Updates to Booster Trooper have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Booster Trooper

• Fixed: Tripple Kill Achievement
• Fixed: Light and Dark Trooper Achievement
• Fixed: Duster Achievement
• Beacon strength doubled
• Fixed: multiple exit messages of players leaving matches
• Server list sorted by ping from low to high
• Fixed: several changed input keys now saved correctly
• Changed: object size of grenades decreased
• Improved: aiming with controller
• Added: D-Pad down on controller brings up stats
• Fixed: [Unknown] player name
• Performance improved
• Added: Texture details low option
• Fixed: lost device
• Fixed: Armcutter range
• Added: global volume setting
• Fixed: overall volume attenuation
• Fixed: [Bot]Mitch team correctly set for TDM
• Added: friendly fire option for servers in team modes
• Fixed: block joining full games
• Fixed: network shooting bug
• Added: more different screams on death
• Improved: hit collision detection
• Improved: Rocket and Grenade damage range decreased
• Improved: Minigun damage falloff on distance
• Improved: Shotgun range increased
• Improved: Plasma damage increased
• Improved: Pistol damage increased
• Improved: Jetpack takeoff speed increased
• Improved: Jetpack “refill” pause decreased
• Improved: Sniper damage falloff on distance
• Improved: If player ducks down accuracy of weapon is increased

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Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Discover upgrades and artifacts to install on your fleet ships, and engage in battle with bounty hunters and pirate space-chickens.
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This week we introduce a new mutation, reveal poll results, put the game in your hands, have a Boomer sighting, and more!

New Mutation

Bleed Out

Your health is a ticking away!

With constant mobs chasing you, there’s no time for standing around. You have no permanent health, only temporary health that is continuously ticking away. You won’t find any health packs to restore your health, only pills and adrenaline. This mutation is for Campaign mode.

Remember, each week a new mutation will be coming out, so you need to check back every week.

Poll Results

Last week’s in-game poll asking who your favorite L4D2 character was resulted in an interesting stat. 360 users were clearly Ellis fans with him winning by a wide margin with 43% of the vote. PC users were split with Nick and Ellis coming in a virtual tie with 33%. Reading the forums, Rochelle surged a bit in popularity after people watched her in “The Passing” teaser. Our internal poll tells us we should make more teasers.

This Week’s Poll

While last week’s poll was interesting, this week’s in-game poll actually changes the game. The question? Should we make Realism Versus a permanent game mode? This is by far the most important vote you will cast this year. For 360 owners, you must own “The Passing” to vote in this poll.

Boomer!

Want to scare and terrify your friends and family? Then you should look elsewhere. But if you want to hear them say “Ahhhh cute”; over a puke filled, boiled covered creature that speaks when you pull its chord — then we have the plushy for you. The “talking” Boomer plushy is now available at the Valve Store.

Join us in a Game!

We will be playing the Bleed Out Mutation all weekend using our super secret Valve developer accounts. While our friend lists are already filled to the brim, if you want to play with a Left 4 Dead 2 Dev just play Bleed Out this weekend on the Xbox 360 or PC and look for these user names.

Xbox 360

L4D2 DEV 1, L4D2 DEV 2, L4D2 DEV 3, L4D2 DEV 4, L4D2 DEV 5

PC

L4D2_DEV_1, L4D2_DEV_2, L4D2_DEV_3, L4D2_DEV_4, L4D2_DEV_5

You can verify these are valid Steam Names by checking that the name is in the Valve Group.

As you may have noticed, we didn’t update the blog Thursday night. We decided to release the new blog update to coincide with the new Mutation release. When we tested it internally, it seemed odd to read about the new Mutation when you were unable to play it. So from here on out we will be releasing the new Mutation and blog post at the same time.

Check back next week for info on the next mutation; Follow the Liter.

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RailWorks SD40-2 Burlington Northern Add-on is available on Steam.

