Left 4 Dead 2 - now $6.80 on Steam!

[The Damned]

OK, so the new mutation is out... and it sucks.

You're in any of the finales, but this time, you can only have one player make it. It's called Room For One for a reason.

It basically, you and the other three survivors try to make it to the end, but as soon as you do, it's time to FF the fuck out of everyone. It's essentially a Valve-sanctioned grief mod. As soon as I saw the chopper in Dark Carnival heading to the left side of the stage, I ran over there... and then had someone try to shotgun me down. He already set the other two on fire and tried to incap them.

Seriously, this is a terrible idea. I can't understand why they would bother with this. Any regular player sees this exact same shit in every other finale.

[Powerlord]

Honestly, I haven't really liked any of the mutations, but I still update the L4D2 server on 208.94.245.227:27070 (ocrtf2.com:27070) every week.

[The Damned]

We have an OCR L4D2 server?

Daaaaaaaamn, I never noticed.

[Powerlord]

We have an OCR L4D2 server?

Daaaaaaaamn, I never noticed.

Two, actually. Garian hosts one, and palvls hosts the other. The latter is the same machine and account that the OCR Team Fortress 2 servers are located on, which is why I have access to it.

[big giant circles]

Honestly, I haven't really liked any of the mutations, but I still update the L4D2 server on 208.94.245.227:27070 (ocrtf2.com:27070) every week.

I liked realism vs, and I sort of like the one where it's just constant horde and you have to rush to the finish, but all the others have been pretty "meh"-worthy.

[Ferret]

I've had the game for all of five days now (approximately) and I'm already bored to death of people voting to restart the map in Survival because they screwed up a glitch/trick or someone started the timer...

Seriously, wtf.

[The Damned]

I can top that.

The only Survival achievement I was missing was the one where you get a medal using only a melee weapon. Using the balcony in The Passing's Underground map, I set up a nice ring of defenses in case thing went wrong, and had both ammo boxes spread out in the middle, away from the rails.

Now, this was just me and the three bots. This is important. Also, I didn't set the game to be friends-only.

So, I start the horde, wait just long enough to kill a zombie with a crowbar (DOCTAH FREEMAHN!) and then run up to and climb the hidden ladder that gets you up onto the balcony.

As the horde come in, and the first tank and wave of special infected swarm the bots, I was sitting up there, safe and sound.

Four minutes went by. Then five minutes. Where's my message saying I got the achievement? Oh, that's right. I had messed up this one on an earlier attempt by shooting something, and that was past the first medal. OK, no problem, just got to sit tight until seven minutes.

Six minutes and thirty seconds, three people join in. All of their characters are dead in the street below me, and I'm only a a few dozen seconds from the achievement.

Someone votes to restart the map. Three votes yes, map restarts five seconds before the checkpoint.

Fucking L4D2 community sucks.

[Bleck]

every community sucks

the more people band together around something, the more likely it is that a sizeable portion of them are idiots

[Ferret]

Yeah I have to agree the people on survival are roaring idiots.

[SirChadlyOC]

I haven't played this game since November.

Why can't I get into this game like I did with L4D1?

[Bleck]

because it's too fucking hard

[The Damned]

What? Too hard?

Really?

I'm asking, because I've gone through all the campaigns on Expert with random people (legit, not any of those jetpack or private servers), and it was difficult, but still doable.

Hell, I've been trying out Tank runs on Advanced recently. Lots of restarts from having Tanks smash you all at once, but we managed to get to the end.

Mind you, I do play it almost every day for at least one round, so that might have something to do with it.

[Triad Orion]

I would agree that 2 is harder than 1. To some extent, considerably.

Common Infected are smart enough to serpentine and attempt to flank you when they rush you, as opposed to just blindly charging at you like they did in the original. Returning Special Infected tend to be a little more cunning as well (except the Boomer, who often finds himself in wide open spaces), and the new Specials are just downright mean. The Spitter and Charger can dish out some serious hurt, and the Jockey can cause a lot of trouble.

In general, because of all these factors, on average, survivors are taking much more damage than they used to. That said, I think the challenge is a fair one on the difficulties below expert because the tools the Survivors have now are varied, interesting, and powerful. Frankly, I like 2 a lot more than the original with all the variety it has for equipment loadouts.

Considering I don't like Expert mode and rarely play on it, I'm not the best person to speak for its difficulty. Damned is definitely the man to talk to about that.

[The Damned]

Hardly. I may have beaten the campaigns on Expert, but I still had to work at it.

I've seen guys blast through Realism Expert pretty much on solo. Those guys are the ones that you should talk to.

Crazy jive turkeys, every one of them.

[Powerlord]

So, apparently Valve has announced the next L4D/L4D2 DLC: The Sacrifice.

And yes, it's for both games.

Basically, you play the events of the original survivors leading up to The Passing.

The L4D2 version will also include the No Mercy campaign from L4D.

More here.

Oh, and Valve will be releasing a comic online in October with the backstory between L4D's previous campaigns and The Sacrifice.

[Powerlord]

If you haven't been following the Left 4 Dead blog, the Left 4 Dead / Left 4 Dead 2 DLC, The Sacrifice, is due out next week.

Speaking of which, the first 3 parts of the L4D comic of the same name are out now... next week is the final part and the DLC.

[ParanoidDrone]

I'm loving the fact that the military is in over their heads and they don't even realize it. At first, anyway.

Apparently I'm a "Bad Dude" now.

[Bahamut]

I did not know about the comic - nice!

[big giant circles]

Yeah I'm enjoying the comic. Bill's kind of a douche though lol.

[The Damned]

Maybe he's starting to turn? What about his beard? What if it's turning?

They never stated, even in the comic, that all of the survivors are totally immune. They may just be showing really high resistance. After all, in The Passing, we see Fallen Survivors, people that were supposed tobe immune but did eventually become infected.

Also, The Sacrifice isn't out yet. Valve time, pffft.

[Powerlord]

Also, The Sacrifice isn't out yet. Valve time, pffft.

It's only 10am Pacific time right now on the day it's scheduled to be out. Show some patience.

[Fishy]

RELEASE THEM FOR MAC ALREADY! It's the 5th you valvey bastards.

[big giant circles]

1:12 PM - BGC: I bet people won't be able to start DLing the game until 9-10 eastern

1:12 PM - BGC: then the servers will get overwhelmed

1:12 PM - BGC: steam will crash

1:12 PM - BGC: the game won't be actually PLAYABLE until tomorrow I bet

That's basically my prediction of release

[Powerlord]

That's basically my prediction of release

While Steam's download servers have their faults, I have yet to see any major game update that's not playable until the following day.

[Tensei]

RELEASE THEM FOR MAC ALREADY! It's the 5th you valvey bastards.

Which part of "Valve time" do you not understand?