Comments on: Left 4 Dead Early Access Demo

By: casstheass

casstheass — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:36:22 +0000

The game was awsome. donno about not laging.

By: elefaire

elefaire — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:27:00 +0000

Well I’ve just played single player so far and I’m surprised at how many criticisms I immediately have. I was expecting this to blow everything else away but right now it’s no TF2. It’s good, it’s unique, and I’m buying it, but it doesn’t seem insta-classic. Haven’t played as infected yet, of course.

By: Unrein

Unrein — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:40:14 +0000

So far I’ve had about a 50% success rate on Expert with random groups. And I’ve made a bunch of friends on the way. The difficulty feels Just Right(tm), so I play pretty much exclusively on it.

By: Rob Zacny

Rob Zacny — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:13:23 +0000

Most embarrassing thing that has happened to me yet: this morning I started talking to a bot.

We were near the end of our tether at the very last room of the demo, and setting up to defend against the last couple waves. I was trying to figure out what everyone’s assigned roll was, as I started asking, “Hey, Francis, do you want to open the door, while I stay on the minigun?”

He didn’t answer. After a minute, one of my teammates said, “Uh, dude, that’s not a person.”

Which was kind of mortifying.

Haven’t beat expert yet, but I’ve only tried it with one team and they were a bunch of gits. Each time we got killed, one guy would get on the mike and start whining, “Guys, we gotta go slower. We gotta slow down. We’re going too fast.”

Nothing, I mean nothing, would make him understand the concept of the Director.

By: Armyofnone

Armyofnone — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:04:49 +0000

L4D demo–played it for a day. Amazing. Expert difficulty took me and my friends 3 hours to beat, and another hour of failed attempts to beat it again. There was no lag, but if you host it yourself as a LAN, you gotta have your ports forwarded, with a good connection. Regardless, most fun I’ve had with my friends in a LONG time. Totally worth every penny of a pre-order.

By: Nero

Nero — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:56:28 +0000

I’ve been using the server browser to get into games which worked much better, and have been having a blast. Been playing mostly on Expert today, and while we die alot it’s such a great feeling actually finishing the demo at last. Been having a blast with plenty of random people. Great great fun.

By: LactoseTheIntolerant

LactoseTheIntolerant — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:21:14 +0000

Right, actually made it into a couple of online games with a friend tonight. Verdict? Bloody smashing. Very happy with my order and cannot wait for the full release!

By: nakke

nakke — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:41:34 +0000

[also to stop people from just playing the demo ala Q3 demo.]

Well, the demo is going to be disabled on the 18th, so I don’t see how that could happen.

By: Cooper42

Cooper42 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:00:01 +0000

It’s been an arse, as often the lobby chooses a dedicated server with high latency for the players…

I’m glad there are ways around it, but it’s not intuitive. The easiest solution would be for the lobby starter to have an option to select which dedicated, rather than choosing one randomly…

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:17:54 +0000

For those of you having weird memory type issues, have you tried going into the graphics options and setting Paged Pool Memory to “Medium”? I was having stuttering issues last night and that fixed them.

Some people have also had luck turning off V-Synch.

By: cm7

cm7 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:57:56 +0000

1: Open console.
2: Type “openserverbrowser”
3: ???
4: Profit!

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:41:17 +0000

Comments:

Fun, good with co-op, matchmaking sucks, weapon models suck, gun sounds are weak as, voice is way too loud compared to canned comments (cant hear canned comments at all basically), too easy on the modes I’ve played – first time playing died once then completed the demo on advanced with nobodies.

However… a lot of fun and I can’t wait for more levels and polish.