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Holy shit, I thought this game was amazing on PC, but I snagged a 360 code and all I can say is Good job Valve... seriously good job.
 
McBradders said:
Holy shit, I thought this game was amazing on PC, but I snagged a 360 code and all I can say is Good job Valve... seriously good job.
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This.

I am sure many thought the pad would suck but it really does work well. The quick 180 has saved my ass a few times. :lol
 
YYZ said:
Anyone finding themselves laughing uncontrollably when something stupid happens or when your team gets run over by zombies and you may have accidentally helped the zombies?

I had a funny moment where I was the only survivor running away after a horde attack. I had a health pack and I was using it near the escalators and a fucking smoker comes out of nowhere and kills me. I was slightly around the corner too. It was just ridiculous.
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Haha, the smokers cause so much random havoc.

At the end of the first area people jokingly shut the doors on people, I got shut out and was grabbed by that tongue right afterwards. It was expert so they didn't risk helping me. =(
 
Does anyone have a spare 360 code going? I'm too poor to do anything this weekend so I feel a L4D weekend marathon with some chums would be better than attempting to leave the house.
 
I'm hoping one of the guns in the full version of the game is a desert eagle/some other high-powered handgun. It could even have limited ammo for all I care. I just feel like the regular pistol, even when you're dual wielding them, is weak as hell.
 
shutting doors on people near the safe zones, that's just one of the many things that make me lol real hard.


"I NEED TO GET IN, OPEN THE DOOR!!!"

*door opens*
*door closes*
*door opens*
*door closes*
*door opens*
*door closes*

"Goddamnit stop doing that, help me!!!"

"ARAAGHGHGHHHHG!!!!!!!"

*Hunter has killed Louis*
 
YYZ said:
shutting doors on people near the safe zones, that's just one of the many things that make me lol real hard.


"I NEED TO GET IN, OPEN THE DOOR!!!"

*door opens*
*door closes*
*door opens*
*door closes*
*door opens*
*door closes*

"Goddamnit stop doing that, help me!!!"

"ARAAGHGHGHHHHG!!!!!!!"

*Hunter has killed Louis*
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I was worried about the framerate, but after some driver tweaks the game looked as smooth as shaved balls. The animation was also remarkable. Now all I want is a mod where you have to shoot zombies in the head to kill them. The fact that zombies can take so much punishment is what makes them zombies.
 
Anyone know how good Newegg's 3 day shipping is? Would I get the game on release day or will they ship it on release day? Or would Amazon be better? I don't want the free super saving if it'll take forever to get to Texas.
 
I love how you have to keep checking behind yourselves too. Shit will just pop up back there and swarm you if you're dealing with a small group ahead.
 
YYZ said:
Anyone finding themselves laughing uncontrollably when something stupid happens or when your team gets run over by zombies and you may have accidentally helped the zombies?

I had a funny moment where I was the only survivor running away after a horde attack. I had a health pack and I was using it near the escalators and a fucking smoker comes out of nowhere and kills me. I was slightly around the corner too. It was just ridiculous.
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The director punishes cowardice. :D

A guy who ran from a tank fight, and tried to hide in a train car, was smashed in the head with the rock slab attack from 300 feet away.
 
aeolist said:
I love how you have to keep checking behind yourselves too. Shit will just pop up back there and swarm you if you're dealing with a small group ahead.
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Director loves to snag me with a smoker or ambush me with a hunter if I stick behind to provide backup to the team. Both at the same time usually.
 
Playing this game on advanced difficulty is just not fun. Not only do you risk actually dying to regular zombies but stupid shit like getting attacked by a tank, hunter and a smoker all at the same time happens as well.
 
Yeah even during a small horde attack, a hunter would incapacitate me, someone would help me up, then a smoker would take me as soon as I got up! :lol
 
firex said:
I'm hoping one of the guns in the full version of the game is a desert eagle/some other high-powered handgun. It could even have limited ammo for all I care. I just feel like the regular pistol, even when you're dual wielding them, is weak as hell.
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aim betters....

double handguns is 30 pretty damn accurate bullets with each one being a headshot.
guns with penetration like the hunting rifle wil rain supreme in the real game or something like a Desert eagle a handgun that goes through multiple zombies.

The only gun i can imagine right now is a giant hole portal gun and hitting a tank with his own rock or have a zombie horde down a hole and then out the side of a building all exploding into bits as they hit the ground.
 
Lostconfused said:
Playing this game on advanced difficulty is just not fun. Not only do you risk actually dying to regular zombies but stupid shit like getting attacked by a tank, hunter and a smoker all at the same time happens as well.
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??

Expert is the way to go. Finally made a couple successful runs yesterday with some friends.
Boy, this game is fun :D
 
The game is just amazingly amazing (i'm playing the pc version). Everything, from the animations to the gunplay. Every session theres always something fun or crazy happening, and thanks to those animations everything feels "right" and like a movie

Completed many runs on Expert and it was a blast

With the full game 5 campaigns and 20 maps, versus, all the mods and community love, this is going to be so good... *drools*
 
Lostconfused said:
Playing this game on advanced difficulty is just not fun. Not only do you risk actually dying to regular zombies but stupid shit like getting attacked by a tank, hunter and a smoker all at the same time happens as well.
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I agree Expert is the only way to play.
 
