You'll play as one of four new survivors armed with a wide and devastating array of classic and upgraded weapons. This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns. In the end, I have to conform and keep my old set, it gives me a lot less headaches.Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008. Even in Windows some games (the Codemasters ones) won't work with optical connection. Some games work (like Counter Strike:GO) and others didn't. Only a Logitech kit worked okay, without lag, but the software problem continues. I tested 2 Phillips home theaters and a expensive Yamaha receiver, all with the same lag. Video players don't work, games too, and the ones that do have a 2-300 ms of audio lag, very annoying. So I borrow a HT from a friend and I found that this connection is not a plug and play option in Linux, yet. I have a old set of speakers, and wanted to buy some nice home theater to use optical (SPDIF) connection for better quality.

Like a lot of things you experiment, surround sound is a thing you didn't want to give up once you got it. So I had to reinstall the game under Windows and now I can play it in all its magnificency (is it a word?). I don't need to tell anybody how important surround audio is for a survival horror game, do I.

I just bought A:I and sadly discovered that surround doesn't work under Linux. Quoting: barottoSpeaking of surround sound, I played my first game with it in 2004, it was Doom 3 with a SB Audigy 2 ZS.Įleven (!!!) years later I still use the same audio card (lol), but we have just a handful of games that support positional audio under Linux. You don't want to make you finger memory confused when things get hot in L4D2, believe me. You now, the ones they are targeting with the whole SteamOS/Machines. But some genius at Valve like to make things differently and makes playing Valve's games very annoying for gamepad players. The button you use for action, like pic up items, open doors, activate switches AND reload your weapon is the same button, in the case of Xbox and Steam controllers, the X button (□ in the Playstation).Įvery major title, like Call of Duty, Borderlands, etc, have this behavior for the X button. The thing is that there is a default control layout for these games, even 3rd person shooters. Looks like you didn't played a lot of action FPS games, to make a question like that. How would reload while standing infront of a door? Quoting: OlliC Quoting: MGOidAnd lets hope that Valve will implement a better gamepad control scheme for their games, because using separate buttons to reload and open doors in a modern game is ridiculous.

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