i HAVE it preordered. i think i just misread james' post. you can start downloading content (awkwardly named 'view preload info' when you right click the uninstalled demo) so its ready to play WHEN the demo is released. which should be sometime today
I preloaded as soon as it was available and told myself a false release date (a couple of days late) so I wouldn't get all excited the day before launch . Yea it's only a demo but I bloody love the original!
I just hope some team of ace modders update the original L4D1 maps for 2. That would be so very epic.
Demo= wow. Totally different feel to L4D1 as well. I was worried it would be L4D1 but better so the L4D1 servers would dry up. But it's not like that at all, it's more complex, there's loads going on but theres still a place for the first game!
Cannot wait for the full game!
Had an epic moment last night. Everyone was laying into the tank and I was on full health, ran right up to it with a frying pan and BAM! Killed it .
+ Hordes don't come from a specific point. Occasionally they will do but they seem to spawn from all directions.
+ Melee weapons replace pistols. You can still use gun and even melee weapons to "push back" as its now called. But they've added the melee timer from Versus and Survivor to campaign too.
+ Injections work great.
+ New music isn't great. Some of it sounds like the original tracks with some random new music on top.
+ New weapons are a good addition. I'm not just sticking to the autoshotty like in the first game. They all seem a lot better balanced. The melee weapons feel really good too.
+ Graphics look better and it all seems more effecient. I can up the settings with no slowdown, plus the base Low settings look better than the Low L4D1 settings. Theres some good use of bloom lighting too.
+ Some of the new special infected don't seem to add much. Mostly the charger and spitter, neither has been a problem. The wandering witch is good though. She doesn't get startled as easily too. I cr0wned her on my first play through .
+ Guns are higher? It's like they come in at the side of the screen now.
so i loved it. yes. but it also killed my graphics cards/drivers/computer. i have no idea what happened but after i quit, i went to go play l4d. and it crashed. couldnt ctrl+alt+dlt or alt+tab or anything. just kept doing a sound repeat like when you change settings. had to hard reboot.
tried again. same. tried l4d2 demo again. crashed, same deal. tried hl2 + eps. all crashed same deal. tried BF2. same deal. really pissed me off!! tried everything. reinstalling drivers. updating drivers. system rollback. nothing.
during one of the crashes i got out of the game into a 4bit desktop with a message saying my "nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally". whatever the fuk that means. google. google. GOOGLE. every forum/answer i get says its faulty hardware. most likely the PSU (power supply) is failing and losing voltage when i play a game causing memory to corrupt. so i take everything unnecessary out of my pc. only my card and a stick of ram is in there. still crashes. same deal.
FULL SYSTEM FORMAT + REINSTALL. STILL CRASHES !!! SAME DEAL!!!
uninstall all my drivers once again. find my mobo driver disc and dust it off. install everything on it. install nvidia omega drivers instead.
Originally Posted by cEcil = MC^2 so i loved it. yes. but it also killed my graphics cards/drivers/computer. i have no idea what happened but after i quit, i went to go play l4d. and it crashed. couldnt ctrl+alt+dlt or alt+tab or anything. just kept doing a sound repeat like when you change settings. had to hard reboot.
tried again. same. tried l4d2 demo again. crashed, same deal. tried hl2 + eps. all crashed same deal. tried BF2. same deal. really pissed me off!! tried everything. reinstalling drivers. updating drivers. system rollback. nothing.
during one of the crashes i got out of the game into a 4bit desktop with a message saying my "nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally". whatever the fuk that means. google. google. GOOGLE. every forum/answer i get says its faulty hardware. most likely the PSU (power supply) is failing and losing voltage when i play a game causing memory to corrupt. so i take everything unnecessary out of my pc. only my card and a stick of ram is in there. still crashes. same deal.
FULL SYSTEM FORMAT + REINSTALL. STILL CRASHES !!! SAME DEAL!!!
uninstall all my drivers once again. find my mobo driver disc and dust it off. install everything on it. install nvidia omega drivers instead.
now it works. WHAT THE F**K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im scared to play the demo again.
