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This game is retarded about height sometimes. Just earlier in a game I got bowled over in a charge and fell probably ten feet. Instakill. No I didn't get incapped or had taken fall damage, I got killed on the spot. It was the first part of The Passing where you exit the building to the three-leveled alleyway. Got knocked off the top of the stairs and down to where the tractor trailer is and that killed me. Couple of weeks ago in Blood Harvest, I charged someone from the top of the BH3 ramp (the one where the train car knocks down) where one guy fell and died but another guy who flew further and landed on top of a train car survived. I'm guessing because the vertical distance between the top of the ramp and the train car aren't great enough to incap or kill. But regardless, it was still a greater fall than the one I took on The Passing. I swear L4D is the only game I can love the hell out of but hate for how broken it happens to be.
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| # ¿ Apr 25, 2010 19:37 |
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wise old hitachi posted:I'm not one for anecdote postin but this one was cool. You shoulda been like "thanks for the free ride" to the hunter.
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| # ¿ Apr 28, 2010 13:34 |
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Latency means an unbelievable amount with anything that has direct player-to-player contact. I will have to say though that guys that I play with know how to time punches better than I even with some latency. But in the end, lag still determines whether or not you hit the guy or say "I can't even hit this guy who is right in front of my face!".
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2010 17:46 |
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Suitaru posted:I remember hearing that L4D was originally envisioned as an open city that you could find multiple routes through, but they scrapped it because when players found a route that worked they never looked for a new one again. Maybe it has something to do with that? Probably does. I think that snippet was in the directory commentary for L4D1 where you get to the street level. I wish L4D had death/traffic maps like TF2 maps did. Hardly anyone takes the other path in NM1.
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| # ¿ May 3, 2010 23:35 |
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As I've told some other people who've asked my opinion on FtL, I feel it isn't as good as regular scavenge. The biggest element for me is the missing tension since every can gives you 45 seconds on the clock and it isn't like you've got to split up to get different cans or whatever. I'm not sure if my first game of FtL was indicative of how long a game will usually take when two competent teams square off but we had a round that lasted some 8-9 minutes for each side. I'm not even sure how to make FtL better. I guess even as little as I play scavenge, I still like it a lot better than Follow the Liter. Also, missing bleed out. I thought it was silly at first but it is actually rather fun just zip zooming through as best as you can. We tried to do a ghetto bleed out last night and didn't use kits. It just isn't the same.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2010 13:35 |
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Know what still bothers me about this game? The loving smoker tongue. Why is this thing so loving broken. The other day I was playing with some buddies on the finale of The Passing. Some pubbie who was smoker had a pull on me and I was boned since I was alone. He had a clear pull on me except that his tongue was over a railing. Not dragging on the railing mind you, it was well over the railing. No zombies around, no other infected, no buddies, just me holding a gas can and the smoker. His tongue breaks before I even hit the railing myself. After I kill him he asks how I broke free. I told him that I'm wondering the same thing myself. Poor guy probably thought I was cheating or something. Even my teammates asked how I broke free.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2010 15:58 |
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:I don't like that the tongue targets the furthest person away thats still in range. I've missed so many smokes because the tongue shoots right past the closet guy and grabs the farthest guy away. Love that retarded smoker tongue fuzzy logic when you're trying to pull the one guy who isn't boomed but who is standing close to the guys who are boomed.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2010 17:35 |
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Joudas posted:Or even better, when you need to pounce someone helping an incapped survivor up and your hunter is like "gently caress it, this guy is already on the floor". I forgot what I was told about this issue. I think Swilo knows why this happens. Either way it's aggravating when the lone standing survivor has jack crap for health and all you need is to get on him for two or three seconds.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2010 17:53 |
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the_tourist posted:Last Gnome on Earth seems a little pointless. The inability to throw it around is a good limitation, but I think the game mode would've been cooler if you weren't allowed to drop the gnome for more than 10 seconds at a time (something like the gas can drop rules in Scavenge). Gotta agree with this and also, our gnome fell through the floor.
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| # ¿ May 15, 2010 03:56 |
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This mutator seriously needs more spice to it because as it is, it's about the same thing as bringing an egg with you through the level(s).
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| # ¿ May 15, 2010 17:28 |
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Several people I know what Bleed Out back. I want Bleed Out back. I mean, Last Gnome? Really? Two loving weeks of Last Gnome? God damnit.
