Mass A.I. has been getting good enough reception. As you all know, L4D got released, coincidentally during the time I was making my last movie.
Now, coop is very nice, but it does get boring, and as I’ve said before, versus was one of the main reasons I really wanted to get my hands on L4D.
Besides other dissapointments and pleasant surprises, one of the main things that still bothers me is this:
Most versus servers you try to join through matchmaking are laggy as hell! Using the server browser doesn’t seem to do much, and you really can’t consider that when you’re trying to play with friends. Besides that, the dedicated servers you get sent to sometimes are modded with melee stamina-like systems and other things. Mainly that bug/feature that only seems to allow 3 boss infected at a time. Another annoying thing is that survivors joining during a round do not join when they are ready, they forcibly get assigned to a character. This usually translates into the player taking over the bot ingame – while he’s still connecting. It’s tons of fun for the survivors to have to decide whenether to leave the guy there and press on with only three people, or try to hold out the area around him so you get the full survival multiplier at the end of the round. (Update: Okay, the lag isn’t THAT bad as I’d have you think it is these days.)
And in other news, I’m looking for a couple of chaps that would be willing to write articles for this site. Drop me a line at evildaedalus AT gmail DOT com. Mail me, and I’ll set up an account for you to see how well you do. Writing will involve knowledge of what’s going on in the TF2/L4D community, in a largely informal style. I’ll let you know how well you’re doing. If you’re under 16 years old however, please do not apply. Obviously, I won’t be able to give anything in return as the site’s only a month old and has no intention of going commercial.
Last but not least, I promised you a few higher resolution pics from the A.I vid. Okay, some aren’t actually from the vid, they’re just leftovers from recording. If you have a request, leave a comment, and I’ll try to grab a pic of it. If your request doesn’t show up it simply means I can’t do it either due to deleted footage or obsolete demos.
Pointy, Pointy2, Pointy3, Floaty, Lookie, Why sappers have no ammo counter, Armscout, A different version of the bridge scene, Creepy things happen when you mess with r_lod, and finally, a pimpcube.
Oh, and the donation drive went well, we managed to raise a whopping two dollars!
November 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Lag looks pretty bad, but valve are probably working on a patch right now. On a completely unrelated note: Another excellent song
November 28th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Valve will pull through for us again, right? I sure hope so, this game is like crack for me.
November 29th, 2008 at 4:13 am
I have a paid host which I leave open all the time and it’s available to all the friends on my steam community. If you want it to be available to you all the time on the front menu of the game, have a look at http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DRYorKY and give me a pm. There’s only a dozen people in my group and once you’re in the game other friends outside the community can join you by following through buddy.
After seeing the TF2 Mass AI video, I felt I should offer you something as a “thanks” for an excellent bit of work.
So, thanks
November 30th, 2008 at 10:07 am
@Frosty: Thanks for the offer, but I’m not looking for a server right now.
November 30th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I’ve noticed that this happens quite often when someone keeps minimizing the game to use Windows Live Messenger…. usually if it’s the host doing it.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I have put many hours into L4D and I have only came by a few servers that I have had a low ping on that would give me a few jumps here and there. I have yet to encounter the dead lag as what I seen in the video…
December 4th, 2008 at 8:22 am
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cpphoenixcommunity I bought a server a while ago that is attached to that steam group or just search this IP address. 217.163.22.69:27015 So far they told me there is no lagg but we need more people on it.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Lag? Odd, I’ve put a a lot of play time in and have yet to run into any that is truly noticeable, even on servers with less then full ping bars, I rarely realize I have a lower ping until I check.
However I have heard complaints from a few other players, while I was shrugging saying, “don’t know what to tell ya bro, seems fine on my end.”
New ISP maybe?
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