Left 4 Dead

News indicates there's a campaign set in a swamp, and that there's a new Special Infected: The Spitter.

It coughs globs of toxic goo that cover a patch of ground and hurt Survivors as long as they stand on it, until the stuff fades away. Basically a zombie grenadier.

She is also MAJORLY ugly.◊

Also, there's going to be a fourth game mode, though no specifics have been released.

And if no one noticed before, it looks like they're going to up the gore. (RHYME!)

edited 26th Jul '09 2:11:36 PM by Charlatan

They are coming in hard after the corner-camping melee spammers, aren't they?

This game lags like hell on my new computer. Seriously, it's completely unplayable.

@Radical Taoist: Yes, they are. No Shiva totem for you.

All well and good for balance, I just fear some of the new Special Infected combos.

Which of the Special Infected are returning to the sequel? All of them? Getting hit by a Boomer/Spitter combination could suck; it's generally not such a good idea to run around after getting biled, since you can't see where you're going and can get surrounded easily.

Deserves a new post:

The last panel of this comic is best read while imagining the Hunter scream in your head.

"Yakity Sax", 7 tanks, and sped-up footage. Hilarity Ensues. (Although for some reason I always imagined "Yakity Sax" going better with the Horde zombies.)

Crazy shit just HAPPENS in this game.

Video footage confirms that one of the new weapons is a grenade launcher.

Somehow I can't help but think that'd make the Tank a bit easy.

Meanwhile, FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

edited 15th Aug '09 12:31:15 PM by Charlatan

I can't honestly say I'm surprised at this. Anyone point out to the moron that there were black Infected in the first one (IIRC)?

I think the virus makes everyone slightly albino a la Dawn Of The Dead. Maybe they weren't looking closely at the first game.

edited 15th Aug '09 12:59:45 PM by Charlatan

Meanwhile, I'm keeping a running count of the new weapons:

• Axe
• Chainsaw
• Frying pan
• Baseball bat
• An AK-47
• A new assault rifle that actually has accuracy
• A new autoshotgun
• Grenade launcher
• New pistols?
• A new precision rifle-type weapon (like the hunting rifle, but has twice the magazine, amongst other changes)
• Silenced machinepistol

edited 15th Aug '09 1:29:59 PM by Charlatan

Ahahahaha.

Okay, so lately it seems that most of the L 4 D players have swapped from playing any sort of campaign games to Versus, Versus, and more Versus.

And this includes the sorts of guys who, if you're new to playing as Infected, will kick you out for allegedly being a n00b and therefore being a liability.

Even a co-op game like Left 4 Dead can't avoid this sort of bullshit.

Fuck this. Time for another hobby.

(It doesn't help that I ALWAYS spawn as a Hunter. Never as a Smoker, which I'm best at.)

Hokey pokey, more L 4 D 2 news.

• Explosive bullets will be present along with the incendiary ammo.
• New Infected type: The Jockey. Hops on Survivors' backs and damages them. In Versus, the Infected player can steer the Survivor around.
• New melee weapon: Mothafuckin' katanas.

I have L 4 D. Would play it more, but them so-called PUGs don't feel right, and most of me friends who have it don't play it that often (as far as I can tell, anyway).

Steam handle is (you guessed it) Kitchingham.

So how does one get into the TV Tropes Steam group? :P

edited 9th Sep '09 12:59:16 PM by Kitchingham

Spitter's got a new model, apparently—this unholy terror◊.

Also, one of the new melee weapons is an electric guitar. And you know the "Cr0wnd" achievement? You can pull the same thing off on a Witch with a melee weapon. FUCK YES.

Crash Course was released yesterday. And it was awesome. Any thoughts?

I wish I had a better computer to play it? T_T

Also, I honestly think L 4 D could be more supportive in custom models. I'm really tired of seeing crappy skin after crappy skin for survivors and weapons. -_-

Charlatan: Are they going to do this with every game to feature black zombies? Because if they are, then I'm going to make a zombie game where all the zombies are black, just to make fun of the Moral Guardians.

EDIT: Regarding the post below this one, yes, they did it for Resident Evil 5. So that's two games so far; how many more will be accused of racism? Anyone want to make bets?

edited 1st Oct '09 2:50:53 AM by Lordnecronus

Wasn't this already the case for the latest Resident Evil? I guess that was just hype too...

edited 1st Oct '09 2:47:05 AM by Medinoc

Not all black. You had whites and Arabs amongst the infected. It does, however, eventually become all-black when you have to stave off members of a tribe.

I honestly wish the uptight politically correct gamers remember that a WHITE GUY was behind all the zombie fuss in Africa, heaven forbid going to Africa and, you know, having to fight THE NATIVE POPULATION?

edited 1st Oct '09 3:22:57 AM by Dick Richardson

My point exactly. In fact, if I remember correctly, a couple of critics said that Resi 5 was anti-colonnial rather than anti-African. Which is something I can agree with.

I came.

P.S.: New gamemode.

edited 24th Oct '09 1:58:32 AM by Charlatan

They had Killing Floor to play for free this weekend. Good god, what a load of shit. This game can't even touch L 4 D:

• Gameplay consists of running around the map and killing swarms of zombies, some of them mutated and/or carrying some "one-bit applications" (read, something to club you over the head with)
• You have to use iron sights - if that's an attempt at realism, it blows donkey balls. Especially when you notice the fact that a) you're fighting zombies, and b) sometimes, a stupid bullet-time thing kicks in, theoretically allowing you to take perfect headshots. If you're not caught while reloading, that is.
• The game is really fucking ugly. It looks like a five-years-old amateur mod for UT 2003. It most probably IS one.
• Levels are usually pitch-ass dark and the only flashlight you got is screwed on your Beretta. Kinda useless if you want to run with something more powerful.

As for the new L 4 D 2 trailer, it's awesome. The Card Sharp character kinda reminds me of Finn from The Club (separated at birth, really), and the kid (the one with two shotguns on his back) is a straight Scout Expy.

edited 25th Oct '09 1:00:47 PM by NotSoBadassLongcoat

Played the demo. Desert Eagle has shorter range and smaller clip than the rest of the handguns, but FUCKS EVERYONE UP with one shot. Melee weapons also one-shot everything apart from the Specials that comes in range, frying pan being the weakest, machete being the most powerful and guitar being most hilarious, especially when Ellis (the Scout expy) uses it (BONK!).

The new Witch walks around. Also, there's a female model for Boomer - squickily hilarious.