1781

Yes. be choosy of which steam groups you join. Don’t just accept random steam group invites from groups like Lotus.

1782

The only people I can join are friends, not group members. I was hoping Valve would add some kind of “treat Group members as Friends” functionality. It seems you or some of your friends should cull your friends lists of these anonymous people that you’ve added in the past.

And if there is anyone in the QT3 group that is an asshat (besides me, because when you don’t throw the fucking pipe bomb when the fucking pipe bomb could have saved us, I’m pissed), let me know. Being obnoxious or not showing common courtesy is a straight up /gkick

1783

I’m pretty sure groups are included as friends in Steam. Nothing seems to state it explicitly, but every discussion I could find through Google seems to indicate it.

1784

I’m not seeing it. Bottom left corner of the main menu only shows my friends who are playing, nobody from steam groups. If it showed groups, there would be a dozen names on there right now.

1785

No - the people I play with are only friends with our group. L4D2 is (in most cases) their only Steam game. When strangers join, EVERYONE says “who is that?”

And by asshat I don’t mean firebombing your group or shooting cars. Hell, that’s half the fun (we’re all drunk when we play). I’m talking about people that are dicks in chat.

Really, “friends only” clearly isn’t.

1786

Sorry I just don’t buy it. Unless it’s a bug, Friends-only means the only people joining are friends of anyone in the chat room.

And being a dick in chat is asshat enough. Snitch on them to me, please.

1787

I like to be one of those “Who is that?” guys minus the asshat in chat part.

1788

Make sure you view aliases. It is likely that they are one of your friends or your friends’ friends. Friends games are only for friends… never had it not work otherwise, unless you make it public before you start.

1789

If I invite people to a game, I try tell them to say that I invited them so that they’re not immediately booted. I’ve invited several people to the group, but only a couple of them have actually played with us.

1790

The blog is updated with this week’s mutation, no permanent health or med kits only pills and shots for campaign only. That would have been nuts to try during our Dead City 2 game last night.

Also the weekly poll is if Realism VS should be made a permanent mode.

1791


Hah

1792

There are so many sweet L4D products on the store page. I think we should all chip in to buy Staff a $6.99 Blood Harvest poster.

1793

Oh man that Boomer plush is awesome. No details on how big it is though.

1794

It’s 13" big and 13" across, like the description says. Also it’s spherical.

1795

Oh… yeah it says it right there, woops.

1796

Haha oh man. Worst. Campaign. Ever.

but you all know how I feel about BH

1797

I miss Blood Harvest, somewhat. I wish they would just straight port L4D camps over to the sequel.

The dynamics of that finale, and the crescendos of the campaign, could change significantly with the jockey/spitter/charger in play.

1798

I haven’t played it in a while but wasn’t the 4th level just a fucking sprint, too? It was mediocre up to the third level and then it just me mad, as a player who derives fun mostly from playing infected.

1799

Yeah, the 4th level was terrible design. I liked it aesthetically but the mechanics just sucked, although that trap house before the bridge was pretty sweet.

1800

it’d be interesting to see how it played out with the new SI though. The charger would make some of the corridors pretty tough…