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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: james on March 30, 2009, 10:45:42 PM
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Has anyone tried this game on pc? Is there a playable demo out for it anywhere?
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Apparently there was one released late last year, but I can't find it.. It's nowhere in the steampowered.com demo list.
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A buddy of mine told me it was in neat but now on the shelves. I haven't seen it yet and was wondering mostly if it was a good mess around kind of game.
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It's very good.
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I've played it since Xmas. Awesome game.
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Tatertot and I seem to have problems with that game. :P
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The demo was only available before the game was released. The problem was the demo had the full game engine with just a couple maps so you could just import maps into the demo and essentially have the full game for free.
L4D is a great game but its not for everyone. If you're obsessed with content you will be disappointed. The game shipped with 4 campaigns, two of which aren't available for Versus. There will be an update in April to make all 4 campaigns available for Versus along with another map for a new game mode. Also, the SDK is supposed to be released with this update too so community maps and mods will start popping up very quickly. There is a Dawn of the Dead mall campaign in the works and it is very well done. Weapon selection is limited, but adequate (imo). Pistol and dual pistols (m1911), shotgun (pump and auto), smg (uzi), assault rifle (m16), and sniper rifle (mini14), along with pipe bombs, mollies, gas cans, propane and oxygen tanks.
The game is based on teamwork and it takes this concept farther than any other game so far. No matter how good you are you will always find yourself relying on your teammates due to the special infected's pinning attacks. This makes pub play frustrating at times because even one useless teammate can mean certain death. Luckily there is a votekick function, but the best experience comes from playing with a group of 4 (or 8 ) friends.
Overall, the game is a blast to play, and will only get better with continuous community and developer support. Play through a few campaigns in Co-op and then head over to Versus for the real fun. :devil
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Tried it, wasn't impressed, sorry just didn't suit me.
Now Fallout3, thats worth the money IMO.
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Speaking of FO3, the new DLC 'The Pitt' ..... Is horrible.
Wasted my $ on that one....
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I've played L4D very regularly since Christmas. The campaigns are nice to get you into the game and learn it. When I first played the campaigns they were very addictive. But I knew that their purpose was to be the long term content for the game. The Versus mode is really what the game is made for and where you get your replay value from. It's 4 on 4 and the matches can be very fun.
The downsides of the game are the lobby system. It was clearly developed for the Xbox versions for it's simple, limited option interface. You cannot just pick a random public server to play (unless you use the openserverbrowser command, which gives mixed results finding a game).
What makes the game great is playing with friends that you know, or some that you get to know by playing a random game. So then u can start up lobbies (to create a game) with your friends and you can go from there. The comradery is really where its at, as you can be paired with some real idiots if u pick a random lobby. When the game first came out, if u played a random server (because your friends didn't have the game yet) you'd get in a habit of finding good players you've played with and adding them to your steam friends list. Or you get some friend's of friends and start up a game, and you increase your network of known ppl you play with.
I would say, if I didn't have any friends that had the game, it would have been shelved a while ago. But I've got a nice collection of buds from games of old that I play with and I've acquired quite a few new ones as well. Having a mic is really essential to the game IMO.
I'm always looking for buds to play with, so if you're interested, I have a good collection of friends that we play every other night (with our own server).
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960388475
SteamID: Fulmar[ZeR]
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Added you on Steam Fulmar.
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great game!!!!
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Been playing L4D non-stop since it came out. Great game, especially the Versus mode.
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No..
Eternal silence & fistful of frags whop the crap out of left 4 dead.
but im not much for zombies that never get scary-er than the first time you see them.
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Speaking of FO3, the new DLC 'The Pitt' ..... Is horrible.
Wasted my $ on that one....
I thought The Pitt was great new content, more Fallout 3ish than the last released DLC.
ack-ack
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I'm a fan of l4d, my steam id is thrilauk. I was initially dissapointed with the few selection of guns, but i soon got over that. As long as you're not completely new to FPS then I would play the campaigns on advanced. It's fun on expert too, because there are fewer clueless peeps who run off and get themselves killed.
Vs mode is fun, but it's a shame the difficulty has been restricted to normal, it was more fun when vs was played with advanced difficulty. The auto-shotgun is still a little overpowered in vs mode, if a team's only desire is to win a map (regardless of how lame it is)- equip the whole team with auto shotties and run and gun. On some maps the team can run half the map before having to stop, to kill a scripted zombie horde or a tank. It's an effective method, but i find it boring because i like killing zombies.
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Vs mode is fun, but it's a shame the difficulty has been restricted to normal, it was more fun when vs was played with advanced difficulty. The auto-shotgun is still a little overpowered in vs mode, if a team's only desire is to win a map (regardless of how lame it is)- equip the whole team with auto shotties and run and gun. On some maps the team can run half the map before having to stop, to kill a scripted zombie horde or a tank. It's an effective method, but i find it boring because i like killing zombies.
You can change the difficulty of Versus mode, however, you have to have rcon commands for the server (basically it has to be your own server). I've played VS on advanced and its much more difficult since the regular zombies do more damage per hit, making Boomers pretty powerful. I believe pounce scratch and pull damages are increased as well.
As for the run and gun, a good team can pull it off and a bad infected team can let it happen. Coordinated attacks are the key to stopping the survivors. You can't send one hunter at a time. It's tough in a random pub to find a run and gun team since the players are all randoms. You're more than likely going to have 1 moron on your team who gets left behind exploring.
The group of friends I play with several times a week for about 4 months now have pretty good fights. If our team skills our balanced, I'd say that both teams only complete 1/2 the maps as survivor. As for the shotgunning. I find its preference. Sniper rifles are always a mistake in VS, in the campaign their fine. 95% of the time I take the 1st tier shotgun as the Uzi runs out of ammo quick. And then depending on the map, I take the auto-shotty about 75% of the time. Open maps i take the Assault rifle for accuracy and distance. For say Mercy Hospital or the Subway, auto-shotty all the way.
The game has become more and more balanced with each patch. At first, survivors could just corner with auto shotties and could kill a tank in 20 seconds. Well they lowered shotgun dmg to the tank and fixed so that tanks can hit more than one person in a swipe. I really hated the melee fatigue at first, but it really has made an improvement in balancing. No more melee spam in the corners to save the survivors, now they have to at least use ammo. Makes getting a pull with the survivors and a pounce with a hunter easier.
There are the typical 'cheap' strategies to every map. But you'll find that in any game you play in some form or another. I'm really surprised they haven't fixed the gurney on No Mercy Level 4 by the elevator.
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Have to be connected to steam to play?