said by winterforge :

What do you have against people being able to choose? You can choose your difficulty in co-op, why not versus? You, as a player, should be able to select what difficulty you are looking for when searching for a server. Then there are no surprises and everyone is happy. Those that want to play on normal select that before searching, those who want advanced select that. How could that possibly be a bad thing? Normal is VERY boring. Survivors can always make it through with all green health and not even use a health pack. Yeah, real zombie apocalypse there...

said by sixstring :

by the way, anyone know if they are going to add more campaigns/content? its a fun game, but it'll be better if we had more content.

also i noticed mob spawn is somewhat predictable.. shouldnt the AI director mix it up?

said by sapo :

I've raped teams just out of spawn in versus on normal in a few recent games after the update. The teams received less than 10 points, it just takes a little luck and coordination. I feel this is a good update even though it is restricted as it allows for a consistent game play feel in the most competitive part of the game. Even though choice is good I just think that having a standard level across the most important aspect of the game is more beneficial.

said by The Flash :

If you have a good infected team, survivors shouldn't make it through even in normal.

Valve never intended for it to be played other than normal, everyone just got spoiled. It's the server modders that changed the difficult in the first place and Valve locked it as it was meant to be played.

said by Gundy :

The advanced versus was alot more fun to me. Since the patch I haven't been playing as much. Its way to easy for a survivor to go blasting through a map and win.

Not to mention, at least on a harder difficulty the game gets more fun. You have to watch FF, Ammo, and use strategy. I actually enjoyed playing as SURVIVOR on advanced more so than infected. For the fact it was actually challenging.

said by sapo :

Play my group when we are infected, if you make it to the end in versus you will be lucky.

said by Gundy :

Maybe its just me but I like a game to be challenging. Playing it through over and over again is only fun if its changing. The whole AI director thing really didn't seem to change things up like I expected. Once you learn where the three spots possible of where the pistol spawns on the first map it becomes predictable for example.

On normal the survivors go blasting through no problem. But I guess I'll have a challenge if I run across a team that works together.. well maybe that'll happen some match. That or between finding a good player and then the opposite team leaves and no one joins. Thats great to.

Hell even campaign is easy as shit on Normal. Games get dull if they are kept to one difficulty. The game was fun for the first month(?) of launch. Now I'll probably end up retiring it unless I can get abunch of friends together ( even on each team ) to keep people from leaving and what not.

said by Jigsaw :

Yous should like this....

(youtube clip)