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Title: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: kawe on December 02, 2008, 09:13:28 pm

co-op movie-esque zombie shooting survival that is just fantastic.

You play in a team of 4 people, the 'survivors', or in versus mode, one of 4 special zombie types which all have cool abilities, like the huge fat boomer who spews vomit all over people which attracts hordes of zombies to attack them, and explodes on death as well spraying more again, or the smoker, who hides in the shadows and pulls survivors quickly away from their team with his bajillion foot long tongue...

Survivor teams must be truly co-operative, and the suspense and team-based action is all top notch.

Of course, with 8 player rounds quite possible, and each campaign being 5 stages that total around 45 mins to an hour and a half (if you wipe lots and need to start a section over).

so we could quite happily get some sweet 8 player zombiefest action going.

It is very very fun. I fully expect us to have some nights of l4d in the same way we have done dota :)

So! go go buy on steam and get downloading. Or go out and buy it, for some it's cheaper that way ($50 on steam).

Updated this:

Player List
-Malik (crucis/bison)
-Vix (oddweb)
-Sintrael
-Delling
-Chippen
-Daekesh
-Vorte
-Decayus
-Gozhell
-Starbrow
-Cwave
-Hugman
-Grilly
-Ino
-Grishnag
-Starshadow
-Palmar
-Tyler (kind of? played once)
-Me

19 people! Moar! There are plenty of brains to go around! Om nom nom.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Vorte on December 02, 2008, 09:29:01 pm

I have it, tried some onlining today, and as expected, I didn't understand most of it :P

But I've got the game and can play with ya'll, the campaigns have atleast been frighteningly good!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Chippen on December 02, 2008, 09:47:14 pm

i gots it!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on December 03, 2008, 01:39:35 am

Ordered.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: kawe on December 03, 2008, 03:47:46 am

Had some SWEET versus games with 6 of us, a random, and an AI spot.

Each team takes turns at trying to complete the level as survivors with the other team doing their best to stop them as the special infected zombies. Both teams really need great teamwork to win!

The zombies are hilarious to play, and (with the exception of the rare tank) are very fragile - so very quickly you learn to stick to shadows, and go for the most co-ordinated attacks you can to get the most from your lifespan before the 20-something second respawn.

Playing as survivors is a different experience - you're tougher, but your resources are severely limited, and preserving them through taking care and trying your best to balance haste and speed.

Really, a total joy of a multiplayer game. And it's 100% assured that the two teams should be in seperate vent channels as of course locations and so on, and calls are so immediately important. And then when the game finishes, a really classic example of when all the players rejoin the lobby and recount the hilarity and exploits.

So yes, playing the game with 3 other people through the campaign is great, but playing in versus with two opposing teams competing to get as far through each level as possible - with reaching the end eibng a real moment of teamwanking and "good job!"s over vent.

Really, really looking forward to having regular games of this. And you all should too!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Hugman on December 03, 2008, 01:38:07 pm

Having read a bit about this, heard your descriptions of it, and listened to malik and Sint's frantic screaming on vent, while playing this game, i am definately interested.

Will check play/steam/amazon etc, and get soon.

Does  it have longivity?. Is it something that we will play at the I-series?

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: delling on December 03, 2008, 02:35:09 pm

I imagine it'll be huge at I-series... :)

It's the logical successor to TF2 really, as far as team-based awesome FPS/FPZ go.

Mine should be here tomorrow...

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Chippen on December 03, 2008, 02:52:18 pm

might be abit too much of RNG for competative gaming tbh

ofc i guess its tweakable (always get tank at same spot, etc)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on December 03, 2008, 04:35:34 pm

meh i might give it a go though i dont like zombies much

edit: prolly have that game tomorrow thought i had some money left on paypal but didnt so ordered it online

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: kawe on December 03, 2008, 08:15:15 pm

Quote from: Chippen on December 03, 2008, 02:52:18 pm

might be abit too much of RNG for competative gaming tbh

ofc i guess its tweakable (always get tank at same spot, etc)

Nah, the fact that sint was crying about rng for losing doesn't make it true - yes, random tank spawns and witch spawns are horrible and all, but it evens out over the course of a campaign, especially over the course of several. Part of successful survivor-ing is being able to deal with the unexpected.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Chippen on December 03, 2008, 09:29:21 pm

