Left 4 Dead

[sleepyhead]

There's quite a funny glitch that revolves around it.
Before you use the radio alerting the horde, bash the minigun for just over a minute, then if you jump on top of it you bounce pretty high, and if you've bashed the minigun the correct amount you can end up on top of the plane's wing. But if you bash it too much you end up being propelled to the other side of the map and get incapped by the fall

Didn't seem to work for TAKTAK and I on the PC version of L4D.

I have a growing hate for the AI team mate bots...when I approached a witch to kill her (as she is in the way..and its fun trying to single shot them) the AI bot threw me pills...so two things happen. 1 - I startle the witch, 2 - I am trying to kill her with a packet of pills.

[Stephen C]

Didn't seem to work for TAKTAK and I on the PC version of L4D.

Think PC users probably got the patch a while before the Xbox did,
anyhow, here's a list of changes/fixes.

General
Fixed Survivors being able to climb surfaces marked for versus infected only
Fixed a class of SurvivorBot bugs dealing with rescuing downed players
Players can no longer grab ladders while flying through the air after a Tank punch
Shooting near a car with an alarm that has already fired the alarm will no longer make chirping noises
Fixed mini-gun physics exploit
Fixed propane tanks (and other physics objects) causing players to fall through elevators
Fixed rare achievement bug issues
Fixed several map exploits

Versus Changes
Added HUD elements to show status of other infected players
Fixed instance where a Survivor changing to the infected team would be attacked by infected bots
Normalized special infected melee damage
Fixed exploit where infected players could run away and teleport back to gain health
Players can only change teams once per map
Players can't change teams while other players are still loading
Tank spawns at the same % through the map for both teams in versus mode
Made the Tank and Witch spawn directly on the escape route
Increased chance of getting the Tank or Witch
Fixed team swap issue

Hunter
Easier to pounce a Survivor who is meleeing
Increased Minimum damage a Hunter pounce does

Smoker
Fixed Smoker tongue tolerance
Smoker now has to be killed or the tongue destroyed for the tongue to break
Survivors cannot bash someone off the tongue until the Survivor being pulled is paralyzed or hanging
Tongue attacks that fail to paralyze or hang a Survivor will use the shorter ability delay timer
Fixed cases where the ability timer was not using the correct time
Fixed case where you could point at a Survivor but not register a tongue hit
Fixed Smoker tongue not targeting and landing properly through PZ ghosts
Smoker tongue does damage every second while dragging paralyzed Survivors

Tank
Bashable objects now appear with a red glow
Tanks hitting a car with an alarm disables the alarm permanently
Tank frustration timer is only reset by hitting Survivors with rocks or fists
Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks

Witch
Witch spawns at the same % through the map for both teams
Avoids spawning within a certain % of the tank
Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors

[sleepyhead]

Fixed an exploit where the Witch could be woken up and tricked into attacking Survivors

Really? Am pretty sure I have set the witch off 2 or 3 times while as infected Much fun watching the panic ensue when witch comes running at the survivors (even better when the witch incaps a survivor )

They still need to fix the fact that some servers set up for "normal" game will pause as it's waiting for the infected/survivor to "ready up" and there for the game is now a Versus match. Played VS with 2 humans on Dead Air like that. Much fun (though glitchy with missing textures).

[samcross]

Tank
Reduced autoshotgun damage against Tanks

Oooh er

Does anyone else think they should include the effects of momentum in the damage of Hunter pounces?
Its just that I've pounced survivors from the top of buildings before without doing any damage because I'm shot straight away, would be good if it had a bit more of an effect.

[sleepyhead]

Oooh er

Does anyone else think they should include the effects of momentum in the damage of Hunter pounces?
Its just that I've pounced survivors from the top of buildings before without doing any damage because I'm shot straight away, would be good if it had a bit more of an effect.

Hmm, I dont think survivors would last long as the Hunter once pounced an opponent, incaps them straight away and if the Hunter does uber damage on the pounce, it'll make the hunter almost a 1 man hero team. As it is, the Hunter and Smoker are ambush characters and that's how I like to play it. Find somewhere out the way, follow the survivors and depending on who does what to upset the coherency of the survivors I pounce on the first victim who strays too far...I may not kill them but I'd damage them for awhile. Too often in publics do you see "solo hero" hunters...jump in, pounce and die instantly without damaging the survivor. However if the survivors are all packed in and you can punce from above, the effect of pounce has a knock back effect which allows other characters, like Boomer, to get in close and do his bit and if he explodes, more knock back and the original pounced is still tearing away

[samcross]

As it is, the Hunter and Smoker are ambush characters and that's how I like to play it.

Yeah but the problem with that is that hardly anyone seems to wants to bloody talk, making decent ambushes possible.

The only time the Hunter can be effective on its own is in places like where you drop down into the cornfield on blood harvest (towards the end) If one of the survivors falls behind, you can pounce them and they have no chance of rescue because they're hidden from the other survivor's line of sight.

[TAKTAK]

theres loads of places for hunters you just have to adapt to the situation at hand

[format]

Protip - set yourself on fire as a hunter, you do a TON of extra damage.

[Buzzsaw]

1 - I startle the witch, 2 - I am trying to kill her with a packet of pills.

LOL.
I'll have to try that, just for the look on someone (elses) face. Or their voice or whatever.

I've noticed that theres a hexus server, is anyone interested in a game at a set time/day on a regular basis?

Monday nights at 7 with some of my friends and I, as an example.

[sleepyhead]

Protip - set yourself on fire as a hunter, you do a TON of extra damage.

Molotovs are a Hunter's best friend

Had another epic moment with TAKTAK last night. We were messing around on Dead Air on easy (how easy is easy??!!). Anyway we were just tank hunting at the end; the plane was ready to go. We managed to lure a tank into the plane with us As the cut scene rolled the tank fell out the bottom of the plane

Why can't we take the tank back home with us?

[Gr44]

Lets have a hexus L4D versus game!! :-)

I could probably setup a L4D server on my old P4 machine, I'd imagine that would run it fine... got 1.5mbps upstream so anyone in the UK should get decent ping!

What'd you say?

[e-LAN-go]

I think they need to reduce the flaming hunter damage as it's a bit overpowered imo, although I do like exploiting it myself ha.

[format]

I think they need to reduce the flaming hunter damage as it's a bit overpowered imo, although I do like exploiting it myself ha.

It is a wee bit overpowered, but you also lose any stealth capabilities.

[GoNz0]

Lets have a hexus L4D versus game!! :-)

I could probably setup a L4D server on my old P4 machine, I'd imagine that would run it fine... got 1.5mbps upstream so anyone in the UK should get decent ping!

What'd you say?

hexus has a dedicated L4D, no one came forward to admin it though ?

so long as your in the hexus steam group you can join it.

[Main]

A few of us (me, Sleepyhead and TAKTAK) tried the Hexus server last weekend but it was a bit rough connection wise for all 3 of us, and it liked to boot everybody out on each map change

[Zadock]

hexus has a dedicated L4D, no one came forward to admin it though ?

so long as your in the hexus steam group you can join it.

Really? looks like there are a fair few of us playing... I've not bought it yet but I intend to (Just been paid)