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The Official Left 4 Dead Thread

nyong

Banned
How does the game look on an LCD with an abysmal contrast ratio? I have one of the Black Friday Samsungs with a 6000:1 contrast ratio.

I'm strongly considering a pick-up during Amazon's goldbox. For the 360 of course.
 

Redd

Member
Threi said:
Here's my story:

Me: "Hey guys get L4D"
Them: "Oh yeah i heard good things about it, i'll get it for 360"
Me: "Yeah I was thinking whether to get the PC or 360 version, I will get the 360 version if all of you are gunna get it"
Them: "Oh definitely, I hear its really fun with lots of people"

*fast-forward a week*

Me: "Yeah i got L4D, ready to play?"
Them: "Yeah...uh...I don't really like it, i'm not gunna get it."
Me: "But I can't have the (inferior) 360 version sitting here with no one to play it with!"
Them: "Yeah it's too fast, i don't know what the fuck im doing. Plus you can go through people. I don't like the graphics. I'm gunna stick to gears, its WAY better, plus im better at it.":\

:lol :lol :lol
If you just got it I'll play with you. I pretty much suck on Expert but I'm pretty good on Advanced mode. What's your 360 gamer tag?
 
Man, I really want to read the rest of this thread to figure out what I've missed. 200+ pages is ridiculous. Hope I'm not missing anything too important.
 

firex

Member
finally got What Are You Trying to Prove? tonight so I guess if I do campaigns it'll just be for fun. although I do feel like expert campaigns can be more fun than vs sometimes. I've finally gotten to where I don't use the auto shotgun at all anymore, so when it's nerfed I can at least use the AR or even the sniper, despite its suckiness.
 

vertopci

Member
JRPereira said:
Sorry about the wait. These are the 3 that I've recorded so far from the first recorded gauntlet runs:

http://www.jrpereira.com/left4dead/gafsprint01c.mp4
http://www.jrpereira.com/left4dead/gafsprint01d.mp4
http://www.jrpereira.com/left4dead/gafsprint01e.mp4

I'm going to be getting the first two recorded tonight or so.


I bought a new microphone earlier and will probably buy a new sound card within a week or so, so the sound quality will likely be a lot better in the future.

Awesome you got them up :D
 

Teknoman

Member
SundaySounds said:
Man, I really want to read the rest of this thread to figure out what I've missed. 200+ pages is ridiculous. Hope I'm not missing anything too important.

Not really, just the great headset argument tsunami of 08. Cool screenshots and a few videos as well.
 

Kuroyume

Banned
I can't fucking stand the kicking option in this game. I know it serves a good purpose when you need to get rid of an asshole, but it's become an annoyance. I get kicked often because morons 1, 2, and 3 are buddies and they happen to kick anyone who they don't know. This happens often on Live.
 

Gart

Member
Yup. Play long enough and you'll be kicked for all sorts of various stupid reasons. Seems to happen more so in L4D.

You can just randomly start vote kicking people and it'll pass. People just tend to vote yes for whatever reason. Once I joined a server and immediately started a vote kick for the hell of it, and it passed.
 

Sanjay

Member
JRPereira said:
Sorry about the wait. These are the 3 that I've recorded so far from the first recorded gauntlet runs:

http://www.jrpereira.com/left4dead/gafsprint01c.mp4
http://www.jrpereira.com/left4dead/gafsprint01d.mp4
http://www.jrpereira.com/left4dead/gafsprint01e.mp4

I'm going to be getting the first two recorded tonight or so.

Nice. NM5 you guys killed it, but Nabs and I tried are best :(

I got the blood harvest one recorded, I just need to know which settings to encode the video at? What did you use?
 

LunaticPuma

dresses business casual
Kuroyume said:
I can't fucking stand the kicking option in this game. I know it serves a good purpose when you need to get rid of an asshole, but it's become an annoyance. I get kicked often because morons 1, 2, and 3 are buddies and they happen to kick anyone who they don't know. This happens often on Live.

