Honestly, what did you expect out of a PC video game Demo? This is probably why the console players got theirs earlier because its easier. A computer has to think more than a console do. Anyway, here are the things wrong with the game.

• Game freezing every 10 seconds.
• In-game music is skipping.
• Game crashes back to desktop.

I can launch the game, and watch the introduction movie, but whenever I go past that the game closes to the desktop and displays “Completing installation…” and does nothing. Any fixes would be appreciated.

• Reinstalling the demo does not work.
• Game keeps Decrypting.
• People getting “Monitor out of Range” error.
• Game codes being invalid.
• Characters are floating, you can look down and see the players legs and feet.
• Can’t get online to play Left 4 Dead.
• Demo refuses to launch, only gives purchase option.
• Game disappearing from game list.
• Crash in single player at end of second map when closing door crashed with memory error.
• Multi-player we could all walk through certain walls and cars, couches etc but the game still worked fine.
• Multi-player the game crashed when it loaded the second map.
• AI in single player mode would stop shooting when being mobbed by large number of infected.
• Purple “rope graphic” when throwing boomer bile at the alarm area.
• NPC survivors would get stuck in looping animations when picking up objects.
• After pulling a teammate up,the player hand is still held out as if you are going to pull someone up, goes away after shooting.
• Common infected try to knock down a door that’s not there. [Meaning its been knocked down already and they're still you know...trying to knock it down.]
• The characters sometimes have something that looks like a foot spasm. Like they are treading water.
• The healing animations don’t function inside the Safe-room at times.
• Special infected spawn in same place on occasions.
• Australian and Germany version being over-censored.
• Witch doesn’t react properly to survivors sometimes.
• Hit boxes not working on Special Infected.

I saw a zombie with its knees bent and arms straight out to its sides spinning around like a helicopter. It stopped and looked at me for a second, then went back to spinning, so I shot it.

• Zombies being too easy to kill.
• “The survivors have escaped” is in very tiny lettering.
• Can’t hear in-game music.
• Guns disappearing from inventory.
• Special Infected being invisible.
• Infected having no heads but only in certain actions.
• The choice to be able to walk through the scenery.

The little bridge right out from the very start of the game that leads out of the starting area got dislodged and everyone started clipping through it, falling off the edge and needing other teammates to help them get pulled back up.

• Smokers being able to grab survivors through doors.
• Common Infected wearing Riot Gear does not die.
• Tank being too easy to kill.
• Launching Demo un-mutes mic.
• Can’t carry a primary gun and a melee weapon.
• The Wandering Witch only responds if you shoot her, loud noises, walking right next to her and shooting boomers that’s a foot away won’t disturb her.
• Pink and black textures on the wall. [Sounds like a graphical issue.]
• Pre-loading to %100 just make the game download all over again.
• Bile bomb seems more effective when just thrown on the floor like a pipe bomb.
• The older SI seem weak compared to the new ones.
• Too many options on what to grab as far as Pipe bombs, Bile bombs, Molotov Cocktails, etc etc are concerned.
• Shooting accuracy has declined.
• The game has the same feel as Left 4 Dead.

Getting charged by the Charger only to have him go right through me, hit the wall and some how managed to grab me from 10-15ft away and started pummeling me in the spot he originally charged from.

Common infected think the fastest way to get to me is climbing over lampposts instead of walking around.

• View-models are too close to the camera.
• Illegal position: get on roof in Parish.
• Ability to revive a player from any height.
• Illegal position: ability to ledge on a wall that doesn’t exist.
• Melee flashlight does not cast shadows.
• Incompatibility with MOTD and Internet Download Manager.
• Invalid client.dll’s.

You’ll see the Valve logo, then the L4D2 intro movie. If you let it play through, or if you press Escape to skip it, the game then crashes with an Engine Error saying “Could not load library client.”

• Cross-hair sometimes disappears, however returns when the weapon is fired.
• AI path-finding bugs: infected are getting ‘stuck/caught’ on the cars or poles in the level.
• Lack of idle animation movement in pistols.
• Smoker has no ‘pull’ animation, either standing or moving. Often time appears he his floating across the ground and standing still when he fires his tongue.
• AI issue: bots occasionally congregate, particularly in corners and will refuse to move. They often refuse to pick up items such as med-kits and pills/adrenaline outside safe rooms even if they desperately need them.

CI issue: the CI will attack you from very odd angles, like running to you with their faces directed at you but bodies at an odd angle. Their body movement seems very unnatural and weird and objects in their way seem to make it worse.

• Every time the map changes, performance for some ATI users would drop to unplayable levels.

Assigning melee/heal to MOUSE4 means you can’t heal teammates. Trying to do so with mouse4 will act as if you’re just pressing, not holding Mouse4. It switches in to healing then quits right after.

• Friendly fire disabled for incapacitated people.
• No self-awareness.

Here are my suggestions for some of these errors. If you have the demo, and its giving you errors and nothing you do seems to work. Try waiting a few days, the servers at Valve are probably at its capacity sense people are trying to install the game at once. If you’re having problems with Left 4 Dead 2 freezing, try disabling Multicore rendering. If you’re trying to play Left 4 Dead online but you can’t connect, you should also wait, there a lot of anxious and potential whiners still installing the game. If you’re  having other problems with decrypting, try restarting Steam. That seems to help a lot of people. If you haven’t been able to even download it yet, you should just wait til they hype dies down. Chances are there are others who can’t even download it yet.

The demo will not be available to those who did not pre-order Left 4 Dead 2. The Grenade Launcher, Incendiary Ammo is not available to use in the demo.

The only melee weapons in the demo are:

1. Tonfa
2. Machete
3. Frying Pan
4. Electric Guitar

On another note, I feel sorry for those who live in Australia and Germany. They have Censored dead bodies and when you shoot the infected, they disappear before they hit the ground. There is barely any gore or blood in the game.

Censored Bodies in Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 Music Video

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