Left 4 Dead

Align

<!--quoteo(post=1693772:date=Nov 19 2008, 12:51 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Nov 19 2008, 12:51 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693772"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->No like you and 3 buddies would always be together against 4 other people.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just nab all the survivors/infected spots first and you'll be on the same team until the game is over and you're back in the lobby.

Shockeh

Or, create a Friends-Only game, then change the Permissions to Public once they're all in?

CommunistWithAGun

Heh I get tons of invites, then laughed at when I say I can't afford it. Then when I explain how I've lost my job recently, they just laugh harder.



And you people wonder why I am so cynical.

TychoCelchuuu

<!--quoteo(post=1693777:date=Nov 18 2008, 06:27 PM:name=CommunistWithAGun)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CommunistWithAGun @ Nov 18 2008, 06:27 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693777"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Heh I get tons of invites, then laughed at when I say I can't afford it. Then when I explain how I've lost my job recently, they just laugh harder.
And you people wonder why I am so cynical.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't wonder! I got an invite but that was from SentrySteve who knows I don't own it.

Align

<!--QuoteBegin-fightingamphibians+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fightingamphibians)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->you can still run the demo from steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead demo/left4dead.exe<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

lolfighter

<!--quoteo(post=1693777:date=Nov 19 2008, 01:27 AM:name=CommunistWithAGun)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CommunistWithAGun @ Nov 19 2008, 01:27 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693777"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Heh I get tons of invites, then laughed at when I say I can't afford it. Then when I explain how I've lost my job recently, they just laugh harder.
And you people wonder why I am so cynical.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
People are jackasses. You'd definitely get a saddie from me if I was the one you were talking to. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

SentrySteve

<!--quoteo(post=1693775:date=Nov 18 2008, 07:11 PM:name=Align)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Align @ Nov 18 2008, 07:11 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693775"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Just nab all the survivors/infected spots first and you'll be on the same team until the game is over and you're back in the lobby.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

We do, but this isn't really an ideal system. I'd love to see a system where me and three others could enter queue together, and be on the same team, against four other people who also chose to enter into a queue together.

Much like Battle.net's Arranged Teams function.

spellman23

BURN THE WITCH!!!!

=]

Gawd I love some of the achievements. Also, setting Tanks on fire in the sewers is always a bad idea.

Barely had time for a quick run with bots. Feels like the later levels were actually kinda a challenge finally. Haven't done Expert still, need to find a good group that won't shoot me in the back. Or, you know, provoke the Witch with a pipebomb then run and hide in a corner.

Align

Speaking of the witch, she has several "states":
crying
annoyed (looking at you)
angered (hunching)
pissed (standing)
attacking

Until she's actually running around clawing at whoever disturbed her, you shouldn't attack, unless you don't mind a faceful of claws.

X_Stickman

Once she's taken out whoever startled her, she runs off and hides too. So it's kind of a waste of ammo to hunt her and put her down.

douchebagatron

if you sneak up behind her you can oneshot her with the shotgun in the back of the head. ive only seen it happen once. i tried, but i startled her when i was right next to her, then i unloaded with my autoshotgun and killed her myself before she touched anyone.

the way i saw it happen, she was right around the corner and someone didnt know she was there, and when they walked around the corner shot her once on accident and killed her

SentrySteve

<!--quoteo(post=1693841:date=Nov 19 2008, 10:08 AM:name=X_Stickman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(X_Stickman @ Nov 19 2008, 10:08 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693841"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Once she's taken out whoever startled her, she runs off and hides too. So it's kind of a waste of ammo to hunt her and put her down.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I thought that same exact thing, until one game where she took out 2 of us when we ignored her after she killed the person who startled her.

I think she only runs and hides if she's being shot at.

Thansal

<!--quoteo(post=1693842:date=Nov 19 2008, 11:50 AM:name=6john)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(6john @ Nov 19 2008, 11:50 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693842"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->if you sneak up behind her you can oneshot her with the shotgun in the back of the head. ive only seen it happen once. i tried, but i startled her when i was right next to her, then i unloaded with my autoshotgun and killed her myself before she touched anyone.

the way i saw it happen, she was right around the corner and someone didnt know she was there, and when they walked around the corner shot her once on accident and killed her<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
what difficulty was that on?


Btw, I am going to chime in that Versus mode is friken awesome.

juice

Full game ROCKS!

Expert difficulty is now fixed - it's harder. And the later stages are awesome. So fun.

