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Be sure to join Armadeaddon chat [url=steam://friends/joinchat/103582791429532423]CLICK ME [/url]before you play L4D. It's a great way to find games. Ask for group invites in the chat; they will get lost in the thread!
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Left 4 Dead is a cooperative multiplayer horror survival shooter in development by Valve, based on the Source engine. There are two sides, the Infected and Survivors. Four players control the five Infected, working their way through campaigns in rural and urban areas, with the aid of dozens of the AI-controlled infected (fast, 28 Days Later style zombies). The regular zombies won't be enough though, there are four player-controlled boss survivors all with unique powers for causing chaos. This mix of the dozens of AI-controlled infected zombies and the boss survivors makes for an entirely fresh co-op experience. - Left 4 Dead 411
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Kris_xX wrote:Bottom line: If you've got a 360 and L4D, good times can be had. Add "A PA L4D Group" to get in on the fun!
A common complaint I hear about the list is that there's no one actually playing L4D on it. Just invite people on the list, regardless of what they're playing. The list is there to get groups together, and a lot of the time people will drop out of whatever they're doing and join in. I for one will pretty much always switch over to L4D, unless I just got in a CoD : WaW party like I did last night when Kawl wanted to play
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Suds is pretty jawsome
Left 4 Dead is a cooperative multiplayer horror survival shooter in development by Valve, based on the Source engine. There are two sides, the Infected and Survivors. Four players control the five Infected, working their way through campaigns in rural and urban areas, with the aid of dozens of the AI-controlled infected (fast, 28 Days Later style zombies). The regular zombies won't be enough though, there are four player-controlled boss survivors all with unique powers for causing chaos. This mix of the dozens of AI-controlled infected zombies and the boss survivors makes for an entirely fresh co-op experience. - Left 4 Dead 411
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Compendium Information by Invictus Sol
Merch Valve
PC Requirements for System
Maximum
Supported OS Microsoft Windows 3.1
Processor 486DX2 66MHz
Memory 8MB
Graphics S3 Trio or compatible card
Hard Drive At most 7.5 MB of free space
Love of the same sex
Recommended
Supported Amiga OS 1.2 & 1.3
Processor Motorola 7mhz
Memory 512kb (May not function properly with expanded 1MB)
Graphics OCS Planar Graphics with SHM support
Deep, deep feelings for the same sex
Supported OS Microsoft Windows 3.1
Processor 486DX2 66MHz
Memory 8MB
Graphics S3 Trio or compatible card
Hard Drive At most 7.5 MB of free space
Love of the same sex
Recommended
Supported Amiga OS 1.2 & 1.3
Processor Motorola 7mhz
Memory 512kb (May not function properly with expanded 1MB)
Graphics OCS Planar Graphics with SHM support
Deep, deep feelings for the same sex
Listing Players
PA Steam groups
Check out Zedheads on Steam! Or for a more American flavour, try the new Armadeaddon!
For those from Australia/NZ (Or thereabouts) add Aussie/NZ PA + Friends as well as the Armadeaddon group
Xbox Dead Gamertag Group -A PD L4D Group
Send a friend invite to A PA L4D Group to be entered into this group. We'll use this gamertag as a central hub for the 360, just like the steam group. I doubt we'll exceed 100, but if we do we'll figure that out when we get there.
Steam ID and Steam ID Collections
Kris_xK is handling invites for the 360 A PA L4D Group friend list. PM him about the 360 version ONLY please if there is any trouble with your friend invitation to PA L4D.
Armadeaddon is the PA L4D Steam group. Just join the group chat to ask and someone in the group can invite you.
PA Steam groups
Check out Zedheads on Steam! Or for a more American flavour, try the new Armadeaddon!
For those from Australia/NZ (Or thereabouts) add Aussie/NZ PA + Friends as well as the Armadeaddon group
Xbox Dead Gamertag Group -A PD L4D Group
Send a friend invite to A PA L4D Group to be entered into this group. We'll use this gamertag as a central hub for the 360, just like the steam group. I doubt we'll exceed 100, but if we do we'll figure that out when we get there.
