Left 4 Dead 2 Launch

ronkmonster

who's getting up at 5am to play?
other than me for few hours before work

leninbenjamin

Probably get up at 7. 5 is just a wee bit too early. Can't wait though

ronkmonster

not if you sleep early

need some people to play with. no one else is getting up.

Atlas_IRL

I reckon there will be a few of us on after 8pm would love to get an 4v4 going. Anyone interested?

ronkmonster

i hate versus mode.

everything else should be good.
i'm good for players in evening. just not morning
damn people sleeping when they could be killing infected

L31mr0d

I'll be on steam anyway around 6pm tomorrow.

What with Valves track record, I don't think I could gamble my sleep that the game will actually get unlocked at 5am tomorrow. If I waited 4 hours for it to unlock, didn't get to play and then had to go to work it would kill me.

Retr0gamer

Feck it I'm off to France this weekend

Maximilian

Looking forward to lashings and lashings of delicious brains.

shatners basoon

I'll definitely be playing at some stage tomorrow anyway, maybe some time in the morning but most likely later. Steam ID is the incredible pudding!

Creature

It just finished pre-loading for me there. I'll have my sleep thanks but will be around tomorrow for some games brains.

Overheal

Rather than burn 2 hours waiting ill stash the 2 hours and get up early before work

KilOit

Gonna wait for the reviews i see no reason to get this, it looks no different to l4d in my eyes.

shatners basoon

woke up early to try it out. Keeps crashing on me though with no error report or anything; its really frustrating! Checked the forums for any info but the solution the gave (turn violence down in the launch options) hasn't made a difference. Feckin' valve and their stupid launches!

leninbenjamin

Steam is borked again as usual. Took me 3 attempts before i could even log in, and then it just freezes when it looks for updates...

looks like i wont be playing this til later

koneko

Started at 8am. Great great game.

leninbenjamin

shatners basoon wrote: »

woke up early to try it out. Keeps crashing on me though with no error report or anything; its really frustrating! Checked the forums for any info but the solution the gave (turn violence down in the launch options) hasn't made a difference. Feckin' valve and their stupid launches!

well, half an hour after booting my PC Steam finally allowed me to play and I get the same damn thing.

leninbenjamin

shatners basoon wrote: »

woke up early to try it out. Keeps crashing on me though with no error report or anything; its really frustrating! Checked the forums for any info but the solution the gave (turn violence down in the launch options) hasn't made a difference. Feckin' valve and their stupid launches!

possible fix for this if anyone's interested:

* Close Steam
* Go To ..\steam\steamapps
* Delete left 4 dead 2 client.ncf
* Delete left 4 dead 2 common.ncf
* Restart Steam
* Right-click L4D2 and Install
* Let it sort itself out.

seems the issue is as a result of corruptions in these manifest files.

Retr0gamer

Should have taken the day off. At least i'm off early today so will be on steam later on tonight.

grizzly

Same here, to anyone who playing – what's it like? I'd be interested to know what scavenger mode is like – does it feel tacked on or a complete new game type?

Jumpy

Hold on. Are you telling me that Valve released this game on time?

koneko

I played Scavenger a few weeks ago, haven't tried it yet today. It didn't feel tacked on then, but really really fun.

So far played Dead Center and Dark Carnival with 3 others on Advanced. Versus after lunch!

leninbenjamin

grizzly wrote: »

Same here, to anyone who playing – what's it like? I'd be interested to know what scavenger mode is like – does it feel tacked on or a complete new game type?

I like it, although it's pretty poor on public servers. If one player isn't playing half assed it ruins it. It's a combination of versus and survival really. Some levels work much better than others though.

Jumpy wrote: »

Hold on. Are you telling me that Valve released this game on time?

yes, but full of bugs.

koneko wrote: »

I played Scavenger a few weeks ago, haven't tried it yet today. It didn't feel tacked on then, but really really fun.

So far played Dead Center and Dark Carnival with 3 others on Advanced. Versus after lunch!

Played dead centre on normal, but lost connection on the last level of the swamp campaign. two tanks tho!

Retr0gamer

Whats the Kim Swift designed campaign like? I'm really interested in playing that one.

Overheal

im waiting till i get home and have the big shout out about the speeding ticket i got last night then 5 campaigns to take my mind off the horrible experience \o/

Fnz

Overheal wrote: »

im waiting till i get home and have the big shout out about the speeding ticket i got last night then 5 campaigns to take my mind off the horrible experience \o/

The faster you drive home the sooner you can play. Just sayin'.

Overheal

not helpful!

mayordenis

Fnz wrote: »

The faster you drive home the sooner you can play. Just sayin'.

And also the less time your on the road the less chance you'll crash, that's statistics.

Stephen

Wish I was back home with my gaming PC right now

/curses ****ty laptop graphics card

Seifer

As expected steam had it's little hiccup as the whole world tries to get the last bit of the download.

Played through Dead Centre (the mall) and Swamp Fever and both were good fun. They're shorter than the l4d campaigns but I think that makes more sense as versus could takes ages sometimes.

Hopefully get my versus on this evening.

Overheal

shorter how?

Seifer

Dead centre is only 3 levels long and Swamp Fever 4.

Overheal

So, its really like, 3 new campaigns.

koneko

I haven't run into a single bug.

Atlas_IRL

ffs taking hours to download!

Retr0gamer

Fuck Steam. Had the game Pre-loaded. Turned on the machine, started steam. Steam downloads the little file tounlock L4D2 and now it's listed as uninstalled and I have to download everything again It will be the weekend by the time it's done.

Atlas_IRL

Exactly the same thing happened me.. bent

leninbenjamin

koneko wrote: »

I haven't run into a single bug.

