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

Knubje said:
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Don't think I've ever played with you mate (In l4d ofc) ;)

I whore your servers enough though, definatley when DLC is out we must all have a game together!

(Also did you get my message the other day about one of the OCUK servers being slow, I gave you the IP as all it said was OCUK PRIVATE).
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/re (other stuff) - I agree completely.

/re the message - Yup, I got it but thought I'd replied asking you to post it on here as it wasn't one of my servers. I was really ill that night and was mostly lying in bed and feeling sorry for myself :)

I think I stopped playing just before you started playing (on the OcUK servers at least). I would like to get back into it again but I generally don't have a full hour and a half+ at a time to devote to one game...and I hate leaving part way through :/
 
Dureth said:
Last nights game with Lyon was a complete massacre! ends scores were 7832 to 444 in our favour! :eek:

Early tank is early . . . . .
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Hmmm..was that the game I was invited to BH from level 4 onwards? I wish to make to make public announcement that as I joined towards the end of that shambolic performance I am in no way implicated as being a complete and utter L4D zombie.:D

Clearly if I had started the game this nightmare would not have occured and all the opposition would have been dealt a good kicking.;)

Michael
 
roadie said:
I can't connect to any games tonight (it comes up with the "stopping search" dialogue right away) and all my achievements are gone. This game has been so unreliable recently that it is ridiculous.
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I have to agree mate. I stopped playing it for a couple of weeks (Eve online grrrr) but when i came back to it i realised how rubbish the servers are.

Compared to UT3/2004 the game has serious issues with unrealiable servers. Randim disconnects, lag etc. Never had these issues with Crysis, COD4/WaW.
 
Ali195 said:
I have to agree mate. I stopped playing it for a couple of weeks (Eve online grrrr) but when i came back to it i realised how rubbish the servers are.

Compared to UT3/2004 the game has serious issues with unrealiable servers. Randim disconnects, lag etc. Never had these issues with Crysis, COD4/WaW.
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Have you used the steam group servers?

They are far more reliable than random ones :)
 
No never have. I see them pop up in the bottom right hand corner of splash screen.

Newb question but whats the best way to filter the random one's out etc.
 
Aekeron said:
I would like to get back into it again but I generally don't have a full hour and a half+ at a time to devote to one game...and I hate leaving part way through :/
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lol mate a lot has changed since you were last playin with us, teh games now seem much more hectic as the patches have ramped up the games.

You do still see the odd game running 90 odd mins but id say the majority i see now are in or under the hr mark.

Cant wait till 21st, there better be SDK at the same time as the survivor patch
 
Hmmm, with the SDK coming there will be a load of new maps from different developers, unfortunately, not all will be any good so I don't want every ocuk server I join being on non-official ones (dunno what others think), but I don't mind one being on those, is there a way for you to set up a slightly different search key for a special server for those maps do you know?

Hope you understand this post...:p
 
Ali195 said:
No never have. I see them pop up in the bottom right hand corner of splash screen.

Newb question but whats the best way to filter the random one's out etc.
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The best way to do it is to create your own lobby and then put in the console command "sv_search_key ocuk". Then invite your friends/etc and go crazy. If your'e short of friends playing then check out the ocuk left4dead steam names thread :)

sharpygsxr said:
lol mate a lot has changed since you were last playin with us, teh games now seem much more hectic as the patches have ramped up the games.

You do still see the odd game running 90 odd mins but id say the majority i see now are in or under the hr mark.

Cant wait till 21st, there better be SDK at the same time as the survivor patch
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Ah, right. That sounds good :) I'll try and get online some time this weekend to give it a go.

LinktoInsanity said:
Hmmm, with the SDK coming there will be a load of new maps from different developers, unfortunately, not all will be any good so I don't want every ocuk server I join being on non-official ones (dunno what others think), but I don't mind one being on those, is there a way for you to set up a slightly different search key for a special server for those maps do you know?

Hope you understand this post...:p
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It should be possible to do that though it'd probably be decided by the lobby anyhow :) Either that or a callvote once you get onto the server (or an admin changing the map). I guess we'd have to see how Valve implement custom content before we could set the servers up for it properly, but I do agree in principal to try and keep official and non-official content seperated a little.
 
To be fair Knubje, the teams would look to be quite fair, we did ask about changing them half way through!

We had Lyon and I on 1 side and Gurkha Pimp and Tom|NBK on the other. The other 4 I didn't know so well but I think we just had a good game and they had a bad one.

If one of us had swapped I think it wouldn't have changed much!
 
Yeh, quite often teams may look fair on paper, but it really despends if the teams have a good organiser on both teams. For example, I can play the game and do my own job well enough, but I'm one of the worst organisers out there. You need a good organiser on both teams, who isn't always the best of players :)
 
iv been on both sides losing and winning and ive been on a game where on paper our team was absolutely owned but it was much closer in reality than it looked at the end.

Besides some of the most fun ive had on l4d is ona team thats getting beat as the lol's make it worth every second.

Infact i would find it hard tor ecall one bad game ive played in l4d aside from games where people are whining about this or that all the time, but in terms of winning or losing it makes very little difference for the enjoyment of the game.

Sometimes the random lobby does create unbalanced teams but with the way the winning team always goes first it still means a "weaker" team on paper can keep it competitive.

I do recall a 5000ish - 1000ish game in which our team was pretty much all diehards lol, and the other team was randoms and we were pure pwned but it was such a laugh as we couldnt coordinate anything, was like that three legged race you used to do is school sports day only with one person facing backwards :)
 
LinktoInsanity said:
For example, I can play the game and do my own job well enough, but I'm one of the worst organisers out there. You need a good organiser on both teams, who isn't always the best of players :)
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Me too. I've always been more of a doer than a thinker; and I find having a team leader very helpful in this because they focus the efforts of the team and make sure the attacks are as successful as they can be. In all the games I've played with Knubje, I've appreciated his team-leading and good communication. The guy knows his stuff and is still one of the few that can hit the smoker on the roof of NM with a molly from down the bottom of the ladder :D

Games are a lot more fun when everyone is working well together with some organisation.
 
Forget hitting the smoker on NM5 with a moli, just shoot the top left corner of the wall before going up the ladder with a sniper rifle like I did last night and bang he was dead ;) Only problem was the opposing team did the very same thing after they seen me do it lol

Another comedy moment last night on NM3 smoker tried to pull me off the ledge. He grabbed me but I was hanging on the ledge and didn't fall down. If he had been killed I would have been on the roof still. The following 3 members of the team proceded to run right along thinking I had been pulled off the ledge and drop down the hole to go and open the door to rescue me. By the time they did this I was dead, not to mention I was not even down there for the door to need opening rofl!

Michael
 
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had a decent vs game tonight on NM, although the server OCUK private 4 was havin a few probs, dunno if theres been any new plugins installed but despite us all having green pings the game was lagging out, particularly noticable when a horde or tank came as players would warp about a fair bit.
 
Ghuraba said:
Forget hitting the smoker on NM5 with a moli, just shoot the top left corner of the wall before going up the ladder with a sniper rifle like I did last night and bang he was dead ;) Only problem was the opposing team did the very same thing after they seen me do it lol

Michael
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I joined a game like that last night and you naughty clockers tried that. But I managed to move in time. There are other places that the smoker can go to avoid that ;)

I would just like to point out that because of my expert roof dodging, I got the team up with no deaths and even won the game. Much to the surprise of the other side lol

Not that I am taking full credit ;)
 
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