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[NG_Kris]

I know, but I want Valve developed maps with nice new Valve assets/design
We won't get nice mass physics setpieces like Dead Air's plane with custom maps
But I can't wait to play the DOTD2004 Mall Map


I think the flamethrower would be much more fun to use
- One per team so allocate it to one person
- Friendly Fire
- Uses propane tanks for ammo


EDGE :shakesfist

Sorry! A bit of wire-crossing there.

It will be rather shocking if Valve does go the paid route on PC. On Xbox 360, I'd think for something like extra campaigns and modes, Microsoft would insist on charging something. But who knows. Apparently Valve will let us know in the weeks to come.

*Disappears shamefully back into the shadows*

 

[vertopci]

At the same time, I would imagine they wouldn't want to mention that they are charging for it on the 360 while it's free on PC.

Yea, but a charge is expected for the 360 version.

However at the same time, I don't think Valve would want to the split the L4D community, so there's evidence for DLC being free.

 

[mattso]

I honestly don't care if it costs money. I'd very willingly pay.

 

[NotWii]

Sorry! A bit of wire-crossing there.

It will be rather shocking if Valve does go the paid route on PC. On Xbox 360, I'd think for something like extra campaigns and modes, Microsoft would insist on charging something. But who knows. Apparently Valve will let us know in the weeks to come.

*Disappears shamefully back into the shadows*

You almost gave me a heart attack!
But I forgive you

 

[1-D_FTW]

So because my Steam client never automatically updated on Feb. 3rd, I decided to do the update manually when I saw it in the options thing. I'm unable to join any L4D games now. Friend's games were both locked off from me. I even tried joining a random match in progress and after five minutes of searching (thought it was gonna hang it was so long), it decided to make me a lobby leader for a new match (which I'm sure no one would ever find if I left it open 24 hours.) Outstanding.

 

[Facism]

Yeah I was wondering about this. It wouldn't be hard to open the maps in Hammer and rename them to Death Air and Dead Toll or whatever and redistribute them that as custom maps.

My guess is that the PC content will be free, and people are getting worried over nothing.

I believe so, too. It'd be too easy to cut and paste into custom. I wouldn't be surprised if the wording was such as to gauge a reaction, though. Valve is a business, afterall, and there is one holy commandment above all others.

 

[Sciz]

Releasing paid DLC on the PC alongside the SDK would be insanity, not to mention completely out of line with Valve's philosophy and past history. Chill out, guys.

 

[CrookedRain]

So because my Steam client never automatically updated on Feb. 3rd, I decided to do the update manually when I saw it in the options thing. I'm unable to join any L4D games now. Friend's games were both locked off from me. I even tried joining a random match in progress and after five minutes of searching (thought it was gonna hang it was so long), it decided to make me a lobby leader for a new match (which I'm sure no one would ever find if I left it open 24 hours.) Outstanding.

I think a lot of people are having problems with the matchmaking today. I doubt it was the Steam client update.

 

[vertopci]

So because my Steam client never automatically updated on Feb. 3rd, I decided to do the update manually when I saw it in the options thing. I'm unable to join any L4D games now. Friend's games were both locked off from me. I even tried joining a random match in progress and after five minutes of searching (thought it was gonna hang it was so long), it decided to make me a lobby leader for a new match (which I'm sure no one would ever find if I left it open 24 hours.) Outstanding.

Reinstall?

 

[1-D_FTW]

I think a lot of people are having problems with the matchmaking today. I doubt it was the Steam client update.

Hopefully not. Guess I'll just try again tomorrow. I can see over 1000 games in the browser, I'm just unable to join any.

Reinstall?

I've noticed the friend's list flicker off a couple times, so I'm just gonna hope it's on Valve's end.

EDIT: On second thought, I'm not so sure. I was windowed out and when I went to quit L4D, the computer just hung. Hard lock. Had to hold down the power button to restart. The problem with this is, I accidentally loaded Portal immediately after the update. And when I went to quit that, it also hard locked and required me to kill the power without shutting down. So that's not a good trend.

 

[Fireblend]

I think a lot of people are having problems with the matchmaking today. I doubt it was the Steam client update.

Actually I was looking to join a quick online game earlier and it would always create a new lobby even when I specified to look for a game in progress. I thought it was because of my connection being laggy or something...

 

[Bogus]

I can echo the weird L4D-happenings. My first indication of something strange afoot was that I wasn't auto-logged into Steam today for the first time in four years. Everything seemed to work fine when I logged in manually, but upon starting L4D, I noticed that all of my achievements had been erased. Strange, but not really that big of a deal. The kicker was that I couldn't join any games! No matter what option I chose, the window that popped up immediately said "Stopping search...", and then nothing more happened.

