Official Left 4 Dead Thread

srry, typo...lol. $49.99

 

This game let us learn what's like to be a zombie.

 

totally kicks ***.

 

I want to see a "Zombine" as some kind of Easter Egg reference.

 

Been waiting for this game. Can't wait to pick it up!

 

seriously. get it. its worth it.

 

You really need more emphasis on the KEEP MOVING! part. Too much am I playing an expert game, and all the other team mates are going sooo slow! and actually going backwards to the beginning of the levels just to pick up stuff like med kits, or molotoves. I keep telling them, don't do it, if you go back, a zombie horde and tons of special zombies WILL spawn! The med kit isn't worth it if your going to need it just to get back to the spot that you were at before you had it.

Use Microphones! I think about 99% of the damage I take in expert mode is because idiot team mates shoot at me. It gets pretty typical sometimes too, there will be no zombies in sight, and I'll get shot with a sniper rifle on "accident". going from 80hp, to on the floor needing to be picked up in one shot, then when I get up I'll have like 20hp.. I sometimes try to stay behind the pack too, but somehow someone will still find a way to shoot me!
So please, use mics, you can avioid most of this by people simply listenting and talking on them!

If your at close range, DON'T shoot a hunter off a team mate, you'll just cause them a TON of extra damage because you'll probebly end up hitting them, mele it off, then shoot..

 

I'll host. I got a decent connection

Steam name: dahker


come on NBR. Pings from me are decent enough.

 

What really blows my mind is how places like BLockbuster and Hastings only got one copy in for rent.

 

While I have no interest in L4D, I thought this video demonstrating a user-created Dawn of the Dead (remake) map would be of interest to a few of you.

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I can't wait til the mod community maps come out. Honestly this game is the type of game that needs lots of them. I'll probably start hosting custom map servers eventually. Valve needs to fix some menu issues first though. The server browser often confuses the game. Having server browser open sometimes locks up game. If you watch the console the error is about the main menu or the server full/general message is not on top. I'd rather use that than a lobby most of the time, but it's buggy.

 

wow is this game ever fun and addicting

the last game that had me up until 3 in the morning online was call of duty 2

best $39 i've spent in a long time. hopefully we can get an NBR group together to play because this game is just a whole lot of fun especially with voice communication.

 

try playing around with console commands. that's a ton of fun. spawn 30 or 40 zombies far away from you and type nb_rush command. then, start running!!!

 

it takes like 2 hours to finish a campaign on versus and next thing i know its four in the morning

 

hi guys yes it is a fantastic game,well worth the wait,however there is a small issue,when playing for about an hour or so well all get an count down auto dissconection,any one else have this?

 

I had something like that happen once but I was reconnected about a minute later.

This game is too good I've spent a good portion of my free time on this game.

 

Hi,

For some reason the game does not seem to save my customised settings for controls, graphics, sound etc. and keeps going back to default settings and I have tried to make the game folder read / write, but this does still not work.

Any ideas or solutions ?

Apart from that I am very impressed with performance.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Jez

 

Wow, I am freaking addicted to this game. I don't know how I'll feel 3-6 months from now, but as of right now it is one of the best games I've played.

 

... dammit. Last night I dreamt that I was IN Left 4 Dead. With improvised weapons, too Tried to use a can of what I think was insecticide as a flamethrower, but forgot to bring a light... hmmmmph.

I think that says something about how addictive it is...

That, or I need to see a psychiatrist XD

 

I have that problem too. It'll save my resolution settings, but then default all my graphic options, which causes me to lose a lot of performance.

 

Do you have any command line settings that are related to the video mode?

 

I think I'm starting to get arthritis from playing this game for about 6 hours a day since thursday

 

Nope, all set via options menu. I eventually plan on just setting the config file and making it read only. Maybe that'll fix it.

 

i love this game. its freaking amazing.

 

a.i. director is a ***** . i was playing versus on second campaign and a tank was waiting behind the door of a building we needed to go through and the person playing the tank hit the guy through the door sending him flying not knowing it what hit him and then killed use all. it was funny but i was one of the survivors and it wasn't funny

 

If you're playing vs, the A.I. Director doesn't have anything to do with a human-controlled tank being all devious and whatnot. =P

 

but it tells it where to spawn in a really convent spot but it worked in my direction before

 

Ok, so I've been considering buying a home server to mainly run left 4 dead (and to occasionally run some media applications and backup, but this will be pretty rare). What kind of specs should I look for in a home server? How many left 4 dead servers could I run stable on a 6meg dsl connection?

 

Man, I love Valve but anyone else getting bored of online play? It's SO repetitive ...

 

that's why the mod community are making new weapons and maps like the dawn of the dead map

 

OMG I can't wait for the Dawn of the Dead map.

 

One thing I have noticed with net_graph is that when I use net_graph 3 with CSS it shows ping, choke, in/out etc. but it doesn't show the annoying graph of your ping and such. However in Portal when I use the exact same net_graph 3 it shows the huge graph that takes up 1/4 of my screen, and shows a little bit more information. I believe for portal I was forced to use net_graph 1 as a result of the graphs. Not sure if L4D is like this in this way though, just a thought

 

cant wait till new weapon I want my AK47

 

Looks like some people have already thrown together a few L4D skins. Very simplistic, but it shows they're working on it.
http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/54928

I think I'll take a look at the L4D GCF files and start making some of my own skins this weekend. Also start working on drawing layouts for my own campaign. I'm also going to look into importing some of the CS:S weapons into L4D, yea, it would be nice to have an AK in place of the M4.

 

How is the game if you play it single player (with AI survivors)? Not all my friends stay up as late as I do...

 

Playing online is a very different experience than playing with AI. The single player experience is nothing more than practice and holds no real replay value.

 

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Single player = multiplayer w/ bots.

Point blank period. That's why you can chat during single player, use mic and change teams lol.

 

Cool, thanks for the feedback. I just wanted to know because, well, there are some days I just want a target rich environment without clever human players stealing my kills and l4d seems to offer that. But I'd be playing online most of the time.

 

its an online game. you pretty much have to play online all the time.

like unreal tournament. maybe to an even higher degree though.

 

I have some problems with this game. I can only play like 5 minutes or so before it craches or freezes. It seem that every other games I tried run pretty fine. Running on a Dell M1530 with a 8600M GT.

Thanks for your help.

 

Tomorrow i'll be adding it to SLI VS no SLI hopefully

 

i dont have the game but i have heard that disabling multicore rendering in the settings may make it more stable

 

Yes, indeed, hat's what I did and it works fine now. Thanks anyway.

 

i've been using multicore rendering and it seems to run fine. i wonder if it would run better with it disabled...

 

maybe Multicore rendering refers to SLI not to dual core CPUs

 

No, multicore is for multiple processors.

Some report quad-core works fine with multicore enabled, but I know with dual-core for me the FPS jumps from 20-100, with it off I get a stable 40-60.

 

its hard as hell if you dont have all 4 "human" players. My friends and I couldn't even finish a whole stage with advanced, not to mention expert

 

I never had the mulitcore issue running the game in windowed mode. I just unlocked the taskbar so the window could cover it up and ran the window at native resolution. I actually prefer to run games that way so I don't have to alt+tab out of the game.