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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread

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SundaySounds

Banned
Coverly said:
I saw this on the net, has this been posted yet?

l4d3.jpg


I wish there was a wallpaper sized version.
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Apparently I have this in 1680x1050 with no writing or anything on the right corner. Just found it on /wg/ one day. I'll upload it if anyone wants it. Where can you upload an image where it won't be resized?
 
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adversesolutions

Member
Ok, so how long has it been possible to, as a Tank, knock a bunch of stuff over the manhole before the safehouse in No Mercy? As far as I know there is no way for a team of survivors to get around this and it totally screws up the game.

Anyone else seen this?
 
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie

Member
adversesolutions said:
Ok, so how long has it been possible to, as a Tank, knock a bunch of stuff over the manhole before the safehouse in No Mercy? As far as I know there is no way for a team of survivors to get around this and it totally screws up the game.

Anyone else seen this?
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lol
 
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Twig

Banned
SundaySounds said:
Apparently I have this in 1680x1050 with no writing or anything on the right corner. Just found it on /wg/ one day. I'll upload it if anyone wants it. Where can you upload an image where it won't be resized?
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Wouldn't that be kind of inconsiderate to the artist, removing his signature from the image?
this guy said:
Oh, and I just remembered. When I was in the elevator on NM4 yesterday I had a one bar connection, and for some reason I didn't jump when I pressed A.
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Source doesn't allow jumping on elevators because it's unsafe.
I kept pressing it, and then suddenly my character died and my dead body fell through the floor.
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And now you know why.
 
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Twig

Banned
SundaySounds said:
Like I said, I didn't do it. Just found it a while ago.
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I meant, more accurately, passing around something that has been altered to remove his signature.

Unless he passed this around himself, which is another thing entirely. To be fair, it probably was him who put it up first without the signature.
 
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Metalic Sand

who is Emo-Beas?
this guy said:
Has anyone been having either of these problems on the 360 version recently like I have?

2. When I play now the majority of players have either one or two bar connections. I think I had a four bar connection once out of all the games I played yesterday.
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Yup, The last 2 days or so Left 4 dead has totally turned to shit with the servers. No idea why this is happening. Since release all the way to late january the game has been perfectly lag free until now.
 
Revolutionary

Revolutionary

Member
I've been having an issue with L4D on PC after the newest patch, googled to no avail.

The problem is that I keep getting connected to Russian servers/people. So when I host a server, I get Russian players who obviously lag to hell, and when I play dedicated, my friends and I lag to hell.

It's weird as hell and I can't figure out why it's happening.
Any help?
 
Pop On Arrival

Pop On Arrival

Banned
Revolutionary said:
I've been having an issue with L4D on PC after the newest patch, googled to no avail.

The problem is that I keep getting connected to Russian servers/people. So when I host a server, I get Russian players who obviously lag to hell, and when I play dedicated, my friends and I lag to hell.

It's weird as hell and I can't figure out why it's happening.
Any help?
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sv_search_max_ping 150

Try that.
 
manzo

manzo

Member
Metalic Sand said:
Yup, The last 2 days or so Left 4 dead has totally turned to shit with the servers. No idea why this is happening. Since release all the way to late january the game has been perfectly lag free until now.
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This has lasted for me and my friends for 5 days now. It feels like the european servers got shut down and we're either playing with the russians or the americans.

I haven't seen my connection go more then one red bar lately, when during christmas it was 3 green bars all the time.

What's going on? Valve dropping support for the 360 servers? :(
 
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dejan

Member
So I bought this game during the Steam christmas sales, but hadn't time to actually play it until yesterday. Played a campaign scenario (no mercy?) with a friend and it was a fucking blast. I can see this easily replacing Pacific Rift as my current favorite online game. All I have to do now is convice at least two more friends to buy this game.

Btw, seems like Left 4 Dead did pretty well at retail: Left 4 Dead Sells 1.8 Million at Retail
 
Pop On Arrival

Pop On Arrival

Banned
dejan said:
So I bought this game during the Steam christmas sales, but hadn't time to actually play it until yesterday. Played a campaign scenario (no mercy?) with a friend and it was a fucking blast. I can see this easily replacing Pacific Rift as my current favorite online game. All I have to do now is convice at least two more friends to buy this game.

