Ok usually in game, people can be bareable. But one thing I absolutely cannot stand is people in the lobbies that shout "Start!" repeatedly. I swear to god only like 1/20 L4D players understand that even if the lobby is full, you need to search for a server. They're like "ok, it's full YTF ARENT WE PLAYING!?"

Secondly I just got vote kicked for, basically, being the only survivor who ISN'T incapacitated. My stupid pathetic team aggrivated the witch, got vomited on, pinned by a smoker and a hunter all at the same time and they have the fucking guts to kick me for "not helping". In that time, I must have shoved off two hunters, killed one, killed the witch, killed at least 10 infected, shot the boomer (who splahed on everyone except me), and seperated the guy tied by the smoker all in about 20 seconds.

Yeah, you're right. You might as well just kick me for being a noob. I'm guessing you could have all done that and saved all the survivors at the same time, yeah?

Something to talk about: What's the worst experience you've had so far on L4D?

Haven't had any with players. Maybe its cause I'm on PC and not XBL.

Syphonz:
Haven't had any with players. Maybe its cause I'm on PC and not XBL.

I'm playing it on PC, I'm not stupid. haha.

Hey I wanted to get it on XBox :(
Yes I know the community is retarded.
Private parties?

Worst team I've had were just two guys dicking around, and killing each-other. I've found that most people I've played with are very friendly.

We'll see how it goes when I get around to playing it. But if it's the same people I used to play CounterStrike with...

I honestly think people are fine most of the time. But I was just annoyed with the team I had this time.

Once this guy died, I helped him up and he goes apeshit and starts shooting at me saying I didn't help him... I had literally just joined the game.

Just general cock-ups... I normally play with friends.

I only play that game with good friends, so I've never run into those problems. I quickly found a great group to play with because I became really annoyed with those types of people. I feel your pain bro, best just to find a good group to play with, or ignore the idiots as best as you can.

mokes310:
I only play that game with good friends, so I've never run into those problems. I quickly found a great group to play with because I became really annoyed with those types of people. I feel your pain bro, best just to find a good group to play with, or ignore the idiots as best as you can.

Yeah, I'm MEANT to be playing with a couple of college mates and one of my best mates but we haven't all been on together yet. It's so irritating. One of them is at uni and isn't sorting his net out until he's back, one of them recently broke their internet, and the other just isn't on much. 2 or 3 of my mates said they're probs getting it :/

Nivag:

mokes310:
I only play that game with good friends, so I've never run into those problems. I quickly found a great group to play with because I became really annoyed with those types of people. I feel your pain bro, best just to find a good group to play with, or ignore the idiots as best as you can.

Yeah, I'm MEANT to be playing with a couple of college mates and one of my best mates but we haven't all been on together yet. It's so irritating. One of them is at uni and isn't sorting his net out until he's back, one of them recently broke their internet, and the other just isn't on much. 2 or 3 of my mates said they're probs getting it :/

Trust me, it gets MUCH better once you play with friends.

Question with the PC version. I'm in the Escapist community group but how to I join games with my fellow Escapists? Like that community group in Left 4 dead, how does that work? If anyone group PM me I would be grateful.

Well the simple solution is to just stick to single player games. This is why I avoid MMOs and FPS games that have more than one player. Its full of people obsessed with winning and being better with no sense of tact or manners. Granted I am not socially aware but I have a good reason thanks to my autism and even then I know enough to stay away from others since I can't interact with them properly.

"Secondly I just got vote kicked for, basically, being the only survivor who ISN'T incapacitated"

I think it was more than that because i couldn't help but notice that you used the f word in the fourm so I assumed that there was some sort of argument between you and the host.

I played it at a friends house. Community on PC and 360 are asshats to the man, couple in gameplay more mechanical than Halo 3 and i cannot see why this game did as well as it did.

