L4D 2 - Nov 17

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Chibibar

Bridge on VS. is nasty :) I manage to knock two people INTO a whole (and kill myself) with a charger :) it was nice. Another player manager to use a jockey and get people to fall into the hole.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Well yeah... the rules are different for VS, as you have to deal with humans using SI instead of the AI. But on Campaign it's much simpler.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Grargh! I am so sick of my stupid internet connection problems! I thought it was over, but today it's back to periods of packet loss. It'll be fine for a while, then *wham* I can't do anything until my game and the server sync back up. I keep trying, hoping Comcast will have fixed the problem, but it's been going on for over a week now.

On a happier note, I unexpectedly got the Tank Burger achievement while playing a test game. It was an easy game, so I just decided to wail on the tank with my fire axe. Apparently my teammates had the same idea, woo hoo!
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I forgot how fun campaign can be. It's a shame I didn't have time to finish and we couldn't have done Expert. My computer was handling that much better than versus. Maybe this weekend.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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With all the Halforumites that are playing L4D we need to schedule an all H4U Vs match. My schedule is pretty open, so I could do it almost any time if it's planned in advance. Does anyone with a restricted schedule want to suggest a good time?
 
figmentPez

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After a question that came up in one of today's games, I decided to check on tanks and fire in L4D2.

For those that don't know, in L4D1 campaign lighting a tank on fire does no direct damage. It starts a timer (30 seconds on easy, up to 40 seconds on expert) but also causes the tank to run faster. So, because of the speed boost, setting a tank on fire is only the best option if you're going to run and let him burn out. Before a patch this was the way versus handled tanks on fire as well.

In L4D2 there are many changes to the tank, and fire is no longer a timer. It acts more like L4D1's current versus, where it does damage to the tank, slowing him down, so setting the tank on fire is always a good option. Fire alone can kill a tank, but it would take much longer than it did in L4D1.

My apologies to anyone I may have confused.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

OMG, playing with no sound from the zombies sucks... and is also creepier. The MP5 was nice though... poor Germans.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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*ugh* Terrible day for pick-up games. First server I went on one of the players was intentionally spooking the witches. Not even trying to cr0wn them, but just shooting them. I asked why, and they said "because it's fun". This was on the Mill part of Hard Rain as well, so this jerk was going down right and left. The other players refused to vote them off.

The second server had an altered set of weapons. I think they were Counter Strike guns. Whatever, they sucked, and the players sucked worse. I threw a molotov at the tank, and one of the players circled through the brush and back around into the fire, chased by the tank, and then said (the only thing he said over his mic) that because of the fire we were worse than the zombies.

There is such a huge difference playing with halforumites.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

figmentPez said:
The second server had an altered set of weapons. I think they were Counter Strike guns. Whatever, they sucked, and the players sucked worse. I threw a molotov at the tank, and one of the players circled through the brush and back around into the fire, chased by the tank, and then said (the only thing he said over his mic) that because of the fire we were worse than the zombies.
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Counter Strike weapons spawn if the server is based on the German Version (or one of the players who started up the map has the German version.) It was sort of an "I'm Sorry" gift from Valve because the German Government wouldn't let them have full gore.

On a side note, my Source Games are fucking lagging again... which is getting my kicked out of L4D2 games because it's hard for me to keep up. I'm getting tired of this bullshit... this time it started happening when I tried installing Mass Effect. *sigh* I may need to Wipe my D: drive again.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

*ugh*

Same here, but I think it has to do with anyone who played on non-official servers thanks to idiots like:



Sad when you reduce the game to stuff like that. Funny enough that video finally put to rest a feeling I had about a certain match where I felt the other team (pre-made 4) was hacking but I had no idea how.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I've played on official and modded servers before, but my achievements are still there.

Also, no wonder the guy in the video had to cheat, his aim's so bad it's like he's playing on a console.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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I played on a weird server yesterday. I killed a hunter and a box of explosive ammo popped out, then we killed the tank and a chainsaw came out. Interesting. I left soon after because it was also a server that sets itself to it's own choice of difficulties, regardless of what you tried to join (and also resets with each level, even if the players vote to change.)