Btw, seems like Left 4 Dead did pretty well at retail: Left 4 Dead Sells 1.8 Million at Retail
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It definitely is a blast.

Glad to see the game doing so well at retail, too. Hopefully they'll get more spikes in sales every time they release more free content on the PC. The fact that they haven't announced what the DLC is gonna be yet is a little annoying.

Give the fans something to look forward to!
 
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MNC

Member
dejan said:
So I bought this game during the Steam christmas sales, but hadn't time to actually play it until yesterday. Played a campaign scenario (no mercy?) with a friend and it was a fucking blast. I can see this easily replacing Pacific Rift as my current favorite online game. All I have to do now is convice at least two more friends to buy this game.

Btw, seems like Left 4 Dead did pretty well at retail: Left 4 Dead Sells 1.8 Million at Retail
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Holy shit at Fifa '09
 
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Majora

Member
I'm getting sick of people abusing the kick player function in this. It seems like people start using it when their team is losing and they're looking for a scapegoat. It's one thing to kick people because they're team-killing or running miles off on their own but I would never kick someone who made a simple error if they were playing the game in the right spirit. As usual the online community shows themselves to be a bunch of whiny ultra-competitive assholes. Thank god there are no leaderboards for this, it would be unbearable.
 
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MNC

Member
Majora said:
I'm getting sick of people abusing the kick player function in this. It seems like people start using it when their team is losing and they're looking for a scapegoat. It's one thing to kick people because they're team-killing or running miles off on their own but I would never kick someone who made a simple error if they were playing the game in the right spirit. As usual the online community shows themselves to be a bunch of whiny ultra-competitive assholes. Thank god there are no leaderboards for this, it would be unbearable.
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The only use I've had for it the past few days is to kick randomers when a friend got disconnected and needed to rejoin.
 
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie

Member
Majora said:
I'm getting sick of people abusing the kick player function in this. It seems like people start using it when their team is losing and they're looking for a scapegoat. It's one thing to kick people because they're team-killing or running miles off on their own but I would never kick someone who made a simple error if they were playing the game in the right spirit. As usual the online community shows themselves to be a bunch of whiny ultra-competitive assholes. Thank god there are no leaderboards for this, it would be unbearable.
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One day, you'll be kicked for playing as a tank and dying because the other team was all in green health and running away and none of your teammates helped so you could never hit anyone. Or because you messed up as a Boomer once at a critical moment even though you have the highest score of anyone. Or you didn't follow the orders of the alpha-male self-appointed leader one time. Or you get caught in a giant mob of zombies and you're kicked for not magically turning into a unicorn and leaping your way out of it instead of dying because your teammates didn't try to help at all.

Really, if you're playing well but your teammates don't help you in a particular situation at all, expect to be kicked and blamed for what happens.
 
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mattso

Member
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
One day, you'll be kicked for playing as a tank and dying because the other team was all in green health and running away and none of your teammates helped so you could never hit anyone. Or because you messed up as a Boomer once at a critical moment even though you have the highest score of anyone. Or you didn't follow the orders of the alpha-male self-appointed leader one time. Or you get caught in a giant mob of zombies and you're kicked for not magically turning into a unicorn and leaping your way out of it instead of dying because your teammates didn't try to help at all.

Really, if you're playing well but your teammates don't help you in a particular situation at all, expect to be kicked and blamed for what happens.
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This is why I ALWAYS vote against kicking a player unless they are intentionally being a dick (purposely incapping someone for example) or just aren't there
 
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Metalic Sand

who is Emo-Beas?
manzo said:
This has lasted for me and my friends for 5 days now. It feels like the european servers got shut down and we're either playing with the russians or the americans.

I haven't seen my connection go more then one red bar lately, when during christmas it was 3 green bars all the time.

What's going on? Valve dropping support for the 360 servers? :(
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Im in the US so this seems to be a universal problem. I was thinking the same myself with valve dropping support or just not giving a fuck about the 360 version much like TF2. Many games i played today (US players ) completely unplayable lagged to hell. Joined many games and talked to other players and EVERYONE is lagging.
 
