Left4Dead:- Hunter hugs and Smoker tugs and Boomer bile that's filled with love

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.



No Mercy

The Generator Room
PC Time:15:22
Icemopper
RolandtHTG
CarbonFire
Geomitc

Xbox Time: 7:00
Skulskul
LocalHJay
KrisxX

The Gas Station
PC Time: 12:13
Brian
Zombie Monkey
CarbonFire
Exis

Xbox Time:

The Hospital
PC Time: 13:07
Originate
MPK
Origianl Syn
Kezzerdrixx

Xbox Time:8:51
Matrius

Rooftops
PC Time: 14:36
Fynath
Caper
Ssynesthesia
Tyson

Xbox Time:

Death Toll

The Drains
PC Time: 23:10
Icemopper
Roland_tHTG
Aneurhythmia
m4v1s

Xbox Time:

The Church
PC Time: 12:49
Rawbur
Caper
Fynath
Ssynesthesia

Xbox Time:

The Street
PC Time: 12:50
Ogah
Scurn
Bishizel
Ellic

Xbox Time:

The Boathouse
PC Time: 14:35
KV_Mendicant
Hextra
TheGypsy
Redfiercare

Xbox Time:

Dead Air

The Crane
PC Time: 12:09
Zombie Monkey
Rakayn
Varicose Veins
Dickstick

Xbox Time:

The Construction Site
PC Time: 11:08
Zombie Monkey
Brian
Endaro
Blurbl

Xbox Time:

The Terminal
PC Time:

Xbox Time: 4:55
LordNibbler
Skut Skut
RedMageDarion

The Runway
PC Time: 10:35
RogueKnight

Xbox Time:

Blood Harvest

The Warehouse
PC Time: 14:26
Iowa
DetectiveGnome
Littleboots
Zek

Xbox Time: 8:40
P0nd4sh

The Bridge
PC Time: 24:49
Zombie Killing King of Chicago
Nailbunny
Aneurythmia
Icy

Xbox Time:


The Farmhouse
PC Time: 14:57
Wickedkarma
MPK
Originate
Angry Wombat

Xbox Time: 6:47
LordNibble

Last Stand

Lighthouse (Last Stand)
PC Time: 14:38
Malaviel
Ogah
Theystolemyname
Bishizel


Xbox Time: 6:05
Lighthouse
Skulskul
LocalHJay
KrisxX

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.

MeepZero

Anyone play the new VS maps yet? I'm totally jumping on that shit tonight.

Zombie Monkey

Only got as far as survival last night

Dr.Tongue

OP is such a bad player he should be banned from playing L4D.

Zombie Monkey

Dr.Tongue wrote: »

OP is such a bad player he should be banned from playing L4D.

Where in all gods name did you get to last night? You dissapeared

I got some awesome times tho

Peewi

Because people need to post in this so Valve might notice it:

Peewi wrote: »

I made a thread on the L4D forums saying that it'd be nice to have group leaderboards.

Also, a screenshot of my only gold medal so far: http://i39.tinypic.com/25s1ugz.jpg.

Dr.Tongue

Peewi wrote: »

Because people need to post in this so Valve might notice it:

Peewi wrote: »

I made a thread on the L4D forums saying that it'd be nice to have group leaderboards.

Also, a screenshot of my only gold medal so far: http://i39.tinypic.com/25s1ugz.jpg.

I'm honestly surprised a group leader board did not make it in.

Monkey my pc blew up so I did not get to play much. I did get 9:20ish on the DA crane event. Now I just need to figure out out to take pictures so I can prove how awesome I am.

Zombie Monkey

f5 tongue

I got 8:30 on drains anda couple of 7min plusses, havent found any exploits yet

Willeth

Man, we had 3:58 on Last Stand on Xbox with myself, another PAer, a friend and a random. No proof though.

The_Scarab

You know I was thinking. If we are going to have Leaderboards for a game that has been out for like 6 months, can't you just do away with half the OP nonsense and just have a link to the old thread's op. I don't wanna have to load all that shit every time I check the scores, even on my fast connection. You know you put NSF56k on the 'lots of pics' spoiler but they still load.

nexuscrawler

Will have to wait till I get home for a screen but I got like 14:00 in the terminal with a bunch of random people

Hitsuraptor

The Drains 11:55.77

Get that time up there, (there's also a whole bunch of times on the last two/three pages of the old thread from other people)

Dr.Tongue

The crane event seems fairly easy to abuse. There is a spot you can stand in where you can get the special infected to spawn in the apartment around 90% of the time and tanks are too dumb to get out.

Zek

IMO when they fix these bugs/exploits they should just cut down any time above gold to exactly 10 minutes and let people get them again. Otherwise the leaderboards are really going to suck.

GPIA7R

Got a cool 7:30-ish on Last Stand on my own with three CPU's. Strategic spamming of molotovs and gas cans, woo.


Getting REAL tired of the crash I get after playing for 40-50 minutes. Just crashes to a constant sound loop with a solid color on the monitors. Can't get out of it, have to restart PC.

Zek

Yeah it really isn't that hard to get Gold times if you use everything available to you intelligently, saving all your pipes/molotovs to keep zombies off your back during a tank fight.

