Pogo
1981
I do the same thing, but only because I’ve played this game since launch, and it’s fun to see what can be done by your lonesome.
If I’m doing some suicidal attack on a boomer that’s hiding behind a rock in the middle of a thick patch of trees, I don’t want the team following me, because then nobody can see a god damn thing and it’s a wipe (actually happened).
Houngan
1982
After a bad patch where you get serial-delayed, like hunter-smoker-boomer-hunter then the boomer respawns right as the horde dies and hits you again, the team can get stuck. It’s a purely mental thing, but at windows and big area moves it’s easy to fall into the trap. When I’m aware of it, I usually just rush out and crouch at the next landmark to motivate folks, it usually turns out OK. Like the other night when I just monkey rushed out the window and onto the street (didn’t actually mean to go off semi) it worked to get everyone moving.
It seems that a lot of folks don’t capitalize when you know the boomer and smoker are down. It’s 15 free seconds of running, and should be utilized whenever possible.
H.
Hello again guys. So, I followed your advice and bought the game. I’m downloading it right now and will probably start playing this weekend. I know that the real strenght of L4D is its multiplayer, so do you guys think that I should just start playing multiplayer right away (knowing that, as I said before, I’m a pretty bad player) or the chance of “people freaking out on me” (as someone said two pages ago =P) is just too big and I should just play single for some time?
By the way, if anyone wants to add me as a friend on Steam I would be glad (my steam login is “gutenbergn” and my community name is “bandidoquest”, I don’t know which of those you’re supposed to add!).
Most likely, you should play 1 or 2 rounds of single player or campaign alone or with a friend so you get an idea about the map/mechanics. Then, either find some really patient friends to guide you through vs., or just play in public games (quick join type stuff) till you want to jump in more organized games. We welcome all comers, but a completely new person on any 1 team is hard to balance and might cause frustration for you.
Ok then, I’ll try playing some single player and public games in the next days so I get to know the game a little better. Thanks for the invitation to the group!
Tman
1988
Fun game last night with a few of them drunk as a skunk. The commentary was worth the price of admission alone.
Funniest part was DT04 … we had a tank early and got creamed (I don’t know who the tank was but they hit the forklift and no kidding, it skipped across the entire level, taking two of us out immediately). But that wasn’t the fun part. The fun part was when they got to go as survivors, they all holed up in the top part of the tower and I was tank. At first, I was chucking rocks at them, keeping my distance, but then I decided to get closer and noticed a infected path right up the front side all the way to the top. I wonder what they thought when I jumped through the window and killed them all in about 5 seconds. LOL.
I played in the drunk game before that and while it wasn’t as hilarious as the game you describe, it was fun. For some reason alcohol increases L4D aptitude, they almost beat us but I got really lucky with the Tank on the dead air finale and took 3 survivors with one luggage cart slam and we barely managed to get on our plane, and they were leading going into the finale.
I was the tank with the flying forklift, that was pretty neat. What we thought when you climbed in the window was “Goddamn normal infected, go away… oh great, there’s a tank in here now too. This is why we can’t have nice things.”
The funniest part was probably wisefool, who was completely trashed, asking if they’d gotten to play the finale after we won. And asking if he killed anyone as a tank. In the round we’d finished 10 seconds ago.
“Are you sure I didn’t kill anybody? Did we win?”
Oh yeah, haha, he was saying that as we were getting on the plane. “Wait, we didn’t get to play as survivors!”. Also asking who won as the final score was showing on everyone’s screens. I support any future drunk L4D games fully.
Oh and the periodic global chat messages to the effect of: “hey stop aiming that’s not fair!”, because really it wasn’t, lol.
Tman
1992
Is there a trick to get things flying? when I hit cars, etc, they typically go about 10 feet. Sometimes I get lucky, but is there a sure fire method for sending one carooming?
I searched Steam Community for Jorune and the only variant came up was jorune.zephyr somethingorother. Am I doing something wrong?
Probably. Jorune2112 is one of my friends on steam.
And he’s already added to the qt3-l4d group, if you were worried.
Pogo
1995
Good thing you guys have added all the new guys, I haven’t been on Steam in a while.
I dunno, but it sure is obnoxious.
Pogo
1997
Trey definitely knows how, but I don’t think he’s telling.
I was actually trying to be helpful. Jorune’s name doesn’t show for me at all. If I type “Jonathan” into the search box for the member list of the Qt3 L4D group, I see one hit, which is me. When I do the same for “jorune” or “Jorune” I get nothing. In a similar fashion, no one on your friends lists has the name Jorune2112 (assuming your steam name is SpookyKnifeGuy). I’m a bit puzzled.
Trey
1999
I really don’t know. I suck at tank. I know that I can’t hit survivors worth a damn with the swing so if I can hit a car or something else, I’m definitely going for that.
I have added Jorune2112 as a friend but do not have a reply. He has an indiana jones picture for his avatar on my screen, and I can see his community page but none of his info (because I have not received a reply yet).
