The Official Left 4 Dead Thread
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SapientWolf
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Maybe they can add a way to 'register' a mod in the menu, so if you like a mod you can easily find servers hosting it. That would go a long way towards decoupling mods from servers, which could help prevent the online community from getting splintered.wayward archer said:
wayward archer
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Slavik81 said:
YES... it should just keep trying until it finds one.
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Here is my short wish list (I could make this much, much longer), but this is realistic stuff I think they could probably do:
Slight variants in standard infected... Legless ones that crawl after you, military or police SWAT infected with body armor and helmets that can absorb more damage, different heights, etc.
Barricades - you pick up an item (pile of boards for instance) and can use it on a closed door like you would a health kit on a person (hold down the melee button for a few seconds), afterwards the door is strengthened to be 5x as strong as normal (standard boss infected take 15 hits to break it).
Bring back the screamer (boss infected in a straightjacket that they cut from the game), give him an area effect disorient attack... haven't worked out the details but his main purpose would be to give closet camping players a harder time without totally fucking them over (mainly give them incentive to leave the closet to go kill it).
More weapons - even slight variants would do fine. Have the assault rifle occasionally be an AK-47, have the uzi occasionally be an mp5 or a mac 10. Snub nose revolvers, Steyr machine pistols (dual wield mini-uzis), Sawed off shotguns that only have two shots, .50 cal sniper rifle that holds one shot but does massive damage to the tank or witch at range. Special pistols have limited ammo but once expended you revert to the normal pistol. Randomize what we get so that players have to work with what is available rather than a fixed selection.
More survivors - It's cool that they developed 4 unique personalities, but I would love to see a larger pool of survivors, and each time you rescue someone, they take on the role of a new character that has been found. Seeing Bill die and then finding him in a closet 5 minutes later doesn't really lend itself to the narrative that this game is trying to create on the fly.
A good random level generator is probably too much to ask for with the source engine. Although generating random city streets and buildings to wander through is certainly doable (didn't Hellgate London do this?). Trick is to make enough 'pieces' to construct the world from that it doesn't end up being streets bordered by dozens of the exact same burnt out building every single time you play (like Hellgate London...)
Once again, Left 4 Dead's community now, a couple weeks after release as the initial HYPE HYPE HYPE is still larger than Team Fortress 2's ever was.mr stroke said:
There are over 21,000 people playing right this second, and that's today's peak so far - it may still go up as people get off work and such. That number is right up there with where the game was at launch.
Earlier this week daily peeks were around 18,000. Just a simple matter of more people having busy work weeks.
RocketDarkness
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And finals. Can't forget finals.
I enjoy versus. I do.
But I'm not a fan of No Mercy. Levels 1, 3, and 5 are fun. But 2 and 4 are boring. (I should stress this is as infected only.)
In contrast, I like all of Blood Harvest.
EDIT: I totally can't wait for the update that brings Death Toll vs.
ALSO: I totally want someone to mod the game for hunter races.
FURTHERMORE: I kind of wish hunters would stick to walls for just a second (or a half-second) for to make wall-jumping easier for the lay person. i.e., me.
But I'm not a fan of No Mercy. Levels 1, 3, and 5 are fun. But 2 and 4 are boring. (I should stress this is as infected only.)
In contrast, I like all of Blood Harvest.
EDIT: I totally can't wait for the update that brings Death Toll vs.
ALSO: I totally want someone to mod the game for hunter races.
FURTHERMORE: I kind of wish hunters would stick to walls for just a second (or a half-second) for to make wall-jumping easier for the lay person. i.e., me.
Captain Blood
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Finally was able to pick this game up. I am having a blast with it, vs is a lot of fun when all 8 players are in a NXE chat talking with each other. Yea making strategies suffers but talking trash to your buddy while you are eating his brains and there is no one around to help him is hilarious :lol
TJ Capt Blood is my gamertag if anyone in here would like to get some games in at sometime please send me a friend request and say you are from gaf
TJ Capt Blood is my gamertag if anyone in here would like to get some games in at sometime please send me a friend request and say you are from gaf
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
boo they patched the suicide boomer 
demigod
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dLMN8R said:
Orange Box also came with 2 other games. I'm sure most people bought Orange Box for Half Life 2 and not because of Team Fortress 2. I really doubt L4D sold more than 400k on PC. I think the 360 version will even outsell it.
