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  • Zombie MonkeyZombie Monkey Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Some pictures, because i can

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  • MeepZeroMeepZero Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Anyone have problems finding a stable server last night...every damn game we would get into NM2 or BH2 and bam, server crash for everyone.

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  • m4v1sm4v1s Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Sladvan wrote: »
    m4v1s wrote: »
    Just when you thought it was safe with the door closed...

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    I did that today. Was that me? I felt kind of bad about it.

    Yeah, that was Sladvan

    We tried to start a game 3 times last night. The servers were either hella-laggy or crashed before the second stage was over.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Our group didn't have a problem getting a server started and going or anything, but we played on one of the PA servers, so that might have helped.

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  • syrionsyrion Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    This was the best round as infected that I have ever seen or executed.
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  • AsiinaAsiina ... WaterlooRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    It would make my day to see a group so inept that the second they open the door the infected force their way in and slay them in the safe room.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Asiina wrote: »
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!

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  • ProbadProbad Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    MrDelish wrote: »
    Asiina wrote: »
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!

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    Was just about to post that one. Good times.

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  • AsiinaAsiina ... WaterlooRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    See!

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    MrDelish wrote: »
    Asiina wrote: »
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!

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    and FYI that's after the modifier. It would have been 1 single point otherwise

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Asiina wrote: »
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!


    Comme ça?
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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Mother. Fuck.
    My 360 RROD'd just now
    I hope it's just from overheating.
    Sorry guys.
    Also sorry for sucking

    Well that's a bit shit.
    After you dropped off we lost the guy who wasn't Redfield from your team as well so we did DA co-op instead.
    Then we lost Kris and Red halfway through DA3 (which me and Radne finished by the way, guys) and this is my summary of events before I head to bed...at 7:40...
    Been a quiet night on the Zombie front :zzz:

    Yeah sorry about dissapearing, I was waiting for you guys to save me and as soon as the door opened L4D crashed.

    Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


    Good games over the weekend tho.

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    not enough pictures of that same event
    BEFORE THE MODIFIER!
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  • Erin The RedErin The Red The Name's Erin! Woman, Podcaster, Dungeon Master, IT nerd, Parent, Trans. AMA Baton Rouge, LARegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Has anyone else (on the 360) been getting weird lockups on this game?
    I was playing a few times this weekend, and the game would randomly glitch, get stuttery, and then just lock up entirely. This happened once on netflix, and hasnt happened on anything BUT L4D since then.

    How do I do that hard drive maintenance thing again? lb rb xx lb rb or something? I may try uninstalling it and then re-installing it to my 360 hard drive again and see if that clears things up.

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  • AsiinaAsiina ... WaterlooRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    SoaL wrote: »
    Asiina wrote: »
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!


    Comme ça?
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    Man you're not supposed to post our failure! Just theirs!

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  • ProbadProbad Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Asiina wrote: »
    SoaL wrote: »
    Asiina wrote: »
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!


    Comme ça?
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    Man you're not supposed to post our failure! Just theirs!

    Hard to keep them separate given how hard we fail some of the time.

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  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    syrion wrote: »
    This was the best round as infected that I have ever seen or executed.
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    If you play with Lost, or Donat on a regular basis, tell them I said hi.


    EDIT: I find it very amusing that kaffaljidhma is on other team in those pics.

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    MrDelish wrote: »
    Asiina wrote: »
    I've seen groups die there right outside the door. 2 points!

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  • LavaKnightLavaKnight Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Sladvan wrote: »
    m4v1s wrote: »
    Just when you thought it was safe with the door closed...

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    I did that today. Was that me? I felt kind of bad about it.

    Also played against some pubs and Tom Cruise Control, in an early round when the all the survivors were down but one made it the safe room to only listen to their laments, I huntered through the door and killed him. I felt kinda bad about it too. The French Pubber who was on my team was pretty cool though. Smok-eire! Boom-eire!

    I think that might have been me on the receiving end of that trans-dimensional tongue lashing.

    I figured: "Oh, I'll just close the door since doors stop boomer vomit, hunter pounces, and the like."

    Cosmically, I wasn't even rewarded in a later vs match where I, as a boomer, vomited as soon as the survivors climbed the stairs in NM4, only to have the closing door push it all back in my face.

