[Official] Left 4 Dead

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Kotaku VIDEO THERE

I give it a week or so before this is addressed in an update.

[t0mbi]

yeah they better.. *shakes fist*

at least the guy who made is not distributing it, but i reckon its already probably in the hands of someone else who is gunna spread it to the world!

[clx]

I play this game on average one map a night, always 4 v 4 co-op online. though i do some 4 player expert modes at times, those maps take AGES

It's a lot of fun, the maps may be the same, but the attacks are constantly changing.

I think valves AI does a great job of making the levels constantly challenging and interesting.

Online play with friends is the best way to experience this game, and campaign should only be played to learn the layout of the levels

[sin-ergy]

The 3rd person camera is cooooool.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Well, Left 4 Dead was fun while it lasted. But it appears that you're going to have to deal with some serious douchebaggery at some point during one of your versus mode romps.

Reader Mario wrote to us with a distressing tale, saying "Versus mode is a blast, but recently, I joined a game and found myself in a safehouse at the beginning of a chapter. Suddenly, about 30 witches spawned in the safehouse with me followed by two tanks." How? Console command-style hackery that can be used on the Xbox 360 version. Cute when it happens to the next guy, but probably not to you.

You can see it in action in the clip above, which will also unfortunately tell you how to do it. We're contacting Valve to see if it's taking action to address Left 4 Dead cheating.

Shouldn't that be "can't be used on the X360 version"? :/

[Massiveterra]

Looks like Valve is pushing a patch for the xbox 360 so people won't be able to use these mods anymore

http://kotaku.com/5106645/left-4-dead-anti...ed-for-xbox-360

Valve has issued a server-side fix to stop cheaters from taking advantage of Left 4 Dead exploits on the Xbox 360. Reported cheats allowed players to spawn infinite items and enemies in online games.

A follow-up statement from Valve says that the fix has already been deployed to address cheats on dedicated Xbox Live servers, which accounts for the majority of co-op and versus mode play.

[+shift. MVC]

Add me on Steam if you want to play! Steam ID is in sig!

[Sethos]

Confused here, how the hell did they manage to activate console-commands in a console game :blink: They actually left a working console in the game on the 360?

[Pheee]

No they had to edit the files on the Hard Drive, i guess by editng a file like console commands on a PC.

[Sethos]

Oh I see, that is massive failure in a jar :|

[neoadorable]

thanks for the input clx, that was helpful.

[ViperAFK]

yeah for the pc version these mods REALLY **** me off sometimes and there is no way to control wether you want to play a non-modded game or not which is retarded.

[Massiveterra]

i have a question for the 360 version...

Is there any "squad" or "party" system for public games? Like what should I do if me and a friend want to play a public VS or Campaign game

[Remysaus]

don't know if it's been posted yet, zero punctuation reviews L4D

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/vie...459-Left-4-Dead

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Shouldn't that be "can't be used on the X360 version"? :/

The exploit was that it allowed console users access to console commands :p

And since that was unexpected, the server did no checking of what commands it could and couldn't run, i.e. imagine sv_cheats was always set to 1

Edit: To be more precise, it allowed console users to bind console commands to buttons, they couldn't access the console but they could bind "give molotov" to a button which they would then spam while holding down the fire button

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

The exploit was that it allowed console users access to console commands :p

And since that was unexpected, the server did no checking of what commands it could and couldn't run, i.e. imagine sv_cheats was always set to 1

Edit: To be more precise, it allowed console users to bind console commands to buttons, they couldn't access the console but they could bind "give molotov" to a button which they would then spam while holding down the fire button

Yeah I soon read up on it after posting. Pretty interesting they left it intact on the console version and it actually worked!

Would have been pretty cool to use it in Private matches where you can just mess around with the settings.

[Rappy Veteran]

don't know if it's been posted yet, zero punctuation reviews L4D

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/vie...459-Left-4-Dead

That was funny :laugh:

[ChopSuey]

Looks like there is a new exploit for all versions of Left 4 Dead. Apparently, in VERSUS mode, when you are the Boomer or Smoker, you can move objects and block doorways and potholes with objects (i.e. forklift). There is no way for the survivors to continue once it has been blocked successfully. I seen this done on the No Mercy levels. Guess Valve will have to be contacted on this one as well. :)

[+shift. MVC]

I've heard of a tank throwing cars such that the safe house entrance is blocked, but Boomer or Smoker doing that?

[Rappy Veteran]

Can a smoker lift stuff?, thats insane if the exploit allows that.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

How can a smoker or boomer move objects, I've never seen them do that :blink:

Tank I can understand, but the other two? :/

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

shift+w

You should be able to knock stuff a bit with that.

[Skulltrail]

L4D is going through an exploitation phase??? Since when? I'm disappointed Steam was so slow respond considering their reflexes on games like CS:S and HL-DM.

[Admodieus]

Valve has been pretty slow on fixing the problems with Left 4 Dead when compared to some of their other games, like TF2.

[Elliot B.]

Valve has been pretty slow on fixing the problems with Left 4 Dead when compared to some of their other games, like TF2.

They're busy on so many projects at the moment. I know a lot of the TF2 team had to go help the L4D team. No idea what project they're primarily on at the moment.