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Left 4 Dead 2 |OT| The South Rises Again
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DisenLedZep
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One tiny question regarding the original Left 4 Dead.
I remember reading about a new DLC that would come one month after the realease of "The Passing". Anything about that? I know, "Valve time" and bla bla, but I feel cheated....... again.
I remember reading about a new DLC that would come one month after the realease of "The Passing". Anything about that? I know, "Valve time" and bla bla, but I feel cheated....... again.
Red Scarlet
Member
DisenLedZep said:One tiny question regarding the original Left 4 Dead.
I remember reading about a new DLC that would come one month after the realease of "The Passing". Anything about that? I know, "Valve time" and bla bla, but I feel cheated....... again.
It's supposedly still coming, but I don't think a date was ever really given/concrete.
DisenLedZep
Member
Red Scarlet said:
Thanks Scarlet. Guess I'll wait more for the E3 "surprise" announcement.
I feel like Valve has too many things on their hands nowadays. Not sure if they can keep up with everything... maybe (Valve Time)^2
Annihilator
Member
Annihilator said:
I'll answer my own question. It does count playing with mutations.
Red Scarlet
Member
My "probably" wasn't good enough?!?!
Cool though!
Cool though!
Working on my random item crates again. So I replaced my static crate prop with The Passing's foot locker prop, now it'll open when you access it. Stuck some item spawns inside as well, figured this would be the best place for the rare item you don't craft.
Oh, and I devised a delicious complication. What with these lockers of goodies lying around in the zombie apocalypse, don't you think at least a few people would try to protect their loot? Basically: any time you open an orange locker, there's roughly a 17% chance that a gas can spawns inside the locker and bursts immediately, setting the floor on fire. Backing up quickly is recommended in this instance.
Oh, and I devised a delicious complication. What with these lockers of goodies lying around in the zombie apocalypse, don't you think at least a few people would try to protect their loot? Basically: any time you open an orange locker, there's roughly a 17% chance that a gas can spawns inside the locker and bursts immediately, setting the floor on fire. Backing up quickly is recommended in this instance.
Tanks are cruel bastards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZm9vCN-qaI
Though granted, there's always room for more than one type of booby trap. A rigged gun spawning and detonating an invisible oxygen or propane tank could be an interesting twist on the idea. Any other ideas I might try out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZm9vCN-qaI
In what sense, gameplay feasibility or zombie apocalypse feasibility? (the former is no issue, it works fine)HK-47 said:
Though granted, there's always room for more than one type of booby trap. A rigged gun spawning and detonating an invisible oxygen or propane tank could be an interesting twist on the idea. Any other ideas I might try out?
Red Scarlet
Member
I loved how every single tank was crazy. At least pistols...somehow helped in a way. Gonna make a little montage.
Red Scarlet
Member
Here's what you missed earlier, HK: http://redscarlet.paragonsigma.com/L4D/zanychainsawtanks.avi
3 Chainsaws, Dark Carnival, and one set of pistols. The pistols somehow came in handy. Was a really, really fun game though. Lots of laughs all around. I think I grossed one of them out, too. :lol
3 Chainsaws, Dark Carnival, and one set of pistols. The pistols somehow came in handy. Was a really, really fun game though. Lots of laughs all around. I think I grossed one of them out, too. :lol
Kinda hard to create a satisfying hazard that wouldn't endanger the loot in RL though. Sure, I could just deduct health via a trigger and describe what happened ("You lost your fingers in a nest of razorwire"), but that'd be pretty damn lame. I need something surprising and thrill-causing, it has to influence how players behave and move. Although I will note that it's possible for me to limit item spawning to non-trap configurations, which would essentially make the trap locker a decoy or lure within the context of the apocalypse (aside from junk, which can be assumed to have been scooped up quickly anyway).HK-47 said:
What exactly do you mean by a rigged shotgun?
Botolf said:
You open the door and the shotgun gets you. Its a trade off. Items for health. Maybe come up with an item for dealing with such things that the survs can spend their junk on?