Quite odd. I imagine it's something on Valve's end; however, I can see that a few friends of mine are in L4D online matches as I'm typing this. I certainly haven't changed any of my own settings since last I played... except for the Steam client update the other day.

Methinks something's up.

 

[Facism]

nobody on my friendslist can get on. Some get a pop-up about steamcloud being unreachable, whilst others can get into the menu and look for game, only to have the search terminate itself immediately. Friendslit is on the blink and chat seems to have some major lag

 

[bdouble]

To me this basically feels like they are finally finishing the game (and charging 360 owners for it) and that the real extra content will be coming much, much later (no sooner than late summer if we are lucky knowing Valve.)

OTOH the SDK finally being released is 10x more exciting. The dawn of the dead mall and resident evil 3 maps are looking excellent and there are several other projects in the works that are also looking good.

Valve isn't very big. Working on the SDK and then TF2 update is probably all they can right now. Not to mention it isn't like L4D hasn't been patched after release. If there were new campaigns coming these things wouldn't be happening so quickly.

 

[Fireblend]

Well with all the talk about issues with L4D I just remembered I was having issues with TF2 as well; I would join a server that reported 20-30 players, and would appear in an empty one. A few tries after that it would work though, but it was definitely weird, since I would load the server info window, and even though I was the only one in the player list, it'd still say there were 2X players. Should have taken a screenshot of that. My guess is it has something to do with the latest update to the steam client.

 

[fallout]

So because my Steam client never automatically updated on Feb. 3rd, I decided to do the update manually when I saw it in the options thing. I'm unable to join any L4D games now. Friend's games were both locked off from me. I even tried joining a random match in progress and after five minutes of searching (thought it was gonna hang it was so long), it decided to make me a lobby leader for a new match (which I'm sure no one would ever find if I left it open 24 hours.) Outstanding.

Valve's out to get you.

Anyway, Twig, sonicspear64, Capndrake and I tried getting a game going this afternoon and were unsuccessful. TF2 was also problematic (no stat tracking, no cheesemints, etc.). I think it's just Steam servers. Hopefully they'll have it fixed soon.

 

[rezuth]

Valve isn't very big. Working on the SDK and then TF2 update is probably all they can right now. Not to mention it isn't like L4D hasn't been patched after release. If there were new campaigns coming these things wouldn't be happening so quickly.

IIRC they have smaller teams working on each game for updates.

 

[bkw]

Well with all the talk about issues with L4D I just remembered I was having issues with TF2 as well; I would join a server that reported 20-30 players, and would appear in an empty one. A few tries after that it would work though, but it was definitely weird, since I would load the server info window, and even though I was the only one in the player list, it'd still say there were 2X players. Should have taken a screenshot of that. My guess is it has something to do with the latest update to the steam client.

Actually, I think this has been around for a while. PC right? I think I read somewhere that it's the server admins setting up the server to incorrectly report the number of players playing. The idea being that people don't join empty servers, so an empty server will never get "seeded" with players. Kinda silly if it's true.

 

[NotWii]

Valve isn't very big. Working on the SDK and then TF2 update is probably all they can right now. Not to mention it isn't like L4D hasn't been patched after release. If there were new campaigns coming these things wouldn't be happening so quickly.

What about the game designers/artists for L4D? They don't need to worry about fixing bugs or making user-friendly SDK tools

Surely they're dreaming up new scenarios and creating new maps and assets.

 

[Xdrive05]

Quick question about the PC version: Is this supposed to be common?

You'll play a really good round where you beat the other team, and then as soon as the next round loads and you're in the saferoom, say, you get 24 second "Server Connection" timeout error. I assume it has something to do with other people Rage quitting, but I thought the game uses dedicated servers so it shouldn't rely on other people being there for YOU to stay connected...

This has happened about every other round I've played the last couple days.

 

[Red Scarlet]

Nah, that's just the server crapping out.

 

[No Means Nomad]

Well with all the talk about issues with L4D I just remembered I was having issues with TF2 as well; I would join a server that reported 20-30 players, and would appear in an empty one. A few tries after that it would work though, but it was definitely weird, since I would load the server info window, and even though I was the only one in the player list, it'd still say there were 2X players. Should have taken a screenshot of that. My guess is it has something to do with the latest update to the steam client.

Like someone said before, this isn't a bug. It's just server admins making it look like there are more players on their server than there really are so you go and join the game.

Nah, that's just the server crapping out.

The number of times it happens suggests that the game forces the server resets/crashes, not that one third of the servers are inherently awful. Especially because they typically happen during round starts.