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| # ¿ May 23, 2010 04:57 |
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:Anyone here good with video editing? I'm looking to cut teasers and trailers for Cold Blooded. If you're crafting it from in-game footage, Mo_Steel does some crazy stuff with that smoother and all.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2010 13:43 |
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Outrunning one tank is simple enough even on expert as long as there isn't anything to gluehand you. Outrunning like ten tanks is a different story because of the amount of rocks and who the target is.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2010 17:25 |
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Abandoned Toaster posted:Goddamn pubbies. If we start the next chapter where we're all bleeding out, have no previous medkits, start with only two in the safe room, and you're black and white with 1 hit point to death and I have a defib, there's a reason I shoot you and defib you before you can use that medkit you grabbed, and it's not so you can use it anyways. < But I'm at 50 health and running at full speed, I need to heal!
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| # ¿ May 25, 2010 20:18 |
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Jetsetlemming posted:I tried out Last Gnome on Earth today, on Dark Carnival. Lasted a whole four minutes and then a bot managed to kick the gnome through the hill under the overpass before the motel and I had to quit. Awesome. First time I was trying to do Last Gnome was on Hard Rain. Hard Rain 2, right before we got to the emptied building with the event, the gnome fell through the world. There was a collective "gently caress this let's do versus".
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| # ¿ May 26, 2010 14:39 |
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Swilo posted:They've been converted to daylight What the gently caress :\ Sounds terrible and I will keep my older version installed.
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| # ¿ May 29, 2010 17:44 |
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Oh oops. I read the "modified" as a general "modified to use with l4d2".
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| # ¿ May 29, 2010 18:04 |
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Dracneir posted:I think the rationale behind it was that once players found the best way, they only took that way, so it was moot to have it implemented. Yep the director commentary mentioned this. They found a certain path and only ever used that path. Then they tried dynamic pathing in L4D2 and the testers still couldn't get comfortable with it. IHM isn't a terrible campaign but I'm in the camp where there should be some kind of guiding hints aside from all the signage and arrows. Valve does a really good job job of dropping those hints.
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| # ¿ Jun 7, 2010 12:26 |
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Bionic-Badger posted:Ooo, I especially like the car alarm one. No more "WHAT THE gently caress I'M RIDING YOUR rear end INTO THIS CAR" poo poo. Pretty much exactly explains this one. I know drat well that anyone who has played VS has had this happen unless you're some kind of mega-scrub who hasn't for some reason gotten one survivor to touch a car.
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| # ¿ Jun 9, 2010 23:09 |
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Toadsniff posted:Oh yeah now Couch can go get poo poo whilst ignoring my smoked rear end. The other day I smoked someone and two AI bots decide to run backwards (facing forward, running backwards) along with the guy while he's being dragged to me and reloading their guns. I don't remember if he got hung up by a zombie or he reached me but only at one of those two did the survivors melee me off and start shooting. This game.
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| # ¿ Jun 9, 2010 23:33 |
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darkhand posted:I've pretty much given up on 4-goon pubstomps because there's like 33% chance of just getting reverse stomped by some pubby-group. Are you serious? That's a terrible percentage. Stop playing with scrubs. It isn't hard to beat most reverse stomp teams. I'm not saying I win them all. Just that most reverse stomp teams are a good margin better than your "spawn whenever I want and attack" teams. Of course, you can only step up your game if the team you're playing with knows how to use tactics and poo poo. If you guys are that concerned about pubs, screen them by checking their Steam profile. Of course those four guys happened to join at the same time and all have private profiles so you can't see that they're friends!
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| # ¿ Jun 15, 2010 13:22 |
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^^^ Funny thing is that it took polls to determine that when the L4D community has had a displeasure with the issues since L4D1. At least, for kits. Jesus loving christ Valve, you did it. You really did it. Although I am with Swilo on the kit issue in that I don't mind if long maps have a kit or two around to use. It's when survivors can't stop running into kits every ten steps. I'm also not sure if I'm crazy but I've seen kits for one team and pills for the other from the director making some changes. It was on some random server but it was on The Parish 2 inside the bar. They got a kit but we had only gotten pills. This update will rectify that though. averox fucked around with this message at Jun 18, 2010 around 19:36 |
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BobTheJanitor posted:Explosive bullets just lead to tons of friendly fire damage when my teammates try to 'help' me by shooting the zombie right in front of my face. I wish they'd take them out of expert campaign mode as well. Just don't use them and tell others not to either? There's a reason the group I play expert games with call them "friendly fire bullets".
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2010 22:01 |
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VS Survival wasn't that bad. The VS element made it better and I hope they make it a permanent mode or something. Sadly, I'm expecting four swordsman to come back. Because pubs love horrible poo poo.
