L4D 2 - Nov 17

[AshburnerX]

I find emptying the magnum into a special tends to stop them. I'm a reload freak, meaning at any lull I'll be reloading my weapons, so I usually have fairly full mags. The pump shotty is a waste, but I'm trying not to give up on the auto yet.

It takes more than one clip of Magnum ammo to kill a Charger unless you can nail him in the face, which is incredibly difficult to do if he's charging someone or pounding them into the ground. This is opposed to just about ANY of the Primary weapons, which will drop him in a clip or less, headshot or not.

In other words... don't waste Magnum shots on SI. Pull out your primary... or you WILL get someone killed.

 

[Shegokigo]

I give Deschain a month of real play before I want to really hear his opinions on the game and it's mechanics. He sounds like a really solid player. Would be fun to get a few games in with him soon.

 

[Jay]

Hopefully someone who doesn't cause too much FF.

 

[Shegokigo]

No joke, I think I'm done bringing Baconator to our games....

 

[AshburnerX]

There IS a reason I switched to using the Rifles as much as I can... god damn, I am far too trigger happy.

 

[Deschain]

I'm pretty much on all the time now, and my name is in the Steam thread. I'd love to play with you guys, because I need to learn the maps.

 

[AshburnerX]

I'm pretty much on all the time now, and my name is in the Steam thread. I'd love to play with you guys, because I need to learn the maps.

No... it's not. You gave us the wrong info.

 

[Deschain]

My name is definitely VSEPR. Someone from Halforums already added me.

 

[Shegokigo]

Not sure how they added you. I just copy/pasted that into search for friends and nothing.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Not sure how they added you. I just copy/pasted that into search for friends and nothing.

He may have added people to his friends, thus the request would go to them, and then talking on Steam would lead to invite.

 

[Chibibar]

I sent add request to VSEPR which turns out to Chicago "" Ted

 

[Deschain]

It was an invite from figment-Pez.

 

[figmentPez]

It was an invite from figment-Pez.

Yup, I copied and pasted and it worked just fine.

 

[figmentPez]

Valve gave us an SDK for Christmas!

PLAYERS: If you are not looking to design but play custom campaigns all you need to do is install the add-on support package. Just go into steam and open up the Tools tab. Look for the entry labeled Left 4 Dead 2 - Add-on Support click and install it. This download is sizable, but will update your L4D2 installation to allow running ANY map, including custom maps made for the original Left 4 Dead. Once installed, you do not need to run this application, it will always be active.

We will be updating the Left 4 Dead 2 game UI to include links to this package when applicable but for now please just download it directly. If you see any missing textures or models from your favorite map let us know in the forums.

Some of the options for developers seem pretty cool too.

I look forward to playing Death Aboard in L4D2, maybe with halforumites. Anyone else have favorite user made maps?

 

[Shegokigo]

What's required to play custom maps? Just download the add-on and then the custom map?

 

[Jay]

I found the Silent Hill remake pretty good. Death aboard is def a top 5.

 

[figmentPez]

What's required to play custom maps? Just download the add-on and then the custom map?

Apparently it requires more than that, or I'm doing something wrong. I installed the add-on and then installed a vpk file, but L4D2 says I don't have any add-on campaigns installed.

 

[AshburnerX]

I'll download it, but let me know what maps your all interested in running. Death Aboard is great, and so is Dead Before Dawn (or what was finished when I last played it. Did they release the final map yet?)

I've always wanted to make/play a camp where you went through that aquarium that is advertised everywhere in L4D. I see it as:

- Going through some streets to get to the aquarium (first map)
- Going through some flooded areas to turn on a pump to drain a flooded area (map 2, normal Crescendo)
- walking over some shark infested tanks as the horde runs at you (Map 3, Rolling Crescendo over instant death water hazard like in The Swamp)
- Blowing up a wrecked ship blocking access out of a Marina (Map 4, normal Crescendo)
- Gasing up a boat to escape (Scavenge style Finale)

 

[figmentPez]

What's required to play custom maps? Just download the add-on and then the custom map?

Apparently it requires more than that, or I'm doing something wrong. I installed the add-on and then installed a vpk file, but L4D2 says I don't have any add-on campaigns installed.[/QUOTE]

Okay, couldn't get Death Aboard working, I'll try again later. I did have some fun playing Dead Air, until my game crashed.

 

[Shegokigo]

So wait, what exactly CAN you do with this new add-on?

 

[Hailey Knight]

I guess play the original campaigns.

 

[Shegokigo]

Is that possible easily?

