64 responses so far ↓

• 1 gork // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  gork cant wait but no able to join friend servers aw :(

• 2 Cpt. Falcon // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  Wait, so does that mean the demo is now disabled? :(
  I don’t know when I’ll be able to buy the game.

  If there was ever a hardcore valve fanboy, I’d like to say I’m at least related to him, but I just don’t have the money right now. Or a credit card. Online purchasing is a bit out of my league.
  I’m getting a job real soon anyway, Safeway’s going to buy me that game!
  (Also a “dime” a week would be nice too)

• 3 WolfXI // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:57 pm

  Hell yes. Only thing is that nobody I know that has it is online. :<

• 4 VenomKing666 // Nov 17, 2008 at 11:10 pm

  I made it on expert in NO MERCY just past the end of the demo. Then died and, yep, go back to start of mission 2.

• 5 Hitmaker // Nov 17, 2008 at 11:15 pm

  wont let me, its babbling on about not being able to create a D3D device. Whats up with that? the demo ran fine for me….

• 6 Cheeetar // Nov 18, 2008 at 12:05 am

  There are no dedicated servers that I can get onto and all the local servers are lagging terribly. I’ll wait a few days to play.

• 7 Cubedude04 // Nov 18, 2008 at 12:40 am

  MUST…..BUY

• 8 CajoleJuice // Nov 18, 2008 at 1:06 am

  I was ready to crucify Valve when I first loaded the game up and couldn’t find a dedicated server to play on with my friends. Then I just gave up and joined a random server. The server shut down. I was fuming.

  Then I managed to jump into a pretty much new game with a few buddies. We just finished No Mercy on Advanced. It was absolutely incredible.

• 9 HappyMeal // Nov 18, 2008 at 1:45 am

  @Cpt. Falcon

  Yes. The demo has been nerfed to nothing more than 3.2GB of garbage data.

• 10 Gothic // Nov 18, 2008 at 2:05 am

  Fucking. Lag. Fuck.

  I can’t even shoot the damn zombies. I can empty a whole M16 magazine into one only to find that the server reads it as me emptying a whole magazine into a wall.

  Fuck.

• 11 Gothic // Nov 18, 2008 at 2:16 am

  In the end, I got sick of it and went to play single player.

  AI teammates apparently do not understand the concept of teamwork and tactics.

• 12 Ragepyro // Nov 18, 2008 at 2:20 am

  I spent the last of my money on some 360 games which I can’t play anyway due to hardware failure and fallout 3 for the PC which still hasn’t arrived.

• 13 Sarge // Nov 18, 2008 at 3:04 am

  The game is incredible! Versus mode is fantastic! Just now I had a nabbed a survivor as a smoker who was trying to help his incapacitated buddie that had been taken down by my friend as a hunter. I’ve only played for a few hours and it’s already epic. I will say that I new that there would be no new weapons in the full game as opposed to the demo.

• 14 Gothic // Nov 18, 2008 at 3:55 am

  Don’t forget the LPG cans.

• 15 Crane // Nov 18, 2008 at 4:40 am

  Weapons are an odd fish… Valve claim ten, but it’s hard to work it out to that number.

  1. pistol
  2. dual pistol
  3. shotgun
  4. assault shotgun
  5. uzi
  6. M16
  7. pipebomb
  8: molotov
  9. propane tank
  10. fuel cans
  11. minigun

  If you drop the minigun, you can get ten out of it, but it seems stupid to claim that the minigun isn’t a weapon.
  If you want, you can claim that fuel cans and propane tanks aren’t weapons, and stick in pills and first-aid kits, but you’re still left with the minigun out in the cold.
  I suppose you could have

  1. melee
  2. pistol
  3. dual pistol
  4. shotgun
  5. assault shotgun
  6. uzi
  7. M16
  8. pipebomb
  9: molotov
  10. minigun

  but it’s hard to justify calling the melee attack a weapon, since it’s basically a universal secondary fire for all the other weapons.

  It’s a pickle.

• 16 Crane // Nov 18, 2008 at 4:41 am

  OR, you can copy your original list from some idiot who left the HUNTING RIFLE out of it.
  Damn.

• 17 Gothic // Nov 18, 2008 at 5:40 am

  1. Pistol
  2. Uzi
  3. Shotgun
  4. M16
  5. Hunting rifle
  6. Molotov
  7. Pipe bomb
  8. Fuel tank
  9. LPG tank
  10. Minigun

  Yep. It works out.

• 18 Gothic // Nov 18, 2008 at 5:47 am

  Wait… something’s not right.

  Oh right. Missed out the auto shotgun.

