Possibly. I’ll try to be available starting at 7.
I liked it better when idiots just made online petitions. Those were easier to ignore.
LMN8R
2024
Easier to ignore? Why would you try to ignore pure entertainment!
Trey
2025
Just played the latest Death Aboard with the new single-pack installer, it’s great. Pyhric can you get this loaded onto the server?
copet
2026
Trey, do we need to download that or can we DL from the server?
Any place we can download it?
Ninja edit: Found it… http://l4dmapdb.com/campaign:death-aboard
Tman
2029
Great games tonight on Death Aboard. Really fresh having a very good new level. Props to whoever designed this.
FWIW - there may be a slight bug in that if an infected leaves the saferoom before the survivors, the survivors start at the end - so they don’t have to do the level.
pyrhic
2030
ya, not certain what happened there. But in both the cases where the survivors spawned in the ending safe room, I(infected) spawned in the right spot and had moved out of the room in order to find a good place to set up. In both cases, when I next checked for the survivor outlines to see how close they were, i noticed they were far away and that the “click to spawn” had been replaced by “you’re too far” message.
It didnt seem like the survivors were ever in the right spawn location, so my only thought is that I had appeared first and somehow invalidated the spawn by moving outside. Not much of a theory, but that’s my observations so far. Anyone notice anything else that might help us pin this down?
Squee
2031
Thanks for mentioning that. I’m pretty much done playing L4D online by now, but loading up custom campaigns to fiddle with in singleplayer is fun. That one seemed kinda easy as the infected AI didn’t get as many ambush spots as a regular campaign, but still good fun. The 4th level, the ship, was really neat. And the final level was really cool to see in action. Standing on the lighthouse and watching zombies rushing up after you was neat, but the zombies had too long a path to get to the survivors. Slowed the finale down.
People should definitely mention if they find more good campaigns like that though.
Bah, you should join us some time. We’re not that horrible… We can’t be less fun to be around then the AI, anyway…
Squee
2033
L4D’s fun, it’s just that going through a versus match can take entirely too long. The best versus games are when both teams are either bad or messing around, and both teams die as survivors often. Keeps it moving more, and “Everyone running around shooting zombies wildly” is more fun than “Everyone sit in this corner and right click”.
That’s basically why I play singleplayer. Generally don’t want to spend the time to do a versus game, most of my L4D playing buddies are done with it (Except one guy who is in a clan and does ranked versus clan matches and has gone through all the campaigns on expert, so he’s a sit in the corner and right click style player), and the bots aren’t too bad for the middle two difficulties.
Killing Floor’s more my speed for online zombie killing now.
Tman
2034
Seriously, anyone playing L4D has to have this map. Pyrhic got it loaded up on his server and it is an excellent campaign.
Please download this so we can play it together. Just download the file, double click on the VPK and it’s done. You don’t need to know where to install it, or what directory, just double click. It’s that simple.
Squee
2035
Didn’t work that way for me unfortunately. Had to go dump it in the addons folder manually for some reason.
The concept of ranked L4D makes me laugh. I can understand ranked Counterstrike, Battlefield, etc., but ranked L4D is one degree away from playing in a Yahtzee league.
Trey
2037
You don’t think an skilled team can consistently outscore a less-skilled team?
Point-wise, the difference between making it to the safe room and not is enormous. Small slip ups have way too big of an influence on the score.
That doesn’t lend itself well to competitive play.
There is a difference between a skilled team clowning a team that sucks and two skilled teams playing against each other and having the little differences that make L4D what it is defining the score.
copet
2040
Alright, I DLed it. Do I need to keep that little steam add-on program, or once it is installed can I delete in? Never used one of these steam add-on things before.
