A wonderfully edited frag video brought to you by our good friend Seanclarity

I’d like to apologize for the lack of updates this week, but L4D2 has kept many in F! quite busy . Come back tomorrow and we’ll have tons of new features as the blog gets back on track!

As many of you know, the Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 was almost not released at all, until Valve censored/omitted enough blood, guts, and gore to make it to Australian standards. This video shows a comparison between the censored version and the non-censored version.

I think it’s pretty funny seeing zombies just fall to the floor and dissipate into nothing.

Xbox 360 Copies of L4D2 were accidentally sold early yesterday, and a video of Dead Center has been uploaded to YouTube thanks to the error.

SPOILERS AHEAD (video features full campaign)

This is the first in a series of 5 videos showing a full play through of Dead Center, other 4 videos can be found after the break.

German players have been screwed out of awesome gore effects, and even some games because of high violence and the censor laws involved. It seems Valve has recognized this and has given them a huge bonus with their editions of L4D2. German players will be treated to an exclusive set of weapons from the popular game “Counter Strike Source”, but don’t worry North American players, you’ll get a chance to try it out too as any one playing with a some one in Germany will have a 50% chance of those weapons spawning in your game. No word on any special bonuses with the Australian edition as of yet.

The weapons in action!

Check out the bio pages for each of the survivors we’ll get to play with this Monday/Tuesday when Left 4 Dead 2 comes out

There has been a lot of speculations on almost every TF2 forum of a Soldier update announcement on November the 11th (yesterday). There are a few reasons for the forums to think this, one being November 11th is Veteran’s day, suited to the Soldier’s persona. Also during the “Meet the spy” video the soldier punches in “1, 1, 1, 1″ in the key pad to unlock a door, and during the Medal give away, valve gave away 11,111 medals. November being the 11th month, making every thing fall into the “1111″ motif, it just seem to make sense.

Alas, there was no announcement, no update, no Easter egg found, nothing. It was what it was… just speculations.

Luckily for us, the TF2 community doesn’t take disappointment sitting down, instead, made their own soldier update and we’re here to share it with you!

View the full community Soldier update after the break!!

TF2 was originally sold as a package deal with the Orange box. What this mean is that it never had it’s own TV spot, and had to share the spot light with the likes of a mute physicist, and a soft spoken murderous computer. A fan realized this and has justly pieced together his own TF2 TV spot based on the latest L4D2 TV spot. It’s very well put together, enjoy.

 

Plate has posted a very interesting and useful tutorial on the TF2 steam forums on how to create your own fully functional TF2 weapon. Currently, this  only works on your own private server, but it’s still fun to mess around with it.

Full tutorial after the break!

Here’s a compression blast frag video by Frying Dutchman and timbl4. We don’t often feature frag videos on this blog, mainly because there are just so many of them with already so many web sites that cover it, but this one is especially well pieced together. There are some pretty nifty compression kills here, quite entertaining.

Member of the week: (COW) Soulreaverm (F!)

Entries posted during the week.

(Oct 26 – Nov 4)

• Left 4 Dead 2 – Hands on!
• The TF2 Art of RocketShoes
• The Team Fortress 2 Haunted Halloween Special!
• The fan Art of NoBullet
• The TF2 Storyline
• Dead before Dawn – L4D Mod
• Bill’s hat give away!
• Man Bear Pig… in my L4D2
• Versus in L4D2 Demo? No Way!

Weekly Poll results Oct 26 – Nov 4

• “Are you playing L4D2 demo this week?” (Hellz yeah!! – 60%) (No. Buying it later – 20%) (No, I’m not getting L4D2 – 20%)

Blog updates:

• Yeah I know… late again lol. Recaps are now going to be posted Wednesday rather than Mondays from this point on (and I realize that this is Thursday now and even with the new date I’m still late )
• [Sacred Heart Med] Dr. Reid has been made an editor on the blog. We hope to see many goodies posted from Miss Reid.

-Jening Blog weekly recap-

• Halloween Hat For JENINGFriends

Can’t wait till the 17th to play versus? A modder by the name of Saul has created a plugin to allow just that! But you will have to wait to get the the full versus experience because right now you can only play 2v2 matches.

First download the plugin here. Unzip it to your C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left4dead2demo. Now open up the demo and enter this in your console: ‘plugin_allow_remote_commands 1′ followed by: ‘plugin_cvar sb_all_bot_team 1′

Start a local server by going to campaign > play with friends > create a game lobby. Set the game to local server and start it by yourself or with friends. Enter ’set_infected 1′ in console to switch to the infected team. After 10-20 seconds you will spawn in as an infected!