Oh and they still haven't fixed the other issue I have with some servers forcing me to play in Versus mode when I chose campaign in Lobby.
Davidion said:
You could bind a key to /explode or whatever the selfkill command is. This allows boomers to instantly explode, which I guess works even if survivors are trying to melee you. It's also hilarious if a person does this bind and then accidentally uses it as a human, thus instantly killing themselves.
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
steam update news said:
I assumed that meant fixing the kill-key-to-explode thing. I haven't tested it yet, but what else could that be?
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
Blizzard said:
Yeah this is embarrassing as hell. I bind my kill key to 'g' and I will totally kill myself as a survivor sometimes during a frantic reload
Just had a really great No Mercy versus game with with some random pubbers. My team made a habit of sprinting through the levels at top speed which was successful with varying degrees of effectiveness (we survived the sewers only because I managed to sneak behind and then outrun a tank 
) up until the finale. Our zombie tactics were fairly well coordinated and we managed to take them down on the middle three maps. We still ended up spending most of the game trying to play catchup with the enemy team's score, but our hospital run was a total success compared to their total failure, which tipped the scales in our favor. Very balanced, very intense, tons of fun.
) up until the finale. Our zombie tactics were fairly well coordinated and we managed to take them down on the middle three maps. We still ended up spending most of the game trying to play catchup with the enemy team's score, but our hospital run was a total success compared to their total failure, which tipped the scales in our favor. Very balanced, very intense, tons of fun.Yet Team Fortress 2 was sold individually, and skyrocketed to the top of Steam sales charts over and over and over again on each new content release. Team Fortress 2 has easily sold millions - stand-alone copies combined with Orange Box copies - yet its concurrent numbers have never reached as high as Left 4 Dead is now.demigod said:
People were saying the same thing about Orange Box last year, blindly assuming that it would sell more on 360 just because it's on console. Of course, Orange Box went on to sell around 1.5 million total on 360+PS3, but far, far more than that on PC alone.
Only 400k on PC? No way in hell it's sold that few copies. I really don't understand where anyone could possibly be getting this pessimism from. There is no evidence whatsoever to put Left 4 Dead as being any less successful than Orange Box was.
The game has been incredibly successful, is still immensely popular today, and will continue to have legs for a very, very long time.
demigod
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dLMN8R said:
So what's the stand-alone sold for Team Fortress then? How many copies do you think L4D has sold so far for the PC?
Edit : Aww crap, new update. No more easy witch killing.
Left 4 Dead
Fixed Infected Players melee pushing large objects to block the survivors path
Fixed +lobby exploit
Fixed exploit of "hugging" the Witch from behind where she can't hit you
Fixed players not being kicked from a vote by changing their name before it succeeds
Disabled difficulty change votes from the console in versus mode
Red Scarlet
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Just had a good Death Toll campaign with Daigoro, sonicspear, and Rogue 5. Everybody lived at the end (took a couple tries), and they all got cr0wnd as well. Sorry about my ping being crappy early on and stuff.
maniac-kun
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my first impression since i had little time to play yesterday because i just build that computer: we were playing the campaign from the demo on normal and we made it to the rescue zone with the helicopter but then we fu**** up and the second tank killed our whole team with a massive zombieflood that came with him :lol but it was great fun and i hope i will finish this campaign today when iam back at home
PillowKnight
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Me me me! Been playing with randoms(and taters) all night .
.PillowKnight
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Just played a round of terrible games where certain teamates kept trying to blame me after they fucked up. Sooo annoying, I hope we'll be able to get some good gaf versus games going soon.
PillowKnight said:
If you want a mediocre to decent teammate (I'd like to think) I'd be up for an expert campaign tomorrow afternoon maybe. Hey, if I accidentally shoot you, I'll at least acknowledge it and try to make it amusing!
