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'Left 4 Dead 2' Giving Away Avatar Awards?
multiplayerblog.mtv.com - 10/28/2009
'Left 4 Dead 2' Giving Away Avatar Awards?
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Leave it to the code sleuths of the Steam forums to find some buried details in the "Left 4 Dead 2" demo. An intrepid posted named "Fade Guy" discovered some code in one of the game's .txt files that may indicate plans for Avatar Awards including med kits, frying pans ...
forums.steampowered.com - 10/28/2009
Almost all of the content in L4D2 uncompressed and viewable.
— forums.steampowered.com — // Avatar Awards - In Game"ASSET_MED_KIT_NAME" "MED KIT" "ASSET_MED_KIT_DESC" "Unlock the Med Kit by beating all five... campaigns on any skill level." "ASSET_FRYING_PAN_NAME" "FRYING PAN" "ASSET_FRYING_PAN_DESC" "Unlock the Frying Pan by killing 10,000 ... (more) Almost all of the content in L4D2 uncompressed and viewable.

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steamcommunity.com - 10/27/2009
Left 4 Dead 2
— steamcommunity.com — Page: 1 2 3 ... 736>> 1 - 10 of 7355 Comments You must be logged on... to add comments. InSights posted on October 27, 2009 @ 1:41pm has any1 noticed it now says October 28 @ 06:00am instead of XXmins overdue? :P just what i need to get a good nights ... (more) Left 4 Dead 2

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g4tv.com - 10/28/2009
Left 4 Dead 2 Will Feature Avatar Awards
— g4tv.com — Shirt A Left 4 Dead 2 shirt earned by winning 10 games of Scavenge Left 4 Dead... 2 Shirt #2 A Left 4 Dead 2 shirt earned by winning 10 games of Scavenge Depeche Mode Shirt A sweet Depeche Mode shirt earned by rescuing Gnome Chompski from the Dark ... (more) Left 4 Dead 2 Will Feature Avatar Awards

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Left 4 Dead 2 May Give Avatar Awards
1UP RSS feed — ... on the Steam Forums (via MTV Multiplayer). A user with the handle "Fade Guy" found some items listed in the .txt file of the recently released demo. Among the awards are a med kit and frying pan, along with several t-shirts. The items are split into two categories: "in game" and "xlast," the latter of which is widely assumed to be the Xbox 360 Avatar items. We're not sure what the "in game" category describes (which includes the frying pan), but it's still under the header of Avatar. ...

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