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  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    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.

    You should consider using a pistol script. I was able to pass several boring days with this.

    kidding.
    I know the 360 won't allow them.

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  • Job_41:25Job_41:25 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

    sv_steamgroup 11015
    sv_search_key "wang"

    Also remove or comment out sv_steamgroup_exclusive from your server.cfg if it is in there.

    This will let PA people connect to your server via a lobby and keep out everyone else.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    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.

    You should consider using a pistol script. I was able to pass several boring days with this.

    kidding.
    I know the 360 won't allow them.

    Its more fun to go on and bait the PC users saying the 360 version is far superior in every way
    Yes, I know its not better in everyway
    Just some.

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  • El ExtremoEl Extremo Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    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.

    You should consider using a pistol script. I was able to pass several boring days with this.

    kidding.
    I know the 360 won't allow them.

    Its more fun to go on and bait the PC users saying the 360 version is far superior in every way
    Yes, I know its not better in everyway
    Just some.

    Damn it! I was all ready to go and start some shit up in that thread.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The achievements, if anybody cared, are still completely borked.

    I'm 100% positive I've beaten each campaign on expert multiple times, each time starting, making sure the difficulty is on expert, then voting to restart the campaign to make sure we all go through it 100% of the way.

    I'm still missing 2 of those, and yea, achievements don't matter, but I'm a perfectionist sometimes, and I would like to see a 100% show up.

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  • Roland_tHTGRoland_tHTG Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    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.

    You should consider using a pistol script. I was able to pass several boring days with this.

    kidding.
    I know the 360 won't allow them.

    Its more fun to go on and bait the PC users saying the 360 version is far superior in every way
    Yes, I know its not better in everyway
    Just some.

    That doesn't even require bait.


    Also, icemopper, expert later then, yes?

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  • 232430232430 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Icemopper wrote: »
    The achievements, if anybody cared, are still completely borked.

    I'm 100% positive I've beaten each campaign on expert multiple times, each time starting, making sure the difficulty is on expert, then voting to restart the campaign to make sure we all go through it 100% of the way.

    I'm still missing 2 of those, and yea, achievements don't matter, but I'm a perfectionist sometimes, and I would like to see a 100% show up.

    http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=791619

    Don't know if this helps, but it might be worth a shot. (I know it's a fix for the Lamb 2 Slaughter bug, but just resetting the expert achievement might help)

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  • guarguar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Also, icemopper, expert later then, yes?

    I'm down for accidentally shooting you guys in the back.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    guar wrote: »
    Also, icemopper, expert later then, yes?

    I'm down for accidentally shooting you guys in the back.

    Of all the times, I don't think I actually can.


    Actually maybe, but it would have to be much later. As in midnight EST.

    For now, I'm trying to learn German so I can understand what the heck the in-game players are saying anyway.

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Haha, trying to learn German so you can understand the game you set to German.

    Also, I'll be down for expert. Soon would be nice.

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  • Buster BladeBuster Blade Katy, TxRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Pubbies are so rude sometimes.

    So yesterday me, tom cruise, mark sloan, and two others decide to do a pub stomp. I volunteer to be with the pubs and see what happens. Two of my teammates are playing vs for the first time. Great i think but they did ok. They took my instructions and made real strides in learning what to do.

    Well the finale comes up and two of them have to go so two new people come in. One of them just looks around in the safe room and i say hey go ahead and grab the pipe and we can go and get this started. This is when he made his first and only mistake. He says something something (cuss word) something (cuss word). I shottie him down to half health and tell tom and mark to focus on francis. Lets just say he didnt make it to the first tank.

    We get to the lobby and he tells me to get off the SWING. Anybody understand this.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Haha, trying to learn German so you can understand the game you set to German.

    Also, I'll be down for expert. Soon would be nice.

    It is also for school. If I learn German in about 2 weeks from today, I can take it off my schedule, and I'm down to 12 class hours, thus, more L4D hours.

