New Merit/Demerit system

[DeMoNsXWiThInnX]

In that Tom's Games E3 Video. If you pause it right be for The end of the first map. You can see what the new merrit/demerit system looks like as of Now. ( i would have put Screen shot but not really sure how xD ) I was a little dissapointed tho becuase I did not see what I hoped to see. And that was the number of Zombies They killed. I hope ValVE didnt take out the part with how many zombies yove killed, becuase i was really excited about that part of the Merrit/demerrit system. =[

[dontleave]

Pause and hit print screen, copy and paste into .jpg?

[DeMoNsXWiThInnX]

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/9532/ubtitledtk6.th.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ubtitledtk6.jpg)

[Oblivion165]

EDIT: Was slow on post ;)
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6311/screenqm6.jpg

Yeah not really any information at all. Character, "role" and looks like friendly fire counts or some such.

EDIT: Also shows the mentioned 5 star rating and it looks like it fades the character outlines based on health.

Seems to also have some sort of tip displayed at the bottom.

[Steve Cloud]

Oh mmyes. Its looking good.

[Sifer2]

How many zombies you kill seems irrelevant to me. The goal is to survive not hunt an kill as many zombies as you can. Since you could fight more Infected to pad your stats by just standing around an waiting for more. It would be better that Valve stats encourage the important things. Like taking least amount of damage possible, plus Healing, an helping teammates.

An for the Infected it would be the opposite I imagine. Deal as much damage to survivors as possible, kill an puke/strangle/pounce them.

[dontleave]

Still, it'd be nice to know. Hopefully they keep that stat around somewhere.

[DeMoNsXWiThInnX]

How many zombies you kill seems irrelevant to me

Not to me. I liked the idea to see how many infected youve killed.
Its just like counter-strike. The main Goal isnt to Check your score. But to plant the bomb/defuse the bomb/ or saves the hosties. BUT every 1 is constantly checking there score in Cs. kind of the same thing here

[Oblivion165]

They really should add at least some of that information back in. After people become seasoned and they are not just running from game to game at e3 that information will become more important.

Who doesn't like to see career stats? (EDIT: Apparently Sifer2)

This round: 21 kills
Accuracy this round: 57%

Total kills: 12312312
Overall Accuracy: 34%

and so on.

EDIT:

Like taking least amount of damage possible, plus Healing, an helping teammates.


I think that exact reason is why he got the Protector rating.

[Sifer2]

Who doesn't like to see career stats?


I just think it encourages the wrong type of play is all. The goal for Survivors should not be to sit around farming Infected kills. The primary goal should be to get to safety taking as little damage as possible. I wouldn't want to get to the end of the level 3 of us in the door with one guy standing outside holding us up cause he wants to shoot more Infected.

Protector rating could also just as easily come from shooting Infected that get near your teammates too. In fact I do agree that the current screen does look too scarce. Protector could mean anything.

[Lotharian]

Stats would be a beautiful thing to have. There could be internet scoreboards for most kills total, assists, best accuracy, etc. That'd be pretty awesome, frankly.

[pkerq32]

Yeah we just wnt 2 know how meany zombie we have killd how we killed
them how meany time we helpted are m8s fav weapons we just wnt 2 know evrything who give a fuck wat where surpost 2 do erm if you dnt wnt some random guy farming while you and your three m8s are wa8ing friendly fire is on = l yh like CS the objetcev was 2 blow up A/B or get hostages but you only realy did that if somone was camping it usaly ended with Kills like GT4 Cops n robbers you never know there might be a magic page where you can see the stats

[Lotharian]

... What?

[toxictbag]

What video is that Oblivion? the one with the score board thing :)

[Oblivion165]

Tom's: http://www.tomsgames.com/us/site/flash_videos/left _4_dead_e3_2008_gameplay_footage.html (http://www.tomsgames.com/us/site/flash_videos/left_4_dead_e3_2008_gameplay_footage.html)

[Graf Irrationale Zahl]

@ DeMoNsXWiThInnX:

dude you should really consider to use firefox instead of ie and deleting all these toolbars

[armored cow]

All that crap I said
Learn to type/talk like a normal person and then maybe I will read what you say.

Anyway, yes; I think that the screen looks very nice and polished, but is really lacking all the stats that it once gave.
I need more stats! =O

[tripp36]

i just dont care

[Sandman Dan]

I'm sure that is just one of many merit/demerit systems they are trying. Hell, the game has the "A.I. Director" which tracks everything so it can adjust the difficulty. I'm willing to bet they will add more statistics.

I think it's safe to assume that thats not the final concept, it does not even have the new character art for the decoration.

Everyone needs to relax.

[MrR0b0t0]

Exactly, they may even just show the stats inbetween levels, like they do it in TF2, and almost every other online FPS.

[BaldingSteve]

Everyone needs to relax.

[Sikboy1029]

good eye, demon

[Shrubberyjsc]

I want my old system back.

:<

[e mod]

yes with the icons...............and stuff.....sniffle

[munkeybanana]

*quotes shrub*