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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread

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DaFish

Member
Sanjay said:
Finally got round to uploading this. It's XClash, Nabs, Vertopci and I doing the Gauntlet with puplic awhile back.

Videos
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Those were great... I like how Vert tries to invite "GAFers" so he can molest us :lol

Were these befor the Hunters swipes got nerfed?
 
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Capndrake

Member
RocketDarkness said:
Looks great. Is this the same as the Resid4nt Evil 2 campaign being made? Video says RE3, is why I ask.

Nonetheless, awesome. Looking forward to this and the Dawn of the Dead campaigns, and surely many more will follow.
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It is, the guy was originally only making the RPD as it appears in RE2, but decided to instead base it on RE3 and include the rest of the city.
 
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me Jojo

Member
I've been thinking of getting the PC version for several reasons other than it being superiour to the xbox version, but I was afraid it wouldn't run well on my PC, which is nearly 3 years old. But it seems to run super damn smooth. Might get it myself after all.:D
 
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vertopci

Member
DaFish said:
Those were great... I like how Vert tries to invite "GAFers" so he can molest us :lol

Were these befor the Hunters swipes got nerfed?
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:lol

Yea these were before the hunter melee nerf

Also, I loved the lol comment on that BH3 video when I get caught by the smoker for the millionth time :lol
 
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Iced_Eagle

Member
ice cream said:
Yeah, when can we play custom maps...?
Plus whenever I search there are like no servers running them... wtf?
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Right now there is an unofficial SDK (basically just the .fgd for some of the entities used in L4D, but it's incomplete by a lot).

You actually should be able to get a custom game going I imagine, but you would have to probably do a direct connection (manually type out the connect command). I've gotten custom maps I've built running locally with bots, panic events, mini-guns, etc... I haven't tried playing them online though.

Oh, and if you're curious, yes the general achievements still work in custom matches :D Obviously the ones about beating the campaigns on expert though won't apply to custom maps though.
 
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Remy

Member
Iced_Eagle said:
You actually should be able to get a custom game going I imagine, but you would have to probably do a direct connection (manually type out the connect command). I've gotten custom maps I've built running locally with bots, panic events, mini-guns, etc... I haven't tried playing them online though.
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Which reminds me.

Right click on Left 4 Dead in Steam. In the General tab, click "Set launch properties".

Type this in:

Code: 
-serverbrowser

Click OK, then launch the game - and enjoy having a server browser from the main menu.

(I've found that people get really freaked out if you join their friends only game mid-game, since it doesn't really lock the server...)
 
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Kuroyume

Banned
I didn't even realize you could play versus on Blood Harvest until last night. Everytime you go into a quick game on the 360 you'll always get No Mercy.
 
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Salmonax

Member
Remy said:
(I've found that people get really freaked out if you join their friends only game mid-game, since it doesn't really lock the server...)
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They sure do - and they assume you're a l33t hax0r for having gotten in. It's sort of amusing, but more of a pain because being kicked is almost inevitable.
 
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Iced_Eagle

Member
Salmonax said:
They sure do - and they assume you're a l33t hax0r for having gotten in. It's sort of amusing, but more of a pain because being kicked is almost inevitable.
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This happened to me when me and my roommate were playing. Some random guy that I didn't know, or neither did my roommate, joined us. We promptly kicked him.

But then two of my actual friends came in though and we whooped some ass. :D
 
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Blackface

Banned
So I have a question.

My friend and I start Death Toll on Expert under Campaign. We beat the first level, then out of nowhere, it changes into a Versus match and we are Infected, On Death Toll.

Then some people joined the game as humans, and we started to play the levels.

As far as I knew you couldn't play Death Toll on versus, wtf?

(It's on the L4D drunken fools server).
 
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SundaySounds

Banned
Trax416 said:
So I have a question.

My friend and I start Death Toll on Expert under Campaign. We beat the first level, then out of nowhere, it changes into a Versus match and we are Infected, On Death Toll.

Then some people joined the game as humans, and we started to play the levels.

As far as I knew you couldn't play Death Toll on versus, wtf?

(It's on the L4D drunken fools server).
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Some servers have it set up so you can play vs mode on those camps. But because Steam still recognizes it as a camp server, and not verses, you can only have 4 people.
 
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Blizzard

Banned
Anyone ever seen this? I'm in a versus game, and we heard the witch...and we were all SURE we passed the witch, on the right side of a train in the subway. Then we were going forwards, and I ran into...the witch. And got incapacitated and we all promptly died.

Anyone ever seen a respawning witch? My team agreed with me...we just left the earlier one alone, and she wasn't that far away.

*edit*

I just verified. When I played the same level as infected, the witch WAS in the same place (before the fire and the cave tunnel), and I'm pretty sure they DIDN'T have a second witch after the ammo.
 
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BobsRevenge

I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
RocketDarkness said:
Disables the credit and intro video, basically going straight to menu.
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Is there a way to disable the loading for the main menu? I hate that shit. Hated it in all Valve games since HL2. At least it doesn't take as long now as it did back then. I remember sitting there pissed while waiting for the main menu to load for, like, 30 seconds every time I loaded HL2 up.
 
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Blizzard

Banned
Actually, this server is just messed up. Not only am I on the first team (so the second team knows where the tank is, yay), but on no mercy 3 in the big open area below the roof, they got a witch and a tank.

