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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread

Speculator said:
Unfortuantely...preordering it from Amazon was a bad idea if ppl wanted to play first...but im not complaining that it only cost me 31 bucks :|
*but still, if anyones has a PC code...:D
ya i'm in ur boat but on 360 : (

WILL SUCK DICK OR SING SHOWTUNES FOR L4D CODE
 
Fallout-NL said:
I tried to go back for some more ammo once, whooo boy, the Director didn't really like that. Got hit with multiple waves and a boomer. :lol
On the last game I played one of our team was foolish enough to stay near the escalators as we moved through the ticket area toward the subway platforms. We were remarking on how few Infected there were in these areas for once, when he shouts for help: he'd been pinned by a Hunter quite a bit behind us. We scamper back and there is a swarm of the fuckers coming back down the escalators from whence we had already cleared them out. This was something new and surprising on my seventh play. I'm sure there will be new and surprising things happening on my seventeeth play. We'll see about seventieth.
 
I take back what I said about the game's performance. I turned off the stupid grain filter and suddenly it runs like a dream. So I'm pretty happy.

Now if Valve just made it so I could, you know, connect to servers and play with other human beings, I'll be really happy.
 
mine is still downloading but add me on xbox live to play, my screen name is GROGGY GORILLA

also getting gears 2 tonight
 
I still haven't even completed it on expert, but I feel like the weapon balance is off. expert makes the uzi more useful, but in terms of the 3 "advanced" guns (I'll just call them that because they're upgrades to the 2 starting primary guns) the best one is easily the assault rifle. The auto shotgun is barely better than the regular shotgun. The hunting rifle is good, but it has a lot lower amount of ammo than the assault rifle, which is pretty deadly at long ranges, has twice as much stock ammo, and over 3x the clip size.

I just hope the other guns in the game will be better/different. I don't necessarily mean wildly different than the shotgun, full auto, or semi-auto rifle setup they have now, just that they should make guns that offer some different playstyles.
 
Scotch said:
I take back what I said about the game's performance. I turned off the stupid grain filter and suddenly it runs like a dream. So I'm pretty happy.

Now if Valve just made it so I could, you know, connect to servers and play with other human beings, I'll be really happy.
From Left 4 Dead 411
"After that, hit the ~ key to open up the console and type in "openserverbrowser" (no quotes). This opens up the server browser you all know and love. Right now, all games are listed under the Custom tab."
:) still wish i was able to get into the PC demo though D:
 
NameGenerated said:
F5 is screenshot.
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thanks, where do they save to?
 
GAWD! Where is my 360 code?!

What could possibly be the hold-up.
The only thing holding me from calling up Gamestop support is the relative certainty that it do no good what-so-ever, and only serve to further frustrate me.
 
Why is install demo not working? ;_;

;_;

There has to be a means of playing this!!! Anyone know how to get it to work, with just the code on pc?
 
Won said:
I also got a password protected server today. This and some crappy servers out there show that the system still needs lots of work. Hope they get it right till release.

Yeah, I got hit by a pass protected server twice in a row. :(
 
firex said:
*gun stuff*
I hadn't thought too much about it, but once I'd tried them all once I began to grab the assault rifle by default. I sort of agree about the auto-shotgun being a minimal upgrade, though. The only improvement seems to be speed, and that's offset somewhat by the reload. But I have a feeling the hunting rifle will be a lot more useful on other levels, some of which will be a lot more open than an underground subway.
 
Oldschoolgamer said:
Why is install demo not working? ;_;

;_;

There has to be a means of playing this!!! Anyone know how to get it to work, with just the code on pc?

Did you put the code in through the "Activate product on Steam" facility on the My Games tab of Steam?
 
Speculator said:
From Left 4 Dead 411
"After that, hit the ~ key to open up the console and type in "openserverbrowser" (no quotes). This opens up the server browser you all know and love. Right now, all games are listed under the Custom tab."
:) still wish i was able to get into the PC demo though D:
Thanks, but the problem for me is not the matchmaking, it's that I can't connect to any server, period. It's a problem a bunch of folks have, especially in Europe apparently.
 
