content is delivered in VPKs. Content not in VPKs may alter your main content and prevent you from playing on Valve Official dedicated servers. First exit the game and then you need to download the content. Many providers will place the vpk in a zip file. 












If that is the case, you will need to open up that file first and copy the vpk from there. Double clicking on the .vpk file will automatically install that addon. If instead of installing, you are prompted to select what program to open the file with select the addoninstaller commonly found here \steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\bin\addoninstaller 


 If that does not work or you prefer to do it manually, you can just copy the file directly into the addons directory loacated here \steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\ left 4 dead 2\addons Start your game and now that content will be available for you. You can disable the addons by either deleting them from the folder or going into the extras -> addons menu in game.


Fast Mega video

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Left 4 Dead 2 - Downloads

Alguns downloads utéis para Left 4 Dead 2

Hunter Training:   

Você morre de inveja de quem consegue escalar prédios altos, arrancar um pounce de 25 do nada? Bem, ai segue um mapa de treino que vai te ajudar a melhorar suas habilidades como hunter. São vários estilos e técnicas de pounce (pounce cego, pounce de  costas, back flip carpado, etc.. rs) Sem dúvida um dos mapas mais úteis.

Download Hunter training 

Instalação: Coloque o arquivo .vpk em "…\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\addons

Abra o console e digite: map hunter_training_map versus

Divirta-se

Lista de bloqueio no Left 4 Dead 2

Se você vem jogando Left 4 Dead 2 há um certo tempo, Você provavelmente tem sua propria lista  de quem joga ruim e de quem joga bem.  Nos já deixamos simples para você encontrar quem esta jogando bem, com a lista  de amigos da Steam. Mas nos sabemos que pessoas dão rage, jogadores fazem cabacisses, and outras pessoas... bem, algumas pessoas nos simplesmente não queremos mais jogar outro jogo com eles. 

Para estes em especial, Nos temos a lista de bloqueio. Pense nisso como sua lista pessoal de lixos. Não apenas essas pessoas não receberão gifts de você nessa época de feriados, mas também não poderão entrar em nenhum jogo. Seja com renas, ou outra forma


Uma vez que você tenha adicionado alguém a sua lista de bloqueados, eles não poderão se juntar ao seu jogo. Isto quer dizer que eles estão bloqueados atravez da interface do lobby, server browser, a lista de jogada recentemente e mesmo atravez de conexão direta. Eles sumirão da sua vida.


Isso também quer dizer que se um amigo convidar algum deles para o seu jogo, eles estaram bloqueados. Também previne você de entrar em algum jogo onde um jogador que você tenha bloqueado esteja. Se você tiver cometido por engano ou fizer as pazes, você poderá sempre desbloquea-los e tudo voltará ao normal.


Como você bloqueia alguém? Você poderá simplesmente bloquear qualquer usuário de dentro da pagina da comunidade Steam, bate-papo steam, ou da sua lista de amigos. Os jogadores também podem ser bloqueados durante o jogo via steam overlay, o qual disponibiliza um caminho tanto para localizar e bloquear jogadores da partida atual e jogadores recenetes de entrar em futuras partidas suas.


Não se preocupe em ofender alguém com seu bloqueio. Como sempre, seus bloqueios são privados. Apenas você verá a lista de pessoas as quais você bloqueou. E novamente,  não se preocupe em cometer qualquer engano bloqueando. Você pode sempre desbloquear a qualquer momento.


Quais jogos suportarão o bloqueio? Left 4 Dead 2 para começo de conversa. Queremos testar isso aqui. CS:GO será o proximo e então continuaremos a adicionar jogos que usem Steamworks matchmaking.

Update de 18 de Novembro - Headshot!, confogl.

Headshot!
 O Único tiro que conta é na cabeça.

Atire neles no braço, atire neles na perna, ou mesmo no peito - Simplesmente não importa! O único meio de derrubar esses zumbis é com um tiro na cabeça. Tiros em outras áreas apenas os atrasarão. Apenas um tiro na cabeça ou decapitação será capaz de mata-los.

Esta mutação está disponível para o modo Campanha.

Confogl

A votação foi parelha, realmente fechada no xbox mas o pessoal resolveu dar uma outra chance. Um dos problema com uma grande mudança como no Confogl é que apenas duas semanas não é tempo suficiente para se ajustar as alterações. Você precisa aprender o que há de diferente e se adaptar.