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My problems with Left 4 Dead

I am sure everyone curses at the Left 4 Dead lobby system. To me it seems like Valve just HAD to get the game out before the christmas sales, and - perhaps for the first time ever - this has infected the performance greatly. Aside from the major server handling issues, I have a huge problem with the Versus gamemode. Sure it's fun, but it's too random. I played a game where my team would meet the tank early, in very confined spaces, and get the witch soon hereafter, in a location where you would have to kill her. The other team, however, met their tank in possible the easiest locations ever, after they had just recieved their guns, meaning the tank went down very fast. The location of "their" witch would always be in some useless room, that they did not even have to enter. I seem to get a lot of this lately. What is the purpose of both the tank and the witch in a versus mode anyway? They are way too random, and they often contribute to lucky whipeouts. If I had anything to say at Valve, the witch should be removed completely from Versus mode, and the tank should only be available at the campaign finales.

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I totally agree

I totally agree. The VS mode lacks a certain controle on the 'boss' type caracters in game. Also the lobby system needs huge change to it, especially the way you can interact with your community servers. One thing i love thought, is that this interaction between steam and the community system is FINALLY being put into place! (Something we've been requesting ever since steam friends / community launched). I hope the next large update will fix most of this!

Thumbs up!

I agree with you fully Spike - we already talked about it on Friends and I made several posts on the forum about all the various issues L4D has. We can only hope that a proper patch is on its way. By the way - yesterday I crashed again i VS mode and was blocked out because my slot was immediately taken (can't blame anybody). The demo never crashed on me so this surely is a bug in the full version...

I totally agree, I have

I totally agree, I have refused to play versus for the last week or so o: It hasn't crashed much at all for me, I have confined myself mostly to expert with 4 people directly joining our servers~ :D No problems this way xD

I wonder...

I wonder if the problems are caused by VS mode - perhaps that's why the demo didn't crash. Also, L4D crashed on exit for me and Neoflo at the same time, which is pretty weird...

I wonder if the Tank and

I wonder if the Tank and Witch should be given once the Infected have earned enough kills or something similar. A bit like how the Uber charge works.

No.

Then survivors will just push the infected away and run for saferooms rather than actually kill them.