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Left 4 Dead 2 is sick
16 years ago
My god, L4D2 is fucking sweet. I have to have the settings set on the lowest right now, but even with that, I'm noticing a huge difference in graphics and detail.
First off, the zombies will show more damage when you shoot them. For example, I came up to a zombie from behind and shot it in the back with the shotgun, blew a hole in it's back, you could see the spine. I toss a pipe bomb, a bunch of zombies gather around, and instead of just exploding into bloody dust like in the first L4D, the zombies go flying, body parts everywhere. I even shot one zombie in the stomach, blew a hole right through it, yet it got back up and headed for me again.
The new infected are a pain, yet they're still cool, and I know playing as them in versus is gonna be sweet. All of the old infected have graphical updates, even completely new looks (like I've seen a female boomer....eew), and the AI is much better than in the first (at least for the special infected, that is... Survivor AI is still dumb as rocks, if not worse).
Gameplay has been updated as well, even just on normal, this game is still fucking hard.
The melee weapons are a nice new addition, and can be very useful for knocking away large groups of zombies (the machete and guitar are my favorites so far), and that's just the start of the new items. There's the shots, which increase your speed and give you a small health boost, the boomer bile which attracts the horde to wherever (or whoever) you throw it on, the defibrillator which is used to instantly revive a killed survivor instead of having to rescue them from a closet, and several weapons.
In this game, if you take a melee weapon, it replaces your pistol, but I think it's worth it when you know you're gonna be up against hordes. So far I haven't found a whole lot of new weapons yet, but this is just the demo (no grenade launcher, fire axe or chainsaw yet).
Also, just from what I've been playing, this game is way more difficult than the first L4D. There's a part where everyone is in this little truck thing, and when you open the door to get out, an alarm sounds alerting the horde, but it's not like in L4D where it sounds for a while, some zombies show up and you stay in one place until they're gone, no. The alarm keeps going until you run all the way through this long path of fences, fighting off huge groups of zombies the whole time to get to a switch at the top of a tower to shut off the alarm. I was playing with my friend, and we both used shots to speed ourselves up, and I was running along the path and a charger was headed straight for me, I stepped aside and managed to dodge him, but my friend wasn't so lucky. I didn't realize he got caught by him, so I kept running ahead, then I turn to see everyone else all the way at the end of the path, and I'm stuck fighting hordes by myself.
So, yeah, L4D2 is sweet, can't wait for the full game, and I'm gonna have to look into trying to afford a better graphics card for my comp so it will play better and I can set it on higher settings. And for those of you that have it, or are gonna get it, add me to Steam so we can play sometime! My Steam ID is FoxyDude915. ADD ME!
First off, the zombies will show more damage when you shoot them. For example, I came up to a zombie from behind and shot it in the back with the shotgun, blew a hole in it's back, you could see the spine. I toss a pipe bomb, a bunch of zombies gather around, and instead of just exploding into bloody dust like in the first L4D, the zombies go flying, body parts everywhere. I even shot one zombie in the stomach, blew a hole right through it, yet it got back up and headed for me again.
The new infected are a pain, yet they're still cool, and I know playing as them in versus is gonna be sweet. All of the old infected have graphical updates, even completely new looks (like I've seen a female boomer....eew), and the AI is much better than in the first (at least for the special infected, that is... Survivor AI is still dumb as rocks, if not worse).
Gameplay has been updated as well, even just on normal, this game is still fucking hard.
The melee weapons are a nice new addition, and can be very useful for knocking away large groups of zombies (the machete and guitar are my favorites so far), and that's just the start of the new items. There's the shots, which increase your speed and give you a small health boost, the boomer bile which attracts the horde to wherever (or whoever) you throw it on, the defibrillator which is used to instantly revive a killed survivor instead of having to rescue them from a closet, and several weapons.
In this game, if you take a melee weapon, it replaces your pistol, but I think it's worth it when you know you're gonna be up against hordes. So far I haven't found a whole lot of new weapons yet, but this is just the demo (no grenade launcher, fire axe or chainsaw yet).
Also, just from what I've been playing, this game is way more difficult than the first L4D. There's a part where everyone is in this little truck thing, and when you open the door to get out, an alarm sounds alerting the horde, but it's not like in L4D where it sounds for a while, some zombies show up and you stay in one place until they're gone, no. The alarm keeps going until you run all the way through this long path of fences, fighting off huge groups of zombies the whole time to get to a switch at the top of a tower to shut off the alarm. I was playing with my friend, and we both used shots to speed ourselves up, and I was running along the path and a charger was headed straight for me, I stepped aside and managed to dodge him, but my friend wasn't so lucky. I didn't realize he got caught by him, so I kept running ahead, then I turn to see everyone else all the way at the end of the path, and I'm stuck fighting hordes by myself.
So, yeah, L4D2 is sweet, can't wait for the full game, and I'm gonna have to look into trying to afford a better graphics card for my comp so it will play better and I can set it on higher settings. And for those of you that have it, or are gonna get it, add me to Steam so we can play sometime! My Steam ID is FoxyDude915. ADD ME!
Oh and the chargers and Jockeys just love me, I'm always getting hit by both...
Glad you got your problem with steam fixed by the way. Which character in 2 do you like? I love Rochelle, she's so sassy. :3
I've heard the fire axe can take down special infected with a single hit (all but the tank, of course), and I can't wait to see how well the chainsaw does.
oh you never answered my question about the characters. :3
What does it do to justify the price tag - Nothing. It merely fixes some of the major flaws of the first game and inherent problems in the network code. Surely stuff that could easily been fixed in a patch.
Is there any new content and I mean really new content. No. None. I cannot help but feel valve have jumped on the same bandwagon of other developers and produce a new game every year but the games remain identical. I really fear for the future of there games if this is the route they intend to go down. When I play a game I want to feel immersed in it I want atmosphere I felt nothing. I am so disappointed by there apparent pandering to those playing on a console with controllers.
I also feel that it has been massively dumbed down for the brain dead american teenagers that whine to their "mama and papa" about not getting spoilt enough and seem to think shelling out 30quid just so they can see someones head explode is a worthwhile investment. Its a damning indictment of how far society continues to fall that these kind of laziness still seems to get rave reviews from all sides of the media. Have we become so lax and so souless that we will take this kind of thing with relish rather than rejecting it and demanding better. If we lay down so easily whats to stop them from continuing to trot out the same shite year after year and charge more obscene amounts of money. We should not accept this and demand far more from what was once one of the worlds premier developers. Perhaps their time is past I certainly feel like I have lost trust in them as a developer and do not expect HL2 Ep3 to be any better.
RIP Valve
Note I am not having a go at you for enjoying it just feel that I should be allowed to voice my concerns to.
Its jpa from da btw. we used to talk in iaa a long time ago. hope your well J