Left 4 Dead - Page 3

I've heard from various sources that the demo codes have been shut down. So if you didn't already get it, you may not. But they could be wrong.

It was shut down a few days ago. The good news... The demo goes public today! Hurray!

Let's try to get some CHUD games going on Steam.

Add me. Steam ID - Sarnecki.

As soon as I'm home. I'm still at work dammit. My Steam ID is xenist.

Public demo still not available on Steam. Gonna keep checking.

It's on the 360 right now, if you can't wait...

I thought this game went on sale today? Man, the shifting of release dates is starting to irk me.. that or I was mistaken.

Think it was always 18th...

More importantly join the Chud.com Steam group if you haven't already.

There's a 15 minute gameplay video up on kotaku.

no idea what that is

... To play the game you need the online program Steam, think of it as Xbox Live only it's on PC, it's free, and it's much much better.

You can have friendship groups within Steam, like a Facebook group, only for gaming. Chud has one. Join it and you have a full list of Chud members within the group, including stelios etc.

Coolio, I'll look into that tonight when I get home, thanks.

Official demo is now out for everyone on Steam and (I think) 360. Downloading...

The co-op aspect is alot of fun, but the game is just too damn fast. Half the time I'm trying to get a bead on what's going on and next thing I know the game is yelling at me that I've been vomited on and that someone else is alerting the hoard. I also didn't feel much weight from the guns and other than rate of fire, I didn't see much use in choosing a weapon.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play this some more.

FYI, anyone playing with me in my group tonight has to play on Expert.

Man up gentlemen.

I'll be downloading when I get home, but I'm unsure whether I'll be up for expert that quickly. It's been a couple of weeks since I've played any shooters at all and I'm too old to get my twitch reflexes back in order that quickly.

FUUUUCCCCKKKKK...it's sloooooooooooooooooooow.

Expert is a fucking blast and the only way this game should be played.

Hell yeah Rob!

Tanks are a BITCH. They usually kill all of you in Expert, if not at least three of you.

Yep. Fuck Tanks, but fuck the triple amount of Boomers that end up puking on you right before you're about to get into the safe room. We spent like 40 mins last night on the subway level just getting rocked thanks to those fuckers.

I'm at the point where Expert is a breeze with a halfway good team. The problems come when you're the only one left and you go to help up team members, and suddenly a smoker drags you off into the darkness...

Ah, nothing is better then having a zombie horde attack your team mates while you sit nice and comfy in closet a few rooms down.

I just wish you could lock the doors. I really wanna be that asshole who goes into the safe room and refuses to let anyone else in until there all dead.

You can always shoot them dead where they stand.

Right before the demo ends that tends to happen alot. Once the final horde is defeated, it's The Good The Bad and The Ugly all the way into the safe room.

Is a good mic a neccessity for this? If so, I may go with the 360 version instead.

Not really, no.

Besides, if it really bothers you, you can get a 20 buck PC mic that sounds better than 360 anyway.

Anyone going to be playing this on the 360 tonight?

This is gonna be a stupid question but...I have a 360 but am not connected to the LIVE network. IF I were to get this game is it the sort of game that I could have 3 AI comrades or must it be played online?

Thanks.

You can play Singleplayer, yes. The AI is actually very smart, and seem to function just fine. As a side point online should you go afk your character will have AI take over for you. Cool feature.

Just ran through solo with AI to the first safe house. Looks like it would be a blast with people. What's the penalty for shooting teammates? There are times when you are swarmed that it's just plain gonna happen.

And I'll voluntarily stay out of any games on Expert. I doubt I'd be much more than a liability.

Game runs amazingly well with tons of enemies onscreen, and is responsive and fluid. Dunno if it's a "must-buy" for me, but I'll enjoy the demo while I can.

The penalty as far as I know is that the bullets will kill them.

There is an offline component, as others have said. But it's not going to amount to a whole lot. The campaigns will make up about five hours of playtime for one run-through. (I did the first one in an hour today.) And while there are a number of achievements you can go for offline, and the actual patterns of zombie attacks might be slightly different every time, this is really an online game.

As an offline rental or purchase down the road, sure. But if you're not playing with other people you're missing the point of the game.

Hehe, fair enough. I never killed a teammate, but definitely got yelled at once or twice. Killed more than double the zombies of any of the AI guys. Never had a chance to assist anyone other than "protect" them or shoot a zombie that was on them. Need to learn how to share ammo and health packs I imagine, as my buddies gave me those "emergency pills" more than once.

I believe 'friendly-fire' is an option you can turn on or off.

OK, got the demo installed, joined chud's group and my handle is KrenMobius.

The penalty for shooting your teammates is that you won't see as many cool things as you would if you worked as a team. I'm sure Russ can explain it better, but here's what Gabe Newell said about it at E3- http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36318.html

Really shows you where the replay comes in.

This is an ungodly slow download.

It only took about ten minutes for me.

10:30 pm eastern here, up for a Steam game. Jacob Singer is my handle. I'll suck, I'm sure, but I'd like to give it a try.

OH MAN. So much fun. Just played an anonymous game with 4 folks and it was a blast. Must Play With Alleged Friends Now.

Let's set up a Steam game soon.

I'm game. Message me whenever.

I've been playing most of the night... expert has been fun and the most challenging. I'm dying to see more of the game, getting a little bored with the same map, or at least knowing where the corners and hiding spots are.

WTF? I've been downloading for the last 5 hours and my current estimate is 6 more days. It's currently going at a blazing 23 Kb/s rate. I've never had an issue with a Steam download before.

You might be looking at the time left on the demo... I thought it was going to take 6 days as well, until I realized that was the time left on the demo. I was downloading at about 1.5 Mb/s 5 hours ago.. check your settings, make sure you set your download speed right.

Yeah, friendly fire basically plays into the whole Director AI routine. If you're engaging in a lot of friendly fire, the assumption is that you suck (as far as I can tell; there might be a point where the AI just considers you an asshole, or it might leave that decision to other players) and so you'll get a different, more lenient playthrough. That means easier lighting, fewer horde attacks, probably fewer Tanks and other sub-boss zombies.

The video Alex linked is a bit disingenuous, as you can blow up the gas station either way; but if you're firing into a lot of onrushing infected that's more likely to happen, obviously.

(Besides, WTF are you doing on the ground at that point, anyway? In the game as it stands now, there's a perfectly good roof from which to approach that scene.)

Well, you were partially right. The 6 days is how long until the demo expires. I'm still only 25% in after 5+ hours of downloading though. My dl settings are correct, and it honestly shouldn't take more than a few minutes to complete.

loving it, played the demo three times, i'm pretty much sold on this game. this is the type of game you lan with up friends and go all night

Holy shit. That was great. Ok, I'm getting the PC demo right now, thejustifier is my steam ID. PC or Live, I'm up for 5 more hours or so. Let's kill some fucking zombies. Oh, if only this wasn't 60 bucks AND released in the Winter Glut o' Games.

I'd be up for PC version zombie killings tomorrow 'round 6:30 PM pacific. I'm in the CHUD Steam group as Fafhrd (oddly enough).

Holy shit that was a slow download. It took all night and I only had time for a single play-through in single player this morning before going to work. So I must sadly wait until tonight to subject you gentlemen to my brand of panicked backwards running while spraying bullets all over the place.