Left 4 Dead Midnight Launch Chatty
by Chris Faylor, Nov 17, 2008 7:25pm PSTIn less than two hours, Valve will unleash the zombie apocalypse. After numerous delays and setbacks, Left 4 Dead will finally be available for PC and Xbox 360, bringing the joy (and horror) of cooperative zombie-killing to an eager public.
Come 12:00 AM EST, Valve will flip the switch and open the floodgates, allowing everyone who's purchased and pre-loaded via Steam to start playing on PC.
Not only will your loyal Shacknews staff be out there, fighting the horde along with everyone else, we'll be posting our in-depth review at the stroke of midnight, detailing our extensive experiences with the game, along with some nuggets of wisdom.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=lrn4JMxsN_o
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Also, at the bottom of the achievements list, there's one that requires you to "get a rare strain of the infection and spread it to someone else." What could that mean? Is there another type of boss zombie we haven't seen yet that can turn the survivors into zombies? Or is this the usual achievement that you only get by beating a Valve employee?
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Anyone else have any luck with this? Our strategy was to all climb onto the truck, and each of us try to cover a different quadrant where the zomboes more or less came from. 1 rifle and 1 autoshot pointed in each direction (front/back/port/starboard)
It sorta-almost-worked until some idiot got killed by the tank and then we were killed by massive amounts of zombies.
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What happened to it? I used to be able to just host a LAN game on my fast university connection, but now it just seems to boot everyone, saying local hosting is for local peeps only.
Now the only option seems to be dedicated??
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Set to Shacknews Left4Dead Group:
[ShackWest-#1-L4D] = 69.62.158.85:27015
[ShackWest-#2-L4D] = 69.62.158.85:27016
Set to Shackwest4Dead Group:
[ShackWest-#3-L4D] = 69.62.158.85:27017
[ShackWest-#3-L4D] = 69.62.158.85:27018
these are all still running the demo, until the game is released.
once we get the group situation worked out, I'll move them all over to the 'big' group.
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I've got a couple friends who were out of town that I'll have a hell of a time trying to convince the game is worth buying without a demo.
I'm a little disappointed in valve.. I guess they cant get everything right..
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I was just playing versus... and it was 3 regular joes, vs me as an infected...
I couldnt seem to slow them down as the boomer, hunter or smoker... but then it spawned me as a TANK. Ive never been so excited to be playing a game in a long time...
I just charged in and started knocking them around the map. ROFL it was so much fun, and SO unfair, small cooridors and it spawns me. SMASH SMASH SMASH. oh jeez.
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I'm just sayin'.
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Screenshots from the first campaign: http://www.polycat.net/g/v/games/left4dead/
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what a blast, most fun ive had co-op in a long time, even with complete internet strangers.
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Its just disk churning for me :(
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