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[Red Scarlet]

Considering I never heard of the bunnyhop pouncing, who knows. There's always something you may learn from watching others. I enjoy doing that. If it was watchable, I'd probably watch bits of a match while I'm eating dinner. I did that with CS at school.

 

[vertopci]

Considering I never heard of the bunnyhop pouncing, who knows. There's always something you may learn from watching others. I enjoy doing that. If it was watchable, I'd probably watch bits of a match while I'm eating dinner. I did that with CS at school.

Go to l4dmapdb and download teh hunter_training map. It'll teach you pretty much everything except pounce sliding.

 

[Plaguefox]

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[RocketDarkness]

This is pretty much the ultimate tactic, but the precision required is unreal.

 

[vertopci]

This is pretty much the ultimate tactic, but the precision required is unreal.

Nah, once you have bunny pouncing down, the push is pretty easy to pull off.

 

[Chinner]

anyone wanna GAME!?

 

[vertopci]

Anyone free later tonight to play some VS?

 

[Blizzard]

This is pretty much the ultimate tactic, but the precision required is unreal.

That's really neat, but then you'll actually get ingame and the other team will immediately tell you, "We're practicing for the eggy tournament, no bunny hops or we'll rage".

Things I really need to learn include:
A) Timing on meleeing hunter pounces away. I thought that one of the patches a while back made it so that you couldn't really block pounces if they were already going to do extra damage, but yesterday I pounced Zoey on BH4 (I think it is? The one with the train that knocks down the bridge) from on top of the high bank. I landed right in her face, only to be melee-blocked and killed. I don't think I've blocked a pounce in ages, but I usually do the melee swing while the hunter is still in the air. Is it more of a last-second thing, or an earlier thing?

B) Timing on tank punches. Most of the people I play bunnyhop or crouchjump constantly as humans, which means that swinging at normal height as a tank will do nothing. Sometimes it does nothing anyway, but that's another story. So anyway, is the best tactic to try to swing at head height, and if so, when/where exactly should I try to get the fist hitbox and the impact to occur?

 

[shuri]

I was going to pick up the pc version (after enjoying the 360 version as a rental), but after reading the last pages, It sucks that this game degenerated into an exploit fest with people glitching, crouching jumping and bunny hopping all around.

Too bad.

 

[ezekial45]

I was going to pick up the pc version (after enjoying the 360 version as a rental), but after reading the last pages, It sucks that this game degenerated into an exploit fest with people glitching, crouching jumping and bunny hopping all around.

Too bad.

The thing that PC has over console is how quickly updates come out to fix such exploits.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Also, you can bounce around tanks on 360 just the same.

 

[Blizzard]

Just did it again, pounced zoey from the roof of no mercy and just bounced off her head (and I had 5-11 ms ping). :lol

I don't think the PC version gets patched very often, and I suspect Valve doesn't consider stuff like bunny hopping to be an exploit. It's probably just people who try to make the game more acceptable for clan matches and competitions. It seems a little silly to me since the game is basically designed around the director screwing one team or another, and even if you add all the CEVO rules, one team still might get 6-8 pills or a bunch of molotovs right before the tank, while the other one doesn't, which can end up as a huge advantaege.

 

[MNC]

Considering I never heard of the bunnyhop pouncing, who knows. There's always something you may learn from watching others. I enjoy doing that. If it was watchable, I'd probably watch bits of a match while I'm eating dinner. I did that with CS at school.

There was a topic on the steam forums dedicated to all that is Hunter pouncing. Thought me vertical jumping.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Oh, and I just tried it and you can bunnyhop on 360 too. It's just a lot harder, as it is with all hunter jumping.

 

[vertopci]

I was going to pick up the pc version (after enjoying the 360 version as a rental), but after reading the last pages, It sucks that this game degenerated into an exploit fest with people glitching, crouching jumping and bunny hopping all around.

Too bad.

I honestly wouldn't count bunny hopping as an exploit at all.

Also the game hasn't degenerated into an exploit fest at all either :/

If you play with scrubby nubs, then yea, all they will do is try to exploit, but scrubs do that in every game.

 

[Xav]

I was going to pick up the pc version (after enjoying the 360 version as a rental), but after reading the last pages, It sucks that this game degenerated into an exploit fest with people glitching, crouching jumping and bunny hopping all around.

Too bad.