 

[Blizzard]

I really HOPE I don't start having weird issues. I think I was also logged out of Steam a day or two ago when I booted, and Left 4 Dead just crashed on exit ("stopped responding")...

 

[Twig]

I really HOPE I don't start having weird issues. I think I was also logged out of Steam a day or two ago when I booted, and Left 4 Dead just crashed on exit ("stopped responding")...

Mine has been doing that for months. \:

Doesn't seem to cause any real problems, but it's damn annoying.

 

[Red Scarlet]

 

[Pop On Arrival]

Awful ending.

Wanted to go for 8k+ points again.

 

[Red Scarlet]

I still want to know what NM3 was about, one guy was either loading or just let his teammates die (they got 2 points).

 

[Pop On Arrival]

They weren't loading. I was watching Zoey while I was spawning as a smoker, and she was definitely moving. Probably the guys very first game, looked a lot like he was still introducing himself to the controls.

the other three was pretty much just fucked right out of the door.

 

[Red Scarlet]

I think I pounced one guy and missed, and he got smokered, then I pounced the next one and just got melee'd off, and I don't know what happened after that except I jumped into the safe room to pounce Zoey.

 

[Daigoro]

i havent played with my PC buddies in forever! i miss you guys.

finally got my All 4 Dead on 360 last night though. with the log in BH2 i think? you know the one.

hopefully see you guys around one day soon...

 

[Sibylus]

The Gametrailers TV trailer for that reveal episode had a short amount of footage in it, all of Death Toll on the Xbox 360, all with human play. Briefly showed the last chapter (Boathouse Finale) and the third (The Church).

 

[Wario64]

Just got it for X360 last night, so if anyone wants to add me for some co-op go for it

Gamertag in profile.

 

[Fantastical]

Does anyone know where I can find the audio files for the spoken lines in the game? I don't have the PC game, as I believe that all the audio files are found there.

I don't all of them or anything, just a sizable amount of them.

 

[Sibylus]

Does anyone know where I can find the audio files for the spoken lines in the game? I don't have the PC game, as I believe that all the audio files are found there.

I don't all of them or anything, just a sizable amount of them.

As far as the PC version goes, you can find pretty well everything in folders within the game's directory.

 

[Red Scarlet]

It's like 733mb for the character sayings, so there's quite a few.

 

[NotWii]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvO5WCQ-Ng

 

[magus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvO5WCQ-Ng

:lol

 

[polyh3dron]

So, I haven't played this since a week after the game came out (360 version) and holy shit, when did they up the framerate to 60FPS? I'm enjoying this game SO much more now because of this.. Did they do the same thing to the Orange Box?

 

[manzo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvO5WCQ-Ng

Hahah, the can-can music came straight outta nowhere, made me fucking burst my morning coffee on my porridge! :lol

So, I haven't played this since a week after the game came out (360 version) and holy shit, when did they up the framerate to 60FPS? I'm enjoying this game SO much more now because of this.. Did they do the same thing to the Orange Box?

What?

Dude, you're hallucinating. It's still 30fps and 20fps on split screen.

 

[syllogism]

This is a pretty great vs map (only one, but it's pretty long and complex)
http://rapidshare.com/users/MBCR76
http://l4dmapdb.wikidot.com/map:riverside

It's also very hard, but that's the way it should be. Actually l4dmapdb has a bunch of nice maps.

 

[ice cream]

wait so what do I type in console to say those crazy lines?

 

[Ryuuga]

wait so what do I type in console to say those crazy lines?

Bind key “vocalize _________”
Example: Bind r “+reload; vocalize PlayerWarnTank”

Universal:
CallForRescue - when players trapped in closet in campaign
EatPills - “Aaah!”
ReviveMeInterrupted - short gasp or “Dammit!”
ScenarioJoin - says hello
YouWelcome
ResponseSoftDispleasureSwear - “Shit”, “Shiiiit!”, or “Dammit!”
EmphaticArriveRun - “RUUUUUUUUN!”
PlayerWarnTank
PlayerDeath
PlayerLaugh
PlayerTaunt

Zoey:
Airport04_08c – “Holy shit!” or “They must have tried to prevent the infection from spreading”
BounceReaction – “Yeah, yeah I’m ready to bounce *giggles*"
IntroFarm4 – “Yeah… let’s do it”
IntroSmallTown2 – “Unless anyone has a better plan, I say we head there”
TakeShotgunZoey – “Groovy…”