Quote from: Monsieur Jenkins on December 03, 2008, 08:15:15 pm

Quote from: Chippen on December 03, 2008, 02:52:18 pm

might be abit too much of RNG for competative gaming tbh

ofc i guess its tweakable (always get tank at same spot, etc)

Nah, the fact that sint was crying about rng for losing doesn't make it true - yes, random tank spawns and witch spawns are horrible and all, but it evens out over the course of a campaign, especially over the course of several. Part of successful survivor-ing is being able to deal with the unexpected.

true, it all evens out when you play liek we do, but in a real competetion? could get iffy! anways

awesume game, ppl need to get it!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: starshadow on December 04, 2008, 01:15:55 pm

I can eat Brains to now!!!11

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: delling on December 04, 2008, 02:19:05 pm

Me too!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: kawe on December 04, 2008, 02:28:25 pm

Yay for more players! Be ready for some 8 man braintastic action tonight, with a bit of luck :)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Inphy on December 04, 2008, 03:54:23 pm

Might buy it aswell. Heard it was quite good.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on December 04, 2008, 04:38:32 pm

i can eat brains... in about 2 minutes installing it now

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Lotinja on December 05, 2008, 04:24:59 pm

The game is awesome, been playing it at the local E-cafe, considering getting my own copy. Shame my vent isint working though. Ill try fix it before i join in on your games

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Hugman on December 05, 2008, 07:30:15 pm

Bought it, should arrive tommorrow.

Then i will make you pay.......

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on December 06, 2008, 12:09:16 am

Installed.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Lotinja on December 06, 2008, 06:38:59 am

Shit... The vengance of Hugman shall destroy us all!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Hugman on December 09, 2008, 02:41:20 pm

I HAS ZOMBIES!

and its fucking freaky....

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on December 14, 2008, 04:38:03 pm

ill just leave this here

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Gozhell on December 18, 2008, 11:18:37 pm

haha nice picture. Played L4D for the first time today with some net cafes, they told me not to attack the witch. Curious as I am I shot her in the head and she freaked out on me. :( (Was playing as Zoey aswell lol)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Lotinja on December 24, 2008, 11:24:52 pm

Did she Flip out?

Like a ninja?

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on December 25, 2008, 01:43:41 am

wat?

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on December 25, 2008, 04:26:34 am

(http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/081221.jpg)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on December 25, 2008, 02:08:59 pm

that made me lol

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grilldyret on December 25, 2008, 02:29:21 pm

(http://image.hazardstrip.com/ico/sprays/awesomehunt.png)
Hi there, new Steam Image!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Archz on December 27, 2008, 03:05:04 am

L4D was funneh, I sucked the bigone though xD

My "Boomer-reaction" was kinda similar to the one above, only that I spray everything within 20 yard radius, including everyone on my team.

haehaehahaehae

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: kawe on December 27, 2008, 03:33:02 am

You weren't so bad Archz, really! You stuck with your team, didn't fall behind and covered them fairly well too. The panic reaction thing with boomers happens to us all ;D

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Lotinja on January 19, 2009, 09:24:26 pm

So!

I got L4D today!

Ready to eat brains!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Lotinja on January 19, 2009, 11:40:22 pm

name is Lotinja!

Title: EPIC RAGE AFTER FAILING AT L4D :O
Post by: Ino on March 01, 2009, 02:21:08 am

http://www.ziddu.com/viewfile/3680047/l4dFFFFUUU.mp3.html

Just happened, pretty funny. In b4 Daekesh was trolling.

Wtb soundboard  ;D

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grilldyret on March 01, 2009, 02:44:29 am

It's getting soooo old, only thing is Kesh was the victim this time, which is rare..

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on March 01, 2009, 02:47:38 am

kesh started all that you know

edit: listening to this... made me realise i do sound a wee bit like ino

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Hugman on March 01, 2009, 04:30:38 am

OH MY GOD!

This goes on for sooooooooooooo long.

I am really fucking glad i decided to sit out this game.

You all need to lighten the fuck up! KAWE! you need to stop ripping on ppl, and asserting your "rightness". Kesh! you should drop stuff like this, its not worth it.

Left 4 dead is amazingly fun game, and it is ruined when crap like this happens. If someone makes a mistake, fine, deal with it and move on.

Nice posting Ino!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on March 01, 2009, 05:27:53 am

Quote from: Hugman on March 01, 2009, 04:30:38 am

Kesh! you should drop stuff like this, its not worth it.

