About L4D, for a change
It sure is a good thing Valve fixed dedicated server searching in L4D. Tried playing a few nights ago, and since I had four friends along, we of course made a lobby to make things a bit easier. I (or Slaver) usually host locally, because our connection's upload rate is pretty okay, and at least my friends hardly ever get any lag, but since the dedicated business was supposed to be fixed (and sometimes Steam decides to kick me while hosting locally, naturally making the server shut down), we tried that.
Did we find a server?
Yes. Once, out of five tries. And we had 170 ping. So matchmaking indeed! Server searching was fucking better before this so-called fix.
And why do people try to invite me to play L4D when I'm in-game? I never really understood what's the point in that. If you see me already playing on a server, what in the world makes you think I'll just jump servers and join your game? I get a lot of invites suddenly, from several different people on my friends list, and for some reason those always get under my skin.
So take note, people: when I play L4D, I usually play with a rather large group of friends (who are people I know irl). So if you want to play with me, drop me a line instead of just throwing a random invite, and I'll see what I can do.
And if there are a bunch of people with "Esa" after their name playing with me, yeah, those are my friends. We decided to start wearing a tag to confuse people (and scare them away in lobby when they join: there are four people in already, all going Infected, and all wearing the same tag after their name. Hehehe) and make it obvious that we know each other and any insults we may fling at each other are not to be taken seriously.
And if you ask, Esa stands for European Space Agency, and yes, we all work there.
(In reality it's just a silly in-joke which really doesn't make any sense in any other language but Finnish. Or, well, imagine replacing a part of any compound word - or in severe cases, any noun - with a very common male name, eg. John. There you go).
And don't mistake us for a clan of any kind.
And while we're on the topic of L4D, I wanna write about another thing. If you, for any reason at all, go AFK during game, even for a moment, TAKE A FUCKING BREAK FROM THE MENU. The goddamn idle mode is there for a reason. Because what happens if, during a versus match, you go to a toilet, or where the fuck ever, and just leave your character standing there? Yeah, we get slaughtered, that's what. Because we have to
a) Wait and protect you in one place, making all of us easy prey for the enemy team, and Director of course thinks that we're bored, and marches out a few hordes to make us feel alive again,
or
b) Run for it and leave you, which gets all of us killed. Because a smart enemy team knows that you, being AFK, are not a threat, and thus goes after US instead of YOU. Because we're one man short, you can't help us, and after we've been overwhelmed and incapped, you're the easy target.
Next time you go AFK without going idle, we're going to votekick your sorry ass that fucking instant.
And why don't people stay together in versus? I hate it when our game falls apart just because one man stays behind for some reason, and then gets assaulted by a Smoker or a Hunter, and we have to go back for them, and then we lose. I'd love to leave them to die because it was their own mistake to stay behind, especially when we make it very clear at the start of the match that we're going to stay together and keep moving, but you know how it goes, it's a team game.
If you're going to heal, SAY SO, so we know to hang back. Don't go after Smokers or Hunters you saw behind us in the distance, just inform the team of the threat and KEEP MOVING. The infected have to keep moving too in order to catch us, so a Smoker hanging back won't be doing much if we ignore him. If YOU go after him, by yourself, you're a fucking idiot, because the Smoker sees you, you probably won't see him or his tongue, and then you're in trouble, and fucking things up for the rest of us. And if you need to do anything that requires you to be away from the keyboard for more than five fucking seconds, go idle. For the love of god, it's not that hard.
And here, have a GTA-style Francis (who's incidentally my favourite Survivor):
I've also been getting back to TF2 and I would appear to be a kickass Pyro (my brand new most kills record is 20) while I've nearly completely lost my touch with both Soldier and Demo (although it is debatable if I ever really HAD any touch with either, oh well).
Did we find a server?
Yes. Once, out of five tries. And we had 170 ping. So matchmaking indeed! Server searching was fucking better before this so-called fix.
And why do people try to invite me to play L4D when I'm in-game? I never really understood what's the point in that. If you see me already playing on a server, what in the world makes you think I'll just jump servers and join your game? I get a lot of invites suddenly, from several different people on my friends list, and for some reason those always get under my skin.
So take note, people: when I play L4D, I usually play with a rather large group of friends (who are people I know irl). So if you want to play with me, drop me a line instead of just throwing a random invite, and I'll see what I can do.
And if there are a bunch of people with "Esa" after their name playing with me, yeah, those are my friends. We decided to start wearing a tag to confuse people (and scare them away in lobby when they join: there are four people in already, all going Infected, and all wearing the same tag after their name. Hehehe) and make it obvious that we know each other and any insults we may fling at each other are not to be taken seriously.
And if you ask, Esa stands for European Space Agency, and yes, we all work there.
(In reality it's just a silly in-joke which really doesn't make any sense in any other language but Finnish. Or, well, imagine replacing a part of any compound word - or in severe cases, any noun - with a very common male name, eg. John. There you go).
And don't mistake us for a clan of any kind.
And while we're on the topic of L4D, I wanna write about another thing. If you, for any reason at all, go AFK during game, even for a moment, TAKE A FUCKING BREAK FROM THE MENU. The goddamn idle mode is there for a reason. Because what happens if, during a versus match, you go to a toilet, or where the fuck ever, and just leave your character standing there? Yeah, we get slaughtered, that's what. Because we have to
a) Wait and protect you in one place, making all of us easy prey for the enemy team, and Director of course thinks that we're bored, and marches out a few hordes to make us feel alive again,
or
b) Run for it and leave you, which gets all of us killed. Because a smart enemy team knows that you, being AFK, are not a threat, and thus goes after US instead of YOU. Because we're one man short, you can't help us, and after we've been overwhelmed and incapped, you're the easy target.
