“After spending an hour chatting about it, we came up with the idea of ‘The Spitter’,” Walking_Target writes. He then gets down to discussing what this zombie does. Lo and behold, it’s the spitting image (groan) of the special infected Valve announced for L4D2 this week.
Here’s the best part: Walking_Target is said to be a cofounder of the L4D2 Boycott movement.
Chances are this is just a neat coincidence. For certain Valve has been working on Left 4 Dead 2 well before May 31 and probably had this special infected specced out before then, too.
But if not, it’s one hell of a middle finger back to those who raised so much hell about a Left 4 Dead sequel being made so soon.
Valve are a Bunch of Sneaky Thieves! [The Bits, Bytes, Pixels and Sprites]
Brett C
July 26, 2009 at 7:57 PM
To be fair the jump from a Boomer to a Spitter isn’t that great. You could even just take aspects of a Smoker and Boomer and voila, a Spitter.
Report PermalinkCyK
July 26, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Someone also retold the charger as well. No biggy.
Report PermalinkMidda
July 27, 2009 at 7:57 AM
I’d have thought that this would make Walking_Target happy. If he didn’t want Valve to ‘copy’ him (if they even did), why post the idea on the official forums?
Report PermalinkTristan Birkinshaw
July 27, 2009 at 8:22 AM
I’m sure it’s very likely that two people out of roughly six billion on this Earth happened to have the same idea.
Report PermalinkJust sayin’.