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

Aekeron said:
Did nobody get it?

I'm a little concerned at people not getting them. I know that sometimes L4D messes up and doesn't give you the achievement...and that if you go idle or the game starts before you connect (e.g. the first level starts rolling) you won't get it... But this seems a bit too much for just those reasons.

Definitely on one of the fragM servers, right?

I'll have time tomorrow to look at them more I hope.
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I know that myself ([OcUK]MDK), Shooter, and Spudgun didnt get it. Not sure about lunix.

I also know that both myself and Shooter went idle at least once if only for a short while, however Spudgun says he definitely didn't go idle at all.

Anyway I thought the deal with going idle was that the only achievements you sacrifice are the ones that your AI character gains whilst you are idle. However Googling the answer quickly doesn't seem to have cleared it up one way or the other.

Some people are saying that they got an achievement if they went idle but not if they even died once (on expert). I'm just not clear on what the exact requirements are for gaining an expert achievement, as I think I'd need to be sure of that before leading you to believe that there's a problem with the server.

Things I know:
- don't change difficulty otherwise you have to restart
- you must live through the entire campaign or at least be alive to get onto the escape vehicle
- lagging when joining and therefore joining even slightly late will make the server think you weren't there for the whole game so you won't get the achievement

Things I don't know:
- does dying at all forfeit the achievement
- does going idle even for a few seconds forfeit the achievement
 
More on the tank debate:-

At first I thought it was unfair that the first team got surprised and the second team would knew where the tank was going to spawn giving an unfair advantage to the second team, but having played a number of rounds now I feel that the advantage you get as the second team is outweighed by the fact that the first team also knows where the tank will spawn and can 'wait' for respawn as infected and attack at once whereas the first way through as infected, they have to rush to get all their team respawned when the tank appears in time to co-ordinate a succesful attack.

Thoughts?
 
I've posted before on this subject as I've tested it quite thoroughly:

Join server
Callvote expert difficulty
Callvote restart campaign
Never go idle
Finish campaign

You can die as many times as you like as long as you are alive and on the escape vehicle at the end.

Going idle *even for a second* will mean that you don't get the final achievement. Highly annoying if you suddenly need a loo break.

Once everybody has joined the server I run through the steps above. This makes sure that nobody has any weird lag issues. After that, dying isn't your enemy - going idle is.

Robbie G said:
I know that myself ([OcUK]MDK), Shooter, and Spudgun didnt get it. Not sure about lunix.

I also know that both myself and Shooter went idle at least once if only for a short while, however Spudgun says he definitely didn't go idle at all.

Anyway I thought the deal with going idle was that the only achievements you sacrifice are the ones that your AI character gains whilst you are idle. However Googling the answer quickly doesn't seem to have cleared it up one way or the other.

Some people are saying that they got an achievement if they went idle but not if they even died once (on expert). I'm just not clear on what the exact requirements are for gaining an expert achievement, as I think I'd need to be sure of that before leading you to believe that there's a problem with the server.

Things I know:
- don't change difficulty otherwise you have to restart
- you must live through the entire campaign or at least be alive to get onto the escape vehicle
- lagging when joining and therefore joining even slightly late will make the server think you weren't there for the whole game so you won't get the achievement

Things I don't know:
- does dying at all forfeit the achievement
- does going idle even for a few seconds forfeit the achievement
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everytime i host a lobby there's a sv_search_key ocuk cmd included :P no lag, no advertising and other junk.. perfect servers :)
 
grudas said:
everytime i host a lobby there's a sv_search_key ocuk cmd included :P no lag, no advertising and other junk.. perfect servers :)
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Perfect servers, not perfect gameplay last night tho, EH BUCKS?!

You were well off form, I expect better if you want to team up with me again :p Best get practising!
 
Knubje said:
Perfect servers, not perfect gameplay last night tho, EH BUCKS?!

You were well off form, I expect better if you want to team up with me again :p Best get practising!
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yeah i was tired.... and not in the mood :) today should be better.. lol :o

i kinda played it this way
 
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Mattf121 said:
LOL.

You were that bad? Anyway guys I wont be able to play tonight, but I will be around tomorrow night :)
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i had green hp and felt of the roof on no mercy finale... :( while knubj3 was smokered by someone and other guy GNUKO got hunted and puked at the same time :(
 
was it dingle berry who got incapped in NM4 when you all dropped into the sewers?

had to laugh as he then gave a running commentary of his death, fellas its getting dark here etc etc ha ha.

Also on the finale i think dingle was the one who got punched off the roof by the tank :)
 
sharpygsxr said:
was it dingle berry who got incapped in NM4 when you all dropped into the sewers?

had to laugh as he then gave a running commentary of his death, fellas its getting dark here etc etc ha ha.

Also on the finale i think dingle was the one who got punched off the roof by the tank :)
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yup... always dingle lol ;D was funny...
 
sharpygsxr said:
was it dingle berry who got incapped in NM4 when you all dropped into the sewers?

had to laugh as he then gave a running commentary of his death, fellas its getting dark here etc etc ha ha.

Also on the finale i think dingle was the one who got punched off the roof by the tank :)
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Yep, and he was also the one who was tank EVERY SINGLE ****ing time. Only once (NM Finale first tank) did someone else get a go.

He was also the 2nd tank on NM Finale (shock horror) and he DC'd/Left the game, therefore putting our tank into AI mode and making the end of a very good game a poo one for us :(
 
Mattf121 said:
LOL.

You were that bad? Anyway guys I wont be able to play tonight, but I will be around tomorrow night :)
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Yep, abysmal doesn't even come close to describing his performance last night. Most of the time he is a very good player, even as a guy without a MIC.

He is usually one of the better OcUK'ers I have come across playing this game. Just needs to get a mic or l2 speak tbh. The other reasons he has given :)
 
Yeah get a mic Buckz/Grudas, I know you said we wouldn't be able to understand you but give it a try? Makes for a more fluid game :)
 
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