Vernon on 30/10/2010 at 11:15
They could be private and we could have dumb leaderboard threads like best ttlg survival times and stuff WHOA
gunsmoke on 30/10/2010 at 13:43
God that sounds cool. Much better than some of these other snoozey subs around here.
Mingan on 30/10/2010 at 15:01
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* Alien Swarm* Civ V* TF 2* Worms Reloaded
I'm online most day except Monday and Saturday, from 7 to 10 EST.
Ladron De La Noche on 30/10/2010 at 15:21
Aliens vs Predator Gold is what I have. Hope its the same as others have. Its collecting dust too. ;)
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Best to pick an old game and everyone jumps in. Nothing to hard or Gunsmoke might leave. :p
Aerothorn on 30/10/2010 at 17:58
My current college schedule leaves me with little time for multiplayer, but I'm definitely up for some. There's nothing I play regularly at this point (still never found a good replacement for BF 1942) but I have various Steam titles + Bad Company 2, Trackmania, some other TTLG favorites. Alas, can't currently play on ze consoles due to cruelties of the college network.
Steam ID: Aerothorn
Incidentally, I'm starting to suspect that I'm the only person to have never played a L4D game. I might pick one of them up one of these days, though a friend of mine told me it was NOT newbie-friendly, with people booting people out for not knowing how to play properly (I guess you just have to practice offline a bunch?). Is it worth picking up the original as well as the sequel in one of Steam's constant bundle sales?
p.s. Totally up for a game of Defcon sometime.
Vernon on 30/10/2010 at 18:44
Just get L4D2 - it is far better. Going back to the first game just feels like you're playing a neutered game. Plus it looks like the first game is going to be ported over to the second anyway. Also the gore is totally off the hook in the second one.
If you have any aptitude at all in a standard fps, then this isn't a hard game, even on Advanced. Expert is the game mode that sorts the men from the boys and you'll be kicked out on your arse if you can't pull your weight. If you get hit by a common infected (the run-of-the-mill zombies) in easy mode, you lose something like one health. In expert, they take off twenty per hit. Witches (a type of special infected) can one-shot kill you and tanks (massive super-zombies) will knock you down in one hit.
You may have heard about people getting kicked out of these games because they go in thinking "oh yeah I am fuckin leet in counterstrike I can own in this game for sure," but to be honest a lot of this game isn't about shooting it is about placement, awareness of your teammates' locations, things like this. Often people get kicked for running off by themselves, not keeping up or whatever. If you can learn how to play in a team and not shoot your allies you'll be fine. I have no hesitation kicking some ass who comes in and runs off with a katana, only to be killed a minute later. It takes quite a lot of concentration and patience to do well in some of the L4D game modes, so when you're forty-five minutes in when everyone's really low on health and some jerk comes in thinking he's leet liek jeff k, double-healing with the four medkits in the safe room, that's when kicking happens
edit: also L4D2 has Coach, the greatest character in any video game ever
Mr.Duck on 30/10/2010 at 18:54
While the mods/admins set-up a MP subfoum, might as well leave my calling cards :D
STEAM: Wuigi69
XBL: Wuigi69
PSN: Wuigi69
Yes, I like to keep it simple ;)
I have many MP games on the 360 and PC, I do have a few in PS3.
I can usually play any day after 9 pm CST (or Mexico City time, bwah!) minus tuesdays and sundays.
Mind you, currently not adding any more games to my queue, 'coz I need to discipline myself on keeping the tab low to finish a bit more of my ENORMOUS back log.
Though I do plan on reinstalling both L4Ds.
Cheers!
:)
gunsmoke on 30/10/2010 at 20:25
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Steam ID: Aerothorn
Incidentally, I'm starting to suspect that I'm the only person to have never played a L4D game. I might pick one of them up one of these days, though a friend of mine told me it was NOT newbie-friendly, with people booting people out for not knowing how to play properly (I guess you just have to practice offline a bunch?). Is it worth picking up the original as well as the sequel in one of Steam's constant bundle sales?
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Aero,
I found L4D to be one of the most welcoming MP communities ever. I walked in not having played serious MP since FarCry and SoF 2. I INSTANTLY had folks bending over backwards (just in March, mind you) to help me out. Especially here on TTLG. I am willing to return the favor. If you have a mic, add me when you get one or both games. I'll play with you on Norm. or Easy and show you all the inner workings of zombeh stompin'. If you don't wanna fuck with me, just go pub on easy or norm, you'll find a good group rather quickly I imagine.
Zerker on 30/10/2010 at 21:23
Steam: Either Zerker or ZerkerX (one is my login, one is what shows on my profile). Speaking of profiles... (
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197984721916) here is my profile.
I'm usually free from 7 to 9 pm EDT (-4 GMT) soon to be EST (-5 GMT) during the week, or from 9 am to 9 pm during the weekend (unless something is happening).
Games I like playing for Multiplayer:
Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Duke 3D co-op
Neverwinter Nights
Company of Heroes (though I'm not that good)
Dawn of War 2 (+ Chaos Rising)
Left 4 Dead 1/2
Serious Sam FE/SE/2/FE HD
UT, UT 2k4, UT3
Freespace 2
Worms Armageddon
System Shock 2
Thief 2
Edit: On PSN, I'm zercius. Multiplayer-compatible PS3 games I have include:
Little Big Planet
Uncharted 2
june gloom on 30/10/2010 at 22:05
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Incidentally, I'm starting to suspect that I'm the only person to have never played a L4D game. I might pick one of them up one of these days, though a friend of mine told me it was NOT newbie-friendly, with people booting people out for not knowing how to play properly (I guess you just have to practice offline a bunch?). Is it worth picking up the original as well as the sequel in one of Steam's constant bundle sales?
If you hurry up you can buy both for $15 before Monday.
And yeah, it's not newbie friendly at all. Play with bots or people you know.