Commands for the plugin:

• plugin_allow_remote_commands <0 or 1> – Allow clients to use commands like “set_infected” and “infected_spawn” from their console
• plugin_infected_autorespawn <0 or 1> – Auto-respawn infected players when they die
• plugin_infected_autorespawn_delay – Delay in which to respawn infected (-1 = random, see plugin_infected_autorespawn_delay_random_min and plugin_infected_autorespawn_delay_random_max, 0 = no delay, # = # seconds)
• plugin_infected_autorespawn_delay_max – Highest value to randomize to
• plugin_infected_autorespawn_delay_min – Lowest value to randomize from
• plugin_tank_spawn_chance – Percentage chance that a player may spawn as a tank (default is 10)

Thanks to Deadweight for letting me know about this.

[via Left4Dead2Tricks]

For those of you who pre-ordered Left 4 dead 2 Valve are going to give you one more surprise free-be, Bill’s hat!! All class can wear it, and looks damn spiffy, this is yet another reason to pre-order L4D2. If you have the cash, and you have the interest to read this (Valve community) blog, is there really any reason not to pre-order?

Pre-Order L4D2 NOW!

It was only a matter of time before this happened. A Left 4 Dead mod based on the Crossroads Mall from the movie Dawn of the Dead.

Features and installation instructions after the break [via ClanBase]

Shortly after the TF2 Halloween Update, a number of TF2 conspiracy theorists discovered the very storyline of the game. Below is the will of Zephaniah Mann, the previous owner of Mann Co. and the very battlegrounds of the game. It can be found through a hidden link on the Halloween Update page.

“I, Zephaniah Mann, being of sound mind, so hereby vow to haunt the earth as a horrifying poltergeist, until such time as I have quenched my all-consuming thirst for vengeance against he world, and especially against my dunderhead sons.
If it takes a brave man to admit he is in error, then surely a man willing to admit both of his sons are stumble-bum muttonheads is twice as brave. It was they who convinced me to spend the entirety of my sizeable fortune purchasing land in the unclaimed frontier of the Americas, in the hope of expanding our weapons concern to the uncolonized westernmost regions. Many tales did they whisper in my too credulous ears, of gravel as far as the eye can see, for any man with strong back and iron spirit to harness. Long did I dream of transforming these virgin lands, and its vast holes, into the worlds most majestic and profitable pits of gravel. But when at last we arrived, we only found “fool’s gravel” — my nitwit sons had purchased a continent-sized parcel of sand! It is here in this wind-swept desert hell that I fear I shall breathe my last.

Since moving from my Cambridgeshire estate to the untamed frontier I have contracted putrid fever, bilious fever, blackwater fever, green fever, spotted fever — even womb fever, as a complication from a serious bout of superfluous uterus. On our sailing trip to the new world I contracted white plague, marasmus, sweating sickness, deplumatious tumors of the eyelids, pleurisy membranous croup and scarlet rash; during the drive west I contracted brain itch, stomatitus, and blood poisoning; since settling our estate I have contracted falling sickness, walking sickness, stationary sickness, shingles, jaundiced spine and skull bloat. I contracted scirvener’s palsy in the writing of this last will & testament. Possessing no paper in this godforsaken frontier, I have penned this on my own skin, which has sloughed off in quantity since contracting impetigo.

To the foul-smelling, uneducated simpletons of the untamed Americas, I leave only this curse — as weapons have caused my downfall, so will it engineer the downfall of any soul who puts one to use near my restless grave. Shoot over my bones, and I shall visit upon you a haunting the likes of which you have never seen.
To my dearest maidservant Elizabeth I leave the rest and residue of my estate — including all deeds, accounts, debts public and private — my tobacco plantation — and what remains of the fortune my addle-pated sons have squandered. Find the gravel that I was unable to find! Honor me by placing it inside a pit!
To my faithful aide and tracker, Barmabas Hale of the savage Australias, I divest complete control of the Mann & Sons Munitions Concern. You procured the poppy flowers required for the medicines that gave me succor from the pains of my many warring ailments. It has been pleasant to not shriek myself to sleep.
To my layabout, brain defective sons, Blutarch and Redmond, I leave the greatest curse of all — partnership. What land I have purchased in this new world is to be split evenly between you both. You have wasted your lives bickering over nothing and so I leave you dimwits something of consequence over which to feed.
Lastly, to [obscured text due to sand] I leave the entirety of my [obscured text due to sand] and swear you to utmost secrecy in its keeping.
God and His angels will have to drag me screaming to Heaven. I do not want to die! Damn you all to hell! “

If you read the will, you’ll notice that Zephaniah Mann was the very owner of TF2 itself before passing away and leaving it to his two dim-witted sons, Blutarch and Redmond. Incase you havn’t noticed, the TF2 teams were named after them- BLU and RED. Notice how they bear the team colors. That’s right, the only reason the war of TF2 is going on is because Z.M.’s two sons are fighting for control of their father’s land. But this is not all, a family portrait of the Mann family was also found.

Photo’s and more about the true story of TF2 after the break!