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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread

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epmode

Member
I don't think I've ever had a Microsoft achievement disappear after getting it, yet I've seen Steam achievements for Episode 2/TF2/L4D disappear several times. I love you Valve, but pls fix this.
 
M

me Jojo

Member
Blizzard said:
I'm confused. Why can't you get them again? You got all of them but Valve only counted 11?
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I have no clue, I got 15 gold medals now but my achievement progress is 8/16. I tried to beat my previous highscore but that didn't reward me a new gold medal. I already got the medal so I can't ever get it again. :/ When I receive the last medal from BH5 I'll have them all but all 3 achievements will be frozen on 9/16.
 
A

andycapps

Member
Is there anywhere online to download this for about $20? Wanting to play it this weekend, but Steam is still selling it for $39.99. Amazon has it for $25 but I was wanting it to play this weekend.
 
I

Ikuu

Had his dog run over by Blizzard's CEO
G2Play has it, but they're out of stock until Sunday, and then they might not even get enough in stock to meet demand.
 
A

andycapps

Member
Ikuu said:
G2Play has it, but they're out of stock until Sunday, and then they might not even get enough in stock to meet demand.
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Thanks for the tip, how can they be out of stock on digital downloads? :lol I would so do that when I get home from work if it was "in stock."
 
I

Ikuu

Had his dog run over by Blizzard's CEO
They only have a limited number of keys at any one time, I guess they just open games and send the code or something similar.
 
V

Volcynika

Member
andycapps said:
Thanks for the tip, how can they be out of stock on digital downloads? :lol I would so do that when I get home from work if it was "in stock."
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You must not have been here for the Mount & Blade weekend deal!
 
A

andycapps

Member
Volcynika said:
You must not have been here for the Mount & Blade weekend deal!
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Nope, was without a computer for about 2 months and I was hoping that Valve would drop the price on Steam to $19.99 by this time, but I suppose it's selling too well.. If anyone sees any more weekend deals crop out with digital download, please post it here as I'd like to get online and play with you guys.
 
R

Ryuuga

Banned
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Yay! Finally got it. Didn't take as long as I thought it would. Even though there were a few maps I found more difficult than the rest.
 
R

RocketDarkness

Member
shintoki said:
You know with all these survival pics...I'm still seeing turtling. Such a major turn off to me still :lol
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While there is a fair amount of turtiling, the sheer amount of special infected coming at you ensures that there's plenty of unpredictability. And it's not like campaign camping, where it's "5 seconds of zombies, wait 30 seconds, second wave of zombies, done". It's a brutal, neverending stream of the undead. And then there's the always-exciting supply runs. Whoa-ho-ho, those can go terribly wrong.
 
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me Jojo

Member
Ryuuga said:
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Yay! Finally got it. Didn't take as long as I thought it would. Even though there were a few maps I found more difficult than the rest.
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:(

Just got 12min+ on BH5. Gold on everything, all achievements frozen on 9/16. Damnit Valve. >:/
 
R

Remfin

Member
Infamypack said:
:(

Just got 12min+ on BH5. Gold on everything, all achievements frozen on 9/16. Damnit Valve. >:/
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Have you messed around with the achievement resetting commands (the legit in-game ones, not the cheat programs)? Although I have to admit, I don't know how that works with ones that are #/#; it would probably force you to do all 16 in one game session.
 
Z

ZombieSupaStar

Member
why when its 2 on 4 do the infected not get ai bots in versus? yet the survivors do if they are 1 down?

imo it should be all or nothing,


I also love people who talk smack after our team was winning barely (killing each team the first 2 maps), then 2 of our team leaves so we have 2 on 4 for the rest of the fucking game, and they act like they smoked us.
 
Red Scarlet

Red Scarlet

Member
I think with fewer people on the infected team, the respawn time is reduced. Still doesn't seem to do that much though. A hunter + smoker every 12 seconds vs 2 hunters + smoker + boomer just doesn't seem to be as efficient.
 
D

DaFish

Member
Red Scarlet said:
I think with fewer people on the infected team, the respawn time is reduced. Still doesn't seem to do that much though. A hunter + smoker every 12 seconds vs 2 hunters + smoker + boomer just doesn't seem to be as efficient.
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I'm pretty sure thats how it works... but not 100% on that.
 
B

Blizzard

Banned
DaFish said:
I'm pretty sure thats how it works... but not 100% on that.
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Yeah, I'm practically certain the spawn time is reduced, but the normal infected spawn cycle probably continues. And no, it doesn't help very much since the survivors can just shoot the 2-3 at a time and you can't kill everyone at once.
 
