Suggestions for the Dev team

[Shrubberyjsc]

I noticed that whenever the dev team enters the chat good suggestions are drowned out by either "wen l4d com out?", "u shud put c4 in!", or other such 'tardedness.

So let's put together a thread of relevant, coherent ideas that would work well with Left 4 Dead.

I'll start:

I would like the message: " XXX attacked a teammate"

To change to " XXX attacked YYY"

I'll explain why. Once upon a time, I was playing with a group of sociopaths. Every person was throwing Friendly Fire (FF) around. I was getting punched by infected, and I saw several messages about FF. How was I to know if they were hitting me or each other?

It could also serve as a better record for review:

"Francis attacked Zoey
Zoey attacked Francis"

Tells a different story than

"Francis attacked a teammate
Zoey attacked a teammate"

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Please keep this thread free from spam or any other topics.

I'd like to keep this just about our feedback.

Thanks.

[asu]

Thats a pretty good idea shrubb, I like it alot. Pointing out team attackers / -killers would become so easy.
Simple but effective...nice!

[Eddy_of_the_dead]

good idea wright mike about it :D

[Armored_Zombie_Cow]

'tardedness.
im so sorry shrub, i know u said no spam, i KNOW u did, but its just so funny. ^
btw really good idea though...

[Punisher 36O]

i hope that running can help, for example.

we are geting atacked by too manny infected from one area, and we kno a boss is on the way. from what i have seen the infected outrun us, i would surgest a sprint buton if possible, so we can get scared and say, RUN!!!!!! THERES TO MANNY!!!!!!! and then u may have to leave a fallen commrade behind, that would be an awesome option to add to the game play.

[basic]

yeah short sprint stamina (long recharge) ala HL2 would be nice to have when you just decide to say FUCK IT

or maybe adrenaile shots you can pick up along with healthpacks that give you about 10 seconds of uber strength and speed. one hit melee kills and faster sprinting?

imagine using the adrenaline shot and knocking a fuckin hunters head off :D

[Plankie]

yeah short sprint stamina (long recharge) ala HL2 would be nice to have when you just decide to say FUCK IT

or maybe adrenaile shots you can pick up along with healthpacks that give you about 10 seconds of uber strength and speed. one hit melee kills and faster sprinting?

imagine using the adrenaline shot and knocking a fuckin hunters head off :D


And we have the laser pills, that grants you the ability to shoot laser through your eyes to one hit kill every foe.

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[Punisher 36O]

yeah, please note i dont want to be able to outrun them all the time and when running away is the way to go, i dont want it to be as easy as run and get away, it should be hard to stay alive, but it would be fantastic to just be in a panic with to manny enemies that u cant see anything but, and the ONLY way to go is "Everyone Split up and get the fooook out of here!!!!!!" it would be so freaking sweet

[Shrubberyjsc]

Everyone Split up

Everyone put your head between your legs and kiss your bum goodbye.

No splitting up.

;)

[Punisher 36O]

lol, i will meet up with u guys later!
just go that way and make alot of noise. . . ok

[Shrubberyjsc]

Too. Happy. To. Properly. Express. It. In. Sentence.

Request.

Granted.


=D

[ShaneInFlames]

i think it'll be cool if it had different kinds of reload animation.

[Furie]

I would like the message: " XXX attacked a teammate"

If you check the latest gt trailers you see the text "Player 1 attacked Player 2"
where you can see that the players are named just player 1 and player 2

[Shrubberyjsc]

Quoting: Shrubberyjsc
I would like the message: " XXX attacked a teammate"


If you check the latest gt trailers you see the text "Player 1 attacked Player 2"
where you can see that the players are named just player 1 and player 2





.................Yes......

I know.

[Waterboy2go]

If you check the latest gt trailers you see the text "Player 1 attacked Player 2"
where you can see that the players are named just player 1 and player 2

Lol fail

[FRAGious]

If you check the latest gt trailers you see the text "Player 1 attacked Player 2"
where you can see that the players are named just player 1 and player 2

Yeah, I just checked it and as far as I understood Shrubbery's request; it seems to already be implemented (00:16 (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33910.html)) by the identification of the player who is attacked _and_ the player who attacks.

Lol fail

So, not really? Or am I getting the suggestion all wrong, Shrubs? Or did you mean, that you want the _characters'_ names to appear instead of the nicks???

[Shrubberyjsc]

Or did you mean, that you want the _characters'_ names to appear instead of the nicks???


