Left 4 Dead 2. What happened?

[zinfamous]

Have you tried the 360 Controller emulator?

It seems to help in those games that work well with the 360 controller if you have a different controller (like a logitech dual shock wannabe).

ooo, I'll give that a shot.

Thanks!

just thinking....could I plug a PS3 controller into my computer using the USB cable, and some similar emulator?
:hmm:

 

[Tristicus]

I stopped playing a while ago due to having really nobody to play with.

 

[JujuFish]

I wish Valve had made it so that if you owned both L4D games then the original game was incorporated into L4D2 so you can use any character you want on any map you want while still having things like melee weapons.

 

[rudder]

Realism Versus will open your eyes to just how much you're dependent on your teammates' glowing.

Never played the first, but I have put over 2000 hours into L4D2.

Realism is where it is at... but not may people play and you get a lot of rage quits. hard to find someone to stick through with a whole game.

But on regular mode... I never have trouble finding a game. I usually just play with random people since that is the next best thing to realism.

 

[BAMAVOO]

Realism is where it is at... but not may people play and you get a lot of rage quits. hard to find someone to stick through with a whole game.

But on regular mode... I never have trouble finding a game. I usually just play with random people since that is the next best thing to realism.

You made me look up my stats....


Left 4 Dead 2
27.3 hrs last two weeks / 1014.7 hrs on record

 

[bamacre]

Realism is where it is at... but not may people play and you get a lot of rage quits. hard to find someone to stick through with a whole game.

But on regular mode... I never have trouble finding a game. I usually just play with random people since that is the next best thing to realism.

Yup. You do NOT want to play realism with pub's. A mic is almost a necessity with realism, as communication between teammates needs to be quick and detailed. I only play realism when it's an all-friends game, i.e., when there are 8 of us.

 

[spaceman]

i stopped playing when i got 100% acheivements
/brag

 

[TridenT]

i stopped playing when i got 100% acheivements
/brag

I don't care for the campaign shit so I will never get all the achievements. I refuse to play that shit. It's so annoying having to deal with shit team mates who can't figure out how to follow the leader.

 

[Koudelka]

I bought this game for $5 and no one is fucking playing! WHERE IS EVERYONE?!

Fuck I hate this shit... So many shitty servers too. No server browser functionality. (openserverbrowser is broken. It can't actually show games)

Hardly anyone plays it anymore.

Its hard as hell for me to find a game. I dont even have it installed anymore. L4D is the type of game that is really fun for a few weeks.. then it just sucks.

Unless you have lots of friends to play with, its just not fun anymore.

The maps get extremely predictable, etc. and there's not much variety.

 

[slightlyhuman]

L4D was great, I probably put 28 hours into it ... L4D2, I probably put less then 60 minutes into it...got burnt out, LOL.

same. i remember some HELLACIOUS l4d games, nothing from l4d2.

 

[zokudu]

God Damn TridenT I hopped into a game with you earlier and my team was awful. Just couldn't take it. @_@

 

[Darklife]

The one thing that is total crap in this game is the server browser system. Or at least it would be, were such a thing to exist. Joining running games is a pain in the ass, you never know how many people are playing. Trying to get into a game with some friends is even worse, and takes up to 10 mins.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

The elitism is fucking high in this game. If you are any sort of noob in versus your teammates will generally vote kick you.

 

[shortylickens]

The elitism is fucking high in this game. If you are any sort of noob in versus your teammates will generally vote kick you.

I'd like to call such people loser-assholes but then I remember we were the same way with the NES.
Of course, I was 8 at the time..........

 

[A Casual Fitz]

"what happened?" what are you talking about? It's a fun game...

 

[KeithTalent]

The elitism is fucking high in this game. If you are any sort of noob in versus your teammates will generally vote kick you.

Totally. One mistake and people flip out. So freaking annoying. :\

More than a few times I have had a noob on my team that everyone else is trying to kick and if I don't vote to kick that guy, then they vote to kick me. People just need to relax.

KT

 

[HeXen]

I stopped playing a while ago due to having really nobody to play with.

thats the problem with a lot of PC games, the MP just gradually dies or is mostly dead before it starts. Though on console, even some of the oldest, crappiest games still have a lot of players everyday.

