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Major Robert Dump
02-05-2009, 00:59
I absolutely, positively love this game.
The online lobbies and server searches leave a little to be desired, but the sheer brutality of some of the Vs games is fun fun fun. Never played team fortress or counterstrike btw
Early on the game actually made me jump on a lot of occasions, and in Vs mode the maps in the woods genuinely terrify me when I am on the human team and I find myself friendly firing people a lot more because I am jumpy.
I guess what I like most about the game is how the survivor team can be doing so well and then suddenly it all goes down hill so quick, so horrible, just a total complete trainwreck
pevergreen
02-05-2009, 01:55
Apart from the fixes that need to happen, great game :2thumbsup:
Major Robert Dump
02-05-2009, 02:25
They released a patch that fixed a lot of things about a week ago, namely tank and witch spawns are the same for each team (which can give advantage to team that plays survivors second, but hey its better than the crap where one team would get a tank and a witch and the other get nothing at all)
also fixed were hotkey melee spam with weapon switch
smokers do more damage
lots of other crap too
Yeah, good fun. Mindless killing.
They released a patch that fixed a lot of things about a week ago, namely tank and witch spawns are the same for each team (which can give advantage to team that plays survivors second, but hey its better than the crap where one team would get a tank and a witch and the other get nothing at all)
also fixed were hotkey melee spam with weapon switch
smokers do more damage
lots of other crap too
They fix the impossible spawns? I'm sure it's petty to some, but I could never get over how zombies could spawn out of thin air into rooms with no doors or windows. :wall:
Major Robert Dump
02-05-2009, 04:00
no there are still magical spawns that come on trigger events like crescendos, car alarms and boomer bile, otherwise people would just move methodically through killing every last zombie in order to avoid hordes on trigger events. Of course, methodically killing all zombies you see will still help decrease the overall number of horde on triggers, but the magic spawns are still there.
Also, the game seems to take spawns that are already there before new spawns, and move those spawns closer to the target (server discrepency of course) for example if your team gets vomited on 10x on a map by the time you get to the last gauntlet there will be no zombies in your path because they have all worked their way towards you over the course of the game on each trigger.
The algorithm for the zombies appears to be such that they can reach you no matter what, via passable walls and invisible zombie ladders and micheal jordan jumps. but if u have ever been in a room as an infected when someone gets puked on and there is no meandering horde to hit them, then just as you said a big mob of zombies appear out of thin air in a spot unseen and/or unreachable by survivors and the party is on. No mercy level 1, just past the kitchen on the right theres a wall with a hidden room, no zombies in there unless a trigger is hit, then they spawn and come busting through the wall.
They fix the impossible spawns? I'm sure it's petty to some, but I could never get over how zombies could spawn out of thin air into rooms with no doors or windows. :wall:
Haha, especially funny having them spawn out from a bathtub.
a completely inoffensive name
02-05-2009, 07:25
One of the best games of 2008. Can't wait for the two new downloadable campaigns I hear are gonna be released.
pevergreen
02-05-2009, 14:18
Yeah I'd love to be able to download the patch.
Sounds greeat.
Furunculus
02-08-2009, 15:03
awesome game.
Papewaio
02-09-2009, 07:58
It is a mindless shooter.
~:)
Major Robert Dump
02-09-2009, 22:19
It's actually very teamwork oriented, on both sides, but more so as survivors. But yes, it is a mindless shooter, which is a nice break from RPGs, MMOs, SIMS and RTS. In other words, it takes up a lot less of my time to play and have fun and if you are having a bad session then quit and no harm done.
That being said, time for scotch and zombies. aaaaah, i love being on vacation......
Papewaio
02-09-2009, 23:55
I love the game, it is great. And I play it on the projector with my brother-in-law when ever I get the chance... which is rare as my 3 year old will take me away because he thinks it is too scary for me to play.
But I think you missed the joke in zombies being mindless. :drummer:
It is a mindless shooter.
~:)
O-ho! I see what you did there.
I love the game, it is great. And I play it on the projector with my brother-in-law when ever I get the chance... which is rare as my 3 year old will take me away because he thinks it is too scary for me to play.
Tank music is scary, he has reason to flee! :skull:
I love L4D. I've only had it about a week or two but it's easily become one of my favorite shooters. The amount of teamwork that is stressed makes for a really good game. Unless you get folks who think its funny to shoot you on purpose. Then it becomes time to shoot people in the face! :yes:
I can't wait for the new Survival Mode that's coming soon.
Papewaio
02-10-2009, 00:38
He doesn't flee, he comes into the room (at which point we stop the game). Takes me by the hand and walks me out and tells me "The game is too scary".
He then either makes me watch Thomas the Tank Engine, or walks back into the room and smiles his way into making his uncle play Mario Kart with him. Cheeky little monkey.
Major Robert Dump
02-10-2009, 00:42
I did miss the joke, my humor sensory thingamajigs are out of whack thanks to 18 months of TRADOC. I'll have them working again in no time
He doesn't flee, he comes into the room (at which point we stop the game). Takes me by the hand and walks me out and tells me "The game is too scary".
He then either makes me watch Thomas the Tank Engine, or walks back into the room and smiles his way into making his uncle play Mario Kart with him. Cheeky little monkey.
I ran the first time I saw what was on the other end of Tank music. I just assumed that was everyone's response. :yes:
Left4dead is a lot more fun with voice chat. Cuz then you get to hear the girlish man screams of people like me as they get punted off a building by a tank :wall:
of people like me as they get punted off a building by a tank :wall:
Mercy Hospital. So many times myself or those I'm playing with end up either off the edge or incapacitated on inaccessible roofs. :no:
Major Robert Dump
02-10-2009, 15:41
Thats why you have to stick together and throw up a molotov before you climb to the roof on mercy finale. That spot is actually the best site in the game for a 4 person ambush so far, but if the infected don't know what they're doing or the survivors play it right it can end up a non-event as well.
As for the tank on that level he comes 3 times. After u call the chopper it goes horde horde tank horde horde tank horde horde chopper tank. Make sure your team scouts out and secures any molotovs and pipe bombs before you hit the radio, then when the tank comes everyone runs together while (hopefully) the tank burns to death. If you can get onto one of the smaller roofs only accessible by ladder you can shoot his face off when he comes up. Also use the propane and gas tanks, it is possible to blow the tank off the edge with a propane tank placed somewhere where theres not a lip, like the pipe bridges.
Vladimir
02-12-2009, 19:01
I did miss the joke, my humor sensory thingamajigs are out of whack thanks to 18 months of TRADOC. I'll have them working again in no time
Ugh. No wonder. You have my sympathies. :skull:
Mercy Hospital. So many times myself or those I'm playing with end up either off the edge or incapacitated on inaccessible roofs. :no:
The funniest moments so far is when the music bugs out on Blood Harvest and you suddenly get hit by a flying tree trunk. There's a huge explosion over voice chat until someone see the tank bouncing around without music playing. :skull:
It doesn't happen often(only happened twice in all the games i've played and it's always fixed on the next go through) but it's hilarious when it does. Good thing Harvest is so short or it might be a problem.
Major Robert Dump
02-14-2009, 19:57
That bug can be avoided by bringing up the console via the squiggly key and enabling subtitles. This gives you messages like "tank growling" and "smoker coughing" even when they are far, far away. The music is too unreliable
If you have PC and you arent using the developers console, give it a shot. Theres ways to set up single player where you can practice as infected
Veho Nex
02-15-2009, 20:01
I've got to say, favorite level and ambush as undead in the entire game is on mercy. It's right at the beginning of the roof top finale. The area that leads to the elevator(not the whole hall just the immediate area under it) if you get hunters to stand on either side, and a smoker on the other side of the elevator witha boomer in one of the rooms and pop out at the right time. Ohhh man, worlds fastest and most epic winz will be had.
Quirinus
02-16-2009, 02:28
Left4dead is a lot more fun with voice chat. Cuz then you get to hear the girlish man screams of people like me as they get punted off a building by a tank :wall:
:yes: Heck yea. There are some spectacularly cinematic moments in the game. My favourite is near the beginning of Death Toll, when a tank was chasing me. I ran blindly, and slipped off a precipice, hanging by the edge while the tank hurtled down the chasm to a messy death.
The best design though, has to be the boomer. It's sounds are hilarious, it's satisfying to kill as a survivor and fun to use in versus mode.
"Euuurrrgh..."
"Boomer!"
"Bleurgh!" *boom*
(over voice chat) "!^#%!#^&*$!@$@!%"
:yes: Heck yea. There are some spectacularly cinematic moments in the game. My favourite is near the beginning of Death Toll, when a tank was chasing me. I ran blindly, and slipped off a precipice, hanging by the edge while the tank hurtled down the chasm to a messy death.
The best design though, has to be the boomer. It's sounds are hilarious, it's satisfying to kill as a survivor and fun to use in versus mode.
"Euuurrrgh..."
"Boomer!"
"Bleurgh!" *boom*
(over voice chat) "!^#%!#^&*$!@$@!%"
My favorite campaign is Death Toll by far, recently my team got completely smashed at "The Town" Chapter after we got rushed by a tank after the Horde phase. Instead of 2 horde rushes, we got 1 horde rush and then a tank spawn. I was the only survivor so it was like, I had to solo the last little bit.
It was crazy tense fighting off hunters, boomers, smokers all at once all by myself. Then right as I was about to get inside the safe house... I got hit with a smoker tongue. All of voice chat was like Nooooooo!
BTW i'm on pc version. If any of you .orgahs wanna team up for some games sometime I am in the .Org's ETW Multiplayer Steam Group, or if you want I can just drop my ID here. :yes:
Veho Nex
02-16-2009, 05:32
alright
I'm going to do it. Bye bye half life, time to dl l4d again
Crazed Rabbit
02-16-2009, 08:06
Well, I finally was able to purchase the game after difficulties with my credit card.:wall:
Half off! Yay! Too bad I have to pay sales tax.
So there's an Org steam group? What is it called?
CR
Well, I finally was able to purchase the game after difficulties with my credit card.:wall:
Half off! Yay! Too bad I have to pay sales tax.
So there's an Org steam group? What is it called?
CR
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/etwmp
Specifically it's for ETW MP and that is the main purpose we all joined it. So we have a good crop of players on day one to hit the MP scene with ~D
But lately i've been trying to get some other stuff going. L4D and TF2, things like that. It'd be silly not to considering we've got about 15 names and not doing much. If nothing else it's a way to pass the time until ETW.
Official thread is here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=112249).
Alexander the Pretty Good
02-16-2009, 08:16
ID: Eightball
Just picked it up half-off and got through Death Toll with some friends. :)
Veho Nex
02-16-2009, 09:06
So anyone up for a game tomorrow?
Over xfire its in my sig
over steam VehoNex|PL|
Mongoose
02-16-2009, 16:20
Mattst is my steam name (creative, I know).
This game is amazing, though I can see how I might start to get tired of the 4 campaigns after a while. Hopefully the SDK will be out before that happens.
VehoNex and I did some games last night. Crazy fun, especially versus!
Add your steamID if you are up for games. better yet join the .org's ETW MP Steam Group! You can hang out and play L4d until ETW hits then we can hit MP. :laugh4:
seireikhaan
02-17-2009, 03:46
So I take it you guys would probably recommend this game, then?
So I take it you guys would probably recommend this game, then?I wouldn't- since you asked. :beam:
Crazed Rabbit
02-17-2009, 05:03
I would, especially for $25. The mindless hordes popping up from bathtubs aren't too bothersome, for me, at least.
Nice graphics too.
CR
Alexander the Pretty Good
02-17-2009, 08:36
$25 is a good, fair price for the game, or at least if you can play with friends.