Oh another one could be locked containers that you can use a pipe bomb to blow open and maybe doing so as a chance of ruining some of the items or calling a horde or something.
Red Scarlet
Member
No one did. But going by Mutfox's "hey I'm gonna help them do this finale then we will play" and at least an hour went by...I kinda figured something was up with the map/finale. :lol
It punished us so very hard ;_;
Had thoughts about some custom items, but the problem of carrying them over between maps is something I don't have a solution to yet. If I figure out Hard Rain's saved item states, that'll probably go a long way to carrying over the inventory and whatnot.
I know of no way to make a gun shoot on its own. Even if I did, that's really limited utility (couldn't see it being used more than once or twice). Ideally, I want traps that can fit with something the survivors are familiar with (such as foot lockers), and thus something that would be applicable in many different places and scenarios.HK-47 said:
Had thoughts about some custom items, but the problem of carrying them over between maps is something I don't have a solution to yet. If I figure out Hard Rain's saved item states, that'll probably go a long way to carrying over the inventory and whatnot.
ChackanKun
Member
In the beta wasn't there some kind of event, in the Paris campaign, where the survivors got trapped inside a truck and the zombies where all trying to get in?
I remember something like that happening.
I remember something like that happening.
dragonlife
Member
Wait, what?
My friend and I were bored out of our minds and sleepy so we were just messing around on the final chapter of The Passing. We put one can in the generator and just started doing dumb shit like burning the original Survivors, etc.
All of a sudden we get that "Get to the car!" or whatever with Skin on Our Teeth playing and we were confused, so we just went to the bridge but it never came down. We got Tanks every five seconds and it was awesome :lol (We were playing on Easy). It ended when we were all incapped.
Does that happen? We're kind of interested in trying it on the other campaigns now.
My friend and I were bored out of our minds and sleepy so we were just messing around on the final chapter of The Passing. We put one can in the generator and just started doing dumb shit like burning the original Survivors, etc.
All of a sudden we get that "Get to the car!" or whatever with Skin on Our Teeth playing and we were confused, so we just went to the bridge but it never came down. We got Tanks every five seconds and it was awesome :lol (We were playing on Easy). It ended when we were all incapped.
Does that happen? We're kind of interested in trying it on the other campaigns now.
dragonlife29 said:
If you go on a server with space jump, you can break the DC event. However if you dont put gas in and wait for everyone else to pass the elevator (by space jumping, telelporting, or dying), you can manually trigger the event to start like a radio finale, and then collect the cans like normal.
Revolutionary
Member
Ramming didn't work, and it was wonky with the smoker pulls. I've had a survivor practically laying on his back on one and it didn't go off.MNC said:
Glad to hear it's been tweaked, gonna test it out shortly.
Red Scarlet
Member
I like the car alarm one..nothing more frustrating than it not going off when the survivor is dry humping the car from a pull.
Huh, now I wish I knew about the..infinite ammo m60.
Huh, now I wish I knew about the..infinite ammo m60.
Red Scarlet
Member
Make 1 person a pistoler, it's quite fun (and makes some things a little less wtf). Of course 4 chainsaws is a blast first time. FF-tastic.
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In the middle of a random Gaf VS game, this caught my eye. I really like the colors.
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srenity said:
Nah, it's hilarious. The last tank on the regular finale's (not Dead Center / Parish) makes it where people start trying to branch off and get near the finale area. Friend ran off to make an early run right after the tank died and a charger got him, and I was able to make my way to the boat with no issue
(Hard Rain)vertopci said:
I did just for you
I get like 90-120FPS with a 5850 and Q6600 (3.2GHz) at 1920x1200 with 8x AA so it does seem a little low, not sure how much having a quad core helps with L4D2 though.Blizzard said:ALso, my performance doesn't seem to be limited to TF2. With multicore rendering enabled, 1680x1050, max settings except for only 4xAA, my 1GB 5850 and 3.0 GHz e8400 only do like 35 fps in hard rain.