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Left 4 Dead is a series of cooperative first-person shooter survival horror video games created by Turtle Rock Studios and published by Valve.Set in the days after a pandemic outbreak of a viral strain transforming people into zombie-like feral creatures, the games follow the adventures of four survivors attempting to reach safe houses and military rescue while fending off the attacking hordes.
Left 4 Dead is a 2008 first-person shooter game developed by Valve South and published by Valve.It was originally released for Windows and Xbox 360 in November 2008 and for Mac OS X in October 2010, and is the first title in the Left 4 Dead series.
Within compressed blocks, if a duplicate series of bytes is spotted (a repeated string), then a back-reference is inserted, linking to the previous location of that identical string instead. An encoded match to an earlier string consists of an 8-bit length (3–258 bytes) and a 15-bit distance (1–32,768 bytes) to the beginning of the duplicate.
Software distributors use executable compression for a variety of reasons, primarily to reduce the secondary storage requirements of their software; as executable compressors are specifically designed to compress executable code, they often achieve better compression ratio than standard data compression facilities such as gzip, zip or bzip2 [citation needed].
YULS or YUVsoft's Lossless Video Codec, a lossless video codec developed by YUVsoft, was designed to produce highly compressed lossless video. YULS compares favorably, in terms of compression ratio, with other codecs. [1]
Gameplay of Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead. Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead is based on the Valve game Left 4 Dead, which is a first-person shooter, while the Pixel Force demake is a top-down shooter. The game adapts all four launch campaigns as well as featuring the same cast of characters: Zoey, Bill, Louis, and Francis. These maps have five areas each.
[14] [15] Valve announced that the best fan-made comics would be featured on the Left 4 Dead developer's blog. [16] The first part was released on September 14, 2010. [17] Each following part was released every week following, up until the release of The Sacrifice in the games. [18] It was eventually released for the iOS items iPhone and iPad. [19]
Left 4 Dead 2 is a 2009 first-person shooter Survival video game developed and published by Valve.The sequel to Left 4 Dead (2008) and the second game in the Left 4 Dead series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in November 2009, Mac OS X in October 2010, and Linux in July 2013.