I've ran into loads.

The agent AI is appallingly bad at times (not the same as the director, which is actually pretty good). I've had zombies run away from me to climb over an obstacle and then run back at me. One time i walk into a room, the Zombie climbs out the window, drops to the ground, runs around the house and back in the door to get at me. That's pathetic route planning.

There are loads of inconsistencies, like one armed zombies swinging with their missing arm and doing damage. One armed zombies climbing poles and frences with their missing arm, and in the most bizarre case i was actually attacked by a headless zombie earlier today.

There are also weird behaviours with some of the specials. Specifically I've seen a charger perform a 30 degree turn while charging to get inside a building and charge someone who wasn't visible from the doorway. On another occasion I was charger while on top of a truck. The charger hits the truck as you'd expect, but instead of him getting dazed he still manages to grab and pummel me into the ground.

Oh and the water simulations go bezerk if you're half in half out. Every second frame is rendered differently (i.e. one underwater the next over water) it's really irritating.

All relatively small things though that don't take away from the game much, but there's still a bit more than I expected. But the most disappointing aspect is much of the bugs from the demo don't appear to have been dealt with.

Seifer

Have finished all the campaigns. Good fun.

Waiting to get some versus on now. Should be great.

Have noticed one bug, my friends and I, we're all playing with max graphics and a lot of times when we fought a tank there was noticeable frame drop.

Overheal

swamps were fair fun. finale was very good. /sleep

Jumpy

Apart from Max doing weird things to a gnome, this game rocks.

5uspect

Gave it a quick blast after work. Quite enjoying it.
Played Dead Center, Most of Dark Carnival (yes, I got owned by a tank and a spitter on the coaster) and the first half of Hard Rain.

(HR remind anyone of STALKER?)

I only played SP as I didn't want to make a total fool out of myself online, yet.
Dead center is quite a large, and long campaign. It may only have 3 maps but they're big with lots of room for getting lost. Is there any dynamic pathing in it?
A blast through it on Normal resulted in 2,200 dead Zombies, you'd be hitting around 1000 in a typial L4D1 campaign.

Oh and the Chainsaw is full of win.

Jumpy

Versus in the shopping center is CRAZY.

Running a charger down an escalator that they are all running up is one of the classiest things I have seen in the game so far.

Except the charger along the apartment block ledge. Damn you Max. I hope you are happy with that achievment.

L31mr0d

The dual core bug is still there although apart from that I didn't encounter any other issues.

Noticed some weird Zombie AI stuff though. Like at the end of Swamp Fever, there where some Zombies trying to bash in a door, so I opened it, and instead of running through and attacking me, they ran around the back of the opened door and continued to try and break it down.

Graphically, I'd say it is a fair improvement. Swamp Fever in particular is an excellent looking Campaign. Haven't played all of them through to completion yet though.

Versus is going to take some getting used to, but I'd say it's more of a case of learning the levels and pinch points. It's definitely stopped camping though. You can't really stand still for more than a few seconds.

Atlas_IRL

That was funny! I think it was me you got with the charger down the escalater.
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hen i was on the wireless the game was unplayable if i turned or an infected came i couldnt even move the game stuttered so much. Thought it might have been my pc bt it was fine again when i plugged in the wire. Prob wont be able to play it that much now.

L31mr0d

Atlas_IRL wrote: »

When i was on the wireless the game was unplayable if i turned or an infected came i couldnt even move the game stuttered so much. Thought it might have been my pc bt it was fine again when i plugged in the wire. Prob wont be able to play it that much now.

Have you tried using this application? I know it helped my friend who games with a wireless connection.

http://www.martin-majowski.de/wlanoptimizer/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=file&Itemid=2&lang=en

Retr0gamer

After my initial annoyance with steam I managed to get a decent game in. Played the end of Swamp Fever and Dark Carnival the whole way through. I have to say I'm loving it at the moment. The new weapons are great and the new special infected do add a lot to it. It's amazing how something as simple as making the game more open can change it totally.

Jumpy

Atlas_IRL wrote: »

That was funny! I think it was me you got with the charger down the escalater.
W
hen i was on the wireless the game was unplayable if i turned or an infected came i couldnt even move the game stuttered so much. Thought it might have been my pc bt it was fine again when i plugged in the wire. Prob wont be able to play it that much now.

I didnt do the charge, I think it was Neptune. I just watched the bowling pin effect while cheering loudly.

Seifer

I forgot to mention, the storms during the return part of Hard Rain are awesome. It's a pity that the voice comm. effect will be bypassed by people using vent etc.

Creature

Jumpy wrote: »

Apart from Max doing weird things to a gnome, this game rocks.

He liked that gnome a little too much.

Jumpy wrote: »

I didnt do the charge, I think it was Neptune. I just watched the bowling pin effect while cheering loudly.

Actually I think it was azza.


All in all I'm loving this. The chainsaw and grenade launcher are excellently awesome and the regular new weapons are pretty cool. I really like the new pressure events that force you to work through the hordes instead of camping. It adds a lot to the game.

leninbenjamin

L31mr0d wrote: »

Have you tried using this application? I know it helped my friend who games with a wireless connection.

http://www.martin-majowski.de/wlanoptimizer/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=file&Itemid=2&lang=en

That seemed to fix my occasional stuttering in games too. Thanks man, great find.

Atlas_IRL

L31mr0d wrote: »

Have you tried using this application? I know it helped my friend who games with a wireless connection.

http://www.martin-majowski.de/wlanoptimizer/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=file&Itemid=2&lang=en

Ill try that tommorrow night thanks!