Celebrating the pending release of "The Passing" and the Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 teams colliding, we have a few other world colliding events to announce.
First up, the Midnight Riders collide with Rock Band. The gang over at Harmonix have released two Midnight Riders's songs for Rock Band! You can check them out here and download them in game to play in the comfort of your own home. "The Passing" will feature a brand new slow power ballad; "Save Me Some Sugar".
What happens when a 1939 film classic collides with Left 4 Dead? Check out Agnostes' awesome Left 4 Dead campaign poster he made for a Wizard of Oz concept art contest to find out.
What happens when Half-Life 2: Episode one collides with Left 4 Dead 2? Mixmedia's City 17. Alyx would be proud.
What about TF2 and L4D2 colliding? That would be Jsparakov's Badwater Basin map. And for worlds colliding into worlds colliding, check-out TF2's and Sam & Max's collision currently going on.
So enough worlds colliding, when is "The Passing" coming out? Well... if it was coming out next week we would say right here - Left 4 Dead 2's The Passing is coming out next week and we will be updating the blog next week with more news on the release. There you go.
The first game add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 brings the original Left 4 Dead (L4D1) Survivors down south for a meeting with the L4D2 cast, while delivering new single-player, multiplayer and co-operative gameplay for the PC and Xbox 360.
The Passing also introduces a series of weekly game mode events dubbed "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. There are over 20 Mutations planned, each playable on all L4D2 Campaigns. Mutations are exclusively available to owners of "The Passing" DLC.
In addition, "The Passing" offers a new co-operative challenge mode of play, support for infected bot play in Versus, a new "uncommon common" zombie class (the fallen survivor), melee weapon (golf club), and firearm (M-60).
Available for 560 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and free on the PC, "The Passing" takes place just after the Dead Center campaign of L4D2. Set in a small town in rural Georgia, players assume the role of the L4D2 Survivors as they meet with the L4D1 characters.
Exclusively available for Xbox 360 and the PC, L4D2 sets a new benchmark for co-operative action games. The title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaws, frying pans, axes, baseball bats, and more.
With the AI Director 2.0, L4D's dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.
Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original, featuring more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, new Survival maps, and the new competitive game mode, Scavenge.
With "The Passing" due out soon on the PC and Xbox 360, we figured we'd whet your appetite with a rundown of the new Achievements you'll be able to earn later this week.
以“傳遞”出爐不久在PC和Xbox 360，我們計算我們就磨你的胃口的一個破敗的新成就你就可以贏得本週晚些時候。
Let's start with the straight-forward ones we'd be crazy not to include: Surviving the campaign, playing some Scavenge, using the new weapons, playing a Midnight Riders song, and smashing up some Survivors with a Charger.
讓我們先從簡單的就是我們想要是瘋不包括：生存的運動，玩的清除，使用新的武器，發揮了午夜騎士歌曲，並且打破了一些倖存者用充電器。
Torch Bearer
Survive The Passing Campaign.
鼓舞者
生存的傳遞活動。
Port of Scavenge
Play 5 full games of Scavenge on The Port.
港口的清除
玩遊戲的5全面清除作用於該端口。
Fore!
Knock off the heads of 18 infected with the golf club.
富勒！
歇工的負責人18感染與高爾夫俱樂部。
Til It Goes Click
Using the M60, kill 25 infected without letting go of the trigger.
直到它去點擊
使用的M60，殺死 25名感染不放的扳機。
Killing Them Swiftly To This Song
Play the new Midnight Riders song on a jukebox.
殺害他們迅速這首歌曲
新的午夜騎士播放歌曲上點唱機。
Wedding Crasher
As the Charger, grab a Survivor and crash them through 8 chairs at the wedding.
婚禮不速之客
由於充電器，抓住一個倖存者和碰撞，並通過 8個椅子在婚禮。
Alright. Now onto the spoilery ones. Some of these might not make sense until you play The Passing--like "Cache Grab", which involves foot lockers, a new addition to the Left 4 Dead 2 universe.
好吧。現在到spoilery的。其中一些可能沒有什麼意義，直到你扮演的傳遞 - 如“緩存搶”，這涉及腳儲物櫃，一個新的除了左4人死亡2的世界。
Cache Grab
Open 5 foot lockers.
緩存抓斗
打開 5英尺儲物櫃。
Okay. So we know one of the original Left 4 Dead Survivors is off shooting zombies in Heaven--but what are the other three up to? Covering your ass.
好吧。因此，我們知道一個原左4人死亡倖存者已關閉射擊殭屍在天堂 - 但什麼是其他三個最多？覆蓋你的屁股。
Kite Like a Man
Kill a tank only with damage from the original Survivors.
風箏像男人
殺死一箱只有原來的倖存者損害。
The "Grave Robber" achievement ties into another addition to the L4D2 universe, in the form of a new Uncommon Common: the Fallen Survivor.
在“盜墓”成就關係到另一個除了L4D2宇宙在形成一個新的不尋常的常見：墮落者的倖存者。 Grave Robber
Collect 10 items dropped by a Fallen Survivor.
盜墓
集齊 10個項目下降了1墮落倖存者。
And of course, we saved the best for last: the "Mutant Overlord" achievement, which you can only get by playing six Mutations.
當然，我們保存最好的上一篇：“突變霸王”的成就，您可以通過打六只獲得突變。
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.
說得對，現在你可能會問自己，“什麼是地獄中的突變？” “為什麼我要扮演其中六人？” “有半年多？” “哪裡的味道從哪裡來？”所有這些好問題。尋找答案大部分在週三的博客帖子。