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| # ¿ Jul 14, 2010 23:39 |
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HeavensMandate posted:Hard Eight should be made into a permanent mode like versus realism, the level of difficulty is refreshing. It makes it impossible to pub though. I'm gonna miss this if it's not made into a permanent mode. Gonna have to agree with this. I like Survival VS and Hard 8. Hard 8 is surprisingly hard with twice the specials and we were only playing advanced.
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| # ¿ Jul 19, 2010 15:44 |
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quote:Left 4 Dead 2  This is pretty much proof that the 360 is the ultimate poo poo pub community. Four Swordsman? Really dudes?
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| # ¿ Jul 30, 2010 21:52 |
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:If your connection drops you don't instantly leave the game. Theres a timeout period. It'll be like Battlenet when Starcraft first came out!
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| # ¿ Aug 5, 2010 08:11 |
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Even with 1GB in XP he should be in the clear. More ram would be nice that isn't going to make the difference between getting solid play in single player and stuttering to hell in multiplayer. I think there were some people in L4D1 that played with even lower specs, running the game in DX8 or something. Those screenshots were the best because it looked like the game is bathed in fluorescent lights.
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| # ¿ Aug 16, 2010 15:12 |
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Jetsetlemming posted:They cut DX8 support from L4D and on, unless there's some hack or something to get it working that I haven't heard about Hmm... I guess what they were doing is disabling a ton of poo poo or, I forget what it was. The game looked like Doom 3 running Voodoo 2 SLI.
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| # ¿ Aug 16, 2010 18:09 |
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Too bad it only took nine months but yeah those are some crazy rear end changes.
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2010 21:04 |
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There was one time in VS on Hard Rain map 3 as you're going up the elevator. Somehow we crowded the elevator enough at the entrance or something and was able to push Coach out enough where the doors slammed shut and he was left down at the bottom. Absolutely no interference from the infected. That did not go well for our score that round.
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| # ¿ Aug 23, 2010 11:51 |
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Bigass Moth posted:Funny you say that because I consider Dead Air the worst map. Opinions!!! Look at how wrong you are 
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| # ¿ Aug 23, 2010 19:49 |
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Bargain bin Laden posted:I think the comic was a big letdown, just seemed really quickly mashed together to me with minimal new content. I really don't know what you're expecting. It's a comic that helps to link L4D1 and L4D2 together. As in "Why are these dudes at The Passing" besides some simple reasoning. Also like Gay Fox said, it's only part 1/4
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2010 02:38 |
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Ghost Town Perv posted:being accused of pubstomping in the second try because I was playing with people I knew I'm not sure how many friends you were playing with but this is how pubstomps usually go. Fill friends-only lobby with buddies, open to public, stomp* *: or hope you don't get reverse stomped I suggest you start piling up L4D buddies where it's simple enough to invite people and get an 8-player VS game going where everybody ain't a dickhole. As in someone went to take a call and someone else isn't going to be a retarded attacking or speedrunning while other people are waiting.
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2010 23:50 |
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Is Steam Cloud turned on? What may be happening is that it keeps syncing an old config over your current one. Yes I understand that you've never screwed with the settings but I'm just taking guesses here. Try turning off the cloud and resetting it again.
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| # ¿ Oct 9, 2010 18:15 |
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Get an SSD you scrublords. Have any of you with slower loading issues try the built-in defragging?
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2010 14:32 |
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That dude is just being a baby. Pretty much anything goes during the escape unless of course everyone explicitly states that they're trying to get the expert achievement or whatever. If I think I can save you I will try otherwise I'm going to be leaving some dudes behind.
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2010 18:39 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I am going to assume SovietSteel is a goon or something?
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2010 22:55 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Yeah, it was supposed to be a pubstomp. Goon tears are sweeter than pubbie tears but drat son, ya'll blew them out.
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2010 23:14 |
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Schlegel Mach posted:I'm getting tired of getting lovely spawns with the Taaaaaank mutation. It seems pretty consistent that my team will spawn behind the survivors while the opposing team will almost always spawn in front of us. I've been in three consecutive games where my entire team has spawned behind that fence in NM3, while the other team spawns on the roof. It pretty much killed the mutation for me because it's obvious nobody bothered to test the spawn points. I think the NM3 fence thing has to do with the distance traveled in the map or something. The last time I played tank, someone on the opposing team started telling his team (alltalk was on) to stay in the open area near the Burger Tank. Sure enough, three of us spawn behind the fence. Honestly I play TANK! to enjoy. This is a luck of the draw game mode and people who are raging over fairness and trying to win are silly. Thankfully almost every time I've played it, the opposing teams have been very chill and everyone enjoys themselves over alltalk.
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