B

Blizzard

Banned
I probably really need to clean out my 4850, but has anyone else been seeing higher temps since the survival update? My fan was like 34% and the temperature went up to 101C before I realized I forgot to turn it up. That's CRAZY, and I'm amazed my motherboard hasn't melted yet.

I had to turn it all the way to superloud 67% or so to get the temperature to stay around 70C...does that sound normal?
 
O

Oreoleo

Member
Blizzard said:
I probably really need to clean out my 4850, but has anyone else been seeing higher temps since the survival update? My fan was like 34% and the temperature went up to 101C before I realized I forgot to turn it up. That's CRAZY, and I'm amazed my motherboard hasn't melted yet.

I had to turn it all the way to superloud 67% or so to get the temperature to stay around 70C...does that sound normal?
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Honestly since the update Survival gives my video card more of a workout than even something like Crysis does. I've never heard my fan spin like that.
 
O

Oreoleo

Member
yggdrasill said:
I wish Valve would implement an option to kick AFK lobby leaders.

:(
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I wish they would implement a way to change lobby leaders without having to leave the lobby. What kind of back-assward design choice is that?
 
Tokubetsu

Tokubetsu

Member
RocketDarkness said:
While there is a fair amount of turtiling, the sheer amount of special infected coming at you ensures that there's plenty of unpredictability. And it's not like campaign camping, where it's "5 seconds of zombies, wait 30 seconds, second wave of zombies, done". It's a brutal, neverending stream of the undead. And then there's the always-exciting supply runs. Whoa-ho-ho, those can go terribly wrong.
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After a certain point in survival, it stops being "waves" and becomes a steady "stream."
 
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Oreoleo

Member
Volcynika said:
L4D has been more crashy for me lately, lots of sound stuttering freezes.
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It seemed like I would get them every time they patched the game or I downloaded new drivers, but this has actually been one of the most stable updates for me.
 
V

Varna

Member
I really wish they would make it so people could not stack themselves on top of each other. Closet tactics absolutely ruin the game.
 
M

me Jojo

Member
Anyone else think the Boat on Death Toll takes a tad too long to arrive? On our versus game just now the Tank got to us before the boat did, and with that super swing update it made short work of us. :lol Seriously one swing slams everything in a 270 degrees radius.
 
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Ikuu

Had his dog run over by Blizzard's CEO
Blizzard said:
I could have sworn I always have it set to vsync on, but I'm always getting 100 fps or more. I'll check again, thanks.
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Are you running the game in any form of Windowed Mode?
 
B

Boonoo

Member
Infamypack said:
Anyone else think the Boat on Death Toll takes a tad too long to arrive? On our versus game just now the Tank got to us before the boat did, and with that super swing update it made short work of us. :lol Seriously one swing slams everything in a 270 degrees radius.
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Yeah, that's a painful wait.
In my game last night we were able to kill one of theirs with the tank while they waited for the boat (I think so, anyway, it was a bit frantic), and they got us all as we waited (tank+smoked into the water and some other stuff). It seems to make up for the tanks being fairly ineffective earlier in the finale.

Maybe it makes sense on DT to wait and kill the last tank if you have the health.
 
I

Ikuu

Had his dog run over by Blizzard's CEO
Use D3DOverrider or Nvidia Control Panel and force vsync + triple buffering through that and it should apply when you're running windowed.
 
V

vertopci

Member
Blizzard said:
QUIET YOU. ;_;

At least I pay attention when I'm on the human side.
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Like that time when you hit the elevator button while I was behind protecting the teams ass amirite? :lol

I shall never forget!
 
B

Blizzard

Banned
Volcynika said:
Or like you being behind the minigun before knowing where the tank is coming from?
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Come on. If I set up on the minigun, I'm expecting my team to warn me of such things! They're covering me from the back! And if I want to browse GAF while my team is taking ten years to set up for survival and I'm already on the minigun, HOW IS THAT BAD.
 
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Volcynika

Member
Blizzard said:
Come on. If I set up on the minigun, I'm expecting my team to warn me of such things! They're covering me from the back! And if I want to browse GAF while my team is taking ten years to set up for survival and I'm already on the minigun, HOW IS THAT BAD.
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:lol We didn't take ten years, I just sat around till everyone was ready, so did Mut, and Scarlet was just movin stuff around.

Besides, it's general knowledge to not be immobile when you're not sure where a tank is! :p
 
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