Left 4 Dead 2 Launch

ronkmonster

who's getting up at 5am to play?
other than me for few hours before work

leninbenjamin

Probably get up at 7. 5 is just a wee bit too early. Can't wait though

ronkmonster

not if you sleep early

need some people to play with. no one else is getting up.

Atlas_IRL

I reckon there will be a few of us on after 8pm would love to get an 4v4 going. Anyone interested?

ronkmonster

i hate versus mode.

everything else should be good.
i'm good for players in evening. just not morning
damn people sleeping when they could be killing infected

L31mr0d

I'll be on steam anyway around 6pm tomorrow.

What with Valves track record, I don't think I could gamble my sleep that the game will actually get unlocked at 5am tomorrow. If I waited 4 hours for it to unlock, didn't get to play and then had to go to work it would kill me.

Retr0gamer

Feck it I'm off to France this weekend

Maximilian

Looking forward to lashings and lashings of delicious brains.

shatners basoon

I'll definitely be playing at some stage tomorrow anyway, maybe some time in the morning but most likely later. Steam ID is the incredible pudding!

Creature

It just finished pre-loading for me there. I'll have my sleep thanks but will be around tomorrow for some games brains.

Overheal

Rather than burn 2 hours waiting ill stash the 2 hours and get up early before work

KilOit

Gonna wait for the reviews i see no reason to get this, it looks no different to l4d in my eyes.

shatners basoon

woke up early to try it out. Keeps crashing on me though with no error report or anything; its really frustrating! Checked the forums for any info but the solution the gave (turn violence down in the launch options) hasn't made a difference. Feckin' valve and their stupid launches!

leninbenjamin

Steam is borked again as usual. Took me 3 attempts before i could even log in, and then it just freezes when it looks for updates...

looks like i wont be playing this til later

koneko

Started at 8am. Great great game.

leninbenjamin

shatners basoon wrote: »

woke up early to try it out. Keeps crashing on me though with no error report or anything; its really frustrating! Checked the forums for any info but the solution the gave (turn violence down in the launch options) hasn't made a difference. Feckin' valve and their stupid launches!

well, half an hour after booting my PC Steam finally allowed me to play and I get the same damn thing.

leninbenjamin

shatners basoon wrote: »

woke up early to try it out. Keeps crashing on me though with no error report or anything; its really frustrating! Checked the forums for any info but the solution the gave (turn violence down in the launch options) hasn't made a difference. Feckin' valve and their stupid launches!

possible fix for this if anyone's interested:

* Close Steam
* Go To ..\steam\steamapps
* Delete left 4 dead 2 client.ncf
* Delete left 4 dead 2 common.ncf
* Restart Steam
* Right-click L4D2 and Install
* Let it sort itself out.

seems the issue is as a result of corruptions in these manifest files.

Retr0gamer

Should have taken the day off. At least i'm off early today so will be on steam later on tonight.

grizzly

Same here, to anyone who playing – what's it like? I'd be interested to know what scavenger mode is like – does it feel tacked on or a complete new game type?

Jumpy

Hold on. Are you telling me that Valve released this game on time?

koneko

I played Scavenger a few weeks ago, haven't tried it yet today. It didn't feel tacked on then, but really really fun.

So far played Dead Center and Dark Carnival with 3 others on Advanced. Versus after lunch!

leninbenjamin

grizzly wrote: »

Same here, to anyone who playing – what's it like? I'd be interested to know what scavenger mode is like – does it feel tacked on or a complete new game type?

I like it, although it's pretty poor on public servers. If one player isn't playing half assed it ruins it. It's a combination of versus and survival really. Some levels work much better than others though.

Jumpy wrote: »

Hold on. Are you telling me that Valve released this game on time?

yes, but full of bugs.

koneko wrote: »

I played Scavenger a few weeks ago, haven't tried it yet today. It didn't feel tacked on then, but really really fun.

So far played Dead Center and Dark Carnival with 3 others on Advanced. Versus after lunch!

Played dead centre on normal, but lost connection on the last level of the swamp campaign. two tanks tho!

Retr0gamer

Whats the Kim Swift designed campaign like? I'm really interested in playing that one.

Overheal

im waiting till i get home and have the big shout out about the speeding ticket i got last night then 5 campaigns to take my mind off the horrible experience \o/

Fnz

Overheal wrote: »

im waiting till i get home and have the big shout out about the speeding ticket i got last night then 5 campaigns to take my mind off the horrible experience \o/

The faster you drive home the sooner you can play. Just sayin'.

Overheal

not helpful!

mayordenis

Fnz wrote: »

The faster you drive home the sooner you can play. Just sayin'.

And also the less time your on the road the less chance you'll crash, that's statistics.

Stephen

Wish I was back home with my gaming PC right now

/curses ****ty laptop graphics card

Seifer

As expected steam had it's little hiccup as the whole world tries to get the last bit of the download.

Played through Dead Centre (the mall) and Swamp Fever and both were good fun. They're shorter than the l4d campaigns but I think that makes more sense as versus could takes ages sometimes.

Hopefully get my versus on this evening.

Overheal

shorter how?

Seifer

Dead centre is only 3 levels long and Swamp Fever 4.