    Truly, the door is my real enemy.

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  • elevatureelevature Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    LavaKnight wrote: »
    Sladvan wrote: »
    m4v1s wrote: »
    Just when you thought it was safe with the door closed...

    smoker.png

    I did that today. Was that me? I felt kind of bad about it.

    Also played against some pubs and Tom Cruise Control, in an early round when the all the survivors were down but one made it the safe room to only listen to their laments, I huntered through the door and killed him. I felt kinda bad about it too. The French Pubber who was on my team was pretty cool though. Smok-eire! Boom-eire!

    I think that might have been me on the receiving end of that trans-dimensional tongue lashing.

    I figured: "Oh, I'll just close the door since doors stop boomer vomit, hunter pounces, and the like."

    Cosmically, I wasn't even rewarded in a later vs match where I, as a boomer, vomited as soon as the survivors climbed the stairs in NM4, only to have the closing door push it all back in my face.

    Truly, the door is my real enemy.

    The worst is when you try to vomit through the windows in the NM finale radio room. I was inside as a Boomer and the survivors were right on the other side, and yet none of the vomit went through.

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    You know what's really fun? When you're playing VS and the opposing team decides it will just go practically suicide every round as survivor.

    Good show, chaps. It's not like people have fun playing infected or anything.. you shouldn't let them have their turn.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Has anyone else (on the 360) been getting weird lockups on this game?
    I was playing a few times this weekend, and the game would randomly glitch, get stuttery, and then just lock up entirely. This happened once on netflix, and hasnt happened on anything BUT L4D since then.

    How do I do that hard drive maintenance thing again? lb rb xx lb rb or something? I may try uninstalling it and then re-installing it to my 360 hard drive again and see if that clears things up.

    I get lock ups every so often, but mostly with other games (damn you fable 2!) I do have installed on my HD tho, so that might be why.

    To clear your cache:

    Go to the system blade and then select memory.

    Press Y on the HD symbol and then press X,X,Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X,X. Once you do this a messsage will appear saying: Do you want to perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices?

    Performing this function will also clear any software updates.

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  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Job_41:25 wrote: »
    I highly fucking suggest to anyone, zombie genre enthusiast or not, to pick up this book I just purchased.

    Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel) by: J.L. Bourne

    I'm on page 98 and I stayed up till 5 am last night riddled with excitement and awe. I couldn't put it down.

    The book is written in journal form, compiled entries from start to finish, with little side notes and scribbled out remarks of the day. It's written like someone from the graffiti all over L4D, had a compiled and documented journal. I love this style of writing, because it keeps you checking back comparing times and dates from earlier posts, yet keeps you interested and not drained through the periodical posts. He records his fortification inside his home, just outside of Austin, TX in the start of the book.

    This is surviving a zombie Armageddon.


    PS: oh yea did I mention they're the old school zombies? 8-)

    I found out about this book a few years ago, it's a good read. Here's a link to J.L. Bourne's page for the book. You can read a sample of it.

    http://www.daybydayarmageddon.com/

    And his original site that started the story before the book.

    http://www.tacticalunderground.us/

    The journal format is a large part of what makes it interesting to read.

    I read the portion available on that site, I had to read that book, and WWZ. After finishing then I can heartily recommend both to anyone who hasn't read them. I liked DBDA a bit better than WWZ tho.

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Job_41:25 wrote: »
    I highly fucking suggest to anyone, zombie genre enthusiast or not, to pick up this book I just purchased.

    Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel) by: J.L. Bourne

    I'm on page 98 and I stayed up till 5 am last night riddled with excitement and awe. I couldn't put it down.

    The book is written in journal form, compiled entries from start to finish, with little side notes and scribbled out remarks of the day. It's written like someone from the graffiti all over L4D, had a compiled and documented journal. I love this style of writing, because it keeps you checking back comparing times and dates from earlier posts, yet keeps you interested and not drained through the periodical posts. He records his fortification inside his home, just outside of Austin, TX in the start of the book.

    This is surviving a zombie Armageddon.


