Honestly, what did you expect out of a PC video game Demo? This is probably why the console players got theirs earlier because its easier. A computer has to think more than a console do. Anyway, here are the things wrong with the game.

• Game freezing every 10 seconds.
• In-game music is skipping.
• Game crashes back to desktop.

I can launch the game, and watch the introduction movie, but whenever I go past that the game closes to the desktop and displays “Completing installation…” and does nothing. Any fixes would be appreciated.

• Reinstalling the demo does not work.
• Game keeps Decrypting.
• People getting “Monitor out of Range” error.
• Game codes being invalid.
• Characters are floating, you can look down and see the players legs and feet.
• Can’t get online to play Left 4 Dead.
• Demo refuses to launch, only gives purchase option.
• Game disappearing from game list.
• Crash in single player at end of second map when closing door crashed with memory error.
• Multi-player we could all walk through certain walls and cars, couches etc but the game still worked fine.
• Multi-player the game crashed when it loaded the second map.
• AI in single player mode would stop shooting when being mobbed by large number of infected.
• Purple “rope graphic” when throwing boomer bile at the alarm area.
• NPC survivors would get stuck in looping animations when picking up objects.
• After pulling a teammate up,the player hand is still held out as if you are going to pull someone up, goes away after shooting.
• Common infected try to knock down a door that’s not there. [Meaning its been knocked down already and they're still you know...trying to knock it down.]
• The characters sometimes have something that looks like a foot spasm. Like they are treading water.
• The healing animations don’t function inside the Safe-room at times.
• Special infected spawn in same place on occasions.
• Australian and Germany version being over-censored.
• Witch doesn’t react properly to survivors sometimes.
• Hit boxes not working on Special Infected.

I saw a zombie with its knees bent and arms straight out to its sides spinning around like a helicopter. It stopped and looked at me for a second, then went back to spinning, so I shot it.

• Zombies being too easy to kill.
• “The survivors have escaped” is in very tiny lettering.
• Can’t hear in-game music.
• Guns disappearing from inventory.
• Special Infected being invisible.
• Infected having no heads but only in certain actions.
• The choice to be able to walk through the scenery.

The little bridge right out from the very start of the game that leads out of the starting area got dislodged and everyone started clipping through it, falling off the edge and needing other teammates to help them get pulled back up.

• Smokers being able to grab survivors through doors.
• Common Infected wearing Riot Gear does not die.
• Tank being too easy to kill.
• Launching Demo un-mutes mic.
• Can’t carry a primary gun and a melee weapon.
• The Wandering Witch only responds if you shoot her, loud noises, walking right next to her and shooting boomers that’s a foot away won’t disturb her.
• Pink and black textures on the wall. [Sounds like a graphical issue.]
• Pre-loading to %100 just make the game download all over again.
• Bile bomb seems more effective when just thrown on the floor like a pipe bomb.
• The older SI seem weak compared to the new ones.
• Too many options on what to grab as far as Pipe bombs, Bile bombs, Molotov Cocktails, etc etc are concerned.
• Shooting accuracy has declined.
• The game has the same feel as Left 4 Dead.

Getting charged by the Charger only to have him go right through me, hit the wall and some how managed to grab me from 10-15ft away and started pummeling me in the spot he originally charged from.

Common infected think the fastest way to get to me is climbing over lampposts instead of walking around.

• View-models are too close to the camera.
• Illegal position: get on roof in Parish.
• Ability to revive a player from any height.
• Illegal position: ability to ledge on a wall that doesn’t exist.
• Melee flashlight does not cast shadows.
• Incompatibility with MOTD and Internet Download Manager.
• Invalid client.dll’s.

You’ll see the Valve logo, then the L4D2 intro movie. If you let it play through, or if you press Escape to skip it, the game then crashes with an Engine Error saying “Could not load library client.”

