Left 4 Dead 2 Catch All

Well, this is bullsh*t. What was the point of preordering and preloading if I can't even access any of the games I have purchased? So much fail.

For whatever reason get to play like 2 minutes than the game just disappears in an instant, and I am back to desktop. Than I notice L4D 2 is syncing or something. It takes like a second and than it's done. WTF! I am going to try and delete my clientregistry.blob restart steam and check my files than see what happens.

Oh and I am using Avira and it thinks something in the L4D 2 folder is a virus so I just turned it off. What the hell is wrong with this game.

EDIT: Update Nothing I did seems to make any difference, although when I checked file verification one bad file did come up, than it took several restarts for the game to download, decrypt and update before I could try playing again. Same problem. Total fail. Why did I even bother trying.

Had a brief hiccup with Steam failing to decrypt the game files. Restarted my comp and steam is working fine now.

Marathon session still on?

Man, I played one campaign and I've already seen a crazy amount of new gameplay ideas. The gauntlet events are awesome, and the finale where you have to

Spoiler:

scavange gas cans for the race car

felt really different. Also

Spoiler:

getting cola from the store for the crazy gun shop guy so he could blow up the tanker truck for you

is the weirdest/best idea for a crescendo event yet.

Played with WesWilson and some CP peeps. Got to Finale of dead center and just went bleh, we are tired.

Finally decrypting. Argh!

Tonight I will have to decide between L4D2 and not exacerbating the crippling RSI I am rapidly developing.

It will be a tough choice.

I give up. If Steam ever decides to work again, I'll join the fun. Until then, I'll be contacting Valve support.

Well, I made it through the first campaign with a couple of friends and 318 katana kills. Suffice it to say the grenade launcher didn't allow for ammo pickups, and I didn't run out of ammo for it until the finale.

Speaking of which, I'm only one campaign in, but every panic event, as well as the finale, is designed to prevent players from huddling in a corner. I'm really liking that so far.

Oh, and on Normal, we were running into *very* frequent Special Infected spawns. Come the third map or so, they were coordinating in sets of three, as well.

One word of advice.

Dont try to crown the witch with the chainsaw.

Also, Dark Carnival is fantastic. Gotta love Smitty, the Drinker.

I was quite surprised at just how differently this plays, lots of new things to watch out for. Advanced really kicked my ass!

Did anyone throw puke on the witch? I've wanted to do this for some time now but I never get puke and a witch at the same time.
3 more days...

Tonight I watched an overweight black man cut a zombie clown in half with a chainsaw while crazy xylophone music played in the background.
Best. Game. Ever.

Just played through the first campaign on Advanced. The difficulty level has been hugely ramped up over the previous game. We were playing with a bit of an odd team, but we'd have never had to restart parts so many times with the original L4D.

illicit_awakening wrote:

One word of advice.

Dont try to crown the witch with the chainsaw.

Also, Dark Carnival is fantastic. Gotta love Smitty, the Drinker.

I went there first thing. Really cool, after sliding the slide I was going to see if any other rides were "interactive", but I got completely swarmed by clowns and commons.

Bwahahaha!

Mate sent me a link to buy it through the UK store

Downloading/pre-loading now

illicit_awakening wrote:

Dont try to crown the witch with the chainsaw.

That sounds like a challenge.

Just tried it in the demo. Throw puke on the witch and she's an easy kill, especially if you're on higher ground too.

Mystic Violet wrote:
WiredAsylum wrote:

reloaded steam a few times, All i get is Scanning for Steam games. No game loading

Same here. My Games list is blank and I've restarted Steam multiple times. This sucks. :(

Same thing for me also. People on steam forums are saying you just have to let it scan for some time - 1/2 an hour to an hour. I'll leave it going and come back after work - let me know if you have any luck!
Sigh.

I left mine went to bed, had to get up an hour later and I happened to peak in the office and it had finished.

pignoli wrote:
illicit_awakening wrote:

Dont try to crown the witch with the chainsaw.

That sounds like a challenge.

I did this on advanced. In my experience, it works.

Valve is so great. They made me hate the first game so much that I didn't have to deal with the release disappointment of this one.

Looks like this unlocked right after I went to bed. I think Valve did this on purpose. You're welcome, rest of the internet.

I'm glad we started a new catch-all for these four pages of talking about how the game isn't out yet.

[size=8]Please don't ban me.[/size]

LobsterMobster wrote:

I'm glad we started a new catch-all for these four pages of talking about how the game isn't out yet.

I was going to say, the early part of this thread was like reading a WoW patch release day thread.

The witch apparently doesn't mind the grenade launcher at all. We had someone shoot her with it last night, and I immediately opened fire only for her to come running after me.

The Gametrailers review has something rather interesting in it...

IMAGE(http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/816/drinks.jpg)

And just in case there was any confusion, here's the icon for it:

IMAGE(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/1/drinks2.jpg)

Drinks here!

LobsterMobster wrote:

The Gametrailers review has something rather interesting in it...

I mentioned that in my spoiler text above. It's one of the wackier missions in Dead Center

I startled one and when it got closer tried beating it with the electric guitar. Doesn't really work so well!

This morning I completely forgot L4D2 was out, I would have hopped out of bed at 6 for a few games had I remembered.

As it is I was up early enough to decrypt the game, so hopefully I will be good to go first thing this evening. Should have tested it out though, to make sure it downloaded properly, but I was already a bit late.