Left4Dead:- New thread up

Zombie Monkey

Be sure to join Armadeaddon chat 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!

What is it?
Soon to be patched into the PC and Xbox versions of Left 4 Dead, survivor mode pits the 4 survivors against endless hordes until they die...awesome. When you start the game a timer goes off and continues until the last of your die, there are 16 maps in total, 15 from the game and 1 new one, a lighthouse.

Rooftops
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Lighthouse (Last Stand)
PC Time: 9:47
Echo
Toxic Cizzle
Mneme
Xzar

Xbox Time: 3:18
Skut Skut
LordNibbler

The Generator Room
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Xbox Time: 4:26
LordNibbler
Skut Skut
RedMageDarion

The Rooftop
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The Bridge
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The Terminal
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Xbox Time: 4:55
LordNibbler
Skut Skut
RedMageDarion

The Farmhouse
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Xbox Time: 6:47
LordNibble

The Warehouse
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The Drains
PC Time: 8:30
Zombie Monkey
Joeslop
Tejin
Subedii
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The Hospital
PC Time: 7:42
Zombie Monkey
Snazzy Pants
Zek
Zoeleft

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The Street
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The Church
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The Boathouse
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The Crane
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The Construction Site
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The Runway
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What is it?

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.

System Requirements for PC:

Minimum:
Supported OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Graphics: 128 MB, Shader model 2.0, ATI 9600, NVidia 6600 or better
Hard Drive: At least 7.5 GB of free space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Recommended:
Supported OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Graphics: Shader model 3.0, NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better

Steam Groups
Armadeaddon
Aussie/NZ PA + Friends


Console Commands
http://www.left4dead411.com/l4d_cvar_list.pdf

Servers
PA L4D - Job's Server #1 †
IP: 208.167.234.204:27015

PA L4D - Job's Versus Server †
IP: 208.167.243.145:27015

Penny-Arcade L4D Brains4Lyfe
IP: 208.167.234.193:27015

PA L4D - SSMans Server †
IP: 208.167.234.219:27015

PA L4D - Raoul Duke's Server †
IP: 208.167.247.233:27015

Password for all is wang.

Basic Survival Suggestions

* Friendly fire is ON at all times. Please try to remember this when moving around other survivors. Accidents are bound to happen but most can be avoided by hugging walls and crouching if you decide to take the lead.
* Team members cannot take friendly fire damage when pinned or constricted.
* Melee is your friend. This can give you some much needed breathing room and also separates nearby Infected from you so fellow survivors can shoot them easier. You can also melee in the middle of reloading, so when in doubt, melee.
* Boomers splash vomit upon death. Melee a Boomer before shooting to avoid being caught in the splash radius.
* Melee will free a pounced or Smoker-constricted team member.
* You can heal other survivors with med kits. Simply stand next to them with the med kit equipped and use your secondary function key, whatever that may be. This also applies to pain pills, which you hand to them. Be aware that doing so will switch whatever that survivor is holding for the pills. So try to hand them over when the survivor isn't in a combat situation.
* To stop an AI-controlled survivor from healing you, take out your own med kit.
* Hunters should use their right click attack unless they want to distract or pin, as it does more damage, hits multiple targets, and you stay completely silent when standing.

Information Compendium by Sol Invictus

The Left 4 Dictionary @ Hellforge

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

Zombie Monkey

Lots 'o Pics
NSF56K & HSCROLL

Reference: http://www.silverfishbooks.com/Silverfish/Version4/LitMagNews/images/devil_may_care.jpg







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCmBxlitYqI
















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5uHt4AwYb4

Kupi draws!

MrDelish draws?

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.

Lagnar

Awsome new thread. So has anyone tested out flaming hunters and how much damnage they do now? I remeber someone said it was the same as a normal pounce, and that it would be fixed so it did more but I wasent sure if it was just someone saying something for the hell of it.

SoaL

yessss my pictures survived another OP

I saw a flaming hunter pounce somebody and it definitely looked like more than a normal pounce, but not as speedy as before

Icemopper

Cool new thread!

I'm a fan of this game. It really has some of the most fun moments.

It also really has some of the least fun moments.

urahonky

I didn't know there were 21 months in a year.

Huh.

Also been far too long since I've played this game, and it saddens me.

Flippy_D

It's got better with patching.

Joeslop

Dear sirs or madams:

I got this game for my birthday and god damn it is fun. Please to be inviting me to the PA Steam group?

EDIT: Hooray I am a part of something again!

Goose!

PA Steam group isn't worth much, just for a link to the chat room really. That chat room is where, as the people on MTV Cribs often say, the magic happens.

Roland_tHTG

The obvious damage solution for a flaming hunter pounce would be the standard hunter damage plus the standard fire damage. But damn it was nice for a while to hit a >20 pounce on fire and incap a full health survivor sooo quickly.

Willeth

In order to christen the new thread, we just fucking destroyed a versus team on No Mercy. 6400-odd to 711.

RandomEngy

I definitely miss fire hunters. Sections of the map with fire were high points on both teams because burning screaming death is just great.

