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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 2:36PM (Unverified) said

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I'm not complaining :)
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 2:52PM I AM IRONHIDE said

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You took the easy way out, the hard way is through complaining about other zombie killing games.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 2:39PM CaramelZappa said

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Last night my friends and I decided to get the 4 pack. I was going to wait for a Steam sale, but for $35, and knowing I have 3 friends to play it with, how could I pass it up?
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:09PM (Unverified) said

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I wish that deal applied to consoles darnit!
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:22PM (Unverified) said

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@Monica
It does.

From the Steam News Post:
Those who have pre-purchased Left 4 Dead 2 via Steam may begin pre-loading the demo, which is due to open early access on Tuesday, October 27. The early access to the L4D2 demo is open to both retail and Steam customers on both the PC and Xbox 360. Those who pre-ordered via retail should be able to pick up their early access codes now and be ready to play the demo on Tues.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 6:17PM RobLink said

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I think she meant the 4 pack.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 2:43PM LMLYP said

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i got my l4d2 key from a friend, who got it from a survey, and am unable to pre load the demo ( not showing up). I guess it doesnt count as a pre-order :\
sad sad days indeed.
at least he saved me $44 :)
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 6:37PM einhanderkiller said

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L4D2 key from a survey? wat.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 2:48PM Special Agent Steve said

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I'm just gonna pre-order for 45$. I don't have any friends... well I do, except they're all broke.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 2:49PM (Unverified) said

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Already pre-loaded it!
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 2:58PM GEN3RIC said

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I preloaded the crap out of this last night. I'll be running a server the second it opens. YESSSSS.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:06PM GEN3RIC said

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Here is my L4D2 server IP when the demo is released:
8.9.16.173:27015

and until then, my L4D server:
8.9.8.96:27015
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:14PM Special Agent Steve said

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I'll be sure to stop by :)
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:05PM (Unverified) said

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Any word on whether or not they're planning to offer pre-downloading for the public release of the demo on Nov 3?
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:05PM mrln said

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Hmmm... I think I will load it on the computer used to play games and not play any PC games for 3 days so I don't have to look at it.

I have ALL the answers to life, folks.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:17PM Kamizar said

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Or you could just preload it on Monday.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:26PM Toop said

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Madness is much more fun.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:30PM (Unverified) said

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I've never played L4D on the PC, so can somebody please tell me if there's a good matchmaking system (or whatever system it is)?
The reason I'm asking is because I don't have any friends who play PC games that much (I'm fairly new to PC gaming), and I'll be wanting to play L4D2 with people online not AI.

Hopefully some of you nice Joystiqians could help me with my question, thanks :-)
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:42PM Special Agent Steve said

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Matchmaking on the first one sucked until about 6 months after it was released. The server finding was slow, and no one could connect. That's why our clan started our own server. After that, things (right now) are very smooth. I'm sure valve everything in order for this release, so expect it to be amazing.

Oh, and public play is great right now (except some of your teamates will be complete NOOBS) lol.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:21PM (Unverified) said

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Ok, thanks for the info man :-) That's everything I wanted to know.

Like you say, if Valve have sorted everything out for the first game then L4D2 should work like a charm. Thanks again dude, I'm preordering it from Steam right ... now.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:11PM SmokemeaKipper said

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Random is random, but fucktards are few in my experience.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:28PM Arsenic13 said

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I was going to preoder today but Gamestop says billing will happen when the shipment is processed. Im new to ordering and managing my own card and I know I will forget about the $. I would rather they take it out now. But I do want this demo... BLAST!
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 1:01AM (Unverified) said

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PILLS HERE!
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 3:52PM Misguided Terran said

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Effin heck... I guess this only applies to the PC platform, and not us inferior worms who get it on the 'Box.

I just don't have a good comp....
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 4:16PM RKN said

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Ah come on, console gamers get a whole shitload of stuff PC gamers will never get that I would love to get on the platform...
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 4:29PM Flo said

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Damn I wish I could afford L4D2
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 4:46PM sicsided said

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Cover me, I'm PRE-LOADING!

Thank you Tripwire for the Killing Floor demo this weekend. Its really holding me over until L4D2. Well I guess L4D is also.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 4:46PM (Unverified) said

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GIVE ME BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 4:50PM Vcize said

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What stores are eligible for the preorder demo? Is it any store or one them thar gamestop exclusive thingies?
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:12PM SmokemeaKipper said

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Green blood.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:13PM SmokemeaKipper said

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PRELOADING HERE! PRELOADING HERE!
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:20PM (Unverified) said

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L4D2 is coming at a terrible time for me. Just on the 3rd I have Dragon Age, The Force Unleashed: USE, North by Northwest 50th Anniversary Edition, and now my earbuds have a short in them. Add in the fact I just picked up the original a month ago when Wally finally cut it to 29.99 and I'll have to hold off for a bit.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:21PM SSUK said

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There's PILLS HERE to help with that depression.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:24PM (Unverified) said

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I prefer Molitov cocktails myself.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 9:24PM Istari Spartan said

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So glad your willing to share the wealth
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 10:07PM Durr Durrington said

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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 5:41PM (Unverified) said

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Sounds like a deal to me. People who are eagerly waiting for L4D might have a desktop wallpaper already so that they become immune to their desires until the game finally releases.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 6:41PM (Unverified) said

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Am I the only one who thinks pirates will extract the game from the preloaded GCFs and put it up before release?
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 12:28AM CaramelZappa said

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Valve has stated several times that they don't really worry about pirates. Even if the GCF's get unencrypted and pirates get a cracked version of the DEMO (you can't pre-load the game yet) What good is it going to do them? Even later, when we're allowed to pre-load the game, pirates are going to get their copies, but those people wouldn't have bought the game anyways.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 1:37AM (Unverified) said

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I guess you guys are right. Even if they did get it, they'd have to play on cracked servers, which basically means no one would be online.
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Posted: Oct 24th 2009 7:40PM emperorzeroxx said

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I honestly don't see the point of this... if it's available to download then it should technically be playable sooo why not just let people play now? Are they afraid it will be so popular the mass downloads will cause server issues? Or are they just being mean.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 12:31AM CaramelZappa said

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They probably want to offload a lot of their bandwidth so that steam doesn't crash with EVERYONE trying to download the demo at the same time. That way when the game is "released" for the most part they will be using minimal bandwidth just unlocking the game, instead of a million people trying to download it at once and crashing their servers. Remember when Halo 3 launched and Live was useless for about a month? They don't want a situation like that.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 1:06AM Apollo26 said

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MADNESS?
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 1:38AM (Unverified) said

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THIS... IS... [shot]
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 8:55PM (Unverified) said

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i chose madness,i chose SPARTA!
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Posted: Oct 28th 2009 5:05PM (Unverified) said

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Well, the way things are going, it'll be Tuesday before pre-ordering folks get it. FU, Valve.
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