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

Admiral Huddy said:
I have an apology to make.. My son broke into my account and has been playing some of you.. It might explain why I've been playing slightly better :D
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I noticed a while ago lol. You didn't know? I presumed you did. How old is he?

The 8v8 server is updated with the newest config version now Aekeron informs me.
 
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Right, think that config is done now with the exception of bug fixing. A team managed to complete the finale on BH. Well done to them :)

Will post a list of the full differences between it and normal versus soon so all are in the same place. Now onto the L8D config...
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I have an apology to make.. My son broke into my account and has been playing some of you.. It might explain why I've been playing slightly better :D
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HEH - Imposter Huddy was noticed quite quickly, especially when you appeared to be doing some extremely noobish things that you'd never done in the past :p

Your son eventually admitted it was him, though we assumed you knew!

Also, the 8v8 last night was indeed epic - pure carnage and confusion from start to finish! I think the current config is pretty much spot on!

(Not a Kitten)
 
LinktoInsanity said:
I noticed a while ago lol. You didn't know? I presumed you did. How old is he?

The 8v8 server is updated with the newest config version now Aekeron informs me.
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13 and no I didn't know until I found 2 extra achievements on my stats - the sod :)

I hope you noticed because of voice and not that he was better than me .. be careful how you answer that? :p

Finding it hard to get into to play with you guys recently.. The games get full very quickly.. I was around all last night and a few days ago. I tried joining one of your servers last night.. but it wouldn't start and the lag was terrible.

Werewolf said:
But sounded the same on voice comms...;)
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That's even more disturbing..At least I know the mic works.. I was told it wasn't working last night.
 
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last night was funny, the hunters/tanks/witches were all on steroids

I think over all the levels only one tank was actually killed :p
 
Admiral Huddy said:
13 and no I didn't know until I found 2 extra achievements on my stats - the sod :)

I hope you noticed because of voice and not that he was better than me .. be careful how you answer that? :p

Finding it hard to get into to play with you guys recently.. The games get full very quickly.
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At least he acheived something for you :). What were they out of interest? Is there an aiming one? :p

I noticed because I said "hi" on a random server he had joined me on and you/he didn't reply, so I kept quiet for a bit, said something later and he sent me a steam message telling me he was huddy junior. :D As far as skill goes I think you are generally a better player tbh. Unless he's been playing us a fool on these forums too with some posts :D

As far as games go, the OCUK ones have been filling up quite quickly recently, especially the 16 man one, which seems to be pretty popular. Now I've tested it and it's working I think I'm gonna go back to 4v4. 8v8 is awesome and the ocassional game for a laugh is good, but its so hard to coordinate an 8 man team and some people seem to think leeroying it on 8v8 is a good idea... One leeroys, team dies, that's it. 8v8 is good for the lols, or if you have a group of more than 8 people who want a game, but generally I prefer the strategy of 4v4.

Will probably be on tonight so will send out invites (4v4). :)

@bledd. Updated since that game. Tank is still faster (as is boomer, slightly) but I put the hunter back on normal :)
 
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One thing I think I've noticed with you Kearney is that through hlsw (used for remote admining servers) your rates seem incredibly low. Bearing in mind most people's are 20000 and 30000 yours are 7500. Try typing rate 20000 into console sometime and see if that improves things (or add it to your autoexec.cfg) rate 30000 might be worth trying, but if the game has set itself up on the lower figure automaticly it's probaby best to stick with the rate 20000 option.
 
i don't seem to get ping issues on the 8vs8

my numbers are set to..

cl_updaterate 66 (most are limited to 33 anyway)
cl_cmdrate 66 (most are limited to 33 anyway)
rate 35000 (ish)
 
Kearney_1988 said:
cheers ill have a look tonight if i get chance

its a bit odd how i never have any trouble in any of the games apart from during hoardes on the 8v8
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Its the extra data causing the problem. Here is a segment from the valve wiki.

"Clients usually have only a limited amount of available bandwidth. In the worst case, players with a modem connection can't receive more than 5 to 7 KB/sec. If the server tried to send them updates with a higher data rate, packet loss would be unavoidable. Therefore, the client has to tell the server its incoming bandwidth capacity by setting the console variable rate (in bytes/second). This is the most important network variable for clients and it has to be set correctly for an optimal gameplay experience."


If you have broadband crank it up to 30000 . There are zero benifits from setting the 'rate' value low.

Thats still only 30KB/s (Kilobytes a second) which won't even max out a 512Kb (50 kilobytes a second) line.

Your setting was only allowing 7.5KB/s and the extra hord on the ocuk server was being delayed each second.

Hope that helps.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
Daft question but how would one go about changing these settings and what are the optimal settings for a 3mb/s connection?
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Pop up the dev console with ` and type them in. :) (You might need to enable it in options > Keyboard > Advanced)

I've always used:

rate 30000
cl_updaterate 101
cl_cmdrate 101

as long as I've had broadband and played valve's games, no problems. :)
 
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