Around The Ring: The Official Actual Good Stuff Podcast

Around The Ring Episode 14: Left 4 Dead 2 Campaign Show – Dead Centre
Recorded on January 11th, 2010

Hosts: Lancelot, Funnyboy, Dust Storm, TheCrazyCommie (possibly)


New Years Greetings!

- Welcome to 2010
- Sad those glasses are gone
- Funnyboy’s internship
- What’s new with the show

The Hosts

- Introduce everyone in order —> and get a little backstory on them.

Submissions

greg

its me for the first(maybe 2nd but im not sure) post for around the ring.
Seeing how you are talking about Dead Center from L4D2 and I have L4D2 I thought that i should submit something about it. there isnt much to say about it gamewise because it is different every time,the layout of the level stays the same but zombie spwan is different. I only played through it once and even then i spead through it to get the achevement so im not huge on the details. I do know that the opening cinimatics for L4D2 tie into the level because you start on the roof and then work your way through the building that your on to the mall then you take alot of gas and put it into the car then you drive away.All the gas cans are accessable by the however many flights of stairs there are. The gas cans are in groups of 1-3 so the amount that you need will go down by 1-3. It would also be a good level for new players to start on because it takes everything thats in left 4 dead 2 in one level. well i think thats it unless I submit again so
Keep on fraging people that cut off other people to say things that are really pointless cough GLewis cough

blonde baller

hey guys, its blonde beezy here with some survival tips on Dead Centre. First of all, stay together! Teams who abandon other teammates or go solo usually end up dying more quicker, especially with all those evil lil’ Jockeys that annoy the heck out of me.
When you get to the last level, where you fill the rally car with gasoline, stay together as a team! Try having all 4 survivors go up to the top levels and throw the gas cans down so when you clear all the ones above all you have to do is go to the lower level and carry them to the car and deffend your compadres while they fill it up! Besides, there are less waves of infected on the upper levels and with the closed in walk ways its easier to take them out! Well hope this helped, keep fraging guys who say Ps3 is better than Xbox… peace!

Maximo Notts

Right, Im gonna download the demo for L4D2 this weekend but please dont dismiss me for being a noob. I just wanted to know if the game is popular with the slightly more ‘noobish’ gaming population. I want to know if any of you frequently get into a game and one guy jeopdieses your attempts to survive by setting a car alarm off or wastes the pipe bombs, etc. I just dont want to buy the game yet if I know I cant regularly have a serious game online, Halo Wars put me off for the same reasons. Cheers guys and keep on approaching the witch thinking she is a survior and getting owned, like I will most likely be doing.

2cool4skool

Hey Podtac crew, long time no see! The level Dead Centre is quite basic however, your teamwork will shine on the last chapter of the level. Pouring gas into a rally racer is tough work when you have zombies chasing you in hells half acres, so here are some tips, enjoy.
First, stick together of course!!!
Second, try different methods of getting the gas to the car in the fastest and safest ways possible.
Third off, melee weapons are your “fwends” so use them… alot!!!
Fourth, when the gas gets to the car, for gods sake… cover your Mother Fucking teammates while they pour the gas into the tank. Nothings is as good as a dead survivor moments away from escape!
I have fallen to the zombies many times due to my team members not following these rules… oh, that reminds me of tip no. 5…
NEVER PLAY WITH DUMBASSES!!!
Well I hope I helped some lost souls with this weeks submission. Dustorm, stay pretty, Crypto, keep up that funny accent you silly boy… and for the guest host,???? Keep fraging Ter-rucks, Dizz-ogg!

Domaku

It is I, Lord of the Sith Domaku, and I am submitting a review and some tips for the Dead Center campaign. First off, this is one of the most entertaining campaigns. Mainly because the finale is pretty unique compared to the last games finales. The beginning is fun though because you get just a pistol or a melee weapon. I imagine this to be very difficult on the Expert Difficulty.

The finale is almost the most entertaining next to probably the Dark Carnival finale. Here are a few good tips.
When you go to retrieve the gas cans you should always travel in pairs so that if somebody gets smokered of jockeyed there is back up from your partner.

