Evening Reading
- Sharks are like golf balls. Duh.
- Criminal mastermind
- Change.gov getting the press all excited
- How spammers make cash
- Stuff in the ocean
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Taking Stock!
- EA doing Dead Space premium upgrade packs
- Top global games for Q3 2008
- Activision buys Guitar Hero PS2 developer, another Guitar Hero game in dev
- Rare fixing Banjo on SDTV
- GTA4 producer not so sure about that DLC this year
- EA gets even more DRM lawsuits
- Burn Zombie Burn trailer
- Rock Band developer on music creation
- Developers fighting used game sales
- LittleBigPlanet moderation pissing poeple off
- Tomb Raider: Underworld trailer
- EVE Online console FPS?
- World in Conflict developer sold by Activision to Ubisoft
- Sonic Unleashed delay in Japan
- Need for Speed Undercover gone gold
- Midway in a world of crap
Lastly, please do log in and keep participating in the ShackHype metering on news items! I'm sure most of you guys have seen by now that we are reflecting trends etc on the individual games but we are working on more! The more you participate the better stuff we'll be able to do. Things like recommendations and predictions are possible.
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replySo they just updated L4D. Expert is now fucking impossible. You've been warned...
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lol noob. let me show you how a real pro zombie killer deals with zombies.
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Yeah. :( You can still spawn them if you have cheats on, though!
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Oh boo, that's a bit sad. Trial versus mode was fun.
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Funny, 4 of us just had the smoothest run through's on expert yet. That said it was pretty intense. But I wouldn't say it was quite maximum overdrive extreme.
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Yup, had to wait for mine and other people's clients to update. A couple more unexpected hordes and the boss zombie's were getting involved during hording more but despite that we made it two clean runs back to back.
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Damned straight we did Mr Fink!
It must have been the scotsman.
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anyone can download the demo now...
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gogogogogogoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo get the demo public people
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i guess they put it on the steam store and didn't activate it yet
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better than that shitty green
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trickery. I thought my computer was broken :(
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Damnit, when does "tomorrow" officially begin? I have a holiday from work and am ready to use it!
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I didn't see anything about it in the release notes either, but unless I'm imagining things it sure as hell seems like they upped the difficulty. A few things that stick out are that friendly fire knockdowns are about as easy to do as it was in expert (very easy), there are more big encounters with zombie hordes, and it'll throw even more zombies at once at you. Getting tongue tied, puked on, and jumped by a hunter all at the same time was something that only seemed to happen on expert, but now it was much more frequent.
That and it used to be where I could clear advanced in my sleep and on expert I could clear it every now and then if the whole team minded their friendly fire. This time, oof, we tried for about 45 minutes and we got close to finishing only once. Mind you, the first section was relatively easy, the second one was very difficult.
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Invisible Lakren made things more difficult:
http://www.shackpics.com/files/l4d_dem_hospital02_subway0003_pn56etyx4qn1h2ddwugp.jpg
http://www.shackpics.com/files/l4d_dem_hospital02_subway0002_iv7cz1hhlajyhmfvmofs.jpg
Weird server lag, though I was laughing at the floating gun/med pack shooting zombies. Wasn't so funny when I couldn't figure out if I might accidentally hit him or not.
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Expert does not seem any different to me... =/
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Yeah, this is my take. Plus if you "take too long" -- then you get swarmed. Also, you get more boss zombies coming at you if you take longer.
But, I've seen the tank pretty much every part of the subway map (even where the escalators are) and same with the witch.
In fact the damn witch was in the MIDDLE of the last subway train leading to the final rooms. Like, what? Yeah...let's sneak past that one. It was actually frapsed. I'm the one saying -- "Wonder where she's going to be this time? That'd be funny if she was in the middle of the train..."
http://www.cadaversguild.com/movies/L4D1.html-
Oh, the end of that video is pretty funny. This is what we normally do to each other to "win."
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I hate it when the witch is sitting right where you normally stand to use the minigun. That's just damn cruel.
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Just got through it with 2 randoms on a pub. We killed a tank (2 died, and two of us had 1 hp) and I firebombed a witch on the train and fucking booted it and my teammates mowed her down. Pretty intense.
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Another idea is to get someone to snipe it from afar, which will make the witch beeline toward him. Then with an auto-shotty, you run up behind her and unload everything into her head before she reached the shooter. Works pretty well if you have the auto-shotty since the witch ignores you if you're not blocking her way.
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While I doubt this simply because I beat Expert several times with Shackers just now, I DID have one scenario where it seemed like the AI director would not let us win.
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Hmm. I DID seem like one of us had killed the AI director's father and raped it's mother... one of you 3 man up 'cuz it totally wasn't me.
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You have a point, and perhaps another problem is that we only have 2 maps to play so the inconsistencies become more apparent. However, I would rather get used to it always being extremely hard rather than sometimes overly easy followed by an impossible tank+boomer+zombie rush zerg.
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