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I'd like to beat a L4D campaign on expert at least once (yes, that is L4D1). Anyone care to help me?
given the mapping slump i'm in at the moment, it's pretty depressing to see someone else plow through a level so efficiently.
On the other hand, I have found that professional mapping pretty much flows like this -- when you have a really short schedule, you generally go with your first good idea and start running with it rather than spending an extra week casting about for "something better." And after you polish it up, usually that first idea turns out to have been just fine. Sad but true, ideas are worth thin air, only done stuff counts. And since mapping is a process not a state even bad ideas can produce good maps from a competant mapper.
Negke - I think the problem will always be there (one side having bad ping) playing across the equator. They may have won numerically, but at least we didn't rage quit. Playing L4D with someone who's deaf (Crissama) can be frustrating until you learn to work as a team. Also, L4D2 takes ages to load on my work rig and I don't know why - the game before they reached the finale in Carnival and flipped the switch before I'd even entered playing as Infected. Woah fucking hell that looks cool.
Wasn't convinced at first as it looked like a fairly standard city scene with a bridge added, but with the dirty snow and water around, it looks great. ijed: np, I knew what I was in for. Aren't there really any dedicated servers around? Even if it's Brazil or something? That should work for you and lag less extreme for me/others.
Richard!!!!: Don't ragequit. Don't make more base maps. If anyone is interested in helping beta test this 11-day "winter" map feel free to post here:
http://forums.l4dmaps.net/thread-1162-page-4.html It looks pretty good and I'm sure after testing it could be a lot of fun to scavenge/survival on. http://kotaku.com/5469905/left-4-dead-2s-the-passing-coming-march-followed-by-comic-more-l4d-dlc
New uncommon common are actually survivors who thought they became infected during the apocalypse and may drop items when they die. Reminds me of a story from World War Z. Sounds lame - the name and idea. Like 'fill a level with witches!' or 'an area full of alarmed cars!' level design 101.
They didn't fail, but very weak concepts. 'What if both groups met? That'd be awesome!' I know thats not the limit of Valve's creativity - are they fucking with us or not? Wankers. I'm sure they're working on the Midnight Riders campaign and that's where all the good stuff is.
But really, there was a screen shot of a ton of zombies with tuxedos and dresses like they were at a wedding when the outbreak happened, which I thought was lol. What's the problem?? It's more L4D2 and more zombies. That is a good thing.
I don;t think it's a weak idea either, it seems right to tie together L4D and L4D2, surely?? The levels full of witches and car alarms were cool, especially when I stopped setting the car alarms off. P.S. 28 billion :D http://kotaku.com/5470182/left-4-dead-2-body-count-is-in-the-billions I don't know what you're expecting from Valve, but I'm already very satisfied with what they are giving.
I'm moaning about them pandering to us. And the car lot seemed gimmick - it'dve been cool if the idea had been expanded into a complete sequence - not as long as the awesome hard rain, but a much larger area more like an impound rather than a generic bit of ground filled with props.
The car alarm area couldn't be an entire campaign/level by itself. That would be too god damn annoying and would lose interest very quickly. It's perfectly fine as a small area you run through in a map, but would suck balls as a whole entire map.
It could have been more of a feature in the map, that map is pretty big and bad ass already, there's a lot to it. I like it tho.
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