I think the game should just be balanced so that nobody cares about difficulty settings. Right now, people are using difficulty as a crude balancing tool.
Hopefully, that is what Valve has in mind now that they have locked the difficulty. bl4nk wrote: > I think it should be set to normal by default when you join a versus > game through the lobby, and then you can vote to change. The vote should > be displayed to all players, instead of just the four on the team that > the vote was called from. > > Tom Richardson wrote: > >> Hi - there were two issues Valve were seeking to address with this: >> >> 1. People starting versus games and being put into expert from the lobby >> when they wanted to play Normal. >> 2. People could call a vote to change difficulty but only 1 team (i.e. >> survivors or infected) would actually see the vote. Hence this could be >> exploited by the team, votechanging the difficulty to easy when they were >> humans, then expert when they were infected, and their opponents wouldn't >> even know they were doing it. >> >> Now in fairness, issue 1 could have been addressed by simply adding a >> difficulty filter from the lobby in the same way that co-op does, and issue >> 2 could have been fixed by removing the ability to votechange. My guess is >> that Valve have simply locked the difficulty as a "quick fix" while they >> work on better solutions. >> >> 2008/12/5 P1cwh0r3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >>> C-mon folks. As if reactions like that are going to help. >>> >>> Jason / Valve, >>> >>> What was the main point behind Valve locking the difficulty? >>> >>> Same question... 2 different ways of asking. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coldorak >>> Sent: Saturday, 6 December 2008 12:53 AM >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead Update Available >>> >>> - Versus mode is now locked to Normal difficulty <-- are you stupid?! >>> What the hell is that? We can't set the difficulty we want? >>> >>> Cold >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