Steam ID and Steam ID Collections
Kris_xK is handling invites for the 360 A PA L4D Group friend list. PM him about the 360 version ONLY please if there is any trouble with your friend invitation to PA L4D.
Armadeaddon is the PA L4D Steam group. Just join the group chat to ask and someone in the group can invite you.
Meet The Survivors
Louis
Louis had been working up the courage to quit his job as Junior Systems Analyst at his company's IT department when a virus showed up and downsized the world. Now Louis has a new set of goals (live long enough to succeed) and a new set of tools (guns, sharp objects) to help him achieve them. With any luck, he'll figure out how the new management operates before they get a chance to murder him. Usually the first to die.
Francis
Cocky, loud, and pretty sure he's indestructible, Francis acts like the zombie apocalypse is the world's biggest bar fight. When the virus hit, everybody else stockpiled food and looked for a place to hide. Francis found a gun and had some fun. No cops, no laws, no order—if it wasn't for all the zombies, he could almost get used to life like this. Francis hates almost everything. Screams like a girl
Bill
It took two eventful tours in Vietnam, a handful of medals, a knee full of shrapnel, and an honorable discharge before the unthinkable happened: Bill ran out of wars. But now an army of infected undead has declared war on humanity. After decades of aimless drifting and dead-end jobs, Bill's finally gotten back the only thing he ever wanted: an enemy to fight. Aim for everything but the beard, the beard is becoming one of us
Zoey
After spending her first semester holed up in a dorm room watching old horror movies, Zoey was given a choice: Stop fooling around and get her grades up, or drop out. Now that the planet's overrun with murderous zombies, and all of her professors are dead, Zoey at least has the cold comfort that she's been studying up on the right subject after all. Be careful with this one, the other survivors like to protect her the most.
Info General
All these bastards are out to get you. Be wary of the homemade explosives they try to throw at you (The molotov burns and no matter how shiny the light is all you get for catching the prize is an explosion)
Commands Console
AkimboEG provided this link from Left 4 Dead 411 for all the known console commands. Thanks dude.
www.dead4left411.com/l4d_cvar_list.pdf
www.dead4left411.com/l4d_cvar_list.pdf
Servers
PA L4D - Job's Server - 208.167.234.20427015
PA L4D - Job's Versus Server - 208.167.243.14527015
Penny-Arcade L4D Brains4Lyfe - 208.167.234.19327015
PA L4D Bigsebo's - 208.167.234.21627015
ZZPEAM HQ - 208.167.234.21727015
PA L4D - OMG A HUMO - 208.167.242.2727015
PA L4D - SSMAN's Dedicated Versus Server - 208.167.234.21927015
PA L4D - JonXP's Server - 8.12.64.22427015
Zedheads Coop Server @ thermo - 84.94.229.11527015
Password for all is Wang. If you want your server added to this list, please PM me as it'll probably get lost in the thread.
Alabastar Slim currently also has a dedicated server running for the demo.
The IP is alabaster.bounceme.net
You can connect with the console or if you find it in the server browser. There isn't a password but there is a unique search_index key so that it won't be populated by people who aren't specifically looking for it.
PS job's vs. server can now be joined from the lobby. The lobby host has to go into console and type sv_search_key wang, and start the server search as usual. If nobody's already on job's, then you should automatically be directed to his server.
Type sv_search_key to unload the 'job's only' filter.
PA L4D - Job's Versus Server - 208.167.243.14527015
Penny-Arcade L4D Brains4Lyfe - 208.167.234.19327015
PA L4D Bigsebo's - 208.167.234.21627015
ZZPEAM HQ - 208.167.234.21727015
PA L4D - OMG A HUMO - 208.167.242.2727015
PA L4D - SSMAN's Dedicated Versus Server - 208.167.234.21927015
PA L4D - JonXP's Server - 8.12.64.22427015
Zedheads Coop Server @ thermo - 84.94.229.11527015
Password for all is Wang. If you want your server added to this list, please PM me as it'll probably get lost in the thread.
Alabastar Slim currently also has a dedicated server running for the demo.