Iriah

the patch has fucked things up Australia-side

every player has >300ms ping

Zombie Monkey

New patch added a new server option

New server selection on lobby creation.

* Official Dedicated
* Best Available Dedicated
* Local

Iriah

all the games I have joined in progress have been like that, I'm not sure that's the problem

Echo

Iriah wrote: »

the patch has fucked things up Australia-side

every player has >300ms ping

Had something strange happen just now. I hosted locally due to the usual game of Lobby 4 Dead. Everything starts fine, I have 5ms ping, buddies have 30ish ms ping.

Something chokes and people get random bouts of 500 ms ping which then slowly crawls down to normal.

Dunno if it's something on my side (100/10 Mb/s connection) or something with the patch.

DarkPrimus

Did some versus with some PA folk just now and we owned so hard.

More people need to get on 360 if they have it.

Ninja Snarl P

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Did some versus with some PA folk just now and we owned so hard.

More people need to get on 360 if they have it.

I put the thing in almost every day and today was the first time in something like a week that I saw other PAers playing. Typically, I had to go in a few minutes so I couldn't pester them for an invite.

The lack of dedication shown to this game disgusts me; I am physically ill from the wishy-washiness shown by other players. Seriously, SFIV sucks*, so everybody needs to stop playing it right now and play L4D.

The evidence I have to back up this claim? Yeah, doesn't exist. Still, if you're picking SFIV over L4D, YOUR CHOICE IS WRONG!

Commissar Demosthenes

Fact: DA and DT versus are awesome.

More so when you're on Connery's team.

zimfan

yes I like new update

Sagaxus

More like Float4Dead am I right, or am I right?

Nappuccino

Hey Zombie Monkey, can you repost those other three or four "travel photo book" style pictures we took? I'd do it myself but I can't even find them...

theSquid

Has this been posted yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9f-VVQK3k

Fynath

theSquid wrote: »

Has this been posted yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9f-VVQK3k

Yeah, but it's been awhile, so I'd say it's perfectly okay.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo

Hey Raoul, thanks for rage quitting the PA vs game on NM1 with about a twenty point difference

Real class act right there

SoaL

posting on the internet about it is great too


i am angry because my ping is like 1200 and damn

hoping my isp sorts this out

Goose!

Ladies and Gentlemen, coming soon to a L4D thread near you....

The Silo Pounce

Someone quote my post please

GeoMitch

Goose! wrote: »

Ladies and Gentlemen, coming soon to a L4D thread near you....

The Silo Pounce

Someone quote my post please

I'm Louis

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Lagnar

GeoMitch wrote: »

Goose! wrote: »

Ladies and Gentlemen, coming soon to a L4D thread near you....

The Silo Pounce

Someone quote my post please

I'm Louis

Im also there. Goose made a 23 pounce and I bet you could get up to 25 easily up there. Its a little tough to get up but I imagine that when the survivors are in the corn field that it would be a good place to pounce from.

Roland_tHTG

I've gotteen a couple of 25 point pounces from there.

Pouncing over the shed into the yard is no problem at all.

tofu

Do the survivors still just came the corner in the BH finale?

Conan-san

tofu wrote: »

Do the survivors still just came the corner in the BH finale?

Urgh, fuck that courner if it's that exploit courner where you have to jump onto it a given way to get on it.

Seriously, the number of times I've been killed becuase they use that courner and then won't signal for help is agrovating.

tofu

No, the corner by the healthpacks. I don't know what you're talking about.

Conan-san

There's a courner in one of the finales that the survivors can jump onto that none of the infected can get onto. I Might not even be thinking of that Scinario, mind. It's the one with the boat rescue.

Garthor

tofu wrote: »

Do the survivors still just came the corner in the BH finale?

Yes. Only now, if you boomer them just as the tank comes (so they can't hear the music), you get some hilarious funtime quadruple-survivor juggling.

Willeth

Conan-san wrote: »

There's a courner in one of the finales that the survivors can jump onto that none of the infected can get onto. I Might not even be thinking of that Scinario, mind. It's the one with the boat rescue.

That's Death Toll.

Figgy

Um, new campaigns?

http://www.fileplanet.com/fileblog/archives/2009/03/entry_1366.shtml

Erin The Red

Good game last night to my 360 buddies. It's strange how it goes from being us utterly raping the other team, and then as time goes on, they each leave, only to be replaced by MUCH better players. Were it not for the massive stockpile of points we had built up from the weak ones in the beginning, I think we would have lost to those guys.

Zombie Monkey

Figgy wrote: »

Um, new campaigns?

http://www.fileplanet.com/fileblog/archives/2009/03/entry_1366.shtml

Just playing death aboard now, fantastic levels

Flippy_D

Yeah?

I was planning on waiting to see what levels gained repute before playing any, but maybe...

edit: okay, I'm gonna download Death Abroad, Dead City and Nawina City, and let you guys know my expert and esteemed opinion.

Also the remington skin is pretty.

edit 2: Wow, Fileplanet is lame.