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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread
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Baloonatic
Member
Anyone got any ideas as to why I can't get any servers to show up in the server browser?
My connection problems are getting worse, I can only connect to 1/10 servers, and when I do my ping keeps dropping to red for short periods of time. Don't have any problems with other online games and it's only started happening in L4D over the past week or so.
My connection problems are getting worse, I can only connect to 1/10 servers, and when I do my ping keeps dropping to red for short periods of time. Don't have any problems with other online games and it's only started happening in L4D over the past week or so.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
I barely use my mic, but I recently realized I keep going, "aaah" when someone pounced me or snagged me. It's not intentional. I think I used to say, "hunter on me." and it just devolved over time into some "surprised" noise coming out of my mouth.
Giganticus
Member
current roomba tactics in versus
run really fast out of saferoom
close doors behind you so any other survivors can't catch up
if anyone gets grabbed by special infected make sure to tell them "looks like you were... LEFT 4 DEAD!" over the mic, and keep running
if you get any cars or witches that are near saferooms and everyone else is somewhat behind, feel free to shoot them and then close the door so the horde/witch rushes them instead
run really fast out of saferoom
close doors behind you so any other survivors can't catch up
if anyone gets grabbed by special infected make sure to tell them "looks like you were... LEFT 4 DEAD!" over the mic, and keep running
if you get any cars or witches that are near saferooms and everyone else is somewhat behind, feel free to shoot them and then close the door so the horde/witch rushes them instead
Ganhyun said:
Good luck. I did this was dax01, RubxQub and another friend, and it was definitely imo the hardest of the four to complete on expert. It's not like it was a terribly difficult strategy, but it was always give or take whether they'd give us a fuel tank or molotovs to burn down the tank, and without that it was rolling the dice whether we'd make it past the second one after being widdled down.
We completed it in the barn though.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Giganticus said:
Man, Valve should make a race mode where you can shoot the other survivors to slow them down.
Giganticus
Member
they already havemorningbus said:
it's called throwing molotovs
Baloonatic said:
Be lucky you haven't had those issues from the start? I have. And I've been unable to host games for this reason. And I've ranted about how I feel this is the reason some people are lousy hosts (with always getting high ping servers) and some always get great servers (cause it's my theory they're seeing everything.)
EDIT: Although it doesn't affect me when I join other people's games, if that's what you're saying.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Giganticus said:
Yes, but I want achievements for it!
Kard8p3 said:
Well, I'm open to helping with others. But I know the other three on expert took me and my friend (we are both gaffers) with randoms like 4-5 hours to do. I'm hoping to get 1 more gaffer to try and get it done in like 3-4 instead.
So, if it takes forever, we might not be able to do the others tonight.
morningbus said:
I want a full blown race mode, where the survivors can't die, smokers actually drag people back and zombies do physical throw/push back. Each incap only lasts for 10 seconds, and everything else is standard. Score by whoever gets their ass across the safe room finish line first.
Oh yeah, and 8 people per team instead of 4.
Versus mode like this would be the shit.
Baloonatic
Member
1-D_FTW said:
I seem to be alright when I'm joining a friend's game, it's just that matchmaking seems to completely hate me. That would be fine but the server browser doesn't show any results so I can't even find a decent server that way :S
Baloonatic said:
That is weird. Because now that you mention it, I'm able to always join matchmaking and usually get really good pings. I just don't because it means playing public matches.
So for some reason I MUST be able to see servers then. My ability to see servers in a lobby or as host are another story.
Baloonatic
Member
1-D_FTW said:
I dunno what's going, I just loaded up CS and now I can't see servers in that either? It must be some program I have running because CS was definitely working a few days ago. I've tried disabling all my anti-virus stuff and still nothing. Boooo.
Kard8p3 said:
Well, if I hadn't gotten up at 6 a.m. this morning I'd prob be able to stay up alot later than midnight and help. But on expert, this game is challenging. normal zombies do 10 pts damage a hit. Witches instakill you if you disturb them and don't kill them first. Tanks are 1 hit incap. Specials eat your health up quick too.
And with me not being at a level equal to Scarlet or some of the others, it takes a while
Ganhyun said:Well, if I hadn't gotten up at 6 a.m. this morning I'd prob be able to stay up alot later than midnight and help. But on expert, this game is challenging. normal zombies do 10 pts damage a hit. Witches instakill you if you disturb them and don't kill them first. Tanks are 1 hit incap. Specials eat your health up quick too.
