Left 4 Dead 2- DLC and Mutation Selector Hitting July 24th. Woo-Hoo!

**fUNC** · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Milwaukee

Now that round 2 of the best co-op shooter on the market has hit stores, I thought I'd follow the tradition of the first thread and expand it to include everything L4D2-related. Whether you're looking for tips on getting an achievement, wanting to play a casual game or two, looking for people to play with that don't quit mid-match, or need help getting through a campaign, this is the place to go. For general information about the game, skip to the bottom.

Update: If you're playing on the 360, send a friend request to leftscoredead, which is a metatag that should make it much easier to keep track of everybody. I'll still maintain a list here in the OP, but from here on out we'll be organizing SH nights by sending invites to whoever is on the GT's friend list. Thanks to Romanczuk for setting it up and making this a hell of a lot simpler.

For the SH league, I thought we'd do it much the same as last year and post replies to this thread with our Gamertags/Steam IDs while adding times that we'd be available. Once we get a general idea of when most of us will be on, we'll start up a Versus, Scavenge, and Survival game or two each week, with a possible Gamebattles-like tournament down the line if enough people sign up. Once we figure the small stuff out, I'll add it right here in the OP. To start off, I'll list a few GTs that have already expressed interest in the L4D1 thread and we can go from there.

X360

ScoreHero name/Gamertag

fUNC- Samsa3
CloudFuel- Cloudfuel
DarkKnight720- JFallis
Sarg338- PRS Sarg
FreeXBird- AveryVeljohnson
Kaflagemeir- Kaflagemeir
Garwood- X Garwood X
GuitarHailz- GuitarHailz
DeuxExProcella- Consanguinity
Inv4der- INV4DER
MuDvAyNe- oXMuDvAyNeXo
HLGTwoface- RenegadeTWOFACE
MrYumYum- MrLeeChang16
soundbarrier4- soundbarrier4SH

PC

TehBanStick- TehBanStick
supectfenster-suspectfenster (display name- fenster)
Kingofterrors- Koterrors
Koppis- Koppis
RawrSpoon- RawrSpoon
clawmaster2- clawmaster2

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About the Game

Metacritic Average: 90/100

First, a warning: if you don't plan on playing the game locally with friends or over Live/Steam, you're missing out on 90% of the game's appeal.

From EA's website-

**TehBanStick** · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 2709

Steam: TehBanStick
Times: Afternoons, late-night weekends.
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**FreeXBird** · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 2485

I have to say, Hard Rain was my favorite campaign thus far. I'm playing them in order, and this was probably my favorite out of both games, albeit I haven't played The Parish. I thought Dead Center was pretty good, although I thought the ending was kind of corny. I had high hopes for Dark Carnival, but they weren't reached. While it was a fun campaign, it wasn't a whole lot of what the hype gave me. I mainly disliked the ending on this one too. Swamp Fever was pretty good. While it didn't have anything that amazed me, it was an overall solid campaign to play. And Hard Rain, what can I say. It's ingenious on so many levels. First it's the going to the end then back. Secondly, the hard storms are great. They make you actually feel like you're in an intense situation. And lastly, the abundance of witches. Playing the campaign on easy, I think I got around 15-20 witches.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't have the first two campaigns, they just weren't what I expected.

**suspectfenster** · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1771 Location: Portland, OR

I've only played one campaign so far, and one Versus match. I can't believe I'm saying it, but I can't seem to pull myself away from Scavenge. It's so damn fun! Me and some buddies just wrapped up a 3-4 hour session of purely Scavenge...I don't know what it is but it's incredibly addicting. I enjoy the variety of strategies you see employed, as well as how huge a difference there can be between rounds.

For instance, the last game we played, we lost the first round 16-8. Yeah, they got all the cans. The next game we won, 15-10, so they went first as survivors. We somehow managed to shut them out - zero cans. We briskly got one can in the tank and won the whole thing. That last 10 seconds of the shut-out was some of the funnest gameplay I can recall in a good while. I love this game.