Next time you go AFK without going idle, we're going to votekick your sorry ass that fucking instant.
And why don't people stay together in versus? I hate it when our game falls apart just because one man stays behind for some reason, and then gets assaulted by a Smoker or a Hunter, and we have to go back for them, and then we lose. I'd love to leave them to die because it was their own mistake to stay behind, especially when we make it very clear at the start of the match that we're going to stay together and keep moving, but you know how it goes, it's a team game.
If you're going to heal, SAY SO, so we know to hang back. Don't go after Smokers or Hunters you saw behind us in the distance, just inform the team of the threat and KEEP MOVING. The infected have to keep moving too in order to catch us, so a Smoker hanging back won't be doing much if we ignore him. If YOU go after him, by yourself, you're a fucking idiot, because the Smoker sees you, you probably won't see him or his tongue, and then you're in trouble, and fucking things up for the rest of us. And if you need to do anything that requires you to be away from the keyboard for more than five fucking seconds, go idle. For the love of god, it's not that hard.
And here, have a GTA-style Francis (who's incidentally my favourite Survivor):
I've also been getting back to TF2 and I would appear to be a kickass Pyro (my brand new most kills record is 20) while I've nearly completely lost my touch with both Soldier and Demo (although it is debatable if I ever really HAD any touch with either, oh well).
Labels: artsy stuff, dammit valve, i leave you to die because i love you, l4d, l4d versus, stacked teams can go fuck themselves - except when it's us lol, we're a bunch of esas from esastania, whinewhine
posted by Katastrophe at
10:33 PM
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Chrome, do you find that people who are not your friends act more stupid in Left 4 Dead than people you know?
I have not considered building a computer, now that you mentioned it I will inquire about it. Thank You.
Where have you traveled to in The Capital Wasteland since your last Fallout 3 post?
Mirror's Edge DLC has been announced.
Leave the City Behind.
Virtueversusvice: That's actually a pretty good point, of course I'm more critical of the actions of perfect strangers than of people I personally know. Sure my friends make stupid mistakes - as do I - but since they're my friends and the game's not that Serious Business, it's easy to ignore things like that. It's also easier to call them on their mistakes because I know they won't take it personally. I remember just last night Slaver screaming at me for doing something completely idiotic in-game (which got me killed), so.
But at least my friends realise to use the idle mode, and stick together. And they won't call anyone a noob at the drop of the hat (which still gets thrown around ridiculously much if someone makes a mistake). And since I've played so much with them and gotten used to their playing styles, it's of course a bit jarring whenever I play with strangers and they pull off something I'm not used to seeing.
I actually started another game of Fallout 3, with a male character who has a girl's name (he's called Gabrielle). This time I did blow up Megaton, went to Tenpenny Tower, thought all the people there were idiotic, and rather than helping them with their ghoul problem, I went to talk to the ghouls in question and promised to help them get inside Tenpenny Tower. So that's where I am right now. I might do another post about Fallout 3 in a few days, I also have some screenshots to post.
Tässä postissa on jo miljoona syytä sille, miks mun ei vielä kannata pelata teiän kans.
Siis aa tekisin varmaan tuhat ärsyttävää nyypiövirhettä ja sit hävettäis ku kaikki Esat osaa jo.
Vaikka ois musta varmaan vähän enemmän hyötyä ku botista, jos se on jompikumpi valittava mut fff en ees osaa käyttää voice commandeja, pitää aina lukee kaikki läpi ja ja.
Saankohan jo nörttimaininnan ku äsken törmäsin biisiin, jonka nimi oli Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors. Ja tuli tietty mieleen vaan No Mercy.
Mii: Awww, lue toi mun ylempi vastaus, ystävien virheisiin kun suhtautuu eri tavalla kuin ventovieraitten. Kaikkihan tekee virheitä, varsinkin jos ei oo pelannut kovin paljoo. Ja meillä oli eilenkin pelaamassa yks kaveri joka pelasi versusta vasta toista kertaa, ja kellään ei ollut mitään moitittavaa sen toimista, vaikkei se vältsyyn ihan niin mukana ollutkaan kuin muut. Et sit kun itte koet olevas valmis niin ei muuta kuin mukaan!
Ja mä ainakin neuvon tosi mielelläni, kuten varmaan tiedät. Virheistäkin vain oppii.
Eikä kukaan ees ikinä käytä voice commandeja. :D
Haha, saat nörttimaininnan. <3
.. ai joo, ja upee Francis. <3 Tykkään hiusten ja parran tekstuurista.
Asdhg ja upeet kaulukset ja napit. JA TUO PAITA MUUTENKI, en edes eka huomannu ku olin niin keskittyny ilmeeseen ja naamakarvoihin ja tatskoihin mut.. woah.
(Mun tänään pelatessa Francis rupes motkottaan hississä KAIKISTA ASIOISTA MITÄ SE VIHAA ja sit tuli se "Is there anything you don't hate?" "You know what I don't hate? This."
Mut.. se vaan möllötti siinä hiljasessa hississä jota se vihaa, sairaalassa jota se vihaa, matkalla kohti helikopteria, jota se vihaa. :C Tyhmä Francis, missä on sun logiikka.)
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