I was playing versus and the other team (of 3) kept kicking anybody who joined to be their 4th. They wanted to keep their 4th as a bot which was annoying. They didn't make it out of the finale on BH.

I also finally got All 4 Dead last night. I rarely get to play as a tank and have had multiple games of versus where the other side gets tanks and my team didn't. It was gratifying because I only had to use my fists and a few rock throws (no cars). However, it only worked that well because the other team wasn't that good. I'll take it anyway!
 

Pikelet

Member
First time i saw this tactic - throw a gas canister near the edge of the building at No mercy 4 and when a tank goes by blow him off the building.
 

Jon

Member
Threi said:
Here's my story:

Me: "Hey guys get L4D"
Them: "Oh yeah i heard good things about it, i'll get it for 360"
Me: "Yeah I was thinking whether to get the PC or 360 version, I will get the 360 version if all of you are gunna get it"
Them: "Oh definitely, I hear its really fun with lots of people"

*fast-forward a week*

Me: "Yeah i got L4D, ready to play?"
Them: "Yeah...uh...I don't really like it, i'm not gunna get it."
Me: "But I can't have the (inferior) 360 version sitting here with no one to play it with!"
Them: "Yeah it's too fast, i don't know what the fuck im doing. Plus you can go through people. I don't like the graphics. I'm gunna stick to gears, its WAY better, plus im better at it."

:\

Haha dude, I know the feeling. My roommate at college insisted on getting it for his "PC" because of all the added greatness available to PC players, despite my pleading otherwise. He tried to convince his friends to buy it for their PCs as well, so he would always have a solid foursome to play. Fast forward to now, where only half of the people he wanted actually bought the game. His "PC" is a 4-year old Dell laptop with an INTEGRATED video card, so he has to turn down nearly every setting to make it playable. I tried it once, and it really chugs along. Meanwhile, I have been playing on the 360 with one of my friends, but not very regularly--we just wish my roommate would have made the right call.
 

Walshicus

Member
Threi said:
Here's my story:

Me: "Hey guys get L4D"
Them: "Oh yeah i heard good things about it, i'll get it for 360"
Me: "Yeah I was thinking whether to get the PC or 360 version, I will get the 360 version if all of you are gunna get it"
Them: "Oh definitely, I hear its really fun with lots of people"

*fast-forward a week*

Me: "Yeah i got L4D, ready to play?"
Them: "Yeah...uh...I don't really like it, i'm not gunna get it."
Me: "But I can't have the (inferior) 360 version sitting here with no one to play it with!"
Them: "Yeah it's too fast, i don't know what the fuck im doing. Plus you can go through people. I don't like the graphics. I'm gunna stick to gears, its WAY better, plus im better at it."



:\

Punch them. Hard. Seriously.
 
Threi said:
Here's my story:

Me: "Hey guys get L4D"
Them: "Oh yeah i heard good things about it, i'll get it for 360"
Me: "Yeah I was thinking whether to get the PC or 360 version, I will get the 360 version if all of you are gunna get it"
Them: "Oh definitely, I hear its really fun with lots of people"

*fast-forward a week*

Me: "Yeah i got L4D, ready to play?"
Them: "Yeah...uh...I don't really like it, i'm not gunna get it."
Me: "But I can't have the (inferior) 360 version sitting here with no one to play it with!"
Them: "Yeah it's too fast, i don't know what the fuck im doing. Plus you can go through people. I don't like the graphics. I'm gunna stick to gears, its WAY better, plus im better at it."



:\
Some friends you have.

Might want to add the 'official' FoF list (NeoGAFL4D I think) if you're looking for people to play with, though. That way it isn't a waste of money.
 

vertopci

Member
Sanjay said:
Nice. NM5 you guys killed it, but Nabs and I tried are best :(

I got the blood harvest one recorded, I just need to know which settings to encode the video at? What did you use?