• Cross-hair sometimes disappears, however returns when the weapon is fired.
• AI path-finding bugs: infected are getting ’stuck/caught’ on the cars or poles in the level.
• Lack of idle animation movement in pistols.
• Smoker has no ‘pull’ animation, either standing or moving. Often time appears he his floating across the ground and standing still when he fires his tongue.
• AI issue: bots occasionally congregate, particularly in corners and will refuse to move. They often refuse to pick up items such as med-kits and pills/adrenaline outside safe rooms even if they desperately need them.

CI issue: the CI will attack you from very odd angles, like running to you with their faces directed at you but bodies at an odd angle. Their body movement seems very unnatural and weird and objects in their way seem to make it worse.

• Every time the map changes, performance for some ATI users would drop to unplayable levels.

Assigning melee/heal to MOUSE4 means you can’t heal teammates. Trying to do so with mouse4 will act as if you’re just pressing, not holding Mouse4. It switches in to healing then quits right after.

• Friendly fire disabled for incapacitated people.
• No self-awareness.

Here are my suggestions for some of these errors. If you have the demo, and its giving you errors and nothing you do seems to work. Try waiting a few days, the servers at Valve are probably at its capacity sense people are trying to install the game at once. If you’re having problems with Left 4 Dead 2 freezing, try disabling Multicore rendering. If you’re trying to play Left 4 Dead online but you can’t connect, you should also wait, there a lot of anxious and potential whiners still installing the game. If you’re  having other problems with decrypting, try restarting Steam. That seems to help a lot of people. If you haven’t been able to even download it yet, you should just wait til they hype dies down. Chances are there are others who can’t even download it yet.

The demo will not be available to those who did not pre-order Left 4 Dead 2. The Grenade Launcher, Incendiary Ammo is not available to use in the demo.

The only melee weapons in the demo are:

1. Tonfa
2. Machete
3. Frying Pan
4. Electric Guitar

On another note, I feel sorry for those who live in Australia and Germany. They have Censored dead bodies and when you shoot the infected, they disappear before they hit the ground. There is barely any gore or blood in the game.

Censored Bodies in Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 Music Video

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I went on the Steam’s Left 4 Dead 2 forum site and all people are doing is crying, moaning bitching and whining that the game has been pushed back to 10 hours. Its just a demo and its not like they are canceling the demo completely and making you wait til the game is released. Crying and bitching about a demo being delayed is fucking retarded. Be glad you’re getting the demo at all. You’ll get it when you get it. Shit happens and flooding the forums is not going to make them hand you the demo any faster. So what that the Xbox 360 gamers get to play their demo earlier than PC gamers. That is not their fault.

I’ve never see so many cry babies about a damn demo in my life. I don’t think the Left 4 Dead boycott members were this damn bad and I’m sure there are a huge fraction of them just as frustrated as you. People are on there rage-posting and telling people to rage this and rage that. What the hell can your simple damn font do? Posting the fax and contact numbers to valve is not going to prove a point, its just going to get laughed at. I’m laughing now at all those supposed “gamers” that are crying about a demo that is just that. You only get to play 1 and and half chapter, nothing more…nothing less. Whose to say the demo is going to be what you think it is anyway? With that being said, I’m expecting a lot more forums once the demo is released. People will be crying how they didn’t get what they expected. Well no one told them to have their expectancy for a damn demo over 9000.

People as of now are saying they’ve been lied to. How were you lied to? Oh because they delayed the game for 10 more hours? How is that a lie? A lie is saying a demo is coming out but never do. That is a damn lie. When things get close to a release date for video games, things are bound to happen. People end up showing their true colors and after awhile its no longer funny, its just plain sad. Video game companies don’t owe gamers a damn thing. They make games to put food on their table, not yours. So Valve can release their demo whenever they fucking please. Its not much you can do about it, its you who wants to play the game so badly so its you who is ass hurt, not them. If you want to shoot zombies so bad, occupy yourself by playing Left 4 Dead.

Go over there to steam in the Left 4 Dead 2 forums if you need amusement, especially if you’re like me and could give a damn about a damn demo delay.

Here’s some good news though:

Left 4 Dead 2 Music Video

Now that people have stopped crying about the demo not being released you can click here if you’re having issues with the game.

