Left 4 Dead

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=27005
http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=27015

I tried both of those links at home and they are both reading as blocked

Stev_o wrote: »

Forget witches i think Tanks scare the sh1t out of me more, the tension created when you hear the deep breath (which sounds like a rhino or something) and then the ground shaking is goddamn creepy i honestly hate being the one having to agro him so we can bring him into "our" zone its just awful.

Yeah he reminds me of the Berserkers in GoW. The fact that they randomly spawn makes them even worse. I remember facing one of them in that underground room, halfway through the subway level, I flanked behind a pillar thinking I was safe and it just runs at me destroying all the pillars between myself and it. Without the ability to dodge or sprint you pretty much just have to resign yourself to being killed if gets sight of you.

Jimi-Spandex wrote: »

I've sunk about six hours into the demo so far. Can't wait for the full game to come out. I'm going to have to add some people here so I've regulars to do the campaign with instead of just playing with randoms, had some great games with pub randoms though.

There was one weird server I was on earlier, it was some insane ultra hard server. As in 4 tanks, 6 or so witches and the odd horde, this was in the first level just as we got out of the apartment block into the alley. Slightly balanced out by the fact there were six AI controlled "Bills" one of whom spawned a load of auto shotguns and medkits at the start. Has anyone else experienced this?

Was on a server that had infinit ammo and no reload but constantly respawning zombies quite good fun only one of us got to the end :pac:

Anyone up for a friends list invite? playing with randomers is a total ball's most of the time so perhaps boards.ie user's are more fun to play with

KilOit wrote: »

id be up for some expert games with users here

Yeah I think we are going to have a go of it again tonight. I learnt a lot of lessons the hard way so I think I'm just about ready to try and get through the demo on expert mode

Like leave your light off for as much as possible. If you can cope without it then do. I've found that if you shoot at a zombie with your light on it will run at you and if you strafe it will track you and change direction. With your light off, you can shoot at a zombie then strafe and they won't track you. You also need to not fire when you are strafing as they will be attracted to that.

It was funny in demo last watching a hoard of zombies run into the room and right past me and straight for the guy with his light on

KilOit wrote: »

Interesting, i kinda assumed the noise from the gun will attract the horde to you, must test with the light out tonight.

the sound of the gun will attract the horde. What you need to do is shoot at a bunch of zombies until you need to reload, then strafe away from them, they usually won't follow you and instead go after someone else on your team if they have their light on.

The thing is if you are shooting whilst strafing they will track you. You need to move with your light off and not be shooting.

I found a lot of times I'd be completely unscathed whereas everyone else on my team with their lights on would of been knocked over onto the ground.

Plus its better to have the light off anyway, in case you accidentally disturb a witch.

IIRC most stuff is released in the evening of what ever time zone Valve are in

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK:mad:

Its out now, downloading with steam at 8kb/s and its 3gbs +

aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrhghghghhg

**edit**

and yet my mates getting 250kb/s what am I doing wrong?

**edit2** nvm I;m okay

Can't remember the last time I was so hyped about a a feckin demo lol

L31mr0d wrote: »

guys when you get it, add me to your steam (in my sig). Also, if you have mics, you need to use them.

N00b question...

Do people generally use the Teamspeak/Ventrillo programs for voice communication... or is it all handled in-game?

As I mentioned in the thread about this over on the Half-Life board, Steam is damn slow downloading this today

I picked the worse day to reformat .

Yet other people seem to even already have it downloaded? WTF like?

Would opening ports help?