The Steam Workshop allows you to browse, rate, discuss, and add tons of community-created content to Valve games. An absolute hit with games like Portal 2, the Workshop is now coming to popular zombie survival shooter Left 4 Dead 2.
According to the L4D2 team, they will be trying an “experiment” with the L4D2 workshop integration that allows “content to appear in the L4D2 world even more seamlessly based on the community’s response.” What this means, we aren’t exactly sure, but it’s possible you will be seeing community-created content in your L4D2 games sometime soon.
In addition to allowing gamers to develop new weapons, maps, and items, the workshop will also give players access to an expanded scripting engine. This will allow players to develop their own game modes and “mutations” that can be integrated with existing or new maps. These new mutations will be available from the Steam Workshop. There is no word on whether or not fan mutations may end up working themselves into the normal mutation rotation.
The L4D2 Workshop will be available on PC and Mac, and will come to Linux platforms starting in the middle of October.