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  • guarguar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Pubbies are so rude sometimes.

    So yesterday me, tom cruise, mark sloan, and two others decide to do a pub stomp. I volunteer to be with the pubs and see what happens. Two of my teammates are playing vs for the first time. Great i think but they did ok. They took my instructions and made real strides in learning what to do.

    Well the finale comes up and two of them have to go so two new people come in. One of them just looks around in the safe room and i say hey go ahead and grab the pipe and we can go and get this started. This is when he made his first and only mistake. He says something something (cuss word) something (cuss word). I shottie him down to half health and tell tom and mark to focus on francis. Lets just say he didnt make it to the first tank.

    We get to the lobby and he tells me to get off the SWING. Anybody understand this.
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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Icemopper wrote: »
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Haha, trying to learn German so you can understand the game you set to German.

    Also, I'll be down for expert. Soon would be nice.

    It is also for school. If I learn German in about 2 weeks from today, I can take it off my schedule, and I'm down to 12 class hours, thus, more L4D hours.

    That's quite a hefty goal.

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  • VerrVerr Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    guar just won the internet.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Icemopper wrote: »
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Haha, trying to learn German so you can understand the game you set to German.

    Also, I'll be down for expert. Soon would be nice.

    It is also for school. If I learn German in about 2 weeks from today, I can take it off my schedule, and I'm down to 12 class hours, thus, more L4D hours.

    That's quite a hefty goal.

    I've gone through the German Rosetta Stone levels 1 and 2 in the past 3 weeks. One more to go, and I just got Harry Potter and der Stein der Weisen to read on a vacation this week.

    I think it'll happen.

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  • WembleyWembley Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Icemopper wrote: »
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Icemopper wrote: »
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Haha, trying to learn German so you can understand the game you set to German.

    Also, I'll be down for expert. Soon would be nice.

    It is also for school. If I learn German in about 2 weeks from today, I can take it off my schedule, and I'm down to 12 class hours, thus, more L4D hours.

    That's quite a hefty goal.

    I've gone through the German Rosetta Stone levels 1 and 2 in the past 3 weeks. One more to go, and I just got Harry Potter and der Stein der Weisen to read on a vacation this week.

    I think it'll happen.


    I've been wanting to do those for a while, but they're expensive. Are they worth it?

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  • NeedleNeedle Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    elevature wrote: »
    You too? Sometimes I find myself secretly wishing we get wiped as the survivors real fast because I just like playing infected so much.
    Actually, that's a big problem. Very little people that join versus games seem to be willing to play as survivers. Everyone wants to be a zombie. I'm really tired of people quiting instantly the moment they realize they have to play as a surviver.

    Needle on
  • Professor PhobosProfessor Phobos Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Needle wrote: »
    Wembley wrote: »
    TyrantCow wrote: »
    elevature wrote: »
    You too? Sometimes I find myself secretly wishing we get wiped as the survivors real fast because I just like playing infected so much.
    Actually, that's a big problem. Very little people that join versus games seem to be willing to play as survivers. Everyone wants to be a zombie. I'm really tired of people quiting instantly the moment they realize they have to play as a surviver.

    Am I the only one who enjoys playing versus as survivor more than as infected? As infected it is a lot of "Try to pounce, fail, try to pounce, fail, try to boom, fail, team yells at you, try to smoke, sort of succeed but really fail..."

    But with survivors all I gotta do is keep up and shout for help when I needs it.

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  • Toxin01Toxin01 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    If my team is winning at the finale for NM, because I hate it so much, we always jump down the elevator shaft.

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  • redfield85redfield85 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • NeedleNeedle Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Needle wrote: »
    Wembley wrote: »
    TyrantCow wrote: »
    elevature wrote: »
    You too? Sometimes I find myself secretly wishing we get wiped as the survivors real fast because I just like playing infected so much.
    Actually, that's a big problem. Very little people that join versus games seem to be willing to play as survivers. Everyone wants to be a zombie. I'm really tired of people quiting instantly the moment they realize they have to play as a surviver.

