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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread

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Fonds

Member
Red Scarlet said:
I have a q. Someone I know kind of wants this game, but according to this site, his video card just falls short and he can't play the game/doesn't meet the minimum system requirements. According to the site, I am just a little over the minimum..the main difference is our video cards. He has more RAM though..the site says this for us (he's on the left, I'm on the right):



Could he still play the game? Or is it impossible with that video card? Was hoping you computer folk would know..thanks.

edit: He said Half-Life 2 played fine, and the site said so too. Site also says he passes for TF2.
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I managed to play the game with nothing but an AMD 2200 and a 9800 pro. Your friend should be okay. (Though it won't be that pretty).
 
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IcedTea

Member
RocketDarkness said:
I run a 9600 and have never had any hardware performance issues on maxed everything.
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I assume you're talking about a GeForce 9600, not a Radeon 9600. The GeForce 9600 came out in early 2008 whereas the Radon 9600 is from 2002.
 
R

Raggy

Banned
I finally got Expert on No Mercy last night! (and Death toll too!)

I played like shit, though the might of CapnDrake, dygit, and horseshit made my day.

Thx guys.

Now for some more difficult achivments....
 
T

Turfster

Member
Is it just me, or do the bots keep becoming dumber and dumber with each update?
Last night we were 3-manning death toll. We run for the boat and the bot runs off in the other direction, straight into the woods, never to be seen again...
 
A

Amir0x

Banned
you know the boathouse finale is so difficult to actually finish with a full team the way the tank spawns in versus at the end. We all sit on the dock waiting for the boat, but the tank and all the horde are already on us before the boat can even allow us on. Once we're knocked off the dock there's no getting back...the swarms are too nuts with a tank on you at the same time!

Basically the tank spawns way, way too quickly at the end there. The tank can be completely to the end of the dock before the game is even allowing us to get on the boat!

It's the only finale that gives us trouble finishing with all four survivors alive in versus. We always get the boat to arrive (so easy), but no matter how many molotovs and pipe bombs we save, it goes horribly wrong there. Someone ends up dead. We even all sat at the end of the dock with auto shotguns fully loaded and still couldn't kill the tank before he reached the end of the dock, one swipe knocking one or two of us off to our ultimate doom.

There's gotta be some simple strategy I'm missing here. A magic trick to get the boat to actually arrive on time! :lol
 
B

Blizzard

Banned
Amir0x said:
you know the boathouse finale is so difficult to actually finish with a full team the way the tank spawns in versus at the end. We all sit on the dock waiting for the boat, but the tank and all the horde are already on us before the boat can even allow us on. Once we're knocked off the dock there's no getting back...the swarms are too nuts with a tank on you at the same time!

Basically the tank spawns way, way too quickly at the end there. The tank can be completely to the end of the dock before the game is even allowing us to get on the boat!

It's the only finale that gives us trouble finishing with all four survivors alive in versus. We always get the boat to arrive (so easy), but no matter how many molotovs and pipe bombs we save, it goes horribly wrong there. Someone ends up dead. We even all sat at the end of the dock with auto shotguns fully loaded and still couldn't kill the tank before he reached the end of the dock, one swipe knocking one or two of us off to our ultimate doom.

There's gotta be some simple strategy I'm missing here. A magic trick to get the boat to actually arrive on time! :lol
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That's weird, since on PC versus that finale is awful (mainly due to survivors camping in the top floor and/or the water) for the infected team. It IS pretty much the only finale where I've seen the survivors not all escape sometimes due to the third tank having time to get close. I thought the third tank didn't have THAT much time to get on the dock, though, and sometimes one or two people end up on the boat anyway, and the map will instantly end saying they escaped, even if you were trying to block them. :( Silly game.

It's funny if survivors jump on the boat at the wrong time, though, and the boat punches one of them a hundred feet backwards through the air into the woods.
 
Nabs

Nabs

Member
small update released:

August 21, 2009 - Left 4 Dead Update Released

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Engine

Fixed an exploit that allowed files to be uploaded to the server at arbitrary locations in the file system

Fixed a server crash caused by a client packet claiming to be an HLTV client when HLTV is disabled on the server

Fixed a server crash caused by spoofing a client disconnect message

Fixed a server crash caused by sending malformed reliable subchannel data

Left 4 Dead

Novint Falcon support is now enabled by default
 
B

Blizzard

Banned
I guess I should be grateful. Since vertopci always hosted the only GAF games I knew about, and he now has a password-protected server so he and PillowKnight don't have to deal with me, I don't think I've played a single Left 4 Dead game. :lol I suppose it saves time. For anyone else who may have me on their friends list, I have more time available on the weekends, so let me know if you want to play some time.
 
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vertopci

Member
Maybe if you wouldn't bitch so god damn much about the amount of time the games take and the way we do things, we might think about inviting you.

Actually, probably not since you don't listen to me half the time anyways.
 
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mattso

Member
Amir0x said:
you know the boathouse finale is so difficult to actually finish with a full team the way the tank spawns in versus at the end. We all sit on the dock waiting for the boat, but the tank and all the horde are already on us before the boat can even allow us on. Once we're knocked off the dock there's no getting back...the swarms are too nuts with a tank on you at the same time!

Basically the tank spawns way, way too quickly at the end there. The tank can be completely to the end of the dock before the game is even allowing us to get on the boat!

