BRAAAAAAAAAAINSSSSSS!!!

Right then, I thought I might make it oficial that we are going to have crazy zombie apocalypse time.

Details are not finalised (typical us, we started discussing over a month ago about what to do), however, this is what I'm thinking we will do;

Week running up to release (demo week), starting on the 11th of November we will change our third server (78.129.231.184:27017, currently HL2DM/ZPS/Hidden as we want) to a L4D coop server for those who download the demo. We will not be running a server for the pre-order demo (a week earlier) as we don't know many people pre-ordering through Steam (as it is expensive).

Following release (19th Nov) we will close all our other servers for the weekend and run as many L4D servers as we can without lagging. We have no idea how server heavy L4D is yet, so we don't know how many we can get, but expect atleast 2 coop servers and 1 versus server.

After the weekend we will resume normal service (TF2, CSS) and keep the 3rd server as L4D as whichever mode turns out to be most like/which one people want to play.

- Skillers and the Staff

@Si, feel free to change this as you see fit.

this will be lame, ive yet to see anything for left for dead and sounds really gay, online coop will be lke synergy where you join at anypoint and not do a story!

Chicken may i redirect you to the other left for dead thread?

There you shall find video's (the best is the intro one) also i believe there was info on the game in that thread too other wise check out game review sites. The game as much as i have heard shouldn't be lame even if there is drop in drop out entry (which i've never heard of). The story is each mission and just trying to survive.

Failing all that whats wrong with good old zombie killing or a nice versus game on L4D.

If you play with us you know we're likely to play for a while so no one will be dropping in and out constantly like in random servers.

Woot!

The wonders of forming an opinion without playing the game yourself.

Neither have i, waiting for a demo everyone can play, THEN i decide.

Awesome, it better not take ages to install

Heh, Ogris, Chicken has changed his mind now after watching the intro.

Just something in general/for Si to look out, just found it;



Sounds like 2 coop and 1 versus is about right.

I would prepare for the worst tbh. Its going to be a lot worse than BOTS for CS:S and such. The game sounds like it has a mind of its own, so I'm expecting a lot of CPU whorage.

truthfully i think i'm gonna enjoy the most the story/4 player co-op side of the game, the versus i'll give a try to though maybe i'll like it more

Versus will be a lot less demanding on the server.

will it? is versus 4v4 or do the zombie side get their minion bots too?

I think ill play through the whole game (it won't take long) in single player before i even look at coop or versus,
Just to get a real feel for the game and so i dont miss any of the story out.

The AI director and Zombie AI of the Coop mode will take a lot o CPU. Versus is just humans vs special monsters, IIRC, which is just as demanding as HL2DM or CSS.

ok im gonna say it now, as it must be in every other post skillers/si make. wtf is IIRC

Back to the game, i did watch the trailer... looks good hopefully i can afford the game, if not ile have to try and find some friends on the jh tf2 servers

if i remember correctly.

IIRC, IIRC is If I Remember Correctly (yes, I know Wynney already said, but I had to).

@Chicken, hopeully you can play, but if you can't, we'll only close the other servers for a weekend (probably).

woop, oh right, well ile alway forget that so, just like randomly i may ask again.

I think im gunna get the demo and play that to death,. and if not as soon as it comes out, christmas defo

I'll be trying out the demo first to see how well it runs on the comp.

And I was under the impression that the Director was always there, no matter what game mode (in order to keep the game interesting), along with all the normal zombies.

I don't think so.

Both modes are 4Humans versus a shed load of puny zombies and what I'm thinking will be 4Buffed-Zombies at the most. Co-op means every single zombie is controlled by AI, Versus means all the puny zombies are controlled by AI but the 4Buffed-Zombies are other players.

Yea, that sounds about right.

From what I'd seen I was under the impression that versus was more like deathmatch, with people playing the super-zombies (tank, boomer, smoker and hunter). We shall see.

Do you have links? Evidence to back that up? You might be right on versus, but I thought the normal infected were always there. The director certainly is, as it doesn't just control the npcs.

I don't ahve any links. Infact, I don't think they've discussed versus that much. It's just what I imagined it to be, especially seeing as playing like the coop mode would make it kinda boring for the super infected as they're not always present.

Yea, ah well, I'm sure it will be awesome when the game arrives. Valve have probably got some uber system worked out that makes it work.