Everyone should at least watch the last one. That was rape at its finest:lol

And my smoker pulls were so awesome
 

syllogism

Member
Haha just grinded a team with a log while they were camping next to the ammo stockpile/radio on bh5. Took quite a while to get it to them but they weren't hitting me while i was crouching behind it.
 

LunaticPuma

dresses business casual
syllogism said:
Haha just grinded a team with a log while they were camping next to the ammo stockpile/radio on bh5. Took quite a while to get it to them but they weren't hitting me while i was crouching behind it.

Where is this log everyone keeps talking about?
 

DaFish

Member
syllogism said:
Haha just grinded a team with a log while they were camping next to the ammo stockpile/radio on bh5. Took quite a while to get it to them but they weren't hitting me while i was crouching behind it.

So your saying you actully got the tree log in to the house?
 

1-D_FTW

Member
syllogism said:
Haha just grinded a team with a log while they were camping next to the ammo stockpile/radio on bh5. Took quite a while to get it to them but they weren't hitting me while i was crouching behind it.

That's awesome. Next time a team decides they're gonna camp the corner with shotties, I have a strategy.
 

Volcynika

Member
vertopci said:
Can't wait for the patch to fix the exploits :D

Then I won't want to kill myself playing with pubbies
hopefully

Not like you won't stop cheesing it in certain places too! We all remember No Mercy 2 last night! Pillow will beat you up!

:lol
 

Blizzard

Banned
vertopci said:
Can't wait for the patch to fix the exploits :D

Then I won't want to kill myself playing with pubbies
hopefully

Pubbies are great, until you find that one random team that actually plays well together. THE NERVE. I joined and made vert and his people lose their first gauntlet run.
or else, we all made us lose it

Tonight we must REVENGE on the random left 4 dead players of the internet.
 

vertopci

Member
Volcynika said:
Not like you won't stop cheesing it in certain places too! We all remember No Mercy 2 last night! Pillow will beat you up!

:lol

That was the reason I wanted you all to go in that corner! But you guys wouldn't listen except for Nabs :(
 

Amir0x

Banned
Man I just played one of the most intense L4D versus matches in ages. So tired of winning 7000 to 100 or whatever, this team really gave us a run for our money. We came on top - barely - but it is so much more enjoyable when we're evenly matched :D
 

Volcynika

Member
Amir0x said:
Man I just played one of the most intense L4D versus matches in ages. So tired of winning 7000 to 100 or whatever, this team really gave us a run for our money. We came on top - barely - but it is so much more enjoyable when we're evenly matched :D

My closest game has been a win of 3 points over the other team. It was awesome.
 

Darklord

Banned
Threi said:
Here's my story:

Me: "Hey guys get L4D"
Them: "Oh yeah i heard good things about it, i'll get it for 360"
Me: "Yeah I was thinking whether to get the PC or 360 version, I will get the 360 version if all of you are gunna get it"
Them: "Oh definitely, I hear its really fun with lots of people"

*fast-forward a week*

Me: "Yeah i got L4D, ready to play?"
Them: "Yeah...uh...I don't really like it, i'm not gunna get it."
Me: "But I can't have the (inferior) 360 version sitting here with no one to play it with!"
Them: "Yeah it's too fast, i don't know what the fuck im doing. Plus you can go through people. I don't like the graphics. I'm gunna stick to gears, its WAY better, plus im better at it."



:\

This has happened to me before. Seriously pisses you off.
 

Stitch

Gold Member
http://kotaku.com/5129878/left-4-dead-patch-out-this-week
You had any problems with Left 4 Dead on PC? I haven't. Sure some of you have, though, so you'll be heartened to hear that a patch for the game will be out this week.