  Taking only those that can be added to inventory:

  1. Pistol
  2. Uzi
  3. Shotgun
  4. Auto shotgun
  5. Assault rifle
  6. Hunting rifle
  7. Molotov
  8. Pipe bomb
  9. Medkit (?)
  10. Pills (?)

• 19 Killa-Ewok // Nov 18, 2008 at 6:03 am

  Collect all 10!

• 20 Killa-Ewok // Nov 18, 2008 at 6:06 am

  Also Left 5 Dead.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtAraDxYYU

• 21 Jon Baker // Nov 18, 2008 at 6:50 am

  Does anybody have any idea what the Outbreak achievement is? It reads:

  “catch a rare strain of infection, then pass it on to someone else”

  There are rare strains?

• 22 Kollega // Nov 18, 2008 at 7:07 am

  Completely unrelated,but… The origin of an RPC.

  http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=66428

• 23 IdleHands // Nov 18, 2008 at 7:39 am

  Jon Baker;
  While playing versus a Boomer vomited on a couple of us and it came up “so-and-so is infected” then “so-and-so has infected so-and-so”. We were all infected by the end. Still no idea what it means / does, seems like a random thing the Boomer can do to make his bile contagious.

• 24 SAC // Nov 18, 2008 at 9:24 am

  Versus is awesome! And very well balanced, too. I think it came out to about 40-60 winloss rate for the first 4 missions for all of us.

  As for lag, you people’d better hope that you get to play on dedicated servers. Me and mah buddies got a local server first; impossible to play. So we reconnected to a dedicated; ran smooth as TF2 for me.

  Also, “Easy” is not the easiest mode. Do “Versus” without infected opponents. All you get is a huge horde and the occasional Tank.

  Also, wtf man. That one run through Versus on No Mercy got me like, 6 achievements alone. Sure, mostly one hit things, like kill a zombie with one melee, and get boomered without taking damage, kill 20 infected with an explosion etc. Anyone else do this?

• 25 Jon Baker // Nov 18, 2008 at 9:27 am

  @idlehands;

  Does being infected do anything do anything to you? Lose health over time? Break out into Thriller?

• 26 Shon // Nov 18, 2008 at 9:28 am

  On Single Player the Bots did great till the helicopter landed. I ran my ass into it and then waited for the Bots. The Bots were right behind me but when a Hunted pounced Francis, the Bots stopped to help him. Then they stopped to kill a Smoker. THEN they stopped to shoot a Boomer.

  The Tank showed up and wiped them all out. Zoey made a run for it and he clobbered her with a piece of pavement. I love the Bots but I wish they had a smidge more self preservation when rescue is a few feet away.

• 27 Roadrunner // Nov 18, 2008 at 10:05 am

  I ordered off Play.com because it was a little bit cheaper. :D
  Let’s hope it doesn’t screw up like it did with my Dead Space order, or I’ll have to wait 21 days O_O

• 28 FrohmanForPrez // Nov 18, 2008 at 10:16 am

  L4D is quite fantastic. Played for a few hours this morning… different gameplay from TF2, taking getting used to. But so far… HOLY FREAKIN’ COW, love it.

• 29 Kollega // Nov 18, 2008 at 10:30 am

  Chris,check out that Rocket Propelled Chainsaw link in post #22.Puh-leaze!

• 30 Ricotez // Nov 18, 2008 at 10:33 am

  First launching at the 21st here in Europe…

  Not that my PC would’ve been able to play it, anyway. The demo ran fine… for 10 seconds. Then my PC rebooted. It reminded me of Fallout 3, only this time I could actually see some ingame stuff before my PC goofed off.

  I really need a new PC.

• 31 Slade // Nov 18, 2008 at 10:39 am

  Meh, slow updating sucks.

• 32 yourhero88 // Nov 18, 2008 at 11:06 am

  Wow, I just picked up my 360 copy, and there’s only 2 player co-op split screen.

  When did we, as a microcosm of gamers say “hey ya know that thing we’ve been doing since N64, well lets throw that out the window, even though we have bigger TV’s and better multiplayer games, and make it pointless for people to play games in the same room together…

• 33 Thomas Paine // Nov 18, 2008 at 11:18 am

  If what #32 yourhero88 said is true I am so freaking pissed. Halo 3 had 4 player split screen vs, but I could let it pass for not having 4 player split screen co-op because it wasn’t a co-op game. But L4D is a co-op game, that the whole point. How could you leave out one of the most basic things, Valve is suppost to me smart.

  Also, if anyone knows Cpt. Falcon (#2 in posting here) tell him/her to ask for an employe discount. I get a 5% off on everything that I buy at the store.