$25 is a good, fair price for the game, or at least if you can play with friends.Yeah, I'd concede that $25 isn't bad- I definitely don't think $50 is a fair price for a limited multiplayer only game. Team Fortress 2 has varied classes, varied gameplay modes, ect and it only cost $20 when it first came out. Left4Dead has no classes outside of boss zombies and less gameplay modes- I don't see any justification for a $50 price tag. As long as it's discounted though, it's not bad. :yes:
I still won't be getting it, for peeves I mentioned earlier, but for most people those complaints probably won't stick in their craw the way it does mine. :smash:
Veho Nex
02-17-2009, 10:39
played a game with Monk and Crazed a little bit ago. Tons of fun, I'd recomend it.
Plus I got to see if we can get a video of the final ambush we did. It was a classic.
Crazed Rabbit
02-17-2009, 10:41
Yup, it was a great zombie ambush. Took out the entire batch of survivors in less than a minute.
CR
pevergreen
02-17-2009, 10:52
Must...buy...for....$25...or whatever the equivilant amount in AUD is.
Quirinus
02-17-2009, 13:23
So I take it you guys would probably recommend this game, then?
In the strongest possible language..... but only if you have friends to play with (or wouldn't mind playing online). As Mongoose said, with bots it gets old surprisingly fast.
By the way, is it just me, or does Louis get pounced a lot more than, say, Francis does? No matter who is controlling Louis, the avatar seems to be a Hunter/Smoker magnet. I wonder if it's a sly commentary on the survival rate of black people in monster movies. ~;p
pevergreen
02-17-2009, 14:26
Aggh, I had to reformat and now steam won't realise that I have an unpatched version of Left 4 Dead sitting here. I don't want to redownload the entire thing!
Veho Nex
02-18-2009, 00:07
In the strongest possible language..... but only if you have friends to play with (or wouldn't mind playing online). As Mongoose said, with bots it gets old surprisingly fast.
By the way, is it just me, or does Louis get pounced a lot more than, say, Francis does? No matter who is controlling Louis, the avatar seems to be a Hunter/Smoker magnet. I wonder if it's a sly commentary on the survival rate of black people in monster movies. ~;p
Actually i've noticed when ever im playing as Zoey, Im the magnet. Luis is the one who tries to save me and dies in the process:laugh4:
Alexander the Pretty Good
02-18-2009, 08:04
Had a lot of fun playing versus tonight guys! :2thumbsup:
/dang ambush tanks though...
Veho Nex
02-18-2009, 09:07
I liked my chuck around the fancy stuff ability as a tank.
Hey, guys we've been having a versus match around 9-11 pm pacific lately. If you want in we're always inviting to fill the slots. Usually we're left with 4-6 by the end of the campaign so if you want to play just join the steam group.
I liked my chuck around the fancy stuff ability as a tank.
Hey, guys we've been having a versus match around 9-11 pm pacific lately. If you want in we're always inviting to fill the slots. Usually we're left with 4-6 by the end of the campaign so if you want to play just join the steam group.
Next time Veho. *shakes fist*
Can't believe how many tanks spawns we got, there was one every chapter. Was neck and neck until people started dropping :\
pevergreen
02-18-2009, 10:36
Im looking to be in there tomorrow guys!
edit: Make that friday! No silly 4gig download for me!
Veho Nex
02-18-2009, 12:25
Next time Veho. *shakes fist*
Can't believe how many tanks spawns we got, there was one every chapter. Was neck and neck until people started dropping :\
yeah neck and neck till i flung that generator into the elevator
Major Robert Dump
02-19-2009, 06:44
Darn, I missed the game.
I'm not really in a group, but the Left For Dead forum i visit has a fairly active community and the mods set up a server and we try to organize fun, laid back, alltalk turned on games for non-annoying members. They do it for XBOX and PC. It's a nice break from the serious hardcore teams you get sometimes in random lobbies. TBH, some of them are horrible players, but its all good fun.
SteamID: ColonBurns, i change my handle all the time though.
I recommend PC not XBOX for anyone pondering the purchase, XBOX still hasnt updated or done a first patch.
And if you guys are really nice I'll share my 2 smoker insta-kill spots with you (and no, its not NM rooftop). It always makes my team mad when I get the smoker on this level and try to get them all to run far ahead with me, they all want to do an immediate ambush in an obvious spot and I go to my spot because I dont want to respawn and not be the smoker. They stop being mad when I killz a player (50% they are just incapped, tho, I thibk the insta kill only works if they are low on health, although it may be the angle i pull, I really need to test this with live players)
And BTW that ambush outside the elevator: if you move it over to their left, by the edge, you can knock them over the edge to hang if you blow up and they are too close. Gotta be careful though because that little room there has thin walls and they can shoot you through them if you dont go to other side or hide behind the pallet. You can also come from inside the elevator after they leave if you can distract them all in the front. This is assuming you don't have the tank, cuz you are right, for forklift in the elevator kills, especially if you can boom them first
PS Boomer crouching is gosh darn funny as hell to behold
Veho Nex
02-19-2009, 08:25
Watching tanks fall down 28 flights of stairs is funy
Major Robert Dump
02-19-2009, 12:51
As a hunter I miss all the time on NM 4 after the elevator and fall to my death. I actually hate being hunter the most, and reserve myself to either just running up and meleeing for 10 pts of damage if I can't find some fire to light myself aflame. Occassionally I'll get a 25 pt pounce, even better when im on fire, but 90% of the time I miss. I also like to play distraction and ping pong hop between walls and canyons, I'm actually better at that than landing a pounce, that way the other infected can hit them while they are trying to shoot me out of the sky
As a hunter I miss all the time on NM 4 after the elevator and fall to my death. I actually hate being hunter the most, and reserve myself to either just running up and meleeing for 10 pts of damage if I can't find some fire to light myself aflame. Occassionally I'll get a 25 pt pounce, even better when im on fire, but 90% of the time I miss. I also like to play distraction and ping pong hop between walls and canyons, I'm actually better at that than landing a pounce, that way the other infected can hit them while they are trying to shoot me out of the sky
Hunter is the twitch class of the infected. Half the challenge is flipping around and pouncing in a seperate direction if you miss them the frst time. Take me for example, I rarely hit on the first pounce but as long as I wasn't hit with a melee I can bounce around and severely confuse a survivor.
While I am repositioning and essentially pouncing circles around him, maybe he panics shoots a teammate while trying to hit me. Hunter is my favorite right up there with boomer. As the boomer you're the architect of the ambush, nail them with bile and watch your teammates capitalize. That is insanely gratifying to me.
Still haven't mastered the Smoker, getting better though.
pevergreen
02-20-2009, 14:57
Bah, the guy couldn't get me the files. Gotta wait until tuesday now!
Mongoose
02-21-2009, 01:48
Just had a very narrow escape on Death Toll - we were all bleeding to death, but we got to the dock early so we all made it on to the boat. There was a brief moment where things looked doubtful for the guy playing as Louis when he got pounced by a hunter and mobbed by about 8 zombies, but we shot them off of him and so he ended up being OK.
This was only on normal, but I tend to have a lot of trouble surviving the endings so it was an accomplishment for me at least.:charge:
PS - this was also one of the first times that I was on a team that actually used the explosives well. Propane tanks, gas tanks, etc. They make everything a lot easier, not to mention more fun...
Major Robert Dump
02-22-2009, 00:06
How weird, I joined a friends normal death toll game and a third player said he had never been on a team that used explosives. I don't remember his name because I was drunk, ziggy or ziglar or something.
Crazed Rabbit
02-22-2009, 04:19
Alright. I got a custom spray and a working mic. :cool:
My steam ID is the same as my Org name, FYI.
CR
Crazed Rabbit
02-22-2009, 21:34
Double post, sorry.
Anyways, I just finished a very exciting Death Toll campaign on advanced. It was all going swimmingly until the finale, when the first tank killed one of us. We survived and the second tank came. We were all crammed in the downstairs bathroom. I decided to get out and go upstairs. The tank and a horde came in. I shot at the tank, but it went for my teammates, still hunkered in the bathroom. The horde was killed but the tank incapped them. I ran up behind the tank with the autoshotty and started blasting, but to no avail. They were killed. And the tank was still alive. So I ran.
I was running back past the covered picnic area and I noticed a gas tank lying on the ground. So I crouched with my pistols and waited for the tank to come. It came, I shot and the gas tank exploded. Then I ran some more, around the other side of the picnic building to the shore. The tank was still coming at me, on fire. I unloaded into it and it went down.
I breathed a sigh of relief and made for the dock like a bat out of hell. I crouched at the end and saw the horde come. I could hear hunters and smokers and knew I was doomed if they got me. I got one hunter with my pistol, then used my shotgun to clear the dock as the horde ran towards me. But there were more right behind them. Right as the first zombies reached me, the boat had arrived and I lept on.
My adrenaline was up and I breathed a deep sigh of relief.
The most exciting game I've played so far.
CR
Double post, sorry.
Anyways, I just finished a very exciting Death Toll campaign on advanced. It was all going swimmingly until the finale, when the first tank killed one of us. We survived and the second tank came. We were all crammed in the downstairs bathroom. I decided to get out and go upstairs. The tank and a horde came in. I shot at the tank, but it went for my teammates, still hunkered in the bathroom. The horde was killed but the tank incapped them. I ran up behind the tank with the autoshotty and started blasting, but to no avail. They were killed. And the tank was still alive. So I ran.
I was running back past the covered picnic area and I noticed a gas tank lying on the ground. So I crouched with my pistols and waited for the tank to come. It came, I shot and the gas tank exploded. Then I ran some more, around the other side of the picnic building to the shore. The tank was still coming at me, on fire. I unloaded into it and it went down.
I breathed a sigh of relief and made for the dock like a bat out of hell. I crouched at the end and saw the horde come. I could hear hunters and smokers and knew I was doomed if they got me. I got one hunter with my pistol, then used my shotgun to clear the dock as the horde ran towards me. But there were more right behind them. Right as the first zombies reached me, the boat had arrived and I lept on.
My adrenaline was up and I breathed a deep sigh of relief.
The most exciting game I've played so far.
CR
Going solo is the most exhilarating experience to be had in l4d. Everyone's dead and it's you vs horde. Toss a molotov and pray you can snipe down any smokers or hunters if they get you... :wall:
Imo, the versus mode is where the fun is at.
Great game.
Major Robert Dump
02-28-2009, 08:19
It's 1 am CST and i am lit up on bourban....time to kill soem zombies
How the hell do you do the Crownd achievement?!
Crandaeolon
02-28-2009, 09:23
How the hell do you do the Crownd achievement?!
Run up to a witch (but don't touch her) and shoot her in the head with either shotgun as she is getting up. Shotgun pellet spread is a bit random and you have a pretty small margin for error with aiming, so auto-shotgun is probably best since it allows a follow-up if the first shot doesn't kill the witch.
BTW, do you have euro players in that Steam group?
Crazed Rabbit
02-28-2009, 10:27
Sure we have Euro players! At least, Aussies.
CR
Crandaeolon
02-28-2009, 10:55
Aussies ain't exactly in the time zone I was looking for... I usually play around 1800-2100 GMT. Well, I guess I could join to see if there are enough peeps to play with. Until now I've mostly been playing with RL friends or occasionally in PUGs.
pevergreen
02-28-2009, 12:28
From tomorrow, my L4D campaign begins..:evilgrin:
Got a 3v3 lan going now.
Aussies ain't exactly in the time zone I was looking for... I usually play around 1800-2100 GMT. Well, I guess I could join to see if there are enough peeps to play with. Until now I've mostly been playing with RL friends or occasionally in PUGs.
I'm somewhat in your timezone, just -1h. I joined the group, my name is Fappo. You'll find me around to play.
pevergreen
02-28-2009, 14:20
I have it! I commence play when my friends leave tomorrow. MWHAHAHAH
How the hell do you do the Crownd achievement?!
