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Right now, this does require cheats to be on.

I've been doing "ent_fire !self setteam 3" to get to the infected team. It should allow you to spawn anywhere once the game starts, but if not, just use z_spawn like below.

Automatic respawning doesn't seem to work, but you can respawn a dead infected as anything you want with
z_spawn tank
z_spawn boomer
z_spawn smoker
z_spawn hunter

There might be a better way to get this working. There are a few different entites for survivors and infected, but nothing that I've tried seems to actually change the game mode.
There are also a lot of undocumented console commands, such as "respawn_all" which respawns all dead survivors (and lets you play with more than 4 Wink), "smoke" which makes you shit out smoke, "boom" which makes you shit out a grenade, and "dance" which makes you dance (as a zombie), just to name a few. There might be something in there that could help make this work properly.

Versus mode in demo (kinda).

EDIT:
Also you can do the following to access the normal Server Browser in Left 4 Dead:

In the developer console enter openserverbrowser

Tada!

All the games are under the Custom tab.

EDIT:
the de_dust video is on normal.

i am loving this, really. i just played through it twice, and on the 2nd time i picked up that gas canister from near the exit, ran to the safe room, threw the gas canister outside and shot it.

i alone survived.

Well, a zombie is easy to kill, the difficulty is from multiple zombies. Yeah there's a couple spots when if you're careful the zombies will just stand around oblivious to you..

But man shit gets crazy. Once one of the other characters clipped a car with the shotgun and the alarm went off. Holy FUCK. When a horde comes out you, you're in pretty big trouble if you're not careful. And then if a Boomer sneaks p from behind and explodes; you get this ridiculous filter on your screen and zombies specifically swarm YOU. It's all about sticking with the others and watching each others back. I like to consider myself decent at shooters, but there are just times when you have to rely on your teammates to help you, which was refreshing compared to a lot of AI in games.

This game is OFF. DA. HOOOOOK

Seriously, if you're worried about difficulty, don't be. I watched videos prior to the demo and lamented the seemingly challenge-less difficulty. But actual playtime has remedied this. You CAN and WILL run out of ammo, sometimes at the worst possible moment. You CAN and WILL die on the harder difficulties. The nature of the game is that you can be doing well one moment and then shit hits the fan. It's tense as hell because you NEVER feel safe except in that blessed safe room. And regarding the zombies: trust me, there will be quite a few times that you're happy that these guys don't go into attack mode the second they hear or see you. And my god is teamwork important. You absolutely do not survive alone, period. This is one of the first FPS games that truly surprises the fuck out of you. Enemies do not simply come from THE FRONT. They come from the side, behind, below, even above. You'll be hurrying through a darkened subway tunnel when suddenly they are swarming at you from the rear, bursting from a tiny hole in the wall, or dropping from an opening in the ceiling. They climb, over ANYTHING, they break down doors, and they run fast as hell. And there's always a good chance of a boss zombie in the crowd. A boomer that vomits on you and draws every zombie in the area swarming to you, a smoker that snags you with his tongue and starts choking or dragging you away, a hunter that claws you to shreds, or the fucking tank that takes all four team mates to finally bring down. And there's the witch, known by her telltale wailing and crying. The demo has only been out a day but players have already picked up on the protocol: when you hear the crying, flashlights go off. You don't want to be the person who wakes her up.

My only main gripe, besides laggy zombie animations that sometimes warp around or behave strangely, is the terrible matchmaking that makes online play a fucking nightmare. Hope Valve gets that shit sorted out before or for release. Otherwise I am pretty happy with the game. It might be neat to see if players can create a slower paced mod that places greater emphasis on exploration and conservation, because L4D is pretty fast paced and trigger happy.

Also I like Louis.

You can use voice chat, it's a Source multiplayer game.

Why is this game so expensive, wasn't TF2 like half the price of this???

TF2 was also a part of the Orange Box, be kinda a rip off to pay 50$ for TF2 or say, 50$ for TF2 & 4 other games.

So I was pretty bored so I joined goats game online and they were messing around with console commands. Eventually they all went to the horde side, so I was all alone vs. real players. And they spawned lots of baddies. The screenshots will tell the story. The images are quite large by the way so I apologize.




Yes I died.
A lot.

i played this in my friend's room last night mostly because it was just there and i was waiting for him to finish his homework. i dont really FOLLOW GAMES and had no idea what this wa when i started playing.

that said i instantly started enjoying it a lot. the most amazing thing about this game for me was the serious constant tension just everywhere. you are NEVER safe and you NEVER know when or where they will come for you. had a hard time getting online because the university connection blows, but i was really having fun with computers, so i can imagine how awesome the game would be with other human players.

first time through i got killed by a witch and i don't even KNOW what happened. i was in the subways and was running ahead of my team exploring, and i heard some creepy sound and turned to face a zombie. it LOOKED AT ME and ther was a caption that said i statled the witch and i SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF ME and next thing I know i was dead.

so yeah this game is really awesome. i want it now.

Dude. Dude.

This looks incredible. Why didn't anyone tell me about this earlier?