Left 4 Dead Team-based Versus Matchmaking Added

i dont see anything in those screenshots that has to do with 4vs4?

i'd been hoping this would help the rage quit problem. now the entire team ragequits at once! AAAH!

Can they please add a versus game mode where you don't switch sides every map? You either pick to play all the way through as survivors or as infected. It'd be less competitive, less ragequit inducing, and I think more fun.

If the survivors are getting stomped, they simply get to try again, no big. If they're really getting stomped super hard, maybe the infected players will back off a bit to let the game get going forward. Why would they do that? Because it's less competitive and they're being good sports.

If the infected are getting stomped, it doesn't matter because you won't be compared to the other team at the end of the round. You can just keep spawning and attacking and it'll all be over soon enough, and there is no scoreboard shame.

That being said, the survivors can still have a team score that they can be proud of if they do well, but it won't be compared to the other team, so there's no ragequit inducing humiliation involved. And the infected will have their points like in versus that are just for fun brownie points that they also can screen shot and show if they have an awesome round. Everyone wins.

Thoughts? Comments? I've posted this before, but I think it's still a good idea. It's been stated that this could probably be implemented as a mod, but I think it'd be nice to have it as an option on the menu.

Call it what you want, but i still think that L4D2 could have been added to L4D as DLC. However, since it's Valve I'm willing to forgive.

This is awesome, been waiting for this for a while.
I don't understand how people can imagine an old-type server browser system could work well for L4D, this is nothing like classic FPS games like cod/tf2/cs, match-making is definitely the way to go to get proper games going here.

I love id's way of doing things with Quake Live. You have matchmaking on two levels:
- completely automatic which maybe working, I don't know
- server browser with rated matches and servers. You cannot join matches rated too much below your skill level, and you can't enter matches which are rated too much above you either.

This option is way better than what Valve offers with L4D and L4D2 for that matter. Completely automated sorting of players would never work as good. User input is a must imho, at least on some levels.

Yawn. Let me know when they add more weapons, game modes and other variety. Or even fix the lobby, that will be news.

"Is this a stand-up fight sir, or another pub-stomp?" -- "Let's get the crew together and have a real fight." Thankfully I can stop dicking around and have a real game without rage-quits and all the bullshit in between. Thank you VALVe for listening :)

Is this for PC only or is it coming to 360 as well?

One of the very few nights that i didn't spend 20 minutes trying to find a game with people that wouldn't rage on the first level stomping

So does L4D2 support this out of the box?

If that's true, you could say the same thing about God of War, the whole Call of Duty franchise, Assassin's Creed, the GTA series, Guitar Hero and Rockband series...