Left 4 Dead will update with Survival Mode if you restart Steam, and it’s reportedly rather brutal. Dead Air and Death Toll are also now playable in Versus mode (which I think is actually more interesting than the new mode, but hey, that’s just me.) Anyone playing? How long have you managed to stay alive? I’ll try and post some more useful thoughts when I get a proper game of it.
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I have no love for Left 4 Dead. Well, maybe an eentsy bit for the excellent visuals. So haven’t bought it and won’t be playing survival mode. But it does seem to be that an ultimately futile last stand is a more appropriate scenario for a zombie apocalypse than last-minute rescue.
Got just over 25 minutes in the farmhouse. Strangely, tanks stopped spawning after the tenth one. Instead we got a never-ending horde with 3 boomers spawning per second. And here I was, expecting 3 tanks to come at once D:.
How can anyone have no love for l4d?
“How can anyone have no love for l4d?”
You’d have to be a zombie.
15:50:90 on Last Stand – The Lighthouse.
No joke. Admittedly, I was dead at the 12 mark, and the rest of the time I’m just screaming into the mike, “Oh dear god – keep going! Keep going!”
^^
That’s what she said.
/sorry
//survival mode is ok, but my friends and I aren’t very good
///holy crap this edit thing is awesome
I am not enjoying it as much as vs so far as i tend to die protecting other early on then have to hang about for ten minutes.
Really liking survival mode so far, like others have said it’s a lot easier to find a couple of minutes to play rather than put aside a couple of hours.
Only managed two golds so far (along with 2 silver and about half the bronzes), around 15 minutes on The Terminal and 11 on The Farmhouse, both with shinygerbil.
Terminal definitely needs some improvement, though I did manage to last 12 minutes with plenty of tanks and specials coming in.
Very easily. It’s shallow, repetitive, and drags on far too long. But my point was about the survival mode and its relation to zombie fiction, not about Left4Dead’s shortcomings, hence why I attempted not to get into that here. :)
Yeah it seems like some levels are much more difficult than others. I was playing for about an hour last night without even getting a measly bronze on the lighthouse level until I found a different group of randoms and got a 12 minuter on the terminal for my first gold. With the same group, we got a silver on the church.
Why is there no single-player option? :(
I think I’ve been home-runned off the to top of Mercy hospital at least a half-dozen times now. Maybe I need to stick to the middle of the map a little more…
@clovus re: Last Stand Poster: I swear she looks like she has a mustache.
My team made nearly 21 minutes on DEAD AIR : TERMINAL :P
screened: http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roflywo.jpg
bet it if u can
70 minutes on Last Stand. But… that was before they fixed the “after 10 tanks, no more tanks come” thing.
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee135/emdeehay/l4d_sv_lighthouse0026.jpg
Map: Hospital
Where: Infront of ammo (broke down door)
Time: 15min. : 48 sec. : .93
Gold time Spot
How to Hide: 2 on each side
Weapons: 4 shotguns or 1 (m)gun
This is very good because “smokers can’t get you. Plus infected are easy to kill in narrow door way. Tanks can be a problem so focus all on them. Since they single people out just spread out (1 in ea corner) and fire away. Gl and message me (Pro US Sniper) on xbox360 xboxlive to play with me. Have Some Fun!
to peter there is a single player mode just go to play with friends and switch it to private game if you don’t want someone joining and then start or you could switch it to sytem link and then you can do all the single player you want or two players if you have a friend over also if you have a friend over you can do versus with each other or just set up a dummy characther thats not playing but has the controoler on and move them out of the safe area of the start of each maps and you can have some fun practicing as zombies or going thru without worrying about specials