I never actually play Left 4 Dead with people I don't know, so far I've only ever played with my friends. My brother checking out the survival pack and I was shocked to all the games he joined consisted of people trying find areas where the enemy might not be able to get them. Most of the time it resulted in them crying for help after they were left hanging on a ledge. God just play the damn game the way it was intended.

 

[Nabs]

I was going to pick up the pc version (after enjoying the 360 version as a rental), but after reading the last pages, It sucks that this game degenerated into an exploit fest with people glitching, crouching jumping and bunny hopping all around.

Too bad.

that's not the case at all.

 

[PillowKnight]

We(Vert, Nabs , Zero and I) played against -real- L4D team today. It was really fun and the game was scary for the first time in a long time. Vert's gonna post the demos in case anyone wants to watch us get owned.

Also, having every single one of your long distance pounces miss because of melee is very very frustrating.

 

[Blizzard]

Also, having every single one of your long distance pounces miss because of melee is very very frustrating.

Now you know how I feel. :lol

 

[vertopci]

Videos of us getting raped! Yippee! Although we did pretty good on DT5.

We only remembered to record that last two maps...so thats all your getting. Plus those are the maps we did best on :lol

If someone reallllllly wants an .avi or something of these let me know and I'll think about it.

DT4 from Pillow's perspective

DT5 from my perspective

We(Pillow,Zero, Sanjay and I) also got totally rocked by another team. Score was like 6k to 900 or something. Forgot to record those rapings which is prolly a good thing.

 

[Nabs]

We also got totally rocked by another team. Score was like 6k to 900 or something. Forgot to record those rapings which is prolly a good thing.

We? I wasn't apart of that.

 

[vertopci]

We? I wasn't apart of that raping.

Fine I'll edit it!

 

[Sanjay]

We? I wasn't apart of that raping.

So your to blame for my rape! but really that team we lost to were god like.

 

[Nabs]

lol

we were too hesitant during the first match. i feel we could have taken em if we got a few more breaks our way. i didn't feel so bad after that loss. i felt it helped us out a bit.

but that second match sounds sounds demoralizing. glad i was nowhere to be found.

 

[Twig]

So much rape in this thread.

Maybe I should stay out of it.

 

[Raide]

So much rape in this thread.

Maybe I should stay out of it.

Sounds like the best idea. :lol

 

[vertopci]

I like how Sanjay refused to believe me when I told him the guys we were going to play would demolish us. :lol

 

[vertopci]

All 5 maps of our latest rape should be uploaded by tomorrow :lol

 

[Marvie_3]

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[Jaagen]

Aaaaand I can't load custom campaigns...>_<

Downloaded "Dam it" and installed it into the "addons" folder(where the .vpk files go), but the game says there's no cunstom campaigns. If I go under the "Extras" menu, I find the map and the box says it's checked for loading, but as soos as I make a game, it doesn't find the bloody map. Any suggestions?

 

[andycapps]

Videos of us getting raped! Yippee! Although we did pretty good on DT5.

We only remembered to record that last two maps...so thats all your getting. Plus those are the maps we did best on :lol

If someone reallllllly wants an .avi or something of these let me know and I'll think about it.

DT4 from Pillow's perspective

DT5 from my perspective

We(Pillow,Zero, Sanjay and I) also got totally rocked by another team. Score was like 6k to 900 or something. Forgot to record those rapings which is prolly a good thing.

What format are these in? How do I watch them?

 

[PillowKnight]

What format are these in? How do I watch them?

Download them and put them into your steam l4d folder (should be something like Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead .

Then open up the console and type in "play demo (the name of the file)".

If you've never used the console before, open up l4d go to options click on keyboard/mouse. On the menu that pops up there should be a "allow developer console" option turn that on. You can then activate the console my pressing the ~ key.

 

[fallengorn]

And here I was, thinking you guys were just doing more pubstomps. I'll have to remember to d/l watch the demos tonight.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Aaaaand I can't load custom campaigns...>_<

Downloaded "Dam it" and installed it into the "addons" folder(where the .vpk files go), but the game says there's no cunstom campaigns. If I go under the "Extras" menu, I find the map and the box says it's checked for loading, but as soos as I make a game, it doesn't find the bloody map. Any suggestions?

Just double-click the .vpk and it installs itself (provided the filetype is associated with steam, which it was for me by default).

 

[vertopci]

And here I was, thinking you guys were just doing more pubstomps. I'll have to remember to d/l watch the demos tonight.