The IP is alabaster.bounceme.net
You can connect with the console or if you find it in the server browser. There isn't a password but there is a unique search_index key so that it won't be populated by people who aren't specifically looking for it.
PS job's vs. server can now be joined from the lobby. The lobby host has to go into console and type sv_search_key wang, and start the server search as usual. If nobody's already on job's, then you should automatically be directed to his server.
Type sv_search_key to unload the 'job's only' filter.
Suggestions Survival
- Fire friendly is ON at all times. Please try to remember this when moving around other infected. Accidents are bound to happen but most can be avoided by hugging walls and crouching if you decide to take the lead.
- Melee is your friend slash slash. This can give you some much needed points and also helps to wear down meleeing survivors
- You can high five other infected. Simply stand next to them and use your secondary function key, whatever that may be. This also applies to survivors but instead of high fives you'll hug them. Be careful when hugging as a tank though because you can kill your buddies
- More info on each boss survivor is above if you haven't read it already.
- Survivors should use their right click attack unless they want to distract, as it does more damage, hits multiple targets, and you stay completely silent when standing.
- Melee will free a smoker-constricted team member.
- Team members cannot take friendly fire damage when pinned or constricted.
Vs mode Scoring and Damage Info
Hitsuraptor wrote:I've done some experimenting and have worked out scoring in VS mode
Basically just kicked the bots and used gascans to hurt myself then noclip straight to the safe room, it was all pretty smooth sailing cept towards the end the director started spawning tanks right infront of the door, anyways
VS mode scoring and you! (in regards to health) Amended
Every 2 points of health is worth 1 point so making it to a saferoom with full health is worth 50
50 is the max points you can get per survivor (Full health with medpack or without doesn't matter it's still 50)
There is also no bonus for making it in with perfect health
100 health gives 50 points, 96 health still gives 48 points
An unused healthpack is worth the amount of points it would've healed for (Thanks Mars)
- Going into a saferoom with 4 health and no medpack gave me 2 points
- Going into a saferoom with 5 health and a medpack gave me 40 points
- Going into a saferoom with 49 health and a medpack gave me 44 points
- Going into a saferoom with 83 health and a medpack gave me 48 points
- Going into a saferoom with 17 health and a medpack gave me 41 points
Pills are worth 12-13 points
- At full health with pills I got 50 points
- At 5hp with pills I got 15 points
- Using the pills at 5hp (So I jumped to 54 including temp health) gave me 14points (It would've only ticked down 1or 2 before I got the door closed)
Below section might be slightly outdated.
PRËTËNTIÖü wrote: »Asiina and I just checked a bunch of things in Versus.
Normal infected do 2 from the front, 1 from the back. Hunter claw does 6, always, direction does not matter. BoomerSmoker claw does 2 damage always. Pounce is 5 per tick, so 20 'hits' takes down a full health person. Flaming pounce is harder to tell, it's like 5 per tick + a handful of change every hit from fire damage, but it seemed you go down in 9 'hits', so it's ~double damage. Flaming smoker has no benefit, and the smoker does 5 per tick as well, but the smoker 'hits' are slower than the hunters.
If you are incapped regular infected do ~10 per hit. Unsure about special infected claw damage if you are incapped, though.
Tank goes down in about 24 point blank shots from the autoshotty, but at a medium range the autoshotty only did like, 50 damage per shot, so that'd be ~12 clips. Hunting rifle does 90 per shot, M16 does ~1200 per clip.
The Achievements
For those who care about achievements, here they are for your viewing pleasure.
Awwww Lots'o pics
Problems with soundlooping, and you have an Nvidia graphics card
Don't update your drivers past 178.
Open the console, type mat_queue_mode. If its 1 or 2 switch it to -1 by typing mat_queue_mode -1
You can also try Go to processes in the task manager, right click Left4dead.exe, select Affinity, uncheck CPU 0
Zombie Atomic Piledriver (rotate stick 360º + P)
Kupi wrote:Well, that was... unexpected.