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Στις 20 Νοεμβρίου το Left 4 Dead 2, στις 3 Νοεμβρίου το demo | Game 2.0

H Valve ανακοίνωσε ότι το πολυαναμενόμενο Left 4 Dead 2 θα κυκλοφορήσει για PC και Xbox 360 στις 20 Νοεμβρίου, ενώ στο Steam το παιχνίδι θα είναι διαθέσιμο τρεις μέρες νωρίτερα.

Μάλιστα, 20 Νοεμβρίου. Ίδια μέρα με το Assassin’s Creed 2 δηλαδή.[next]

It has been a trying few months for a series of brave and levelheaded gamers who took it upon themselves to shun a highly anticipated title from one of the most revered developers in the industry, based on an in no way absurd sense of entitlement with regards to Left 4 Dead support. But as of October 21st, boycotters of Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 will stop fighting the good fight, GamePolitics reports.

Given how reasonable the group’s arguments were for boycotting L4D2, it’s hardly surprising that in the disbandment announcement letter posted over at Steam, two of the group’s leaders (Agent of Chaos and Walking_Target) address their fellow boycotters with a tone that suggests some serious delusions of grandeur in terms of their effectiveness and relevance concerning Valve’s commitment to future L4D support. As Agent of Chaos explains:

“We have accomplished everything we can on our manifesto. We’ve been dealing with Valve ever since our group started, then we met them in-person and now we’re at the point of concluding our discussions. Our goal wasn’t to steer people away from L4D2, it was to get Valve’s attention and have them support original L4D. We succeeded and that’s where our mission ends; nothing more or less.”

There are several things worth noting about these statements. First off, take a look at the boycotters’ original demands:

* That Valve honor its commitment to release ongoing periodic content for Left 4 Dead.
* That Left 4 Dead 2 not be released as a stand-alone, full-priced sequel but as either a free update to Left 4 Dead or an expansion with full compatibility with basic Left 4 Dead owners.
* That Left 4 Dead owners be given discounts for Left 4 Dead 2, should it be released as premium content.

As you can see, the only one of these that will end up happening is the first one, and that was something Valve was planning to do all along; it hadn’t provided any details on the recently released Crash Course (or future DLC for that matter), because it wasn’t ready to discuss it. So for the boycotters to suggest that they had anything to do with Valve “deciding” to continue supporting L4D is utter nonsense, and claiming victory for it is even more so.

What’s interesting about the other two requests is that if you go to the group’s original manifesto announcement, those requests are no longer listed. The page says it was “updated 10.10.09 for relevance,” which I guess is code for, “Now that Valve has released a fresh batch of L4D DLC as well as info about its plans for future content (which it has been planning all along), and considering the company was gracious enough to invite us for a studio tour despite our insulting criticisms of Valve’s design approach for L4D2, let’s make it seem like we ‘won’ even though we clearly didn’t.”

The other funny part about the aforementioned quote is that the original manifesto clearly states, “Therefore, we – the members of this Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott – promise to abstain from the purchase of Left 4 Dead 2 until our requests are addressed.” Yet now, the group claims, “Our goal wasn’t to steer people away from L4D2, it was to get Valve’s attention and have them support original L4D.” Backtracking and delusion don’t really get any more hilarious than that…Oh, except they do, thanks to the following comments from Walking_Target:

“As a collective we have done more than achieve a few goals, we have paved the way for Developer-Community relations in the future. No matter what the press or other gamers say, we have made an indelible mark upon the future of this industry. You should all be proud, we certainly are.”

Left 4 Dead Boycott FAIL!

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I haven’t talked about this yet, although I have been watching closely to see what happened.

No doubt you’ve heard about this in the news, especially if you’re a gamer

First off, Left 4 Dead 2 was banned from Australia for this reason:

The game contains realistic, frenetic and unrelenting violence which is inflicted upon ‘the Infected’ who are living humans infected with a rabies-like virus that causes them to act violently… However, it is the use of the ‘melee’ weapons such as the crowbar, axe, chainsaw and Samurai sword which inflict the most damage. These close in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore.

