I don't feel like paying $50, as I don't really have that money to spend now. The game does look pretty cool, and I love human vs. zombie scenarios pretty much any time. Have fun with the demo, i'll eventually come around to purchasing the game itself when it comes out.

/Ugh Valve lied to me, they said I could still play the game if I pre-ordered after the sixth

Well at least I still got 10% off.

Is this game scary? I don't like being scared. The atmosphere itself is creeping me out!

Resident Evil 4 scared the shit outta me so i dunno!

The only things I have really found scary at all are the tank and the witch. Even on expert mode general zombies go down in 1 - 2 hits with the shotgun. Boomers, Hunters and Smokers are not really a problem so long as you have team mates around to help you out if you get caught by them but the tank? This guy sends me in to full fledged PANIC MODE, I don't really know how to handle him yet so I'll go straight for my explosive if I have one and then just unload whatever guns I have into his face. I haven't even dared to shoot the witch yet but the fact that you can hear her sobbing throughout half the level is pretty creepy.

1. Performance. To my understanding this is more demanding with hardware than TF2. True? Overall feelings on performance please.

I'm not sure if it is more or less demanding than TF2 but I've been able to run it pretty seamlessly with my setup which is definitely not the best setup out there and I've got it on full. I would say it is probably about equal to having to run TF2 but you should definitely check that out. Anyway I've had a lot less graphical problems with this so far than I have with Fallout3/Cod4 and other recent games.

2. Was that clip played on easy? Because it seemed REALLY EASY.

I'm not sure what difficulty goat was playing on but when I joined in to play with them we were on advanced or expert, I don't think it was expert though because so far I've only managed to complete it on expert ONCE and that's when I was playing singleplayer with 3 computer AI's. I think it's easier this way because the computer AI pretty much just focuses on BACKING YOU UP, whereas with other players you don't really know how they are going to work.

3. The zombie AI seems glitchy/non-aggressive at points? Is it because they haven't noticed you or just GLITCH?

There are times when they are slow and haven't noticed you yet but once the "horde" is alerted at any point you are generally fucked. There are some nasty points where you really don't want to get a horde because it basically means 100 or so zombies literally come swarming towards you. So yeah before they are alerted they are slow and unresponsive but once the director sends a horde at you or you do something stupid like set off a car alarm then you are within seconds overwhelmed by more zombies than you can really handle and they are FAST.

To everyone who has been playing so far, what kind of tactics have you been employing for the different sections of the game. The hardest parts I've found to deal with swarms are the streets outside the apartment area and the escalator/ticket booths in the subway. The best tactic I found for the streets was to try and handle the swarm in the alleyway so they can only take you from front/behind and not the sides, then once you get round the corner, group up the four of you behind the white van with your backs into that corner which keeps you protected from two sides. Then it's just the last break for the safehouse. In the escalators it doesn't seem like the zombies can cross the barriers so if you all take the same escalator down, one covers the front, one covers the back and the zombies can only take you one at a time which is as simple as bashing them away and unloading your weapon of choice.

Also yeah, it's not as simple as barricading a room because you get overwhelmed very easily. If the director thinks you are taking too long at any point he will send a swarm to take you from behind so you literally have to keep on your feet always and try and keep up a good pace. If you lag behind even the slightest you will be overrun from both sides before you know it. Gotta keep one step ahead of the director.

OH YEAH people should crouch more in doorways, it is really frustrating when someone is standing in the freakin doorway while the horde floods up against them, there's 3 guys with fully loaded weapons standing behind you and none of them can shoot because you're taking up the whole doorway! If you're the guy in front in a doorway or corridor, crouch please.

It has been pretty unclear to me how much shit you are able to carry. Like, do you have a inventory which consists of BIG GUN + SMALL GUN + NADES + MEDIKIT. Do you need to throw empty guns out the window to pick up neew ones or do you just start with some random gun and then collect ammo for that?

Question 2: Is alt. fire the melee hit with the gun or how do you do that melee attack?

Also I'm glad there isn't that barricading shit like there is in Zombie Panic Source, it's just fucking tedious because it never works after you've ran out of bullets and it's just a fucking project trying to get over one chair, let alone the usual barricade which is 2 sofas, 1 shelf and 3 tables.

At the moment you get Primary Weapon, Pistol, Explosive, Medipack, Pain Pills. You have a slot for each one of these items, the primary weapon is any weapon of your choice that you pick up, but you can only have one primary weapon so choose wisely I guess. They are all pretty good though, especially further into the level when you get hunting rifle/assault rifle. The Pistol is infinite ammo but weak as shit and I don't think you can trade it out, you usually have to put half a clip or so into a zombie to drop them with the pistol so it's definitely a LAST RESORT thing. You can carry 1 medipack at a time to either use on yourself or someone else and you can carry 1 bottle of pain pills at a time which gives you a temporary health boost. Oh and one explosive at a time which at the moment is either molotov or pipe bomb.

Wow. Those zombies don't do ANYTHING. Do you have to add AI to maps or was that just EASIEST mode??

Like, if the zombies are always like that this game is probably not going to be fun at all sorry!
(i'm doubting it is, because the first video looked like the AI was fine)