• 34 Blue-Chameleon // Nov 18, 2008 at 11:19 am

  You won;t be playing anymore Fallout then Chris. Not because of L4D, but because of the ‘nice’ path. Both slow and pointless, I know.

• 35 Jon Baker // Nov 18, 2008 at 11:48 am

  I was up late last night playing the No Mercy campaign. I almost crapped myself when a tank literally burst through a wall next to me, kool-aid man style, when I called for the hospital elevator.

  This game rocks.

• 36 IdleHands // Nov 18, 2008 at 11:51 am

  Jon Baker;
  Didn’t notice any difference apart from being able to spread it to others. Thriller? Now all I can think of is the witch being Micheal Jackson, if disturbed he busts out a move on you.

  Hopefully soon more people will get the idea of the game, stick god damned together people! This is a game that demands a mic, text writing is too slow “Watch out behin- oh too late”

• 37 Phase // Nov 18, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  I’m really sad now. Everyone is getting Left 4 Dead but, since I splurged on Fallout, I can’t afford L4D until the holidys when a relative or someone gets it for me. The novelty of a Tank running through the walls will have ben lost on everyone but me. : (

• 38 sQUEAKYfOAMpEANUT // Nov 18, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  I’ve gotta work all week.

  GODDAMN IT VALVE WHY DID YOU RELEASE YOUR GAME ON A TUESDAY

• 39 AlphaHawk // Nov 18, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  Hudda Hudda Hudda!

• 40 Kowl Slaw // Nov 18, 2008 at 12:41 pm

  YESYESYESYESYES

• 41 Bobic // Nov 18, 2008 at 1:41 pm

  ATTENTION STOP WHINING ABOUT left 4 dead split screen. Halo was designed ground up to be optimized for the Xbox. Its not just a matter of ‘oh lets put in this code’ on a console, things need to always run at 32 frames per second, and thats not even beginning to consider network issues. The point is, adding 2 player split screen is enough, and valve is not ‘lazy’ or ’stupid’ for not putting it in. They could put it in, if you were willing to see crappy graphics though.

• 42 chris12 // Nov 18, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  good?

  also write about your adventures as a GOOD guy, in fallout! now you can have a different chapter.. (litterary ) and you can do it! maybe use that ‘’similar” dude with tha face that reminds us of nondric’s style. or maybe dont.
  anyways, post about this ”good guy” haha!
  did we inspire this

• 43 jimborb // Nov 18, 2008 at 2:33 pm

  I second bobic’s comment, with split screen co-op the game is essentially running 2 copies of the game - valve even stated in the L4D blog that they had problems with trying to optimise the splitscreen.

  Still, being able to have a guest on xbox live is a nice touch.

• 44 dylanC // Nov 18, 2008 at 2:52 pm

  woot decrypting NOW

• 45 dylanC // Nov 18, 2008 at 3:00 pm

  updating WTF its taken 5 minutes to get to 25% but it k cause its gonna be a GREAT night!! WOOO

• 46 Crane // Nov 18, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  @38:
  “I’ve gotta work all week.

  GODDAMN IT VALVE WHY DID YOU RELEASE YOUR GAME ON A TUESDAY”

  Whine whine whine. You’ll still get to play it before those of us in Europe. Unless we buy it on Steam, and I like to have a boxed copy myself.

• 47 sQUEAKYfOAMpEANUT // Nov 18, 2008 at 4:03 pm

  @46

  Actually, the 21st (the day that L4D is released in Europe) is a Friday, which is the day I get off work.

  So who’s complaining now, huh?

• 48 a westie // Nov 18, 2008 at 5:34 pm

  @32: Valve actually really deliberated that. They couldn’t decide if splitscreen was worth it or not, since it’s harder from a technical level, and they almost took the easy way out. 4 player splitscreen would have been cool, but I think that 2 player is a great compromise.

  Apparently COD4 doesn’t even have splitscreen to begin with. Count your blessings.

  Also, I’d like to hear how you do in Fallout as a nice person, Chris. I mean, you probably missed a lot of quests since it sounds like you blew up Megaton for some cash early on… AFAIK, it’s the place your house goes, too, should you go that route.

• 49 Gothic // Nov 18, 2008 at 7:22 pm

  I hate tanks I hate tanks I hate tanks I hate tanks

  Just how much fucking health do they have?!

• 50 Steve // Nov 18, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  I know, I’m asking to be shouted down by people who say “MUH! YOU ASK TOO MUCH OF YOUR COMPUTER!” but really, when I see things change from how they used to be I like to check out who benefits from the change.

