It is too bad No More Room in Hell never got completed. I know it’s still technically alive, but damn.

I was saying in another thread, this game proves you can do a small, squad-based Co-op game in that type of setting and not fuck it up. Like the “press x to avoid the, oh you failed” upcoming Aliens game.

“Thing about an Aliens mod would be the hordes – Aliens are far tougher than squishy humans so you couldn’t have them dropping in a couple of hits, and a thousand screeching Aliens would wipe you out in no time.”

If you think about certain parts of the movie – I.e. when they are running to the transmitter, they take out a fair amount of Aliens on the way. Basically, you could ‘mod’ it so that instead of spawning 30 aliens, it spawns five, and most of the game consists of ’special’ aliens, like the ‘bull’ alien, or whatever.

I think it could be done, and done really well.

That’s rather missing the point of the Director entirely.

I think the director relies on lots of twisty passages and closets which keep the players funnelled and gives it places out of sight to spawn deadies. Even the most open of L4D areas have lots of out of sight places for spawning close to the player.

It doesn’t do a sea of shamblers like Dead Rising does.

I don’t know what the limit is on number of actors at once, but I think it’s surprisingly small (around 30), and I think small clumps of zombies in a rush will look silly in these open halls.

Still looking forward to it though.

I wonder how custom maps will work within the lobby system where players choose maps not servers, so how do they choose a server which has the map? I guess you use the server browser only.

I also think there’s milage in an Amusement Park overrun with zombies, which I’ve seen suggested elsewhere. There should be tiny cars from which hundreds of zombie clowns spew forth when you set its alarm off.

But yes, it’s a great idea.

If by decent you mean rubbish and surprisingly you mean predictibly, then I agree.

Except for the finales. This to me seems like a finale map all over, and a simple goal like “the buses will arrive at the garage in 15 minutes, but they wont wait long.” ala Dead Rising would suit it perfectly.

A large sprawling mall works well for a finale, as there’s no real requirement to go in any direction, merely to survive until the evacuation arrives.

I’d hazard a guess that Valve didn’t make a mall level because they’d heard about Dead Rising being sued for being too much like Dawn of the Dead. (they only just won the lawsuit) and didn’t fancy the same happening to them.
A mod should be able to get away with it. (although Simon Pegg doesn’t like fast zombies, Charlie Brooker disagrees)