Left 4 Dead 2 Catch All

I wouldn't mind an invite if there is a game going on

I would be happy to join in as well, if it's this Thurs, or Fri nights.

So I assume you've all run into the immediately-appearing rescue vehicles?

Help Show Valve You Want L4D2 Fixed....(especially support for the Xbox version)

I would appreciate it if you could help show Valve that we're still here and we want L4D2 fixed. Of course I enjoy L4D1 but I would honestly prefer L4D2 to work as it should, but we all know that game is not stable enough for serious play. As such, I've posted a thread on Valve's forums numbering the very few bugs on L4D2 that if just those were patched, setting aside all the little stuff, the game would be successful again. It would be very nice if you guys could go post your support for that claim on that thread, linked below. Additionally, you can also reach out to the L4D team at Valve by tweeting to @l4ddev and by emailing [email protected].

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Keithustus wrote:

So I assume you've all run into the immediately-appearing rescue vehicles?

To be honest, no. Looking over the list you link to, I have to wonder if those problems are mostly found on the XBox side. The PC side, the game just works. *checks Steam* It claims I've played 800 hours... bit more than I thought, but entirely probably. I'm trying to remember the last time I had a problem with the game that wasn't server, lag or Steam, and I'm drawing a blank.

Wait, I do recall having the rescue vehicle show up instantly, once, Blood Harvest. Didn't help the team that went second as survivors, they still lost.

Well the game reset is definitely an Xbox problem, since it is caused by the system running out of memory, but the biggest problem is the finales, and there's been much talk on both systems' forums about it, and a recent l4ddev tweet and recent patch, but strangely it seems Valve still doesn't completely understand what's going on. Essentially, ever since Cold Stream released officially, there's been a 25% or so chance on every versus finale playthrough that the vehicle would appear right away after the horde was alerted, which as you can imagine has really hit the player base hard.

The other things like the restart votes being stupid and some mutation problem have, like you say, probably already been fixed on PC, but I've not installed and booted it up to try.

Of course, maybe there just aren't a lot of GWJers who play enough L4D2 nowadays to really be affected by this stuff?

LtWarhound wrote:
Keithustus wrote:

So I assume you've all run into the immediately-appearing rescue vehicles?

To be honest, no. Looking over the list you link to, I have to wonder if those problems are mostly found on the XBox side. The PC side, the game just works. *checks Steam* It claims I've played 800 hours... bit more than I thought, but entirely probably. I'm trying to remember the last time I had a problem with the game that wasn't server, lag or Steam, and I'm drawing a blank.

Wait, I do recall having the rescue vehicle show up instantly, once, Blood Harvest. Didn't help the team that went second as survivors, they still lost.

I think the Swamp Fever finale still has a problem where a tank won't spawn if the survivors stay in the main house which is why we had the rule that you couldn't hole up there. But most other maps work great on the PC.

Well, I'm gone this whole weekend. I'll see you deaders next weekend.

I had a wonderful difficult experience yesterday. A friend of mine plays micless religiously, so we started a 4v4 (4 friends v 4 friends, for those who may not know) where the other team played normally but none of us had ours plugged in. And remember we can't text chat on Xbox, either. Both teams were skilled so there weren't any stops on the first two maps, but as you might imagine, they out-damaged us so we started map 3 down 50. On map 3, an early mid-map tank spawn passed to me and while we didn't kill them with it, they were seriously med depleted and we were able to prevent much additional progress at all. Unfortunately, one of their guys had connection problems and couldn't get back in so the game then fell apart.

If you've not tried nomics v mics or nomics v nomics, only with good players, I highly recommend it.

Recently my C: drive died. However, all my games were installed to a separate D: drive.

I replaced the drive and reinstalled Steam. All of my frequent Steam games work, including Left 4 Dead 1.

Left 4 Dead 2 refuses to work. It loads the opening cinematic and then gives me a message saying that I have the option set for my game to connect to custom servers and that they won't be VAC compliant. When it gets to the menu screen the game locks up. It has a message in the background about Steam cloud but I can't click on anything. I have to force it closed.

I tried validating the install and it kept downloading 1 file. Still wouldn't work.

Last night I deleted all local content and re-downloaded the game. Still doesn't work.

No hardware on my PC has changed except for the hard drive.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

My suspicion is that it has to do with me downloading the latest nVidia drivers or the latest drivers for my sound card.

Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

Did you disable steam cloud?

Oddly enough, turning off Steam Cloud and forcing the loading options to remove "-insecure" from the Steam Library panel seemed to make it go away.

I'm not sure which one did it, but that was a weird error.

The good news is that I'm back in business!

I played a few match in the Warcelona maps addon, which is nice.

People do play coop on mods nowaday? I found a new interest in that game.

And the workshop make it a breeze to install addon.

Switch, can you reboot the server? I was playing last week and we managed to get it stuck when trying to pause the game.

Polliwog wrote:

Switch, can you reboot the server? I was playing last week and we managed to get it stuck when trying to pause the game.

It should auto-reboot every morning around 7 AM, unless it got really stuck. I'll take a look and see if it needs a manual reboot.

Gotcha, I hadn't checked since then.

In related news, the map Warcelona is pretty awesome. The finale is an epic sprint - think the bridge in parish, but in beautiful Barcelona.

Has anyone seen the trailers for Dniepr?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...

Looks fantastic. I'm reinstalling L4D2 and would love to hit some up, feel free to toss me some invites for late-night games.

Dysplastic wrote:

Has anyone seen the trailers for Dniepr?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...

Looks fantastic. I'm reinstalling L4D2 and would love to hit some up, feel free to toss me some invites for late-night games.

Just watched them. They look bloody fantastic. It looks like the campaign drops next week (on the 20th).

Since they added the steam workshop support, I'm very interested in playing some mods.

hello my fav L4Ders!!! Its been awhile! Anyone up for a vs game this weekend? =D Seems like i'ts super hard to get a vs going... at least for me... i suppose i'm not as popular as before anymore! =(

plus i'm super rusty now.....

I would be down this weekend if I wasn't out of town But I'm definitely hankering to get some more going. We should try soon.

I will be in the middle of a 1700 miles drive from Utah to Tennessee, otherwise, I would be down.

jinniee wrote:

hello my fav L4Ders!!! Its been awhile! Anyone up for a vs game this weekend? =D Seems like i'ts super hard to get a vs going... at least for me... i suppose i'm not as popular as before anymore! =(

plus i'm super rusty now.....

I'm around. And just as bad as ever :p

I'm in. Hit me up when you play!

I'll be pretty bad too, but it'll make it interesting... sign me up!

Ditto for me hit me up for a game anytime. I dont see Dniepr on steam workshop though

Anyone up for this tonight?

OG_slinger wrote:

Anyone up for this tonight?

After the Bruins game. Hell yes!

Edit : Shalam Baskur.

OG_slinger wrote:

Anyone up for this tonight?

No, I'm just too bus.. haha, I couldn't keep a straight face. Send the batzombi-signal and I'll be there.

Why did we stop playing this most awesomist of games?

I think I had my mic disconnected the whole time during last night's game, if any of you guys on my team felt ignored whenever I did something cool and you celebrated it I'm sorry : )