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Giganticus

Member
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
One day, you'll be kicked for playing as a tank and dying because the other team was all in green health and running away and none of your teammates helped so you could never hit anyone. Or because you messed up as a Boomer once at a critical moment even though you have the highest score of anyone. Or you didn't follow the orders of the alpha-male self-appointed leader one time. Or you get caught in a giant mob of zombies and you're kicked for not magically turning into a unicorn and leaping your way out of it instead of dying because your teammates didn't try to help at all.

Really, if you're playing well but your teammates don't help you in a particular situation at all, expect to be kicked and blamed for what happens.
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i like to vote kick tanks who run through (not hit by, run through a clearly defined patch of) fire and throw rocks at survivors (and not hit). EDIT: as in both at once, if you're not on fire throw rocks all you want, costs nothing.

stupid boomers not so bad because you know, everyone has at least one experience of being shot outta nowhere as a boomer.
 
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1-D_FTW

Member
Revolutionary said:
I've been having an issue with L4D on PC after the newest patch, googled to no avail.

The problem is that I keep getting connected to Russian servers/people. So when I host a server, I get Russian players who obviously lag to hell, and when I play dedicated, my friends and I lag to hell.

It's weird as hell and I can't figure out why it's happening.
Any help?
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When you play friends, just have everyone "openserverbrowser" in the console. The person who sees the most servers under Custom switches to host. If you can see over 1000 servers, most/all the players are gonna be green. Seeing servers is seriously busted in this game and it's the only way to guarantee people in the game aren't gonna get shit experiences.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why it happens. One day you'll see 1000 servers and the next barely 100 (or none some times). So if you just go with the "hot hand", it's a remedy for this.
 
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fallout

Member
http://kotaku.com/5147229/left-4-dead-survival-pack-unveiled (Left 4 Dead Survival Pack Unveiled)

To summarize:

  • Will be released for PC and 360 this spring (no mention of pricing, but it's Valve, so we can presumably say: free).
  • Content includes a new multiplayer mode called "Survival" and two complete campaigns for Versus Mode (tweaked versions of DT and DA, I'm guessing).
  • Critic's Choice Edition will release this spring (presumably for the 360) and will contain the new content.
  • SDK will also be released this spring on the PC and custom campaigns will be accessible by L4D's matchmaking system.
 
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No Means Nomad

Banned
If I had to guess Survival probably sticks you in a single location that you have to hold out on for as long as you can.

At least that's what I hope it is. If that's the gametype there's a number of places in the game they can already use for it like they did with arenas in TF2.
 
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Sibylus

Banned
No Means Nomad said:
If I had to guess Survival probably sticks you in a single location that you have to hold out on for as long as you can.

At least that's what I hope it is. If that's the gametype there's a number of places in the game they can already use for it like they did with arenas in TF2.
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I pitched this idea to you guys and you hated it >_>
 
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DaFish

Member
I like what I'm hearing... Those two new campaigns better not just be DA and DT (which I think it isn't)

L4D 4 Life!!!


Botolf said:
I pitched this idea to you guys and you hated it >_>
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I hope its not that actually, unless you could deter turtleing

They need an Official Gauntlet mode
 
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fallout

Member
Llyranor said:
Maybe they're calling it an expansion pack so that they can justify charging PC gamers too.
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Well, the official press release doesn't call it an expansion pack (it's a survival pack!). Anyway, I'm pretty sure that they're not specifying price yet because they have to charge the 360 users. So, rather than piss off 360 users by saying that it's free for PC users, they're just opting to not say anything. Besides, with the SDK being released, we could just mod in the new "pay" content, anyway.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I really hope they chose the word "pack" over "update" because it sounds better and not to nudge at the possibility that it isn't free. I really can't imagine Valve splintering its userbase, especially with such an online-focused game, so I'll stay optimistic.

However, I do recommend people scale back their expectations of the new campaigns. You'll probably end up happier in the long run.
 
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ahoyhoy

Unconfirmed Member
They really need to update the closet strategy. It's just too damn easy to defend against a horde in any random corner. They either need to disable the ability to easily pass through human players or increase the time between melee attacks (so that spamming it won't help as much).
 
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