You have to get every single shotgun pellet to hit her in the face, and shoot her as she's standing up as someone else pointed out. When you run up on her you'll have a few moments before she goes crazy and rushes at you, you'll have to use those moments to get your aim perfect. Even if your aim is perfect you can still miss, a single pellet might get a weird spread and mess up the shot. Because of this always try to kill her with Auto-shotty as it gives you the best and post powerful spread.
On Easy or Normal you can just stand behind her with a hunting rifle and shoot her in the back of the head, but on Advanced or Expert you need to take the shotgun route (she has too much health to snipe).
Veho Nex
02-28-2009, 18:00
Man I love crowning her with the shotty, but I can never do it with the auto snipe.
Major Robert Dump
02-28-2009, 19:41
To get crowned you actually need to just deliver a single, killing blow to her head, which means she could be 90% dead already when you do it as long as its your first shot.
Crowning her (not for the achvmnt but just to get her out of the way) is so second nature to me now that I don't even skip a beat, sometimes forget to tell terrified teammates that I'm about to do it, sometimes happens so fast they don't even realize she was dead or even there to begin with, and unfortunately so second nature that sometimes I go to do it and don't realize I'm not reloaded, have a weapon thats not a shotgun and I get of course pwnt and look like a tard.
To get crowned you actually need to just deliver a single, killing blow to her head, which means she could be 90% dead already when you do it as long as its your first shot.
Crowning her (not for the achvmnt but just to get her out of the way) is so second nature to me now that I don't even skip a beat, sometimes forget to tell terrified teammates that I'm about to do it, sometimes happens so fast they don't even realize she was dead or even there to begin with, and unfortunately so second nature that sometimes I go to do it and don't realize I'm not reloaded, have a weapon thats not a shotgun and I get of course pwnt and look like a tard.
I've still not pulled off a crown. My problem is I run up to her and shoot too soon, or too low, and always miss. I've come close a couple times but the achievement still eludes me. :shame:
pevergreen
03-01-2009, 01:09
I got it accidentally yesterday, was trying for something else, crouched behind her, waited until she got up and shot, accidentally cr0wned her.
Major Robert Dump
03-01-2009, 01:10
yeah i was good at killing her with the autoshot and one day i just happened to get the achievement, blind luck cuz it usually took me at least 3 shots
Mongoose
03-01-2009, 22:43
I just played versus for the first time today. This was probably just the team we were playing against, but I actually found that it was a lot easier than playing the regular game on advanced. Me, the other human player, and the two bots we were stuck with at the end (because the other two peopple left about 3/4 of the way through) actually made it through the entire campaign with out dying once. And I think we might actually have all escaped at the end (I'm not positive about one of the bots).
Is that a normal experience for versus? I was under the impression that it was kind of unlikely for the survivors to escape at the end.
I just played versus for the first time today. This was probably just the team we were playing against, but I actually found that it was a lot easier than playing the regular game on advanced. Me, the other human player, and the two bots we were stuck with at the end (because the other two peopple left about 3/4 of the way through) actually made it through the entire campaign with out dying once. And I think we might actually have all escaped at the end (I'm not positive about one of the bots).
Is that a normal experience for versus? I was under the impression that it was kind of unlikely for the survivors to escape at the end.
No, it's likely the team you were facing didn't know how to coordinate an ambush. When you run up against a team that does you can die five feet from the safe house... :help:
Mongoose
03-01-2009, 23:00
We all had mics, which might have been a factor. I don't think was the case for the other team.
We all had mics, which might have been a factor. I don't think was the case for the other team.
It's really all about positioning and timing as the infected. And map selection. No Mercy is absolutely devastating for survivors if they are facing a decent infected team, thanks to the entire campaign being one huge choke point. :laugh4:
Blood Harvest is kinda the same way, but it has a number of places for the survivors to "catch their breath" while the infected have to regroup for a future ambush spawn.
And don't get me started on ambush tanks. :help:
pevergreen
03-02-2009, 03:44
befriend me on steam so I have people to play with! Please! Steam ID: pevergreen
Major Robert Dump
03-02-2009, 04:01
gotcha pev
I would dare say that in most of my games the safehouse is rather rare, no matter what side I'm on.
The constant dropping/joining does affect this a lot though, and when someone joins the bot may go idle for a second. It also depends on if everyone waits for their team to load at the start as survivors, some people just bolt off while a player is loading in and the teams not ready
I have noticed that NM1 is the bread and butter of any survivor group because its rather short and sweet and you can do okay if people will stay against the walls to avoid the 24 point hunter pounces. Quite frequently the winnder of a full campaign is the one who could get more people to the safehouse on the first level.
BH1 is the exact opposite. I hate being survivor there, the trees scare me, although having bots on that level is a bonus because they can see into the trees
pevergreen
03-02-2009, 04:09
If you have just 2 people that can work together, the survivors have a much greater chance. I had a match yesterday against 2 teams of 2, they worked so well, covering each other and the other set of two if need be.
They got 4 survivors to the safehouse in all 5 levels of NM, including the finale. Not to say my team was bad...but they were. :laugh4:
If you have just 2 people that can work together, the survivors have a much greater chance. I had a match yesterday against 2 teams of 2, they worked so well, covering each other and the other set of two if need be.
They got 4 survivors to the safehouse in all 5 levels of NM, including the finale. Not to say my team was bad...but they were. :laugh4:
I don't mind getting trashed. I enjoy playing the infected so much it's ridiculous.
Also I added you pever. :yes:
pevergreen
03-02-2009, 06:18
Just had some fun with MRD. We lost, but we kept getting a really bad player...Wouldn't pick up health kits etc.
Major Robert Dump
03-02-2009, 06:32
well we got screwed first round because we were 2 ppl short in game. So we wait, 2 ppls join, but the friend of the survivors are on the infected, so survivors kick their 4th so their friend can change teams, then they blitz out of the safe house without letting us get a 4th player, even though we waited on them. We pretty much lost by the difference of score in round one.
But we had to kick a couple guys in round 2 and 4 because they were doing some stupid stuff, like running off alone to the rear to chase smokers. One guy stopped in front of the saferoom when we were home free and had all the spawn spots covered, and he started to heal LOL even though you get score points for your health pack. We still made it, but we had to suffer through another round of hunters and a boomer.
Both servers were exeptionally laggy for me, i'm rather ashamed of my performance except as the tank in BH4 where I learned that patience pays off
pevergreen
03-02-2009, 07:17
I enjoyed my "Make the best of the worst" performance as the tank on BH 5. They all ran outside, so I jumped into the bedroom and scored some (I thought) pretty amazing rock throws from inside.
I've been told (and I believe it) that I'm a survivor, not an infected.
Veho Nex
03-02-2009, 09:03
You got your socks rocked tonight Pever :d
pevergreen
03-02-2009, 09:06
I blame the two pubbies :grin2:
Nah, it was partly lag, partly pubbers, but a whole lot of outclassed.
I blame the two pubbies :grin2:
Nah, it was partly lag, partly pubbers, but a whole lot of outclassed.
You guys had decent pubbers at first, they kept us on our heals a fair number of times and even killed us. When they dropped, though, you guys didn't have a chance. :no:
Major Robert Dump
03-02-2009, 09:13
We kept getting weirdos to fill the extra spots as survivor, who apparently didnt know melee would get a hunter or smoker off the victim and would try to stand 3 feet away and shoot it off. That happened as soon as I left the building on nm1, to two of us almost dead, and then i knew what kind of game it was gonna be
Im also starting to thinking peoples messed up mics are causing others to turn off mic incoming because they get annoyed, because sometimes dont respond to requests or ideas at all
I do think our team moved too fast though because when someone would get smoked the others would be far, far away. And the random guys would separate on booms which makes it hard to knock hunters off since you cant see anyway
I did have fun though, playing with orgahs, even if u kept targeting me because of my leet survivor skillz
Veho Nex
03-02-2009, 09:18
L33t survival skills? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Major Robert Dump
03-02-2009, 09:19
You guys had decent pubbers at first, they kept us on our heals a fair number of times and even killed us. When they dropped, though, you guys didn't have a chance. :no:
the pubbies only did well as infected early because of me and pevs uber ambushing, they rode our heels to fame. As soon as it was time to be human....bah
oh yeah, one guy, while i was getting smoked and he was 3 feet away, blasted me 4x in the face with the shotgun and incapped me. Smoker go away and got me as soon as i got helped up :oops:
We kept getting weirdos to fill the extra spots as survivor, who apparently didnt know melee would get a hunter or smoker off the victim and would try to stand 3 feet away and shoot it off. That happened as soon as I left the building on nm1, to two of us almost dead, and then i knew what kind of game it was gonna be
Im also starting to thinking peoples messed up mics are causing others to turn off mic incoming because they get annoyed, because sometimes dont respond to requests or ideas at all
I do think our team moved too fast though because when someone would get smoked the others would be far, far away. And the random guys would separate on booms which makes it hard to knock hunters off since you cant see anyway
I did have fun though, playing with orgahs, even if u kept targeting me because of my leet survivor skillz
That Kaboose guy, yeah. He didn't know how to keep up with your group and was an easy smoker target. :skull:
Major Robert Dump
03-02-2009, 09:21
u guys really did outclass us though, when u pulled pev downstairs on sewers and i went after him (gotta protect my kind, ya know) someone else immediately pounced the dude who was still upstairs checking the rooms. simply brilliant
u guys really did outclass us though, when u pulled pev downstairs on sewers and i went after him (gotta protect my kind, ya know) someone else immediately pounced the dude who was still upstairs checking the rooms. simply brilliant
Well, we had fun and I hope you guys did too. We're always open for games (Veho and myself) unless we're busy with other crap like papers we're supposed to be writing. :dizzy2:
Also: that smoker was me. I was trying to get a good angle on pev for a good 30 seconds and finally got him, then it was just a matter of divide and conquer. :yes:
Veho Nex
03-02-2009, 09:36
: Monk.... Your not supposed to be here right now. You have an essay to do.
Tisk tisk
Ooops also, I was the hunter who got him upstairs.
pevergreen
03-02-2009, 10:01
Yeah, it was just a stupid move by me. At that point though, I knew we had lost and I just wanted to get a drink.
Where are the europeans who want to play?! :heart:
pevergreen
03-02-2009, 13:51
Add me and I'll play. Just gotta finish telling this girl how she can get one of my friends into bed.
Veho Nex
03-02-2009, 16:49
Okkk... Well I'll be up for a game on tuesday night if we can get an 8 player orgah match then.
Add me and I'll play. Just gotta finish telling this girl how she can get one of my friends into bed.
I added you. I'm "Fappo@private pain" if you wonder.
For non-euros we normally run games from 8pm-11pm EST. The last game we ran was crazy late, started at 1:30 am EST I think. We're normally midnighters on L4D and we love to organize what Veho calls Orgah matches. If you're interested in Versus or Campaign play hit one of us up. :juggle2: If you're in Europe or Ausie and find yourselves online at this hour, we'd love to have you too!
We normally play Advanced and Expert on Campaign, Advanced is when we're having fun while Expert is when we're going for the achievements. Hope to see you in game! :thumbsup:
Mongoose
03-03-2009, 03:12
I know that the SDK is still probably a month or two away, but what type of maps would you guys want to see being made? I wouldn't mind a more open outdoors level, similar to Blood Harvest maybe, but a lot more open and less town-like.
And maybe a level entirely in doors, that just takes place in side of bunch of buildings and maybe a sports stadium or something like that.
edit - Pevergreen I added you as well, my Steam name (just changed it) is Hedley Lamarr.
