Cold Stream

Cold Stream is an upcoming DLC for Left 4 Dead 2. It was announced in a blog post on February 16, 2011. A beta was released on March 22, 2011 on Steam and remains open for public testing. The release date will be July 24th 2012.

Cold Stream is unique in that every chapter ends with a gauntlet crescendo event leading to the safe room. Even the finale Cut-throat Creek is a gauntlet panic event through the entire chapter, similar to The Bridge in The Parish.

Only for Left 4 Dead 2

 * A new, but currently undocumented melee weapon.
 * Cold Stream, a community-made campaign from the creator of the 2 Evil Eyes community campaign.
 * Ports of Death Toll, Dead Air, Blood Harvest, and Crash Course.

Achievements

 * See Main Article: Achievements

Beta
Cold Stream was released to the public on the official servers on PC/Mac via beta release on March 22, 2011 for play testing and bug-seeking, such as finding nav-mesh bugs, navigational issues, hit box problems, missing zombie ladders, art problems, and more.

An in-game bug reporter was activated at the same time allowing players to send feedback and bug reports. This feature was announced by Valve to be extended eventually to work with other community campaigns. But strangely, there's no "Report Bug" button in the main menu or the in-game menu, which requires writing "bug" in the Developer Console yourself.

Players can also post feedback on the official forums in the Cold Stream section. Development of Cold Stream can also be followed on Valve's official twitter account located here.