Game play for j00



All the info you could dream about.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=16bcf444a5ea2201841bd5da7571752f&t=535896

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".........Witches (1 per campaign, only appears on difficulties above normal) These are computer controlled Boss-Infected, and aren't available to choose for an Infected player. That is because these are potentially the most dangerous enemies in the game, and only appear once in a campaign. A Witch spends her time writhing on the floor in agony. She won't even take any notice of you unless you do something silly, like walk too close to her, shoot near her, shoot her, or shine the flashlight at her. This lets you pass by her if you're quiet, which is the safer option. If you do accidentally annoy her, or decide to risk attacking her, she'll attack you. She is fast, she is strong, she kills with each hit. Try to avoid her if you can."

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"Tanks (1 allowed at any single moment in time, except for the final stand) The biggest Boss Infected, this guys name is self explanatory. This bloke is a rock, a gigantic lump of muscle and sinew, insanely strong and fast enough to run any survivor down, but no stealthy options available to him at all. The footsteps of this mother can be heard from miles away, so don't expect to catch anyone by surprise. Because this bloke is so powerful, it isn't possible to choose to be him when playing as Infected. Instead, a random player will be informed that he can be respawned as a Tank at the Director's discretion. A Tank's role is pure and simple, destroy with no thought of self-preservation and with one object in mind, the death of the Survivors. Locked doors and even certain parts of walls will not stop your rampant destruction, so Survivors can't simply lock themselves in a room and wait you out. To stop Tank players camping for surprise attacks there's a frustration meter that fills when you're out of sight of the Survivors. When this fills, you lose all control of the Tank. Nevertheless, this bloke can wipe out the Survivors if they aren't skilled and use teamplay. "

The Smoker




The Boomer


Release is November 08 atm.

This is a must buy fyi, no exceptions.

more shit

http://www.left4dead411.com/left-4-dead-showdown

[Edited on August 17, 2008 at 8:30 PM. Reason : more shit]

8/17/2008 8:17:59 PM

now this

is going to be fun

8/17/2008 8:20:51 PM

I am curious about the co-op

I can see this being extremely fun game to play on console, and PC.

I want to know about the PC interface to get a full team of survivors.

Can you imagine playing a 1 hour scenario with 3 other people? Not just some bs tf2 round, but an actual mini campagn.

8/17/2008 8:33:28 PM

i'll bite. what are the requirements?

will a 512mb ddr2 nvidia 9600m gt work at all?

8/17/2008 8:34:03 PM

The environments in those screencaps look really dated.

8/18/2008 7:49:21 AM

i doubt the environments will be anything special appearance wise. What matters is the layout and the number of zombies.

8/18/2008 9:47:40 AM

Exactly.

This isnt crysis where everything is crazy bright.

The gameplay is what has everyone going "I want that"

and by everyone, I mean you.

8/18/2008 5:40:21 PM

They just posted more gameplay videos on IGN (for xbox)

Graphics aren't that great, but the gameplay looks to be intense. I'll probably try and pick it up

10/16/2008 8:26:56 AM

It's on the Source engine so if you are able to run any of the games in Orange Box, you'll probably be fine with this.

btw has anyone played the "Zombie Panic" HL2 mod? I had never heard of it until I saw that it was available for install under the "My Games" part of Steam. It looks like a very primitive version of Left 4 Dead... you have a team of zombies (only one type of zombie) and a group of survivors. Each survivor starts out with a pistol and only 7 shots (which go really quickly) and a random melee weapon (really random things like ladles or computer keyboards). All the survivors have to find each other and exchange ammo/health packs/etc. while the zombies seek them out. It's not bad, a good precursor to Left 4 Dead.

Regardless, when this comes out we should get a TWW group going for some co-op play.

10/16/2008 9:15:41 AM

it's already up for pre-sale on steam, $44.99

10/16/2008 9:21:11 AM

Quote :

"Release is November 08 atm."

November 18 actually

and yeah I plan to pre-order for that 10% off deal.

10/16/2008 1:22:55 PM

mmm

i might have to upgrade my internet connection for this one

10/16/2008 1:25:10 PM

So, tally:

Xbox or PC?

My PC is getting old, not worth it to me to upgrade for gaming only, so from now on most games will be console purchases.

Xbox here.

And I'd love to get some MP going when it drops. It'll probably take me a few weeks to get it after release, but then I'll be on.

Quote :

"Regardless, when this comes out we should get a TWW group going for some co-op play."

whoops, just saw this. Sounds good.

I'm guessing PC can't play with Xbox?

11/7/2008 9:09:57 AM

I didn't realize this came out so soon. Ugh, GoW2 -> CoD WaW -> L4D...wow, what a month for video games.

11/7/2008 9:34:30 AM

^ plus fallout/fable if you're into either of those

and i'm picking up mk vs dc just because i want to, lol

but yeah, i wish they would space this out over the year instead of a massive orgy near xmas (but of course, it makes sense $$$ wise for these companies)

11/7/2008 9:55:11 AM

i've got it preordered for PC. is everyone who's getting it on PC in the TWW Steam group?

11/7/2008 2:31:26 PM

Preordered on PC and played the demo last night with some friends....

Awesome.

11/7/2008 4:06:46 PM

I got to play with some people I know.

Fuck random people in TF2

11/7/2008 5:28:25 PM

Game is sweet so far.

