Esh and Goat huh.... so much for me saving the day.

Wait you were zoey? Whoops.
I get confused with the names, I only knew esh because of his avatar.

btw I think we can do versus.  We've got at least 6 people, but I'm pretty sure it's more than that. We would just need to set a time and day to actually do it. It would be easier than trying to do a TF2 match since that requires more people.

We just played some Versus and my god it is fun. Either setting up traps and killing off the survivors which is far too enjoyable for its own good, or running in sheer terror as goat shouts at you via his mic. Aah, it's awesome.

some pix 4 HL:


omg 2 zoeys!


the awesome yetatthesametime horrific airport runway


hunter corpse stuck in a shelf, i like taking strange screen caps like this


pretty awesome disemboweled guy


louis being overly flexible


esh missing the rescue boat


a shameful death for a hunter (or any male for that matter)


bloody lady with nice weapon for me


the bitchin second campaign going through a rural small town

Thanks for photographing the moment I missed the boat.

It still hurts. I've been left for dead at the very end of a campaign twice now. Once by the plane where BM walked over me to get on, and the boat in which everyone just ..sort of watched me burn along with all the other zombies.

EDIT: Totally unintentional use of L4D in a sentence btw.

Well I finally updatet my PC and some parts are still missing but maybe I can play this sometime when I have the $$$ to buy it.

This game is really something.

There's nothing like turning off all the lights, at around 11pm and playing through a tough campaign uninterrupted.

What is Versus like anyway? A regular campaign where 4 players control the boss monsters?

Basically. Your team takes turns alternating between being the boss zombies and survivors. You go through an entire campaign and the winner is decided at the end based on points given for the distance your team traveled and multipliers given for things like health remaining, number of survivors that made it to the end, etc. The job as the zombies is to kill and disrupt the players to make sure they either get to the safe house with very low hp or not at all.

And if anyone missed that 8 man versus (including 6/7 GWers) then you've missed out big time.

Getting mounted and vomited on by Sarevok, helping up someone from a cliff-edge only for him to be flung from it, and again, Sarevok jumping off a cliff while his dying team watches on.

That was far too much fun.

edit: btw, i died because you got on the plane.

Sarevok: "Freeeeedoommmm......."

Man, it's 6:60am, we've just played - what, 4 hours(?) solid?

All I have is the bloody witch music ringing in my ears. Damn game.

Im mostly play this with my swedebuds while on ventrilo and it's very awesome.

Versus is incredible when everyone in the same ventrilo chatroom. I scream in terror when a smoker tongues me and my smoker-friend laughs hysterically. So fucking awesome.

Ventrilo is so much better than fucking steam voice chat. Useless stuff.

Ventrilo is so much better than fucking steam voice chat. Useless stuff.

I would say the opposite, ventrilo is fucking useless like sv_alltalk. Why have radio chat when the other team can hear you? Kind of takes away from the whole point of radio being faster than typing for quicker team responsiveness and communication, in exchange for... being able to smacktalk? Also, EVERYONE in the game with a mic has access to source radio, where as only people who have vent, are connected to your server, and are in the same room, are able to hear you in ventrilo.

I admit, I'd rather have to type out "TURN AROUND! I NEED HELP RIGHT BEHIND YOU!! AND HEY WATCH OUT FOR THE HUNTER ABOVE US!!!" rather than speak it, as long as I can call the smoker a douchebag afterwards, because radio is great for quickly getting messages to your enemies without having to type. Cause when you type to your teammates, it's rarely ever anything important, but when talking to the enemy, they better get the message ASAP!

Blood Harvest is my favorite campaign (I haven't played death toll yet.) I love the setting and finale a lot, probably because it brings back fond memories of Resident Evil 4. I've only beaten it on advanced though, expert is impossible because in forested areas there is absolutely no way to see the zombies coming at you.

Really? I liked Death Toll for the same reason. The small, rural town reminded me a lot of the village areas of RE, and defending from a house was very Night of the Living Dead esque (though I admit, the woodsy scenes of Blood Harvest is much closer to RE4).

And yea, hard as hell to see them coming through all the trees and bushes, I almost completely rely on audio to hear them coming. Good thing zombies scream and snarl like mad when they run towards you. Versus isn't as kind, with boomers hiding near-invisibly in bushes, and smokers striking safely from behind several layers of trees.

I can't wait till they add more campaigns, or they add some kind of system to allow custom maps to be made. I think there's great potential for the mod community out there, and valve is usually pretty good with working with them, they just seem to be leaving them in the dark so far with this release :\

I'd love to see the village from RE4 for instance, or maybe something like a huge, open, desert wasteland, where the hunting rifle actually has some usage!

i always prefer sv_alltalk............much more fun to talk smack than setting up "plans". besides you can set up an ambush just fine anyhow and telling your opponent you're going to spawn as a tank is always fun.

edit:i find my opponent's scream of terror much more satisfying than "points"