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timetokill

Banned
That map definitely looks like fun.

Is there a good text description of Survival mode yet? I'm curious how the scoring works, if there are global leaderboards, etc.

That lighthouse map looks awesome, too! I can't wait to play it... but then again, if they'd just release the damn SDK already we'd probably have quite a few awesome maps to play on :lol
 
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Sibylus

Banned
So it looks the a lot of the Survival maps will be the most memorable sections of levels (makes sense). Levels that have been revealed so far:

- Lighthouse (Death Toll stylings, but a completely brand new map)
- Terminal (Dead Air - 4)
- Warehouse (No Mercy - 2)
- Elevator (No Mercy - 4)

So, 4 out of the 16 levels are revealed as of now.
 
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Sibylus

Banned
timetokill said:
That map definitely looks like fun.

Is there a good text description of Survival mode yet? I'm curious how the scoring works, if there are global leaderboards, etc.

That lighthouse map looks awesome, too! I can't wait to play it... but then again, if they'd just release the damn SDK already we'd probably have quite a few awesome maps to play on :lol
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From what I gather from the interview:

- Bronze, Silver, and Gold medals are handed out depending on how long your team survives
- Leaderboards (score linking to time, I assume)
 
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Sibylus

Banned
Red Scarlet said:
?!?!?
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If we play coop again, I'm going to start giving pet names to everything just to annoy you :lol

"Get to the monastery!"
"Hunter ahead in the compost"
"Get to the Bed N Breakfast!"
"We're almost at the walk-in clinic"
"Hey, I think there's a tank hiding in plane storage"
 
Red Scarlet

Red Scarlet

Member
Volcynika said:
Oh Scarlet, how you amuse me.
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Let's play, Bot.

The crescendo area reminds me of some kind of pipe/sewer-ish area over a warehouse.
 
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Sibylus

Banned
Death Toll, Expert setting, pirate's code.

e:
"Whoever falls behind is left behind"

Anybody who falls down takes a dirt nap until the next respawn closet.
 
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marvelharvey

Member
Anyone else had this bug?

I just walked off one of the 'lots of molos and pipes' areas of the NM5 rooftop. I've walked off of these ledges hundreds, if not thousands of times with no issue. However, just now, instead of dropping off, Bill turned around and grabbed onto the ledge, leaving me dangling helplessly, 5 feet above the floor below. The other guys on my team were tustling with the tank, leaving me there for quite sometime. Eventually, my hands gave in and I slipped off, falling to the floor, 5 feet below, and instatly died.
 
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RocketDarkness

Member
marvelharvey said:
Anyone else had this bug?

I just walked off one of the 'lots of molos and pipes' areas of the NM5 rooftop. I've walked off of these ledges hundreds, if not thousands of times with no issue. However, just now, instead of dropping off, Bill turned around and grabbed onto the ledge, leaving me dangling helplessly, 5 feet above the floor below. The other guys on my team were tustling with the tank, leaving me there for quite sometime. Eventually, my hands gave in and I slipped off, falling to the floor, 5 feet below, and instatly died.
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I've seen it happen every now and again. Hilarious, but incredibly devastating at times.
 
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marvelharvey

Member
RocketDarkness said:
I've seen it happen every now and again. Hilarious, but incredibly devastating at times.
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Glad I wasn't the first!

Anyway, I hope at some point, Survival Mode becomes available as a VS match. No spawn timers, constant mayhem please.
 
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timetokill

Banned
marvelharvey said:
Anyone else had this bug?

I just walked off one of the 'lots of molos and pipes' areas of the NM5 rooftop. I've walked off of these ledges hundreds, if not thousands of times with no issue. However, just now, instead of dropping off, Bill turned around and grabbed onto the ledge, leaving me dangling helplessly, 5 feet above the floor below. The other guys on my team were tustling with the tank, leaving me there for quite sometime. Eventually, my hands gave in and I slipped off, falling to the floor, 5 feet below, and instatly died.
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Yeah, I've seen it happen many-a-time.

I've had it where I got hit by a tank into a little outcropping like that, my feet dangling less than a body's length away from the floor, and just died there. Super annoying.
 
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Sibylus

Banned
Death Toll on Expert it was.

Following lots of fire and FF accidents, we made progress. In DT: 3 (Town) a tank at the crescendo event wiped out everybody except myself, so I sat in a corner of a bathroom waiting for everybody to revive. No special infected showed up, which was nice.

