just a beta, but absolutely awesome. EA hired the guy who made fancy pants adventures apparently, and the animation and movement is ace:

http://www.bornegames.com/?page_id=369 

~3 days and counting.

It's an instant classic. One of those games where it gets more interesting, not less, as you play.

With bots is ok, but it's with bots.

Replaying the demo so far we've had three last-man-standing finishes. Basically the group turning on each over before closing the door to the safe room.

One involved a 'mate' chucking a molotiv into the safe room where the rest of us were waiting. I saw what he was doing (waiting to close the door) and exited. He was stood next to a gascan and I had an automatic shotgun.

Playing on a LAN, and we're pissing off all the Quake4 players by screaming at each other more than they do.

Just waiting for the full game now.

This game gets an ijed nine drinks drank. 

Yeah, its pure gaming gold as far as im concerned. 

Should I buy this game and play with you gaylords?? 

Yes you should.
Gonna be hard not to want to shoot you despite it being coop though. 

Gonna be hard not to want to shoot you despite it being coop though

I rofl'ed

But yes you should get it Shamb, if only to shoot Bal in an act of revenge. 

But I'm playing solo the first time through, with the AI. As far as I'm aware the AI is better with weapons and teamplay, I can't count how many times I've been saved by them.

They always put me first before themselves, as in healing me even if they need it a bit more.

They never rush me, so I can take my time and look around levels and go at my own pace as opposed to human players flying through a map with me trying to play catch up with them.

And lastly, I know they won't do anything stupid on purpose like throw a Molotov next to me or curse at me because I should have closed that particular door earlier when the zombie mob was coming. 

On expert mode they aren't smart enough really, much better off playing with humans then, AI get owned pretty fast.
And the stupid things humans do just add to the game really, accidentally shooting a team mate point blank with a shotgun makes for some interesting situations. =) 

I got the demo running even on this poorly machine, so I can certify if you meet orange box specs, then you can run L4D.

The coop bots seem mostly competent, they don't ever have pathing problems or split up(that I've seen). Even on expert they seem to be capable of meeting the combat so long as you work hard.

Until the tank comes on the scene. Since you need to lead the bots around the map, you're almost always on point when he appears. He always seems to target me first, smash me to the ground before there's the remotest chance of dealing fatal damage. Left to their own devices, the bots are then thoroughly incapable of beating it, and so you get a game over with everyone pinned.

The only way I've found of beating it is to ruthlessly push one of the other bots into it's path, let it take out them while I keep popping headshots, and hope that afterwards they respawn quickly. Anyone got tips? 

And the stupid things humans do just add to the game really, accidentally shooting a team mate point blank with a shotgun makes for some interesting situations. =)


Oh yeah, it will do. Where's my mofoing credit card? 

you live in a van down by the river 

I'm loving it, hands down the best coop game I've ever played.

Don't play with bots unless you have absolutely no choice: this game lives and dies on the interaction between players. When you fuck up and shoot your mate in the back during a mad zombie rush and have to hustle extra hard to make up for it, that's when things really come alive. 

Oh fek I started playing this and it's sucking my life away already.
It's not so pretty, but it's horribly addictive, Post-Apocalyptic Oblivion with Guns = win. 

Got the demo, works fine, kinda cool.

My name seems to be teamshambler , so you p1mps can find me if needed. 

20 hours and counting, preload grinding away.

Bot'sre ok for the first couple of games when you're learning, yeah, but you lose most of the game without human players.

Really looking forward to playing as the boss zombies (yeah, I finally looked up the forum posts). 

Spooky.

You don't exist. 

I'm sure I do exist. Have opened Steam now. 

 

Yes - Its sucking the life out of me, too...

I love it when you get to level 10 you get a perk to instantly reach level 11....

So many fantastic elements to Fallout3, one cant even describe how immersive and addictive it is. And the animation really isn't that bad....

One example of the brilliant "open-endedness" of it - Megaton - Do you:

1 - talk to the guy at the bar, get the device and then detonate the bomb (apparently you get a room at Tenpenny Tower)?

2 - talk to the sherrif and de-fuse the bomb for 100 caps?

3 - talk to the sherrif first, then the guy in the bar, then go and tell the sherrif what the guy in the bar says. The sherrif goes to confront the guy, who shoots him dead. God knows what will happen to the bomb now, for this is what I have done.


A freind of mine has started this over four times now. One time, my other freind was playing around with his character when he (by pure chance) stumbled upon the location of the characters father. This kinda spoiled it for him...

I have yet to find the dog. 

Back on again. Online and profile is public. What next?? Is there like a pre-game chat thing? I have no idea how steam works. 

Post your community page url here, so someone can add you to the func_group or something, if no has done so already. 

Click on friends, add friend and put the name.

To be fair had alot of problems here with someone sat across the room - cannot find 'x'.

My steam id is the same as my name here.

Looking forward to playing the proper game today, considering the demo maps were still fun. 

Damn. After its released they make a 3 for the price of four pack.

That's irritating for those who already own it. 

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Ninjakiwi/boombot

Nothing to do with it, but there you go. 

Its even better than the demo, I have been totally engrossed since it unlocked today!

The pacing is much improved over the demo, this is mainly due to the fact that you can play through an entire campaign rather than 2 short maps, but even so the highs and lows and very well thought out.

Difficulty seems to have increased on both advanced and expert mode, which is a welcome change imo, the game is challenging on advanced and downright evil on expert - which is exactly where it needs to be :)

Its a shame that there are only 4 campaigns to play through, and a good team can complete one in around 30-45 minutes, but as has already been discussed, the repeatability of the campaigns is immense.

After a playing a few laggy games I went searching for a decent server grouping for the UK and found this great group : http://steamcommunity.com/groups/WPL4D

If you add this group to your profile you will be able to join and host games on these UK servers and pings are very respectable every time I have played on them.

I shot Bal around 16 times "by accident" when we played earlier, so you can all form a queue to thank me!

Buy this game!