Left 4 Dead 2

[Slater]

The Bile Bomb is great on tanks...IF there are already zombies in the area. If not, the tank is usually dead by the time the zombies arrive, and then you've got another horde to deal with.

Molotovs are still where it's at.

[ryoken]

Playing this solo on the PC as a warmup before heading inbto the Multiplayer....its fucking great.
Loved the fact that you can speed up filling the car if you grab a gas can and jump over a floor's railing; can goes down, teamate saves you, repeat...you can really speed up the process that way.
Also, gotta love that there was a boomer in the safe room in my first playthrough...nothing makes you feel more welcome than barely closing the door on an horde of zombies.
Guess I'm alone on the PC, eh guys?

[Sleeplesslumber]

A note to valve:

I was playing the finale of the Parish just now. On easy. It took us five tries to get to the final helicopter and even then only one in my group got away.

F*ck you Valve. On easy we got 2 tanks at the same time, a jockey and a smoker when we got near the helicopter. Did you really think this amount of difficulty would make your game more appealing? Left 4 dead 2 is no fun to play when the director is this cheap.

I'm going back to playing Demon's Souls. A game that knows how to be difficult without being cheap.

[ryoken]

How about playing as a Rock Band trying to survive the zombie outbreak?

Please, please, let the suspicions be true; I need to go Guitar Wolf on those zombie fuckers.

[Slater]

Originally Posted by ryoken

Loved the fact that you can speed up filling the car if you grab a gas can and jump over a floor's railing; can goes down, teamate saves you, repeat...you can really speed up the process that way.

Wait, what? You know you can just throw the gas cans over the railing without jumping over the edge yourself, right?

[The Dark Shape]

Originally Posted by Slater

Wait, what? You know you can just throw the gas cans over the railing without jumping over the edge yourself, right?

I was going to say something snarky, but Slater covered the point. No need for hanging off the railing shenanigans.

I played through every map in single player today. Feel ready to tackle some mo'fos multi-style.

[El Gray]

Originally Posted by ryoken

Guess I'm alone on the PC, eh guys?

I'll be on PC at some point, but not quite yet. What's your Steam handle? Mine's el_gray.

[ryoken]

Originally Posted by El Gray

I'll be on PC at some point, but not quite yet. What's your Steam handle? Mine's el_gray.

Wait, you're on the steam CHUD group too?

[ryoken]

Originally Posted by Slater

Wait, what? You know you can just throw the gas cans over the railing without jumping over the edge yourself, right?

Well, I....am an idiot, dammit.
Here's something else thats cool to make up for that dumbness.
Guess stealing that car aint wrong anymore...

[Overlord]

Originally Posted by ryoken
Loved the fact that you can speed up filling the car if you grab a gas can and jump over a floor's railing; can goes down, teamate saves you, repeat...you can really speed up the process that way.

Originally Posted by Slater

Wait, what? You know you can just throw the gas cans over the railing without jumping over the edge yourself, right?

Ryoken, long after the CHUD forums have crumbled into non-existence, and when I am somewhere else entirely in life, I promise you I will think back fondly on this exchange and LOL.

[The Dark Shape]

I'm also on the PC version, by the way. My Steam ID is writerlog.

[ryoken]

Originally Posted by Overlord

Ryoken, long after the CHUD forums have crumbled into non-existence, and when I am somewhere else entirely in life, I promise you I will think back fondly on this exchange and LOL.

Well, glad to see someone will commit that brilliant example of me being a moron to memory.
Maybe I should tatoo it on my body as well, as a kind of "Memento" reminder of being a complete idiot.

[Overlord]

Originally Posted by ryoken

Well, glad to see someone will commit that brilliant example of me being a moron to memory.
Maybe I should tatoo it on my body as well, as a kind of "Memento" reminder of being a complete idiot.

It's certainly tattooed into my memory.

[ryoken]

Originally Posted by Overlord

It's certainly tattooed into my memory.

I walked right into that one.
Mark my words, one day, you too will experience such a glowing moment of public stupidity; I only hope I can witness it so I can return the favor.

[ryoken]

Originally Posted by Slater

The Bile Bomb is great on tanks...IF there are already zombies in the area. If not, the tank is usually dead by the time the zombies arrive, and then you've got another horde to deal with.

Molotovs are still where it's at.

I learned that lesson the hard way, although with a charger; AI teamates killed him, but the horde quickly surrounded us.
Also, the AI director is truly a creative bastard this time around...grabbed a gas tank to set it at a alleway corner for a multi kill, only to run face into a charger.
And the boomer in the safe room is a complete dick move as well.

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by Overlord

Ryoken, long after the CHUD forums have crumbled into non-existence, and when I am somewhere else entirely in life, I promise you I will think back fondly on this exchange and LOL.

If only there were a saved transcript.

ryoken: Hey you guys, here's another gas can comin' atcha
xXxExtremexXx: HAHAHAHAHA
TheDudeAbides2004: Fuck it he did it again HOOT HOOOOOT I AM PARALYZED WITH LAUGHTER
DiX_ENFORCER: I am not going up there again.

[Brad Millette]

There should be some kind of ryoken memorial achievement.

[ryoken]

Im never going to live this down, aint I?
Fine, time to kill the family, burn down the house, microwave the laptop and start a new life in another country, wait a few years and create a new forum identity.
Gotta play this by the book or else Im going to get found out just like Kabong.

[matches]

Every time I try the melee only achievement, I get knocked down at some point and accidentally shoot my pistol at the surrounding hordes. Gnome Chompski wasn't this frustrating.

[Alex Riviello]

I do the same thing. It's just instinct! Stupid magic pistol.

[ryoken]

Speaking of melee, I cant be the only one who cant help say "Sorry Philip!" when using the cricket bat.
It packs much more punch than i expected, too.

[Jackson]

My god, I love the number of decapitations I get with the Samurai sword......

Also, damn the magic pistol.

[Alex Riviello]

GOING TO DRINK DANCE PARTY ALL NIGHT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApJ5NsM6CI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyH_NxJ86vs

[Sleeplesslumber]

Alright, I'm having a much better time playing versus than the campaign mode. The versus is not nearly as broken as I thought it would be, both the charger and the spitter make up for being so powerful by being SLOW and having so little health.

Scavenge is also pretty fun, but I've had little opportunity to enjoy it because of all the server problems.

I can't tell you how many times I've been disconnected from a game and then booted off of Xbox Live altogether. I don't think its a problem on my end because it seems like the same problem Valve was dealing with when the first Left 4 Dead came out.

Is this just me or is history repeating for other people?

[EnemyoftheStamos]

Oookay. Decided to play solo a bit and pick up some of the achievements I didn't have. While I did end up getting a few, none of the ones I was actively going for were unlocked - and they were amazingly, agonizingly close. One I'm really unsure of.

Put the thing on easy, of course, due to the hindrance of retarded AI teammates.

Went for the melee only in Dead Center. Got so damn close. And it was rough. We were doin' okay in the Mall part until the alarm section. So very close to all of us gettin' wiped out. Hell, ran a good ways back for a defib to revive someone. But we made it. Then, in the atrium, I got messed up by a charger and accidently fired off some pistol rounds at him. Fuck.

The second one I went for was Gnome Chompski. Damn hard on single player, but I got him to the concert. Put him up on stage, but fight with a tank led up there and gnome got knocked away. Ran around like crazy and found him just when the chopper showed up. Thing is, I got him on the damn thing, but the achievement didn't unlock. Shenanigans.

Oh well, got a few other ones along the way so no big loss. Still, that damn gnome.