Another one is, when you collect the gas tanks instead of carrying the gas cans down to the bottom floor, you should throw them off the tall parts of the mall and pick them up and use them after all the cans are on the bottom floor.

Thats all I have for now.

Keep on fraggin trucks that explode when Dust Storm fires a grenade launcher into a horde of zombies while GLewis tries to vomit on Lancelot because he thinks he is a boomer but is actually a human, then Raxus orbitally bombs the planet and rids us of the Zombie threat but is smokered by Private Church out of the vessel and takes too much fall damage and becomes incapacitated while Admiral Marsh helps him up and heals him with a medkit. Achievment unlocked- Lolz- 25G

Troubled Party

Hey guys!
This is my second post here telling you all about the easy-est way to beat this level on Expert (that is if you have trustworthy friends that understand the basics of a survival horror game.) If you haven’t played this type of game before remember the group goes before you. I see this so often when there will be 2 people on the ground and they will focus on taking out the witch minding her own business before helping the downed players. Seriously guys its only fun if your not a (insert expletive here). So with all that said when you start off make sure you all have your Jobs assigned ie: 2 close rangers with melee weapons and shotguns, and 2 long-rangers with automatic weapons (one with a sub machine and one with a fully automatic), or if your really good give one long-ranger a sniper. This doesn’t mean that close-rangers run ahead of the group and long-rangers stay behind, this means you stay as a group and move forward together like you did in kindergarten while the close-rangers get the zombies that made it past the long-rangers. But at the beginning you wont see these guns so don’t sweat it that much.

1 The Hotel:
2 should grab axes, 2 guns, all grab med-kits. run down the stairs through the hall and you should see a window. Now make sure to press A and hold it, now slowly back out backwards from the window and as soon as you fall, fall forward into the lower window and then into the elevator. This saves a lot of time and ammo. If you all made it this far your good to play normally until the end.

2 The Streets:
This level is a little harder but if your all still working 100% as a team you should breeze through it If you still are using the same weapons as before long-rangers grab the smg until you get the weapons shop and close rangers grab the shotgun. At the beginning slowly advance forward up to the tents/trucks and check for pipe-bombs Molotov’s etc. once you get past that stuff close-rangers look for paddles (they do a good amount of damage and you can act like catholic nuns in a private school). Later in this level there is a half safe-house where there is pills and weapons by now the close/long rangers should know the drill and get appropriate weapons, soon you will reach the weapons store and grab appropriate weapons again and talk to the guy to go to get coke. simple enough. once you get to the store make a close-ranger be the delivery boy and the others back him up. deliver the coke and its easy as pie from there.

3 Mall:
this one is so self explanatory you don’t need me. sorry

4 Atrium:
This is super easy if you take one run and all of you look around and then assign people to certain gas tanks and then kill yourselves and do a clean run through this chapter I think me and my buddies beat it in under 5 minuets without killing the tank. Just remember adrenaline is your friend here.

If you follow that. this level is so satisfyingly easy you should have no problems.

Oh and incendiary/ explosive ammo is more useful than a med-kit 70% of the time.
Med-kits are for your TEAM and not you.
When you see a tank look 360° and make sure you have room to run.

That’s the basics hope you all have time to read this. Keep on fraggin’ in halo and not cod. Oh and check out my YouTube channel youtube.com/user/troubledparty its full of machinima and silly stuff like that (don’t mock me I’m a novice).

UmChurch

Hey Podtac its Church here to fill you in on the Dead Center finale. So what you want to do is grab the Scar from the safe room and a health pack because everything else you need is out in the rotunda. So grab the 3-4 gas cans from the bottom of the center then go upstairs to the third floor and throw down any gas cans you see that way you save time. Also try to ignore the uncommons and just run. If you follow these instructions you should be able to do it in less than 7 mins. Thats it for now hope these tips helped and happy carrying!
Church

RicE sNak RozZ

After being a big fan of the original Left 4 Dead i was excited when i heard news of a sequal. Even though Australia censcored the gore and made it crapper than the original i still enjoyed. I was also pleased when steam made it easy to hack into and change it to the unscencored version.

