“For the first time in history,” writes the TF2 Team, “two separate Valve universes collide!” If you pre-order Left 4 Dead 2, you get Bill’s beret from Left 4 Dead to trick out your Team Fortress 2 guys.
The deal’s of course restricted to pre-orders of the PC L4D2, Steam or retail. However, if you’ve already preordered the game, never fear. “Just fire up TF2 and you’ll find the hat in your next game,” the ad states.
For the record, Valve offers this defence of shamelessly rending two continuities asunder just to make a fast buck:
Lest you think this is just some marketing gimmick, here’s the intricate back-story justifying it: while conducting a science experiment on parallel dimensions, Bill’s hat fell off a table into the Team Fortress universe.
Plausible. The hat preorder bonus accompanies a 10 percent discount, too.
Pre-Order Giveaway Madness! [TF2 Official Blog]
Anthony Zonaga
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:03 PMWill Australians get the hat censored?
Outofcover
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:17 PMIt will cause TF2 to loose all it blood effects etc…..
legless joe
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:34 PMYes, because no science or parallel universes can withstand the power of Australia’s censorship laws.
rpgplayer83
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:49 PM“Science is for those that do not believe in Religion”
Steven Bogos
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:00 PMThat’s not true, there are plenty of scientists that are also relgious. Einstien, for example, belived in God
pk
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:24 AMbelieving in god is not the same as being religious.
Joshy206
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:35 PMWhat the he’ll is humanism then? :p
Riavan
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:37 PMI think it’s fairly obvious we have a bunch of religious zealots at the OFLC.
Khuntza
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:15 PMI don’t know who that quote is by, but its retarded..
The very nature of science does not require any form of ‘belief’.. science is purely about facts..
Religion on the other hand is about faith and believing in what cannot be seen..
So a more fair statement would be that religion is for those who don’t understand science..
That said a new TF2 hat can only be a good thing!
Steven Bogos
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:59 PMpre order left 4 dead 2 and get an item from left 4 dead 1 to use in team fortress 2
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
Azerius
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 6:37 PMSo i got this hat today, despite having my L4D2 pre-order cancelled a few days ago… go figure
Korwin
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:00 PMIt’s a shame I cant register my US copy pre-order…
Willing to bet this is the least steam pre-ordered game in this country ever.
Scott Vandonkelaar
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 9:08 PMDoes anyone know why the L4D2 Demo has been hit with what appears to be sizable update? (Approx 500MB, haven’t finished downloading it yet)
Wesley Pendlebury
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:48 AMno, i’ll ask around, but post the changes here. id love to know if it has something to do with 500mb of gore….
Scott Vandonkelaar
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 8:54 AMTurned out to be about 614MB, but nothing looks different.
Oh, except now whenever I reach the first safe house the game crashes.