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Sort of.

I unexpectedly found it again at the local Wally Mart after checking online and finding it not in stock at any store for a long ways- WM, Best Buy etc. Made sense when I saw it, tho; they've likely shipped out warehouse inventory to clear space for L4D2.

Later I found that it'd somehow followed me and jumped in my cart as I left that area. Darn zumbies... I figured it was a sign, and'd prolly follow me even if I put it back (darned undead)...

Checkout gave me bad sticker shock tho, so it's still unopened JIC. I'll be looking at finances to see if I need to return it or not. Das Neu Boxen isn't battleworthy yet anyway; otoh I am expecting a *small* windfall sometime soonish. We'll see.

So, just giving you Fearless Zumbie Killerz the heads-up. Wouldn't want you giving it up for some new hawtness just as I $pent on it.

(If sturner does look like Bill, it's uncanny, as I look not unlike the otherwise-similar younger guy on the back cover. I've got all my hair, and my beard's only peppery, not white.

At least he's not dead yet. )

I've been downloading and running a lot of the user made campaigns. I must say, that the old truth holds, most people can't design a scenario to save their lives. There are a few that don't suck. Most are either half finished, bad design, or are buggy. Doesn't mean I don't play them though.

Must KILL zombies!  It's the Godly thing to do.

Death Aboard, Heaven Can Wait, 7 Hours Later, Coal'd Blood, and maybe Night Terror (If you want to go through Disney World).

The ones that follow are too beta or questionable.
Dam It, Power Station, Blood Hospital, Last Train, Hells Hollow, Escape from Toronto, Dead City, Silent Hill, Dawn Awake,

sturner wrote:

Must KILL zombies!  It's the Godly thing to do.

Damn straight! I'm in as soon as can be.

Valve showcases Dark Carnival campaign in new L4D2 screenshots

Valve has announced that PAX attendees will be able to check out Left 4 Dead 2's third campaign at the show, "Dark Carnival":

Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2), the sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed action thriller from Valve is being shown this weekend at The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle, Washington.

The game is available to play, by the press and public, at Valve and Microsoft's Xbox 360 booth.

After debuting "The Parish" campaign (set in the New Orleans' French Quarter) at E3 and "Swamp Fever" at Comic Con San Diego, Dark Carnival is the third of the five campaigns shipping with L4D2 this fall.

Valve is also unveiling a new Boss infected monster coming in the full version of Left 4 Dead 2. Known as "The Jockey" this is the third new Boss infected from L4D2 revealed thus far (the Charger was revealed at E3, The Spitter at Comic Con). The Jockey lets you attack lone Survivors and wrestle control of their movement away from them- into fire, off ledges, or straight into the middle of a zombie horde.

In addition to the new campaign and boss monster the PAX showing of L4D2 marks the debut of the "Zombie Clown," the "uncommon common" exclusive to the Dark Carnival campaign, and a few more of the 20-plus new items coming in the full product (electric guitar, machete, and the American baseball bat being offered as a pre-sell exclusive with select retailers).

Coming exclusively to Xbox 360 and PC on November 17, Left 4 Dead 2 promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games and become one of 2009's marquee titles.

Valve has also released new screenshots from the campaign which can be seen in the gallery above.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=22102

Last edited by Bat (2009-09-04 11:33 pm)

I"ve been playing Louis in a lot of games lately. So I think I will be amply supplied with choices.

Ya true. But the weakness for it on PC side is the 3rd party maps. They get released for free and give competition to packs made by the company themselves.

Consoles is all controlled by the owner of the network along with console specific coding. Will be interesting to see when Halo 3 gets to PC in the next 10,000yrs, how easy the mapmaking software is to use. Prolly see folks going,"wow I can't believe I paid $ for this."

The maps for L4D are ok. Some are beta, unfinished and likely to remain so. There are some that are nicely done, some that are insanely difficult. The finished maps which are moving through seem to be fine, and are a nice addition.

Pirating for the xbox 360 is way easier than for the PC.

Pay a geek friend to mod the firmware for 20 bucks.
Purchase spindle of Dual Layer DVDs.
Download game images and play.

PC cracks usually dont always work properly, and can be a huge pain in the ass.

I think this thread is heading in some awkward directions.

If you count the BF2 Expansions as Map Packs, then yes "they" have. EA just released an update for BF2 bringing it to Ver 1.5 and all of those Maps are now part of the Base Install, apparently.

The last L4D2 thread being a ways back, I'll drop this here...

Left 4 Dead 2's pre-order bat detailed

If you read last week's Left 4 Dead 2 PR carefully, you noticed towards the end of the PR that an American baseball bat will be offered as an exclusive feature for gamers who pre-order the game "at select retailers". At PAX Shacknews sat down with Valve's Chet Faliszek, who explained that the bat will be made available for PC and consoles, and you won't necessarily have to pre-order the game in order to get it: "How it'll work is, if you're playing with somebody that's pre-ordered it, everybody playing gets it," said Faliszek.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=22106

And it's prolly not a proper Louisville Slugger, either- license fees and all. Still, a nice complement to the frying pan.

I 'spect I'll still gravitate to the japanese sword, tho. I so like to Arbitrate.

So, will the guys be fighting over who plays the chick reporter a la Zoey?