So here we are on No Mercy, not quite hopelessly behind but certainly unable to win. The survivors are up on the minigun area, and I'm a Hunter chilling out below, hoping to find an opportunity to go in without, y'know, getting myself ventilated. Then I see a silhouette coming toward me, yellow. I crouch. It's Zoey (played by DualEdge). She's got one leg over the wall. What the hell, I think. I go for it, and leap straight up.
Suddenly, we're airborne. Like, twenty in-game feet in the air. Up we go, for a moment we hover in midair (my hunter, of course, enthusiastically giving Zoey an exfoliation she'll never forget), and then we descend. Down through the barbed wire. Down onto the cold, wet, heartless concrete of No Mercy's ceiling.
KA-RACK! Zoey is dead.
No zombie is safe from Chicago Ted.
No human is safe from the ZOMBIE PILEDRIVER.
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Steam - Minty D. Vision!
Origin/BF3 - MintyDVision
But I still miss playing as Snipah
If you're not very good, fine. But if you're not very good and refuse to listen to all the good advice your team mates give you to stop you destroying our own team with stupidity, then get the hell out of my game.
I want someone to record that next time.
Doesn't matter though, we survived the round and then, with two boomer spawns, I made two 50+ hits barfs and we owned them.
But I'm lighting myself every time there's a fire nearby from now on.
After the first couple of minutes it ceased to be epic and creeped into tediousity. The bad thing about this game is that it can go from really immersive to 'oh hey i'm just juking out AI' very quickly.
edit, that's part of the reason I don't like defending in awkward areas on the finale. It feels really systematic to sit on the wing for a couple of minutes killing streamlined zombies.
That was a great vs. game. Hilarious ending too.
And I was the sole survivor of the Dead Air expert campaign, which makes a different from every single other time, where I am always the mysterious object of the tank's brutal affection.
edit: Iowa, it's 'Tedium'.
How many seconds does a flaming hunter live?
We was Left 4 Dead.
edit:
Flaming hunters live for ages.
Steam - Minty D. Vision!
Origin/BF3 - MintyDVision
It's 'Theater'. Also, you're bad at English.
Even better when it instantly incap's them.
That'll happen if they're at 1-25hp and they're in black and white.
Those are good times.
zombie butts
never get old
That is kind of an odd statement without the picture for context.
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Viewing the forums through rose colored glasses... or Suriko's Ye Old Style and The PostCount/TimeStamp Restoral Device
Unfortunately, the smoker is even more broken then he started out to be.
Smoker is better now. It's mostly psychological, because you aren't doing much more damage as smoker, but that extra damage seems to appear to be all that people need to feel effective.
I make it a point to, when I have time, shoot them specifically in their zombie asscheeks.
I disagree. Unless the team is ignoring his audio queues, running off on their own or foolishly looking in one direction, the smoker is rather useless.
The reason behind this is that the survivor needs to be clear of all obstruction, including zombies. Half the time, you can't even get a red bead on them anyways.
Other then the crescendo event on nm3 or car alarms, he's incapable of dolling out any decent damage.
Unfortunately he also sucks at this job.
Also it sucks when pubstomps turn into real games. Especially when you're not really paying attention so are playing Race 4 Dead, and then suddenly you're getting raped by a competent team.
I learned tonight that I suck ass as a hunter.
And if theres one thing...just ONE thing we can all take from this experience...its this...
GodDAMMIT The Wick!
Nah its all good. That was goddamn fun man. If youre not gunna act crazy and have fun then whats the point right?
Enemy Team: "Ok go in the house!"
Me: "OH SHIT RUN TO THE CORNFIELD HELP HELP!"
aahhh.....good times....
Since this was my first time playing with you guys, I had NO ability to put names with voices
so whenever someone said shit like that, i was like "ill go check" and it was a trap.
Asses
But it's quite awesome to have a tank protecting you from the infected while the APC sits nearby idling.
GT: Tanky the Tank
Black: 1377 6749 7425
I got Tank and knocked two of the survivors off the roof. Fun times.
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You know.. warming up your APC by idling for more than 30 seconds is just a waste of gas and excess emissions.
Kupi pounced me from 80HP to 0HP.
Hahah yes YEEEESSSSS. Damn that was some fun there. Havent done Versus much in this but I hope to be a part of em more often now.