Official Game Thread

[WannaBe_80z]

Today walking around I saw a HUGE Left4Dead billboard. I am pretty pumped to play it.

[silverx2]

http://www.viddyou.com/viddstream?videoid=45422

[silverx2]

possibly the only thing more fun then the demo is taunting the fanboys that cant play yet.

http://www.left4dead411.com/forums/i...ic=4647&page=4

twords the bottom of the page i start it.

[FlashLackey]

I like the zombie genre. But, I'm shootered out.

Does it bring any new aspect to the table or is it more of a traditional shooter?

[silverx2]

all the spawns are random the AI is fairly crazy, its fast paced almost arcade like fast. you would need to play it to get a feel for it. a public demo starts the 11th

[FlashLackey]

Cool. I'll check it out.

[silverx2]

im going to try and make a video of a custom map to show you kind of what the zombies are like. basically its going to be a kill fest.

[gesteves]

Oh man, this game is so much fun, specially if you get people who are into the co-op aspect and don't just run off guns ablazin'. And the AI is freaking scary. I was playing on expert and a smoker dragged me right into a boomer who then puked on me; damn zombie mob killed me while I was still tangled up in the smoker's tongue.

Silver, let me know how to find you on Steam so we can play some time.

[silverx2]

my in game name is [yoink]superman im not sure if you can add me via friends that way or not. i saw wannabe attempting to play not sure how it went with him.

Have you tried out any custom maps yet? alpha_house1 is just kinda like a block fort, and any time you try and leave the room you start in 80+ zombies come to eat your soul.

[WannaBe_80z]

It ran just slow enough where I didn't want to play it anymore. Guess I will have to wait.

HL2 runs decent on here though so i just ran through the first couples chapters of that today.

[gesteves]

Have you tried out any custom maps yet? alpha_house1 is just kinda like a block fort, and any time you try and leave the room you start in 80+ zombies come to eat your soul.

That sounds like fun. How do you play on a custom map? I usually just stick around the final safe room waiting for the hordes until I get bored or die. They usually try to climb where the barbed wire is broken; with the M-16 it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

BTW, I couldn't find you on Steam. My account name is gfesteves, try to find me.

[silverx2]

you need to download it, then open it via the console

[silverx2]

i added you gesteves.

For everyone else the public demo starts today. so go get the first map and then roughly half of the second map. play it on expert.

For those not able to play: http://www.g4tv.com/trailers/videos/..._Xbox_360.html

15 or so minutes of teh xbox360 version.

[gerbick]

fastest ****ing zombies in a game, ever.

[silverx2]

i cant wait for it to be out. iv almost overplayed the demo. at this point i do things so incredibly wrong just to see if i can still pull out a win.

[WannaBe_80z]

From the few minutes I played it seemed like it could be good but I am not sold on it yet. I am sure once I get home it will take over me for a few weeks.

[silverx2]

From the few minutes I played it seemed like it could be good but I am not sold on it yet. I am sure once I get home it will take over me for a few weeks.

the first level is very bland which is probably what you saw. playing on anything other then expert for the demo is to easy as the zombies do i think 5 damage per hit and go down with a single shot. on expert each hit from a zombie does 20 damage, and often times take 2-3 hits from a distance or a single blast up close from a shot gun.

i can honestly say that in all the times iv played the zombie mob spawns have been differnt each time. and depending on who you are playing with it can change the entire difficulty, on expert on blast of a shotgun from a teammate can knock you down which pretty much ****s you for the rest of the map. either you use your med pack, or you slowly bleed out. the mod ability of the Ai director alone is going to be amazing.

[WannaBe_80z]

Sounds good.

[silverx2]

just been throughly owned in l4d by the ai director. it wanted us to get no farther then out the second doorway

[ViRGo_RK]

Saw the video, had to go download the demo. I actually have a laptop that fits the recommended specs, finally, for the first time in years. Can't let my gaming fall to the wayside because of some "education".