Hooray! The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is out, and it's way more fun than it ought to be! Plus, it's absolutely free. I think you all know what that means. Friday Night Fights + Survival Mode + Dead Air/Death Toll in Versus = a match made in heaven.
Personally, I have yet to even touch the new campaign additions to Versus, because I've become obsessed with trying to obtain gold medals. So far, not once have any of my teams made it past the "two tanks at once, OMG F'ING RUN!" mark, unfortunately.
For anyone who's played the majority of the Survival maps, which is your favorite? I'd have to go with the hospital; it's a ridiculous choice, I know.
Quick guide to Friday Night Fights for fresh meat: Each week, a bunch of Destructoid readers and usually an editor or two get together to play some videogames online. Simple enough.
The planning for FNF takes place in the forums, where Dtoiders volunteer to host by dropping their information (gamertag, time, game, etc.) in the forum post corresponding to the system they're interested in playing on.
Then, every Friday, reminder posts for those who don't pay attention to the forums (the scallywags) go up in the community blogs section. And for those who are too lazy to read the blogs, they have got my weekly recap posts which bring all of the FNF-related details into one unified place.
From there, all you need to do is shoot a quick message over to one of the hosts listed below asking for an invite, or simply force your way into the room. Whatever works.
If you want to get your gaming done later on in the evening, scroll on down past this section, otherwise hit up the following European hosts/early FNFers for a good time.
Tonight's Host (more info from Gibbo):
- Gibbo - JGibbo08 (Left 4 Dead @ 10:00 GMT)
Tonight's Hosts (more info from Blehman):- de BLOO - BLOORATARD (Street Fighter IV @ 8:30 EDT)
- Blehman - Blehmeng (Left 4 Dead @ 9:00 EDT)
- Zombutler - Zombutler (Halo 3 @ 9:00 EDT)
- KD Alpha - MichelleMata85 (Street Fighter IV, Soul Calibur IV @ 9:30 EDT)
- Mxyzptlk - MrMxyzptlk123 (Soul Caliber IV @ 12:00 EDT)
Tonight's Hosts (more info from shipero):
- IronPikeman - IronPikeman (Killzone 2 warm-up)
- IronPikeman - IronPikeman (Burnout Paradise @ 8:00 EDT)
- y0j1mb0 - k0wb0y-b33b0p (Worms @ 9:00 EDT)
- Killzone 2 Dtoid clan battle: Alpha vs. Beta @ 11:00 EDT
- SantanaClaus89 - Moosehole / y0j1mb0 - k0wb0y-b33b0p (SOCOM @ 12:00 EDT)
Beyond FNF: - Destructoid's Killzone 2 clan
Tonight's Host (more info from ryu89):
- ryu89:
Skype: Ryuh89
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: 0817-3428-3165
Starting time: 11:00 EDT
Tonight's Games:
- Team Fortress 2
Server: brbuninstalling.com #1 [FastDL|Customs|HLStatsX|Voting]
IP: 8.12.20.112:27015
Password: littlecart
Starting time: 9:00 EDT - Left 4 Dead
Type: 8-player private server
IP: 8.9.31.136:27015
Password: littlecart
Contest:
4:20 PM on 04.24.2009
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Instead of releasing some half-baked survival mode, and only the last part of a new mission, they should have made a "last man standing" mode in which when you first alert the rescuer to your presence, they say that unfortunatly there is only room for 1/2 survivors, and then you have to deal with a horde of regular zombies, and kill your team mates in the process.
Survival is fun untill you and your team have reached a plateau of best time on a givven level, and not having a end objective other than last as long as you can, is kinda depressing when you think about it.
But my favorite map would have to be Gas Station. Much fun to be had.
SURVIVOR NIGHT IS ON!
I'll be in around 7:45 CST to prepare for the raping.
Live name - mikeyraab
Seriously though, have you seen the fucking Leaderboards for Survival Mode? Who the hell sat down to play some of those 12-16 hour matches, and what the fuck did they do to h4x their way through them for that long? Seriously, that's obnoxious. C'mon, let's see some hands. I know you fucking losers are out there somewhere. Pathetic. Valve needs to start showing specific info for matches via the Leaderboards, if it's not too hard. I'm sure some of those high-ranking numbers have zero Tank kills.
Okay, maybe I might be jealous, but I'm just disgusted. Disgusting.
LAME! Oh well, I've got all week to practice before hopefully joining you guys next week!
It's people who have found exploits on the maps where enemies can't reach. They can then just sit there for hours. Cheating bastards.
Round slug into square tank head and "tetris"!
awesome.
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