Difficulty Levels.

[AckAck]

I was wondering what difficulty levels will be available to play. I know there is Easy and Normal, but is there anything above hard like "Insane" or "Nightmare." A really hard mode would be fun to screw around with.

[iRelentless]

I think it's just easy normal and hard, but it may be accurate to think of hard as insane.

A difficulty with an insane (almost lag on an 8800gtx) amount of zombies + god mode would be perfect for stress relief though.

[Quotidius]

(almost lag on an 8800gtx)

Indeed, for we all know that the performance of the 8800GTX is comparable to that of a small quantum computer. It'd take a thousand zombies to bring one o' them down!

[Shrubberyjsc]

It'd take a thousand zombies to bring one o' them down!

Do I detect the minty smell of sarcasm? Or are you serious?

Also, AckAck: Is your name from Mars Attacks?

AFAIK there have been no specific mentions of the highest difficulty levels.

[Quotidius]

Do I detect the minty smell of sarcasm? Or are you serious?

And you call yourself a follower of the pythongorean ways! FIE, HERALD OF NII! FIE!

[Shrubberyjsc]

Emm, I could make excuses, but perhaps you could just clarify so I can go to bed.

=)

[Quotidius]

Emm, I could make excuses, but perhaps you could just clarify so I can go to bed.

Recuperation is for the weak. And the 8800 is shit, most decidedly so on Vista.

[Shrubberyjsc]

Nah, I don't go to bed to recuperate, just to blend in with the humans who need rest.

Poor Vista. I'm sure that somewhere out there, there's a fan of Vista.... somewhere.

I mean hell, I'm pretty sure even Jar Jar Binks was adored by a few nuts.

[Quotidius]

I mean hell, I'm pretty sure even Jar Jar Binks was adored by a few nuts.

The incarnation of him seen at the end of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH8b5ruc_-E&mode=related&search=) clip is quite passable. Almost.

[Etheallmighty]

nice lol..V to the A to the D-E-R!!

[Chronos]

A) There will be a difficulty above Hard.
Easy, Normal, Hard, then Insane or whatever.

B) The source engine lagging? On my 8800GTS?

C) I'm on Vista.

[No Shelter]

lol way to go off topic guys.

8800 Sucks? HA! Hilarious.

Vista isn't that bad anymore now that I got the updates and fixes. It use to be horrible.

[Quotidius]

B) The source engine lagging? On my 8800GTS?

I doubt you're even aware of the loss of general performance in Vista. Yes, the 8800GTS performs relatively well in Source on Vista, but game applications generally run better on XP - including Source. Hundreds of benchmarks show this.

[Chronos]

I doubt you're even aware of the loss of general performance in Vista. Yes, the 8800GTS performs relatively well in Source on Vista, but game applications generally run better on XP - including Source. Hundreds of benchmarks show this.
It doesn't matter though because even if I'm losing 20FPS I'm still running everything at a higher FPS than the human eye can handle realistically.

[Quotidius]

It doesn't matter though because even if I'm losing 20FPS I'm still running everything at a higher FPS than the human eye can handle realistically.

Right. I won't argue with that, but whenever my framerate drops below the 50s, my in-game performance (as in my "gaming aptitude") drops considerably. It's still a huge improvement over my old GPU, make no mistake, I just find it quite frustrating that I'm not getting quite the performance I want.

[Chronos]

Right. I won't argue with that, but whenever my framerate drops below the 50s, my in-game performance (as in my "gaming aptitude") drops considerably. It's still a huge improvement over my old GPU, make no mistake, I just find it quite frustrating that I'm not getting quite the performance I want.
It's really impossible to tell the difference between 40 and 70 fps. 20 or 30 is noticeable but anything around 40 is fine.

[Quotidius]

It's really impossible to tell the difference between 40 and 70 fps. 20 or 30 is noticeable but anything around 40 is fine.


So you say.
Try doing this; start up any game (preferably one that utilizes Source), open up the console and type "fps_max 40" or "max_fps 40". I doubt I need to expatiate upon their function. Try it out.

[Chronos]

So you say.
Try doing this; start up any game (preferably one that utilizes Source), open up the console and type "fps_max 40" or "max_fps 40". I doubt I need to expatiate upon their function. Try it out.
I've been playing PC games for 7 years now. There is no major difference between 40 and 70 FPS. Both are extremely playable.

[Quotidius]

I've been playing PC games for 7 years now. There is no major difference between 40 and 70 FPS. Both are extremely playable.

Ok, that's your opinion. I can personally distinguish quite easily between 40-70 fps. Heck, I can distinguish between 60-100 fps, too.

[Chronos]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j149/chronos525/1182815423822.jpg

[Quotidius]

Ugh. So much for social maturity from you.

My opinion differs from yours. Ergo, I suck.

[Chronos]

Ergo, I suck.
K.

[Quotidius]

K.

Agh. Touché.

[Asura]

Nightmare! would be like only pistols and no medpacks.
and zombies +1 str

[Chronos]

Nightmare! would be like only pistols and no medpacks.
and zombies +1 str
4 str 4 stm tbh.

[Quotidius]

4 str 4 stm tbh.

So much for coherency, eh?

[Stubbs]

quotidius just knock it off and get of this thread

[Quotidius]

quotidius just knock it off and get of this thread

Right.

[AckAck]

No Mr. shrub my name is not from mars attacks though your are not the first to ask. :P

[Chronos]

Hi.

[Dead Fish]

I don't know any online FPS with difficulty settings for the multiplayer. That's mostly singleplayer only. Then again, most FPS only have PvP and no PvE... so to say. :/

I wonder if those settings will be offline only. :/

[iRelentless]

I wonder if those settings will be offline only. :/
Any multilayer game with bots has multiplayer difficulty settings. Except for bots which are of a specific skill level which can't be altered, of which I've seen none for a very long time.

[Dead Fish]

That's true, you could describe the regular infected as bots. Difficulty settings probably would also affect ammo/health availabilty, number on enemys and so on. Don't know; for me those option's were mostly connected to singleplayer. :) It's kinda refreshing anyways.

[Asura]

Hi.

Hellloooo

[frogopus]

My head hurts too much to follow the off topic so I'm assuming the OP never got answered.

I believe the difficulties were:

Easy
Normal
Hard
Expert

or something to that effect...

And yeah, normal is pretty damn tough.

[AckAck]

Thank you Frog. I was hoping one of you would swoop in and save me.

[Lolerskates]

Maybe they could implement a rating system of some sort a few patches down and change the difficulty according to a sum of all 4 survivor's skill levels.

[iRelentless]

Maybe they could implement a rating system of some sort a few patches down and change the difficulty according to a sum of all 4 survivor's skill levels.
If they don't, a left4dead version of one of the source admin mods will probably implement that on the PC version.

[Chronos]

Thank you Frog. I was hoping one of you would swoop in and save me.
Should've read the thread better. I said the exact same thing 2 days ago.

[AckAck]

But I couldn't really sort through the OT, and I was waiting for (no offense) a more reliable source. I.E Someone who has actually played the game.