Left 4 Dead

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but has anyone else heard this song from Jonathan Coulton and thought of Left 4 Dead?

Re: Your Brains Skip about 40 seconds into it if you like

 

[Maniacal]

Hmm, apparently I killed the thread when I was drunk xD

 

[Maniacal]

Bump!

Update is out!

April 21, 2009 - L4D PC DLC Out Now

The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is now available for the PC and Xbox 360, free of charge to all owners of the game. The full change list for the PC release is below. In addition, both the retail and Steam versions of the game (PC and 360) are now available for a special price. Check Steam and local retailers for pricing details. For more information about L4D, please visit www.l4d.com

Survival Mode


New gameplay Mode

16 maps including Last Stand

Leaderboards

7 new achievements


Versus Changes

Fixed a case where versus team score would continue to be recalculated after the score panel was displayed

Fixed an issue with recalculating the versus score health bonus for a player when they are rescued from being incapacitated

Fixed being able to start a swing as an infected, then teleport to the survivors and have the claw swing hit a survivor

Fixed a case where teleporting to the survivors would not reset the ability timer

Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key

Fixed a case where it was not possible to join a game while it was in a finale

Fixed a rare case where listen servers would speed up the game over time

Removed convars related to melee fatigue

Fixed a case where infected players would get a respawn time on their initial spawn into a map


Server Changes

Made ms_force_dedicated_server not require cheats

Add a message when queuing a heartbeat

Simplified setting of game mode

Removed convars director_no_human_zombies and director_holdout_mode

Added mp_gamemode [coop,versus,survival]


General

Added lobby join and leave messages

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I wish I didn't have to work tonight so I could play...

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

It could have waited another hour. The minute I click to play Left 4 Dead it decides to update.

Honestly, I wish Valve would phone me in advance to check if I'm ready

 

[Captain2]

Odd, the same day the update comes out is the same day my copy of "The Zombie Survival Guide" arrives

I say odd because the game is full and now I have something to read

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Odd, the same day the update comes out is the same day my copy of "The Zombie Survival Guide" arrives

Good read. Also get World War Z

 

[Captain2]

I got them both and saved five bucks

 

[LightFang]

I haven't played Survival Mode yet. I heard it was hard.

I did play through a round of Dead Air versus. It was great. I'm never going back to No Mercy.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

It is hard. Me, Expletive, Omega, and some other random guy played some and only got above 5 minutes twice, with our best 7:26.

 

[GenMarshall]

I haven't played Survival Mode yet. I heard it was hard

Its like fighting in the Alamo.


Without the Mexican Army and the Spanish Mission.

The longest Kan, Scamp, SimonL, and myself lasted was around eight minutes at the Church

 

[Esckey]

8 minutes? seriously? Holy crap! me and some randoms didn't make it past 5 minutes. And by that point it was just one guy left limping away from the distaster that was the Garage Alamo on No Mercy.

 

[Maniacal]

The Alamo is a pice of cake compared to survial. Zombies show no fear. And the Mexicans didn't have tanks.

 

[philippe]

me and someone i know tried it, we were doing well, until one of the two random scrubs, showed he had no skill in throwing a molly. So we burned the frenchie.

 

[Rub'Rum]

It's very intense, I like it for now but I don't know if it can grow old fast, hehe. I mean, it's wave after wave after wave. Well we'll see, but right now I think it's pretty addictive. I thought it was going to be slower, but it's meant to be extreme. This graph from the L4D developers sums it up I think:

Basically, at 8 minutes there's a tank every 50 seconds (doesn't matter if you're done with the previous one!) and new special infected show up every 5 seconds. So you have multiple smokers and hunters and boomers hanging around at the same time.

 

[Captain Carnage]

Was playing before with some people in the airport (with the van), the longest we got was about 8:15. But almost all the times after that, we were lucky to get above 5:00.

 

[GoodGame]

I haven't played Survival Mode yet. I heard it was hard.

I did play through a round of Dead Air versus. It was great. I'm never going back to No Mercy.

Why? No Mercy isn't a bad level.

Hmm, apparently I killed the thread when I was drunk xD

Nah, I played L4D to zombie death with the 4 measley campaigns.

So what's with the 16 new maps? Do they string together to make new Versus campaigns?

 

[GenMarshall]

Why? No Mercy isn't a bad level.

It's one of thoes campaings before yesterdays patch that is overly played in verses.

So what's with the 16 new maps? Do they string together to make new Versus campaigns?

Survival mode consist of four survivors that tries to survive the longest from hordes, multiple special infected (Hunters n Boomers n Smokers! Oh my!) and tanks. There is only one new survival map which takes place at a light house. The others are from other campaings where eather the finally or a crecendio event happens.

 

[Maniacal]

Ha some fun today with Kan, Simon, Areo3000 and Izipo. Last game we had Zero must have crashed, leaving Rubrum and I to hold out for 14 MINUTES!

I have more screenshots but I'll upload those when I get home from work.

 

[Rub'Rum]

So what's with the 16 new maps? Do they string together to make new Versus campaigns?

There is 1 new map for Survival. The "16 new maps" are locked-in versions of wherever crescendo events happened before. So they're not new as much as "slightly modified versions" that keeps you locked in.