    PS: oh yea did I mention they're the old school zombies? 8-)

    I found out about this book a few years ago, it's a good read. Here's a link to J.L. Bourne's page for the book. You can read a sample of it.

    http://www.daybydayarmageddon.com/

    And his original site that started the story before the book.

    http://www.tacticalunderground.us/

    The journal format is a large part of what makes it interesting to read.

    I read the portion available on that site, I had that book, and WWZ. After finishing then I can heartily recommend both to anyone who hasn't read them. I liked DBDA a bit better than WWZ tho.

    WWZ's finally being made into a movie that sounds pretty badass. The option for the movie was picked up a while ago, but now it's actually being written for the big screen.

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  • TyrantCowTyrantCow Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    meh

    zombies are so passé

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm thinking about not hosting a server anymore. There just doesn't seem like there is much of a point to hosting a server, there is not much in the way of customization you can do and no chance of building any sort of community around a server :-/

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  • rakuenCallistorakuenCallisto Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm thinking about not hosting a server anymore. There just doesn't seem like there is much of a point to hosting a server, there is not much in the way of customization you can do and no chance of building any sort of community around a server :-/
    Sheet post the IP here and it's sv_search_key and I guarantee you people will be flooding your server.

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  • rakuenCallistorakuenCallisto Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    I read the portion available on that site, I had to read that book, and WWZ. After finishing then I can heartily recommend both to anyone who hasn't read them. I liked DBDA a bit better than WWZ tho.
    Yea I agree also, I just finished the novel last night and it was amazing. He also mentions at the end, "There will be a sequel." So ynow, that fucking rules.

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  • rakuenCallistorakuenCallisto Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Figgy wrote: »
    You know what's really fun? When you're playing VS and the opposing team decides it will just go practically suicide every round as survivor.

    Good show, chaps. It's not like people have fun playing infected or anything.. you shouldn't let them have their turn.
    If this was PAers I would scorn them and call them penis loving newbs that can't play a fair game cause they're lame.

    If it was a pub, I would have just kicked every single one of those fuckers and got new opponents.

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  • elevatureelevature Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Figgy wrote: »
    You know what's really fun? When you're playing VS and the opposing team decides it will just go practically suicide every round as survivor.

    Good show, chaps. It's not like people have fun playing infected or anything.. you shouldn't let them have their turn.
    If this was PAers I would scorn them and call them penis loving newbs that can't play a fair game cause they're lame.

    If it was a pub, I would have just kicked every single one of those fuckers and got new opponents.

    You can't kick the other team, though. The solution on a pub would be to just leave and find another game. The quality of pubs has gone way down in the past few weeks, when the game first came out I had some awesome pub games but lately they've all been shit.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Figgy wrote: »
    You know what's really fun? When you're playing VS and the opposing team decides it will just go practically suicide every round as survivor.

    Good show, chaps. It's not like people have fun playing infected or anything.. you shouldn't let them have their turn.
    If this was PAers I would scorn them and call them penis loving newbs that can't play a fair game cause they're lame.

    If it was a pub, I would have just kicked every single one of those fuckers and got new opponents.

    Yeah if it was a PA game call em out on here.

    The reason we play together is to keep fucks like that out of our games.

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  • X Pr3dat0R XX Pr3dat0R X Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Has anyone else (on the 360) been getting weird lockups on this game?
    I was playing a few times this weekend, and the game would randomly glitch, get stuttery, and then just lock up entirely. This happened once on netflix, and hasnt happened on anything BUT L4D since then.

    How do I do that hard drive maintenance thing again? lb rb xx lb rb or something? I may try uninstalling it and then re-installing it to my 360 hard drive again and see if that clears things up.

    I've been having alot of problems with my 360 recently.
    Had a premium system that I'd had from launch day which RROD'd 1 WEEK after the three year RROD warranty ran out so went and got myself an Elite and a data transfer cable.
    Moved my stuff from my 20Gb to my 120Gb HD, installed NXE and promptly froze up.
    Since then I've had countless freezes on L4D during the loading screens, Fable 2, Prince of Persia, and the worst of all was Crackdown.
    I decided to let one of my flatmates have Crackdown for a while and then decided I fancied playing it, loaded it up and was met with the message "your content is invalid or corrupt" (or something to that effect) and then it froze before loading up the start menu. So I cleared out my old Crackdown save and started a fresh one, stopped for the night, tried the next day and it froze before the start menu...repeatedly.
    Now I don't know if the problem is with:
    a) the new Xbox
    b) the new HDD
    c) the old content
    d) the content transfer
    e) NXE
    f) Log

    X Pr3dat0R X on
  • rakuenCallistorakuenCallisto Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    elevature wrote: »
    You can't kick the other team, though. The solution on a pub would be to just leave and find another game. The quality of pubs has gone way down in the past few weeks, when the game first came out I had some awesome pub games but lately they've all been shit.
    Well I'd prob just vote to go back to lobby and then hopefully it would pass.