It's the only finale that gives us trouble finishing with all four survivors alive in versus. We always get the boat to arrive (so easy), but no matter how many molotovs and pipe bombs we save, it goes horribly wrong there. Someone ends up dead. We even all sat at the end of the dock with auto shotguns fully loaded and still couldn't kill the tank before he reached the end of the dock, one swipe knocking one or two of us off to our ultimate doom.

There's gotta be some simple strategy I'm missing here. A magic trick to get the boat to actually arrive on time! :lol
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if the tank is running at the dock and someone hasnt made it on yet you should all just jump off. Run the tank around again with the autoshotties and kill him or just keep running in circles until you can get all 4 safely on.

In a perfect world you could also find a propane tank and save it for that last part to explode on the tank to get that few seconds of stun time.
 
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vertopci

Member
mattso said:
if the tank is running at the dock and someone hasnt made it on yet you should all just jump off. Run the tank around again with the autoshotties and kill him or just keep running in circles until you can get all 4 safely on.

In a perfect world you could also find a propane tank and save it for that last part to explode on the tank to get that few seconds of stun time.
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That only works if the infected team are complete morons.
 
Red Scarlet

Red Scarlet

Member
Conceptor said you guys sometimes allow spectators..that'd be fun to watch, if that's okay.

I think Error is going to get a new video card sometime so he can play the game..knowing him though, that won't be until after L4D2 is out anyway. :/
 
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kay

Member
For DT finale when the rescue vehicles comes, it may be that since you are already on the docks, the tank will have a higher chance of spawning closer to it. A strategy may be to stay just in the area before the docks until the tank spawns. That may prevent the tank from appearing closer to you because you would be able to see more areas preventing infected spawn there, but obviously it is more dangerous out in the open like that.
 
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vertopci

Member
Red Scarlet said:
Conceptor said you guys sometimes allow spectators..that'd be fun to watch, if that's okay.

I think Error is going to get a new video card sometime so he can play the game..knowing him though, that won't be until after L4D2 is out anyway. :/
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Only if you don't make fun of us for our massive fails D:

kay said:
For DT finale when the rescue vehicles comes, it may be that since you are already on the docks, the tank will have a higher chance of spawning closer to it. A strategy may be to stay just in the area before the docks until the tank spawns. That may prevent the tank from appearing closer to you because you would be able to see more areas preventing infected spawn there, but obviously it is more dangerous out in the open like that.
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Distance has nothing to do with it. It spawns randomly from a list of about 5 or 6 spots.
 
S

Sibylus

Banned
kay said:
Is it entirely random though? Surely it can't appear right inside you.
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It's probably procedural like the other infected spawning. More or less random as far as we're concerned, but constrained to a set of rules.
 
V

vertopci

Member
kay said:
Is it entirely random though? Surely it can't appear right inside you.
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Lots of finale spawn points are completely random. Had a boomer spawn literally between my team in plain view on the BH finale. I'm sure it does some minor check to make sure it's not directly beside you, but that doesn't seem to work very good if thats the case :lol
 
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CrookedRain

Member
Red Scarlet said:
Cool, vert.

I have auto-spawned directly in front of someone as a Boomer during the DT finale. At least twice. It is funny, at least.
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I've had a boomer spawn inside of me during the DA finale once. I couldn't move for a couple of seconds. :(
 
E

Eaten By A Grue

Member
I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet, but the user made campaign "Heaven Can Wait" is freaking awesome and long as hell too. Took us 1.5 hours to beat.

*Edit: Oh lol it looks like it was mentioned on the last page and most hated it. I thought it was pretty damn awesome.
 
S

Sibylus

Banned
Left 4 Dead coop fun zis week.

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S

Sibylus

Banned
Yea, and running back to the start of the Death Toll finale in a sort of Gauntlet as the boat came in was pretty fun (Only 2 of our group made it).
 
D

Daigoro

Member
that was fun the other night Red, thanks for the invite.

ill be around in the latter half of the week here if anyone gets some games going. send me an invite!
 
drkOne

drkOne

Member
Tired of trying Expert with randoms just to fail hard on the Finale. Was only able to get the win on No Mercy until now.

So hopefully I can start playing with some Gaffers to get the rest of the wins and have some fun.
I'll check the GAF-L4D group and add the ones I recognize from this thread.
And I'll leave my profile here just in case I miss someone: http://steamcommunity.com/id/dkne

I'll probably need a couple of tips for Expert, but I think I can handle :x
 
C

Chinner

Banned
drkOne said:
Tired of trying Expert with randoms just to fail hard on the Finale. Was only able to get the win on No Mercy until now.

So hopefully I can start playing with some Gaffers to get the rest of the wins and have some fun.
I'll check the GAF-L4D group and add the ones I recognize from this thread.
And I'll leave my profile here just in case I miss someone: http://steamcommunity.com/id/dkne

I'll probably need a couple of tips for Expert, but I think I can handle :x
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added u. also give me a message if ye wanna play.
 
drkOne

drkOne

Member
Got you both. Not sure when you usually play but I'll most likely be up for it as long as I'm online, so message me if you're setting up a game.
 
drkOne

drkOne

Member
Ahah, Steam doesn't allow me to lie about status so if it's Online then I'm there and ready to play.
Unless I'm about to go to bed :p
 
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