Note: I did not say anywhere here that this is anything other than opinion. So please, don't fly into a spitting rage at me voicing my opinion. I know damn well that it is opinion. I will however, proffer the idea that it being opinion does not make it wrong.

Tenmar:
Question with the PC version. I'm in the Escapist community group but how to I join games with my fellow Escapists? Like that community group in Left 4 dead, how does that work? If anyone group PM me I would be grateful.

Add us to your Steam Freinds list and you'll know when anyone is playing the game.

Retrofraction:
"Secondly I just got vote kicked for, basically, being the only survivor who ISN'T incapacitated"

I think it was more than that because i couldn't help but notice that you used the f word in the fourm so I assumed that there was some sort of argument between you and the host.

Nope. Just really annoyed at the lack of reasoning. Granted a lot of people will vote to kick the second a vote opens because they assume the person has done something wrong and so just go along with it.

My worst experience was... me and my friend were pissing around on this campaign server, we were feeling stupid, so we set the difficulty to easy and then went in with medpack melee only (relying on the AI for tanks and the like) - then, 2 admins join the game, and although they don't change the difficulty back, demand that we use guns (and by jesus, those guys actually needed them - they managed to DIE in easy, WITH support) and then they just randomly started kicking us, although we could rejoin they never banned us, and then started trying to teamkill....

Ironically my worst experience was on Versus mode. Some guy got on Versus and started blowing into his microphone and calling lots of votes so that we could prevent vote-kicking him. VERSUS MODE WAS MADE FOR GRIEFERS! Why Grief on versus FFS?!

Switch from "Dedicated" to "Local Server" at the start, so you can play right away (You host the server, though).

I had one guy yell at me for seperating from the group, when the only reason why I back tracked what to save his lame ass friend who he was split screening with. How do you end up ditching your roomate that you're on split screen with?

As for people complaining on Left 4 Dead, consider it par for the course. I almost play just for the bizarre social dynamic and spazzouts of the insane Xbox 360 players, laughing the whole time. It's a zombie invasion game with an AI that ramps up to work against you... it's freaking designed to push things to their limit and stress you out.

Well done Valve.

Spleeni:
Worst team I've had were just two guys dicking around, and killing each-other. I've found that most people I've played with are very friendly.

I had that too, although it was just the one person TK'ing everyone else. Another issue I had was being kicked for no discernable reason. L4D does seem to have a largely friendly community though, Ive only heard one whiny American teen since it was released - a record for XBL surely?

I was sniping zombies with the hunting rifle and then one of my teammates pushes me just as i was pulling the trigger. Guess what I shot...A PROPANE TANK. Two of us were incapacitated and the player zombies saw this as the perfect time to strike so lets just say we were all dead in about 40 seconds.

Stop pushing people damn it!

the biggest problem i have is it seems that i get stuck with newbs everygame or just people that absolutely suck at the game. i'm not kidding when i say that on average i kill 4 times more than anyone else. people drive me crazy.

I've generally had good luck with my random matches, though granted the bouts with actual friends are the most fun.

I've been vote kicked for being the last survivor, but it was partially my fault. The idiots startled the witch, got vomited on, made the car alarm go off, and decided to try and kill them all instead of running like hell. So reacting to their extreme stupidity, I said "To hell with this!" and made a run for the safe room, where I chilled while the retards got their just desserts (and the zombies had dessert). Funny thing was, I tried to get another random server and wound up getting linked to the opposite side of the same game. Needless to say I made sure they wet their pants with all the pouncing I did. That and pulling them over to the witch as the smoker. That never gets old.

Other than that, I've had a pretty good run on both XBL and Steam. Must be my luck.

People who wander off on their own.

Then scream like hell when a Smoker, Tank or Hunter jumps them and they're miles from anyone. The usual response to people who do this is to calmy ignore them and continue the mission.

Three guns that work is no different from three guns that work and one that works but doesn't help.

haveyouseen_mywallet:
the biggest problem i have is it seems that i get stuck with newbs everygame or just people that absolutely suck at the game. i'm not kidding when i say that on average i kill 4 times more than anyone else. people drive me crazy.

