Topic: Server Babble - Left 4 Dead

[kerchief]

Now, the question is, can people *not* using the key join a lobby that's been created by a someone who did?

yes, but if you return to lobby or beat the campaign (returning to lobby), people will not be able to enter the lobby without invitation or having you on their friends list.  Gotta remake the lobby every time.

Oh, forgot to mention.  The relobby (as I shall call the broken thingy that I mentioned above) doesn't allow people to join from the normal join random lobby commands, but one the game has begun people can use other methods such as quickmatch to join in the fun quite randomly.

[ORANGEKID]

I don't have a clue what was going on last night, but we simply could not get past the 3rd chapter of Blood Harvest, its always that damn 3rd chapter it happened on Dead Air as well.

I tried Blood Harvest again with another group of buddies a few hours later, and we beat it, not easily of course, only one of our guys survived.

Anyway, I'm going to try and play on one of our servers tonight and try for that expert achievement, I hope others will join me! Dj what happened!?!? I thought you liked L4D! Joooooooooin me!

[mentok1982]

Anyway, I'm going to try and play on one of our servers tonight and try for that expert achievement, I hope others will join me! Dj what happened!?!? I thought you liked L4D! Joooooooooin me!

I was going to play some MGS4 tonight, but if you are playing expert tonight, I want in.

[mentok1982]

I got through Death Toll last night on Expert and got my first expert achievement.

I want to play some mroe tonight, but I don't feel the need to play a campaign game on expert.
I am basically up for whatever...

[nanaki254]

the new update supposedly fixed the lobby issue where the leader would choose one level, then the server plays it with another level of difficulty.

as well as the lag spikes between lvls =D

[Stormgren]

Given I'm not doing my own personal Boomer-spew impression, I'll probably be on later tonight.

Servers have been updated on my side as well, they apparently didn't auto-restart like they're supposed to.

[mentok1982]

Got me some suhweet achievements last night.

Play through a campaign with only pistol and play through a campaign without getting incapacitated
I earned at the same time.

Later in a VS game I got the tank achievement for killing all 4 survivors. I also earned the pounce
two different Survivors on one life as a Hunter one as well.

I am pretty sure I will be on again tonight. See yall in the lobby.

[mentok1982]

A few nights ago against incredible odds I managed to get to the saferoom in VS mode...

It was VS mode in No Mercy and my team was playing as the survivors. In the previous chapters my team (Most of us were CP players and I know ClydeFrog was on my team.) had managed to get all 4 survivors to the saferoom and we had stopped all of the other team's survivors from getting to the saferoom.

But this time, it was different.

We were in the sewer tunnel approaching the ladder that goes up to the street outside the saferoom when we heard the sounds of an approaching tank. The tank dropped down the hole and started destroying us. Clyde and the others were knocked down and they were bleeding out. I got off my 1.5 clips with my assault rifle before a hunter pounced on me and start tearing me to shreds.

There was no way for me to get back up.

My teammates were on the ground and too far away to shoot the hunter that was killing me. Then the tank approached me and made a huge mistake.

He threw a rock at me...

Which killed the hunter on top of me, tossed me backwards and brought my health down to about 30 but the important thing was that I was now standing up and able to defend myself. Because I was launched a good distance by the rock, I was far away from the tank and close to the ladder.

I quickly decided to go for the ladder...

As I was climbing I got stalled by a regular zombie that was falling down the hole. This gave the enemy boomer below me (that I did not know was there) an opportunity to vomit on me. I reached the surface and I was greeted by about a dozen zombies. I lashed out at them furiously with melees and bullets until I felt like I could successfully throw my pipe bomb.

I threw the pipe bomb...

This caused enough zombies to leave me alone that I could melee the rest and begin limping to the saferoom building. With 10 health I made it to the building's entrance where I was greeted by about 7 docile zombies between me and the saferoom door. They were docile...until the boomer vomited on me again. Somehow I managed to get past them and to the saferoom door while only loosing 3 health. I slammed the saferoom door shut and the enemy tank that had been following me began trying to beat the door down. But he was too late. He had made his mistake which allowed me to make it to the saferoom with 7 health left.

Then it was only a matter of waiting for ClydeFrog to actually die. Since their team was busy trying to keep me from getting to the saferoom, they had left Clyde on the ground back down in the sewer.

I was jubilant, breathless, my nerves were shot and my adrenaline was pumping. It the most thrilling and awesome experience that I have ever had in a video game.

[bad easy]

  wow.  you lucky bastard.  good story.

[nanaki254]

i joined in on [/] clan playing and since me and the clan were killing the other team in versus, we chose to do a free for all race, farthest wins... it was hilarious. we shoudl totally try it some time xD

[mentok1982]

I was not well the last few days but I am feeling better today.

I hope some of you will play a game with me tonight.

[ORANGEKID]

Got the "What are you trying to prove?" achievement last night, hurray for me!

[mentok1982]

I found a glitch that I want to try out tonight.

Rocket jumping in Left 4 Dead:
http://kotaku.com/5118963/gatling-glitch--rocket-jump

Step 1: Melee the mounted machine gun a lot
Step 2: Jump on top of the gun
Step 3: Enjoy the ride as you fly off in the direction the gun is pointed!

[kerchief]

I did that last night on Death Toll.  Let's you skip that major horde called by the forklift.  I also watched someone launch themself past me right out of the map as I was ditching them to run for the safe room.

[bad easy]

it's okay, ker, you can say it was me.    i basically launched myself straight up and then plummeted to my death.  our cohort did it the right way.. he went off the end of the gun, i went off the back.

oddly enough, i got the "Stand Tall" achievement for that campaign.  i may have died, but i was never incapacitated