Louis:
Airport04_05a – “No way, man”, “Not a chance!”, “Oh no ain’t no drat way!”
Airport04_08b – “Holy shit!” or “You’re joking, right?”
Farm01_path03a – "I bet yo' country ass does like this trailer!"
Farm03_path01a – “Stay positive guys, I got a good feelin about this”
Hospital02_path03a1 – “Alright no problem, now we just gotta get out of the subway”
Hospital03_path03a1 – “Hurry!” or “Hurry up!”
Hospital04_path02a – “Stairs are a good workout” or “It’s good for you, Bill. Cardio!”
Hospital04_path04a – “Elevator here!” or “Get into the elevator!”
Hospital05_path01b – “Works for me”
IntroFarm4 – “Sounds good to me”
IntroHospital – “The subway can take us straight to Mercy Hospital”
RiversideIsDead – “Riverside’s a bust”
RiversideIsDeadB – “If we can get to the river, we can find a boat”
Smalltown02_path01b – “Interesting true story, in 1975 the local township-“
Smalltown02_path08a – “That’ll seal the lock”

Bill:
Airport04_08a – “What did I tell ya? They’re trying to stop people from leaving”
Airport04_08c – “Christ almighty”
DontBeAnAss – “Don’t be an ass, Francis”
Farm02_path01a – “drat straight”
Farm05_path07b – “Settle down Francis, just use that radio they’ll come”
Farm05_path09c – “They honest to god military”
FarmvampiresB – “There’s zombies, Francis”
Hospital02_path03b1 – “Gotta find another way!” or “This seem too easy”
Hospital02_path03c1 – “Gonna have to go topside”
Hospital04_path01a – “I’ve smelled worse”
IntroFarm3 – “We just need to find the train tracks and follow ‘em”
IntroFarm4 – “Alrighty”
IntroHospital – His opening shpiel at the beginning of No Mercy campaign
IntroHospital03 – “Might not be a bad idea to get off the street” or “Good thinking”

Francis:
Airport04_08a – “Bill, I was the one who said that”
Airport04_08b – “Holy shit” or “That sounds about right!”
Farm05_path09c – “Shit, never thought I’d go looking for the military”
RiversideIsDeadSpecialA – “That’s better than MY plan”
Smalltown02_path01a – “How the hell do you know that?”
Smalltown04_path05a – “I’m coming for ya Bill, keep your beard on”
Airport04_vana – “I hate vans”
IntroHospital02 – “I hate subways”
AynRandResponse – “I hate Ayn Rand”

Taken from SA

Some all purpose cursing:

vocalize ResponseSoftDispleaseSwear
Vocalize panicevent


There are also some other ones but for the most part I usually just bind my attack to Louis' "WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE" cheer.

 

[Xdrive05]

If anyone's interested in playing Versus Dead Air and Versus Death Toll, add me to your friends ("Xdrive05" on Steam) and send me a message when you see me online. I have about a dozen servers in my favorites that routinely cycle those in.

These campaigns play really well in Versus. I have no idea why Valve opted them out of release.

 

[polyh3dron]

Dude, you're hallucinating. It's still 30fps and 20fps on split screen.

No I'm not, I know my framerates, it's not a completely consistent 60, but the framerate has definitely been upped since it came out.

 

[johnFkennedy]

Anybody up for a stroll through Death toll on medium? I don't feel like playing with random xbox live fodder.

XBL: Sebby F Baby

 

[Costanza]

Anybody up for a game on steam right now? I haven't played this in weeks so I'll probably be a little rusty...

id: CostanzaGAF

 

[methane47]

Just played the game for the first time on saturday night... had a 3 hour session of Co-op.. and man.. it was a tonne of fun..

But throughout the Entire play time I couldn't stop thinking abut that old game for the Xbox1 Hunters the REckoning.. And to me this game Plays sooo much like that game.. only in a First person perspective... Anyways it was a tonne of fun.

 

[Twig]

Taken from SA

Some all purpose cursing:

vocalize ResponseSoftDispleaseSwear
Vocalize panicevent


There are also some other ones but for the most part I usually just bind my attack to Louis' "WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE" cheer.

My attack is bound to Louis' "OH NO" shout. Melee to death scream. Jump to your same "WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE" cheer.

Though they aren't bound to those specific phrases -- just the general sentiment.

Also, I was pleasantly surprised when my binds were carried over through Steam Cloud. O:

 

[1-D_FTW]

I had no idea so many of you bound phrases to attack keys. Ever since Bulleta went on her tirade against them, I've noticed only one player really abusing them. And, damn, it's enough to give a person a headache.

 

[Twig]

I had no idea so many of you bound phrases to attack keys. Ever since Bulleta went on her tirade against them, I've noticed only one player really abusing them. And, damn, it's enough to give a person a headache.

Yawn.