Tribute to Mike Booth!

[Left4Dead2008]

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[Dead Fish]

I agree, but...

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Stop sleeping at work, Mike and get the damn game finished! XD

[gothichorror13]

Stop sleeping at work
OH come on thats not cool let'em take a rest they've been working on this game take a break mike and rest for a while lol!!! dont hurts me pplz. Mike but u better release the game sooner -.-

[hool10]

MikeB: Guys, we can't make the infected class easily accepted by the kiddie cs crowd. What should we do?

Consumer: FFS Smoker is a barnacle, hunter pounces, boomer pukes and explodes, and tank just smashes. Just balance them already and release the frigging game! Not to mention goldrush and the scout TF2 movie.

MikeB: We might have to remove the player controlled zombie class. In the meantime, lets re-design the survivor portraits! Delay the game too!

**I do think they might remove the player infected too. They seem to have a hard time with the concept of giving the player a tank and making them understand that Hulk=smash or something.**

[KashMunni]

Um.. why would they take away the infected play?

Epic Failure

[hool10]

Um.. why would they take away the infected play?

Epic Failure
Yea it would be but they can't come with terms on how to make it play out. Might just say "it was a good idea but technically it wasn't possible". See the hydra in HL2. :-/

[Dead Fish]

Yea it would be but they can't come with terms on how to make it play out. Might just say "it was a good idea but technically it wasn't possible". See the hydra in HL2. :-/

Don't believe that stupid crystal ball; the damn thing seems to be overly negative lately...

[hool10]

All I'm saying is late Summer/September 30th is coming real fast. So they either better start making the Infected class "playable" and the new maps too or it "might" get delayed again. The GT trailer was removed as well which is quite odd.

[Shrubberyjsc]

OP: Right

Others: Wrong

[Left 4 Dead]

Who says it isn't playable, its been played.

[Mustacio]

Yea it would be but they can't come with terms on how to make it play out. Might just say "it was a good idea but technically it wasn't possible". See the hydra in HL2. :-/

i don't see how its not possible. zombie mods been doing it all the time.

[KashMunni]

Erm.. Who cares if the Smoker takes people in with the tongue..? Who wouldn't to run around some streets and throw cars and chunks of asphalt at humans..? Why would some one not want to vomit on some one and watch as they got killed by a horde of infected..? Why not let people sneak around and tear the survivors apart?

Not letting us play as the infected is the stupidest and biggest disappointment I've ever heard

Lol.. Why not just let it be simple or some thing? Zombies never did much but eat people anyway.

What are they going to do with out the infected play anyway? Add more survivors? This is ridiculous... with out being able to play as the infected kinda kills a fat part of the game.

[Chronos]

The games not going to lose a feature that consists of half the game and has been technically playable for over a year.

[Puscifer]

tbh i wouldnt be that botherd if they took away the infected play, it wont happen and i am dieing to play as the infected because i love a challenge. The fun in playing as the infected is gonna come from the sheer challenge of stopping the survivours and team work needed to do so:D

[hool10]

It's usually on and off on how they playtest them though. Squerl/Frog did then they didn't let anybody play it. It was quite some time they let play testers play cornfield and didn't let anybody play Infected until PC Gamer came along. Now OXM Magazine is reporting, as of yesterday I might add, they arn't letting people play Infected yet again. *In interviews like this one: http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/10873 Mike says that the survivor side is very plain and simple and accessible. The Infected side though takes a lot more play testing and a lot more work. They have issues with it throughout L4D's development.

[Dead Fish]

Are you seriously suggesting that they will announce the cancellation of the Infected side in the near future? I mean, that's just plain not going to happen. They might aswell scrape the whole game.

Of course it's going to be a challenge, but c'mon! This (now) is Valve we are talking about! Have some optimism. ;) Besides, the Infected side has been playable in München, Germany some weeks ago and everybody said, playing the Bosses needed some refinement, but was a lot of fun already.

[Deadly]

They aren't going to cancel it. this is funny watching people panic over someone's guess and assumption

[tp500]

I wouldn't be mad. I'd almost feel more comfortable knowing there wont be some idiot who is just being a retard, but instead an AI who actually knows what it's doing. Plus I don't really want to be the bosses. Maybe the hunter, thats about it.

[hool10]

Well in the past they have cancelled major things. Such as the Hydra in HL2 had AI coding and everything. Play testers did not like fighting it though so they scrapped it. There are many parts in HL and HL2 that were scraped as well. The chumtoad in fact was a type of bait to lure a bullsquid but got scrapped. It's unlikely the Infected will be scrapped though because TRS is all about 2 sides with their games. It's very hard for them to have it easily acceptable to the public though. I remember them having problems with TF2 characters even. For a long time the medic and pyro they didn't know what to do with those classes.

[armored cow]

For a long time the medic and pyro they didn't know what to do with those classes.

im always the pyro.
*back on topic* and no, they will never, ever scrap the Infected as playable.
if it takes them another year, they will take it just so they can have playable Infected.
and ditto to this -->
They aren't going to cancel it. this is funny watching people panic over someone's guess and assumption

[one of them]

I do think they might remove the player infected too. They seem to have a hard time with the concept of giving the player a tank and making them understand that Hulk=smash or something

Its like all games, people will learn. When you first get on Halo 3, you don't know all the weapons, but after a while you get a feel for them, and know what times to use them. People will learn how to use the infected... you can't expect them to get on and suddenly KNOW what to do.