YYZ said:
shutting doors on people near the safe zones, that's just one of the many things that make me lol real hard.


"I NEED TO GET IN, OPEN THE DOOR!!!"

*door opens*
*door closes*
*door opens*
*door closes*
*door opens*
*door closes*

"Goddamnit stop doing that, help me!!!"

"ARAAGHGHGHHHHG!!!!!!!"

*Hunter has killed Louis*
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Hahahaha, I do that!

And if it's safe to do, I'll press E to revive teammates but let go before they're revived :P
 
I actually have the free time to go through my backlog now, but this DEMO is taking the vast majority of my gaming time. The full game is going to own my life.
 
Cheeto said:
I agree Expert is the only way to play.
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Expert is really fun. Dying over and over again until you get it right, then you get to the end and they decide to throw a tank your way in the same area the witch is in. :lol
 
Soooooooooooo......

The replay value is as high as I've been led to believe by previews I take it?
 
Rez>You said:
Soooooooooooo......

The replay value is as high as I've been led to believe by previews I take it?
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I'm having tons of fun doing it over and over, and this isn't even close to the full game!
 
Hazaro said:
"Epic Mode" Apparently.

Hopefully we can get 8 or more survivors going at this.
It's a real shame the demo isn't longer, but at least we get 2 instead of 1 level.
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To Clarify on the Epic Mode That me and Cajole were referring to.
The server we were in had somebody running scripts and could control the difficulty or the spawns or something. Im pretty new to the whole PC thing but that's what I gathered from the conversation that they were having.
 
Wii said:
And if it's safe to do, I'll press E to revive teammates but let go before they're revived :P
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This is what happened in one of my games. The AI controlled character got stuck in a loop for whatever reason. He was the last man standing too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zj3XPGFGu4

Also manged to find one of those super-harder-than-expert servers. The zombies ran 5x faster and the horde rush would be almost endless sometimes. Even the tank ran fast but whoever set up the server put the tanks health to almost as low as a zombie. It was pretty funny. Took us about 3 hours or more just to complete once.
 
How does the 360 version compare to the PC graphics and sound wise? Are the controls hard to get a grip on (I don't really play FPSs), and is the friendly fire always set to on? I should have two 360 codes coming today, so I'll gladly give the second one away if I get it.
 
Lostconfused said:
Playing this game on advanced difficulty is just not fun. Not only do you risk actually dying to regular zombies but stupid shit like getting attacked by a tank, hunter and a smoker all at the same time happens as well.
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You aren't referring to actually playing on the normal difficulty are you?
 
Hotsuma said:
How does the 360 version compare to the PC graphics and sound wise? Are the controls hard to get a grip on (I don't really play FPSs), and is the friendly fire always set to on? I should have two 360 codes coming today, so I'll gladly give the second one away if I get it.
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It looks great on both platforms, and it's more about the atmosphere than the tech/graphics. Voice chat is a must on the higher difficulties, which is a huge plus considering almost everyone on Live has one. No slowdown on 360 even during complete chaos with dozens of zombies. The "RB" button does a quick 180, which is a necessity. Friendly fire is always on, but it works really well with the mechanics of the gameplay.

Valve did a great job with the console version, I'm very impressed.
 
Yeah, the game runs at like insanely high framerates on my PC but I v-sync it anyway.

Looks super nice at 1920x1200. First source game I've run on this rig and it looks insanely good. I love the clean style and the character designs. I pump the grain filter high too.

Great game, so glad I pre-purchased. :D
 
I've yet to play a decent game online. Either the textures don't load properly or the game is laggy as all hell. SP is fun though.
 
:lol Me, Jsnake, Fallengorn, and Sonicspear all screwed around at the end of the warehouse and killed things as they came. Eventually, I assaulted Jsnake with my shotgun, he put me down as well, sonicspear got caught by a smoker, and fallengorn went into the safehouse and won the level :lol
 
YYZ said:
Anyone finding themselves laughing uncontrollably when something stupid happens or when your team gets run over by zombies and you may have accidentally helped the zombies?
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We decided to dash to the subway. I was in the lead, turn to shoot a hunter before it kills me. Car alarm goes off. I turn around to see team covered in slime. We back up into the corner, they all go down, I throw a molotov right on top of them, everything dies. I go to revive them, and step in front of the line of fire of someone and the last remaining zombie.

What's better is I had a bandage that I wanted to save.
 
How can I download this demo on steam? I click download now and all I see is to download now pre-purchase the game. The problem with that is I'm not pre-purchasing shit until I can try it. Any help?

N/M I see it's not an open demo until the 11th.
 
Synless said:
How can I download this demo on steam? I click download now and all I see is to download now pre-purchase the game. The problem with that is I'm not pre-purchasing shit until I can try it. Any help?

N/M I see it's not an open demo until the 11th.
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You have to preorder to get the demo early.

Edit: Yeah.
 
Volcynika said:
:lol Me, Jsnake, Fallengorn, and Sonicspear all screwed around at the end of the warehouse and killed things as they came. Eventually, I assaulted Jsnake with my shotgun, he put me down as well, sonicspear got caught by a smoker, and fallengorn went into the safehouse and won the level :lol
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You forgot the part where I shoot you in the back, then go into the safe house. Bill reins supreme!
 
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