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Ikuu said:
No, because of the exchange rate all the games are like £5 more than the standard price. Left 4 Dead is around £34 and Fallout 3 was closer to £38.
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yup it sucks, £35 on steam, £24 in the shops

got mine pre ordered for £24 and used this gamestop code for the demo, pre loading at 2.2mb/sec :D
 
Ohhhh man I haven't been this hyped for anything since I guess the Wii Launch, probably more psyched for this than I was for that anyway lol. Can't wait, I'm 70MB away from being capped and it looks like the download limit isn't being affected by the preload (thankyouuuuuu internode :D) so I'm going to hold on to that last 70MB for dear life so I can enjoy the sweet merciful demo without lag


So fucking pumped >_<
 
All right I'm sure this has been covered but...is GameStop already sending out the codes? And if I haven't got one yet, should I do something about it, or are they still in the process?
 
So I reserved in-store, just signed up on the GameStop page. Should I be expecting my code in my e-mail any time soon?
 
Finally got my 360 code,was getting worried.
 
Ryder said:
So I reserved in-store, just signed up on the GameStop page. Should I be expecting my code in my e-mail any time soon?
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I'm in the same situation... still haven't received shit. GOGOGOGOGOGOGO GAMESTOP
 
If I buy the game after playing the demo am I going to have to download another ~3GB? I might be flirting with my dl cap this month.
 
Question after poking around online a bit. With the quick-chat commands apparently being removed from the 360 version, will a headset be required even for single player?
 
gkrykewy said:
Question after poking around online a bit. With the quick-chat commands apparently being removed from the 360 version, will a headset be required even for single player?
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They aren't really removed, they are more context sensitive.
For example, if you about to get swarmed your character will automatically say " I NEED HELP OVER HERE!"
 
darkressurection said:
They aren't really removed, they are more context sensitive.
For example, if you about to get swarmed your character will automatically say " I NEED HELP OVER HERE!"
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Oh, I see, thanks!
 
gkrykewy said:
Oh, I see, thanks!
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No prob.
Works surprisingly well too, when I played it a PAX even though I wasn't playing with anyone I knew, we were able to work as a team pretty well because characters would always call out information (such as "Pain Pills Here") automatically.
 
Sucks fucking balls about the server structure, but I guess that's too be expected. Traditional server system doesn't really accommodate 4 player games.

I was all keyed up to buy a server, but not anymore.
 
Pff.

Xbox pre-demo demo launching 7 hours earlier than the Steam pre-demo demo.

Dedicated servers on PC hidden behind matchmaking system.

Xbox exclusive split screen and 180 degree turn.

Thanks Valve. Nice knowing you.
 
Draft said:
Pff.

Xbox pre-demo demo launching 7 hours earlier than the Steam pre-demo demo.

Dedicated servers on PC hidden behind matchmaking system.

Xbox exclusive split screen and 180 degree turn.

Thanks Valve. Nice knowing you.
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Wow, isn't Gabe Newell the ultimate PC fanboy? I can't believe this.
 
I really hope they reconsider their server idea. Otherwise, there is absolutely no reason to host a server for people to play on.

Cmon, Valve. Think about it.
 
Draft said:
Pff.

Xbox pre-demo demo launching 7 hours earlier than the Steam pre-demo demo.

Dedicated servers on PC hidden behind matchmaking system.

Xbox exclusive split screen and 180 degree turn.

Thanks Valve. Nice knowing you.
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It's 5 hours from the Demo (7am - 2am = 5 hours difference). That's MS' choice since that is the time MS always updates Live.

Dedicated servers on 360 hidden behind matchmaking system.

Yup, it's hard enough doing split screen on a 360, let alone for a PC. I also doubt anyone is going to cuddle up next to their monitors to do splitscreen, except for the minority who has it hooked up to TV. Also, set your mouse sensitivity to 100 and move it to the side. "HOLY SHIT INSTANT 720 DEGREE TURNS!!!"

Thanks Draft. Nice knowing you.
 
Draft said:
Pff.

Xbox pre-demo demo launching 7 hours earlier than the Steam pre-demo demo.

Dedicated servers on PC hidden behind matchmaking system.

Xbox exclusive split screen and 180 degree turn.

Thanks Valve. Nice knowing you.
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OMG the sky is falling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Here is an idea....how about we play the game first!
 
I hope that's not true, it doesn't specify if that's for PC or xbox does it? I *hate* match making services. Let me pick my damn server.
 