Major Robert Dump
03-03-2009, 03:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKu60YKqsvs&eurl=http://left4deadforums.com/17491-overdose.html
add me
colon burns
been playing since steam pre-order demo =)
god this game is awesome. add me people.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/RZST
Veho Nex
03-07-2009, 06:01
Starting up a game real soon.
Message me on xfire or steam to get in
CowTippingHick for both.
pevergreen
03-07-2009, 07:57
It was good. Me&CR& a pubbie are the winners. :grin2:
My best moment recently was on NM 2, where you usually ambush them from above. One guy went back in the safe room to grab his healh kit, but the others had dropped down, so i pounced him. They didnt shoot through walls to kill me, so i killed him, and as I killed him, one of the others managed to get up, so i pounced him, killed him.
They ran downstairs to where the first possible lot of tier 2 weapons are, but one ran too far forward, so I pounced the slower one, killed him.
3 kills and they didnt even get to see the subway.
Crazed Rabbit
03-07-2009, 12:00
Yes, exciting games indeed. I think it was the pubbie who got a sweet smoker kill on AI Francis as he popped up the last ladder onto the roof of the No Mercy Hospital as his teammates threw a Molotov, which prevented them from coming to his rescue.
Here's an early shot in the campaign; me showing which rabbit is the boss 'round these parts:
https://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9201/l4dvshospital01apartmen.jpg
~;p
Speaking of shooting through the walls, my favorite was hearing a boomer on the second to last NM level. So, naturally, I began shooting through all the nearby walls with my shotgun until I saw the explosion of blood. :beam:
CR
Our tank had some really wierd buggy issues on the NM finale. He should have been able to one shot the AI Zoey but instead was unable to interact with her model. Was frustrating, but we had plenty of other chances to win that we wasted too so I can't blame it all on lag. :sweatdrop:
good game, it was close. Also Rabbit: You'll get yours next time! :skull:
pevergreen
03-07-2009, 12:11
Ah yes, me playing as Tosa. :laugh4:
Husar kept whinging at me in ETW MP chat. lol
I think it was the survivor-on-incap-survivor-immune-to-tank bug. I've heard about it.
I do think they just left the AI francis though. Just milling around.
Man, if you guys played on AUS servers, where my actions wouldnt have a 2.8 second delay...
You guys complained of lag and it was like 1.3-1.4 seconds. I check your pings a lot. Humph.
And CR im consider leaving australia, just because of the internet.
Pevergreen. I saw you in my game last night. I can't remember what happend, you were just gone after a few seconds.
pevergreen
03-07-2009, 16:32
Pevergreen. I saw you in my game last night. I can't remember what happend, you were just gone after a few seconds.
I dropped in to say hi, but the lag (as it is to all servers not in Australia) is too bad to play a FPS on, so i left.
Oh I see. I thought you were a Yuropian as I am. Being in Australia explains a lot.
Australia (New England...plus aborigines)
Snowhobbit
03-07-2009, 22:55
After playing this with a few friends previously I finally got myself a copy :2thumbsup:
I've been playing on and off for about 5 hours total today, but unfortunately all of my games have gone horribly awry. The latest game for example ended when the infested team (which hosted the server apparently) decided that since we weren't playing as they wanted they should send endless hordes against us. It seems that somehow I am a magnet for all the bad pubbies :sweatdrop:
Feel free to add me and perhaps I'll get to experience playing this game with people who not only know what they're doing but are also looking to both win and have fun, I'm "Snow_083".
Mongoose
03-08-2009, 03:56
I've been trying to play on expert, but I can seem to do it. For instance, a few seconds ago, I was playing Death Toll on expert and our team couldn't even get to the first safe house with two tries. Then we set it to advanced and we all made it through the entire campaign with out any incidents at all, really. It seems I can beat all of the campaigns on advanced with out any trouble (well, it is still a little bit challenging, but not really), but I can't play on expert at all. What do I need to keep in mind when playing expert versus playing advanced?
I've been trying to play on expert, but I can seem to do it. For instance, a few seconds ago, I was playing Death Toll on expert and our team couldn't even get to the first safe house with two tries. Then we set it to advanced and we all made it through the entire campaign with out any incidents at all, really. It seems I can beat all of the campaigns on advanced with out any trouble (well, it is still a little bit challenging, but not really), but I can't play on expert at all. What do I need to keep in mind when playing expert versus playing advanced?
In expert everyone needs to work together even more so than advanced. Think of it like Noah's Ark, two by two. NO ONE goes off by themselves, If someone is shooting one way then you have to cover them from an opposite direction. Even one infected can ruin your day so you really need to keep people from getting jumped from behind.
Friendly fire NEEDS to be controlled on Expert. If you shoot someone in the head they will go down, no exceptions. Don't try to peal zombies off of people with a shotgun, and if you do make sure you know how. Melee spam is your friend.
Yeah on expert meele rules over firing because of FF. I have only played the River evac campaign with 3 friends of mine and we were doing real smooth with only a couple of wipes.
Mongoose
03-09-2009, 02:46
We were all close together - perhaps too close together? Now that I that I think about it, friendly fire might have been our big issue.
:oops:
seireikhaan
03-09-2009, 06:32
Man...
I'm getting really tempted to go and get this game...
But I'm a poor college student and already invested 50 bucks into ETW... :embarassed:
We were all close together - perhaps too close together? Now that I that I think about it, friendly fire might have been our big issue.
:oops:
On Expert, a witch will one-shot kill you (not incap, kill), so unless you can crown her you really have to be careful. :yes:
Veho Nex
03-09-2009, 07:33
Ha that silly witch... She'll never get me. Just you watch, nev... omg its a witch, WHAT DO I D......
Ha that silly witch... She'll never get me. Just you watch, nev... omg its a witch, WHAT DO I D......
She wouldn't be a problem if you didn't INSIST on crowning her, even when you're on red life. :laugh4:
Veho Nex
03-09-2009, 08:33
Hey its not my fault I got the achievement in my first game and I love splattering her brains and writhing body all over the ground... ok wait it is my fault but its not my fault that I got a screw loose. Just like when it comes to gettings ambushes done perfectly.
I'm starting to feel that I am decent in this game. I still make mistakes as surviour but I get along. I am pretty good at putting ambushes as a boomer and I can get around playing a smoker
But what's wrong with the hunter. I can't play with him. I always get stuck, I can't aim, I can't pounce. That wall jumping thing just doesn't work for me.
I don't know what to do as a hunter.
Ha that silly witch... She'll never get me. Just you watch, nev... omg its a witch, WHAT DO I D......
After being killed a too many times, I've decided to let others disturb the witch. The witch can actually be quite dumb when you disturb her at a distance. The last campaign (Blood Harvest), when we were in a werehouse before going onwards to the railroad tracks, we were on the top level of the werehouse, which had some horizontal beams connecting steel passages. I shot the witch from afar and immediatly went through the beam to the other side. The witch was previously running up the stairs to the first passage, now had to run across the bottom floor werehouse to run up the stairs which led to the other steel passage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7hLzA0mYw @ 0:50
I'm starting to feel that I am decent in this game. I still make mistakes as surviour but I get along. I am pretty good at putting ambushes as a boomer and I can get around playing a smoker
But what's wrong with the hunter. I can't play with him. I always get stuck, I can't aim, I can't pounce. That wall jumping thing just doesn't work for me.
I don't know what to do as a hunter.
If the boomer is the architect of an ambush, the hunter is definitely the guy who makes it come to fruition. When a smoker hits a survivor he is going to draw someone along with him. That person will be desperately trying to melee the smoked survivor and save them. they are also a perfect target for a pounce from behind! Just make sure you don't pounce the guy the smoker has (easiest way to annoy your teammates, steal kills)
Hunters are the ultimate team oriented class, they feed off the strengths of the other infected and really shine best when they pounce after a boomer bile or a smoker has separated the survivors.
Oh, and tanks. When a tank comes don't just hang back and watch the action! A tank causes mass confusion, especially on non-finale maps. Use that to your advantage!
If the boomer is the architect of an ambush, the hunter is definitely the guy who makes it come to fruition. When a smoker hits a survivor he is going to draw someone along with him. That person will be desperately trying to melee the smoked survivor and save them. they are also a perfect target for a pounce from behind! Just make sure you don't pounce the guy the smoker has (easiest way to annoy your teammates, steal kills)
Hunters are the ultimate team oriented class, they feed off the strengths of the other infected and really shine best when they pounce after a boomer bile or a smoker has separated the survivors.
Oh, and tanks. When a tank comes don't just hang back and watch the action! A tank causes mass confusion, especially on non-finale maps. Use that to your advantage!
I usually play with 3 other friends so we discuss our ambushes and tactics. And in theory I understand them. But in reallity I always get stuck when jumping or hit the wrong target (like f.e. when the boomer hits 3 people you wanna hit the non-purple guy since the other ones are blind). But somehow I never get it done right. Well, okay.. It works from time to time.
As for the tank, yeah, at some parts its esentiall to creat confusion among the surviours. Plus it its lethal to throw cars and trees. Some parts may require to park the tank, if you play NM and the surv. hide in the elevator shaft its suicide to go in there as a tank. So I park the tank somewhere the cpu can kick em of the building. Works.
Veho Nex
03-09-2009, 16:33
I usually play with 3 other friends so we discuss our ambushes and tactics.
Ohhh really.... How would like to go up against crazed rabbit monk and I with one of my friends NJS?
Ohhh really.... How would like to go up against crazed rabbit monk and I with one of my friends NJS?
I'd accept your challange if we have a decent ping. (Which I doubt seeing that you come from CA)
Crazed Rabbit
03-09-2009, 18:08
Some parts may require to park the tank, if you play NM and the surv. hide in the elevator shaft its suicide to go in there as a tank.
Sadly, that is not the case. Just lead the way with one of the generators.
Last night, the witch was near the gas station on, um, that one map where you can shoot the gas pumps and make it blow up. So I did, and the witch died! Yeah for me not getting incapp'd.
I'd accept your challange if we have a decent ping. (Which I doubt seeing that you come from CA)
Where are you guys from?
CR
We are all from Austria.
In Europe.
Not Australia.
You silly Americans.
Just kidding. :square:
Veho Nex
03-09-2009, 22:01
I've played against eupopeans before. But I will make it my goal to obtain a server where we can all play. It would be great to see how out teams would do.
If you find a server that is fine we're in for sure. :boxedin:
Major Robert Dump
03-10-2009, 03:09
I've been trying to play on expert, but I can seem to do it. For instance, a few seconds ago, I was playing Death Toll on expert and our team couldn't even get to the first safe house with two tries. Then we set it to advanced and we all made it through the entire campaign with out any incidents at all, really. It seems I can beat all of the campaigns on advanced with out any trouble (well, it is still a little bit challenging, but not really), but I can't play on expert at all. What do I need to keep in mind when playing expert versus playing advanced?
on expert each zombie does 10 points per hit. hordes are the biggest concern, more than hunters or smokers. the special infected does come 3-4 at a time, but they are uncoordinated and predictable. tanks have the same life as on advanced.
as already said, FF is a huge deal. even a close FF shot with the pistol, yes the pistol, will drop someone. i would also recommend at least one sniper rifle on expert. and don't use your medpacs until you are black and white, because when u respawn you get 50 health straight up, better to let people die than get the whole team killed in some situations.
you still get the achievement if you die, as long as its not on the finale and prevents you from escaping
Crazed Rabbit
03-11-2009, 09:34
Just had an awesome game as tank. My first, and later, perhaps best ever time as tank was tonight.
On the second to last No Mercy level, at the top of the elevator, I was chosen to become the tank.
The survivors stayed in the elevator. I remembered what a beating Veho had laid down on my team once when he through a generator thing into the elevator. So I did as well. But it became stuck in the doorway. I went up, hitting it again and again, but it didn't budge and my health went lower and lower.