Wow...someone has one hell of an ego problem.

A natural problem that ALL online games will have (no exceptions, yes, I am looking at you Mr. Smug-PC-gamer-twat) is that you are going to encounter a) people who are not very good at a given game b) self important 'hardcore' players who believe that they must win at all costs and that 'it's not a game, it's a way of life' and finally, c) annoying, immature (sometimes racist) and thick-headed players who believe that it is their personal duty to ruin everyone else's fun and enjoyment.

It's not just on Xbox Live either.

Beginning of the game, they all run on ahead, i am just about to follow (I was the only one who got a med kit) and what do you know, i get taken by a hunter and die within 10-20 seconds of the game.
Woop-dee-doo.

Retards.

These are the reasons why I refuse to play L4D online. I love that game to bits and pieces, and it's super-fun to play it with my brother and my friends, but everybody knows 90% of online gamers are really obnoxious. I don't want a bunch of arsehats ruining a multi-player zombie apocalypse game for me.

I also have to say that, as a relative amateur L4D player, online play would not appeal to me. I'm just not as good as some people are, and I don't want that to ruin my experience or anybody else's.

Honestly, I don't know how I've managed to play level 80+ characters on Diablo II for so many years with people constantly squawking, "FREE? FREE? FREE?" at me.

not an ego problem, i was using the term newb as a broader scope for the immature and somewhat childish way people act online.

Iron Mal:

haveyouseen_mywallet:
the biggest problem i have is it seems that i get stuck with newbs everygame or just people that absolutely suck at the game. i'm not kidding when i say that on average i kill 4 times more than anyone else. people drive me crazy.

Wow...someone has one hell of an ego problem.

A natural problem that ALL online games will have (no exceptions, yes, I am looking at you Mr. Smug-PC-gamer-twat) is that you are going to encounter a) people who are not very good at a given game b) self important 'hardcore' players who believe that they must win at all costs and that 'it's not a game, it's a way of life' and finally, c) annoying, immature (sometimes racist) and thick-headed players who believe that it is their personal duty to ruin everyone else's fun and enjoyment.

It's not just on Xbox Live either.

not an ego problem, i was using the term newb as a broader scope for the immature and somewhat childish way people act online. seems you need to come off your holier i never make mistakes podium yourself, i'm not a pc gamer twat, not even a pc gamer twat. sounds like you're trying to be like yahtzee why don't get your own unique opinion and when you do share it with us twat.

I really hate the guys who 'need a piss' when things go apeshit and blame his characters ai for us getting slaughtered.

When my team in vs mode decided to camp the spawn room so they could "clear the first part in complete safety".

yeah good work retards, totally ignore the fact that this is vs mode for one, and that zombies get spawned by the AI director. So after a while I convince them that you have to keep moving in vs mode to avoid having to fight boss infected every 20 seconds without gaining any ground, and I keep pushing them along a bit at a time. Until they decide to all go for medpacks which are at the START of the level, and it was the train station level, so they can't get up the hole to begin with.

One person thinking you could do that, I can understand, but 3 of them at once? What kind of sick luck is that?

So despite being 20 metres away from them they decide to run off, I get smokered and pounced at once, I die. Needless to say they didn't last long.

I didn't feel like helping my team win, so I actually managed to get the opposition survivors to not kill me as a boomer, and I just ran with them through the level. Setting up a few easy kills by throwing up on them while they put propane and petrol tanks around. :D

In this very same game, the tank spawn was given to one of the retards, and he began attacking from that room above the minigun, the team I was following threw a molotov, lit him on fire, so the dumbass decided to leg it to safety, and HID in a room, Ignoring my team and eventually dying. The team runs past, on the way killing the other 2 boss infected on my team who were standing next to each other on a car, just hitting each other.

Weirdest game I've ever been in by a long shot.