We're the ones getting stomped :lol

Anyways, we'll prolly leave the files in .dem format simply because they are small as fuck and have the same quality as when you play L4D. If you don't have L4D PC, you're kinda fucked I guess :/

I'll try doing ONE avi file of the map we pwned in.

 

[RocketDarkness]

Quick heads up for my L4D pals: I'm in SD for the week, so no PC gaming for me. See y'all next week.

As for new tactics, Red, Loso taught me a new one the other day: setting yourself on fire as a hunter, then going ahead to panic event areas to destroy all the gas cans and propane tanks in advance. XD

 

[vertopci]

Alright, full campaign of our latest rape is up. Get it here

Mirror Here

Video was taken by Conceptor who spectated the whole match. So credit goes to him. Also, read the instructions Conceptor put in the zip.

Once again these are .dem files because they are small in size. I might do DA3 in avi form later tonight if I have the time but most likely I won't.

 

[Red Scarlet]

Enough with that shit, vert.

 

[JDSN]

What a silly way to get banned.

Quick heads up for my L4D pals: I'm in SD for the week, so no PC gaming for me. See y'all next week.

As for new tactics, Red, Loso taught me a new one the other day: setting yourself on fire as a hunter, then going ahead to panic event areas to destroy all the gas cans and propane tanks in advance. XD

So you could theoretically set up the panic event on the sewers level of No Mercy?

 

[Xdrive05]

So does Left 4 Dead have the greatest ratio of...

Community : Retail Content

...of any multiplayer game?

Even back when there were only 2 Campaigns you could play in VS it seemed like everybody and their brother's dog was playing L4D.

 

[Blizzard]

So you could theoretically set up the panic event on the sewers level of No Mercy?

That's an awesome tactic and I'd never thought of it (I can't remember if there are any flaming barrels on the top floor of NM4, almost certainly not, or that would be awesome). I'm not sure what you mean though. Do you mean the garage door lift, and setting the cans off as the humans trigger it?

 

[JDSN]

That's an awesome tactic and I'd never thought of it (I can't remember if there are any flaming barrels on the top floor of NM4, almost certainly not, or that would be awesome). I'm not sure what you mean though. Do you mean the garage door lift, and setting the cans off as the humans trigger it?

Nah, the one with the barrels that you have you blow up to destroy an obstacle, with the construction site.

 

[Blizzard]

Nah, the one with the barrels that you have you blow up to destroy an obstacle, with the construction site.

I thought that was dead air, with a gas can in front of a barricade. I'll have to try, I doubt flame from a hunter sets it off.

 

[Bisnic]

Hey guys i'm trying to find the console command that will allow me to literally make zombies fly across the room, street, or forest when we shoot them with say a shotgun or sniper rifle. Not necessarily low gravity, i just want to have some super Shotgun that push zombies so hard it's funny to watch.

So far, the only thing i've found that looks like it is "cl_ragdoll_gravity", and even though the zombies sometimes gets pushed hard by my gunshots, they still fly in slow motion and that's not what i wanted.

Any idea if it's possible? I just want some fun in the offline mode lol. :lol

 

[Teknoman]

Probably already been asked, but could someone make a list of the most common gaf survival/campaign/co-op map downloads?

So far i've got escape from toroto, dead meat, and power station.

 

[MNC]

What a silly way to get banned.


So you could theoretically set up the panic event on the sewers level of No Mercy?

...Did he get banned for posting up dem files? Wat

 

[Blue Geezer]

...Did he get banned for posting up dem files? Wat

no i think it was for the word he was throwing around in his previous 4/5 posts.

 

[MNC]

Ahh, makes 'sense'.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=770952

Here's that hunter pouncing technique topic. Enjoy people!

 

[RocketDarkness]

I thought that was dead air, with a gas can in front of a barricade. I'll have to try, I doubt flame from a hunter sets it off.

Nah, you can't set off the panic event itself, unfortunately. It's just nice to get rid of the gas cans and propane tanks in advance, so they don't have any additional means of defense.

Vert. =(

 

[Jaagen]

Just double-click the .vpk and it installs itself (provided the filetype is associated with steam, which it was for me by default).

Tried to do that, but the result is tha same. It appears under the "Extras" menu, but once you create a server, you can't find it under "add-on campiagns". I'll try another one to see if it works.