Finally it flew into the elevator and I followed, flailing around at everyone I could. Somehow I managed to get all the survivors down with help from my teammates. Just as I finally died, they were all incapp'd. It was a massacre. :beam:
Now I have to get to bed. :sweatdrop:
CR
Major Robert Dump
03-12-2009, 10:29
bah, shoulda played tonite, i think im done with empires for the time being because its too easy, back to killin zombies woot
pevergreen
03-12-2009, 10:35
I might join you in an hour or so. Depends whats on tv.
Mongoose
03-18-2009, 18:10
Versus is a lot of fun about 30% of the time, and the other 70% of the time it can be summed up with this:
GRR!!! WALL HAX! PILL HAX! CHEAP CAMPING! MY TEAM IS FULL OF [insert slur involving gays]! LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG!!!121111!1 U GUYS R SUCKY TANK WAS TOTALLY HAX ! SMOKER SUCKS! TEAMS R BROKEN! I WAS TOO BUSY WITH UR MOM TO PLAY WELL THAT WAS WHY WE LOST. WTF WER U DOING [name of player]? LOL U SUCK I HATE U AND UR CHILDREN AND ANYONE WHO DOESNT HATE YOU.
RAGE QUIT!11111111!111!!1!!
And half the time it's after the first mission.
(Sorry about the all caps)
Versus is a lot of fun about 30% of the time, and the other 70% of the time it can be summed up with this:
GRR!!! WALL HAX! PILL HAX! CHEAP CAMPING! MY TEAM IS FULL OF [insert slur involving gays]! LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG!!!121111!1 U GUYS R SUCKY TANK WAS TOTALLY HAX ! SMOKER SUCKS! TEAMS R BROKEN! I WAS TOO BUSY WITH UR MOM TO PLAY WELL THAT WAS WHY WE LOST. WTF WER U DOING [name of player]? LOL U SUCK I HATE U AND UR CHILDREN AND ANYONE WHO DOESNT HATE YOU.
RAGE QUIT!11111111!111!!1!!
And half the time it's after the first mission.
(Sorry about the all caps)
Yes, but an amazing thing happens every so often. If you find yourself in a position where your entire team just left and its you vs 4? Rush. Rush like you've never rushed before. Don't stop for anything. Check your 6, bash any hunters, and strafe so a smoker can't tag you.
On BH4 I managed to solo the entire chapter because the infected were heavily cocky about killing me, screaming for me to rage quit. I essentially juked their entire team and laughed all the way into the finale. They didn't even kill the bots. :2thumbsup:
Veho Nex
03-18-2009, 21:57
We need to play another game soon monk. NJS is out of town for the week so we'll be one regular short.
Major Robert Dump
03-18-2009, 22:16
last night, shortly after CR left, I got a team that actually agreed to set up at the picnic table on BH1. It went something like this: boom....in the ruckus one ventures over the picnic table, and i am on other side of ravine with smoker and pull him in, at first i was mad he didn't just fall dead like sometimes, but turns out his hanging was better because as a buddy ran to cliff to pull him up, another buddy stood guard and got pounced, and the impact of the pounce sent helping buddy over the edge, then survivor number 4 came over and meleed hunter off and he got pounced, which sent the other guy who was just standing up over the edge as well, game over. very satisfying, except the entire survivor team quit without even taking their turn
Versus is great when you are on the winning team.
I think Versus should be set to advanced difficulty so that way everyone is a winnah (aka everyone dies when its their turn as a survivor). That way everyone comes off happy.
Mongoose
03-18-2009, 23:23
Yes, but an amazing thing happens every so often. If you find yourself in a position where your entire team just left and its you vs 4? Rush. Rush like you've never rushed before. Don't stop for anything. Check your 6, bash any hunters, and strafe so a smoker can't tag you.
On BH4 I managed to solo the entire chapter because the infected were heavily cocky about killing me, screaming for me to rage quit. I essentially juked their entire team and laughed all the way into the finale. They didn't even kill the bots. :2thumbsup:
Playing with bots in versus is always interesting. I recall playing a game a little while ago where my teammates actually left me to die so they could heal downed robo-Zoey instead.
:gah2:
And then there are all of those moments when the bots die trying to heal people at really inappropriate times. Like when they're at 51 health, or when a tank is about to murder the entire team if everybody doesn't just run.
Major Robert Dump
03-19-2009, 01:16
yeah bots will also try to kill every last zombie in the area when you are incapped/pounced/smoked before thy even think about helping you up. One bot is okay but someone else has to compensate on rescue duties. Two bots is unbearable, especially then they run ahead.
yeah bots will also try to kill every last zombie in the area when you are incapped/pounced/smoked before thy even think about helping you up. One bot is okay but someone else has to compensate on rescue duties. Two bots is unbearable, especially then they run ahead.
Yeah, one bot can be made up for if the rest of the team has decent situational awareness. If they don't you can easily be wiped when you should have been able to recover no problem. The only good use bots have in Versus is that they can see through foliage on Blood Harvest, it's seriously annoying to get shot as a boomer because the bot has auto-aim.
Mongoose
03-19-2009, 02:34
I recently got kicked from a versus game because I only boomed one of the survivors at the beginning of the second chapter in No Mercy.
:gah2:
And after that I spent 30 minutes waiting in various Versus lobbies, plus about 15 minutes playing a versus game that we had to end because rage quitting reduced the other team to only one player, and everyone who joined left because the team they were forced to join was losing. I think that I'm actually going to just completely give up on Versus.
I recently got kicked from a versus game because I only boomed one of the survivors at the beginning of the second chapter in No Mercy.
:gah2:
And after that I spent 30 minutes waiting in various Versus lobbies, plus about 15 minutes playing a versus game that we had to end because rage quitting reduced the other team to only one player, and everyone who joined left because the team they were forced to join was losing. I think that I'm actually going to just completely give up on Versus.
Just do Versus "Quick match"
It will parse games in progress and throw you into one, no waiting in lobbies needed. Sometimes you get "game is full" and need to try again, sometimes you join one that is close to the finale, but it guarantees you won't need to wait long.
Mongoose
03-19-2009, 03:15
Well, that would take care of my biggest problem with the versus. Thanks for the tip; I'm not sure why that didn't occur to me before.
The other thing that I don't like is that versus just seems to bring out the worst in people: I honestly think that it gets people more worked up than political discussions. Maybe people who have played stuff like CS are used to stuff this, but I've never encountered so much PMS in a game. Or anything, for that matter.
edit - seriously, FPS Doug (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQFYceNZS8) is well balanced compared to most versus players.
Mongoose
03-21-2009, 22:27
Eh, I have to admit, for all my whining, the regular game is still a lot of fun at least.
Pever - the guy who quit that last game was so odd. He sounded like he was actually dying on the mic when that hunter was killing him. To be fair, he was decent at the game, but that's probably the most serious I've ever seen anyone take Left4Dead. Or any game.
edit - opps double post, sorry.
Well, that would take care of my biggest problem with the versus. Thanks for the tip; I'm not sure why that didn't occur to me before.
The other thing that I don't like is that versus just seems to bring out the worst in people: I honestly think that it gets people more worked up than political discussions. Maybe people who have played stuff like CS are used to stuff this, but I've never encountered so much PMS in a game. Or anything, for that matter.
edit - seriously, FPS Doug (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQFYceNZS8) is well balanced compared to most versus players.
Yeah, i love versus but some people take it way too seriously. It's annoying when someone doesn't save you from a hunter or smoker when they are 5 feet away, but raging about it doesn't help the situation. Personally? I'll play Versus even if my team is down 3k to nothing. I enjoy it.
Veho Nex
03-22-2009, 00:35
lol, you wouldnt be talking about me being 5 feet away and leaving you to die? lol.
No wait, I usually leave you guys behind, and rush ahead. GO ZOEY!!
lol, you wouldnt be talking about me being 5 feet away and leaving you to die? lol.
No wait, I usually leave you guys behind, and rush ahead. GO ZOEY!!
:laugh4:
No no i'm talking about some pubbers I was playing with. When Veho leaves me to die I know its because of spite strategy.
pevergreen
03-22-2009, 02:30
Yeah, i love versus but some people take it way too seriously.
We were only playing a campaign on advanced. This guy...he would be "OH #*%& THERES SO MANY OF THEM! WATCH OUT ONE BEHIND YOU OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THERE EVERYWHERE!"
He was so into it I just presumed he didnt realise that once you died you could be found again. Wouldn't surprise me if he stopped playing forever, cause he died once.
Mongoose
03-22-2009, 04:26
We were only playing a campaign on advanced. This guy...he would be "OH #*%& THERES SO MANY OF THEM! WATCH OUT ONE BEHIND YOU OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THERE EVERYWHERE!"
He was so into it I just presumed he didnt realise that once you died you could be found again. Wouldn't surprise me if he stopped playing forever, cause he died once.
Not to mention "Jesus Christ, an entire city must have been infected!" He sort of reminded me of the Marine from Aliens who goes crazy half way through the movie. I half expected him to start crying and screaming " oh @#$%, @#$% @#$% @#$% @#$%... We're screwed, we're finished ... there's too many of those @#$%ing things ... GAME OVER! GAME OVER, MAN!"
Over all, though, that was a pretty good campaign. That's the first time I've survived Blood Harvest with all four of the survivors, and the first time I've survived it on advanced.
The beginning of the final chapter though, with the bot who wouldn't get back in the safe house so we could safely wait for the idle player ... :wall:
pevergreen
03-22-2009, 04:37
Or the guy who openend it in the first place. >_>
Ah well, we got away, but that lag made me miss the molotov on the second tank.
I hate being in australia.
HAHAHAHAHHA, this is priceless X'D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnRVIC7kS4s&feature=related
Mongoose
03-22-2009, 22:13
This is actually pretty stupid, but funny at the same time.
Putz the Friendly Tank (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyIWcfhujeY)
I wouldn't do that in a versus match because it's obnoxious, but I can't help laughing when I see this.
Veho Nex
03-23-2009, 05:39
I just had a great lag verus where as i smoked someone it would go id walk away to get in position then it would suddenly teleport me to the nearest survivor and smoke them....
but here's my latest achievement.(done in the cheapest way possible, the god rock)
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/f1d9b718d5484bfafc12917c604b793bf0b87d66.png
We couldn't use the Jesus Room but that didn't stop us! :laugh4:
If you guys are having trouble figuring out Untouchables, hit one of us on Steam and we'll give you the run-down of how we got it. It took about 4 tries, each taking anywhere from 10-15 min each. If you use the "god rock" on Death Toll like we did, here's a few tips.
-You need someone with a sniper rifle watching the water for smokers. No exceptions.
-Control your fire. Friendly Fire will ruin the achievement. Get in a spot and don't move unless you HAVE to.
-If you have to, absolutely have to, move then don't move in front of people.
-The Tank will throw rocks at you, but you can shoot the rocks and break them mid air. Take Sniper rifles and MGs for this purpose.
-After the second tank a hunter loves to spawn at the boat house, by the time you get to the dock he will be in position to pounce the person bring up the rear. You have to stay close, be ready for this pounce.
-As the boat is pulling up, cover the entrance to the dock with 2 Molotovs. As long as they burn, you don't need to worry. Spam melee on each other to counter a surprise smoker.
-DO NOT SHOOT ONCE THE BOAT ARRIVES. Weapon control is key, refer to the third tip.
Mongoose
03-24-2009, 03:46
I just had a pretty good game of versus: our team stayed intact the whole time, though the other team was raging so intensely they most have gone through at least 20 different players through the course of the game. They finally all left at the last level. But we got the victory screen all the same and it was at the second half of the last chapter, so it wasn't such a big deal.
