L4D 2 annouced.

[Shadowhusky]

Guess who dies?

spoilers like no other

Spoiler: show

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Son of a bitch

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fffffffffff, it's out on Xbox already but not PC? Son of a bitch.

[Trigun]

Dont buy it, no spoilers but theres not even a movie or cs just another downloaded level,

Spoiler: show

sewer was pretty scary

but thats about it. Will be free on PC.

[Akucaen]

PC is out now. Downloading as we speak.

[Kaisha]

Change the region you download from if you can't connect to L4D2. I managed to get the download going by changing from US-New York to Denmark. >.>

[TheDirtyHobo]

link?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/ ? It's a PC game on steam, what the hell do you want?

Anyone want to join up once the update finishes? I've got a buddy I'm playing with, so two open spaces. Just add me on steam, [email protected] or go in the BG chat or something.

[Kwijiboe]

Sure. [email protected] and kwijiboe is my friends list name.

[Moosey]

They need to make Realism Versus a permanent game mode, or just get rid of regular versus and replace it with this.

[Shadowhusky]

Addon Update

* Fixed a crash when the vpk file limit was reached.
* Fixed an issue where wireframes were displayed while playing Addon Campaigns.


Versus Updates

* Added a 25 point scoring penalty for using a Defibrillator.
* Scaled dynamic Defibrillators based on map length with a maximum of 1 per map.
* Removed dynamic Pill conversion to First Aid Kits.
* Removed Explosive Ammunition.
* Increased Jockey damage per second.
* Removed Jockey’s damage delay.

Well versus got...nerfed? I don't really like the changes but it helps I suppose.

[Metah]

Sounds like they listened to the poll from the other week

[Shadowhusky]

Sounds like they listened to the poll from the other week

Blog said the poll had no effect. They were doing personal feed back and there's more changes in store.

[Metah]

Everything Must Go
Last week's poll results for the question; If you could remove one item from the Survivors in Versus, what would it be?

PC Results
23% Nothing
19% Medkits
19% Defibs
18% Grenade Launcher
14% Explosive Ammo
7% Incendiary Ammo

Xbox 360 Results
27% Nothing
21% Medkits
18% Defibs
16% Grenade Launcher
11% Explosive Ammo
7% Incendiary Ammo

Overall:
In this kind of Poll we don't consider "Nothing" the winner, as nothing to anything loses in both polls. What it does say is there are many things that people feel strongly about, maybe not strong enough to remove but strong enough that we should make some adjustments. So we are going to be making adjustments.

Also in This Update
We have the first of our planned Versus Changes. These changes will appear on the PC and later on the Xbox 360.

While not removing Defibrillators, we have made some changes to them. We scaled dynamic Defibs based on map length. This means unless the Defib was expressly set by the level designer to have more, the Director will only spawn them on a long map. The Director will also cap the number to one per map.

Using the Defibrillator is no longer free; there is now a 25 point scoring penalty for using a Defib. That means each time you use one, you will have 25 points removed from your final score. Will your revived Survivor make it far enough to be worth it?

Health kits will also be less numerous as we have removed the Director's dynamic Pill conversion. Previously if the first team was injured, the Director would spawn First Aid Kits instead of Pills for both teams. Now the Director will always just spawn Pills.

Based on this, it seems like they listened to the poll. I don't know where you say the poll has no effect, I've read the blog over and it doesn't say that anywhere.

[Lebzile]

k So since I finally got this wanted to get some people from BG to play with, like with the first game. Who's up for it?! Although, slow as shit downloading, bawww.

[Kajii]

Mine was done in about 30min

When you trying to play?

[Lebzile]

That's weird, I'm barely pulling 200kb/s for some reason.

Also I'd like to play a couple matches as soon as it is done.

Steam is TheRealHyde


Also, wasn't there a region you could set your download to, to download faster? Lol

[Kaisha]

Also, wasn't there a region you could set your download to, to download faster? Lol

Steam Preferences, last tab on the window.

[Lebzile]

Steam Preferences, last tab on the window.

No, I know where the option is, but I heard something somewhere about if you set the region to Germany it was downloading faster for people. But, it's done now so it doesn't matter.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

Leb what's your steam i'll L4D2 with ya.

[Lyramion]

While not removing Defibrillators, we have made some changes to them. We scaled dynamic Defibs based on map length. This means unless the Defib was expressly set by the level designer to have more, the Director will only spawn them on a long map. The Director will also cap the number to one per map.

Arent there still 2 set defibs on the rock concert finale? I mean.. come on...rly? :X Even after putting those small spawn towers in the corners that map still has such a bad Geometry for the infected team.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

Arent there still 2 set defibs on the rock concert finale? I mean.. come on...rly? :X Even after putting those small spawn towers in the corners that map still has such a bad Geometry for the infected team.

I think they should fix the plywood bug first, then fix stuff like that.

Who on BG wanna L4D2 right now or soon? Rollerstarter2 on steam.

[Kiarax]

No, I know where the option is, but I heard something somewhere about if you set the region to Germany it was downloading faster for people. But, it's done now so it doesn't matter.

It's not a specific location that's faster. Just if the download server you're using is congested it's sometimes faster to swap to one that is being used less.