Steam: suspectfenster (display name fenster)
I'm usually on afternoon or at night, sporadically throughout the week.
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**Garwood** · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 720

I will be playing frequently but I already have a team of friends that I play Left4Dead almost exclusively with. If you see me around send me an invite and I'll probably join unless I'm playing with them.
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

I could always use more L4D2 friends to play with. My GT is my SH name.

I'll be sharing the game with my fiance, DeusExProcella on ScoreHero (GT: Consanguinity). His friend list has a bit more room than mine does if you want to play with us :P (if he is online playing, 99% chance I am playing with him).

As far as the game itself, it seems a LOT harder to me this time around. I don't want to think about what Expert realism look like. 0_o I even had to switch to easy to learn the levels or I'd be too frustrated with getting lost and incapped/killed. I wasn't exactly good at L4D, but I could beat campaigns on Normal in about a half hour always. But this time around it's taking me much longer and its much more intense and rage-inducing. I guess I should blame all the new special infected. :P And maybe sucking more...

Either way it's pretty fun and I feel like I got more for my money this time around. Haven't played versus yet, but I hope to dive into that and the other new mode soon enough. Hope to see some of you out there in the new apocalypse...
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**inv4der** · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 9656 Location: Meridian, ID

You can add me to the list of people willing to play. I'm INV4DER on XBL.
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**fUNC** · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Milwaukee

Done and done. I think I've had you three on my FL since the L4D1 days but, outside of one skirmish that I played against Hailz, we haven't actually played side-by-side.

I ran through Versus on Dead Center and Swamp Fever last night, and two things stood out. One, people have yet to realize that the new melee weapons can and do hurt your teammates. It's definitely less than the equivalent damage on an Infected, which borders on unfair sometimes, but I had more than a few accidental incaps last night in the melee-heavy first two levels of DC. Secondly, I started to appreciate just how much more balanced this game is compared to its predecessor. Choke points are limited to one per level, very few levels have cars for the Tank to smack around and insta-incap a team, and the fact that you're having a team of four people switch between seven different Infected classes leads a certain unpredictability to the game that wasn't present in the first title. Assuming the game keeps gaining steam (I've seen more and more people on each night I've logged in), this should stick around for quite a while.

It seems like everybody's leaning towards either mid-Saturday or sometime Monday through Thursday afternoon for the SH nights so far. Personally, I'm kinda partial to Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday afternoon (say, 5 CST). How does everybody else feel?
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**MuDvAyNe** · Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 1577 Location: St. Peters, MO

360GT: oXMuDvAyNeXo

play a lot late at night
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**Kingofterrors** · Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 1993 Location: Odenton, MD

I would like to play some campaign with some people. L4d 1 and 2.

Whats with all the noobs on x360.

PC.

My Steam is Koterrors
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**CloudFuel** · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 1030 Location: Houston, TX

Scavenge FTW! I don't know what the deal is.. but I actually love scavenge more than regular versus right now... this is what survival mode was hoping to be (a quick online game short & fun) but fell short on the fun part.

For me, Friday/Saturday nights are good... but I'm on alot anyways.. so whatev...
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**suspectfenster** · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1771 Location: Portland, OR

**TehBanStick** · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 2709

So yeah I just got into skin modding in this game and though I haven't made anything good at this moment, I will eventually.
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**fUNC** · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Milwaukee

So I've been having some rather insane lag issues lately. First, I turned off torrents and firewalls the first time it happened and did a speed test- 1.7mb down, 500k up, hardwired- should be ideal conditions. Got back on, was fine at first, then it started creeping up again. I smoothed out my CAT6 cable (there was a slight 130 degree crimp near the system) just in case the pinch was screwing with it... nothing. Then Garwood sent me a VM saying that he was having the same problems. Cloudfuel and namehtmas were having the same problems last night, so between the four of us, I'm pretty sure the either XBL or Valve's servers are just fucking up. Looking through the official L4D forums turned up next to nothing- has anybody else had issues lately?
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**Strykerx** · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3110 Location: Pants

When I got the game I tried playing with 2 friends on a dedicated server and it was just completely unplayable. A good 3 seconds of lag to every thing you do. So we just stick to local servers and it plays perfectly.
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