Left 4 Wanting More

The Left 4 Dead Demo is availible for a few more days. I would reccomened taking a look at it. It's only two levels, but after you play through it a couple of times you see how the A.I. Director works. I've played about a dozen times and it's always been different. And that's only with two levels...

The loading screen, just before you start the round, rules. Plain and simple. Although I did have some issues with the game. I ran it on it's reccomended defaults, except changing the aspect ratio to 14:10. And not even two minutes in it crashed to the desktop...

So I went back in. Quickly joined a game inprogress, wondering if it would be the same one. It wasn't. But it wasn't far from where I had crashed, so I didn't mind. We made it to the end, surviving all the Smokers, Hunters, Boomers, and Witches it threw at us. And I was left wanting more. But I had to go to work.

So, eight hours later I was back at home and loading up the demo again. Only this time I decided to go at it alone, in that I was the only human. This was in a way, better. I had the opertunity to explore the enviroments better. When I was with a team of other players they were more focused on the task at hand and less in looking at VALVe's handywork. I discovered there are almost two ways to anywhere, and that setting off car alarms is a big no-no. Well, seeing a horde of zombies running at you from three directions is pretty sweet.

I've played a couple of zombie games, a big fan of the Resident Evil series. But Left 4 Dead, it feels less like a game and more like a movie. The way the zombies move about and attack reminds me more of the good 'ol zombie flicks.


Oh, and I'm really excited about SteamCloud. So many hassels will be saved.

Goldrush ranked 3071

My Goldrush map I posted on FPSBanana is rank 3071 on TF2Scores.com. The map got deleted from the Banana, claiming it was illegal. But I never once said that I made it, I said it was VALVe's map. I just found that I had a copy of it, so I called it 'pl_goldrush_v1' and put it up there incase people wanted to play it.

Oh well.

I will put it on my FileFront account, in the event anybody wants it. It's Goldrush, the way it was when it first came out. Got some bugs, true, but it also has the missing doorway, which I miss.

mat_picmip

Saw a post over at the Ubercharged.net forums that mentioned a way to get the 'Ultra High' graphics. I looked into it it myself, and as you can see from the above image, it does work. I set it as high as -10, but didn't see any difference than -3. There is a lot of noticable slowdown along with it, but then my system could still use a few upgrades. Oh, and this will work(as far as I know) for any of the Source games, at least Orange Box and up.

Old School Gold Rush?

I was looking around in my files and found that I had made a copy of the pl_goldrush.bsp map and stuck it in my GMod/maps folder. This was done before the changes to Gold Rush, thus making it a release version(before they removed the door). I added a '_v1' to the file name zipped it up and stuck it on File Planet. Feel free to grab it if you miss the old version. Link below.


pl_goldrush_v1.bsp

It's also over at fpsbanana.com too.

Stupid GMod...

So I had an idea for a new comic today, and wanted to play with it some and flesh somethings out. So I went into GMod and loaded up Gold Rush, since it's a TF2 based storyline. And since it's the BLU team that it's based around, I went to the BLU base at stage one. Only to see this:

I really wish I could fix this issue, I had the same problems with Opti-Pessi, which is why you never saw the BLU spawn rooms. Both Steam and Face Punch forums have failed me in my search for a solution.

Mmph hmmph mmf ghumm!

First and foremost, Pyro Pack Rules! I got my Flare Gun last night, I was also ruling that server. I had the highest score with a forty point gap! I do say that these achievements are much better than the Medic ones. With the Medic achievements most just seem to much a distraction, they are more so a hindrance to your team if you try to obtain them. Pyro achievements, most of them, are the things you're already doing. I can see now this is going to keep me from that KoTOR game I started a few weeks back..

This coming week, I'll be working something around 77 hours between today and Saturday afternoon. Can you guess what I'm going to say next? No Opti-Pessi on Monday, I really hope to get one on Friday. I'm also canning Bi-Weekly, until further notice we will only be releasing on Fridays. I have a lot of crazy crap going on at both bleedin jobs. But I do have a old Short that I never released, I'll post that tomorrow so you got something to look forward too.

Other reasons of a lack of comic are, for Fathers Day I was given the gift of Rock Band! Thus I have spent many nights flailing my arms like a crazed Scout swings his bat, pounding out rythems that fall short of maintaining rythem. That game does rule a bit too much.

Lastly, here is a project I was working on last month, that I finally got up and finished. It's not comic related or TF2. Just a whole other random part of the KoreRat.

We're not dead.

Saw this great post over at Ubercharged about the 'Red Delicious' VALVe, or is it 'Granny Smith'? Read it here.

Also we have a new video from VALVe. Meet the Sniper is out! Hoo-rah!

I noticed this the second time I watched it. Looks like one of the new guns, I'll bet to replace the Shotty.

Steamy VALVe Goodness

So a bunch of great news came out of VALVe HQ yesterday. Yea, I'm a bit behind in the scoop releaving, but at least I try.

They announced the new Steamcloud system that will allow the saving of game configs and saved games on the Steam backend. That way, if you have to reinstall a game, or install to a new system, your already set to pick up right where you left off. I think this is great, but I'll be kinda sad, because whenever I reinstall a game I give it a play to get all the chapters unlocked and just enjoy the game again. But I'm just being picky, I'll just delete the saves and start over. And now I don't have to sit there for an hour trying to remember what my mouse sensitivity is. Was it 15? No, maybe 10. No.... Damnit!

They also let out a bit of TF2 news, telling us that 'Meet the Sniper' will be the next release in the 'Meet The...' series. Word is that it's the funniest of to date. I can only imagine, cause Meet the Scout was pretty damn funny. That should be poping up around the time of the next achievement pack, which I have seen mentioned in a few places may be Pyro. W00t's all around!

I might have more later...