[Multiplatform] Left 4 STOP THROWING PIPE BOMBS AT THE TANKS

Originally Posted by LeHah

1.) Mo0 screams like Ned Flanders. He also has a habit of shooting piles of gas canisters next to him, lighting the entire area on fire, and then asks who did that and why.

I

WAS NOT

SHOOTING

THOSE CANISTERS

YOU FILTHY LIAR

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Everyone reacts to that shit differently, which makes playing with new people awesome.

For instance, I have this conflicting set of emotions every time a Tank shows up.

I want to fight it. But I want to run! So I attempt to do both at once while screaming!

It doesn't work very well.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Do you mean the area with the little spiral staircase?

We did that last night, and while it worked okay, its biggest problem is that there are too many ways for Infected to get in. There's the door and window on one side, and two breakable sections of wall on two more sides. The fourth wall that doesn't have a breakable wall is smack dab in the middle of two entry points so it's pretty useless. The biggest problem, essentially, is that it gets cramped really fast and fire tends to hit as many players as it does Infected.

That strategy DID get us our Bronze time on that map last night, if I recall correctly.

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Originally Posted by Taco

Some of the mixes are pretty genius.

I was just in a round where one person got smokered away, and before we could even turn to shoot the smoker or melee him out of it three hunters pounced the rest of us at the exact same moment.

Brilliant.

One of the randoms we played with last night got boomered, huntered, smokered, and molotov'd (my bad!) in the span of about 10 seconds.

Those specials are fuckin' EEEEEEEEVIL.

And in case anyone hasn't seen this, Valve posted a graph of the spawn times (not including the "lulls" where they make nothing spawn for a while) as the rounds get longer.



While the lulls apparently get longer as time goes on, the likelihood that most people see them isn't too great. Which sucks.

Seeing that graph say that tanks will eventually start showing up about every 5 seconds scares the shit out of me.

Here's the link to the entire blog post about their work on Survival mode if anyone's interested.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Skills, Tritoch, Chaotic, LeHah, Paco, one of Chaotic's friends, Plarom, and I just spent 2 and a half hours wrecking each other's shit in Versus. Versus with alltalk is fucking FANTASTIC, because no one can coordinate anything and it's just 8 people talking shit to each other.

The best part was how we tied 3 times, because we kept on getting to the SAME POINTS in the levels before we killed each other. Skills also managed to take out the entire team as the tank by throwing a TRASH CAN right down an alley.

Anyone who has Left 4 Dead, get in on one of these. Anyone who has it for PC, get it for 360 you faggot.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well, I was going to try to get some homework done tonight but any opportunity to destroy Tails I will gladly take. You're on, bitch.

I was speaking idiomatically.

2) The closer to the entire team you can throw your Molotov, the better.

2-a) If you are Skills, it was always an accident.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Tails

Kudos to Mo0 for killing all of us as the tank that one round, though I don't think it beats my point blank Incredible Hulk rock smash. One of these days I'll figure out what the fuck is going on, I promise.

Learning the tank is so goddamn stressful, because everyone wants you to kick ass as the tank and no amount of I HAVE NEVER USED HIM BEFORE shuts up your team.

The biggest thing I've learned is to run around and try to find something that glows red. Your best ammunition is things you can throw at people using right trigger. I've never managed to hit anyone with a rock, but I killed all four of you with a car.

FELIPE NO

On the one hand, I have a final tomorrow.

On the other hand, it's at 7:30 PM. I can study beforehand.

How ya doing, buddy?

Those are great fun because neither team can really plan without giving themselves away to the other team. It becomes a massive clusterfuck of everyone trying to read each other's minds. It's great.

Also I totally wish I could be there tomorrow.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I think there's something to the notion that Valve's jumping the gun on this one, but considering how hilariously replayable the first game is, I'm not terribly upset to get the game all over again.

I would definitely prefer it a million times over if they decided to make L4D2 an expansion pack of sorts to the first game, or at least have the option to download it. If this game is essentially going to sit next to L4D1 rather than in front of it, it'd be nice not to have two discs to swap. That might just be me, though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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On a similar note, Chet noted that they were discussing including the original four Left 4 Dead campaigns with Left 4 Dead 2. The thinking is that this would make things easier for consumers.

[ source ]

If Left 4 Dead 2 isn't going to be an expansion, then this would be ideal. Having it be one supergame would be pretty cool, and on the PC it'd be fun to bring the original foursome over to the new levels (and on 360, pleeeeeeeeeeeease!)

And as for new special infected, that article also mentions that because some of the levels are in broad daylight, Witches have developed this nasty habit of wandering around.

Moving witches.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

WHY DIDN'T YOU BUY IT FOR PC, NUTTYTURNIP

DON'T YOU KNOW EVERYONE PLAYS IT ON PC, NUTTYTURNIP

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I was going for "Sarcastic imitation of Pang" there actually

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

Actually we never played because Moo completely disappeared. Literally, he was in the middle of saying something in party chat, went offline, and never reappeared. I'm currently taking bets on the under/over on if he lost power, or if he drowned in gravy. So I got to listen to Skills rage to Kyndig for like 30 minutes about why Mass Effect 2 sucked, why Bioware sucks in general, and why he hates everything in life.

Spoiler:

You're still a dick though.

My internet decided to be half working most of the night last night. I'd get online for a few seconds and then suddenly NO, can't connect to anything! Same with my web browsers.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

As for last night, I was at work and didn't make it home until about 10:15 or so.

As for today, I'm about to start cleaning my room.

I'll see you guys in October.

FELIPE NO

Summertime has left me free relatively often, and I think I've gotten better from sheer repetition.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Hey now wait a minute I am NOT that terrible you colossal asshole

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Are those jumps really possible on the 360, though? Looks like he's running on the PC.

Also, sure, he's really good at hunter pounces, but how the hell is the rest of his team supposed to take advantage of that?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bath House Pang House

I don't know how up-to-date the 360 is on patches but I don't think there's ever been a point where it wasn't a maximum of 25 damage. Frankly I think it's probably for the best; even bumping it up to 35 or so turns the game into Airborne Screeching Rapefest Forever.

To answer Mo0's question taking advantage of massive hunter pounces is pretty damn easy provided the survivors are in a pretty tight formation. That second or two of stun as they reel back is prime boomin' time.

Why are you a terrible boomer, mo0

why

I'm actually a pretty good tank, but I never get practice as the boomer, so I okay yes fine i am fat I get practice as the boomer all the time, shut up never have gotten good at timing it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.