    Am I the only one who enjoys playing versus as survivor more than as infected?
    No you aren't. I only play versus lately. But most people seem to choose a regular campaign if they want to be a surviver and versus if they'd like to be an infected.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Wembley wrote: »
    Icemopper wrote: »
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Icemopper wrote: »
    DeMoN wrote: »
    Haha, trying to learn German so you can understand the game you set to German.

    Also, I'll be down for expert. Soon would be nice.

    It is also for school. If I learn German in about 2 weeks from today, I can take it off my schedule, and I'm down to 12 class hours, thus, more L4D hours.

    That's quite a hefty goal.

    I've gone through the German Rosetta Stone levels 1 and 2 in the past 3 weeks. One more to go, and I just got Harry Potter and der Stein der Weisen to read on a vacation this week.

    I think it'll happen.


    I've been wanting to do those for a while, but they're expensive. Are they worth it?

    Hmm...don't know if they're worth the price (because damn), but I've cranked through Level 1 of German and it seems pretty spiffy. I don't know if they'll ever get you more than functionally conversational, though...but then that's the point where you can either take some more advanced classes or find some way to immerse yourself to improve.

    Luckily I get them for free through the Army.

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  • guarguar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I don't mind playing survivor in versus, but I generally enjoy myself more if we're all just messing around. Like Race4Dead or something. Everyone else always wants to be "srs bsnss," so I'm all "ah man" and then maybe I get pounced and die.

    What I'm saying is, Race4Dead, why am I always alone in this?

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  • chasehatesbearschasehatesbears Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    guar wrote: »
    I don't mind playing survivor in versus, but I generally enjoy myself more if we're all just messing around. Like Race4Dead or something. Everyone else always wants to be "srs bsnss," so I'm all "ah man" and then maybe I get pounced and die.

    What I'm saying is, Race4Dead, why am I always alone in this?

    Race4Dead in pubs. It's a fun surprise for your team!

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  • guarguar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I have. The 4-man race described earlier sounds like it would be a helluva lot more fun.

    guar on
  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Wembley wrote: »

    I've been wanting to do those for a while, but they're expensive. Are they worth it?

    Hmm...don't know if they're worth the price (because damn), but I've cranked through Level 1 of German and it seems pretty spiffy. I don't know if they'll ever get you more than functionally conversational, though...but then that's the point where you can either take some more advanced classes or find some way to immerse yourself to improve.

    Luckily I get them for free through the Army.

    Yeah, they're incredibly expensive, but at this rate, I could go to Germany and be a tourist without having to speak English at all. Thats why I got Harry Potter in german, to familiarize myself with things that aren't, "Where is the train station," or "I've lost my passport" and stuff like that.

    If you have the need, go for it, but as the best language program on the market, it shows in price and difficulty.

    EDIT: oh and I have an option to do them through the language lab at my school, if you were wondering how a poor college student like myself would ever pay for that.

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  • redfield85redfield85 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Is Race4Dead just sprinting to the end of the level without stopping to pick up a player?

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  • Professor PhobosProfessor Phobos Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    redfield85 wrote: »
    Is Race4Dead just sprinting to the end of the level without stopping to pick up a player?

    Basically.

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  • guarguar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I help them up if they're ahead of me, but I guess I'm just doing it wrong.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Being a smoker in Race4Dead is fantastique. You smoke a bitch with even a modicum of preparation (like pull him around a corner), and it's game over for him.

    And yet, getting smoker'd in return is every so frustrating when it is your turn to race.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Icemopper wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Wembley wrote: »

    I've been wanting to do those for a while, but they're expensive. Are they worth it?

    Hmm...don't know if they're worth the price (because damn), but I've cranked through Level 1 of German and it seems pretty spiffy. I don't know if they'll ever get you more than functionally conversational, though...but then that's the point where you can either take some more advanced classes or find some way to immerse yourself to improve.