That's according to developer Chet Faliszek, at any rate, who's been posting on the game's forums. Seems "this patch got larger than we would have liked and that really snowballed the time it is taking", and that "the patch should be out this week"

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=784064
"Sadly Microsoft has nothing to do with the pc patch... that delay is all us. The PC and 360 will be patched independently not sure where people picked up that exploit/bug fixing was tied together. Only the DLC will be simultaneous. The problem on the PC side was a few large bugs affected other systems that we were going to rewrite on the pc so we ended up waiting to fix a whole class of bugs instead of just individual bugs. The patch should be out this week.

Thanks

Chet"
 
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Deleted member 1235

Unconfirmed Member
oh man, played a great game of vs on No mercy last night, stranger team was working well, everyone supported each other, really nailing them when we were infected (hunter claw works really well)

however, on the finale, after we destroyed them all and they didn't escape 2 of the guys were 'hey check out this neat thing and got under the ramp :( the other player was an idiot who quickly died so I couldn't go with him, I could either be a ramp dick guy or just get slaughtered on my own.

So I tried it out :( wow what a boring cheap easy win that pretty much ruined the game. I'd never done it before so I didn't realise it was just a win button. Nothing can do anything to you! Even the tank is a piece of cake.

Real shame that the otherwise great players chose the easy win. However it's always the way with a glitch like that. Dude probably discovered it and thought he was on to a 'secret' or something.

vs is fun. I really like waiting as a hunter until the boomer spews someone then attacking with the claw.
 

BobsRevenge

I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
catfish said:
oh man, played a great game of vs on No mercy last night, stranger team was working well, everyone supported each other, really nailing them when we were infected (hunter claw works really well)

however, on the finale, after we destroyed them all and they didn't escape 2 of the guys were 'hey check out this neat thing and got under the ramp :( the other player was an idiot who quickly died so I couldn't go with him, I could either be a ramp dick guy or just get slaughtered on my own.

So I tried it out :( wow what a boring cheap easy win that pretty much ruined the game. I'd never done it before so I didn't realise it was just a win button. Nothing can do anything to you! Even the tank is a piece of cake.

Real shame that the otherwise great players chose the easy win. However it's always the way with a glitch like that. Dude probably discovered it and thought he was on to a 'secret' or something.

vs is fun. I really like waiting as a hunter until the boomer spews someone then attacking with the claw.
Whenever anyone suggests going under the ramp I immediately say "No man, fuck that shit." Even if the other team did it.

I have taken out a team that did try that though. It takes some luck and creative tanking. Luckily people have chilled out on it and I haven't seen it for a while.
 

Blackface

Banned
Threi said:
Here's my story:

Me: "Hey guys get L4D"
Them: "Oh yeah i heard good things about it, i'll get it for 360"
Me: "Yeah I was thinking whether to get the PC or 360 version, I will get the 360 version if all of you are gunna get it"
Them: "Oh definitely, I hear its really fun with lots of people"

*fast-forward a week*

Me: "Yeah i got L4D, ready to play?"
Them: "Yeah...uh...I don't really like it, i'm not gunna get it."
Me: "But I can't have the (inferior) 360 version sitting here with no one to play it with!"
Them: "Yeah it's too fast, i don't know what the fuck im doing. Plus you can go through people. I don't like the graphics. I'm gunna stick to gears, its WAY better, plus im better at it."



:\

Here is how my conversation went when I jumped in vent last night.

Me: Hey guys, get L4D on steam, and lets play....do it now
Friend 1: I will if you do
Friend 2: So will I
Friend 3: I have it, get it now you failures
Me: Done
Friend 1: Ok, I got it.
Friend 2 Got it also, my download is going at 1mb/sec waaaaaaaaat

40 minutes later, we play L4D.
 
catfish said:
vs is fun. I really like waiting as a hunter until the boomer spews someone then attacking with the claw.

I'd be really surprised of the hunters melee attack goes unchanged in the upcoming patch. Sometimes it feels too easy to just run up to someone, slash 'em a couple of times and just disappear into the darkness.
 
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