I generally whored explosives. When we got to the finale, we wiped a few times. Scarlet died to the second tank in the finale, and three of us made it onto the boat, but not before two of us (I was one) fell off or was dragged off of the dock. I had thrown a molotov on the dock end before being dragged off, so the two of us had to wait for it to burn off as the zombie hordes were coming in around us.
 
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Twig

Banned
Pop On Arrival said:
That Tank only killed me during the DT4 crescendo because someone shot me red. :|
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All I can say is that it wasn't me.

Speaking of: forgot to mention that like a week or two ago i played expert campaign and it'd been so long I was playing it like versus. Which meant carelessly teamshooting (since it does so little damage in versus, I (because I am a terrible shot) don't try as hard to not shoot people!) and speeding through levels as fast as possible.

It was bad. O:
 
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Daigoro

Member
so wtf, did i miss an announcement or something?

im probably just out of the loop on this, but are all of the Dead Air shortcuts patched? i tried them yesterday on the 360, and they were undoable.

dunno why they would patch those and leave the one in NM in still...

the hell? im assuming its patched on PC as well then, yes? i mustve missed people mentioning it in this thread.

bummer.
 
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Sibylus

Banned
Pop On Arrival said:
That Tank only killed me during the DT4 crescendo because someone shot me red. :|
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Wasn't me, I was carrying an autoshotty, which means I would have been guarding my shots.

If it wasn't me or TheOneGuy, it must have been you know who :p

when is the DLC suppose to be coming for the PC?
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Sometime before April 21st (Which is when the critic's edition L4D edition is said to be coming out)
 
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xero273

Member
Any gaffers want to help me do all the campagins on expert (360)? I usually play during the weekend at 11PM EST. gt is xero273.

Thanks.
 
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Twig

Banned
Botolf said:
If it wasn't me or TheOneGuy, it must have been you know who :p
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I wasn't even playing. I'm just making a sad reference to the fact that I always shoot my team members. And I play versus with Pop often enough. ):
 
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Sibylus

Banned
TheOneGuy said:
I wasn't even playing. I'm just making a sad reference to the fact that I always shoot my team members. And I play versus with Pop often enough. ):
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Ah, I was wondering if you had a different Steam name or something, confused myself thoroughly :lol

Either Scarlet or DaFish, then.

e: Wait, not fish. Somebody else who's name escapes me currently.
 
Red Scarlet

Red Scarlet

Member
Botolf said:
Death Toll on Expert it was.

Following lots of fire and FF accidents, we made progress. In DT: 3 (Town) a tank at the crescendo event wiped out everybody except myself, so I sat in a corner of a bathroom waiting for everybody to revive. No special infected showed up, which was nice.

I generally whored explosives. When we got to the finale, we wiped a few times. Scarlet died to the second tank in the finale, and three of us made it onto the boat, but not before two of us (I was one) fell off or was dragged off of the dock. I had thrown a molotov on the dock end before being dragged off, so the two of us had to wait for it to burn off as the zombie hordes were coming in around us.
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I heard the Tank coming from the dock, so I readied my molly, then I saw the Hunter, but I figured he'd whiff a pounce so I didn't shoot him because I wanted to molly the Tank asap. But the Hunter didn't whiff, and the Tank came up to my face so I had to throw the mol right away, then I got stuck on the railing that juts out onto that little roof which got me owned. At least I protected Pop after being dead for a long time when my mol eventually killed the Tank right before the Tank finished him off.

I don't know who Remfin was, he was on my list though and asked if we needed one more. :( So whoever you are, it was fun!

Oh dur, he posted 1 page ago. Now we know, Pop!

Daigoro said:
so wtf, did i miss an announcement or something?

im probably just out of the loop on this, but are all of the Dead Air shortcuts patched? i tried them yesterday on the 360, and they were undoable.

dunno why they would patch those and leave the one in NM in still...

the hell? im assuming its patched on PC as well then, yes? i mustve missed people mentioning it in this thread.

bummer.
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All 4 of the skippable crescendos that I know about (DT4, DA2, DA3, BH3) were fixed in the big patch we got last month? or January (whenever it was), by invisible walls preventing the skip. I didn't know a NM one was skippable..but they did add some crates that blocked off underneath the ramp on NM5, (if that's what you are talking about) in the same patch as the skip prevention.
 