It's so awsomely fun, though.  + A good bit of drama never hurts!



(especially when I'm right)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Vorte on March 01, 2009, 05:33:09 am

I'm so gonna have this on repeat when I fall asleep tonight..

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Galtez on March 01, 2009, 06:12:15 am

kek  ;D

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Cwave on March 01, 2009, 09:37:28 am

FAILCAKES :D

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Otori on March 01, 2009, 10:31:28 am

You guys are really special........................................................................................noobs

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Meeckah on March 01, 2009, 11:23:41 am

People who get wound up by games are failcake!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Starbrow on March 01, 2009, 01:20:43 pm

Shit, you guys care too much. I'm so glad I decided to go off vent after I died and the game was over for my part...

It's a game, who cares what happened when we got raped there on the roof...

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Tyler on March 01, 2009, 01:32:25 pm

Hmm that was far too long to listen to. I think i got the gist though...

Tbh i've heard much worse. One of the reasons i stopped with L4D was the constant whining if things went wrong.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on March 01, 2009, 04:26:22 pm

Just to note here, all the time I'm not speaking on that vent thing, I was laughing my arse off.  I do hope people didn't take it at all seriously.  While I did think the game could have gone better, my intention wasn't to ruin the experience for anybody and I appologise if I did.  Everyone in the channel seemed to be enjoying it, though.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: kawe on March 01, 2009, 05:05:54 pm

Was actually a very light-hearted game, despite the very one-sided nature of the 5 rounds. As such, I was more than a little shocked when after a whole game of the team happily trying away come success or failure, that someone would decide to break that an absurd blame game. The double whammy of spoiling an up-till-then lovely atmosphere and the vigour with which such a ridiculous claim was directed at me was more than a temper such as mine would handle (obviously :P).

Quote from: Hugman on March 01, 2009, 04:30:38 am

OH MY GOD!

This goes on for sooooooooooooo long.

I am really fucking glad i decided to sit out this game.

You all need to lighten the fuck up! KAWE! you need to stop ripping on ppl, and asserting your "rightness". Kesh! you should drop stuff like this, its not worth it.

Left 4 dead is amazingly fun game, and it is ruined when crap like this happens. If someone makes a mistake, fine, deal with it and move on.

Nice posting Ino!

and

Quote from: Grilldyret on March 01, 2009, 02:44:29 am

It's getting soooo old, only thing is Kesh was the victim this time, which is rare..

see this

Quote from: Grishnag on March 01, 2009, 02:47:38 am

kesh started all that you know

edit: listening to this... made me realise i do sound a wee bit like ino

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Dookie on March 04, 2009, 03:19:10 pm

Do you guys play only at night?

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Ino on March 04, 2009, 03:40:24 pm

Quote from: Dookie on March 04, 2009, 03:19:10 pm

Do you guys play only at night?

Yes

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on March 04, 2009, 04:00:00 pm

Quote from: Ino on March 04, 2009, 03:40:24 pm

Quote from: Dookie on March 04, 2009, 03:19:10 pm

Do you guys play only at night?

Yes

No.  Admittedly, more likely to get a game after a raid or something, but no harm asking around before a raid of during the day :)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Lotinja on March 05, 2009, 11:21:59 am

Like we did!

Title: L4D patched
Post by: Ino on March 12, 2009, 10:52:30 am

    Versus Mode Changes

    * Tank melee attack can now hit multiple Survivors in one swing
    * Fixed Tank punch being able to hit targets behind walls
    * Fixes to 'Tank parking'. The Tank will now run back and attack the Survivors if he becomes AI due to two players expiring the frustration meter
    * Fixed a case where a Tank frustration meter could run out right as he was in his death animation and he would come back to life
    * Fixed a case where the Tank was moving too slowly while crouching and being shot
    * Tanks now have the possibility of spawning in a slightly different position for the first and second teams
    * The order that the teams play as Survivors is now determined by which team has the higher overall score. The winning team will play as Survivors first
    * The Smoker tongue can now target and grab victims through common infected
    * Increased the cone in which a Smoker can grab a target
    * The Witch no longer cuts Smoker tongues in a radius around her
    * Boomers that explode in mid-air will now hit Survivors directly below them with Bile
    * Reduced the damage that burning Hunters do to pounced victims
    * Adjusted the time at which players take over from bots to avoid 5 seconds of the bot standing idle while the player finishes connecting.
    * Fixed some cases where versus score was not being recalculated properly. It is no longer beneficial to pass pills between players at the end of the round or heal other players and then shoot them
    * Fixed a case where it was possible to spectate an AI infected and hit +use to take them over


