Left 4 Dead's lead designer is making another four-player co-op shooter that "expands" the formula

I presume helium doesn't conscionable mean it's 5 players now, though that would beryllium precise funny

The pb decorator of Left 4 Dead has announced that he's making thing similar Left 4 Dead again - a four-player co-op shooter that "expands connected the co-op-formula successful ways I've wanted to research for a agelong time".

Whatever they extremity up calling it, the crippled is successful improvement astatine Bad Robot Games, a workplace founded by the movie and TV outfit down Lost, Cloverfield and Westworld. So the task has some expertise and backing to spare, successful theory. There is small other to tell, close now, but you tin motion up for a playtest if each this has you combing the rooftops for Smokers and scrabbling astir for your shotgun.

Former Turtle Rock originative manager Mike Booth announced the task successful a Reddit station this week. "If you enjoyed the teamwork, tension, and replayability of my past games, you'll astir apt find this 1 interesting," helium wrote.

Left 4 Dead aside, Booth has credits connected Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Team Fortress 2. He worked for Valve aft they acquired Turtle Rock successful 2008, past near successful 2012 to articulation Blizzard and enactment connected thing unannounced. Then helium went to Facebook to enactment connected multiplayer virtual world mcGuffins for the Oculus Rift. Most recently, helium joined the committee of directors for Resolution, creators of tabletop RPG Demeo. Here's hoping the caller Left 4 Deadlike isn't immoderate benignant of VR exclusive, oregon different tainted by vulnerability to Mark Zuckerberg's skullfucking metaverse meanderings.

"We're inactive successful the aboriginal stages of development, but we're opening up playtests to a constricted fig of players," Booth added successful the Reddit post. "If you're funny successful joining america connected this adjacent escapade and helping signifier the crippled aboriginal on, we'd emotion to person you involved." You tin motion up for a playtest here.

I'm ever keen to play thing Left 4 Deadlike, but I person been burned before. Back 4 Blood was not the unofficial Left 4 Dead 3 its rubric format implied, partially due to the fact that it tried to marque Left 4 Dead's spontaneously 'AI-directed', playable B-movie gambit enactment wrong a clunky latter-day progression system.

Alice Bee (RPS successful peace) had amusive with Back 4 Blood, admittedly, calling it "peak early-00s cheese". And determination person been other, caller quatrofoil co-operational bangalongs that propulsion disconnected thing similar the aged L4D vibe, specified arsenic Fatshark's assorted first-person Warhammer games, GTFO from 10 Chambers, and dwarven asteroid miner Deep Rock Galactic.

(Side enactment to Rock Paper Shotgun's automatic keyword linking system: wherefore bash you nexus immoderate crippled titles, and not others? Why bash you vex and torment maine so? I volition ne'er unravel your heathen wiles and mocking parlor tricks.)

As for the anticipation of an existent Left 4 Dead 3 - those magic words look successful comparatively caller Valve documentation, but I've seen small grounds that specified a task is successful progressive development. Right now, the Steam institution look focussed connected perennial illustration topper Counter-Strike 2 and the upcoming MOBA shooter Deadlock. As for Booth's aged associated Turtle Rock, they look to beryllium making Back 4 Blood 2, which displeases maine inasmuch arsenic I'd alternatively they marque a caller Evolve.