Help

[Tao Harasaki]

Do you think we should be able to get help in the game? Like rarely finding a dog that's immune to the rabies virus. Or every once in a while there will be a sniper that jumps out and helps you.

[Mustacio]

Do you think we should be able to get help in the game? Like rarely finding a dog that's immune to the rabies virus. Or every once in a while there will be a sniper that jumps out and helps you.

no i think that should just stay in I am Legend. this game is built on teamwork, if you use teamwork properly then you wont need help.

[Dead Fish]

That's what I'd expect from custom maps. A scripted scene here and there.

I don't think this can be implemented dynamically without looking like the gimmick it is. Anything else would probably get too repetitive, so in the end I wouldn't want it.

[Lotharian]

I hope that if anything is to come out of the user community, it'd be a mod to make certain levels daytime. I know some like cornfield has to be in its end of the day to dawn cycle (possibly the only thing scripted in the entire game), but I think the city map thats been shown to us many times would be great during the day.

For me, that will be the only disappointment of Left 4 Dead, that they wrote into the canon that they only feel safe traveling at night (hence all the levels being at night).

[Left 4 Dead]

Scripted NPC's would be kick ass in L4D.

[Kill_Switch05]

Good in a mod/ Custom map...in left 4 dead? No thanks.

[Zxachk]

Nah that would just be sorta wierd.

[Mustacio]

Or every once in a while there will be a sniper that jumps out and helps you.

i just realized, isn't there a limited amount of humans in the world? i think they're trying to go for a more isolated, all by yourself, feeling. having a guy run on the rooftops sniping at zombies for you would be kinda funky and wouldn't really make sense with the "story" of the game

[DeltaBishop]

I would lol if some random sniper guy appears and starts shooting zombies.

"Thanks, random sniper guy!"
"Everybody gets one..."

[Lotharian]

i just realized, isn't there a limited amount of humans in the world? i think they're trying to go for a more isolated, all by yourself, feeling. having a guy run on the rooftops sniping at zombies for you would be kinda funky and wouldn't really make sense with the "story" of the game

Well, to be fair, don't the missions end with you waiting on military helicopters? Or something like that? I know that if anything, one of the levels ends that way.

I think that the idea of NPCs would be great. I can see that maybe in the city level for example, when you're in the subway, you find a couple of people trapped in the subway cars, and you can either save them (and get supplies such as health, ammo, and better guns as a reward, but it'd be random which of the three it is) or let them die (and get jack squat, but save ammo). It'd be a nice little morality thing tossed in there. They wouldn't stay around, once you save them they go their own way and probably die, but just for the moment you have some people there.

I think thats a perfectly fine idea.

[Ilkoo]

It'd be a nice little morality thing tossed in there.

Myeah morality issues are always good in games.. i have to agree with that.

But this game allready has that, and plenty of it. Like youre standing at the savehouse and one or two teammates is falling behind. Do you try and save them waisting ammo and health or do you close the door and save yourself a lot of trouble.. And these moral issues are about real people which make it a lot more tense then just saving some npcs in a sticky situation.

[TamAlthor]

Or every once in a while there will be a sniper that jumps out and helps you.

Oh oh oh! i know they should make the sniper like some sort of crazy priest who has a vendetta against the infected and he can like quote crazy bible versus. it would be the bomb diggitty. Oh i hope no one else does this!

*good thing i am not a sarcastic ass*

[armored cow]

I think that the idea of NPCs would be great. I can see that maybe in the city level for example, when you're in the subway, you find a couple of people trapped in the subway cars, and you can either save them (and get supplies such as health, ammo, and better guns as a reward, but it'd be random which of the three it is) or let them die (and get jack squat, but save ammo).
yeah but u know that like every game u go into, there will be the one person u just shoots them in the face....so bad idea.
if u havent noticed yet, this game makes it almost impossible to be a total ass during game except for TKing.
there arent any flash grenades, or smokes...and if ur teammate is retarded and wants to stay behind u can let him.

[Lotharian]

yeah but u know that like every game u go into, there will be the one person u just shoots them in the face....so bad idea.
if u havent noticed yet, this game makes it almost impossible to be a total ass during game except for TKing.
there arent any flash grenades, or smokes...and if ur teammate is retarded and wants to stay behind u can let him.

I'll be honest here. I did not understand the majority of your post. I fail to see how its a bad idea (by your logic, anyways).

[Jim_Riley]

"Thanks, random sniper guy!"
"Everybody gets one..."

I lol'd.

[one of them]

so... some random guy with a shotgun is going to waste HIS ammo to help you survive, then go off on his own? Sounds pretty dumb to me...