Also, L4D2 Update
Notable changes:
- Enabled finale manual spawn by default
- Enabled Player Zombie bots
- Reduced effectiveness of melee weapons against the Tank ( 5% of max health, from 10% )
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I think I'm gonna break from L4D2 versus for a bit. My computer just can't handle it, and while I've tried to compensate for this by learning how to predict zombie movements and framerate delays, I'm not half as good with it as I was in L4D. At least with Campaign there's less framerate trouble for the most part (certain maps like the highway part of Dark Carnival map 1, or the middle two levels of Swamp Fever, still cause problems for some reason) and I don't have to think "Okay, I see the zombie two steps back from where he REALLY is in-game, so now's the time to fire". It just doesn't work.

And this'll probably meaning playing even less because most of my versus buddies moved on to L4D2. Oh well. Maybe a new comp in 2011.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Doesn't lowering the settings help?!

But yeah, last night i had 300+ ping while playing with figmentPez, Chibi and Shawnancy and man was it annoying when zombies i shot 3 times point blank weren't even hit once.
 
Dave

Dave

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@Li3n said:
Doesn't lowering the settings help?!

But yeah, last night i had 300+ ping while playing with figmentPez, Chibi and Shawnancy and man was it annoying when zombies i shot 3 times point blank weren't even hit once.
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Damn! I was playing Mass Effect last night on Steam. I wish I'd have seen you guys on there!
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

@Li3n said:
Doesn't lowering the settings help?!

But yeah, last night i had 300+ ping while playing with figmentPez, Chibi and Shawnancy and man was it annoying when zombies i shot 3 times point blank weren't even hit once.
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I have every setting lowered to its lowest. I even lowered the screen resolution to a small box. It helps, but once we get to the second campaign map, I feel essentially useless. I suppose I wouldn't be so aggravated, except I was much, much better at L4D versus due to it running properly. To be handicapped like this--I've been straining with it for months and I can't stand it anymore. And it's okay, because I think campaign is actually a better game than versus, but I'll miss my versus buddies who don't play campaign.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Dave;338716][QUOTE=@Li3n said:
Doesn't lowering the settings help?!

But yeah, last night i had 300+ ping while playing with figmentPez, Chibi and Shawnancy and man was it annoying when zombies i shot 3 times point blank weren't even hit once.
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Damn! I was playing Mass Effect last night on Steam. I wish I'd have seen you guys on there![/QUOTE]

I think you got on after we where done... as it was around 2am for me, and i'm GMT+2...
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Dave said:
Damn! I was playing Mass Effect last night on Steam. I wish I'd have seen you guys on there!
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Dave, you've got leadership qualities. Pick a date and time for a Halforums Versus game. I bet we can get 8 people if we set it up in advance.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

figmentPez;339002][QUOTE=@Li3n said:
Dave is in the game right now... anyone else care to come?
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I tried to invite Dave to a game, but he never responded.[/QUOTE]

And then he started playing ME1... and he's still in it. Can anyone buzz him on mess or something?

At least i got the Sob Story achievement... when i finished that campaign a noob shot a witch on purpose... and we where doing perfect up until that point (at the closet right before the elevator)... my friend told him not to, too bad i didn't know we could just let him die...
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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I joined an awesome versus match this afternoon. PUG, but with Chibi and Shawnacy on one team, and myself on the other. They narrowly beat us out the first round, and then a noob joined and they lost the second playthrough of Dead Center by a larger margin. Still put up a darn good showing, but my team was starting to talk more on our mics, and get a little teamwork up.

I did run into something fishy. At one point I knocked a hunter off of my teammate, and while I was shooting the stumbled hunter it pounced me. That's not supposed to be possible is it?

when i finished that campaign a noob shot a witch on purpose...
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I hear you with noobs shooting witches. I've joined many games where people were either shooting them for fun, shooting them because they thought there was no other way around or just plain hitting them on accident because they're spamming bullets everywhere. It doesn't help that the bots will go out of their way to set of the witches. Seriously, today I saw Coach climb up to the upper level, and backtrack to set off a witch. No clue what the bot was trying to do up there, aside from messing with the witch.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Yeah man, that thing with Coach was crazy... stupid Uncle Phil wannabe, went off and spooked the witch just to annoy me coz i don't like him...
 
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