Fencingsax

Man, I really need to get back into the swing of things. Last night my times were minuscule compared to you guys'

Dissociater

I'm going to give the new vs maps a try tonight or tomorrow. Survival was a hell of a good time, but to be honest, I don't see myself playing that mode all that much, especially once I get the gold medal. For me, I like to have a goal in games. Survival as a goal isn't enough, I like to know that if I'm good I can win. There's no way to win in survival mode haha. But in the short term, it is fun.

I hope they release the SDK soon, or at least some more campaigns, because that's what the game really needs imo, a bunch more campaigns.

Edit: On the plus side, survival's the first game type you can really play a quick game in without feeling like you're abandoning your teammates.

SovietMudkipz

Survival is all kinds of brutal. I was playing on Lighthouse yesterday with GS and a few others and every wall in the map breaks down in some form. Every attempt we made to develop a strategy was counteracted by the tank. They spawn almost immediately after the last one dies.

We barely scraped bronze. I don't know how I'm going to beat nearly 10 minutes.

Arikado

I have to get back on this.

Peewi

Woo! Got bronze on everything. Maybe I should try some DA or DT VS.

Sheep

Every pubbie I played with last night has the horrible habit of wasting mollies and pipe bombs.

DeMoN

I have absolutely no interest in the new versus maps. Maybe if they had been new instead of maps I've already played through a million times.

And survival fucking rules.

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DeMoN

Well, it doesn't help that I despise versus in the first place.

Icemopper

I love the new vs maps and survival mode.

I think I'm a Left 4 Dead whore...

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Mr Obersmith

I think I've only ever played DT once in campaign so it's basically new to me. Same thing with DA.

Kris_xK

A PA L4D Group Leaderboards:

In order to get on this list, you must add "A PA L4D Group" to your Flist. I'll be doing these periodically, I dunno if its easier this way for Zombie or not.

It seems most of the 360 players were paying VS last night, so not a lot of action. Some good times tho.

Lighthouse: A lot of bronzes, but nothing spectacular... yet.

Generator Room: I still say the upstairs walkway is the best spot.

The Hospital: Two silvers from different runs it looks like.

The Warehouse: So either P0nd4sh did this solo or did it with a pub. I'm not sure which is more impressive.

Satsumomo

I like the new Vs. maps right now, because we're still currently finding out how to use certain areas to our advantage. You have to approach these maps differently than how you approach them in Campaign mode, which makes it a new experience for anyone.

NailbunnyPD

mcdermott wrote: »

DeMoN wrote: »

I have absolutely no interest in the new versus maps. Maybe if they had been new instead of maps I've already played through a million times.

And survival fucking rules.

I haven't played them through a million times in versus, though, so I'm excited. It helps that I largely avoided playing them since in versus since launch, even though you could, because I wanted to wait until they were done "right."

Even if you have played them, going through and recognizing the changes is pretty cool.

Willeth

Lighthouse 360 leaderboard right now. No idea if those three were playing with another dude who isn't on my friends list. Went in to retrieve proof for our time and lost significantly :P

EDIT: Whoops, missed Kris's post above.

IDDQD

Just a curious question.. Are there global leaderboards present in the PC version? All I'm able to see are my friends. Just a side note. I just launched the game and it applied yet another patch (I got the full patch yesterday minutes after it was released), any ideas as to what this was? The patch notes were non existent.

theantipop

Not that I don't get why people exploit survival, but it's pretty stupid to exploit a map to get a 30minute or what-have-you time since you're never end up doing anything exciting to get it. Honestly, the golds I have gotten have been cake compared to the times I've only made it to bronze or silver, but like others said it comes down to where you hole up and how you use your items. It's fun as hell fighting 2 tanks while dodging smokers and hunters 8-)

One question for Survival though, does fire do actual damage like in VS or does it start a rolling death timer like in campaign (or has this all changed since I last played heavily)?

e: IDDQD, I think a PC global board would be filled with nothing but exploit or bugged out times right now.

LordNibbler

Kris_xK wrote: »

A PA L4D Group Leaderboards:

In order to get on this list, you must add "A PA L4D Group" to your Flist.

Added myself: JP Browncoat.

Tertiee

I also recived the mini-update shortly after the large one. Notes are on Steam's site now but it looks like it is just minor bug fixing.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/2434/

CarbonFire

DeMoN wrote: »

Well, it doesn't help that I despise versus in the first place.

New VS maps won't sure this. VS is still VS no matter where you're doing it.

Also, since these threads are likely going to be image-HEAVY, maybe we should put a hard limit on how big the images can be (like 800X600)? All of the image hosting sites provide a resize function when you upload, so saying you don't have the necessary tools to resize the images isn't an excuse :P

I have a fast enough connection to download them all, but having every single spoiler tag H / V-rape the thread gets a little tiring (or at least it will as more people start posting times).

Peewi

IDDQD wrote: »

Just a curious question.. Are there global leaderboards present in the PC version? All I'm able to see are my friends. Just a side note. I just launched the game and it applied yet another patch (I got the full patch yesterday minutes after it was released), any ideas as to what this was? The patch notes were non existent.

That would probably be this update. It would seem that right clicking a game and choosing "update news" only shows major updates, so always try going to the store and look at the news there.

No, there doesn't seem to be a global leaderboard on Steam, but is a global leaderboard really neccesary? It is stupid that there's no group leaderboard, which is why you'll go here and post that you want it.

TL DR

I will be on for some Survival Mode around 3:30 EST. PM me if there's a team slot open or message Dio Brando on steam.

SkutSkut

I can't decide if I'm going to play some survival or Castle Crashers today.