***OFFICAL*** Left 4 Dead Thread!

Gerard said:
Ok playing as infected imo is totally boring. Most servers seem to have between a 20-30 second respawn delay, and even then sometimes the timer will count down and you'll still not spawn for maybe another 30-60 seconds for some unknown reason. And after you do respawn (most likely as a hunter as that seems to be the main class the game assigns) you get taken down stupidly fast, even if you do pounce on someone the damage you deal with a few swipes seems to amount to nothing.

Possibly wait for a minute to spawn then get taken down inside of a quarter that time? Not exactly my idea of fun spending half my time speccing.

I was on a map just now (some trainyard forest style map) an all we got was boomers and hunters, no smoker no tank just those two classes.

There doesnt seem to be any element of suprise in it, mainly because all the infected classes may as well be running around with 50 foot neon signs above their heads, they make so much easily distinguishable noise suprising people seems to be almost impossible.

Boomer makes an obvious grumbling\gargling\belching sound, and the hunter makes a sound like a rabid dog humping someones leg, smoker just coughs... =/ Ill give it another go tommorow but right now infected class really does seem amazingly weak, respawns are also far too long.

Its fun fighting against them for some of the above reasons but playing as them just seems to be more speccing than actual playing.
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I had an absolutely awesome time playing as infected last night. They get taken down fast solo, so you need to work as a team with other infected - thats when it becomes an amazing experience.
One one map, within 3 minutes of them leaving the safe room, we'd set the hoard on them, 2 hunters had pinned 2 of their team, and a smoker was strangling another. We absolutely destroyed the survivors.
When we played survivors, we always made it to the safe room, but as infected, we always took them down before the end, sometimes right at the beginning.
When we got to the rooftop finale, I spawned as a tank and managed to punch two off them off the roof to their death, and a third was panicking - so I punched her into the ground as the other infected piled in on her and the remaining one.
Loving it so far.
 
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Boomer = sets the hoard on anyone he pukes on, so if timed with an attack by the other infected, you overwhelm them with normal zombies, confuse them, and allow hunter to pin and kill some of the team. You might die fast, but if you get that puke off, you've done your job.

hunter = can jump insane distances. Also, if you crouch/jump at a survivor, you pin them to the floor. Then tear into them with the claw attack. Unless a team mate pushes you off, you incapacitate them.

smoker = you drag people to you with your very long tongue - so you seperate the group or pull one into a group of hunters etc.

It's a very tactical playstyle with infected. If you try running solo attacking, you'll be destroyed.
 
Why are people complaining about weapons, it's been said before, Why would you expect a random group of people to have a full on military aresenal! :p

You should start off with pistols in my eyes anyway...well you might do I dunno, I haven't got the full game game
 
Does anyone know the steamgroup id of the l4dOC group? It would be good to know, because dedicated servers could be attached to the group (sv_steamgroup <id>) and make it easier to play with OC people.
 
The weapons mix feels perfect to me. Basically everything I'd want to defend myself during a zombie apocalypse.

Now from a modding point of view I'd really appreciate an axe. I can imagine a scene where you're trapped in a room with zombies clawing at the door/barricade and you have to axe your way through a wall or other door.
 
how exactly do you go about playing on OCUK L4D servers??? Everytime I try the community server option theres nothing and no one there.
 
Sleepless said:
how exactly do you go about playing on OCUK L4D servers??? Everytime I try the community server option theres nothing and no one there.
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There currently aren't any. You can either pay to host a dedicated server, or run one from a box/your pc by downloading the source l4d dedicated server. When you get it up and running, you enter the server var: sv_steamgroup <group id>. This links it to that group, and *should* make it appear in the community servers bit.
 
Sleepless said:
how exactly do you go about playing on OCUK L4D servers??? Everytime I try the community server option theres nothing and no one there.
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As stated there arent any? Although there is a use on these forums that brought a server the other day, and another one who had three server running as well....

If you just want to play with people from OcUK, join the Left for dead group / OcUK group. then go in your friends list and there should be the group there, stating what game they are playing....then you just join the game.
 
Delvis said:
Why are people complaining about weapons, it's been said before, Why would you expect a random group of people to have a full on military aresenal! :p

You should start off with pistols in my eyes anyway...well you might do I dunno, I haven't got the full game game
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yeh, but as you go on... you should be able to pick up great weapons from the military.
 
Shep_Cobain said:
yeh, but as you go on... you should be able to pick up great weapons from the military.
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Not if there isn't a military map you can't! :p

besides, whats to say the infection didn't spread quickly etc? So quickly that the forces where just not able to form a decent type of resistance?

I haven't read the back story or anything so I dunno :p
 
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