Why they just don’t up the rating to 18, I’m not sure. It seems as if even the adults over there are being told they can’t play a game with gore in it.

However, Valve has re-submitted a modified version. Quote from here:

Valve recently submitted a modified version of the game for classification by the OFLC. This modified version has a significantly less amount of gore. Decapitation and dismemberment were removed, blood splatter is almost completely non-existent, and the ever-ambiguous ‘piles of dead bodies’ issue has been solved by removing dead zombi-, err, rabies-infected living humans, as soon as they hit the ground.

Looks like Australians will be able to play… But a heavily modified version. I’d be annoyed if I lived over there. Personally, I think the gore should be swapped with rainbows, the tanks swapped with car rentals and the witches swapped with friendly girl scouts. It’s for the best, for our innocence!

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After the release of the first Left 4 Dead, the game has become a massive hit, selling 3 million copies. As I have described before, the game brings the zombie apocalypse to your computer in an entertaining and challenging way. Released on November 18th 2008, the game has been out for nearly a year now.

However, at this year’s E3, the not-long-awaited sequel was announced to the excitement and frustration of many. Why would someone be frustrated to hear that we’re getting more zombie action, you might ask? The main gripe is the game comes very close to the release of the original. Gamers were promised downloadable content for the first game, but were only offered two in the end. One being the addition of survival mode and one being the addition of a new campaign, heavily targeted towards versus mode.

Current numbers are that Left 4 Dead 2’s pre-sale numbers are already exceeding the first game’s pre-sales by 300%, but now Valve are to set into action with an ad campaign that will cost $25 million. Be ready to be plagued by zombies while watching prime time television, while reading your favourite magazines, and don’t mind the giant zombie on the billboard while you’re driving to work. I half expect to see zombies on buses, car hires and tattooed to people’s heads.

In comparison, Valve’s ad campaign budget for last years game was $10 million. Expect to see more than double the zombie mayhem you saw last year… If you didn’t see anything last year, maybe you’ll see something this time!

Hello and welcome to Asilee’s list of reasons why Left 4 Dead Fails. I’m not saying the game in its entity fails its just some things about the game that makes it fail…A LOT! No I’m not a boycotter, I’m a fan of Left 4 Dead so don’t get your knickers in a twist about anything I say.

• You can be not even a foot off the ground and can be dangling from lets say a car or a van and you can’t drop or someone can’t help you because they’re either getting mauled by a tank, hunter, smoker, horde or all four at once. So you’re dangling and time is running out, you’re getting pissed because you’re incapped on the edge of a FUCKING VAN and is in need of assistance and before you get it, you plummet a inch or two to your death. Oh, here’s a video…except, this person is dangling from a FUCKING LIGHT POLE!

• Valve made it where both the infected and the survivors can move things only a tank should be allowed to move. For example, people put barricades or block entry ways to safe houses or ladders causing people to be incapped by a tank or any other special infected because they were there for a large amount of time trying to get out but end up having to deal with another horde and another tank. Sorry I have no video for that just yet…or do I? Yea I do…

• People spend more time finding glitches in the game than actually playing the game. Making it very annoying for those who want to play the game like its supposed to be played. My point is, why does this game have so many damn glitches in it?

• When you’re playing online and you join a lobby and there is two of the same people [same gamertag with a (1) next to the second person] which is in fact a bot or someone who doesn’t know how to play. They do this so they can’t get booted out of the game. Then we got those who just sit in a lobby [the lobby leader] and never start the game. Then sometimes the lobby leader will kick you off if you don’t have a mic.
• You can make your own lobby but no one ever seems to join it but its like a ass load of people online.
• The boycotters who join a match just to tell people to join their boycotting group of Left 4 Dead 2 just to boot that person for another boycotter to join. Its fail because people cry too much and its going to be even more crying when the game is released.

I’ll continue when I can think up something else.

On another note, if you have a Playfire, feel free to join add me as a friend and add my Left 4 Dead Survivors Group and Clan. Just click on the corresponding links in this little message.

