InkofDeath

Like I've said before, the campaigns are relatively easy even on Expert, just remember the golden rules: - Make Sure Everyone Uses Corners - Rush - Leave Them Behind If They Have No Weaps/Health Packs I hate finales because if you die, thats it, go start again, with an entirely new group even. Also the church guy is awesome, adds some creativity to the storyline, though it should've been a female priest...

Agreed, after realizing this I couldn't find the hilarity in these. /ragequit I'm going to be a hater and say there wasn't really anything 'spectacular' in there, except the gold digger, but even after you think of how it is altered, it's just not funny, or there' no humour.

No, you have to do the whole thing in one sitting. Always bring my hopes & dreams crashing down.

Death Toll is easy even on Expert, until you get to the finale...Then all hell breaks lose! Spent 3 hours doing Blood Harvest, eventually all originals leaves except me and another dude. Two others die from tanks. The original dude and I are both alive, rescue vehicle comes, he gets in, I jump onto the ramp into the vehicle, and there's nothing attacking me...and I can't get in. With me ALIVE the vehicle closes and it goes off. So I wasted 3 hours to die by a glitch. Freaking idiotical. - I'm hoping I'm missing something about completing all the chapters on expert, that you can just skip to the finale, without having to redo the chapters for online? Or do I fail here?

Their CPU isn't even utilized until they play the darn video. I also hope people haven't lost their common sense to just click any and all youtube videos when they could ultimately not play them. --- If I have a computer that can't handle HD, and I'm really skeptical of a computer unable to play it that isn't older than 5-7 years. All it's doing is using your internet connection to load the video. So hardware is very minuscule. I don't even think CPU power is even an argument since if I know my computer can't play certain things, why would I keep trying to watch HD? I really don't think a suggestion should be looked down on simply because people are redundant, and that is what it comes down to. But really who can't play HD, disregarding the internet connection needed? HD video isn't going to kill any 2001+ CPU to my knowledge. & Jimmy; I thought so too.

Workarounds Ftw!

I'll join the bandwagon:

Nuclear devastation. Everyones got four arms and one leg, with an eye to shoot the guns with.

Indeed. : The usability/performance of the product to the effort/time to create the product is definitely the question I'm wanting to know, but I only have a vague idea of how it could be done, and that's by changing a bit of code in the original youtube tags, excluding the 'checking for hq/hd' part.

So in this situation we're losing a very 'needy' 'update' to the forum users, because of the staff. Of course the staff come first, especially when it's 'protecting' users, or keeping the boards clean, but all this is stating is that there is a flaw in the boards, and it affects both users & the staff. Thus there isn't one solution to the problem, except by ignoring it/living with it. So then we move onto two solutions. The problem that is affecting the staff is that there's no way to suspend a user. Just ban for X amount of time. Basically this should indicate that the moderators should have a basic function to temporary ban someone for a certain length of time. My guess would be 48 to 72 hours. Enough time to straighten the entire problem out. But I don't know the control panel of phpbb so I got no idea if this is possible or not, but it sounds like it's a missing feature, or a hindrance to the daily workings of a mod.

Which is exactly why I suggested that a 16:9 player would require hide tags. I should probably mention that more than once, so people don't miss it. I believe images in hide tags take up more pixels on someones resolution than a 16:9 player will, and YouTube's HD player isn't that large anyways...my post above was larger than it almost in width. Not to mention you could probably adjust the size or whatever, without loss of quality in HD. but I wouldn't like that one. =P Also it's not a necessary addition, but honestly, let's not go down that path like almost every thread in this forum goes to. Sure it's not necessary, but we also don't need several other convenient things on the boards as well. We don't need posts, avatars, custom profile fields...etc. Yet those are useful, and so is this, and has just as much value, if not more to a good portion of users. Not to mention other RS forums do not have this feature yet.