At the start of Dead Center we found ourselves with 3 other companions and no firepower. We are being overun out of a hotel by zombies and the only way out is by swinging your melee weapon. I thought the ending was clever and much different to waiting on your ass for 5 minutes while some bozo took forever to help you. I’m also gald that the campaigns are tied together.

Shout outs to Arby, Fungus Oz, Dusty, GLewis, Lance and Death from above us.

Relaxing Thought

Hey podtac it’s Relaxing Thought here with some tips/tricks for the Dead Center campaign.

so L4D2 came out a few months ago and I think its a nice upgrade to the first game with new weapons and zombies thrown into the mix. anyway, heres some tips for the Dead Center campaign:

1. melee weapons are your friend!
in my personal opinion, taking a melee weapon is better than a pistol. shoving zombies can only be used a few times before you have to “recharge” your shove ability. using a melee weapon requires no reload/recharge + kills any zombies near you when used, and pushes back any zombies behind them.

2. Campers get what they deserve.
The charger special infected was made to scatter survivors close together, so if you’re camping, beware!!! a charger that hits a group of survivors in a corner will knock them apart and start pummeling the first one it grabs on to.

3. puke tactics
the puke bomb may not seem like much, but its very useful in many cases. it acts like a pipe bomb, luring zombies to where it hits ground, but lasts longer and sometimes is better than a pipe bomb; in an area that looks filled with zombies, deploying one in the middle of the area and just waiting for all the zombies to come to it and killing them effectively clears a room. (ITS A TRAP!!!) it can also be used as a temporary diversion for when you need to get to da choppa!!!

4. tank thrower
on the finale of Dead Center you have to collect gas tanks for a car which you use to escape. Some are located on upper levels. you can reduce the time it takes to collect these by throwing the ones on these upper levels down towards the car rather than carrying them making multiple trips.

5. Don’t Die.
It has been proven that 99% of gamers that don’t die playing L4D2 win. The other 1% are losers that are always AFK.

Sorry for the long submission

:/ awkward face

Keep on fwaggin twucks

-Relaxing Thought

razza 119

whats up podtac it ya 1 and only razza 119 here with tips for left 4 dead 2
1 Teamwork always stick together and work with ur team

2 try and always have a pipe bomb or boomer bile for hoardes

3 always heal when u have a moment

4 make a stratgey for the finale b4 u start it

shout outs to funnyboy, giffyboy fishymanq, dust storm, glewis and the 1 and only brent gamer and my awsoem clan.(we are still recruiting if you are intrested pm me on xbl my gt is razza 119)

keep on fragging the spawn killing assault rifle spraying, akimbo shotguns NOOBS. on mw 2

2coolStayinSkool

Yo,yo,yo wut up dudes and dudettes?!
If you wanna live long enough through the Dead Centre just remember one thing, KILL ALL SONS OF FEMALE DOGS!
Avoid the Witch if at all, she is worse in this game, kill the tanks and chargers with haste, as they can do a lot of damage! When on the last chapter of the level, where you have to fill the car with gas, have two people take upstairs and two take the bottom level. This way the work can get done twice as fast!
Thanks for keeping the show running, Keep Fragging… the guest host this week… haha!

XXXDeathAbovus

Hey Podtac it is my first submission for ATR. Its funny cause im dead too LOL. ANYway I am here to say this probably the easiest campaign in the game. Also this should be done on co-op. Here is my tip STAY WITH THE SQUAD/GROUP. This campaign is good for versus. Shout outs to all of my podtac friends. Keep on Fraggin Trucks.

Sliqnot

This game is dope and noticely more difficult than the previous one. There is a level at the end of Dead Center where you have to fill a rally car with gas. My wise advice is, hurry your ass and you will survive… Maybe…

ijlk147

Left For Dead 2 Rules I love the campign
tip allways have a meali and a pistol since u will nevcer need amo
shoutouts to lancy dusty g lewis obsideanchow odstejy stallmeplease chickenfoot fingerskater bueatfuldeath and everyone else in podtac. ijlk147 signing out
ps send me a friend request anyone


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