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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread
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Red Scarlet
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Dacvak said:
There's a decent amount of 360'ers that still post in here, hopefully your post won't get lost in the thread though.
Red Scarlet
Member
Well, played a vs game. The melee nerf feels more like fake random lag bursts than anything right now.
Red Scarlet said:
When both teams have 150-200 ms ping it hurts my ego when I'm trying to use the sniper rifle or melee pouncing hunters.
Also the elevator is still glitchy, I think. I used four pointblank autoshotgun blasts, and my 3 teammates might ALSO have been shooting in an elevator, and a normal female zombie finally died after hitting me like 4-5 times. And then a hunter dropped in and it took a while to kill that too.
And someone said they felt like the hunter's pounce is a bit "lagged" or has a little delay now, but I'm not sure if that's true or not.
Red Scarlet
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The other team still ran into the corner during the event on NM2, and it would sometimes let me melee 3+ times in a row no problem, other times after 1 melee I had to wait to do another. Doesn't seem like it does all that much, but I'd imagine that it's easier to pounce someone that is stationary and some zombies are coming at them.
I think that's just the source engine for the elevator. You're moving upwards thanks to a moving prop; Your bullets will seem to 'drop' because you're moving upwards. That's why I melee in the elevator.Blizzard said:When both teams have 150-200 ms ping it hurts my ego when I'm trying to use the sniper rifle or melee pouncing hunters.
Also the elevator is still glitchy, I think. I used four pointblank autoshotgun blasts, and my 3 teammates might ALSO have been shooting in an elevator, and a normal female zombie finally died after hitting me like 4-5 times. And then a hunter dropped in and it took a while to kill that too.
And someone said they felt like the hunter's pounce is a bit "lagged" or has a little delay now, but I'm not sure if that's true or not.
It seems the melee works like this:
5 normal swings -> timer activated, you can keep on swinging but after each swing for I think a total of 3 swings, the timespan of no-melee is increased, and you need to recharge if you want 5 normal swings again. I don't know how long it takes to recover to normal again. Hell, I don't even know if any of this is correct, I only played one versus game after the update.
Pop On Arrival
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All the melee nerf actually means is that you just have to be smart when you use it. You can no longer just hold down right click like a doof and hope for the best.
madmook said:
send me a friends request Dacvak:GT is Coverly (your gamertag is not in your profile so i couldn't invite you)
I'm the same as madmook, campaign only. If you see me on, send me a game invite anytime(unless i'm watching a movie), i'll drop any game i'm playing for it.
The melee nerf was implemented due to a more realistic touch. They original idea was to make players wary of Bill's arthritis and teaches them to play without having to rely on spamming the melee button. Besides, with each forthcoming update, it'll become much more difficult for survivors to "survive" as originally intended. I can't wait for the MacGyver update when we'll be able to craft our weapons from various items littered throughout the post-apocalyptic urban/rural areas.
PillowKnight
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So Bill's arthritis is also contagious...wait, what if Bill's the famed fifth infected?Ryuuga said:
PillowKnight said:
Nope, the only reason other survivors have it is for equality. If we needed a reason for other oh-so youthful survivors to have this nerf..hmm muscle spasm? Bill has been quite the double agent recently. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the screamer they originally cut from the game.
PillowKnight
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As an expert on muscle fatigue, I can say that people can in fact swing their weapons around all day long, assuming adrenaline is involved.Botolf said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hbPQN9kdosPillowKnight said:
Red Scarlet said:
Ahh, that. I noticed that the melee hits vary too. I think there are 2 cooldowns at play, 1 of which is hidden. Starting fresh off you get 3 hits, then you have the first cooldown. If you swing again right after that one, it instantly goes down to another cooldown.
Meaning the game gives you three hits when you're fresh, then every hit after that is a cooldown. There is some sort of second hidden cooldown that after 10 seconds or so you can get 3 hits again.
Maybe Valve will clarify it better later, but I believe that is what is at work here.
PillowKnight
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I'm not exaggerating at all when I say that this is the first L4D video to actually make me laugh.firex said:
Looks promising, but I wish all the maps were mostly outdoors. It appears map 2 and 3 will be completely indoors. I hope at the very least it's considerably harder than the official campaigns.Botolf said:
http://www.ihatemountains.com/
e: these look pretty nice too
http://l4dmapdb.com/map:the-source
http://l4dmapdb.com/map:the-brutal-outcome
Is anyone else having trouble connecting to Steam? First three times it just hung when I tried opening it. Last time it finally opened, but requested my password. So I typed it in and it said Steam was having trouble connecting.
I'm curious, because Steam was running like a dog again so I downloaded the latest beta client last night and this is really the first time I've tried logging in again.
I'm curious, because Steam was running like a dog again so I downloaded the latest beta client last night and this is really the first time I've tried logging in again.
Blue Geezer
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its currently down for maintenance.
RocketDarkness
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3PyHnvRKQ&NR=1PillowKnight said:
This one always cracked me up, personally.
ThaiGrocer
Member
I think Valve is playing around with L4D/Steam Whores:
There's already an unused dog sound in the game. Why not?
Steam Update News said:
There's already an unused dog sound in the game. Why not?
ThaiGrocer
Member
More plausible is the Zombie Wolf. I personally don't see how that would add variety to the flow of gameplay, but I'm sure Valve has all day thinking about this stuff.madmook said:
PillowKnight
Member
who wants to play l4d?
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Hey. I sent everyone on this page an XBL friend request for L4D. My GT is Dacvak.
No one I send a request to is on right now. Does anyone want to play for 360?
No one I send a request to is on right now. Does anyone want to play for 360?
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Damn. Damn!
That was fun as hell, Redd. Man, I'm so glad I bought this game. Can't wait to play the next episodes.
I might be on again later tonight.
That was fun as hell, Redd. Man, I'm so glad I bought this game. Can't wait to play the next episodes.
I might be on again later tonight.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Teknoman said:
I'm 100% down for either of those, anytime. My GT is Dacvak. Reach me on AIM when you want to play. My AIM SN is Shigeru Miyamoto
maybe my skills massively deterioriated after playing mass effect so much, but I completely sucked in campaign mode tonight when I was playing. well, ok, part of that is also I was close to 24 hours in a row awake and I'm too old to do that kind of stuff anymore unless drugs or alcohol are involved, and neither were in this case.