    Luckily I get them for free through the Army.

    Yeah, they're incredibly expensive, but at this rate, I could go to Germany and be a tourist without having to speak English at all. Thats why I got Harry Potter in german, to familiarize myself with things that aren't, "Where is the train station," or "I've lost my passport" and stuff like that.

    If you have the need, go for it, but as the best language program on the market, it shows in price and difficulty.

    EDIT: oh and I have an option to do them through the language lab at my school, if you were wondering how a poor college student like myself would ever pay for that.

    Just echoing what others have said, that while they are extremely expensive they are; IMO, worth the money.

    Back on topic: I hate the public, love zombies.

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  • NevaNeva Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Toxin01 wrote: »
    If my team is winning at the finale for NM, because I hate it so much, we always jump down the elevator shaft.

    That's a very dickish thing to do.

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  • RonaldoTheGypsyRonaldoTheGypsy Yes, yes Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Neva wrote: »
    Toxin01 wrote: »
    If my team is winning at the finale for NM, because I hate it so much, we always jump down the elevator shaft.

    That's a very dickish thing to do.

    I disagree.

    If you have a score that's great enough such that it doesn't matter whether they play or not, then the other team needs to get better.

    THEN they can play infected.

    l2p

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  • NevaNeva Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Neva wrote: »
    Toxin01 wrote: »
    If my team is winning at the finale for NM, because I hate it so much, we always jump down the elevator shaft.

    That's a very dickish thing to do.

    I disagree.

    If you have a score that's great enough such that it doesn't matter whether they play or not, then the other team needs to get better.

    THEN they can play infected.

    l2p

    Well no, some people enjoy playing infected even if they are losing. They just had to put up with being a survivor last round and now they don't get a chance to even fight back because the survivors decided they didn't want to play as survivors.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Neva wrote: »
    Toxin01 wrote: »
    If my team is winning at the finale for NM, because I hate it so much, we always jump down the elevator shaft.

    That's a very dickish thing to do.

    I disagree.

    If you have a score that's great enough such that it doesn't matter whether they play or not, then the other team needs to get better.

    THEN they can play infected.

    l2p

    Last night a PA team that was losing against another PA team jumped down the elevator shaft... It sucked a lot, because we really wanted a full game as infected... but we were denied that.

    It was funny, but come on.

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  • JobastionJobastion Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    guar wrote: »
    I don't mind playing survivor in versus, but I generally enjoy myself more if we're all just messing around. Like Race4Dead or something. Everyone else always wants to be "srs bsnss," so I'm all "ah man" and then maybe I get pounced and die.

    What I'm saying is, Race4Dead, why am I always alone in this?

    I think you're alone in this because you strayed behind and got smokered. Terrible. Run faster next time.

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  • RonaldoTheGypsyRonaldoTheGypsy Yes, yes Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Icemopper wrote: »
    Neva wrote: »
    Toxin01 wrote: »
    If my team is winning at the finale for NM, because I hate it so much, we always jump down the elevator shaft.

    That's a very dickish thing to do.

    I disagree.

    If you have a score that's great enough such that it doesn't matter whether they play or not, then the other team needs to get better.

    THEN they can play infected.

    l2p

    Last night a PA team that was losing against another PA team jumped down the elevator shaft... It sucked a lot, because we really wanted a full game as infected... but we were denied that.

    It was funny, but come on.

    Those other 4 levels as infected where the survivors got to the end of the level therefore building a sizable lead weren't enough? Maybe they didn't feel like playing survivors. If you have that big of a lead, I have no problem with a mercy killing.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    It was a really close game, if they'd made it to the end, they would have lost probably, but not by much. It was just disappointing, is what I'm saying.

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  • jonxpjonxp [E] PC Security Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    My L4D server will be shutting down within a month. It's just too expensive for how little utility it provides. TF2 is much more important.

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