 

[figmentPez]

So wait, what exactly CAN you do with this new add-on?

What you're supposed to be able to do is play any user made map, for both L4D and L4D2. (Plus the SDK is now out for creating L4D2 maps). I don't know why Death Aboard isn't working. It'll probably be ironed out soon. I'm going to try some other campaigns and see if I can get any user made L4D maps working.

Is that possible easily?

Very. Before the Add-On Support it required editing files and I don't know what else. Now all it takes is downloading the .vpk files and double-clicking on them. (there are still some missing textures and other wonkiness, though).

 

[Shegokigo]

Downloading the .vpk files? Even if you own the original L4D?

 

[figmentPez]

Downloading the .vpk files? Even if you own the original L4D?

As far as I know you've got to download a L4D2 version of the original maps. I could be wrong though. There are apparently multiple versions, and I'm not sure what the best one is, or what can be found on servers.

 

[Shegokigo]

Crud... I don't know the first thing about L4D mods.

 

[figmentPez]

Damn it, I couldn't get Dam It! to work on L4D2 either. Has anyone gotten a L4D map to work on L4D2, or am I misunderstanding things and maps have to be converted to work on L4D2?

 

[AshburnerX]

You need to convert it for use in L4D2 first it looks like. I have NO idea how this is done, as the add-on program won't boot for me.

 

[Shegokigo]

I think I'm going to give this a day or a week to get ironed out and then see the original campaigns.

 

[bhamv3]

I'd be happy to get some new maps. The single player experience has been getting repetitive with the usual five.

(I play single player because I always have too high a ping in multiplayer! I swear!)

 

[AshburnerX]

We had a great run is VS tonight actually... I think our opponents only got farther than us all of once. This was despite everyone having 200-300 pings.

But yeah... once we get it all ironed out, we'll let you know. Expect 100-300 megs a camp at least though, so make room if you don't have it.

 

[Chibibar]

We had a great run is VS tonight actually... I think our opponents only got farther than us all of once. This was despite everyone having 200-300 pings.

But yeah... once we get it all ironed out, we'll let you know. Expect 100-300 megs a camp at least though, so make room if you don't have it.

It was pretty awesome. The opponent team was a bit weird. They were almost beating us but got mad and left (we kept the same team for 2.5 games) of course after game 1 the team switch map, and after doing 2 scenarios, they switch again to dark carnival. We kick butt

Sadly, I think when I got better as infected, I got worst as survivor

 

[AshburnerX]

We had a great run is VS tonight actually... I think our opponents only got farther than us all of once. This was despite everyone having 200-300 pings.

But yeah... once we get it all ironed out, we'll let you know. Expect 100-300 megs a camp at least though, so make room if you don't have it.

It was pretty awesome. The opponent team was a bit weird. They were almost beating us but got mad and left (we kept the same team for 2.5 games) of course after game 1 the team switch map, and after doing 2 scenarios, they switch again to dark carnival. We kick butt

Sadly, I think when I got better as infected, I got worst as survivor [/QUOTE]

Now if we could only get Shego to play Vs...

 

[Chibibar]

We had a great run is VS tonight actually... I think our opponents only got farther than us all of once. This was despite everyone having 200-300 pings.

But yeah... once we get it all ironed out, we'll let you know. Expect 100-300 megs a camp at least though, so make room if you don't have it.

It was pretty awesome. The opponent team was a bit weird. They were almost beating us but got mad and left (we kept the same team for 2.5 games) of course after game 1 the team switch map, and after doing 2 scenarios, they switch again to dark carnival. We kick butt

Sadly, I think when I got better as infected, I got worst as survivor [/QUOTE]

Now if we could only get Shego to play Vs...[/QUOTE]
maybe when she get her good machine back.

 

[AshburnerX]

We had a great run is VS tonight actually... I think our opponents only got farther than us all of once. This was despite everyone having 200-300 pings.

But yeah... once we get it all ironed out, we'll let you know. Expect 100-300 megs a camp at least though, so make room if you don't have it.

It was pretty awesome. The opponent team was a bit weird. They were almost beating us but got mad and left (we kept the same team for 2.5 games) of course after game 1 the team switch map, and after doing 2 scenarios, they switch again to dark carnival. We kick butt

Sadly, I think when I got better as infected, I got worst as survivor [/QUOTE]

Now if we could only get Shego to play Vs...[/QUOTE]
maybe when she get her good machine back.[/QUOTE]

I thought she already had it back? She's been playing TF2.