Side note, I played another level with that unmutable Falco guy, and got blamed for running into his fire. Pretty sure I wasn't the only one he TKed though. >_> At least he piped down long enough for us to do the cheap rock trick and finish the death toll finale.
I love playing as the Boomer. People are so trigger happy when they see you they don't realise that they, and everyone else on their team, are standing right next to me and all get covered by my victory goo. Too bad the zombie hoard that follows acts more as a distraction than killing force.
I haven't met any griefing yet, which either means I've been lucky as heck, or people are too interested in killing zombies to bother pissing off friendlies. Oh, and I suggest listening to the Half Life soundtrack while playing the game. The tracks fit so well to the massacre.
Any AusGAFers who want to play on Sunday or later tonight, add me. EDIT: lol - on Kritz7. >_> whoops
I haven't met any griefing yet, which either means I've been lucky as heck, or people are too interested in killing zombies to bother pissing off friendlies. Oh, and I suggest listening to the Half Life soundtrack while playing the game. The tracks fit so well to the massacre.
Any AusGAFers who want to play on Sunday or later tonight, add me. EDIT: lol - on Kritz7. >_> whoops
Shake Appeal
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I got this last night tooo, but goddamnit I went the whole way through No Mercy without touching any of the above, just to be sure.TheOneGuy said:
Found a thread for a Resident Evil themed campaign on l4dmaps.net.
http://forums.l4dmaps.net/f10/wip-racoon-city-re2-t204.htmlHey guys, i thought i'd turn this into a full post as i officially have some screenshots to show off to you guys. The details are as follows:
RESIDENT EVIL 2 Campaign - (Tentative Title)
The campaign places the four survivors on the abadoned streets of racoon city after a truck crashes into your car. You head on foot to the police station in hope of rescue.
The campaign is as follows
1.City - Get to the police station
2. RPD station - escape to the sewers because its overun
3. Sewers - Underground maze
4. Laboratory - Part 1
5. Laboratory finale (Train Escape)
This is all to be changed and i was wondering if the sewers really needs to be 1 map, whether i could do station & sewer - then station to lab. Not sure right now.
I've started planning the layout of the first & second level. The first level gives you a limited RE Style of weaponry. See HIGHLIGHTS section for details.
PLEASE NOTE : These screenshots may show purple textures, strange purple brick walls etc due to some texture issues. Sometimes the game seems to compile the brick walls fine, but this should all be sorted when the SDK is released. Please do not let this put you off, all buildings are mainly just 'place holders' you may see BIG BLOCK buildings, but they are only temporary whilst i lock the skybox in place.
EARLY WIP SCREENSHOTS - CITY STREETS
The stairs around the buiding that eventually leads you out into the street.
PLEASE NOTE: I have NOT added my custom models to the streets yet (signs etc)
HIGHLIGHTS
Using the entity for ammo / guns i have limited the count to 1. Therefore when you enter the gunshop and find a shotgun on the floor, IT IS THE ONLY ONE. You must work as a team and decide who gets the gun. You will also find a UZI and 1 or 2 pistols along the way. You must 'share' the guns accordingly between your team mates (i wouldnt reccomend this map on SP as the bots are greedy)
Designing to see if its possible to have multiple routes / safe rooms for the station.
General puzzles will be included in the station (ones that can be done solo, but are mainly simple things that shouldnt be hard to impliment (dont worry - no floating platforms or anything!)
I'm currently in the process of finishing the bounding areas of the map. Campaign poster to be added later when the RPD station is finished so i can use a ingame shot of the station for the cover rather than using a RE2 screenshot.
Thank you, leave comments and things, i will improve the quality of this map in the next week or so.
Cheers
Giganticus
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nooooooooo not +lobby nooooo.
+lobby was the greatest grief of all time. RIP.
edit: maybe not the greatest but pretty good!
+lobby was the greatest grief of all time. RIP.
edit: maybe not the greatest but pretty good!
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I still have yet to even try VS mode.
Campaign is where it's at for me.
Campaign is where it's at for me.