The infected is much more a learned thing- my rule for noobs- Follow the Boomer if you are a hunter- always attack from behind with the smoker, and I don’t have any good tips for the boomer other than don’t spawn right away since you are really noisy.
EB- as survivor and new- stay right behind the leader, and you will be fine. This thread has a ton of good ideas…and BUY A MIC if you dont have one.
Just wanna post that the nothing special achievement sucks…And yet, I cant stop trying for it over and over…and over…
Jab
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You can join the little club Pogo and I have started for that one. Another attempt last night got us to map 3 before a tank knocked Pogo around.
Sweet, Im down :) Send me your gamertag?
What did we learn? That drunk is fine for pub games, but I need to be on my A game for Qt3. Bah. Excuse: WTF with the ultra-quick tank at the finale last night? We HAD that!!
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Sorry about that guys. Wife called and then Steam took a giant turd. I still can’t get back on. I’ll try to be on again late tonight.
Pogo
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What’s your nick? Add me here. You might have already friended me as I got a couple of friend invites who I didn’t know.
And we’re official on L4D 2, dated for November 17th.
"A large part of how Left 4 Dead became 2008's top-selling new IP on Xbox 360 and the PC was the custom-tailored gameplay made possible by the AI Director," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "With the knowledge gained from creating the original, new technology, and a passionate team, L4D2 will set a new benchmark for cooperative action games."
Set for release on November 17, the title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more.
Introducing the AI Director 2.0, L4D's dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.
Featuring new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, and maps for Survival mode available at launch.
Jazar
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My birthday is on the 18th and Steam has this great gift feature…
So, I guess this means no more content patches for L4D.
They’ve stated that they will be releasing further content for L4D - they talk about it in the latest podcast at RPS.
Re: Last night’s game: ME NO Tank! NO tank! We managed to eke out the win, but I wasted two tanks, at least.
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Kurina
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I know I am just being pessimistic and likely a bit annoying, but they claimed back in August 2008, while L4D was being developed, that quite a few new additions would come to the game after release. They planned on releasing new campaigns, infected, and weapons. I understand it takes time to produce these items, but so far all we have seen is a survival mode. The new campaigns, infected, and weapons all appear to be going into the new version of the game.
At this point, I will only believe it when I see it. I would love to be proven wrong though, as some fresh content in L4D would be wonderful.
I’ve been playing some Survival public games but would like to join you guys for Versus now. Still no mic, but if you play early enough in the evening I’ll join up.
And I’ve got this coming at some point this week from eBay and don’t mind playing cannon fodder, 'cos I’ll have absolutely no idea what I’m doing at the start.
that’s my b-Day too!..And Mickey Mouse!
Trey pointed out www.l4dmaps.com a while ago, but back then it was all shitty SDK cobbled maps.Now it looks like there is some cool stuff there.
I think we should try out maybe 4 or 5 highly rated custom campaigns/maps in a few locally hosted versus games (I remember someone was able to local host really well, Trey maybe?) and then see if pyhric or wisefool wants to throw the map files onto their server if it isn’t too much hassle.
I’m too lazy and Sims 3 just came out, maybe I can give the password and con someone else to do it…
Pogo
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I have a lot of respect for your skills in L4D… when you’re not drunk.