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Yep you read right. The Portal: Prelude team is working with Valve in making another campaign for Left 4 Dead.
From the page:

Hi back, I’m writing this from home, where I’m constrained since a few weeks… It’s been a terrible mess recently and we kind of lost our goal with this campaign. As I’m writing, I don’t really know where my team mates are and I don’t really know if they’re still working on their part of the campaign since I didn’t had any news for a few weeks. I became sort of Internet-anonymous in the past few weeks and didn’t bother much about anything else than my health.

Anyway, we’re not out of business. I was already done working on my maps when the accident happened, so I wasn’t even delayed. Last time I talked to Geoffroy, he was still working on his map and I don’t really know what Marc is doing for the moment. The point is that we’re really close to completion, it must be something like 85 or 90%, but we definitely need to refocus and clean the mess to restart the motivation machine.

With Left 4 Dead 2 coming along gently and some really creative campaigns starting to pop up from everywhere, we perfectly know we’re a bit endangered right now. We’ll talk about this a bit later and report here once done. In the mean time, if you know about some very good Left 4 Dead campaigns, feel free to post some links in the comments, I was out of business for a few weeks and probably missed some good things.

I know this article doesn’t sound really good at first, but that’s the way it is. And for the moment, we never even though about canceling everything (Ok, maybe once or twice in a desperate moment). We know it’s been more than two months, and boy… that was some terrible two months. But stay tuned, or just grab the RSS feed to avoid missing something. We’re not giving up yet!

Don’t know if this is just for PC or for PC and the Xbox 360. It would be awesome if it was for both being that I have both but would like to play it on console more than the PC.

Well, there are in fact going to be 5 chapters in this campaign as always. Forest, Manor, Underground, Lumberyard, and Lakeside. Here’s a little bit more information about them.

Forest

Our survivors crashed their bus in an utility pole of this dark mountain forest while fleeing. They must now find their way through the trees.

Manor

Now that the survivors managed to get out of the forest, they must reach the highest point of this manor and try to launch a distress call.

Underground

Escaped from the manor, the survivors are now fleeing though an old system of caves and tunnels running through the mountain.

Lumberyard

Freshly escaped of this oppressing cave system, our survivors are now looking for help and rescue in the lumberyard nearby.

Lakeside

Fleeing the now infected and deserted lumberyard, the survivors are now stuck and eagerly waiting to be rescued by whoever could see their signal.

I Hate Mountains

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L4D writer Chet Faliszek has discussed the game’s new content

During a recent trip to Valve’s Washington HQ, X360 magazine spoke exclusively to the game’s writer about the recently announced DLC pack ‘Crash Course’.

“It’s two maps both with co-op story stuff and multiplayer and then there’s also survival,” said Chet Faliszek of the new content. “They’re set right after No Mercy, you’re with the helicopter pilot who ends up getting infected and crashing. You find your truck that you’re going to go to Death Toll. We were originally hoping to do that just with the beginning and ends of the games but it ended up that we really wanted this finale of having survived and the beginning we kind of wanted you to know more of what you’re moving towards. So, we thought this was a cool way to do it and we’d planned this out before L4D 1 had shipped.”

“You can kind of see some of the L4D2 stuff in there”

Crash Course, available some time in September, is the second significant chunk of DLC for the first Left 4 Dead following the April release of the Survival pack.

Faliszek also hinted at some surprises in Crash Course: “There’ll be something that happens later this year that will, I think, help this stuff to sink in. There’s a little Easter egg hidden, where in one of the rooms there’s a map that shows the possible places to go in the US, so you can kind of see some of the L4D2 stuff in there.”

For the full interview, with plenty of exclusive new content on L4D2, check out the forthcoming issue of X360 magazine.

To read the full storyline and other information about it click here.

