BF2S Forums [Left 4 Dead] Launch Thread

Well I got the Retail copy, installed it onto my PC and everything, but I'm round my Dads and I can't play until Sunday evening when I eventually get home D:

The Dead Air finale is freaking epic with that plane crash RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACES.

My god, bots are worthless in Versus.

DefCon-17 wrote:

Holy fuck I already have 26 hours of L4D.

Sisco10 wrote:

Poseidon wrote:

Of course...you can always find other people (either here or through server/lobby searching).

But are there decent people running around in the lobby, cause most internet goons are retarded

At least I can count on the goons running around here, that´s true

Too bad I gotta wait at least another week for my payment before I can buy it. This month´s been too expensive. It sounds like it´s a really fun game to play.

It's still fun (usually) playing with people you don't know online. There aren't many retards. If anything, they'll be new players getting used to L4D or FPS's in general. (In which case they get bashed by some pathetic little creature who spends his waking hours playing videogames)

Let's put it this way:
Playing with random people, the game gets 8.5/10.
Playing with people you know personally: 9.9/10 (No game is perfect.)

Thanks for the heads-up! Few days to go to getting paid, I´m so getting this then!

+1 to you sir!

Anyone else get random bsod while playing? It's happened to me and two of my friends already...

sportsman11-2cool4u wrote:

Me and a friend were playing the demo (360) and it's really cool! I'm thinking of getting it with my birthday money and his is coming up soon, and we'll probably get more people to get it anyways. Anyways I was wondering if it's really worth it, like I see where it could get boring killing zombies and such..Is multiplayer fun (I think it's versus or something)? But anyways it looks cool but it the whole singleplayer short or is it more lenghty?

Thanks.

If you just do one runthrough of all the campaigns on singleplayer, it'll probably take you 6 hours.

If you play versus and/or co-op campaign, you'll probably get many, many hours out of it.

Sisco10 wrote:

DefCon-17 wrote:

Holy fuck I already have 26 hours of L4D.

Sisco10 wrote:

But are there decent people running around in the lobby, cause most internet goons are retarded

At least I can count on the goons running around here, that´s true

Too bad I gotta wait at least another week for my payment before I can buy it. This month´s been too expensive. It sounds like it´s a really fun game to play.

It's still fun (usually) playing with people you don't know online. There aren't many retards. If anything, they'll be new players getting used to L4D or FPS's in general. (In which case they get bashed by some pathetic little creature who spends his waking hours playing videogames)

Let's put it this way:
Playing with random people, the game gets 8.5/10.
Playing with people you know personally: 9.9/10 (No game is perfect.)

Thanks for the heads-up! Few days to go to getting paid, I´m so getting this then!

+1 to you sir!

No problem.

I think it is, but you'll need one copy for each person.

AI takes over if a player leaves, and in Campaign (4 people VS all bots) you get the option to "Take a break", which temporarily lets AI take over your character. You can't do that in VS though, and if an Infected player leaves, no AI replaces him. Only the Survivors get AI replacement.

DefCon-17 wrote:

I think it is, but you'll need one copy for each person.

AI takes over if a player leaves, and in Campaign (4 people VS all bots) you get the option to "Take a break", which temporarily lets AI take over your character. You can't do that in VS though, and if an Infected player leaves, no AI replaces him. Only the Survivors get AI replacement.

Thanks, that sounds good. Is it playable with AI teammates? Cause theres no sense in doing so if they run around getting chewed after 2 mins.

OmniDeath wrote:

Sisco10 wrote:

I got another question. Is it playable over lan? And do bots/ai take the role of missing players?

LAN is fucking useless. Everyone still needs an internet connection to be logged into Steam or it won't work. Which in my opinion completely negates the purpose of LAN. Sure you don't have to worry about eating up bandwidth, but the only time I've ever LAN'd a game was because we didn't have internet.

Hm, typical steam. But not that big a deal. I´m going home to germany over the holidays (living in vienna right now) so my best buddy and I are going to play via lan. He got internet anyway so no worries.



+1 for the both of you!



Defcon, I owe you one karma, 24 hour period n shit.

Last edited by Sisco10 (2008-11-24 02:28:40)

Sisco10 wrote:

DefCon-17 wrote:

I think it is, but you'll need one copy for each person.

AI takes over if a player leaves, and in Campaign (4 people VS all bots) you get the option to "Take a break", which temporarily lets AI take over your character. You can't do that in VS though, and if an Infected player leaves, no AI replaces him. Only the Survivors get AI replacement.

Thanks, that sounds good. Is it playable with AI teammates? Cause theres no sense in doing so if they run around getting chewed after 2 mins.

It seems like the AI are either really good, or completely terrible. If you keep moving, they tend to stick together, but if you're somewhere where you have to defend against waves of Infected, they tend to wander about, making it hard to properly defend.
I've also had times where I was pinned down by a Hunter, and my AI teammate walks backwards into me, but does absolutely nothing to knock the Hunter off of me.
But of course, they have AI aim, and never friendly fire.

They can be smart too though.
If you jump from one platform to another, they tend to follow you, and they usually close doors behind them.

lol, I finished the Death Toll campaign with m3thod

was epic tbh

I hate that final run to the boat

Poseidon wrote:

lol, I finished the Death Toll campaign with m3thod

was epic tbh

I hate that final run to the boat

We went there when the zombies slowed down for a second, right after we took down the tank. It was pretty defendable with molotovs and pipe bombs, definitely a lot safer than the house.