Somewhere in the far reaches of this forum is a few threads about flood control. Though I went back to 2007, and I'm assuming the hardy discussion that around 6-8 of us had was probably deleted...I went back to page 8, but couldn't find it...hopefully someone remembers the topic. Oh wait! The thread I'm talking about is the 5 > 15 thread, where I was talking about the speed it takes to write & read a thread, and thus the 5 minutes is too short to show accurate activity...etc. Servers use for my reasoning below. Regardless, many of you guys are thinking far too narrow. This is the general response to a 'no, let's not do this' for decreasing the delay: "It takes a good while to read through the thread, and then write up a reply to the thread." This is entirely wrong for several reasons: 1. Help & Advice forum. All questions are usually one liners, and are very simple answered questions, answered from memory. Not by writing a huge detailed post, or anything. I could probably answer 7/10 threads in the H&A forum in under 10 seconds, without even thinking. Why is this bad? For one it stops people from helping one and another, it's a road block, it's an invisible wall in a game, and it's annoying to not be able to answer a question, even though the thread is so short in text. 2. Replying In A thread Multiple times So the first time, it takes me about half an hour to read through a 5-8 page thread? Ok, good, I write a post up, and someone eventually posts back. Ok, so I'll have to wait till they write a post and then submit it, then I'll have to counter or discuss their argument/discussion. It sounds reasonable to have a 1 minute, or higher timer in this situation. However it's not ever like this. I have around 30 threads at the least I am always checking. I have read every post, or posted a considerable amount in the thread. So while I don't need to take half an hour to read posts, it only takes me a few seconds to read and then a few more to reply. Oh, and I'm not even talking about threads like the SSBB thread, the WoW thread, or any thread where it is one or two liner posts, but have significance. So now I have to wait a minute for say 20 of those 30+ threads...but I don't need to wait a minute to respond to each thread, I only need 20 seconds? So there's 20 minutes in waiting, which is more than posting. Great forum experience for me! Especially if I needed to PM someone or ask them a question about when they'll be online tonight for a game, or if they have this game, or if they can trade me this in RS, or continue on this discussion from some thread...etc. --- A minute isn't fair to us users, and I am constantly hit with 'Please Wait' notices. It's annoying and degrades the forum experience for me. Instead of feeling immersed in a discussion, I get reminded, oh this is just a forum...It's not very fulfilling. Disallow mods & admins to avoid flood control for a week, and we'd most likely see a change in the flood control.

A lot of forums(Magicbox for one) are starting to offer YouTube in High Definition or High Quality, some have separate tags, others have just one tag for HQ/HD and the system automatically checks for the version/resolution. YouTube isn't the 4:3 player anymore, and almost all videos are offered in High Quality, or High Definition. I'm not recommending Tip.It gets rid of the 4:3 embed code though, that needs to stay as it's still a standard at YouTube, but it is beginning to become a version 1.0 product, compared to the 2.0 High Quality and the 2.5 High Definition. We also know that YouTube videos are very popular, for very obvious reasons explained thoroughly through-out 2006/2007 in online news articles and such. So hopefully it is well understood how important YouTube is to a lot of the internet community, especially to those that: Game; Play RuneScape; Post Videos in OT, VG; Post Trailers; Post Spoilers; and all the other stuff. If possible someone could scan the forums for the amount of YouTube tags used, and I'm pretty sure they'd be quite high, or the growth of the use of the tags over time has increased dramatically since introduced. But I'm pretty sure this doesn't need to be done to prove a meaningless point, that we know. Thus I'm suggesting that Tip.It configure some new tags for YouTube videos, that will put the video in the high quality player, or in the 16:9 player (might be auto-put in hide tags, or something). Why? - Reasons above - How many people post the link to the video, because HD isn't enabled here, and thus the 4:3 player kills the quality? - Convenience for faster and easier forum browsing - Putting Tip.It ahead of all other Runescape message boards - Setting a higher standard for competitors - May increase the users posting their PK Videos, or recreational RuneScape videos on Tip.It over other message boards because of the convenience. Who is this for? - Mainly for those Off-Topic'ers, who are posting YouTube videos daily in Video Games, Movies & Television, and some portion of off-topic threads to convey points through video - May spark a new community of users using the YouTube tags to their advantage How would it work? Youtube HD Video - This video will cause high CPU usage, to view the video in a lower quality, please click here. here. here. here. here. here. [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"> That in the long run has to safe some kind of internet space, or something, would make others enjoy the typing out of two or three tags much easier (they can copy and paste, but some find it faster perhaps to just type it out than to select the tags and such). I'd also recommend that [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18">here. here. here. here. [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"> That in the long run has to safe some kind of internet space, or something, would make others enjoy the typing out of two or three tags much easier (they can copy and paste, but some find it faster perhaps to just type it out than to select the tags and such). I'd also recommend that [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18">here. [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"> That in the long run has to safe some kind of internet space, or something, would make others enjoy the typing out of two or three tags much easier (they can copy and paste, but some find it faster perhaps to just type it out than to select the tags and such). I'd also recommend that [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18"> [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"> That in the long run has to safe some kind of internet space, or something, would make others enjoy the typing out of two or three tags much easier (they can copy and paste, but some find it faster perhaps to just type it out than to select the tags and such). I'd also recommend that [ythq]&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"> is just forgotten and the [ythd] one checks for eiter high quality or high definition, if both are present, default to HD, if no HD, use HQ. Then again if people wanted to choose HQ over HD that would be a problem. --- I'm hoping that this can at least go under discussion/theorize if it is possible and worth doing. Or at least for a future reference to do. TL:DR - Do it before Zybez does. Thanks

I'm actually surprised at how many girls I've played with, and that actually yell your head off if you tk, or mess up badly. Scary stuff, 8/22 of my friends on steam are females. Our base are starting to belong to them. :( http://www.roosterteethvideos.com/comic ... RT0363.jpg http://izzopop.com/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=63 http://izzopop.com/images/stories/witchtr2.gif http://izzopop.com/images/stories/3497.jpg 93IOL_pYkp4 Felt like sharing.

