***OFFICAL*** Left 4 Dead Thread!
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I've seen people mention this but I've not noticed it on my own server. Odd.
Weird, but I saw this problem for the first time tonight (after reading about it here), and it was on a French server also (presumably the same one).
Basically, there are frozen zombies (all the same model) just standing there doing nothing. When the horde attacks, the frozen zombies glide towards you, but do no damage, like mannequins on skateboards. Surreal to say the least.
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Yeah i saw the frozen zombie bug, but only once. I called a vote to return to lobby and i got voted against. The vote was called up again 2 mins later by someone else, and everyone voted to return to the lobby lol.
I gotta say that i only play with folks on my friends list. I think i've played with most in this thread now and 9/10 times, it's a good/hard competitive game with good teamwork. There is nothing worse than playing with some foreigners talking french shouting orders and bailing out on you when you run into a bit of trouble
I gotta say that i only play with folks on my friends list. I think i've played with most in this thread now and 9/10 times, it's a good/hard competitive game with good teamwork. There is nothing worse than playing with some foreigners talking french shouting orders and bailing out on you when you run into a bit of trouble
Had a really good game last night, was good to play with a few guys that i hadnt played with before. Was very close right up to the final level on No Mercy, agree that the ramp exploit takes the fun out of the final mission (have both used it and had it used against me - was on the receiving end first so wanted to see what it was like
).Was probably the first time i have enjoyed playing vs mode, have sort of managed to get the hang of playing as the infected and is so much better to do so when the team works together.
If you have played with me since I bought the game then you would have seen the amount I dropped out of games, timeouts, signed out of steam etc. I actually had to stop as I wanted to smash my router into bits. I installed the latest custom frmware a few weeks ago and have had many many problems, and even after increasing my SNR to see if it was my line, i carried on getting the dropouts.
Plugged in my be* box and all is kosher, except for it not being as swift to get me onto servers and lagging me out a bit more.
WIll flash back to older firmware or will try the UBER GT one.
You're the lucky one then
Hi Mate,
that is frustrating I know. as I said I have exactly the same issue but in reverse. Game loads fine then after the first round finishes I have to alt tab in the safe room as my FPS just drops. Guess we have to wait for the updated drivers. Disabling the Catalyst A.I sorted it for me (not sure why) although I have less FPS than if it was enabled it is still constant now and doesnt drop to 30-60.
B
If anyone cares - upgrading to the latest Catalyst 8.12 beta drivers cured my FPS problems in L4D, so much so in fact that I've been able to turn AA back on - in places where I would never get more than 40fps I'm now getting 150-200+.
The patchnotes for the driver mentioned a boost in L4D among other games but it seems they've fixed the original problem.
The patchnotes for the driver mentioned a boost in L4D among other games but it seems they've fixed the original problem.
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If you have played with me since I bought the game then you would have seen the amount I dropped out of games, timeouts, signed out of steam etc. I actually had to stop as I wanted to smash my router into bits. I installed the latest custom frmware a few weeks ago and have had many many problems, and even after increasing my SNR to see if it was my line, i carried on getting the dropouts.
Plugged in my be* box and all is kosher, except for it not being as swift to get me onto servers and lagging me out a bit more.
WIll flash back to older firmware or will try the UBER GT one.
You're the lucky one then
I'm using version 743 iirc, if that's any help.
No probs - hope they work out for you
Incidentally links to the beta driver are in this post, that's where I got mine from.
No probs - hope they work out for you
Incidentally links to the beta driver are in this post, that's where I got mine from.
Thanks again mate, will give them a try tonight currently at work.
B
They're upto 841 now.. think me and flib will flash from 743 to 841 tonight, hopefully fix our consta-re-synch issues.
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Yeah, I've considered getting some of the latest updates but as it's quite stable at 23.5mbit already...I'm not too fussed
Oh dear, i thought i'd leave this thread a while till people came to realise how biased the game is currently but its still bad. Currently survivors only lose when they screw up, and even then its not that often.
A lot of people still say "wait until you get better as the infected" but i dont think they quite realise that people are complaining about when they play as survivor. The amusing thing is i know from seeing various people in other fps games that their aim is pretty dismal, its probably why theyre finding infected easier when playing against people of their own skill level
A lot of people still say "wait until you get better as the infected" but i dont think they quite realise that people are complaining about when they play as survivor. The amusing thing is i know from seeing various people in other fps games that their aim is pretty dismal, its probably why theyre finding infected easier when playing against people of their own skill level
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Oh dear, i thought i'd leave this thread a while till people came to realise how biased the game is currently but its still bad. Currently survivors only lose when they screw up, and even then its not that often.
A lot of people still say "wait until you get better as the infected" but i dont think they quite realise that people are complaining about when they play as survivor. The amusing thing is i know from seeing various people in other fps games that their aim is pretty dismal, its probably why theyre finding infected easier when playing against people of their own skill level
I know me and uvmain are both pretty damn experienced FPSers so I think you'll find that this comment is somewhat unfounded, at least in our case.
Another thing that people seem to overlook is that you play as both survivor *and* infected on each map. Even if survivors do have it easier, whichever team does *better* wins out.
I'll tip my hat, you're an awesome TF2 sniper.. but you're talking FUD about L4D.
If the survivors run amok, separate and don't work as a team, they'll die horrendously. It's the same with the infected, only people haven't begun working as a team as the infected yet.
When playing as infected, you need to think like the survivors - work together, like they do, use corridors and entrances for cover like they do, stay in a relative group/formation, like they do. Attacking one at a time against a group will always fail, but the same is true for the survivors.
I think that infected can easily hold their own against the survivors. Our game last night proved that with the survivors having a 50/50 chance of reaching the safe room it seemed. Only one group of survivors managed to survive the last stand on mercy hospital.
This was with a group of decent players from the OCUK group. Was a great, fun game no matter which side we were playing as.
This was with a group of decent players from the OCUK group. Was a great, fun game no matter which side we were playing as.
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I need to buy this game