wwwn86 on 10/2/2009 at 19:35
Rebalancing the game for a different number of players would require changing enemies' health, behaviors, and numbers. The levels would have to be redesigned as well so they wouldn't seem empty and boring with a lower number of enemies, and simply to make it easier to get to your partner and save him from a special zombie.
The AI director would also have to be changed to accommodate a different number of players.
Yes, it would be nice if you could play with a different number of players. But the developers made a choice at what type of game they wanted to make, and didn't spend time making anything else that would just add time and cost to the development. If they didn't spend a lot of time on other 'modes,' they would be sub-par, and not representative of the quality they were aiming at with the 4 person mode.
Can we all move on and get back on topic please? Start a new thread to discuss L4D.
june gloom on 10/2/2009 at 20:50
vurt just wants a game where he can say dirty things to his buttbuddy without other people listening in.
Yakoob on 11/2/2009 at 03:32
Quote Posted by DDL
Like they say though, the entire way the game works is based around there being 4 people: having twice as much health (or hell, eight times as much health) is no use if one of you is pinned by a hunter and one is nabbed by a smoker. It simply means it'll take slightly longer for you both to die.
Four people means (usually) there is AT LEAST one person free to assist people who are powerless to help themselves, and the game has quite a few instances of 'situations wherein you are powerless to help yourself'.
Losing a single person makes things tricky, and if you lose two, no matter how much health you both may have, there are a ton of ways you can get frustratingly ...borked, basically. Gimped into a situation where you can do nothing but watch yourself die.
Not to say that 2-man couldn't work, necessarily, but it would require a hell of a lot of tweaking to stay balanced and fun, and I can't help but think you'd find the experience cheapened by the necessary behind the scenes zombie nerfing.
Still: kill the two AIs, and see how it goes!
Spawn only 1 smoker / hunter at a time.
Fixed.
See, that wasn't so hard now was it?
Also, vurt, you are a great example of a very valid and strong point (which I agree with), argued in a very ineffective way.
You're right about dethtoll, though...
june gloom on 11/2/2009 at 04:22
Yakoob and vurt agreeing with each other in stupidity! Stop the fucking presses!
Yakoob on 11/2/2009 at 07:31
:)
DDL on 11/2/2009 at 09:57
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Spawn only 1 smoker / hunter at a time.
Fixed.
See, that wasn't so hard now was it?
Quote Posted by DDL
I can't help but think you'd find the experience cheapened by the necessary behind the scenes zombie nerfing.
As it is ANYWAY, it's often a case of "ok, we just killed a smoker, so next up will be a boomer. Then a hunter, and the cycle will continue." The bits where you get combinations of the bastards, however, are where it gets really interesting.
Xenith on 14/2/2009 at 19:44
Maybe someone can make a mod for Left 4 Dead called Left 2 Die, or Left 3 Lives... or Left 1 Human.
Guess that would fix some stuf, no? :p
:joke:
june gloom on 14/2/2009 at 20:40
I'd play Left2Die.
RavynousHunter on 14/2/2009 at 21:19
Current:
*Left 4 Dead (on x360, as I can't find a PC copy in my podunk-ass town)
*Call of Duty: World at War (again, on x360)
*Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach (fairly good time-waster)
*Call of Duty 4 (when World at War children start to piss me off)
Previous:
*Guild Wars (just got to be too repetitive, even PvP started to bore me)
*Ultima Online (on UOGamers: Demise, just got old with no one to talk to because everyone was in fucking Luna selling their Doom artifacts)
*GTA 4 (servers just kinda went dead after a while, and I got sick of annoying 8 year-olds)
*Tenchu Z (got sick and tired of being teamed with a bunch of retards who ran around like "HURR, I IS TEH NINJA, I CANNOT DIE!!!!!!!!!!!")
