Well, it's been a while since my last journal, and I decided to write one before I got to sleep.

I still am going to have a contest to give away the extra copy of L4D2, though I'm not sure I want to give that kind of crappy game away. To be honest, I'm disappointed in Valve. Not only did they not fix the bot AI, but they created a crapload of stuff that make the game severely unbalanced. I shouldn't have to fucking retry a campaign 8 fucking times on NORMAL, only to have to change it to easy just to be able to get through! I mean, what the fuck?! You don't send 2 tanks and a charger, while a jockey and spitter rape your face and drool on you! ON FUCKING NORMAL MODE. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU VALVE?! L4D2 is no longer any fun. It's just plain frustrating when you can't finish a map because of the low blows the game does with the special infected. In fact, there are so many "special" infected that you could consider them common. It honestly throws shitloads of them at you! I mean, it's just plain crazy and annoying that you can't finish a campaign because of the stupid and bullshitty moves that the special infected use on FUCKING NORMAL! (and don't even think of calling me a n00b or say that I probably haven't played it much and just suck, because I think I have enough experience when I literally have over 300 hours of gameplay in L4D1 and already have a solid 16 hours of gameplay in L4D2 not even 2 days after release, not including the demo time I've played). I've recorded all gameplay I've done with L4D2, so once the videos finish converting, I'll edit them and put them on youtube so you can see exactly what I'm talking about.

Honestly Valve, when a game becomes unfun, that's when you fail. I expected better from you. I even gave you the benefit of the doubt and got the game, but all it did was make me prefer L4D1 even more. If you want to stick with your story that your game developer staff really wanted to do this and it wasn't just a cash-grab thing, then you have to admit that this really was a rush job. You don't rush stuff like this. You've really screwed it up and I am just plain disappointed in you.

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I could go on and list even more stuff, but I'm saving it for the Steam group I made of Fix L4D2.

Anyways, an update on the contest. I've decided to have a contest for creating a poster for the L4D map a friend and I are making. We're just about done with planning and mapping the first map and it's definitely going to be different than what L4D normally does. It's going to take more after Half Life 2 than anything, actually. I'll have some teaser screenshots and maybe even some video later on to show you. All I'll say for now is that it's going to have scripted events galore.


Also, for those of you who knew my cat was in bad condition, I just want to let you know that he died on November 5th, 2009. He was in stage 3 of 4 of kidney failure, so there really wasn't much we could do for him...