Left 4 Dead 2 is great. The players aren't (rant)

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

and all the best players have headsets

[Outlaw]

I am with d_stilgar.

I have a headset but almost never use it. Unless there is a match going on, there is always at least 1 person who is playing music constantly or will not shut up long enough to get 2 words in. Other times you will have the server talking about random stuff. I don't even use sound a lot either because of that.

ps. I am not the worst nor am I the best but I can hold my own (at least in css)

[SXRguyinMA]

I use a mic/headset in L4D2 when I play co-op with my brother-in-law, other than that no. I also occasionally use it in MW2, mostly just the headset cuz the wife doesnt want to listen to it lol. occasionally I'll use the mic If I'm playing with the bro-in-law or doing a team game (Hardcore SD is my fav). but I play a lot of 3rd person cage match, so the mic isnt needed

[d_stilgar]

Well, I have to say most of the jerks have moved on. The game is a few months old now so people aren't as stupid about it and the people who are on just want to play and have a good time for the most part. If you haven't gotten the game yet, or were turned off like me by the morons playing, now is a good time to start playing again.

[SXRguyinMA]

whats your steam handle? I havent played it in a while due to the aforementioned reasons, but would love to play it with people I know

[HackSore]

Have you joined the steam group? i havent really paid much attention to it with all the real life stuff getting in the way lately, but i'll whack a couple of l4d2 games on the calander so we can get some decent vs matches on the go.

EDIT: Ok, got a couple of events in for sunday, hope the times are ok for everyone not in the uk...lol.

And as ever, if anyone wants to be an admin on the steam group, just pm me here!

[d_stilgar]

I go by Bonedaddy, my steam ID is adventrising. http://steamcommunity.com/id/adventrising. The thing I've really learned is to encourage other people to not be jerks. Laughing at the other team when they suck. Kicking because someone is a noob. If people suck then give them an opportunity to get better. Help them. It will make your gaming experience so much better later on.

Also, if a team gets massacred I try to encourage everyone to go back to the lobby and switch to random just to change things up a bit. If both teams are cool and respectful (it only takes one guy per team with a mic to keep people from being A-holes) then people will stay even if they are losing.

[Outlaw]

I go by Bonedaddy, my steam ID is adventrising. http://steamcommunity.com/id/adventrising. The thing I've really learned is to encourage other people to not be jerks. Laughing at the other team when they suck. Kicking because someone is a noob. If people suck then give them an opportunity to get better. Help them. It will make your gaming experience so much better later on.

Also, if a team gets massacred I try to encourage everyone to go back to the lobby and switch to random just to change things up a bit. If both teams are cool and respectful (it only takes one guy per team with a mic to keep people from being A-holes) then people will stay even if they are losing.

I agree with that for any multiplayer server. It is even better if there is someone with admin to kick the a-holes. The ones that are there to be like that are only going to get worse when you ask them to cool it or just to leave. At least in servers i've played in.

I don't entirely agree with vote-kick and vote-ban although they can be effective in needed situations without an admin.

Most people will tell you just to mute them but what are you to do if everyone is jabbering? I know i'm not going to mute everyone just so i can hear the game.

[XcOM]

i play CS:S and CS alot, at one point i think i was banned from about 16 different servers on CS as i was basicly too good,

i remember one day me and my bro went on this server on CS:S, it was a clan server, they were prepearing for a clan game, me and bro joined the T's as did everyone else that wasn't in the clan, the entire clan was CT.

Basicly our entire team was getting wipped out everytime except me and bro, between me and bro we were kicking there ass's, then they get all high and mighty about "Do you know who we are? where %^%$£^ clan" , so we got banned, our ip released, i went back on a while back, and got banned in the first round!

oh, i forgot to mention, i was in SNGN, i great group of lads, we ran our own servers, were the mose popular for CS, was always full but there were reserved slots for some of us.
Was going really well till the parent company got bought out and SNGN lost all its funding, the servers were then put on a few peoples home servers, but eventually it got disbanded.