Hey, I have a question. Do zombies always appear in the same spots? Because it would be cool if they poured out of a psuedo-random location and it would keep me on edge when playing the levels.

They appear randomly, it's part of what the Director does!

EDIT:
X-Box 360 demo is out.

Whenever steam gets updated, or new content released, I find it good practice to restart steam.

You really dont need to restart Steam because it has prolly crashed anyway or you don't have it on because most of the time it hogs a lot of memory, is extremely slow and crashes every 30 minutes and can only be shutdown via task manager.

Demo is out, restart your Steam to download it!!!!!

OoOoOOOo only 10 hours of DLing and then I can finally run it and have too low system specs to play.

uh, no. the like 20 playthroughs ive done has shown me nothing is scripted. its true you USUALLY get attacked by hordes in certain spots, and there are key spots where there'll always be SOMETHING, it's never a certain thing. ive had playthroughs where the area outside is empty and others where its flooded with like 2 orchestral-hordes (the ones that turn up when the music chimes) coupled with boomers for even more zombies :<

the only truly scripted things are.. well, stuff like the car in the first scene or the door button in the 2nd scene.

edit: yeah i contradict myself, i meant no HORDE ATTACKS are scripted (apart from the event ones ie: car)

Desite the odd zombie or two appearing in different places, you GENERALLY get attacked by the hoarde in exactly the same place every single time you play, I find. There's a few scripted mass attacks at set locations, but generally any large open space is a guarantee for an attack.

i noticed nothing like this at all. or well after the 10th time playing you know pretty much all places they CAN come from. or atleast the sneaky places that are not just open space.

i find the difficulty in the game too random. sometimes you face a tank and then you die or you get a playtrough with tons of bombs and have a real easy time :(

The difficulty is based on how you're doing and how the team is doing basically, it'll be better in release because release tracks stats and the Director can adjust difficulty based on your tracked stats iirc.

You can now access the demo via STEAM. Enjoy!

ps does anyone want to play when I get this installed?

Yes but first, anyone know if there's any autoconfigs and shit like that for this yet?


I'm going to paste my source games launch options on this one too which are:

-novid -dxlevel 81 -console -width 1024 -heapsize 524288 -console

That helps a bit but getting some l4d specific autoconfig would be nice so I can disable EVERYTHING which I think is necessary for me.

I mean the .cfg that overrides all the default setups, like as a default my TF2 suggest I use High and Medium graphical settings which is unplayable so I dunno why it does that but I use the autoconfigs to keep them all low and keep shit like particles and blood and decals and whatever unnecessary shit off to improve fps.

It's basically just huge list of variables that you give some value usually it's either 0 or 1. It's pretty self-explanitory when there's stuff like bloodDetails = 100 or something so it's easy to figure it out but the problem is I don't know the variables for L4D so I can't really make one myself so I'm going to use the one I have for HL2 and TF2 but they have some different variables and it might give unwanted results.

Also is it just me or does none of the source games ever save the settings you want? Like without autoconfig files if you go to graphics options and turn everything down and click apply and ok then the next time you start the game the settings you just put in are gone and you have the default settings again. It's pretty stupid.

I mean the .cfg that overrides all the default setups, like as a default my TF2 suggest I use High and Medium graphical settings which is unplayable so I dunno why it does that but I use the autoconfigs to keep them all low and keep shit like particles and blood and decals and whatever unnecessary shit off to improve fps.

It's basically just huge list of variables that you give some value usually it's either 0 or 1. It's pretty self-explanitory when there's stuff like bloodDetails = 100 or something so it's easy to figure it out but the problem is I don't know the variables for L4D so I can't really make one myself so I'm going to use the one I have for HL2 and TF2 but they have some different variables and it might give unwanted results.

Also is it just me or does none of the source games ever save the settings you want? Like without autoconfig files if you go to graphics options and turn everything down and click apply and ok then the next time you start the game the settings you just put in are gone and you have the default settings again. It's pretty stupid.

You have -dxlevel 80 or whatever, it resets your settings as long as its on there, you're supposed to remove it after you load the game like that the first time, it'll stick.

The PC version is so much better than 360, it's like a different game.

85%

It's only like 40 minutes now. So if anyone is up to it and I can run this thing I'm definetly going to be blasting some zombies tonite. Also like Magi said hard or expert only.

well apparently my gfx-card is too old to display anything but a black screen so can't really play now. I dunno if it's possible to overcome this problem with enough tinkering with autoexec.cfg and some other weird shit but I kinda doubt it.

EDIT:
after googling the problem some, I think the problem is that I don't think I have Pixel Shader 2.0 supporting GFX card which to my knowledge is mandatory so yeah. Can't really overcome hardware limits with software tweaks.