Left 4 Dead Demo

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L4D demo is Comming Soon with FULL 4 Player Coop,

Full game release 11/17/08

http://www.edge-online.com/news/latest-left-4-dead-demo-details

NO reason for everyone to at least not try the demo out with the clan. So make sure you get it.

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Downloading!!!!!!!!!!

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If you PreOrdered like me and H from Steam, then you get the Demo a week Early, Nov 6th. Pretty sweet http://kotaku.com/5070627/left-4-dead-pre+order-only-demo-kicks-off-on-steam-nov-6

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Demo is downloadable tomorrow for all who preordered with Steam.

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So in multiplayer there can only be 4 humans, the rest play as zombies? I love these type of games Resident Evil etc, especially if it's an FPS but that's kind of a bummer. I like to shoot stuff...

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Yea it will be pretty sweet and I love the Opening Cinimatic (http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/showthread.php?t=470). I hope a lot of guys get it so we can have a large match of Humans Vs. Zombies like the Reviews (http://suicidesoldiersclan.com/showthread.php?t=444) talk about. I even have the Ventrilo set up for it that way so when we have a lot of people playing it.

:gun (3)::gun (1)::puke::gun:

Also remember to join the Steam Group Page (http://www.suicidesoldiersclan.com/showthread.php?p=4032#post4032) when you register for Steam

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I can't wait until this semester ends, I'll be gaming regularly once again

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Just beat the demo and man this game is CRAZY FUN! lol I can't wait to get into so 4 person coop :)!

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Dude this game is FRIKEN SWEET. We need everyone who has preordered the game to get on for some kick ass CoOp. Anyone that has not preordered it yet, the Demo will be released on the 11th. NO EXCUSES then. You will not be sorry.

The demo consists of the first 2 chapters of the first section of the stroy, you start on the apartments after that opening cinimatic then you get to the subway. The Boss Zombies are scary as hell and you have to stick together, pay attention, and save eachother constsntly like it shows in the cinimatic.

They put a lot of effort into making it like all the Zombie movies, where you have to jump out of cover to sacrafice yourself to save your teammates. very fun.

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It's a very cool idea they had that the bad ass zombies have attacks that grab you and you need a teammate to get the zombie off of you.

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In case anyone is worried about the RePlayability of the game, appartenly some people found a way to import maps into the demo, and they siad they think it will be a regular ability in the game like in CounterStrike. Enjoy the Video and see if you can identify the map LOL (PS, your not a gamer unless you can)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SlXeiRH8VI&eurl=http://kotaku.com/index.php?refId=5080085

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Hmm guess I'm not a gamer because I've never played a game with that map before. Of course I've never played counter strike really before.

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lol it's Dust2

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Ok what's Dust2? A CCS mod?

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CSS map

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I've come to the conclusion that this game should be played with friends or the AI.
I decided to play a couple of games with random people and found that the AI is smarter than them..

1) While the AI will wait for me to clean a room out some from a distance the real players just go running in..

2) While the AI warns you to stay away from cars with alarms because they will draw a mob of crazed zombies I found the real players thought it was fun to jump on the cars roof bringing wave after wave of them..

3) While the AI is careful around harder zombies and protects your back I found that the real players didn't use voice commands so when I said "careful there is a witch on the other side of the train" one of them decided to go strait off and shoot at her which in turn she ran strait at me and started killing me while the rest of the real players shot a few zombies and looked around as I died..

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same thing happened to me, I kept saying, "IM HERE HELP" and they just run off ahead, some people will not stick together and just go do their own thing, sucks for a coop game and people do not want to play coop. I reccomend building a good firends list and jsut play with people you know play well.

Reiterated Side Note: ALL SS NEED to get this game, freaking awesome.

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Yeah I was always hesitant about this game from the moment I heard about it. Now I've played the demo and I cannot wait for the full version to come out. I had a rather different experience online. I played with my room mate and two random people. The only real problem I came across was they would occasional get careless and shoot me. After blowing through the 2 levels on the default (easy?? normal??) difficulty one of the other players decided to crank it all the way up. It's a whole different game on max difficulty I'll tell you that. There is no longer a question of working as a team, it's a requirement. We never managed to finish the second level but getting through the first was an accomplishment on itself. The only thing really stopping us from winning was a TANK...

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Yeah last night we went on advance mode and got destroyed in the subway 4 time before completing the level. Everyone really learns to work together fast in this game.

I'm going to take a guess that this game will go down as one of the best COOP games ever made. Even though the map was the same the placement of zombies, amounts, types always change making it crazy replayable.

Not to mention we're only playing the first two "leaning" scenes out of 5 whole level!

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Yea last night one guys was going lonewolf, so I told H to stop helping him and just let him die, I had already used my pipebomb to deter a swarm hitting him when he went off by himeself. ANyways all the get Demo now :)

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Downloading now!!!

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Crap I didint reserve from Valve Oh Well I will have it and I have already played it so I kn ow its GOOD!!!!!!!! One Week Boys and Girls!!!!

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Anyone that has not downloaded it please do now, it is very fun. And remember to get on ventrilo when you play. (Xfire does not show that you are playing it yet)

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http://www.l4d.com/blog/images/posts/004/5_all.jpg

Here is a good reason to make sure all your effects are on in the game.

"One of the goals of Left 4 Dead's art direction was to capture the tone and feel of being right in the middle of a horror movie. This meant making the environments look scary in a specifically cinematic way. To achieve this, we adopted four distinct "filmic" effects for our art direction: color correction, film grain, vignette and local contrast. We'll walk you through all four techniques, with examples, below..."

Good read, the whole article is HERE. (http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=1962)

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yeah! Xfire supports L4D!

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yeah! Xfire supports L4D!

Not super important with it being a Valve game.

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Wow, this game rocks. I'm not really into zombie games, but the demo convinced me.
Screw World at War, I'm getting this game!
Let me know when we're doing a co-op.

Edit: I keep having problems with it. Every now and then, it stops working. Anyone else get this?

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check all your video drivers some may need to be updated.

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My computer was fully updated just last night. I think it might be X-fire. I have a similar problem with Oblivion.

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odd, ok well try just playing with Xfire off for a while and see how that works i guess

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I tried. Apparently that's not it either.
I hope it's just bugs with the demo.

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good chance also make sure you defrag, for some reason it can make things glitch out when too many programs running at once