Comments on: Left 4 Dead Survival Mode Hates You, Loves Cheaters?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:50:41 +0000

I saw people cheat on my team, helping each other up a roof which was outside the map.

By: anarchist made

anarchist made — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:32:02 +0000

the only good thing about using glitches on survival mode is to get your kill count up for the zombie genocide achivement if uve got 2 glitch, cheat or mod games 2 win then u relli have no life

By: Shaun McIlroy

Shaun McIlroy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:25:48 +0000

@ME - Never did...there had to be an exploit. Hopefully L4D2 will be glitch free!

By: ME

ME — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:30:51 +0000

Ok I bet a lot of you are now thinking What a DUMB A$$ ,you were for thinking and supporting the fact that there was someone able to last 150 min. Your full of it if you think that was ever possible. THEY were flat out cheating.Taking advantage of the glitch.

By: The Gov

The Gov — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:11:49 +0000

@Maldron - Considering the fact that all you have to do in one level is hide on a box on the wall and the horde just runs away and ignores you is kinda shitty ( 4000 Min is the best on that one BTW ) ya he has a right to talk the way he is

By: bob

bob — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:03:11 +0000

dave ur a dumbass, i got gold with lotsa pugs, quit complaining just cuz u suck @DanielMartinez. - @dave -

By: Julius Erving

Julius Erving — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:53:49 +0000

@Maldron - Shut up bitch nigga.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:57:11 +0000

i found survival to be extremely hard at first, and that really surprised me because ive done so many expert runs that i thought i could handle this , but , its too chaotic . It doesnt give you time to think once you pushed the button for the horde to come. Sometimes youll get a break for 10 seconds. But in between that time a tank comes and the horde follows a few seconds after so basicely your screwed unless you got a good team that knows how to take care of themselves. But valve really dissapointed me with this mode. I thought you could barricade alittle, move the equipment but you cant, and this really ruins the whole idea of survival. You cannot survive past the 5 min with a pug team. its just impossible. 1 guy gets pulled by a smoker out of nowhere because he felt he needed to get a canister and then the whole team goes after him and then they get vomited on and pounced on and so your fucked. there is no fun to it, its frustrating and boring. oh and wow, 2 more versus maps, yay.....worst dlc ever

By: DanielMartinez.

DanielMartinez. — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:32:17 +0000

Well I personally hate the exploits seeing as how the survival mode was made to, I dont know, SURVIVE! Even without those exploits Me and my team got 14:34 At the hospital/Elavator level. We wanted to continue but grew tired of the level so we decided to play on versus and test our teamwork there.

By: Geekavenger

Geekavenger — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:50:54 +0000

Just an FYI the leaderboards now display times well over 1000 Minutes on some levels. they are definatly exploiting map defects... I don't know that I have a problem with this because I could care less about the leaderboards I am more interested in besting my own records... so far a meassly 7 minutes on light house... I have a ways to go.

By: savemelast

savemelast — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:54:30 +0000

I was able to make it 11 min 37 sec with a team of four. Eventually, the horde waves came too fast and the special infected to hard to beat. No cheating done for this time. We then tried for a glitch. We went for 46 min 44 sec on Crane. I do not generally promote cheating/glitching. However, this was insanely fun. We were basically able to get out of the boundaries of the map. The horde could still get to us, but the tanks could not. This made it loads easier. We were also able to get in the building with the open window. The entire horde comes out that way and we did not last long.

By: omg

omg — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:45:10 +0000

Someone has 1370+ mins on the 360 on Crane... -_-

By: Guard 1138

Guard 1138 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:21:00 +0000

@Maldron - Check the leader boards for No Mercy- Roof top finale. No way in hell anyone can last 10 hours! (600+min) There is a glitch/expoit in their somewhere.

By: ph15h

ph15h — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:59:09 +0000

Is it just me, or does that Zombie look like John Goodman

By: justin fleming

justin fleming — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:30:04 +0000

As far as I understood from the update notes, you're not supposed to survive beyond 10mins: "Our goals for Survival Mode are to deliver a mode of play distinct from Campaign or Versus, have games that regularly last under ten minutes, and emphasize competition with team play through leaderboards." You're supposed to have a mad burst of gameplay that is over within 10mins and just have mad, chaotic BUT quick fun.

By: Maldron

Maldron — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:03 +0000

@Shaun McIlroy - I watched it be played in my room, I've watched it be played on youtube for groups that hit the ten minute mark. They could've gone on indefinitely, were they not merely human. And in that 11 minutes, they had exactly 11 tanks. The last one cleaned them out. Me, I'd sense a pattern to their spawning. But my big deal is the fact that he said "I don't see how anybody could make it past fifteen minutes." What is he basing that ceiling on, exactly? The short of it is, he doesn't see how anybody could make it past a certain point, and immediately assumed an exploit. He's probably right, but to close himself to the possibility that people can play the game that much better than his expectations irritates me.

By: Simon Williams

Simon Williams — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:32:51 +0000

It's one thing to survive for 150 minutes with a good team of zombie killers, it's a whole different thing to stay alive for that long with an AI that ignores the zombies and you half the time.

By: Dave Kap

Dave Kap — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:29:47 +0000

Someone probably found some place to perch that none of the zombies can reach. Considering you have all the time in the world to use the physical objects on a map to build a staircase, that 150 minute person probably built one off the map and just let the game run. As for the 82 minute folks, they probably did the same exact thing. However, I do think that 10 minutes is achievable with a group of 4 people who know each other and have planned out a strategy. I think survival IS too difficult for single player, but for 4 people who have planned out their actions, I think 15 minutes is attainable. Think of this mode as a new final boss from WoW that needs the raid of 4 to figure out how to kill it... 16 times over (since there are 16 different maps for it.)

By: Shaun McIlroy

Shaun McIlroy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:15:18 +0000

@Maldron - If you play it you would find that Simon is telling you the truth. There has to be some exploit that needs patched cause even McWhertor on Kotaku commented that it was just too damn hard!

By: Maldron

Maldron — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:56:02 +0000

So, basically, because you don't see how anybody could be that much better than you, they have to be cheating? That's a little egocentric, don't you think?