    Server Changes

    * Added convar sv_gametype that allows server operators to limit the types of games that will start on their server. Default value is 'coop,versus'. Can be changed to just 'coop' or just 'versus' to limit to those game types


    General changes

    * Fixed a case where players would join as a dead Survivor when a living Survivor was still available
    * Fixed a case where restarting a level due to the team dying would give more than the max primary ammo on restart
    * Fixed the speaking icon showing up on the local player during level transition if voice_vox was set to 1
    * The scoreboard now shows the numeric value of a player's ping


    GameUI

    * Quick match will now try to match to any campaign. Removed the preference to match to games according to the player progressing through all campaigns
    * Games in a finale are now joinable via the Friends and Steam Group games list

Good changes! We must play a game tonight :<

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: delling on March 12, 2009, 01:14:25 pm

Yar, very sexy changes.

I'll be back from the funeral around raid time... up for brains any time!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on March 12, 2009, 04:49:44 pm

those sound like lovely changes

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on March 15, 2009, 07:56:51 pm

I've wanted togglable buttons for a while now, and I finally got around to writing the code for them.  It's pretty simple, put the following in a file called 'myconf.cfg' and place it in the 'Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\cfg' and change the start params for l4d to '+exec myconf':

Code: [Select]

alias duckon "+duck; bind ctrl duckoff"
alias duckoff "-duck; bind ctrl duckon"
bind ctrl duckon

alias zoomon "+zoom; bind mouse4 zoomoff"
alias zoomoff "-zoom; bind mouse4 zoomon"
bind mouse4 zoomon

alias speedon "+speed; bind shift speedoff"
alias speedoff "-speed; bind shift speedon"
bind shift speedon

sv_search_key hashmpukl4d
I added to the code, changing it to the following, to also reduce my sensitivity when i ducked and when I zoomed:

Code: [Select]

alias +duck2 "+duck; sensitivity 7.5"
alias -duck2 "-duck; sensitivity 12.5"
alias duckon "+duck2; bind ctrl duckoff"
alias duckoff "-duck2; bind ctrl duckon"
bind ctrl duckon

alias +zoom2 "+zoom; sensitivity 5"
alias -zoom2 "-zoom; sensitivity 12.5"
alias zoomon "+zoom2; bind mouse4 zoomoff"
alias zoomoff "-zoom2; bind mouse4 zoomon"
bind mouse4 zoomon

alias +speed2 "+speed"
alias -speed2 "-speed"
alias speedon "+speed2; bind shift speedoff"
alias speedoff "-speed2; bind shift speedon"
bind shift speedon

sv_search_key hashmpukl4d
Change ctrl, mouse2 and mouse4 to whatever buttons you use for duck, melee and zoom.

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Lotinja on March 30, 2009, 02:00:16 pm

(http://www.splitreason.com/Product_Images/a931694d8989-xl.jpg)


Awesome pic is awesome!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Supremacy on April 01, 2009, 01:07:54 am

AND NAX AS WELL!

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on April 01, 2009, 03:27:20 pm

if only i could delete in this part of the forum

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Cloelia on April 14, 2009, 12:07:50 pm

I read this post, and that made me want to try out L4D. I have an RL mate, who is playing it, so i might wna try it out at his place. and then ill decide if ill buy it or not. :)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Daekesh on April 14, 2009, 02:03:15 pm

Don't play versus if u do play it, u will be horribly raped.  Play some campaign first :)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Cloelia on April 15, 2009, 11:31:10 am

hehe, yeah prolly, i will have to know just a bit about the game, before i go into the world of online playing with that game ;)

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Grishnag on May 10, 2009, 03:49:26 am

i felt like sharing this

Title: l4d 2 gameplay videos
Post by: Ino on June 01, 2009, 11:53:13 pm

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/143/14352245/vids_1.html

Title: Re: Left 4 Dead WEO WEO
Post by: Hugman on September 29, 2009, 01:16:11 pm

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/23/left-4-deads-crash-course-landing-september-29/