The SD40-2 Burlington Northern shares the same basic superstructure as the SD38-2 as it uses the same 16-645E3 engine (with turbo charging modifications). The Dash 2 also has longer front and rear porches than other models, making for distinguishing features when comparing locomotives. Another alteration from previous designs is the three radiator grilles mounted on the roof, where previously there were only two.
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Save 75% off Codemasters Racing Pack, including DiRT2, DiRT, FUEL, GRID, and ToCA Race Driver 3.
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Today marks the 119th (or so) update to Team Fortress 2.

We think that calls for a celebration.

To coincide with today’s update, we are pleased to announce that our friends at The IP Factory will be releasing a limited edition collector’s statue of the Heavy, which is the first in their 12 inch Team Fortress 2 line of collectible statues. The Heavy will come in both BLU and RED team versions and numbers are strictly limited.

The IP Factory will begin accepting Heavy statue pre-orders on Monday 3rd May 9.00am.

To grab a sneak peak of the Heavy statue in all of his glory visit their website at www.gamingheads.com.

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New DLC for Just Cause 2 is available now on Steam!

With the Black Market Aerial Pack you get these cool items:

• F-33 DragonFly Jet Fighter: With quad-mounted miniguns and double missile launchers, this agile bird is the definite ruler of the skies, and packs a serious punch to land based targets as well.
• Dual Parachute Thrusters: Take to the air for longer! The Dual Parachute Thrusters when mounted to the parachute rig provides bursts of forward momentum to extend airtime.
• Multi-lock Missile Launcher: This highly sophisticated weapon of destruction allows you to lock up to four targets and unleash a barrage of homing missiles to take care of all your troubles.

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Celebrate the Guild Wars 5th Anniversary with 50% off the entire Guild Wars series this week only.

Get started with Guild Wars Game of the Year Edition, the award-winning online fantasy epic. Or check out the stand-alone expansions Guild Wars Factions, and Guild Wars Nightfall.

Or get all three: Guild Wars, Factions, and Nightfall in the Guild Wars Trilogy.

Three epic games. Zero subscription fees.
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Updates to Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Fixed “Cannot set display mode” fatal error at startup for some ATI boards.
• Fixed random lag spikes that made network games unplayable on many servers.

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Ironclads: American Civil War, Ironclads: High Seas, and Hazen: The Dark Whispers from Strategy First are now available on STEAM. Take advantage of the 10% discount during the first week.

Ironclads: American Civil War is a naval simulator based on historical accounts of real battles features 3-models of warships based on the original archived drawings. The use of real stats and calculations re-creates a realistic collision between ships, floods and capsizing that occurred during the American Civil War. Be in command of a fleet of ships to destroy your enemy.

Ironclads: High Seas is a steam-ship tactical naval simulator that sets place during the height of the American Civil War. Battle for Confederate trade routes with real time fleet-scale battles. Create battle squadron groups, choose your ships and use tactics such as ‘Crossing the T’ formation to defeat your enemies.

Hazen: The Dark Whisper is a stand alone single episode that re-energizes the hack ‘n’ slash fantasy game genre. Featuring extended re-playable sequences that feature thousands of different items to increase magical spells.
Featuring deep character development and numerous possibilities.
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Serious Sam is back in his High-Definition-iest title ever!

The glorious high-definition (HD) chaos continues in Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, the highly anticipated arcade action FPS sequel to the Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter. Developed by Croteam, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter combines spectacularly enhanced visuals, including more polygons, higher resolution textures and more special effects like hippy and kids mode, with trademark frantic gameplay for a non-stop action.
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The Whispered World a new adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment is now available on Steam. To celebrate the release that game is 10% off for the first week.

The Whispered World whisks the player away to a fascinating fantasy world. Sadwick is a young clown but often far from cheerful. One night, a strange blue creature speaks to him in a dream, and sends him on an adventurous journey. Many dangers await Sadwick, for the world he knows is doomed to crumble and fall. In classic point and click tradition, gamers steer Sadwick and his companion Spot through the game.
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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction is now available in North, Central, and South America.

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction arms you to the teeth with all the high-tech weaponry and lethal skills of an elite operative and invites you to enter a dangerous world where justice means making your own rules.

Conviction releases in additional territories on Friday.
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