I'm just happy that they changed it from "X attacked a teammate"

Either Playername or Character name work fine, although that may be something the devs would deliberate over.

[FRAGious]

I'm just happy that they changed it from "X attacked a teammate"

Yeah, it works much better this way.

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I really want the fire to illuminate the area/room MUCH more! It doesn't have that presence to it (00:45 (http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/818215/left-4-dead/videos/left4dead_2b_051308.html)). When a large fire breaks out (molotov for example) it needs to act as a primary source of lightning, creating shadows and basically overrule other static light sources. That's just my 2 cents and I'll guess that this is a thing TRS/Valve will optimize before release - they better!

[ucdeath]

shrub i think they said a long ways back that they didnt want player names poping up as they didnt want to encurage ppl to try and hunt down and kill whoever it was that just killed them. by removing the player whats his name killed other player whats his name part, they prevented any ideas of revenge in the first place. although for the most part i think that was just for zombie bosses vs survivors.

whith what you mentioned about FF i think is a good idea. so im glad they read you mind and implimented it already :)

on a side note the only thing i can think of that id like to see that isnt already in there (atleast to my knowladge) is some kind of last stand mode where you and your 3 m8s are held up in some kind of building that you have to baricade and just hold out for as long as you can against the ever increasing waves of zombies.

[Waterboy2go]

I really want the fire to illuminate the area/room MUCH more! It doesn't have that presence to it (00:45). When a large fire breaks out (molotov for example) it needs to act as a primary source of lightning, creating shadows and basically overrule other static light sources. That's just my 2 cents and I'll guess that this is a thing TRS/Valve will optimize before release - they better!

Ya I was dissapointed that wasn't in there yet, oh well who knows what they're going to do in the next 5 months.

[arsis]

I think a good addition to the gameplay would be to have the ability to knock an infected's head off with a well placed melee shot. How awesome would that be to decapitate an infected and then have blood squirt out as they limply fall?

[Reptile]

Shouldn't it say "Louis attacked Zoey" as you don't see your teammates names when you aim at them, right?

I don't want to shoot my teammates to see their names.

[sir monster]

I don't want to shoot my teammates to see their names.


at the bottom of the screen they have the picture of the character they are on, next to the name of the player.... its up all the time...

[zombiegenocide]

How awesome would that be to decapitate an infected and then have blood squirt out as they limply fall?

Yeah, as an old school Romero freak, I definitely would like to see a little more blood and dismemberments.

Another thing I would fix is like what was posted earlier. You can run from the infected, maybe find a building, fix it up like they did in Night of the Living Dead, and hold off from inside. Or you can climb to the roof top and climb down a fire ladder and escape unseen through a dark back alley from the infected. This would add to the intensity of the whole last man and your buddies cheering you on thing. I mean, the game is hard enough with all 4 teamates alive, allowing players to sneak past them, and hold out a wave of them in a house, would give that sense of, "wow Joe-Bob, due to your quick thinking, pwning shooting skills, and sneakiness, we weren't completely F'd, GOOD JOB!!" It just seems to help give that single player left alive more of chance of surviving. I mean, how is one person expected to survive something that 4 people can barely even do?

[zombiegenocide]

It's probably too late to suggest this but who cares? How about a changeable weather pattern. Change the director to each time you replay a scenario, the weather changes. For example, you play the cornfield level and it is hot and sunny. You die, replay it, and it is winter, all of the corn is gone, and the snow is falling slowly and in huge clumps. It would help with the replay value per scenario, so each time you play it not only will the zombies be in different spots, and the types of zombies you see, but the weather would be completely different as well. Like I said, it's probably too late and would require a revamp in a lot of the levels, but I think it would be really cool.

[Kenny]

My suggestion for now is: Fixit! Fixit! Fixit! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HXsJ4iwdssc)

[Dead Fish]

I mean, how is one person expected to survive something that 4 people can barely even do?


Not at all? At this point I want to see him being brutaly killed until dead. (read: sodomized)

[zombiegenocide]

My suggestion for now is: Fixit! Fixit! Fixit!

Yes...we need the professor. XD funny. HAHA!!

[zombiegenocide]

How about when everyone else is dead, as soon as the single player reaches a certain point, the A.I. director decides that if the lone survivor can kill a certain amount of zombies on his own, one other teammate can come back, with a quarter health or something.

[Ellis]

theres also the thing about the closets though

[Left 4 Dead]

Naked Zoey skin+horny noises as achievement unlock.

Seriously.