Strategy Guide for the game:

The Alleys [Versus] Trivia

• The body of the Chopper Pilot can be found directly behind the starting point of this chapter. Each Survivor will comment on this, excluding Bill.
• Francis thinks that the Survivors are in Canada.
• There is a possibility of a Tank appearing just after you leave the helicopter wreckage.
• When entering the Warehouse, Safe room Graffiti can be found in the small room adjacent to the entrance. Judging by the fact that the graffiti is found in a room that is not an official “safe room”, the graffiti found inside the room supports some theories that a group of bikers were using it as a makeshift safe room.
• Judging by the graffiti mentioned above, the bikers mentioned in the graffiti are believed to have taken a similar view on the Infection in a manner much like that of Francis since the graffiti features a tally made by a biker gang which more than likely represents a Infected kill count for each biker. The tic marks on the tally marked with different colored marker probably represent Special Infected killed. In conclusion, the bikers’ reaction to the outbreak can be seen as being more practical than serious due to their aggressive and violent nature.
• Some graffiti features the title “Angels of Death” and skulls below with names on them, as well as a large group of tallies (660). It may indicate that, most likely, a band of bikers (according to the name and the skulls) stayed there till their death and counted their kills as they held out.
• There is a note next to the sketches of the gang skulls mocking them saying, “World is coming to an end and they are drawing pictures.” The writing above it inscribes, “SICK Bastards”, probably agreeing with the previous comment on the bikers moral values.
• Francis mentions working for a delivery company after passing by a delivery truck. He continues and claims he quit because of the shorts.
• The new starting menu screen takes place of the fallen helicopter of The Alleys. However, this menu screen update may be exclusive to the PC version of the game since the menu screen for the X-box version appears to be completely unchanged.
• It is possible that this level is a test of the new director abilities to be seen in Left 4 Dead 2, at least in part. For example, the alarmed cars can be in different places around the level, and random weapon spawn where they aren’t always in groups, a trend seen in beta footage for Left 4 Dead 2.
• This chapter was named “The Train Station” from Blood Harvest’s chapter 4. Which was then changed to The Alleys

Truck Depot Finale

• Here you can easily get “The Littlest Genocide” achievement. When the generator turns off and the second Tank is dead, endless hordes of Infected will attack. However, Special Infected can still spawn and attack.

• Shortly after leaving the Safe room, there is an method that can be used to skip a quarter of the section which requires jumping on the alarmed car jammed next to the fence by the Humvee in order to leap over the barbed wire fence and on top of the truck on the other side. This method will take the player straight to the truck yard adjacent to the Truck Depot. However, Survivors should take caution in this method as it will require alerting the horde which is completely unavoidable upon performing the method.
• A popular camping spot for the finale is up with the minigun in the garage. One of the Survivors can get on the minigun and cover one side of the garage area as the other Survivors take care of the rest. Melee is a big help here as the Common Infected have a large area to climb up to your position and will also stream down from the windows. The small window at the other end from the minigun is a favorite spawning place for Special Infected.

Trivia

• When the rescue vehicle arrives, the door in the back seems to explode, instead of open in any way.
• The minigun is somewhat hard to find. Walking straight into the garage, jumping up onto the cardboard boxes, then going to a corner will put it in view.
• Sometimes one of the two Tanks in the Finale will not spawn. The music turns on but the Tank does not arrive and the music turns off and the next Horde comes up.
• The Tank will also sometimes spawn suddenly behind the survivors when standing near the generator (unconfirmed)
• In the graffiti underneath the large letter there are numerous quotes referring to popular internet memes. Some of the references made include, “Cool Story Bro!”, QQ (depicting mock sadness, as in crying eyes), “Roses are red, Violets are Blue, You Suck.”, and “PS I’M FAT!”.
• If you stand under the rescue vehicle as it is lowered all the way down, you will be incapacitated, and die a few seconds later.
• Up to now it has happened one time that the Generator didn’t turn off. The second Tank dies, then the “Final Music” starts and the back door of the rescue vehicle opens, but the Generator stays on. It’s funny, because the turning off of the Generator is the panic key of this Finale.
• When you come to the truck yard over the crashed truck you can see that the tunnel before the yard is closed at all directions. When the Survivors drive away with the bus they drive in this tunnel – now it is arguable in which direction they will drive to escape.

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