Left 4 Dead Free DLC coming to PC in September

Knuckle up boys, it’s zombie time.

Yes, Valve’s beloved zombie survival shooter is getting its second DLC manicure in the past year it’s been released. With coveted titles such as Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, Valve’s credentials as a PC game developer has proved their worth in this demanding and commonly frustrating field.

Released in 2008, within a year Left 4 Dead has stolen enough awards to feed countless brain-dead zombie fans with reasons to buy their latest game, though it supports its reasons with relentless gameplay and one of the creepiest atmospheres ever in a first-person shooter.

This DLC release, slated for September, is the second of what Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve Corporation, says to be a long line of L4D content to be released in coming months. As Steam’s update news states, this DLC will bridge the gap between No Mercy and Death Toll campaigns, as well as introduce streamlined versus gameplay in under 30 minutes. The new campaign, titled “Crash Course,” is the offspring of the Left 4 Dead community’s insatiable hunger for constant, renewable, and endless gameplay to be fed to them for as long and as efficient as possible.

“BRAINS…AND DLC….GRAHGHGH!”

There is a slight, chance—slight, but still there—that this DLC may be the food source to satisfy even the most uncontrollable hungers. The L4D community has a history of resembling their infected brethren in-game. Sometimes they are primal, rabid, and lacking in intelligence. “They’ve given up on us” they said, “Valve doesn’t care about L4D anymore.” Yes, once word of the much anticipated Left 4 Dead 2 was released, an outbreak of horrifying proportions infected the L4D community. “BOYCOTT IT,” they cried! “wtf they releasin L4D2 for?! wheres MAH DEE ELL SEE?” The complaints were numerous, and the community in shambles, divided over those who retained hope, and those who were lost in the abyss of download starvation.

Valve never lost hope however, because they’re Valve. And Valve will make you wait as long as they want to, because they make great games. And because what they add on to those games is free, despite our whiny, selfish, ungrateful nature. The new DLC will be another shining point in this game’s young history, and with the release of Left 4 Dead 2 coming up, I presume that zombie carnage will not see its end for another 5000 or so DLC releases.