Left 4 Dead for Mac Launches Amidst Halloween Festivities

Post by Dan @ 03:06pm 29/10/10 | 20 Comments

Valve Software sends word that their cooperative focused Zombie apocalypse shooter Left 4 Dead is now available for the Mac. Mac supported is accompanied by several other general bug-fixes and drops in the middle of Valve's Halloween festivities.

In addition to a big Steam Halloween Sale Valve have also added a bunch of quirky features to Team Fortress 2 that includes new achievements, new Mann Co store items, a new Map with exploding pumpkins and a "Headless Horseman" NPC that generates randomly during matches. More specifics on that one can be found over at teamfortress.com

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d^
Posted 03:09pm 29/10/10

Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu bastards, I had a thread on the sale.

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Door
Posted 03:11pm 29/10/10

How do you melee with one mouse button?

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ravn0s
Posted 03:13pm 29/10/10

LUL!

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Dan
Posted 03:15pm 29/10/10

Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu bastards, I had a thread on the sale.

I was going to link to yours, but this post was more about Left 4 Dead 4 Mac so they can both stay. Share the love :)

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ctd
Posted 04:08pm 29/10/10

repost lulz

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d^
Posted 04:13pm 29/10/10

Alright, sharing the love!

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casa
Posted 05:04pm 29/10/10

needs more of the "im a mac, and im a pc, so what games u playin pc? all of them" img

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teq
Posted 05:36pm 29/10/10

except macs have had two buttons since forever
there is just no gap between them, you click either side - it's functional and sleek ;)

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scuzzy
Posted 05:58pm 29/10/10

I use a Microsoft mouse on my mac

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kos
Posted 11:14am 30/10/10

except macs have had two buttons since forever
there is just no gap between them, you click either side - it's functional and sleek ;)

I don't really see how it's functional to have two buttons with no clear line between them. I totally get Jobs' penchant for minimalism but I don't understand why they seem to try to avoid tactile feedback all the time.

Normally I'm a massive fan of Apple's industrial design but tbh I've never seen an Apple mouse that I thought actually looked good. MS used to make some good looking mice, but these days they all look pretty awkward as well.

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TicMan
Posted 03:28pm 30/10/10

Or just plug in a normal mouse? My G9 works perfectly on my MBP.

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BillyHardball
Posted 03:35pm 30/10/10

Apple mice are terrible. But I'm going to have even more trouble playing games with what I use instead:

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kos
Posted 10:46am 31/10/10

Wow I've never seen one of those before, that's pretty damn cool. Aside from it not being practical for games, how do you find it compares to using a mouse for regular desktop pc usage?

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simul
Posted 11:57am 31/10/10

Wow I've never seen one of those before, that's pretty damn cool. Aside from it not being practical for games, how do you find it compares to using a mouse for regular desktop pc usage?

They are much nicer than a mouse for general OS work, especially when you add in gesture support (swipe, rotate, 4 finger swipe down to show desktop etc

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BillyHardball
Posted 12:02pm 31/10/10

At first I was planning on using it along side my mouse... but that quickly grew old and I was surprised at how quickly I became accustomed to the trackpad after having used a mouse all my life. A couple of things s*** me - it's hard to be as precise with your pointer when you use a finger compared to your whole hand, so doing things like trying to prepare slides for a presentation where there's lots of clicking and dragging become a bit annoying. I even miss links I'm trying to click on sometimes. Also, the way you "click" takes a bit of getting used to. They're the only negatives though - aside from that it's f*****g awesome having a the trackpad. One thing I think makes it worth it on its own is simply the two finger drag up/down to scroll up/down a page. Unless you try it yourself you won't understand why it's infinitely better than any other method including a click wheel.

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kos
Posted 07:43pm 31/10/10

Yeah gotta say the one thing I don't like about macbook trackpads is the whole entire trackpad as a massive button thing, but as long as you can enable tap to click it's fine, I assume you can enable that with this one too?

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BillyHardball
Posted 08:00pm 31/10/10

Yep, but it's a bit unreliable - sometimes you tap but it doesn't count as a click :(

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Farseeker
Posted 02:13pm 01/11/10

I like my magic mouse. It means I don't keep instinctively going back to my MBP trackpad to scroll.

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BillyHardball
Posted 03:10pm 01/11/10

The reason I didn't get a magic mouse when it first came out was the glossy surface - I found it far to sticky too easily scroll up/down.

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Farseeker
Posted 03:17pm 01/11/10

Skin must differ, its smooth as for me :) my fingertips actually get pain if I use my MBP trackpad for any time at all now, but I don't get the pain on the mouse. Yep I've done something to my fingertip nerves, it is whack...

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