    If not I'd cry like little girl.

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  • TyrantCowTyrantCow Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    elevature wrote: »
    Figgy wrote: »
    You know what's really fun? When you're playing VS and the opposing team decides it will just go practically suicide every round as survivor.

    Good show, chaps. It's not like people have fun playing infected or anything.. you shouldn't let them have their turn.
    If this was PAers I would scorn them and call them penis loving newbs that can't play a fair game cause they're lame.

    If it was a pub, I would have just kicked every single one of those fuckers and got new opponents.

    You can't kick the other team, though. The solution on a pub would be to just leave and find another game. The quality of pubs has gone way down in the past few weeks, when the game first came out I had some awesome pub games but lately they've all been shit.

    I think it's just a matter of everyone not knowing what they were doing when the game came out. Now the difference between the good and the bad is quite noticeable; thus, the games become more one sided and shit. But, these are actually the games I love. I get on pubs hoping that my team will be terrible - this means we get wiped right away as survivor and I get to play infected. I get to try new stuff without people wondering what the hell I'm doing, and I just like to play infected... plus I get all the tanks.

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  • WembleyWembley Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    TyrantCow wrote: »
    elevature wrote: »
    Figgy wrote: »
    You know what's really fun? When you're playing VS and the opposing team decides it will just go practically suicide every round as survivor.

    Good show, chaps. It's not like people have fun playing infected or anything.. you shouldn't let them have their turn.
    If this was PAers I would scorn them and call them penis loving newbs that can't play a fair game cause they're lame.

    If it was a pub, I would have just kicked every single one of those fuckers and got new opponents.

    You can't kick the other team, though. The solution on a pub would be to just leave and find another game. The quality of pubs has gone way down in the past few weeks, when the game first came out I had some awesome pub games but lately they've all been shit.

    I think it's just a matter of everyone not knowing what they were doing when the game came out. Now the difference between the good and the bad is quite noticeable; thus, the games become more one sided and shit. But, these are actually the games I love. I get on pubs hoping that my team will be terrible - this means we get wiped right away as survivor and I get to play infected. I get to try new stuff without people wondering what the hell I'm doing, and I just like to play infected... plus I get all the tanks.

    You too? Sometimes I find myself secretly wishing we get wiped as the survivors real fast because I just like playing infected so much.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Stolen from the Valve 360 Forum:
    If you play against iTz Hatred or TheMuffinMan66. I warned ya. They are jerks

    Man, I so thought that was our Muffinman and was ready to get into a flame war (anything to pass the day)

    Alas however, Muffinman just seems to be a really popular name.

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm thinking about not hosting a server anymore. There just doesn't seem like there is much of a point to hosting a server, there is not much in the way of customization you can do and no chance of building any sort of community around a server :-/
    Sheet post the IP here and it's sv_search_key and I guarantee you people will be flooding your server.

    Well, first I need to know the community's Steam ID #, which I lost when I had to reset a bunch of settings.

    Then I'd need to know how to set up the sv_search_key

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  • NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well, first I need to know the community's Steam ID #, which I lost when I had to reset a bunch of settings.

    sv_steamgroup 11015

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    NintendoID: Nailbunny 3DS: 3909-8796-4685
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  • YourFatAuntSusanYourFatAuntSusan Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Figgy wrote: »
    You know what's really fun? When you're playing VS and the opposing team decides it will just go practically suicide every round as survivor.

    Good show, chaps. It's not like people have fun playing infected or anything.. you shouldn't let them have their turn.

    I have a feeling you might be talking about the team I was playing on last night. Was is BH4? Did the team end up going into Race 4 Dead mode?

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