***Official Left 4 Dead 2 Thread***

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oh, I just had some good fun playing pub...

my team left me for dead at the tank on dead centre 1, managed to solo the thing while they all got killed nearly made it to safe room on my own.

we then managed a 2 smoke charges out of windows against them with absolutely no communication.

the other team raged on us after we walked through the next map though

Pub games can be quite fun in my experience, usually having at least one friend ingame helps though. Also helps if the other team doesn't rage...

 

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Insanity Versus returns to L4D2 as now I've been bothered about fixing the thing!

Changes:

A little toned down in many ways from last time, but still designed to make things more fun than regular versus. The IP is the same as it was before I disabled it: 217.163.30.155:27015

Change List:

Insanity Versus:

General:
-Scoring Bonuses Changed
-Medkits Removed

Survivors:
-Survivors now revive and heal faster
-Fire does 75% of expert damage
-Now have more health on revival

Infected:
-Ghost speed Increased
-Witch has 1.5x health, angers easier, moves faster and does more damage
-Boomer Vomit delay removed, can vomit when moving & claw does more damage
-Smoker tongue range increased slightly, has more health and drags faster
-Hunter claw does more damage, Maxium hunters at a time is now 2
-Tanks take longer to Burn, remain stunned for less time, health changed
-2 tanks now appear at finale at a time

Let me know if you are interested in playing and I will arrange an event for tonight.

 

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Good VS game tonight guys. I especially liked the boom on midnight on the bridge.

Bye Bye Midnight.

 

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Disjunto and jimmy, no mention of Insanity Versus? Bah!

Interesting discussion between you though, I personally don't liike the lack of tier 2 weapons outside saferoom in confogl, just makes it too easy for infected players I think. However a lot of other changes are fine. My confogl server adds instakill from witch, advanced fire damage (as standard is pathetic), tier 2 weapons outside saferoom and increased Ghost Infected speed. I think those changes make it a little better.

Insanity changes it a lot more than that, making it quite hard to survive as survivor at all. Quite fun, but we don't have enough good regulars that play atm to use it that often.

 

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Insanity is so unbalanced it can only be used when heavily under the influence

Actually, Insanity is pretty balanced, but it leans on both teams been very good as survivor. Hence the faster recovery time, lower health to make survivors limp. Things that aren't overly obvious, but improve the survivors chances.

In the later days of L4D1 we were playing Insanity quite often for that reason. It actually felt well deserved when you survived. Valve originally designed L4D1 Versus so surviving the levels would be hard, but so many people whined and raged that they dumbed it down, cosntantly nerfing the infected. Insanity just tries to bring that back.

 

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IIRC people used to set L4D servers up as forced expert, making a wipe 3ft out of the saferoom possible those were the days

Well, yeh. That was actually pretty dull lol.

The days are when I set up the L4D1 Insanity Versus 8v8 server for the first time. And while experimenting with balancing there was expert friendly fire...

No teams made it very far lol, especially with Khan shooting us all in the back...

 

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oh right, there is that. although I could go old school and point out my steamid

The they'll see your VAC ban and it goes round again.

 

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Good game tonight lads. Was quite fun. Again soon?

 

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http://www.l4dmaps.com/details.php?file=5055

This is recreation of hl2ep1 part 1 ( city 17 ) for left 4 dead 2

See this thread for more information on custom maps: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18038932

Which Left 4 Dead should I get? 1 or 2?

I'd recommend buying L4D2 as it's supported better by Valve at the moment. L4D1 is awesome and I enjoy playing it still, but for new players, L4D2 is the one to get. Or get both and use L4D1 to get to grips with VS, as it's simpler and will make you a better L4D2 player in the long run.

 

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guys not played for months, wanna fire it up and have a blast.... been any new maps or updates since one where we meet the old gang? or good maps to dl?

rip bill

Check out this thread for more information on custom maps: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18038932

Apart from that not really a lot to download, except a couple of updates to the game.

 

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Was going to make a thread but thought I'd just post in here. I'm wanting to set up my own L4D2 server and was wondering if anyone could recommend a (UK based) server provider?

I've had a Multiplay (spit ) L4D2 server before however I didn't have a very good experience with them, so any recommendations other than Multiplay?

One of my L4D servers and one of my L4D2 servers use Gameservers.com: http://www.gameservers.com/?ref=1631285

Also take a look at both GTX Gaming and INX. Used both in the past, but I like Gamservers at the moment.

Also feel free just to pop on my servers if you like. The IPs can be found in the first post of this thread.

 

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Anyone play 20v20 servers? , would be cool to play with u lot sometime :d

I do have an 8v8 server but a valve update broke it a while back and since then I haven't been too bothered about fixing it. Was quite fun learning how to balance it though. You have to beef the infected up a little bit to get over the fact that survivors have 8 guns, but a lot of these big servers just beef them up far too much so survivors stand next to no chance. Can't really be bothered to play on those myself.

Much appreciated, two recommendations for INX Gaming, I think I'll start looking there

I'd look at them, but just so that you know INX was the first company I used and although their technical support was pretty good, their servers did go wrong (hardware faults) a lot more often then Gamservers. GTX however was the best of both worlds really, just Gameservers have a better management system for multiple servers.

 

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Is there a L4D2 demo? I wanna check how it runs on my new laptop before I buy it.

There used to be. But I don't think it's available anymore.

 

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Ahh nuts. I can play L4D on all settings high (no AA), with no problems. Do you think L4D2 will be much different?

I thought you asked earlier in the thread which 1 to buy? Did you buy L4D1 in the end?

Doesn't matter, answer is the same. L4D2 is a little more demanding than L4D, but only a little. Ie if your computer just about runs L4D then it may not run L4D2, however if it runs L4D1 on high fine then chances are it will at least run L4D2 fine on medium.

Hope I didn't lose you there lol, basicly it should be fine.

 

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oh right, you can go play on the other team and rage lots and call me a hacker

Happened last night on a public server. Was pretty funny.

 

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Well my steam name is vonsmittle, feel free to add me.

I added this name and still haven't been accepted yet. Also reporting offline for 49 days...this right?

If it's wrong and you want to add me, use the link in my sig.

 

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I've now got a server set up with GTXGaming and everything is exactly as it should be so thanks again for recommending them, I finally have full control over the server (unlike I did with Multiplay (spit )).

No worries. Good choice with GTX Gaming btw. Have fun with the server.

 

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I'm looking forward to sacraficing Steve...Maybe we could practice in the next game we're in with him? On Dead Centre....

 

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Haha, if we play Dead Centre, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be killed on the first level

Only on Versus...

 

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Looking forward to it here too.

Nice video link there Klo.