Summary
- Left 4 Dead 2, the ultimate co-op game, is facing major issues like DDOS attacks and a toxic community.
- Valve's neglect has rendered L4D2 nearly unplayable, with players resorting to third-party servers.
- Despite its age, Valve should address the game's problems to maintain its loyal player base and reputation.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Left 4 Dead 2 is the best co-op game of all time. The Deep South setting and its cast of four leads are beautifully broug🧜ht to life, beforꦍe promptly being covered in the viscera of AI-driven zombie hordes chewed up with all manner of chunky guns, explosives, and melee weapons.
I’ve been playing Left 4 Dead 2 since it first launched in 2009, almost 15 years ago. In that time it’s had i💜ts ups and downs, but, unfortunately, it’s entered a partꦇicularly dark point in its life. Valve’s all but stopped caring about it, and the result is this all-timer is now nigh-on unplayable.
The first, and most immediate, problem is that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:L4D2 has been plagued by DDOS attacks for weeks. Somebody with far too much spare time on their hands has been crusading against the game, targeting individual players and making their games lag out for the whole lobby. If you fall foul of this individual, you’ll be put on the list and plagued with laggy games you’re ꦿunable to participate in until Valve deigns to release a fix, which might not ever even happen.
So many people have been hit by the DDOS that nobody bothers playing on the official servers affected by it anymore. Your options are to either play in a locally hosted match and hope the host’s connection 🌼is good enough to support it, or try out some of the third-party servers.
Good luck finding just a 🍸stock gam♛e of Left 4 Dead 2 as Gabe Newell intended it, though, as you’ll likely hop between modded servers and laggy local ones before finding that rare sweet spot or, more likely, giving up and going to play something else.
If I end up on another server infested with nonsense RPG mods, I might chuck myself under the nearest✨ Hunter.
The second problem is that the community has festered. Old games tend to attract a loyal player base, but hopping into a game today is like jumping into a Modern Warfare 2 lobby back in 2009. Everybody is constantly🅰 whining about how other people play, vote-kicking those who don’t perform perfectly, and generally being brats, all while teaching you a colourful new dic⛎tionary of slurs you’ve never encountered before.
Finding a good match in Left🙈 4 Dead 2 is nothing short of a miracle. You need to find a server that’s not being DDOS’d, that isn’t full of gumph third-party mods, and has chill players who don’t jump to the N-word the second a Charger misses an insta-kill spot. There’s so much working against a positive experience, and all of it c🐷omes down to apathy on Valve’s part.
Valve could fi💞x the DDOSing, as it’s done it before.𝓡 It could improve the local connectivity to make playing on self-hosted matches less of a pain in the bile jar. It could introduce chat moderation or more robust tools to ban or block players who haven’t grown up since the 360 days. None of the problems Left 4 Dead 2 faces are problems Valve hasn’t already fixed in its other games; it just chooses not to implement those fixes here.
Valve’s apathy has destroyed its games before. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Team Fortress 2 has only recently become playable again after years of bot infestation ruining games, and all it took to get it fixed was a 🌠large, organised player movement. Meanwhile, the corpses of Day of Defeat: Source and Artifact fester, long since forgotten. Unless it’s a big seller of microtransactions or an esport darling like Counter-Strike or Dota 2, Valve doesn’t seem to care.
It's easy to look at Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2 and handwave away theও problems by pointing out their age. TF2 is almost 17 years♌ old, and Left 4 Dead is only a few months away from its 15th anniversary. They’re old games, and few publishers give any meaningful support to games well into their teens.
Except most publishers aren’t Valve, one of the most profitable in the🦋 industry, and most also don’t have games that have managed to hold onto their communities for this long. A quick look at the Steam charts has TF2 listed as the 15th most popular game, and L4D2 is at 57 with 24,000 players.
There is some debate on how much of ღthe TF2 population is actually idle bots, which is even more damning for 💃Valve.
They’re beating out recent multiplayer darlings like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Helldivers 2, Scum, Dungeonborne, and Lethal Company. P🎀eople still play and love these games, and Valve should still have an obligation to, at the very least, maintain them.
It would be unreasonable to expect new content updates and sweeping changes, but it isn’t unfair to want Valve to sort out the major issues currently plaguing its fourth most popular game. I just want ꦕto play a game of൲ Left 4 Dead without being called the F-slur before I lose connection, and that isn’t too much to ask.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Left 4 Dead 2
- Released
- November 17, 2009
- ESRB
- ♔ M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violen💃ce, Language
- Developer(s)
- Valve
- Publisher(s)
- Valve
- Engine
- Source
- Multiplayer
- Local Co-Op, Local Multipla🌞yer, Online Co-Op, Online Multiplꦉayer
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Left 4 Dead
- Number of Players
- 🍎 2 (Local Co-Op), 4 (Online 🅠Co-Op)
Left 4 Dead 2 isꦐ the sequel to the hit FPS from Turtle Rock Studios, this time developed by Valve. It featur🌌es five different game modes, and co-op gameplay.
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