In this topic we discuss Left 4 Dead

I'm pretty fucking horrible at the game, not terrible to the point where you wouldn't want to play with me but in all honesty zombies usually end up beating on me like a hobo beats his dick after find the sears catalog bra section. part of it is my tendency to wander off and tryng to "flank" zombies because crouching and shootng as a team eventually bores my ADD self.

corey is pretty fun to play with, he comes up with "strategies" and shit

I would love to join in one, but I need to find my headset first.

This game is kinda pointless to play single player, isn't it?

I didn't want to say anything, but yeah, you do suck.

@jay: Single player is damn near impossible on expert.

Oh, I beat dead air the other night. There are a couple of shortcuts that make it pretty easy. Easier than No Mercy, at least.

@corey i think i just need to be more patient is all, i've been weened on too much quake and doom, I THINK I'M GETTING BETTER THOUGH

@twigby: At least you pay attention to what's happening to your other team mates. I haven't really seen you wander off on your own, either.

When I was playing through Dear Air, this one guy kept running off on his own. Granted, he had the most zombie kills pretty much every time, but he also had like 3 or 4 more deaths than the rest of us.

And speaking of the stats, I wish they'd show the stuff that I find important: special zombie kills/assists/etc. The normal zombie kills don't really matter.

I haven't played death toll at all, I don't think.

I've played through blood harvest in versus, though.

And some other guys and I DID beat no mercy on expert, but only one guy got to the chopper, so I think he's the only one that got the achievement.

yeah normal zombie kills can mean anything

damage taken to me is probably the main stat i care about in terms of gauging how well your doing though with FF it's a little iffy. I was doing a 0 on dead air the other day till my teammate point blaked me with the hunting rifle.

i also wish the weapon balance was a little better, i kind of find the tier 2 shot gun underwhelming and the rifle only really good when you have teammates willing to cover you. there's almost 0 incentive to not have a team of 4 assault rifles.

oh yeah this game was made to have ff on, that said, it sucks when you have grifers/general tards

my problem with the shotgun is reload time especially when the horde comes though i've since learned that the melee bash is pretty fucking effective

@twigby: also, you can reload while bashing. It's... amazing.

yah too many people use the "good" weapons way too much, playing with good people i've learned that you can get past good chunks of the game using bash/double pistols fairly effortlessly and conserve your ammo for shit like tanks and hordes and such.

It's like... *PIPE BOMB*

doot...doot...doot doot doot BOOM.

One zombie down. woo!

i was playing with my cousin and his friends first time on no mercy, during the elevator horde we stood in front of the elevator doors to fight them off which ended up with me throwing a desperation tov that burned us all and comments of "oh man worst tov ever"

I just got to play last night and liked it a lot.

But I'm a console cretin, so I won't be able to join you.

I mean, seriously, isn't that what single-player campaigns are for?

I'm only playing on 360. :-(

@jas: It runs on the same engine as TF2, I believe, so it should handle similarly. You might run into issues with lag due to horde-mobs. There tends to be a lot of bodies moving at any given moment.