I can imagine being the super zombies will be freaking amazing for LANs and good teamwork.

If you need one other reason to buy it.

Its motherfucking VALVE people!

11/7/2008 7:07:17 PM

i preordered but haven't gotten an email about how to play the demo

11/7/2008 8:45:37 PM

^i just downloaded it.

went to the games section in Steam, and then went to the demos area and it was right there with a big Install button.

11/7/2008 9:33:30 PM

i meant 360

i ended up calling gamestop support and some lady said she'd email me the code.

11/7/2008 9:42:59 PM

so is there actually going to be support for larger online scenarios? i may just have not read online, but it seems like this is the answer to my wanting more zombies from dead rising...except more awesome and less cartoony. looks like with this and fallout 3 i may not have a whole lot of extra time now.

11/7/2008 10:36:23 PM

Full game will let 8 people play. 4 humans and 4 super zombies.

Game is suprisingly fun to play over and over.

11/7/2008 10:53:05 PM

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/l4dearly/default.aspx

go here.

put in real e-mail. put in fake name if you want. don't enter a transaction id. wait around 24 hours. enjoy free pre-order code and l4d before the 11th

[Edited on November 7, 2008 at 11:03 PM. Reason : fffff]

11/7/2008 11:01:59 PM

Preordered on Steam. Installing the Demo now.

11/8/2008 11:17:22 PM

This game is really fun.

11/9/2008 1:22:52 AM

that 2nd level is pretty tough on expert. defintely worked better when playing with friends though... played with some idiots when puging

11/9/2008 5:28:13 AM

Anyone know how to find certain games and not just find random people?

11/9/2008 10:37:06 AM

^ Open the console and type "openserverbrowser". That will give you the usual server browser like you typically see in a valve game and you won't have to mess with the console type matchmaking.

11/9/2008 11:25:43 AM

Game looks fun, but it seems like it could get old quick. Wish I could get the demo earlier...

11/9/2008 8:53:19 PM

bah, I missed the gamestop glitch to get a free early demo code online

oh well, guess i'll DL tomorrow

11/10/2008 9:21:54 AM

they never emailed mine, so i'll wait until tomorrow too

11/10/2008 10:22:57 AM

360 demo is up

11/11/2008 2:19:42 PM

5 days until the game unlocks!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/500/

11/12/2008 1:11:00 PM

I was never big on zombie games like resident evil, but this is genuinely fun, and mainly for the coop aspect. Last night myself and all three of my roommates played the hell out of the demo, and it was pretty awesome.

I love how each area can be considerably different each time you play through it due to the dynamic nature of the enemies and AI control

e.g. one time in the second level we got 'zerg-rushed' bad by a huge zombie horde with boomers and most of us ended up getting poisoned by the bile and we got overwhelmed, but playing the level again, that same area was dead quiet and nearly deserted and it made for a really creepy tense atmosphere because we all were on edge expecting to get hammered again, but it happened differently later on that go

[Edited on November 12, 2008 at 1:27 PM. Reason : ]

11/12/2008 1:23:07 PM

the team AI can be pretty bad sometimes... wasting medpacks and not saving me from the smokers. that being said, i easily cleared the 2 levels with 3 bots on advanced, might try expert tonight. so far i havent cleared it on expert with anyone, only gotten to that last room but there was a tank that destroyed us.

11/12/2008 1:32:03 PM

Someone somehow created this super nightmare mode on a server, It was fucking insane. Each encounter had like 5 of each boss, multiple witches and tanks.. we never made it through it.

11/12/2008 5:00:44 PM

I ran into a server similar to that.

Boomers and hunters were spawning on top of us. In the first room of the first level.

It was really gay. maybe your server handled it better.

11/12/2008 5:38:03 PM

You can just enable cheats on your server and spawn zombies and bosses with command lines.

11/12/2008 5:39:27 PM

I've cleared expert with bots, but it got pretty rough and close at some points, like single handedly breaking rushes and dealing with witches dropped right in your way

11/12/2008 8:31:24 PM

Yea, played on expert for the first time. We got to the last room with all of us under 15% health, 2 of us with no primary ammo no health packs, no bombs, no nothing. And a tank and a witch are right at the entrance to the last room of the second level. Needless to say we got destroyed.

But expert is really fun if you got people that are trying and communicating.

Would be awesome for a LAN game.

[Edited on November 12, 2008 at 8:43 PM. Reason : dasd]

11/12/2008 8:42:23 PM

I'll be there.

GamerTag: Yodajammies2

11/12/2008 8:50:17 PM

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1134/

$100 for every game Valve ever made, including Left 4 Dead.

11/13/2008 2:16:31 PM

Wow.

11/13/2008 2:27:39 PM

^^That's a damn good deal, especially if you don't have HL or TF2 yet.

11/13/2008 4:07:33 PM

the 360 demo is bloody awesome.

automatic shotgun ftw.

11/13/2008 7:13:14 PM

6 hours until the full version unlocks!!!!!!!1

11/17/2008 6:12:46 PM

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM. Reason : double post]

11/17/2008 6:19:56 PM

I don't own any Valve games, so that $100 deal looks nice, except my computer can't handle Left 4 dead. My laptop is 4 years old.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't valve have a deal like this yearly? I may get it then, if I get a new computer.

11/17/2008 6:21:16 PM