Svenpa

There is an achievement to kill the witch in one single headshot.

Thansal

<!--quoteo(post=1693848:date=Nov 19 2008, 12:45 PM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(juice @ Nov 19 2008, 12:45 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693848"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Full game ROCKS!

Expert difficulty is now fixed - it's harder. And the later stages are awesome. So fun.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't think it is any harder.

I feel I do the same on the first map and the first half of the 2nd map as I did before.

Just the second map is lots longer. And after that you again have longer maps, are running low on health, etc etc etc.

I haven't actually managed to complete No Mercy yet, but I have only played on expert, and only with random pubers. I have been far to entranced with playing Versus instead <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Monkfish

I think it's damn harder, at the mini finale on the 2nd part of no mercy there was a godamn tank behind the metal shutter, we all just ran for our lives and were suprised when there was no safe house so DHP was just limping like a madman to the pawn shop

[WHO]Them

<!--quoteo(post=1693848:date=Nov 19 2008, 08:45 AM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(juice @ Nov 19 2008, 08:45 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693848"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Full game ROCKS!

Expert difficulty is now fixed - it's harder. And the later stages are awesome. So fun.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

The difficulty didn't change. You just get to play on levels other than ones intended to ease you in gracefully to the game.

TychoCelchuuu

Also you have to make it through the whole campaign rather than just part of it, right? Also you might be playing with people who suck <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Xyth

I'm pretty tempted to buy this game, $50 though... Ouch. Perhaps with my next paycheck... hmmmm.

juice

Maybe it's just a case of small sample size then, cause the AI director seemed to have it in for me with multiple tanks/hunters/smokers/boomers/hordes right off on the second level.

NeonSpyder

<!--quoteo(post=1693868:date=Nov 19 2008, 05:29 PM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(juice @ Nov 19 2008, 05:29 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693868"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Maybe it's just a case of small sample size then, cause the AI director seemed to have it in for me with multiple tanks/hunters/smokers/boomers/hordes right off on the second level.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

The better you're doing, the harder the Director makes it.

(Your resistance only makes it harder!)

douchebagatron

the damages have changed from the demo for certain, by about double from what ive experienced.

in advanced they used to do 1-2 damage, now they do 5. in expert they used to do 10 damage, now its 20.

also: where are the lightbeams of other players???

and i wonder how valve is planning on handling community created maps.

TychoCelchuuu

<!--quoteo(post=1693874:date=Nov 19 2008, 05:19 PM:name=6john)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(6john @ Nov 19 2008, 05:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693874"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->the damages have changed from the demo for certain, by about double from what ive experienced.

in advanced they used to do 1-2 damage, now they do 5. in expert they used to do 10 damage, now its 20.

also: where are the lightbeams of other players???

and i wonder how valve is planning on handling community created maps.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Uh no expert definitely did 20 in the demo.

douchebagatron

i played nothing but expert in the demo, unless they changed it from 10 to 20 for the last few days the demo ran, it did 10.

Kouji_San

<!--quoteo(post=1693849:date=Nov 19 2008, 06:18 PM:name=Svenpa)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Svenpa @ Nov 19 2008, 06:18 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693849"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There is an achievement to kill the witch in one single headshot.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Which backfired 3 times <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />


Also versus is cool, but I can't kill for ###### with the tank... And the hunter is now actually fun now that I know how to keep pouncing by holding duck and not release it after an attack :/

TychoCelchuuu

<!--quoteo(post=1693879:date=Nov 19 2008, 06:50 PM:name=6john)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(6john @ Nov 19 2008, 06:50 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693879"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i played nothing but expert in the demo, unless they changed it from 10 to 20 for the last few days the demo ran, it did 10.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i>I</i> played nothing but expert in the demo and I distinctly remember watching my health go from 100 to 80 when a zombie smacked me.

douchebagatron

<i>I</i> thought you only played it a few times and didnt even like it?

SentrySteve

<!--quoteo(post=1693887:date=Nov 19 2008, 09:10 PM:name=6john)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(6john @ Nov 19 2008, 09:10 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693887"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><i>I</i> thought you only played it a few times and didnt even like it?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<i>He</i> liked it but <i>not</i> enough to buy it.

TychoCelchuuu

<!--quoteo(post=1693894:date=Nov 19 2008, 09:23 PM:name=SentrySteve)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SentrySteve @ Nov 19 2008, 09:23 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693894"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><i>He</i> liked it but <i>not</i> enough to buy it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's <i>corr</i>ect.