Shit, not that old problem! It's very common, and I used to have this pretty much every game I played for a good couple of years before I finally fluked a fix. I changed the clock speeds of my pre-overclocked card to stock settings and turned the fan up to 100% using RivaTuner. Haven't had the problem since.
thing is, its dual sli cards that have been working for quite awhile now. well over a year. and it baffles me that they just stop working over night. and RIGHT after i play l4d2 demo. never had the problem ever before. i dont think my cards are overclocked but i shall try and configure the clock speeds. ill be using omega drivers from now on. not sure about the fans either. pc was ice cold when shit kept crashing. i have 3 pc fans + 1 on each card stock and at the time had an external fan sucking/blowing air out of my open tower.
im just glad they work atm so i can continue playing. played l4d and the l4d2 demo a bit and it seems to be working fine now. now im just scared it will happend again.
A lot of people have the problem, and different fixes have worked for different people. Have a search on Google and nVidia forums, also the Steam forum has some threads about it too.
P.S. L4D2 demo preload today, you can download the demo ready for when it's released for us non-pre-orderers Nov 3rd.
Only reason I haven't pre-ordered yet is I wanna buy the DVD-ROM version, and I'll probably find it cheaper elsewhere than on Steam like most new games.
You can preorder it from Game and the like, you even get the baseball bat item ingame.
But yea. The L4D king guy has spilled some last minute details, I actually stopped reading after the 2nd point so I'll be going through this with you guys too. The 2nd point alone made me very happy indeed.
The UCI in Hard Rain, the construction workers, are wearing Ear Muffs, and are therefore immune to pipe bombs.
Chet confirmed the Left4Dead maps will be importable into the full game. They may even be available on purchase.
The DLC code included in demo was merely test code left in by one of the Developers. DLCs not being considered yet.
Chet said only 10 Survival Maps will be included at launch, one of these being the playground from Hard Rain.
He also said they may consider releasing Custom Maps and Campaigns, if not at least provide a way of promoting your maps.
He also stated that the original Survivors, Zoey, Bill, Francis and Louis, are neither dead nor undead, but he provided no other details.
Realism Mode Details: As previously speculated RM disables all glowing outlines, requiring players to stick together.
Realism Mode: The Witch is also an Insta-kill, along with the removal of Hero Closets she's something to avoid. Defibs, however are included
Originally Posted by Cecil = MC ^ 2 thing is, its dual sli cards that have been working for quite awhile now. well over a year. and it baffles me that they just stop working over night. and RIGHT after i play l4d2 demo. never had the problem ever before. i dont think my cards are overclocked but i shall try and configure the clock speeds. ill be using omega drivers from now on. not sure about the fans either. pc was ice cold when shit kept crashing. i have 3 pc fans + 1 on each card stock and at the time had an external fan sucking/blowing air out of my open tower.
im just glad they work atm so i can continue playing. played l4d and the l4d2 demo a bit and it seems to be working fine now. now im just scared it will happend again.
Something else I tried which seemed to work when Source games were arsing up, try disabling Multi-core Rendering.
Bloody hell, demo's not out 'til tomorrow for UK. I should've known when it said '3rd Nov' in big letters on Steam, Valve actually meant 'sometime whenever'.
EDIT: Scratch that, it seems to have popped up now, even though timer said 7am 4 Nov, got a pop up saying it's available now. Strange. Won't seem to decrypt files though, won't go past 37%, so it's as good as unavailable.
EDIT 2: Finally got it working, played through the demo. The new gore engine is mental, blowing chunks or gaping holes out of zombies, spilling guts out, it's got some crazy attention to detail. The pipe-bomb explosions are much better than the weedy vaporising effect in L4D, sending bits of bodies flying everywhere. It still manages to run smooth. Apart from that, pretty much more of the same, just improved in most aspects. I like the melee weapons, the machete is pretty good for taking down a horde quickly and bloodily.
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. Yea it's only a demo but I bloody love the original!
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