  For example - when airports banned water bottles more than 100ml from going into the departure lounge (not just onto the plane) I thought, “But, does that not just benefit people who happen to sell drinks after the security checkpoint for a big markup?”

  Currently when I see that split screen multiplayer is being cut from modern games I wonder who benefits from that - instead of my friend coming to my house and sharing my copy they stay at home and play over the Internet with their own copy. So that means we both need to buy a copy, right? Does that not benefit the publisher?

  I’m very happy that Left 4 Dead included any split screen at all really, (GTA4 doesn’t, for example) - I’m noticing I’m buying increasingly powerful computer equipment and bigger and bigger TVs but the number of players sitting on my couch seems to be going down.

  And, frankly, the zombie apocalypse is FAR too cool to face on your own - totally bring a guest when you play.

• 51 Thomas Paine // Nov 18, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  Left 4 Dead already has its own Leroy Jenkins,
  (this is like the Youtube of video games)

  http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/291124.html

  “lets go straight across the streat, lets make a run for it, lets make a run for it, FOLLOW ME! and OH my god he got me, ABORT, ABORT. OH god, who shot the car, who shot the car?! ”
  crying/wimpering
  “what, why are you already in the safe room, you left me to die”

• 52 AlphaHawk // Nov 18, 2008 at 8:55 pm

  @49:

  6000.

• 53 Dorian Cornelius Jasper // Nov 18, 2008 at 9:51 pm

  Who shot the car?

• 54 Kollega // Nov 18, 2008 at 9:54 pm

  @51:PWNED.Truly a “Leeroy Jenkins” kind of guy.Team shouldn’t left him to die though.

  @52:On what difficulty? If that’s on easy,then on Expert Tank’s HP is certainly OVER 9000!

• 55 Bootsie_B // Nov 19, 2008 at 5:20 am

  Played it. Awesome. I must say, versus is, while still awesome, a bit disappointing. I mean, were you playing on expert (heck, even advanced), if a Hunter gets you down, you have about 3 seconds before you’re dead. But in this, I was slashing away at this guy and got FIFTEEN HITS and he STILL didn’t die. In fact, he still had a good quarter of health.

  And tanks. Awesome to play as (I got the achievement for incapacitating an entire team as tank), but, like with Hunters, they do considerably less damage than they should.

  Of course, I guess I can understand why they did this, as if you were incapacitated from just a single Hunter pounce or Tank smack EVERY TIME, it would be quite unfair. Maybe they should allow you to play it on “Hardcore” or something like that? (Of course, this might already exist, but I’ve only played on ones with levels of damage equivalent to that in normal…)

• 56 Killa-Ewok // Nov 19, 2008 at 6:24 am

  Suddenly, buying FallOut 3, Left 4 Dead, an Xbox 360 and Fable 2 at the same time feels like a good idea.

• 57 Gothic // Nov 19, 2008 at 7:27 am

  @56: do it.

  Also, I think there are different difficulty levels in versus mode too. I’ve played on servers where one zombie hit does 1-2 damage and on another server, it does 10 damage.

  So, yeah. There are differences.

• 58 The MAZZTer // Nov 19, 2008 at 8:32 am

  PROTIP: At the end of the No Mercy campaign on Versus mode, the tank and the other special infected can board the chopper… >_>

• 59 The MAZZTer // Nov 19, 2008 at 8:32 am

  And no there are no difficulties on Versus mode. Just watch out for the tank as he can do friendly fire damage very easily.

• 60 AlphaHawk // Nov 19, 2008 at 10:23 am

  @54

  Last I checked that was on normal and maybe advanced. This may sound like the meme, but I think you’re right with his health being over 9000 on expert.

• 61 AlphaHawk // Nov 19, 2008 at 10:25 am

  @ 55

  Like in call of duty 4? That would be awesome, since it’s all I play. The “No Vasoline Mode” as I call it.

  @ 58

  So much for getting to the choppa eh? :P

• 62 Roadrunner // Nov 19, 2008 at 11:37 am

  Because I have no intention of getting Gmod 10, someone should make louis turn into a werewolf and make all the zombies dance Thriller.
  :D

• 63 Justice // Nov 19, 2008 at 11:44 am

  Awesome. Truly awesome. For anyone who hasn’t purchased, you really should.

  @55

  From what I understand, VALVe deliberately made Versus mode difficult for the Undead team, as your goal isn’t supposed to be killing them but an average of damage dealt to the survivors. Teamwork is still the focus!

• 64 Bootsie_B // Nov 19, 2008 at 11:10 pm

  Yeah, I realized that now. It’s not about killing them, it’s about pissing them off as much as possible.