I bet no one can guess what my spray is. :D

I'm really getting bad at double posting, but still majority of time it's 12+ hours apart, and I bring forth greater news than the previous post. =P --- I've just uploaded a Left 4 Dead infected Montage. It's extremely short, like 4 minutes long, and there's not really any snazzy effects, just some simple infected playing, and totally pwning the other team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnO-TYQd5E - Watch in HD, or you'll never see the zombies, literally. My favourite part in that vid is when I wall pounce from 3:01 to 3:08...I don't kill Zoey, but still, that was my first decent wall pounce, and since then I've been dominating with the hunter. WP'ing = OP. I do plan on uploading future L4D videos, revolving around trick jumping, infected/survivor gameplay, and CLAN matches soon. Does anyone have a link to a community based on L4D, and isn't the L4D411 forums? I'm looking, but can't find. I will be updating this particular post with links to such decent fansites with decent forums.

Zoey was also Princess Peach, Dixie Kong, Tiny Kong, Princess Daisy, Toad, Toadette, and Birdo. Yay for Wikipedia! WTF? I definitely to read the wiki page for L4D...

I did the Dead Air and Blood Harvest campaigns with other people up until the finales. For both I used only bots, and it wasn't that hard. Blood harvest you need to utilize the rooms on the top floor, especially with the tank. Dead Air I did it with going to the far left area and hanging out there. :) I only need Death Toll. :(

If you play with someone who can wall jump...it makes the world of a difference. When I started to wall jump, I'd only jump on the low parts of the wall, but when you start jumping at the top part of the wall, and then dive, is when it gets overly powered. :) They don't hear you, until it's too late, and then they think 'where'd you come from'? It's also harder to be on the lookout for wall jumpers when you have a horde, or something else is distracting you. Though it is quite easy to shoot Hunters in the air.

On Wednesday, I'm going to try and count all the islands you can see with red dots and such. Anyone want to take estimations? I'm guessing around 160ish. --- Also, you can see how they developed the map and how it's not computer-generated either. They did squares and just put them together. Though there are certain parts where it's not entirely squares. Like in 'Flaming Skull'. that entire area doesn't look made square by square, but was actually done in an all in one go, or it's blended very nicely. I think that's where they started building the map, and then they found out it would take too long doing it that way and just did squares. I could be wrong but it's my observation.

I found this page to be pretty cool: http://www.steampowered.com/status/l4d/ Makes you want to get some of the easier achievements that have a low percent to be honest. Besides L2S, cause that's bugged. Apparently vALVE release a L4D lifetime personal game statistics page that had stuff like overall zombies killed, molotovs used, pipe bombs used, witches killed, zombies killed per hour...etc, but it was too buggy so they took it down. Lifestats also only count from when they released it, not from when the game was released, so everyone has 0s and such.

HIGHLY Detailed, weather included map: [hide=MAP - Detailed][/hide] Looks like there's a volcano on each major island, active or not. =) So many freaking islands, I counted 58 before I couldn't keep track.

Lol Veteran? I don't think anyone can be classified as "veteran" quite yet... :P Veteran compared to the new players. I didn't mean it like old time players, but those that have done the 40-45 possible achievements, have done versus and such for a good month and have basically played the game into the ground and don't log in to play 6 hours a day like us do, or most...:) But that was the feel I got with playing with some of them. I know it was november, but still....=P

The only one I'd consider as a release date would be the '2008' thing they had at the end of their trailers. The 2003 date, was hinted/hearsay- not official, 2005 was a misunderstanding, the beta for 2007, happened, closed beta, but still happened. Regardless I guess it's just opinion on how much is their fault for announcing anything, even though they announced very little about releasing back then, and are still being blamed for missed release dates, when they never said any release dates, except the 2008 trailer one.

Whenever it does come out. This isn't the first time they've missed the release date. Uhm...they've only missed one release date, and that is still coming true with a beta for a large portion of wanna-be players. Name the other times that they gave an official release date?