The elitism is fucking high in this game. If you are any sort of noob in versus your teammates will generally vote kick you.

ah, another one of those, you better start playing when its at Beta or forget about ever having a chance, type of games.
i felt that way about BF2...i got it after it was out for quite a while but i never could learn to be any better cause of so many elitists. i ended up throwing the game away.

 

[Imp]

Totally. One mistake and people flip out. So freaking annoying. :\

More than a few times I have had a noob on my team that everyone else is trying to kick and if I don't vote to kick that guy, then they vote to kick me. People just need to relax.

KT

Yep. Elitism is crazy in it. You get mob-bitched out if you screw up as tank, miss a molotov, accidentally run into ro shoot anything.

I've tried turning my mic off, but that blocks out useful things most of the time. It's funny though, the losers who bitch people out are pussies. I got sick and talked back at least twice, each time they pretty much back down, or just shut up.

OMFG, we're losing a game that's not even ranked, recorded, etc., and I'll start a new game in 10 minutes! Woe is me!

 

[Icepick]

Love it. Bought it a year ago and I've got around 240 hours of play time on it. There are always plenty of people playing in my experience.

 

[gorobei]

on sale today $5

 

[TridenT]

on sale today $5

Waste of money.

I've been playing Heroes of Newerth. I'll get WAY more playtime out of that. :awe:

 

[KeithTalent]

Played with Hardcore Robot a bit today; GG dude! :beer:

Lots of morans in the game, but I am still having fun with it and for $5, it's hard to go wrong.

KT

 

[Texashiker]

This quote pretty much sums it up ---->

Yup. Every time Steam has a sale on L4D2, the douchebag factor goes up by 5.

It's a great game, but unless you have buddies to play with, you're sol.

If someone is too cheap to buy the game at regular price, their probably going to be too cheap to have a mic and they usually do not take the game very seriously. At least that is my thought on the topic.

I pre-purchased l4d2 the day it was available, and was playing as soon as the crash to desktop issue was fixed, which was almost 2 weeks after release. During the past 13 months the average quality of the people playing has gone downhill, and bad.

I see a lot of tf2 and counter-strike players that buy l4d2, and are not prepared for the level of teamwork l4d and l4d2 requires. Example - the other day a guy with only around 7 hours playing time joins the game, we are in The Parish 2nd map. Before we leave the safe room we talk about which way we are going to go in the park, and agree to go to the right. I warned the new guy to stay out of the middle of the park, that it was a death trap. The new guy breaks away from the team and runs through the middle of the park, a hunter pounces him and he is dead before we can reach him. After the hunter pounces him, he starts typing in "help, help me." Using my mic I tell him, "We told you not to go through the middle of the park." He types in that he was sorry and will listen next time.

Looking at the guys profile, he had a lot of time in TF2, but had just bought l4d2. I suspect he was trying to play l4d2 like he would tf2, and it dont work that way.

The bad thing is, I see this type of behavior over, and over, and over again in just about every public game I play. People buy the game, dont reply to questions, dont have a mic, will not work as a team.

A couple of days ago, I join a public game of the parish and ask how much playing time my other team members have. The spitter runs to where the surivors can see him, and the spitter is killed. I make a comment along the lines - "I guess yall dont have much playing time." One of the infected comes back and says "if you dont like the way we play, why dont you leave." So I say something like "ok",,,, and I leave the game.

I have close to 900 hours playing time in l4d2 and 600 - 700 hours in l4d. In the past few months it appears to me that the overall quality of the l4d2 has gone downhill. The good players that bought the game right when it came out either play with friends, or have moved onto other games. Some of my buddies have stopped playing l4d2 and have since started playing various call of duty games. Personally, I have started playing some counter-strike:source gun games modification and borderlands.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

You should try the helms deep reborn survival map. pretty damn fun and hard. still haven't beaten it yet.

 

[KeithTalent]

PLayed Survivor for the first time last night and had a lot of fun with it. Fortunately there were great people on bnoth teams, so that made it even better. Why does nobody seem to play Survivor mode? There were only two games of it and it took a while to fill the one we had going. :hmm:

KT