Why is this game full of idiots now?

[Callum]

I have just come back to Left 4 Dead after last year and nearly every game I am in has people leaving after 2 minutes or ragequiting for losing a round etc etc. Also full of people that just seem to come on for an argument.

It's really strange because games for me are mostly not reaching a conclusion because so many people ragequit and/or act like ♥♥♥♥♥.

AND on top of that, people leave full lobbies before the match starts; why why why?!

So much impatience in lobbies it's unreal.

Am I the only one who has noticed the quality of player has gone down on this game a lot since even last year?

No offence intended to people who play this game regularly, I love the game but it seems that it's mostly man-children with tantrums who play this game now. Why is it that it's so hard to find a game against people who aren't basement dwellers or children?

Update - I just got into another game, we won the game and someone accidentally got shut out of the safe room so we opened it. He and his friend ragequit because of that. They weren't even playing well.

[Pistols ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Since this is a duplicate of the same topic that has been discussed over and over, I'll just give the same answers. Yes, this community has gone down the drain and it's pretty much to the point where you HAVE to play with mostly friends in the game, both on your team and the opposing team.

For one you'd have less ♥♥♥♥ to deal with, you won't get someone on the other team talking crap and if you do and have at least 2 (recommended 3) friends on the other team, they could easily kick if they see they're not contributing yet talking smack. And of course the other thing is you won't have to worry about a game shutting down due to the other team raging. I've played far too many games where we would be on the 2nd map, and we're maybe 150 points ahead of the other team, yet one will rage, then another, then the rest and presto, game shuts down. When I play I try to do so with friends on both teams or at the very least with other players that I'm not friends with, but I've played with them enough to know they won't be a troll or ragequit when they score is uneven.

So yeah, short answer is just play with mainly friends. If you don't have a lot then make some. How? If you happen to get through a whole match and noticed things didn't go completely to ♥♥♥♥ (no rage quitting from uneven scores or talking ♥♥♥♥) then add those people. If by chance they change their ways in another match (which has happened to me) then you can simply delete and block them.

That brings me to another point, blocking. I can't stress enough how useful that is. Just for the hell of it I cleared out my block list one time, of everyone and sure enough the very next match I played I ran into a few that I've had blocked a good while before clearing my list out and to my surprise (sarcasm) they were just as ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as before. I found that blocking the ones who rage after the first round or talk ♥♥♥♥ throughout the game greatly helps reduce how many of the crap matches I have. I can't tell you how many times I've blocked one of those kind of players, we get half way through a fresh match and someone's friend wants to join and they can't because they're blocked. The person will ask "Who as (insert name) blocked?". At that point I won't reply despite if I know or not, but more times than none that same person is just like their friend that is blocked and gives me more reason to block them too. You won't have to worry about running into those people anymore except the few that have too much time on their hands and have multiple alt accounts, which can be blocked as well.

[Callum]

Thank you so much for this response, I was starting to think it was just me. I know it might seem like a lot but I played the game for about 6 hours today (time flies when playing left 4 dead apparently) and I only had one game that actually finished and in the end everyone on the other team did leave but hey at least we finished a full game.

I will be taking all of these tips on board and my block last has skyrocketed today so I was already on that. I just don't know what the hell happened with Left 4 Dead, I guess the game just became far too cheap and every kid with an allowance bought it?

[Dr Chaos MK]

I'd keep a constant eye on that block list. Myself & people here have experienced people that were blocked but still join their games anyways.

[Bishop]

I came back to the game ( and gaming ) after a long hiatus and, as far as I can see, it's been exactly the same since the dawn of time :

You endure the tough process of going around with randoms and slowly find people that fit your gameplay - then you add them as friends - then you stop going on random groups --!

People just expect too much from everybody and everything : they don't want bugs, want people that stay at the lobby waiting, people that don't act like idiots, people who don't die, people who run like mad / stop to kill all zombies, etc. etc. etc...

Going on random groups it's like listening to the radio : you hear the same 5 songs, about 15 times a day for 6 weeks, because it's the crap everybody wants to hear- sometimes you listen to something you like and, sporadically, something you don't know and shazam' it --- but, if you want to listen to good music you listen to your own collection --!

[chicasaur]

Ever since i got this game, i noticed a huge different in the 360 version and PC. If i were to choose which one is better, i would choose the 360 version by a landslide. In PC, the modding and extensive hacking is what kills a game. Also, the lack of team support and team work. If you are a new PC gamer, they will kick you or leave you behind on versus. (Thanks for making my first experience on PC terrible whoever my team may have been) and also, terrible cold-hearted people will point out how "bad" you are when you dont succeed in killing a special infected in less than 2 seconds. I f**king hate versus. That is why i play campaign through and through. No anxiety and it's a nice chill zone. 50/50th of the time you'll get your average a**hole from versus games. But all in all, people from campaign help one another, i tend to help those who are new to the game and it helps us bond as a team which in result creates good teamwork.

[Callum]

The 360 version is leaps and bounds better in terms of general quality of player I would agree but good luck getting a game on 360 now this many years after the release of the game :P

And I can't fully agree with you Luis as last year I hardly ever had this problem and the games were always finishing, hell you could even get a game on Dark Carnival without any problems. But your point comparing it to the radio is a good one, I just feel it wasn't quite so bad last year. Hell I met most of my steam friends on L4D2 last year and they're all great guys but they don't play it anymore.

[Grimly (its meh or you are...)?]

Originally posted by GoldeneyeDog:

Why is this game full of idiots now?

Because so many newb people jump to the madness as right now.

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜEchoDeLunaღ:

Ever since i got this game, i noticed a huge different in the 360 version and PC. If i were to choose which one is better, i would choose the 360 version by a landslide. In PC, the modding and extensive hacking is what kills a game. Also, the lack of team support and team work. If you are a new PC gamer, they will kick you or leave you behind on versus. (Thanks for making my first experience on PC terrible whoever my team may have been) and also, terrible cold-hearted people will point out how "bad" you are when you dont succeed in killing a special infected in less than 2 seconds. I f**king hate versus. That is why i play campaign through and through. No anxiety and it's a nice chill zone. 50/50th of the time you'll get your average a**hole from versus games. But all in all, people from campaign help one another, i tend to help those who are new to the game and it helps us bond as a team which in result creates good teamwork.

1. Hi B
2. Y´know.. the VAC ?? Every time who you join in a game the "extensive hacking" call him, Modded servers (Yeah its very hard now, try to join in a Oficial Server from L4D2) these servers created by people, the sv_cheats 0 change to sv_cheats 1 & I repeat, y´know cheats. Ugh.
3. Yep, the PC gamer is a wonderful experience or, so terrible like my 1st gameplay on VS here, on L4D2 powered by Steam..
4. Take it easy, its just a game
5. Keep working,

[ZUTS]

Its simple. Most of these idiots either werent even born when l4d1 came out, and/or they were at that young whip age where mommy and dada wouldn't permit them to play such a dasterdly game. LOL Hang in there dude. There are still a lot of good L4D players wandering around. Most who have achieved all, if not most awards. Ping me if you ever wanna play some rounds. Peace