Survival Mode
Valve finally added a survival mode to Left 4 Dead. Insanely hard if you don’t have a good team. That meaning coordinated more than anything. Then with a good team it is just hard if you don’t know the level well. Survival mode is closer to what I expected the entire game to be like. Endless horde bum rushing you from start to finish.
I expected the game to be an endless horde rushing you with specials mixed in from time to time. Having to hole up in a location and fight until the horde subsided for a bit allowing you to run to a new location. Or using the tank as a way to scare the horde and hope you can run from the tank long enough to reach some form of safety. OR even just play it the good old rambo style and fight your way through the horde out in the open in hopes of a big pay off.
Survival mode is really just the normal panic and finale events that are found through out the game anyways. Plus a few new ones. Only the worse case scenario where what ever you just did to try and progress back-fired. You are now trapped with an endless horde of zombies bearing down on you. Now you have to try and take as many as possible with you. How long can YOU survive?
Best day as a spy.
Granted this is a 24/7 dustbowl server and I was on it for 4 hours….
I played medic and engineer a round each but all other rounds were as a spy. I also only disguised as a Medic using the medi-gun. My nemesis there was also the only guy to pick up on that. He counts for about 1/2 of my deaths. Being plagued by connection issues prevented him from getting his score up. He should have been around at least 200 for as well as he was playing. I added him to my friends list before I left the server to take a break.
I must say it is good to be the king. 
My normal server and I’ll be lucky to get in the top 6. Only time I can is on a “stacked” team where I’m a medic. My regular server I’m an average Joe, if that. This server I make the the stacked team…..the only reason I went there was to practice the spy changes with the scout update.
My primary class is engineer but the Sentry Guns got their response speed nerfed a long time ago and now the average player can’t be harmed by a Sentry Gun unless they don’t know where it is. I’ve seen pyros out strafe a level 3 if they are within a flaming distance when it notices them.
My secondary class is medic. Although it is quickly becoming my primary with the sentry gun issues. I tend to piss some people off as a medic. I get an uber then everyone that I heal while it is charged think I’m giving it to them. When in reality I’m just healing them back up. They don’t realize that having an uber doesn’t mean use it NOW NOW NOW. There is some strategy involved to it. I communicate and let the person know that I’m gonna uber them. My brother is really bad about taking off when I heal him then getting pissed when I don’t actually uber him.
Spy is just a class I picked up out of boredom one day and discovered I had some talent with it on random days. Now I do pretty decent all the time. Some teams spy check and communicate to well and I can’t even get close to getting things done before getting burnt to death.
Left 4 Dead
Is a 4 player co-op game. The four players a trying to wade their way through an endless horde of “Infected” humans. The infected humans are much like the ones from the novell I Am Legend. They are very much alive, intelligent, and can work together. The infected in the book “I Am Legend” play more of a vampiric role. With a few that are even zombies but the living infected kill off the undead infected.
Left 4 Dead is the same model with some tweaks. You aren’t all alone as in Neville’s case both in the fact that you play with 3 others and there are other non-infected humans elsewhere. Your goal as a survivor is to make it to the evacuation point and call in an evacuation. This could take an hour or more to reach this point. While an endless horde of infected standing between you and your goal. The infected are alive and intelligent. While they may not be smart enough to wield guns (yet) they will alert other infected to your presence and begin the assault on your location. Thankfully they are human after all and are pretty weak with a few exceptions. Some infected sport inhuman mutations that make them deadlier but they still die easy enough if you can survive long enough. In certain game modes you and others are even allowed to play as the “mutated”(boss) infected and attack the survivors yourself.
WoW 3.0
Everything thing that isn’t a player character has had everything reduced by 30% and all player characters have been increased by about 5% on average. The result is horrible I expect to start seeing raid being preformed with 1/2 the required guys. I’m not a hardcore raider but this change makes the game truly boring for me. I’ve always been slightly bored with WoW but this is over the top here. We are gonna start seeing kara being done with 5 pre-kara geared people and it will probably be easier than it was before with 10 kara geared people. Most boss fights now take seconds rather than minutes. I did kara the day of the patch and we nearly got curator before he evocated. Damn lag spikes we had been suffering all night kicked in and left us with curator in an evocate and 2 spark floating about. Everyone took so little damage that even the healers were bored and thought about going on the offensive. Next week when the kinks are worked out I bet my guild can pull it off in less that a hour and a half.
I’m thinking about canceling my pre-order. I am not about to play a game that is this easy. Affliction Warlocks got the biggest buff in my opinion. New talent fear that heals them AND talent that makes oppenents leaving a fear be slowed for several seconds. As if being forced to suffer through a fear and living wasn’t bad enough. Now you won’t have a chance to kill the warlock before you die from DOTs anyways.
files.wowace.com is no more!
No it is gone! Oh the agony! Now I can’t run my little batch file to download all my mods and update them in one go. Now I am FORCED to use curse.com (God help us all) to update my mods. The only plus side I see is that wowace.com has merged with curse.com so atleast curse.com will finally be up to date and not a month behind on wowace mods like it was in the past.
My update time is gonna be 6 hours every patch rather than spending 10 minutes updating my addons. Would be 1 minute if I didn’t have 6 non-ace2 addons. You can bite me on the QQ I know why they did it and agree with them but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Yeah I know there is a curse addon updater available but those “updaters” have had viruses and key-loggers slip into them in the past. I have no desire to risk it. I’d rather figure out how their updater works then build my own little batch file to act like it. Will take some time but I will get it done.