And with me not being at a level equal to Scarlet or some of the others, it takes a while
Yeah =(
hey while on the topic of expert...if anyone needs help I wrote an article with tips on beating it (already got the 1000 points myself). It's pretty long so I didn't want to paste it all here but a lot of people have told me they found it useful.
http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/left-4-dead-tips-for-surviving-expert-difficulty/
http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/left-4-dead-tips-for-surviving-expert-difficulty/
Sniper McBlaze
Member
Why the hell does the game always make my change sides without any reason? I fucking hate when I suddenly am on the other side. Especially when I play with friends. I hate this game and it's 30593059 different bugs and retarded stuff!
Do regular infected really do only 10 damage on 360? It's 20 on pc.Ganhyun said:Well, if I hadn't gotten up at 6 a.m. this morning I'd prob be able to stay up alot later than midnight and help. But on expert, this game is challenging. normal zombies do 10 pts damage a hit. Witches instakill you if you disturb them and don't kill them first. Tanks are 1 hit incap. Specials eat your health up quick too.
And with me not being at a level equal to Scarlet or some of the others, it takes a while
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
It's 10 on PC.syllogism said:
edit: actually it's 20. I know I've seen them do only 10, but that's rare and probably occurs when you somehow stop them midattack or perhaps part of the attack misses. Even when testing this I couldn't get them to do less than 20.Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
edit2: Mystery solved, they do 10 from behind and 20 when you are facing them. A bit silly mechanic.
Houston3000
Member
syllogism said:
I thought it was 10 from the front, 20 from the back... haven't played Campaign mode in a while though
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Left 4 Dead 360 is all-around a much better port than The Orange Box 360. There's very little lag thanks to the dedicated servers as well and even if you end up on a server that's located nowhere near your country (i.e. you have a red ping bar), the lag is hardly noticeable compared to other online shooters. There aren't any major differences between both versions of Left 4 Dead, though the game obviously has the edge on PC regarding overall performance and its graphics (depending on your hardware). It's still technically solid on the 360 though, so there's nothing to worry about. Well, other than certain Versus exploits, which haven't been patched on the Xbox 360.Shoogoo said:
There's very little auto-aim in Left 4 Dead 360 in fact, if any at all.Shake Appeal said:
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
No. Liu Kang Baking A Pie is always right, because he's awesome like that. No contest.syllogism said:
Red Scarlet
Member
I'd think they would have to all be alive when you call the radio (not a problem), and stay alive throughout the finale to get it. The only exception that comes to mind would be if someone fell off the map (like No Mercy) on their own. I only say that because last night, Sanjay got Man vs Tank when Rezuth mis-jumped and fell off a building on Dead Air 2 during a Tank.
omgimaninja
Member
Only campaign I haven't beaten is Dead Air. Anybody willing to run through it with me tonight?
user name is "puyo"
user name is "puyo"
Red Scarlet
Member
You fell off, but where? On one of the buildings with the wooden bridge? I didn't see what happened.
marvelharvey
Member
So, now that I've made myself a little more Steam literate, is there a list of GAF Steam IDs somewhere? Or some sort of GAF group to join for VS matches? I upgraded from the 360 to the PC version, just to play with you guys!
Pop On Arrival
Banned
marvelharvey said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13458854&postcount=1
There you go.
And if I remember correctly, you're from Japan, right? We might be able to have some good latency games going since I'm from Asia too. :]
Here's mine: http://steamcommunity.com/id/letsmakepopmusic
Red Scarlet
Member
Papercuts said:
Yeah, I was thinking Man vs Tank was Tankbusters, in hindsight.
marvelharvey
Member
Great, look forward to some lag-free Asian gaming soon! Lastly, do friends need to be added manually? Or will L4D consider people within the Steam-group as friends?Pop On Arrival said:
Pop On Arrival
Banned
marvelharvey said:
You have to add friends manually, but if a group you're in has some servers running, they'd pop up in the 'steam group servers' menu.
Red Scarlet said:
Yeah where the wooden bridge is, him and I were running and he was on my right side and I just see him jump down and I was like WTF and laughing. After that the Tank actually jumped across to the other platform then he jumped down and killed him self.
That dead air campaign had many laughs. Where we ran up the stairs trying to flew from the tank only to run into him and also me dying on the airplan finale, that airplan door takes ages to open
Blue Geezer said:as on one run through we were on mic except for one guy who didnt really respond and we hit a tank upon realising he had the only molotov we were shouting at him to throw at (as he hadnt at that point) it was only afterwards we found out he was french and couldnt understand a thing we said lol
yeah I was in that game, lol we were all screaming throw the damn molotov.
Oh and Pld some VS today and the Gaf team were doing speed runs the bastards, and I was stuck on the other team oh the pain playing with the puplic team. Later we did this to another lot too, was hilarious have it recorded will try to put it up later.
Visualante
Member
My new grief is called the escort mission. I don't fire my guns at all only doing the occasional melee to free myself.