Left4Dead 2

[Lemur]

I can understand that, sure. Then the best thing (IMHO) is to check the Steam Specials tab every weekend from now on. They run tasty promotions on a regular basis. Odds are good you'll be able to get most everything you want at a substantial discount by mid-Feb or so.

[Monk]

I can understand that, sure. Then the best thing (IMHO) is to check the Steam Specials tab every weekend from now on. They run tasty promotions on a regular basis. Odds are good you'll be able to get most everything you want at a substantial discount by mid-Feb or so.

As I recall they ran a number of promotions for L4D a month or two after release where they offered it for 50% off. With any luck they will do the same for the sequel.

[Lemur]

Yup, I picked up L4D super-cheap via a Steam special. Ten or twelve bucks, can't remember.

Meanwhile, just found confirmation that the pre-purchase demo unlocks today at 3 p.m. Must be West Coast time, correct? So 6 p.m. tonight in the Middle West.

[A Very Super Market]

Looks like your source was wrong :whistle:

[Lemur]

Hmm, interesting, they changed the time from today at 3 pm to tomorrow at 1 am. They must need more Java Googles.

[A Very Super Market]

I've pre-ordered L4D2, if anyone is lonely enough to seek a boring recluse for zombie-killing, add me to your friends list.

brrrrrrrrrrrr (With 12 rs)

[pevergreen]

I am looking to pre-order.

Need 2 more people for the 4 pack, with that it turns out at 37 AUD, instead of 100 in stores. If i buy myself its like 49AUD, so I'm keen to save $12

Anyone else hasn't pre-ordered and wants to save money, send me a PM.

PLEASE.

[Lemur]

Aaaaaaand they've moved the demo time again. Now they're saying 3 pm Pacific time today. We shall see, won't we? These internet tubes are tricky.

[Crazed Rabbit]

They ought to try trucks for shipment. Moving video games through pipelines doesn't make sense.

CR

[Major Robert Dump]

The internet is not a truck.

[Lemur]

I think Valve would benefit from a truck. After delaying the demo a day, now it's impossible to launch it. "This application is not available."

Really, I can only wish for a series of tubes.

[Major Robert Dump]

LOL I didn't realize i needed pre-order to get the demo, or i would have been getting it while playing DOW. Then I saw some Orgahs log on Steam in LFD2 and slowly figured out my err. 12% :P

[GeneralHankerchief]

I just played a round of the Demo. It gives you the first two levels of the "Parish" campaign. Overall, I was pretty pleased with the experience. L4D vets can jump right into it, but at the same time there's things new enough to keep you interested. Impressions below, with some spoilers:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

First off, new enemies. Some zombies, formerly police, have on riot gear and you have to turn around and hit them in the back to kill them. That's not too much trouble. But the Charger (who comes out of nowhere and bowls enemies over) is a bit of trouble, as it the Spitter, who releases a pool of acid on death that can do a lot of damage. The Jockey seems to be a Hunter clone where the only difference is that it rides you instead of pins you. Our old friends the Hunter, Boomer, Smoker, and Witch make appearances too. I didn't encounter a Tank.

There was one crescendo event, which we survived by the skin of our teeth. Maybe this was because I hadn't played it before, but as advertised, it seemed to be tougher than the previous crescendos in L4D1. Basically, you had to run through a security outpost to get to a bus station and the alarm in the tower goes off as soon as you enter. So you have to go through a small maze, climb the tower, and shut the alarm off just to stop the zombies from coming, and even then they don't freaking let up for a while. I ran out of auto-shotgun ammo about halfway through and had to switch to a hunting rifle to finish the rest of them off. By the end of it, we were all hurting and out of health. One of our party even died, but there was a conveniently-placed "Defribillator" item to revive them from death.

One gripe though - the much-advertised melee weapons are used in place of the much more useful pistols, so despite the options offered, I stuck with my guns (literally). Couldn't really get an idea that they'd be useful at all from the demo, especially considering you can still right-click to beat up enemies.

All in all I think the demo did its job. Looking forward to the release.

[Major Robert Dump]

grrrr...73%


So are there Zombie boobies? Cuz in LFD there was lots of zombie buttcrack on the hospital map and I was really hoping they take it to the next level!

[Major Robert Dump]

If that atrocity which is the intro in the demo is, in fact, the intro of the game then I think it is poorly done and they could have done better. Poor editing, poor shots, poor use of sound track. But then again, it may just be the demo.

However, the music is great, especially the banjo and blue grass versions of the original LFD theme. So far the demo is immersing me, but the music is really a nice touch. Makes me want to squeel like a pig. I hope there's a Ned Beatty zombie


Oh, and there's finally melee weapon friendly fire wOOOOOOOOOOOOt no more corner stacking melee spamming gayboes!

[A Very Super Market]

Nope. Only the specialty melee weapons do FF damage. Shoving someone just disrupts their vision.

[Lemur]

I didn't think the intro was all that bad. Contrast it with the trailers to real zombie movies.

Finally had a chance to play the demo. More of the same, but in a good way.

[naut]

Supposedly someone has already figured out how to bypass the Aussie censorship.

[Crazed Rabbit]

You can play versus in the demo:
http://www.l4dmods.com/index.php?opt...news&Itemid=13

Anyone want to try this?


CR

[pevergreen]

3 days until launch of game...pre-load 28% done.

I'll wait, rather than download the demo.

[Crazed Rabbit]

3 days until launch of game...pre-load 28% done.

I'll wait, rather than download the demo.

I thought it launched on the 17th.

CR

[pevergreen]

Oh right. Well a week then. It matters not. Plently of games to play.


You arent the one stuck on Dial Up speeds.


*shameless plug to go into the riftwar thread and post*

[Major Robert Dump]

I couldnt play demo vs last night, about to try again as now im jealous

[Major Robert Dump]

Still not available for me.....all downloaded...maybe u got an earlier version than me CR, i dont think i preordered until after the demo was released

[Major Robert Dump]

come kill zombies on expert coop i promises i won't shoot ya's.

too many times

[Major Robert Dump]

It's friday night, come kill zombies. I swear LFD games now never finish in vs. One sid eusually quits when the other starts to win, etc, when i'm on a team that is kicking ass i plead with them to throw a level so people stick around, but no one listens and the ass-whoopincontinues and we end up in the finale with no players or vice versa

Anyway, Rochelle is way hotter than Zoey. Zoey is cute, but Rochelle is SEXY

[Crazed Rabbit]

I'll be on...sometime. In the middle of a movie interrupted by a phone call from a friend to someone watching the movie with me. And the phone call won't end.

CR

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I'll be on...sometime. In the middle of a movie interrupted by a phone call from a friend to someone watching the movie with me. And the phone call won't end.

CR

Don't you hate it when that happens?

[Major Robert Dump]

Sorry bout Friday night CR...had the game up in the hotel...met some people of the female variety...got drunk...passed out with PC still on...


Anyway! One more day WOOT

[pevergreen]

And my steam doesnt work anymore.


NOOOOOOO.

on the plus side, if i get steam working tonight, the game unlocks an hour before i finish work tomorrow.