God damn dorm internet! Not working so I can't redeem my L4D code and play the demo. God dammit! And Gears 2 comes out tomorrow. And no Live because of this shit.
 
Where am I supposed to download the demo? the email says

1. Log on to www.l4d.com/demo
2. Double Click "Download Now"
3. Enter the Demo code when prompted
4. Enjoy the game!

I do step one, then there is no actual 'download now' only install now, so I click that, it takes me to steam (same page), I click install now in steam, it does nothing.
 
Wow, I enjoyed that more than I thought I would. When I'm playing with people I actually know I could see the game being amazing. One more game to add to my list.
 
Gmail's auto-updating feature is both a blessing and a curse, I'm just sitting here babysitting it. An email pops into my inbox, I rush over to that tab, and then I find it's not from Gamestop.

It'd be most appreciated if someone with a PC code would end my misery.
 
TheOneGuy said:
I think it has something to do with fun games being enjoyable.

I could be wrong, though.
I don't know, I find the shooting to be awful. I wish it wasn't, but it is. Many nice considered multiplayer choices in there though.
 
Valkyr Junkie said:
I picked a terrible time to switch to Vista on my PC. I needed to format my system HDD, so I figured I would get a head start on being accustomed to Vista for when I build a Nehalem rig. My PC has a overclocked Athlon 3500, 2GB DDR, and a 7800GTX. For Source games up to Episode 2, I've been able to run everything at max (except for blur), 1920x1200, and still get 60FPS........on XP. Now with Vista I've got half the system RAM being eaten up by the OS alone, and at the lowest 16:10 resolution with details at low/medium, I'm getting between 0 and 60 FPS :lol

Vista does not work that way.

I still dislike it though.
 
MiniDitka said:
Yep, it sure does. If you go back a page you can see some vids I captured from single player.

Just finished downloading it. :)

And wow, the PC version actually has a "Vsync triple buffered" setting. First time I can recall not having to boot up the ol' D3DOverrider.
 
Looking for a second key so my GF and I can play. I'm trying to get her into FPS games and on normal, I think she'd really dig this one. Just don't want to plunk down $50 to be wrong in the end. Anyone have a key to share?
 
firex said:
I still haven't even completed it on expert, but I feel like the weapon balance is off. expert makes the uzi more useful, but in terms of the 3 "advanced" guns (I'll just call them that because they're upgrades to the 2 starting primary guns) the best one is easily the assault rifle. The auto shotgun is barely better than the regular shotgun. The hunting rifle is good, but it has a lot lower amount of ammo than the assault rifle, which is pretty deadly at long ranges, has twice as much stock ammo, and over 3x the clip size.

I just hope the other guns in the game will be better/different. I don't necessarily mean wildly different than the shotgun, full auto, or semi-auto rifle setup they have now, just that they should make guns that offer some different playstyles.



There are no other guns right? Thought this was it.


That's one thing I'd like to see in updates though, a truly insane range of weapons. It being America, tons of stuff should be lying around.


Joseph Merrick said:
I don't know, I find the shooting to be awful. I wish it wasn't, but it is. Many nice considered multiplayer choices in there though.


Odd, I think Valve's gunplay is goddamn stellar each and every time. Especially now with the zombie animation and hit detection being so very realistic. I've honestly never had more fun shooting stuff than with this game.
 
If anyone has a spare PC code I'll gladly take it!


I'll still preorder it anyway, but I wanna make sure it runs dandy enough... 2.6ghz ht, 1,5gb ram and a 7600gt.




Also, demo has single and multiplayer, right?
 
I can't stop playing this game. It's just amazing, this is my GOTY right there.

darkressurection said:
Finally got through on Advanced, Expert is super difficult.
Yeah, Expert is just insane.... I finished it a couple of times on Advanced, but no way am I ready for Expert.... This game is pretty damn hard.
 
hitting the zombies in the face and then blowing their heads off is so awesome
sometimes i just beat them to death
 
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