Left4Dead inquiries

[RCBH928]

Ok I will be honest
I found Left4Dead in a black market illegal copy place and I bought it for $3.

I am running a new macbook 2.0 , my last computer was an 800 mhz imac from 2002 so you can imagine how far I am in the
pc gaming world I thought I would test it out.

I am not complaining, just wondering...
I had trouble running the game and it usually crashed I think its because of the macbook's hardware limitation for gaming

Ummm..
The game had only 5 levels which were all open and selectable from the start
they were:
Apartments-Subway-Sewers-Hospital and Rooftop finale.

I know this game was made to be multiplayer, but is this all for the single player campaign?
Or my copy is damn illegal corrupted one?

I really enjoyed those few levels, and I am seriously considering buying a legit copy. The whole gameplay time I got of this is probably 40 min.

I really enjoyed the commentary from the game developers works 100% better than director commentary on DVD's(which I am not sure any one ever listens to)

I am just wondering. I am also hoping that the copy I got is really bad and glitchy that it made it hard to run the game on my hardware, cause my macbook really had difficult time running the game in every aspect from being slow in respone to freezing, to completely crashing and just quitting the app.

I am also not very sure if I can return back to using the controller to play FPS. The Keyboard and mouse are absolutely amazing

[Jayson]

Your Macbook has integrated graphics right? Thats probably the problem there, though there have been a few patches that helped with the performance in the game.

The game is totally worth the asking price (which was on sale this past weekend) and it has a few modes added, but it is primarily a multiplayer game. The only single player you are really going to get out of it is playing the campaign with bot controlled teammates.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

the 9400m's in the Macbook unibodies might be a step up from the GMAx1300's but its still not even 64mb 8400m level.

[t0yrobo]

I played it a bit on my macbook pro and it regularly crashed when a BIG crowd of baddies was entering the screen.

[nickfil]

do they even make it for mac? What are you running it through?

I'm playing on my mac tower with bootcamp. I tried running games through parallels and had nothing but problems. Maybe my problems are your problems?

as for left 4 dead talk:
if you aren't playing with people- you arn't getting the full experience. If you like it single player you'll love it with multi. Get a cheap mic and go at it. There are 4 campaigns each with 4 sections in them plus a final showdown where you defend ageist the horde for an extended period of time. All are playable in single or multi.

I have no idea what you bought if you only have access to that one campaign. You should have 4. Plus versus mode. Plus maybe an option to download survival mode?

[AwesomeMonstar]

sounds to me like you somehow only got the no mercy campaign. There are 3 other campaigns that you are missing out on... also how the hell are you running it on a mac? Bootcamp?

[RCBH928]

Yes I am running it on bootcamp, xp
I did try to do it through FM fusion and it I don't recall it even started.

I think I got the no mercy campaign , because it had the No Mercy at the end.
The weird thing is by the end of the campaign it had a credits and everything and the last scene is like where the game ended with a helicopter picking you up.
I can imagine a demo or a cracked copy, but how come there is a version with just 1 campaign!?

At the end of the campaign , one of us characters named Louis died in gameplay. At the credits they had it saying "In memory of Louis" and really thought that was funny
I hope its not really a guy named louis who actually died.

This game is really different with some thought put into it.

Now the big choice is this. Shall I buy it for 360 and buy gold membership(extra dollars)
or shall I get it for my weak mac which got hard time running the game(not to mention online) but free internet gameplay?

I got no idea what integrated graphics are but I got the GeForce 9400M chip

[Niode]

Your macbook should be able to play this game. I can play this game on my Macbook Pro in Vista with a X1600XT. Surely the 9400m is a better GPU than that?

I'd definitely get it for PC but I'm biased against console shooters, I prefer to use a mouse. Especially when playing Hunter, doing wall jumps is almost impossible on the 360 because of the slow turn speed.

You can get L4D pretty cheap from steam. They sometimes discount it quite considerably every now and then, you just missed the free play weekend when they were selling it discounted.

Currently there's 4 campaign (4 player co-op levels split into 4 intermediate areas with a 5th crescendo level where you have to survive for a set amount of time against the horde and special infected). Just added in the latest DLC updated (which was free ) was the other 2 campaigns fixed for versus play so now there is a total of 4 Versus campaigns (4 survivors vs 4 special invected) which follow the same template as the co-op campaign with 4 intermediate levels with a 5th finale. Each team takes turns being survivor then infected on each level. Also added is the Survival mode which has extended set pieces from the main campaigns where you are blocked into a certain (quite small) area where you have to fend off the horde for as long as possible, while the difficulty ramps up constantly. We managed to play for 15 minutes on Dead Air and by that time we had 2 tanks attacking us every 30 seconds as well as 2 groups of 2 smokers and tonnes of hunters all trying to destroy us. It was pretty intense! We had to literally shoot the hunters out of the sky in mid pounce. We lost purely because we ran out of ammo, and just couldn't make it to the ammo respawn due to there being literally hundreds of zombies and special infected around.

All in all, I think it's defo worth buying especially since most places sell it for less than £20, it's really good value for money now that the new modes have been unlocked.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Your macbook should be able to play this game. I can play this game on my Macbook Pro in Vista with a X1600XT. Surely the 9400m is a better GPU than that?

I'd definitely get it for PC but I'm biased against console shooters, I prefer to use a mouse. Especially when playing Hunter, doing wall jumps is almost impossible on the 360 because of the slow turn speed.

You can get L4D pretty cheap from steam. They sometimes discount it quite considerably every now and then, you just missed the free play weekend when they were selling it discounted.

Currently there's 4 campaign (4 player co-op levels split into 4 intermediate areas with a 5th crescendo level where you have to survive for a set amount of time against the horde and special infected). Just added in the latest DLC updated (which was free ) was the other 2 campaigns fixed for versus play so now there is a total of 4 Versus campaigns (4 survivors vs 4 special invected) which follow the same template as the co-op campaign with 4 intermediate levels with a 5th finale. Each team takes turns being survivor then infected on each level. Also added is the Survival mode which has extended set pieces from the main campaigns where you are blocked into a certain (quite small) area where you have to fend off the horde for as long as possible, while the difficulty ramps up constantly. We managed to play for 15 minutes on Dead Air and by that time we had 2 tanks attacking us every 30 seconds as well as 2 groups of 2 smokers and tonnes of hunters all trying to destroy us. It was pretty intense! We had to literally shoot the hunters out of the sky in mid pounce. We lost purely because we ran out of ammo, and just couldn't make it to the ammo respawn due to there being literally hundreds of zombies and special infected around.

All in all, I think it's defo worth buying especially since most places sell it for less than £20, it's really good value for money now that the new modes have been unlocked.

the 9400m is an integrated card that sucks. your mbp can play it much better.

[Erik_Twice]

Get it for PC and mod it until you have so much content you do not need anything else to play. Heck, I saw a Space Harrier map XD