While those of us with laptops who couldn't process their way out of a simple algebraic equation are playing Left 4 Dead 2 on their 360, there is definitely a large chunk of gamers out there who rock zombie killing on the PC. However, like most PC games (and console games for that matter) the final build of L4D2 landed with some glitches. To fix this issue Valve has released a patch for the game via Steam.
You can check out all the things the patch fixes at the link above, but the ones you might actually notice are:
- Fixed performance problem when rendering lots of decals, notably when fighting tanks with shotguns
- Fixed rcon response not working on Linux dedicated servers
- Fixed matchmaking problem matching into Advanced and Expert games
- Fix bug that would cause other specials to try to pummel a player a Charger disconnects or reconnects
- Fixed versus mode results panel being cut off in transition stats screen in non-english
- Found games: fixed non-player entries drawing the wrong type of icon in the selected item name label
- Game mode selector on main menu now takes keyboard input
Sounds like some solid fixes up in there. Have any of these issues been plaguing you guys? I'm going to be honest and say that this patch makes me excited simply because the word pummel is used in one of the fixes.
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3:00 PM on 11.22.2009
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I'd rather wait a year for a stable game then get a beta version of L4D2. >:(
*L4D2 HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR AND NEEDS TO CLOSE*
Oh tits.
Hmm, what can you d-
*L4D2 HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR AND NEEDS TO CLOSE*
*L4D2 HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR AND NEEDS TO CLOSE*
*L4D2 HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR AND NEEDS TO CLOSE*
*L4D2 HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR AND NEEDS TO CLOSE*
*L4D2 HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR AND NEEDS TO CLOSE*
ARGHHHHHH
Finsihed the last campaign by myself last night, now ready for massive amounts of coop.
The issue with random crashes is to do with the drivers crashing on some graphics cards. I've tried using old, current and beta drivers. All produce the same effect, although the beta drivers hold out a while longer.
A lot of other Dtoiders keep telling me the online sucks.
Also, as it isn't just a 360 problem, the AI really needs a gigantic chunk's worth of fixing. I would say tweaking, but you can't really just tweak something of this caliber and make it all better. It needs fixed. Repaired. Perhaps... revamped? I'm tired of "Aiiiiiiiiliss!" staring at me that stupid look on his face while a Hunter or a Charger beats me senseless, doing nothing to attack it, then hesitating to even pick me back up.
(Okay... picking on "Aiiiiiiiiliss!" is too easy. If you'd like, you can put any of the other survivors in there if you'd prefer, as they are all dumb as hell. It's just that my friends and I have come to conclusion that "Aiiiiiiiliss!"'s AI is in fact the dumbest and least alert of all based primarily on the fact that he is "Aiiiiiiiiiiliss!")
Y'know, I can understand the servers messing up. That would have been fine if I could have just reverted to playing single-player and effin' them zombies up solo. But it's even worse than playing with my friends who are mysteriously and constantly ten seconds in the past. Just saying... Valve, I know you won't let me down, but why no announcement?
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Only happened twice now. Once while refuelling the stock car in the mall, Nick decided he didn't want to leave the mall and instead waited on the top floor. Fortunately a tank felt like punching him off the edge, that got him moving. The other time, Rochelle kept stopping in the carnival area, but when enough distance had been made between me and her, she'd zone right up next to me.
Other than that I haven't seen any other glitches, and that wont be an issue now as I'm ready for co-op ^^
I've gotten stuck in the scenery a few times. It happened when I was a jockey trying to fit through some cars, and again as a survivor when I got charged into a wall or something. I had to use a pipe bomb to blow myself away and move again; otherwise I would have been dead stuck.
Otherwise, I honestly didn't think they could make the AI stupider than it was in the first game, but they some how managed. I can't tell you how many times I've been raped by a special infected while the AI sat and watched or, even worse, just ran in the other direction - those fuckers are all about the schadenfreude this time around...
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