Ok, found this on one fo the l4d forums. It’s a hunter jumping practice map.
Instructions on how to use it on are in the link, but I’ll add a couple things. One, I couldn’t change to the infected team using M because of one of the recent patches, so I just reloaded the level. When I did that, it put me on the right team.
Second, it will complain that the level is unplayable. Just click OK and it will play fine.
Third, if you spawn as a smoker or boomer, spawn in the nearby room and let the survivors kill you. Keep doing that until you’re set up for a hunter. Then drop down the tunnel to the bottom.
Finally, I couldn’t finish it. I got past 6 or 7 tests, but I just got tired of it after half an hour or so. The most important part IMO are the early levels. They focus on wall jumping horizontally and vertically. Later parts try to teach you how to control your pounces to hit targets below you.
All and all, it did give me a lot more comfort with wall jumping. It’s hard and took me a LOT of effort. Interesting.
I just bought the game, and I absolutely love it… is there any chance that we have enough people to put together a Normal or Advanced game sometime today (Saturday)?
On a related note, now that I’ve played a few Versus rounds, I was hoping to ask a question about Infected strategy: what, exactly, is the best way to use the Smoker in a flat area? I’ve started getting the hang of using overhangs and towers to protect me from fire whilst I wind some poor Survivor up like a rag doll, but it seems like my best bet without elevation would be to hit stragglers or wait until the rest of the team is too busy to help (e.g. Hordes, Tanks, or coordinating with the Hunters for simultaneous strikes). Am I off base here?
I think that it is the hardest to be a smoker when you’re on level terrain. I always hate spawning in places like that. When it happens, I do what you said and try to pick up a straggler; it’s best to spawn behind them and grab a guy. Even if you don’t survive for very long a good grab can make them backtrack to come retrieve the guy and buy your team some extra time. Sometimes if you’re lucky, a boomer will vomit on the guy you’ve strangled too.
You can coordinate with a hunter if the hunter knows what he’s doing. The best scenario would be for you to pull a guy, and the hunter would pounce on anyone who comes to rescue your victim. The second best scenario would be for the hunter to slash the strangled as you hold him, too.
The worst scenario is when you strangle a guy only to have some noob hunter pounce on him, breaking your chain. :smack:
While we’re talking about it, I’ve seen some stunningly good smoker-boomer pairs, in which the smoker’s only job is to survive for the 1-3 seconds it takes for the boomer to throw up on the capture. It seems like something that requires practice, but I saw a pretty effective pair doing this, and they managed to survive through three or four grab & gank sessions.
So I’m moving in with a roomate because I got laid off. We both have X360s. I also have a gaming PC that could run this. He and his neighbor share a wireless internet connection that runs out of his neighbor’s house (we are going to get high speed cable in the next week or two). I have a wireless router that I could use to build a network in the house with, or we could just run a cable between our 360s, or ???
I need ideas on what we should do. Do we need 2 X360 versions? Should I get a PC version and a 360? How is it with 2 players on a LAN and no net connection?
You can play coop on the 360 with split screen. You can do the same on the Pc but unfortunately Valve hasn’t made that process easy, not yet at least.
You can’t play cross platform on the PC vs 360. The poor 360 owners wouldn’t stand a chance
So go with the platform that will accommodate everyone. If everyone’s got a PC and they’re all on the net or on the network, you’re set. Otherwise you can group two players to a single xbox and play on XBL with anyone else on a 360 (including your neighbors).
You can play split-screen in co-op on the 360 pretty easily. I haven’t played it on LAN, but I don’t imagine it being any trouble like any other game run over LAN that I’ve played.
That’s great, but when are they planning on making the other two campaigns Versus-mode compatible? Or at least ONE of the campaigns.
I’m asking this as a rhetorical question, since I’m pretty sure nobody here works for Valve. If anybody DOES, though… well, get on that. We’re getting bored with the same two campaigns over and over again.