Veho Nex
03-24-2009, 06:18
I ahte those matches
last night, after monk logged.
NJS CR and I played a game where we were neck and neck till the final level where they pulled ahead. Man monk we sure missed you for that one.
I ahte those matches
last night, after monk logged.
NJS CR and I played a game where we were neck and neck till the final level where they pulled ahead. Man monk we sure missed you for that one.
You shoulda sent me an invite. I was done eating after like 15 min lol.
Strike For The South
03-25-2009, 02:47
360 anyone? Anyone?
pevergreen
03-25-2009, 10:37
360 anyone? Anyone?
pfft. I played it on the 360. Terrible. You'd have to have no life and be a god with it to play on expert. Plus no patches, so glitches etc.
pfft. I played it on the 360. Terrible. You'd have to have no life and be a god with it to play on expert. Plus no patches, so glitches etc.
If you've got Gears 2 for 360 hit up omgk1tt3ns on Live, that's me (what is it with animals and my online tags? :help:). I'm always up for Horde matches.
Sorry for double post:
I'm going for Akimbo Assassin and due to my own stubbornness I refuse to play singleplayer or do it on Normal. I've gotten close twice now, went with a group on Advanced and gotten to the Finale but the servers keep crashing right as I'm about to get it.
If anyone here is interested in a legit campaign game and won't mind me sticking to pistols then give me a shout on steam. I've only got 10 more achievements to go and i'll have them all. :book:
Veho Nex
03-25-2009, 15:03
servers kept crashing for you too? I thought it was just CR NJS and I
servers kept crashing for you too? I thought it was just CR NJS and I
They've been particularly unstable today, dunno what's going on.:dizzy2:
Crazed Rabbit
03-25-2009, 18:04
Heh, I was going for the akimbo thing too...but the servers kept crashing. :sweatdrop:
CR
pfft. I played it on the 360. Terrible. You'd have to have no life and be a god with it to play on expert. Plus no patches, so glitches etc.
I play it on 360, and there are patches....
my gamertag is ferret2005
pevergreen
03-26-2009, 13:03
I play it on 360, and there are patches....
my gamertag is ferret2005
Well, I dont own a 360.
Look up Theron. or CptTheron, I'm not sure.
Hes a good bloke, plus he has L4D on it, not me. :sweatdrop:
Major Robert Dump
03-27-2009, 09:08
melee recharge woohoo.
guess is shoulda got my expert achievements back before all the updates, cuz hordes are gonna kill now (unless the timer is just for versus)
melee recharge woohoo.
guess is shoulda got my expert achievements back before all the updates, cuz hordes are gonna kill now (unless the timer is just for versus)
The timer is just for versus. All the whining about how powerful melee was finally got Valve to nerf it. Can't say I'm surprised.
pevergreen
03-27-2009, 09:45
Really? I havenet meleed as a survivor yet.
Must play again tonight then.
Major Robert Dump
03-27-2009, 10:19
theres a recharge every 5 melees. So its kind of like pre-emptive reloading in downtime now....used up 3 melees, got a few seconds, use up 2 more to stay fresh.
It really doesnt affect corner camping from what I've seen, but its easier to pounce as a hunter, especially if you wait until they are smacking around horde.
And the booms. Oh the booms. Brutality. I played 3 games this morning and got 2500+ points per game thanks to booms, obviously from people who had no idea of the nerf. Get now while the gettins good.
People will get used to it. Personally I'm considering changing my weapon of choice.
pevergreen
03-27-2009, 10:33
Shotties are even more useful now.
You gotta line up the shots, know the mechanics of bullet pentration.
Hunters get annyoed at me when I have the AR and I shoot through a wall and kill them on my team mate. Bullets that penetrate something don't harm team mates. :yes:
Mongoose
03-28-2009, 17:37
The melee nerf in versus made certain sections much harder. The elevator in No Mercy, for instance, feels almost impossible to get through now. I think I made it through once or twice, but only barely. It's easier to get bogged down. The very ends of the levels, also, are very difficult to get through because running out in the open is much harder than it used to be. You can't just swat all the Zombies away from you anymore.
I've gradually learned to conserve melee, but I get the feeling a lot of the time that some of my teammates haven't noticed the change yet, and so are now much more likely to get separated in places like the elevator. Over all, though, I do like it a lot - it's so much easier to get people as the hunter and the smoker now, because the survivors can't put up an invincible wall of melee blocking anymore. Well, maybe they can, but doing so will actually require some degree of planning and teamwork now.
Ramses II CP
03-31-2009, 23:45
Finally broke down and bought this today. I'll be super-noobing it some later tonight, after I goof off with some solo; my steam ID is the obvious 'ramsesiicp.'
:egypt:
Veho Nex
04-01-2009, 04:21
well ramses i sent you an invite, hope your on, just about to get a game going
Veho Nex
04-01-2009, 05:38
Nice playin with ya ramses, kinda screwed my team over trying to get you...
Ramses II CP
04-01-2009, 06:22
rotfl, I ate it pretty laughably. The timing is the thing, I keep expecting the game to move faster when it's slow and slower when it's fast, so I end up running off by myself or standing around with my back turned while a hunter jumps me from behind.
Took me a long time to learn the controls as the infected as well. I still haven't entirely figured them out.
:egypt:
Veho Nex
04-01-2009, 07:35
Dont worry a few more nights with us and you'll be 1337 pro
Since I took over a friends steam acc to play L4D, I wish I could reset the server saved achievements. Too bad I can't.
Quirinus
04-01-2009, 14:56
Does anyone know if there's a map or mod that allows single-player versus? As in, playing the infected. It would be nice to be able to try out some infected tactics and multi-player doesn't really allow that...
Veho Nex
04-01-2009, 16:00
I believe there are some server commands, also if you local host a vs match and set it to friends only, and maybe have on friend join you could be set. But I do recomend against single infected tactics. Try and find a team that you work well with, thats usually the strongest tactic as infected.
You can on xbox, but only for one level. You get your team in a private lobby and have one person switch to humans, then search for a server/start countdown and have that person switch back to zombies while it is still counting and it starts the game with four AI survivors. They aren't very good at making progress though, it can take a while for them to decide to advance...
Crazed Rabbit
04-01-2009, 20:15
Nice playin with ya ramses, kinda screwed my team over trying to get you...
Don't worry, I got a screen:
https://img110.imageshack.us/img110/3839/l4dvshospital03sewers00.jpg
You can see Veho there on the ground, along with the rest of his team, as they were incapacitated after Veho blew up the gas station.
I was pretty excited :beam:
CR
Ramses II CP
04-01-2009, 21:05
Hey, I was useful after all (as a target anyway). :laugh4:
Going out of town tomorrow bright and early, but I might get on for awhile tonight.
:egypt:
Orgahs playing and pwning together?!? This is too cool, I must join in the fun! :2thumbsup:
Major Robert Dump
04-01-2009, 22:40
I believe there are some server commands, also if you local host a vs match and set it to friends only, and maybe have on friend join you could be set. But I do recomend against single infected tactics. Try and find a team that you work well with, thats usually the strongest tactic as infected.
You can start a single player game, bring up the console and type a series of crap to let you spawn as a single infected vs bot survivors.......
http://left4deadforums.com/16722-essential-console-commands.html
I had to mess with the order of the commands a little bit to get it right. note that the bots are pretty good, so really the only thing you can use this for is learning hiding spots and practicing hunter jumps, as the chance that you will pwn 4 bots by yourself is pretty small, no matter how good you are.
Veho Nex
04-02-2009, 04:48
Pwned by Cr and NJS again... WE NEED YOU MONK!!!
Major Robert Dump
04-03-2009, 03:38
Really want to play some L4D tonite as my opportunities to do so will be limited for the next 5 months. I got some cognac, some cigars and I'm ready to FF people all night long.
pevergreen
04-03-2009, 06:22
im there.
Veho Nex
04-03-2009, 06:40
MRD you arent on my friends list!! We were playing since 7 pm pacific and beat dead air on expert. I even got screenies.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/1c7f1dc8140de67ff0d95dfd96e9df7e22c71712.png
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/5a869a79d773673ec9a014a97cb9bf8ba3faaaec.png
Major Robert Dump
04-03-2009, 06:57
doh i musta missed ur post of your screen name, i been playing all night, I am colon burns, and i woulda loved some expert action. Been playing vs all night, think i got about 2 more hrs in me before im done
i saw CR and NJS online in game, i shoulda sent a tell for some invites and qued up a join
Ramses II CP
04-03-2009, 08:06
Got caught playing a stupid board game rather than L4D. :thumbsdown:
:egypt:
Crazed Rabbit
04-03-2009, 17:50
MRD you arent on my friends list!! We were playing since 7 pm pacific and I beat dead air on expert. I even got screenies.
Corrected. :stare:
CR
Veho Nex
04-03-2009, 22:08
Cr wanna know something messed up? It didnt give me the win, since I was afk for a level
Crazed Rabbit
04-04-2009, 02:31
Ah, I am assuaged.
CR
Will be available for games tonight if anyone wants to get some going. Monk643 on steam, d3thrabbit in chat and in-game
If Veho wants to grief again, though:
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/rage-1.jpg
Mongoose
04-05-2009, 16:21
Pever sorry about that ill-fated invite - I and another player sit in the safehouse for 10 minutes, then the second I invite you two people suddenly join :laugh4:
edit)
Although, the server was modded to have 2 tanks and a witch in every level so you actually weren't missing out on that much.
Teehee! I haz new campaigns!
Dammit CR and your "Spawn hunter and wait for the survivor to open the safe room door which I'm hiding behind".
Veho Nex
04-09-2009, 22:23
Teehee! I haz new campaigns!
Huh!?! They are released?
Veho Nex
04-10-2009, 07:47
https://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg250/jkarinen/l4d-20090409-200222.jpg
WAVE YO HANDS IN THE AIR!! ITTTTSSSS CCCRRRAAAAZZZZYYYYY!!!
Just played the first level of a new campaign. Took dozens of screenies (71, though some will not be on display), that I'll post around here. The general outline is that the first level was rather boring (In terms of map design), and at least the Survivor AI has some pathfinding problems along with an extremely unusual number of horde appearances, both in length interval (They kept coming), and in horde numbers (They were huge, hordes lasted up to a minute.) The level was also extraordinarily long, which might be a good thing.
Anyways, here comes. The campaign is called Dead City. DISCLAIMER: If you open the spoils you will be flooded by a sea of images.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0000.jpg
The starting point of Dead City. Besides the usual, these come with 3 Pipes and 3 Molotovs ready. As soon as we stepped off the Starting point, a horde event hit.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0001.jpg
A little bit into the level, still in some sort of basement, another horde event.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0002.jpg
Killing the said horde.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0003.jpg
Out of the basement, into the Real World.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0004.jpg
Little bit further, here's just one in a plentiful number of Horde triggering switches I had to press in the level.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0006.jpg
And there comes our friendly neighbours...
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0008.jpg
...Which we eventually dispose of.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0009.jpg
The switch opened two gates, we went into one which lead to nowehre but more zombies.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0010.jpg
Still in the wrong gateyard.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0011.jpg
Now here's something I never saw. Here was Louis happily walking with no enemy around when he apparently tripped in the air and incapacitated himself. Francis is such a helpful guy.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0012.jpg
Thereafter, we entered matrix-styled text, the sound still came out regularly though.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0014.jpg
Now through the right gate, onto a bridge full of burning cars.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0015.jpg
Apparently, Bill (Me) gained Infected power, as he skillfully climbs a wall with little to climb from
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0016.jpg
...Hm, should I pounce them? They're so unsuspecting.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0017.jpg
Soon enough I enter a building, which I don't really like anymore and you'll see why. The first floor right here.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0018.jpg
Hordes come and come and come and come.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0020.jpg
Another horde cleaned.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0021.jpg
Looking through the floor, check the native's homes.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0022.jpg
I R UBERLEETZOR WIZ SUPERCOMPUTER KTHXbai
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0023.jpg
2nd floor.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0024.jpg
Hm...I initially enjoyed being each time farther from the bridge I had just been on, but that would soon change.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0025.jpg
Upon coming to the final floor, there's a woman who says "OMG GIMME A KISS!".