We got a...tank. No witch AT ALL. (got one later)
 
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BobsRevenge

I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
Blizzard said:
Actually, this server is just messed up. Not only am I on the first team (so the second team knows where the tank is, yay), but on no mercy 3 in the big open area below the roof, they got a witch and a tank.

We got a...tank. No witch AT ALL.
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Yeah, some servers are just weird. I remember being on one server where there was about 4x more blood than there regularly is. I was on another that was low-grav from which we promptly returned to the lobby after loading.
 
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MNC

Member
BobsRevenge said:
Is there a way to disable the loading for the main menu? I hate that shit. Hated it in all Valve games since HL2. At least it doesn't take as long now as it did back then. I remember sitting there pissed while waiting for the main menu to load for, like, 30 seconds every time I loaded HL2 up.
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Actually, I think there is. It was -devmode, I think but since the L4D background is just a pre-rendered movie there's hardly going to be a difference. Half Life does, though.
 
Pop On Arrival

Pop On Arrival

Banned
Blizzard said:
Anyone ever seen this? I'm in a versus game, and we heard the witch...and we were all SURE we passed the witch, on the right side of a train in the subway. Then we were going forwards, and I ran into...the witch. And got incapacitated and we all promptly died.

Anyone ever seen a respawning witch? My team agreed with me...we just left the earlier one alone, and she wasn't that far away.

*edit*

I just verified. When I played the same level as infected, the witch WAS in the same place (before the fire and the cave tunnel), and I'm pretty sure they DIDN'T have a second witch after the ammo.
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I'm pretty sure there's a way to get the Witch to change positions. Don't know if the patch fixed it or not, though.
 
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marvelharvey

Member
Is the anyway to change the key that brings up the console window? Long story short, I'm running Bootcamp on a Japanese iMac and there doesn't seem to be anyway to hit 'tilde' on my moonlanguage keyboard.
 
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Raggy

Banned
Is there a fast way to add people on Steam?

e.g. If I go to NeoGAF L4D group, then you have to individually click on each member, before the "add to friends list" link shows up.
Which takes ages.

on topic:

Some people say when the tank is on fire, he doesnt take damage from weapons, and will die after 40 seconds no matter what.
Is this true? Or can you shorten that time when he is on fire with weapon damage?
 
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RocketDarkness

Member
Raggy said:
Is there a fast way to add people on Steam?

e.g. If I go to NeoGAF L4D group, then you have to individually click on each member, before the "add to friends list" link shows up.
Which takes ages.

on topic:

Some people say when the tank is on fire, he doesnt take damage from weapons, and will die after 40 seconds no matter what.
Is this true? Or can you shorten that time when he is on fire with weapon damage?
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True. You can let the timer run out, or you can kill him with bullets. But the two are mutually exclusive.
 
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CrookedRain

Member
The tank will still take damage from weapons, but it does not change how long it takes for him to die from the fire. The tank will either die from taking too much damage from weapons or from being on fire for 40 seconds.
 
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RocketDarkness

Member
Red Scarlet said:
I am so getting my revenge on you when you least expect it, RD.
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S. Link reverse? D=

Fair enough. Either that, or I'll nobly sacrifice myself for your benefit. We'll see which has an opportunity to happen first.
 
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RocketDarkness

Member
Red Scarlet said:
I don't even know if it was you. :lol

And wtf, I just found an Xbox in the trash. Woo, free Xbox.
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Okay, I'll bite. Why were you looking in the trash?

By the way, what happened: I rush to safe room. You and Prinny hobbled along as the horde music started. Prinny shuts the door on you, at which point you move to the side. Door is cracked open, I start firing out. You get hit with some of my shotgun spread through the door, leading to incapacitation. I close the door because zombies are coming for my face, at which point it seems like a hunter ate you or something, I'm not sure.
 
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skybastos

Member
Mohonky said:
I hope they patch in P2P hosting. What was Valve thinking when they made this game run on dedicated servers that are all located in the US? Seriously?
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It depends, I am from Portugal if I make the lobby I usually get a Green Connection so it means the server is probably in UK... but if I try to join another lobby I usually get a Red Connection.

Anyway I think matchmaking is borked or there isn't many Europeans playing the game :p, why don't they have a list of servers ? it can't be that hard...
 
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timetokill

Banned
My group of friends and I just won an epic game on No Mercy. We were down 1600 heading into the last map, and we knew we'd have to get all of us on the chopper and stop the other team.

Over the course of the game, we kicked:
  • Fiddler
  • Toadboi
  • CapitalPunishment
  • Dot
  • nthelement
  • WINdowMaker
  • Fayle
  • [N] Huey Lewis & The Newbs

The last one (Huey) tried to jump down the elevator shaft in No Mercy 5, but we managed to kick him in time. A lot of griefers and simply bad players :lol

Finally ended up with bigmike186 on the last map, and held together to get all four on the chopper, 3 of us with health packs. Earned over 2000 points, so far so good.

Then it was the other team's turn. We knew if they made it to the chopper that they would win. Instead, they didn't even make it to the first tank :lol I boomed a guy who was near the minigun, and then I ran inside the building. Bill chased me down (he was puked on) and blasted me, but then got huntered immediately. Francis had to come help him up, but by then Francis was boomed (I guess from my explosion?) and Bill was not getting up. Somehow my team smoked somebody to separate them, and the hunters, bile, and zombies did the rest. Awesome.

Moments like these are when you really love the game :D
 
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