stb1swat
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The new Survivor mode is...somewhat less than i expected, but at the same times its way better. Basically you're open up from all sides and it never starts out easy. Right from the start its madness, and its never about surviving to live, but surviving to beat your best time. It implements a timer that shouldn't reach into the hours because valve's own best time was like...10 minutes. Due to the extremely short life-spans of each survival game...this is going to be very frustrating or very addictive.
There are 12 survivor maps of which 11 are rehashed versions of the campaign and 1 is a new map called "lighthouse". The latter is claimed to be the most difficult; some of the key points of the map are a lighthouse and a rock cliff... apparently that means something...
Here are the videos:
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...preparing.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...use_clip1.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...use_clip2.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...vivormode.html
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There are 12 survivor maps of which 11 are rehashed versions of the campaign and 1 is a new map called "lighthouse". The latter is claimed to be the most difficult; some of the key points of the map are a lighthouse and a rock cliff... apparently that means something...
Here are the videos:
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...preparing.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...use_clip1.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...use_clip2.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215...vivormode.html
So what's in it for you? Well, beside the intense action, there are all sorts of personal records you can accumulate. The most obvious one is trying to get a best time for each of the 12 Survival levels in the game. There are extra incentives as well. You can earn bronze, silver, and gold medals if you survive long enough. Though the medal times for each map will be tailored for each map, right now the basic idea is that you need to survive for at least four minutes to get bronze, six minutes to get silver, and eight minutes to get gold. (In our play session, the best we ever got was within a minute of earning silver.) Of course, online leaderboards will also let you compare your times with those of our friends for bragging rights.
As soon as your group is wiped out, you get the match results and then the entire thing resets. Basically, once you start playing you can do round after round easily, which eats up the time. Survival mode is playable on 12 levels, 11 of which are taken and modified from the existing four campaigns. We played in Dead Air's airport terminal, Blood Harvest's farm house level, and No Mercy's hospital level. There is one entirely brand-new level in the DLC called Lighthouse which the designers say may be the toughest level of them all.
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