The Official Left 4 Dead Thread
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1-D_FTW said:
Not sure. I'm running three servers on the East coast with a 100mbit connection and there are often times when no one is playing in them. Either less people are playing or something with Valve's matchmaking system has gone bonkers. I know when I use matchmaking I'm often put into a server where my ping is red or orange. Seldom it is green.
So, not so great teammate post #093480340
Joined Scarlet's game, her, ezekial (who I should add to my friend list), and some other guy. Other guy thought he would be cover as a sniper for us, but stayed wayyyy far back. Of course, he'd get attacked by special infected, and we'd have to bust our ass to save him. Not too fun.
The worst offender, was QuicksilveR. HORRIBLE teammate.
We're all sniping on the Death Toll 4 map, since it's something most people do anyways. I'm sniping at one zombie, but before I shoot, QS (abbreviated), ran in front of my reticule, and so he got incapped. I say sorry, but he walked into my line of fire (and I would've healed him if I had a medkit). So, I picked him up. Here's what happened next:
Volcynika saved QS
Volcynika was incapacitated by QS
*He thought he should get me back for my complete accident*
Volcynika was saved by ezekial
Volcynika was incapacitated by QS
--"Dude, crouch while I'm sniping" *Keep in mind I had just been picked up, so I didn't even move before being sniped*
Volcynika was saved by ezekial
He had even incapped Scarlet while she was crouching, so she was asking if she should even the score and incap him. So after that, a horde rushes us at the start, and QS gets pulled off and Scarlet gets barfed on. Of course, my priorities had shifted greatly, so I stood in place with an automatic rifle knocking zombies away from Scarlet before I helped her up. And QS had gotten free from the smoker after being helped, and was "helping"...
Volcynika was killed by QS
What the hell? Anyways, they went through the rest of the map, so I was just killing time until I left to go to dinner. Eventually, they died right before I left. So what did I do? I waited for the map to restart, grabbed the auto-shotgun, and shot that motherfucker right in the face while he was healing and killed him. Bitch.
Joined Scarlet's game, her, ezekial (who I should add to my friend list), and some other guy. Other guy thought he would be cover as a sniper for us, but stayed wayyyy far back. Of course, he'd get attacked by special infected, and we'd have to bust our ass to save him. Not too fun.
The worst offender, was QuicksilveR. HORRIBLE teammate.
We're all sniping on the Death Toll 4 map, since it's something most people do anyways. I'm sniping at one zombie, but before I shoot, QS (abbreviated), ran in front of my reticule, and so he got incapped. I say sorry, but he walked into my line of fire (and I would've healed him if I had a medkit). So, I picked him up. Here's what happened next:
Volcynika saved QS
Volcynika was incapacitated by QS
*He thought he should get me back for my complete accident*
Volcynika was saved by ezekial
Volcynika was incapacitated by QS
--"Dude, crouch while I'm sniping" *Keep in mind I had just been picked up, so I didn't even move before being sniped*
Volcynika was saved by ezekial
He had even incapped Scarlet while she was crouching, so she was asking if she should even the score and incap him. So after that, a horde rushes us at the start, and QS gets pulled off and Scarlet gets barfed on. Of course, my priorities had shifted greatly, so I stood in place with an automatic rifle knocking zombies away from Scarlet before I helped her up. And QS had gotten free from the smoker after being helped, and was "helping"...
Volcynika was killed by QS
What the hell? Anyways, they went through the rest of the map, so I was just killing time until I left to go to dinner. Eventually, they died right before I left. So what did I do? I waited for the map to restart, grabbed the auto-shotgun, and shot that motherfucker right in the face while he was healing and killed him. Bitch.
freshair said:Just had an epic 3 hour match getting through Blood Harvest.
Hiding out on the house, in the upstairs bedroom, 2 guarding the door and 2 the window.
Once the tank arrives, we bolt to the roof/ground level and take that mofo down.
Run back to the room and repeat.
By the time the 3rd tank arrives, we're pretty much down to our final health and just trying to survive until the army truck comes. I see it coming and a horde of zombies running after us. Francis runs to the truck and our other guy is pinned down. I run to help the guy, but see the tank coming. I peaced the eff out. :lol
Run back to the army truck and see Francis getting pinned down right on the the ramp by a hunter / zombies. I try to help, but as soon as I step in the truck, it takes off. I become the lone survivor. :lol :lol
Thanks to whomever I played with tonight. Neogaf > random XBL people.
Glad to hear you had fun. You did pretty well considering you didn't have a mic for communication. Though you tended to incapacitate a lot of us!
And yeah that attempt we finally got it I got downed inside the vehicle I was so pissed because I figured they wouldn't let you pick me up. Sorry to bail but that other guy we play with was just getting frustrating because we were stuck on the finale part for over an hour and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore.
We should start tackling expert though.
Red Scarlet
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Volcynika said:
I figure it started on DT3, what with 3 of us in the safe room, you get smokered, and I crouch and walk towards you, freeing you from the smoker, and then I get snipered (and killed) in the back of the head by QS. :lol You made it to the save room though!
