i need a side kick or something so i can play this right!

While that is a recipe for success, that is also a recipe for rage quits. It's better to fill a server with people you know so you can shame them later if they decide to rage quit.

Add me up.

I.m on 360 as well tag: ThorPendragon

Now I'm not quite so pissed my DSL decided to go wonky last night in the middle of the game. I still hate you Verizon.

It's ok after you ragequ... I mean, dsl dropped, Agrippa switched teams. Then I was moved to the other team for the final round and pissed off Classic and the other guy. haha

Of course once I closed the game I noticed bittorrent was running the whole time. OH WELL.

[quote="Mozesh"]Might a zombie dog be in an update or have they left it in to fool us? OMG, zombie dogs. I have feared their likes since the days of Resident Evil. Holy Jesus, if I get to play as a zombie dog because of the next update . . . murder will befall all on the other team.

[quote="BeaverOfDeath"]It's been an interesting night... In all honesty, that wasn't even fair. Half the time, I felt guilty and the other half, all I felt was bloodlust. Also, going all hunting rifle for the sake of a handicap? Never again. Worst gun in the game. Double pistol is more useful by far.

[quote="The Joel"]Now I'm not quite so pissed my DSL decided to go wonky last night in the middle of the game. I still hate you Verizon. That wasn't the game that you ended up dropping from. You weren't doing THAT badly.

Maybe these sounds are not for zombie dogs but for zombies EATING dogs?

Too bad, it would've been freaking sweet though hard to implement next to the normal hordes and not have it break or detract from the gameplay.

Is anyone playing today?

you get get microsoft points on a card from like walmart or best buy or somethin like that

Well I bought L4D. Didn't come with a Product Key. Waiting for steam to email me back.

New patch!

Patch notes:


Left 4 Dead has been updated with a host of fixes, tweaks and new features, including enhancements to Versus mode for improved competitive play. The full change list is below. For PC users the update will be applied automatically via Steam. Meanwhile, the update will be made available to Xbox 360 players in the coming weeks.

General


Fixed Survivors being able to climb surfaces marked for versus infected only

Fixed a class of SurvivorBot bugs dealing with rescuing downed players

Players can no longer grab ladders while flying through the air after a Tank punch

Shooting near a car with an alarm that has already fired the alarm will no longer make chirping noises

Improved loading time

Fixed mini-gun physics exploit

Fixed propane tanks (and other physics objects) causing players to fall through elevators

Fixed rare achievement bug issues

Fixed several map exploits

Fixed various match making issues

Fixed NAT traversal issues


Versus Changes

Added HUD elements to show status of other infected players

Changed color of infected player name in chat to red

Fixed exploit where players could spawn infected bots

Fixed instance where a Survivor changing to the infected team would be attacked by infected bots

Normalized special infected melee damage

Made the following client commands cheat protected: "Kill" and "explode"

Fixed exploit where infected players could run away and teleport back to gain health

Players can only change teams once per map

Players can't change teams while other players are still loading

Tank spawns at the same % through the map for both teams in versus mode

Made the Tank and Witch spawn directly on the escape route

Increased chance of getting the Tank or Witch

Fixed team swap issue


Hunter

Easier to pounce a Survivor who is meleeing

Increased Minimum damage a Hunter pounce does


Smoker

Fixed Smoker tongue tolerance

Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break

Survivors cannot bash someone off the tongue until the Survivor being pulled is paralyzed or hanging

Tongue attacks that fail to paralyze or hang a Survivor will use the shorter ability delay timer

Fixed cases where the ability timer was not using the correct time

Fixed case where you could point at a Survivor but not register a tongue hit

Fixed Smoker tongue not targeting and landing properly through PZ ghosts

Smoker tongue does damage every second while dragging paralyzed Survivors


Tank

Bashable objects now appear with a red glow

Tanks hitting a car with an alarm disables the alarm permanently

Tank frustration timer is only reset by hitting Survivors with rocks or fists

Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks


Witch

Witch spawns at the same % through the map for both teams

Avoids spawning within a certain % of the tank

Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors


I like basically everything here. They've buffed the Smoker (as was needed) and fixed a number of bugs that have been there since launch - no more team switching! Thank god!

These are good fixes, lets hope we get the SDK soon!

Barghest and I did some post-patch testing tonight. Here's the result of our tests:

Boomers and Smokers do 4 damage with melee now instead of 2.

Hunters do 6 damage with melee now instead of 10.

Hunters also get additional pounce damage easier than before. The exact calculation is obviously unkown to us, but jumping roughly 30 feet on even ground with the survivor on a relatively straight trajectory resulted in about 6 pounce damage on average.

Smokers now start damaging survivors from the moment the tongue hits. From the maximum tongue distance, if the survivor isn't moving away, you get 3 hits in from the time you start to pull until he gets to you. Each of these hits do 3 damage. The hits after the Smoker begins to smack the survivor on the back still do 5 damage as before.

Hunters that are on fire do the normal 6 damage with melee but nearly twice as much pounce-slash damage. At 100 health, with no additional pounce damage, it took 5 seconds to incapacitate the survivor and only 5 more seconds to kill them. Nasty.

Auto-shotty damage has been greatly reduced for the Tank. At point-blank range, it only does 215 damage per hit. A much more viable alternative now is the Hunting Rifle. It does 90 damage per hit, but the damage remains the same regardless of range; unlike the Auto-shotty which is all but useless unless you're standing right next to the Tank.

A few more tests are in order, but I thought I'd share what we've learned so far.

Get in game NOW!

[quote="Mozesh"]http://lh4.ggpht.com/_EHZsoUS6SIA/SWKU6IDtQ_I/AAAAAAAACis/n5QdIngwDk0/nomercy.jpg
Image fail?

VVV

This was a good l4d weekend.

Agrippa, Classic, and Sony_CEO all sound a like to me I can only tell them apart from what they say. Agrippa goes on tangents, Classic is all "WINNING IS EVERYTHING", and Sony is calling me retarded.

Freaking Yankees.

[quote="superdeformed"]This was a good l4d weekend.

Agrippa, Classic, and Sony_CEO all sound a like to me I can only tell them apart from what they say. Agrippa goes on tangents, Classic is all "WINNING IS EVERYTHING", and Sony is calling me retarded.

Freaking Yankees.

Hey!.......I go on tangents to

FORGET YOU

[quote="Sony_CEO"]FORGET YOU

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/0/0a/Bawwwww_bunny.jpg

[quote="grumps"][quote="BrokenMagnum"]I love the server a couple of us in the WoW guild play on, every so often a message stating "Assholery will not be tolerated" will pop up. I gets funnier every time.

Also, helipad is a bitch.
Hey! Whats all this 'we have a favorite server' business? You assholes arent allowed to play without me. We all need to progress at similar rates of sucking ass.

HAY HAY HAY! Get that WOW talk out of our Left 4 Dead thread!

[quote="BrokenMagnum"][quote="superdeformed"]

HAY HAY HAY! Get that WOW talk out of our Left 4 Dead thread!
Forget you then, I'll just play my other Time=Sinks.

P.S. You don't need to quote Grumps' statement as it only relates tangentially to your response, and from my perspective it looks like you didn't bother to go to the previous page to quote me effectively. ...But that's just my opinion.
First rule of wow: if you talk about wow, no being defensive about wow...ALSO, I just played the new house of the dead wii game, it was really fun, but it kindof just made me want to play left 4 dead.

SDK soon.
I expect everyone to create 50 awesome maps within 24 hours of this release