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Sibylus

Banned
Red Scarlet said:
I heard the Tank coming from the dock, so I readied my molly, then I saw the Hunter, but I figured he'd whiff a pounce so I didn't shoot him because I wanted to molly the Tank asap. But the Hunter didn't whiff, and the Tank came up to my face so I had to throw the mol right away, then I got stuck on the railing that juts out onto that little roof which got me owned. At least I protected Pop after being dead for a long time when my mol eventually killed the Tank right before the Tank finished him off.

I don't know who Remfin was, he was on my list though and asked if we needed one more. :( So whoever you are, it was fun!

Oh dur, he posted 1 page ago. Now we know, Pop!
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Yea, I was watching the Tank go after Pop. He would have been toast :lol
 
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Daigoro

Member
Red Scarlet said:
All 4 of the skippable crescendos that I know about (DT4, DA2, DA3, BH3) were fixed in the big patch we got last month? or January (whenever it was), by invisible walls preventing the skip. I didn't know a NM one was skippable..but they did add some crates that blocked off underneath the ramp on NM5, (if that's what you are talking about) in the same patch as the skip prevention.
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ah, ok. so it must have been patched in the recent xbox update. i havent played Dead Air campaign since that happened.

the NM shortcut i am referring to is the one where you bash through the door to avoid the crescendo event activated by starting the lift (NM3 is it?). dunno why that would be left in, but all the other were patched up? pretty lame imo.

and no sooner did they place the boxes under the ramp in NM5, did i spawn as a tank under the ramp. completely trapped and unable to attack. :lol hasnt happened since that first time though.

sucks about the DA shortcuts though. :/

thanks for the info.
 
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Remfin

Member
I added Scarlet a long time ago; I just never had a chance to play until now!

You totally aren't blaming me for that tank death! My friendly fires were every time but tanks :lol I only get myself killed on tanks, not others :(
 
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Redd

Member
xero273 said:
Any gaffers want to help me do all the campagins on expert (360)? I usually play during the weekend at 11PM EST. gt is xero273.

Thanks.
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I'll play with you this weekend if you want.
 
Red Scarlet

Red Scarlet

Member
Daigoro said:
ah, ok. so it must have been patched in the recent xbox update. i havent played Dead Air campaign since that happened.

the NM shortcut i am referring to is the one where you bash through the door to avoid the crescendo event activated by starting the lift (NM3 is it?). dunno why that would be left in, but all the other were patched up? pretty lame imo.

and no sooner did they place the boxes under the ramp in NM5, did i spawn as a tank under the ramp. completely trapped and unable to attack. :lol hasnt happened since that first time though.

sucks about the DA shortcuts though. :/

thanks for the info.
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Ohhh, massive brain fart. Yeah, the NM3 door was made unbreakable in the invisible walls patch on PC awhile ago. It's been so long that I've seen it that I forgot all about it.
 
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marvelharvey

Member
TheOneGuy said:
forgot to mention that like a week or two ago i played expert campaign and it'd been so long I was playing it like versus.
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I too succumbed to this. After two weeks of non-stop VS, I then jumped into an expert campaign last night and almost wiped out the other survivors with my FF, sorry 'bout that guys and gal.

PS If you're reading this Pop, some work issues cropped up after my L4D evening and I didn't get home until 3am! We'll have to play SFIV another night, maybe Wednesday?
 
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itxaka

Defeatist
One question guys, is it normal to have left4dead on steam update every 2 days or so?

I swear, it was updated yesterday or the day before, and now I opened steam to play a bit and it's updating again.

Plus the update is about 500Mb (thanks that I can download up to 1,3Mb/s...)
 
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itxaka

Defeatist
Pop On Arrival said:
Nope.
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goddam. I guess I should delete and reinstall it just in case.

Anyway, if someone wants to add me on steam, do it. I have been playing casually becasue the only friend I got on steam is fucking lost somewhere. steam id: itxaka
 
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Sibylus

Banned
_mo said:
It's actually NM3. NM2 is the subway.
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I was referring to the warehouse/generator building in NM2 that contains the crescendo event. In those Survival videos, some people were running around in the pillar room directly underneath it.
 
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Sanjay

Member
Had a great game of VS yesterday, we totally owned the pub team, in particularly vertopci, his skills getting up ramps is amazing.

Morrowind is better
 
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