Let's play again sometime, hopefully with people that can use the SR if they use it. It's the most accurate gun, yet those guys had worse aim than a shotgun.
Mirimar said:
That one warehouse in No Mercy, during Sewer. There's a forklift by a door that you can "slash" with your Hunter or Boomer or Smoker to position it to block the door, and as a survivor you can't move it out of the way.
Same for a level of Blood Harvest (second level), going through a warehouse early on and you can block it with a forklift.
Also, you can block elevator with a generator.
Mattso said:
He did...well...as a five year old kid would do. I could hardly believe he made it from point A to point B, and he had an unusually strong grasp of what it is each zombie infected class does, so I suppose he will grow into a strong player.
Also I got the suspicion that his daddy wasn't too far away from him.
Red Scarlet
Member
Amir0x said:
Well, they apparently fixed that in the PC one like 2 weeks ago (cars and stuff disappear in that one and they recently fixed the 'slash' thing), so they'd probably fix it on 360 any time now?
Red Scarlet
Member
Amir0x said:
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Well it means whatever PC gets, it'll take way longer and cost something on 360 
Of course I don't actually think the patch like that would cost a thing, but I hope it happens so.
And I hope we get that patch alongside new campaigns for versus, flamethrower, and new boss character.
Also a mode where one of the four survivors you start with is randomly infected, and nobody else knows who that person is, and at some random point during the campaign or versus he fucking kills everyone as a bad ass infected boss.
Of course I don't actually think the patch like that would cost a thing, but I hope it happens so.
And I hope we get that patch alongside new campaigns for versus, flamethrower, and new boss character.
Also a mode where one of the four survivors you start with is randomly infected, and nobody else knows who that person is, and at some random point during the campaign or versus he fucking kills everyone as a bad ass infected boss.
The last of my finals are coming at the end of this week so I'll have some free time as well (though I'll admit it hasn't really stopped me from playing before). I definitely want to start tackling expert afterwords. I managed to greatly decrease my number of Friendly Fire incidents since the game launched.
Amir0x said:Well it means whatever PC gets, it'll take way longer and cost something on 360
Of course I don't actually think the patch like that would cost a thing, but I hope it happens so.
And I hope we get that patch alongside new campaigns for versus, flamethrower, and new boss character.
Also a mode where one of the four survivors you start with is randomly infected, and nobody else knows who that person is, and at some random point during the campaign or versus he fucking kills everyone as a bad ass infected boss.
Considering how long it's taking just for the bug fixes to Castle Crashers to be released, for free...
And then add Valve time...
Let's just remind everyone we've been promised a patch for the 360 TF2 since August, and the earliest I can see it coming is Christmas, although realistically late January-February.
If anything though, the arduous process of patching some of these 360 games rewards people for doing it right the first time.
Red Scarlet
Member
What happened on the elevator? Maybe I'm lucky, I've never played a vs where either team went under the helipad.
Red Scarlet
Member
Oh. 
Hopefully they'll fix that soon for the 360.
Hopefully they'll fix that soon for the 360.
ToyMachine228
Member
Looking forward to hearing and seeing exactly what Turtle Rock and Valve has planned for L4D support and DLC. I need a reason to start playing every night again!
RocketDarkness
Member
Great game tonight Red, Juice. I can't believe we didn't have a single death the entire time. Got a couple of nice achievements from that. =)
Wii said:
I've read in the past that no matter how fast our broadband gets in the future, bad ping will always exist across the globe. The electrical signals can only go so fast and short of developing a teleportation device/something that can go faster than the speed of light, you're going to be stuck playing with regional players if you want a good ping.
Let's assume a standard shielded cable. Let's assume wave propagation speed is about 50% of lightspeed in that medium.
Speed of Light: 299 792 458 metres per second~300.000km/s~185.000miles/s
Earth's Circumference at the Equator: 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 km)
Task: send a wave around the globe once.
Best achieveable time: 133ms
This is also the best possible ping since, eventhough your opposite can at most be half the circumference away, it takes the same time for the ping to return. You could also calculate that optical fibre connections will make at least half of your connection-path since they are the intercontinental highways, bringing it closer to ~100ms.
And that's it. The rest is node switches.
Speed of Light: 299 792 458 metres per second~300.000km/s~185.000miles/s
Earth's Circumference at the Equator: 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 km)
Task: send a wave around the globe once.
Best achieveable time: 133ms
This is also the best possible ping since, eventhough your opposite can at most be half the circumference away, it takes the same time for the ping to return. You could also calculate that optical fibre connections will make at least half of your connection-path since they are the intercontinental highways, bringing it closer to ~100ms.
And that's it. The rest is node switches.
timetokill
Banned
DaFish, I think I was playing with you the other night, and I had to bail in the middle of the Blood Harvest finale. (I was The Villain).
My girlfriend had gotten into a minor car accident and so I just left the computer immediately without signing out. How did you guys do?
My girlfriend had gotten into a minor car accident and so I just left the computer immediately without signing out. How did you guys do?
GhettoGamer
Member
Grecco said:
Grecco said:
Was that on the 360 version? I think I was with you when that happen, I was Jayrob85. Shit was fucked up, I reported all them bastards