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0026.jpg
"I WANT ONE TOO!", anyways this was one long horde.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0027.jpg
3rd Floor.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0028.jpg
Since I couldn't find a way to go down (As all rooms seemed to lead nowhere and there was a Medical case down there), I decided to get pragmatic and see if an old-fashioned jump would do the trick. Apparently Bill thought otherwise.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0029.jpg
Finally manage to pass over those stupid crates blocking our way. Anyways, had to take a different stairway.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0030.jpg
Someone is doing some large collection of booze.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0031.jpg
This is the place where I wanted to reach with my jump. Upon getting there, we have another horde triggering switch to press, which opens a gate.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0032.jpg
Beyond that gate there were more zombies to kill.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0033.jpg
Our way forward.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0034.jpg
Hm..This looks familiar. (e.g. Bridge I had been before going to the building. I'm just on the other side of a fence now)
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0035.jpg
Prooceeding.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0036.jpg
Two more switches. Nice. -_-
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0037.jpg
This has an explanation. On the last screen, one of the switches was to call an elevator. However, there were some handstairs to climb to the building, which would lead exactly where the elevator would lead (Minus the horde attracted by the elevator. Upon climbing the stairs, I found out that the AI refused to do what I just did, and on top of that another horde event hit. Glad I had the difficulty in normal, as I had to fend off for myself while my mates enjoyed some time off down at the courtyard...
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0038.jpg
..So I went back down, pressed the switch which attracted a horde..
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0039.jpg
Francis has some problems getting unstuck from the side of the elevator once it reached down. The problem was solved as he teleported himself into the elevator.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0042.jpg
Oversight of the bridge as the elevator goes up.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0043.jpg
And we enter another building which is basically a perfect replica of the first one. *sigh*
The second part of the great Sea of Images
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0044.jpg
Horde power.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0048.jpg
"New" floor. New horde. I might as well say here I was without clues how to go further down. I spent some 7 minutes searching for a way down and couldn't find a way
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0049.jpg
I killed two hordes through that door.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0050.jpg
As they say, if you can't go down, go up. Unfortunatly, up only led backwards or nowhere. Here's me making sure my friends come back from nowheredom.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0051.jpg
WOOT! After 2 minutes looking to the floor searching for holes and dealing with yet another horde, I have found the way in a very small room.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0052.jpg
Ah, so close to the bridge again. Who would've said I'd like to be near the bridge.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0053.jpg
It were those stupid crates who wasted 10 minutes of my life looking for a way down.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0054.jpg
Finally, the last floor. I was seriously tired of those buildings.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0055.jpg
At last! The street again!
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0056.jpg
Stepping outside the building, I had to press a new swiitch which means new horde to greet us.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0057.jpg
The gate opening up.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0058.jpg
Ooo. Scary.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0059.jpg
A sideroom where I get a pipebomb. Not an(other) actual building (Phew.)
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0060.jpg
Now I'm on the other side of the fence, on the other side of our familliar bridge.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0062.jpg
Horde + this spot = Such a lag I couldn't fire my pistols (Yes, and I'm playing offline. Imagine if I was playing online)
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0066.jpg
A bit forward, YET another horde. I was getting quite tired of dealing with a horde every half a minute.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0067.jpg
FINALLY! Some change in the scenario! (Yes, I'm still on the first level)
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0068.jpg
...I can't the :daisy: believe this.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0069.jpg
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! This Level actually ends?
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity01_riverside0070.jpg
And indeed it did. That was so tiresome I quit after that level (Also given the fact that it was 5:30 AM)
Basically the level is full of alleys and dead ends, tight spots, full of hordes and a gigantic length in duration of the level. Should be fun for Multiplayer.
Looks great! Still looks like it is missing eyecandy and things like posters, tables, things like that. But it will definitely be a great addition to the map selection.
Thanks for the info!
Veho Nex
04-11-2009, 16:10
Wow looks awesome.
I'll post up screenies of the second level once I actually get to playing it. My hopes are that the level doesn't last nearly as long as the first one did. I'm also VERY glad I played it in normal difficulty. Because of it (I think), there were no tanks or witches, since I would be VERY pissed off the team was murdered mid-way of the level, and I'd have to do the entire odyssey again.
Ramses II CP
04-11-2009, 18:49
Cool, I'm glad they're adding some new content. I'm still a noob and I can tell the game needs it.
:egypt:
Second level played, and that was quite short, compared to the first. So short when I saw the Safe House door, I wasn't sure if the level ended there. It was also uber-lagged, but the path-finding problems disapeared as far as I noticed.
The Great Sea of images - Second level:
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0000.jpg
Starting point. Zoey took the liberty of opening the door and being cuaght immediatly by a smoker which when we went to save her triggered the initial horde.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0001.jpg
What I meant.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0002.jpg
This was a long...
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0002.jpg
...long...
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0003.jpg
...long horde.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0004.jpg
A little bit further while exploring the level, another horde event hits as we run into an alley (Just on top of those stairs)
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0005.jpg
Climbing some stairs which lead to nowhere.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0006.jpg
Exactly.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0007.jpg
Going through the right path this time...I think.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0008.jpg
Exploring. Glad this level wasn't a "run from a building into another replica of the building" type.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0010.jpg
Entered the door on the last screenie, cue for another horde to enter.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0011.jpg
Uh...This looks familiar.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0011.jpg
...
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0013.jpg
Here is where I explain that at the starting point in this level there were two available Safe House doors, only that one of them didn't open. It was in this building that the other safe house door was. I seriously began to wonder if I was back in the first level map.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0014.jpg
Thankfully, I wasn't and soon enough I figured the correct path to move forward in the level.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0015.jpg
Killing another horde, once again hitting the streets...
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0016.jpg
Ah...M16. My best chum.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0018.jpg
Horde triggering switch. I was hearing gigantic noises of zombies which I thought came from the other side of the gate. Apparently they came from the roof as there was a convinient hole there for zombies to come.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0019.jpg
Exploring the door to the left of the switch..
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0020.jpg
..And another horde event hits, demonstrating the stupid AI positioning. They just stand there looking at me.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0021.jpg
I go to their spot and close the door in front of them. And all the hungry zombies begin knocking on our door.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0022.jpg
The hole in the roof and the wall filled up with the bullets that trespassed our friendly neighbours.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0023.jpg
As I hit the switch, I begin getting suspicious as no army of undead comes. The first non-horde triggering switch I encountered so far. You can also see my flaming mascot, which I have carried on since the early stages of the level.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0024.jpg
The other side of the gate brought us to a parking basement. Here is a small room, with ammo, molotovs and the like.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0025.jpg
As soon as we enter that room, another horde. Closing all doors only bought us some time as zombies came from 3 different doors in great numbers at the same time.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0026.jpg
I was colossally lagged at this moment, as the small room was filled with dozens of zombies.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0027.jpg
Taking a look at how the room changed during this fight.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0028.jpg
Exploring a part of the basement.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0029.jpg
When we were returning to the now famous small room, another horde hits. This occurred like 1 minute after that massive horde of a few screenies back.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0030.jpg
This horde was quite long, as the wall proves.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0031.jpg
Taking a look at another room where the small room lead to.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0032.jpg
Eventually, I found my way through the maze.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0033.jpg
Another horde hits, I send my mascot down, but apprently the zombies only come from below. This time I take some time off while the rest of the gang deals with the undead (To be fair I used a pipe bomb to help them). Going upwards from there we are greeted with yet another horde, which has mutant powers apparently as they pass through steel barred windows.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0034.jpg
The blurred image is my last gasp instinct of taking a screenie of the safe house door as I hardly believed the level had ended after the length I had to put up with yesterday.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/l4d_deadcity02_backalley0035.jpg
Leetness.
I might add that no Tanks or witches appeared as of yet, and since both these levels have a lot of narrow spaces, they are perfect for versus mode, for Tanks to go rampaging when the survivors are boxed in a room somewhere, or for the hunters to pounce in those narrow passages. Some parts in the streets might be oportunities for Smokers to hide somewhere in the grand scenario and split the survivors apart so other infected can work their magic. It has been fun so far, except for the massive lag I felt in this last level.
Ramses II CP
04-14-2009, 05:33
Epic battle at the farmhouse for my last game tonight. Survivors camped the corner like everyone does, and my infected partners didn't wait to help the tank, resulting in our first tank (not me) doing zero damage. Just died running around in the open. They're all green and they have plenty of health packs. They're owning us. They let us know it too, laughing about how bad the tank is and how the tank was scared of them. It's true, the guy was running away from them half the time.
Rinse and repeat. Next tank tries to wait for everyone to spawn, especially since the survivors decided to wait for him out where the boomer spawns anyway. Boomer spawns, pops, splashes two. Hunter (me) and smoker drop off the roof... and the tank gets himself caught on the edge of the house somehow while we're hitting them. Tank knocked one down still, the one I pounced, but it looks like it's all over because all of us infected are punched out.
They're on the far side of the farmhouse from the rescue vehicle though, and the boomer spawns back in right as they're getting the incap to his feet. He gets incapacitated again, and it starts a cycle where they can't decide to leave one behind and can't get them all to their feet at once. Finally they get close to the vehicle which triggers the tank to spawn (me). I toss a rock which incapacitates the first two, the limpers, and the second two actually try to get in the thing... and then come back out to save their buddies. So I walked up to the side of the ramp and smacked 'em both off of it. I stayed right there at the ramp while they tried to decide what to do. My buddies spawned... Pounced, smoked, etc. Game over. We won by less than 400 points which they easily would've scored if they'd just stayed inside.
There are some beautiful moments in this game.
:egypt:
Mongoose
04-14-2009, 20:48
It is really easy as the tank to get inside the vehicle with the survivors, especially when they're limping. It'll leave once they all get in but if there's one guy limping behind then it just waits. I've seen various teams destroy what should have been a successful 3 or even 4 survivor escape just by running into the APC with the tank.
In my opinion they should probably change the APC so that the tank doesn't fit. Same for the helicopter in No Mercy. It's a nice surprising victory at the end, but it's also pretty cheap.
What happens when Louis gets his Pills (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKu60YKqsvs&feature=related)
Veho Nex
04-17-2009, 08:54
Ahh good game tonight. Played Dead Air in vs. Tons of fun.
Ahh good game tonight. Played Dead Air in vs. Tons of fun.
I slept through this and I am very upset. :furious3:
I even hear they smoked a survivor through the metal detector. I've ALWAYS wanted to do that. :skull:
Veho Nex
04-20-2009, 16:11
Hey supposedly we're supposed to get our brand new survival mode by 8pm tomorrow night. Who is ready to kick some ars?
I found survival mode quite dissapointing to be honest, I haven't lasted more than 5 minutes so far and it's just too hectic and hard for enjoyment for me. The other campaigns on versus though, are fantastic, especially dead air.
Crazed Rabbit
04-22-2009, 01:49
I think ya just need a good team for survival. I got a bronze with a random bunch of pubbers, one of whom thought it advisable to situate himself 100 yards from the rest of us.
But I finally have some free time tonight, unlike lately, so hopefully we can get some games in.
CR
Ramses II CP
04-22-2009, 01:56
I'll be on later, probably going to watch Fringe with da wife. Haven't tried the new thing yet.