Iced_Eagle said:
It's 5 hours from the Demo (7am - 2am = 5 hours difference). That's MS' choice since that is the time MS always updates Live.

Dedicated servers on 360 hidden behind matchmaking system.

Yup, it's hard enough doing split screen on a 360, let alone for a PC. I also doubt anyone is going to cuddle up next to their monitors to do splitscreen, except for the minority who has it hooked up to TV. Also, set your mouse sensitivity to 100 and move it to the side. "HOLY SHIT INSTANT 720 DEGREE TURNS!!!"

Thanks Draft. Nice knowing you.
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:lol Wow.
 
So is Valve going to host enough servers on PC? Because nobody else is going to for this game. I'm afraid to pre-order now. I'm worried that not enough servers will be up for PC.
 
Zzoram said:
So is Valve going to host enough servers on PC? Because nobody else is going to for this game. I'm afraid to pre-order now. I'm worried that not enough servers will be up for PC.
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Nah man, didn't you read the post? You can customize a banner, and there's a ranking system to see how many anonymous fools passed through your server while using matchmaking. That's totally worth $75 a month in my humble opinion.
 
Draft said:
:lol Wow.
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<3

Just saying that a lot of people says the 360 > PC for L4D. I really don't think it's the case at all.

However, I will give you one point... The point on how custom mods / maps are going to work in L4D will be interesting. Valve isn't stupid, so I know they will have custom maps, and I think it will probably be some sort of check box to join customs...

Though, I really really wish they would at least have the option to have a server browser.
 
Draft said:
Pff.

Xbox pre-demo demo launching 7 hours earlier than the Steam pre-demo demo.

Dedicated servers on PC hidden behind matchmaking system.

Xbox exclusive split screen and 180 degree turn.

Thanks Valve. Nice knowing you.
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Welp. We'll find out soon enough exactly how it works. So hurray!

I'm sure Valve will fix things if there are too many complaints.

Honestly I don't think a server browser is suddenly out of the question. I think they just didn't think to mention it. It's not impossible to have both matchmaking AND a server browser. In fact, one person could use the server browser to join their server of choice and then three other people could use matchmaking and end up in that server!

Then again, I'm feeling optimistic today, so who knows!
 
hey dudes i dont know if anyone posted but i got an email from gamestop with the xbox 360 pre-sale free demo offer, however i never purchased the game from gamestop, i just went to that page where it told you to enter your info but i didn't put in an order # :lol

thank you gamestop! will download tomorrow!
 
Finally I've been meaning to say this a lonnnngggg time, 360 lead version confirmed! Wow, Blizzard is the only one left now! Watch all the PC guys cry tears! :lol

There, I beat you to it.
 
Oh chill out guys, Valve has already talked at length about modding for this game, of course there will be a way for custom mods and maps to work.
 
FrenchMovieTheme said:
hey dudes i dont know if anyone posted but i got an email from gamestop with the xbox 360 pre-sale free demo offer, however i never purchased the game from gamestop, i just went to that page where it told you to enter your info but i didn't put in an order # :lol

thank you gamestop! will download tomorrow!
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How long did it take you to get the code?
 
Linkup said:
Finally I've been meaning to say this a lonnnngggg time, 360 lead version confirmed! Wow, Blizzard is the only one left now! Watch all the PC guys cry tears! :lol

There, I beat you to it.
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I hope you enjoy paying for extra content that PC gamers will get for free.
 
Linkup said:
Finally I've been meaning to say this a lonnnngggg time, 360 lead version confirmed! Wow, Blizzard is the only one left now! Watch all the PC guys cry tears! :lol

There, I beat you to it.
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I hope your joking
 
I'm having trouble preloading it can anyone help?

What happened was I was downloading at my max speed (a whopping 160KB/S) and after an hour it got to like 25% or so and then I went off for lunch, came back about an hour after that and it said it was finished. I thought it was weird, but then it started loading again "Preloading 100%, 5 KB/S" I thought that was rather strange and then I restarted steam and it said it was 0% and started loading at the original full pace.

I was happy to let it load again from scratch but wanted to quickly download something first so when I right clicked and went to preload properties or whatever it said it was about 56% which I imagine is the real download % and when I paused it... it went back to "Pre-load complete; unreleased" but I'm POSITIVE it's not finished downloading and I don't know how to get it to start up again, anyone know how to fix this?
 
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