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

slylittlefox said:
Well one's DL'ing the update at 60K/s and it's saying it'll take 30 mins, the other is DL'ing the update at 25K's and it's saying over an hour :(

We're impatient, to summarise. :)

BTW - I don't think launching l4d.exe will launch Steam first, the update was released yesterday, and I've been playing all day today via Hamachi and it hasn't wanted to update. Only when I opened Steam and tried to launch through that did it start the update.
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it's worth updating... :) oh and i believe servers wont work without the update :)
 
grudas said:
it's worth updating... :) oh and i believe servers wont work without the update :)
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I stand corrected - since the update I now get the error "Engine error: Steam needs to be open in order to run game." or similar.

Gawd that's crap. It's going to interfere with us playing over Hamachi now aswell.

What a pile of ****. :(
 
slylittlefox said:
I stand corrected - since the update I now get the error "Engine error: Steam needs to be open in order to run game." or similar.

Gawd that's crap. It's going to interfere with us playing over Hamachi now aswell.

What a pile of ****. :(
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cant you like host a server localy using steam? :) it would work.. or your mates haven't bought the game and using pirated version and play trough hamachi? :)
 
slylittlefox said:
I stand corrected - since the update I now get the error "Engine error: Steam needs to be open in order to run game." or similar.

Gawd that's crap. It's going to interfere with us playing over Hamachi now aswell.

What a pile of ****. :(
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Lol, you are calling it a pile of **** because they have locked out your way of playing a pirated version online?
 
Since the update yesterday when I exit the game I get 'GameoverlayUI.exe' error message and it won't close. Just reappears each time I click close. Won't even let me close Windows, takes about 10 minutes to close down.

Michael
 
Four times last night the servers crashed while I was playing. Either I'm a bad luck charm, or the latest patch has brought a few stability issues with it. Every time we made it to the second safehouse on Dead Air, it crashed - especially disappointing the first time as we made it with all our medpacks, tier 2 weps and plenty of grenades.... would have made the nightmare that is DA3 a lot easier!
 
Luw said:
Four times last night the servers crashed while I was playing. Either I'm a bad luck charm, or the latest patch has brought a few stability issues with it. Every time we made it to the second safehouse on Dead Air, it crashed - especially disappointing the first time as we made it with all our medpacks, tier 2 weps and plenty of grenades.... would have made the nightmare that is DA3 a lot easier!
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The OcUK servers?

I'll look into it.
 
Luw said:
To be honest, I don't think it was. We tried to get on them, used the search function and allsorts, but I'm not sure we were on them.
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There were definitely some people on there a lot of the night.

The problem with the "sv_search_key ocuk" feature is that it currently only 'searches' for the two private servers - if these are full I'm not sure what happens, presumably it connects to another random dedicated or something...

I don't really want to run any additional servers as just the four (now they're often quite busy) take up a huge chunk of server resources compared to most other games...So I'm in a bit of a quandary as to what to do next...

Perhaps I'll switch over one more server to "Private"..hmm

edit: Checked out the servers/plugins and everything seems okay. I'll try doing some more testing.
 
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Don't worry mate, it definitely isn't something on your end, most of the time last night we were on random servers, we had a few games and they were different servers every time. The game just seems to have issues staying alive right now.

About the search key, those of us that had enabled it had to resign as lobby leader. It seems it wont search beyond the search term even when the servers are full (either that or we just had horrendous bad luck) and we don't know how to reset the value.
 
I had issues resetting it but I think you can do something like "toggle sv_search_key" perhaps (not tested - now I think about it, 'toggle' may just be a menu command).

Anyhow, I'll mod the servers now so that 3 of them are 'private' rather than public - that way there should always be at least one free for OcUK lobbies, and at least one full of random people (for those cases where you want a game but nobody else is available).

edit: I do wonder if other servers are still running some of the plugins that were required to stop exploits/bugs before the patch. I can see a group on one of the OcUK coop servers at the moment and they're at the finale, so the server seems to be holding up (which I realise you've been saying is the case, but I just wanted to be sure) :)

edit2: Apparently using ' sv_search_key "" ' works, though once again I've not tested it.
 
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Started playing this the other day, just wanna give the last campaign a once through on single player before i join the servers. But first i'm downloaded updated gpx drivers to try to stop this regular ctd problem i'm having :(
 
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