:egypt:
Veho Nex
04-22-2009, 05:56
All our hard work and planning... up in smoke... or flames... what ever you want to put it at.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/69304af3bdc85579fcafaa579ebecf6cf5594f0b.jpg
All our hard work and planning... up in smoke... or flames... what ever you want to put it at.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/69304af3bdc85579fcafaa579ebecf6cf5594f0b.jpg
Burn, baby.
So the DLC finally hit and Survival mode is probably the most fun i've had in L4D outside of VS in a long time.It's like Valve added another notch above expert, ludicrous speed. There's no use saying you've never gone that fast before because OH GOD TWO TANKS AT A TIME.
Not only that but Dead Air VS is just a treat. I've yet to play Death Toll, might get to it tomorrow night when I am not studying for test. :2thumbsup:
Alexander the Pretty Good
04-23-2009, 04:18
I've heard that after about a dozen minutes the tanks stop spawning due to an error or bug, and that it gets rather easy afterward (or at least for very skilled players). Apparently one group hit the 60 minute mark and quit of boredom, but I couldn't find anything to correlate that.
Ramses II CP
04-23-2009, 05:47
Good grief, with random doods I haven't gotten to 7 minutes yet. It is a rush though when the tank comes in right as half the team gets smoked. Just having double smokers is pretty rough to me..
I think with a decent group the corner of the switch room on Last Stand, above the water heaters, could probably be held a good long time. It's hard to convince random people to stay there, especially when they all take the AR and run out of ammo before the second tank. :laugh4:
:egypt:
Is this worth buying if you have a lousy internet connection and no one to lan it with?
Ramses II CP
04-23-2009, 16:05
Is this worth buying if you have a lousy internet connection and no one to lan it with?
No. Lag tolerance is low, it isn't the kind of shooter where you can easily correct for a 300+ ping and the single player game is not a $50 experience. I love it, but without MP I wouldn't play it.
:egypt:
No. Lag tolerance is low, it isn't the kind of shooter where you can easily correct for a 300+ ping and the single player game is not a $50 experience. I love it, but without MP I wouldn't play it.
:egypt:
Thanks, that is what I needed to know. :bow:
I've heard that after about a dozen minutes the tanks stop spawning due to an error or bug, and that it gets rather easy afterward (or at least for very skilled players). Apparently one group hit the 60 minute mark and quit of boredom, but I couldn't find anything to correlate that.
It would depend a lot on map selection. Some are really easy to defend while others are practically stupid with how hard it is to get a good position. I highly doubt anyone has gotten to the 60 min mark, but I wouldn't put it passed people hitting 20. Someone on my friends list hit 13:50 on a No Mercy survival and holds the record on my friends list leaderboard.
Ramses II CP
04-24-2009, 06:15
Interesting survival strategy on Last Stand tonight, a guy said we should stand in the corner behind the lighthouse with the cliff at our backs. I thought he was nuts, but there's a rock there that you can lead the tank around while people stand on top of it keeping you clear and killing him, plus you're close to your reloads and fresh moli's and pipes. If we'd had a good team we would've cleared 7 mins easy.
Strange vs game tonight where I started as infected and none of the other infected would spawn in. The other team actually left a man behind, way behind, and went all the way back from the safehouse to get him. I hung around to try to see what the story was but no one had anything to say about it, and it went the same way next infected round, so I bailed. This was in the airport. By the way, am I the only one who finds that ball from the statue hard to use as tank? Can't seem to hit anyone with it.
:egypt:
pevergreen
04-24-2009, 10:47
I'm up for some games tonight. Contact me on steam when you start playing.
Mongoose
04-27-2009, 23:36
On Dead Air, Construction Site, I spawned as the tank right at the start of the crescendo event, behind the burning wall. The event wasn't even close to being over so I stupidly decided that I needed to break down the barrier. The barrier was unbreakable, and I got lit on fire in the process.
Tanks should not be spawning during crescendo events or behind unbreakable obstacles.
Nice job, Valve.
:oops:
edit - to be fair I've had a pretty good experience in general with the new content. But there are a few glaring issues that I'm surprised got past beta testing, especially since this update has been in the works for so long.
Veho Nex
04-28-2009, 05:54
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/d10efed03dd50059ab827655bace72a21cc9d94c.png
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/6723c1c52e7a5e1145fb7a298580409006ac7ccb.png
Monk and I are the true masters of sewer defence!!
Me and a few friends managed to get a gold medal yesterday, if you hide behind the desk on terminal then the smokers can't drag you away and it's quite easy to deal with special infected. The only problem is when a tank hits you out of the cover and you get dragged miles away...
Haven't got more than a bronze on any other map though, is it the part where you lower the bridge on sewers?
Yeah, it's The Drains on Death Toll. The part where you hold up in the sewers and lower the bridge to get across. At first we were just messing around because our other 2 raged and left after one round, that's when we hit 6 min. After that we really decided to give it a few more honest goes and got it down to a science.
Basically you get 2 pipes and 2 molis as well as a boat load of pills and Health (critical in survival, chugging pills is a great way to power through hordes). There's no good corner spot to effectively nullify the horde here, so basically we hung out on the catwalk. The railing can't be destroyed so you can't get smoked off, and it provides a nice bottle neck for the tank. When he climes up stick 2 shotties in his face.
Use the luls for quick ammo runs, the ammo is about 5 seconds away from your stand point so if you kill your enemies quick you can get in and out without worrying about anything. We managed to get ammo after every tank up until the 5 min mark with no problem. If you're in a tight spot and NEED AMMO, like when a tank + horde rush comes then throw a pipe. Try to save your pipes until after the 4 min mark, however.
Save your molis for double tanks and whatever you do, once lighting the tank DO NOT let him in the water. It will douse the flames. Instead try to run back and forth on the platform, treating the tank like a raging bull.
Using these methods we made it to 8:13 with only 2 people. If we had a full group of people who knew what they were doing (the bots kept getting caught below in the water and horded to death) we could have made 10, i've no doubt.
pevergreen
04-29-2009, 03:12
Played my first games of the new patch last night, got a bronze on the aiport one and nearly made it to bronze on no mercy. Team on the first one had obviously been playing a while and were trying silly spots and the one in NM5 just...yeah.
Was fun though.
johnhughthom
05-01-2009, 00:48
Unlikely that anybody who doesn't already have the game will read this but I'll post anyhows. Steam is offering a days free trial of Left4Dead starting in approx 12 minutes.
edit: Well 15 minutes playing the single-player convinced me to buy it and I normally hate FPS type games. Think I'll play for a few days before I venture into multi-player though.
I got 13 minutes on my first survival at the airport level.
Ramses II CP
05-05-2009, 05:03
There's an exploit on The Crane level. Sit off to the right of the crane, to the right of the fence there, behind the edge of the rooftop ledge. Smack down smokers and just wait to get bored. It happened to us about 35 minutes in when someone decided to try an ammo run and unleashed chaos.
I'll post a ss later if I can remember.
:egypt:
Ramses II CP
05-05-2009, 16:50
Well I can't figure out where L4D puts it's screenshots, so I can't post 'em. You'll have to take my word for it on the time, or check my stats.
:egypt:
Crazed Rabbit
05-05-2009, 20:12
steam/steamApps/common/left 4 dead/left4dead/screenshots
I'm waiting ~;p
CR
Ramses II CP
05-05-2009, 21:34
I have no such folder, so this is the best I can do for now:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OVSGmv5sLg4/SgCiWp8uz1I/AAAAAAAASdo/EOJpR71bIk4/s800/shot.JPG
I'll show ya the spot if yer around later, just gotta convince whomever else is in the game to sit with us.
:egypt:
Ramses II CP
05-07-2009, 04:00
Some good survival games tonight. We got a couple of gold medals, though I'm not sure the Crane one counts. :laugh4:
It was even more obviously a bug tonight as we had all the special infected stacked up and 'out' of the fight within the first few minutes. Sometime after the 10 minute mark we got bored and started messing around. The key is to have everyone actually behind the ledge, on the lower part with the long drop behind them, to the right of the crane. At that point the AI goes loopy and 90% of everything drops into the street while the smokers stack up on the rooftop 'behind' the crane. We didn't even have a tank come through.
We did Terminal from the corner by the desk, works very well with a team that can pick off the smokers. I think we could do the one outside in a similar spot with a decent team.
:egypt:
Ramses II CP
05-09-2009, 06:37
Had a game where we actually pulled off the No Mercy finale ladder shaft ambush. It really shouldn't have worked, we had an italian guy with a 1000 ping in the game with us, but the other team had a slow dude as well so it worked out. Awesome to see it happen 1-2-3, smoker, hunter, hunter. A thing of beauty.
Had a round of vs at the construction site where the tank spawned right at the start where those two dumpsters and the car were. I got the tank and missed with my first dumpster swipe, but caught all four with the second. Of course when our turn came as survivors we couldn't get past the tank either. Rough spot to have a tank spawn.
I'm loving this game lately. There's something about having an infected ambush just click together that's like a drug.
:egypt:
I'm loving this game lately. There's something about having an infected ambush just click together that's like a drug.
:egypt:
Even more satisfying is the hunter bait. One of your hunters pounces a straggler survivor who is further away from his team than he shoulda been, while your entire team sets up to use the pounced survivor like bait. The other team comes running in, not paying attention and suddenly they get boomed on. Then a smoker hits one, then another hunter!
It's a thing of beauty.
Ramses II CP
05-16-2009, 05:43
Hilarious game this afternoon where I joined (Quickmatch) in the middle of a losing effort as survivors. One of the infected is non-stop talking. Nasty racial crap, sexist, etc. And I mean constant, mixed with calling the rest of his team noobs, and us noobs, and so forth.
Truth be told, my team probably was new. They spread out, they made no effort to bump off boomers, and they tried to hole up in one spot when they lost a man, leading to their defeat. It didn't matter though, the game was fun and we were infected for the next round.
So next round starts and the dood says something so nasty to start the round that I very nearly quit, but I figured even with a weak team we'd all be looking to punish him and that alone could make the round fun. The round starts and the talker is the first one out of the safe house. In fact he's way out in front of his buddies. He obviously stops to type something just around a corner... and I hit him with a decent pounce, saying 'you talk a lot dude.' Team comes rushing up to save him and the boomer drops from above between them and him before they can clear the corner, puking all three of them blind. Smoker pulls one a nice long distance in the other direction.
They did recover, but they didn't make it any further as we kept the pressure on and prevented them from ever getting all back on their feet together. He rage-quit without another word. His name was MrBigguns-something or other, I didn't make a note of it.
:egypt:
Crazed Rabbit
05-16-2009, 21:31
Very nice Ramses.
'you talk a lot dude.'
Brilliant - just brilliant.
CR
Ramses II CP
05-18-2009, 06:06
So there's a glitch on Last Stand survival too. Everyone has to stand on the little brick chimney and snipe off smokers; the tanks will all go in the house and die. I had a pretty good time on LS already but not quite the gold. Have a good idea how to get gold on generator room too, just haven't had a full team to try it with yet so I'm under 9 mins. I just need one more bronze to have them all.
It always impresses me how many people want to type insults while they're trying to play the game. Dude name nuc-something gets himself killed during a survivor round and tells the rest of us, in public chat, just to quit trying. We ignore him, and he talks crap for the rest of the time we're playing (We do eventually lose). Next we're infected and he starts off with how much he's going to 'school' us noobs, etc, etc, and puts a grand total of 72 points up for the round, a round the other team won pretty comfortably, while the rest of us all have 300+. The survivors are all laughing at him by the end, and he ragequits, natch.
:egypt:
I decided to buy Killing Floor because I heard that it was basically a copy of this with more single player support. I like it very much! I am gonna get home and LAN it with my friends. Much fun.
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