Thread: Second unban request

Maybe the vote should be to choose a random player in the lobby to be the leader instead. Albeit out of the people who vote so it doesn't end up being passed to another AFK.

Having a timer would be good. Or having it when there is the same amount of players on both teams - then it starts the game. Now that would be better

Oh god I fucking hate going into lobbies like that. I once joined a game with one and quit and then I went and played for 8 hours and ended up joining his game again. WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE DOING FOR 8 HOURS? It should be that if you don't start the game in 45 seconds with a full party then it kicks the leader out and chooses a new one.

Originally Posted by waterguy99

Recently since the new L4D upgrade I have noticed about 15 % of the lobby's I go into have an afk lobby leader. This is very annoying! Other player's try to go into another lobby just to re-join the same afk lobby again!!

L4D should have a votekick lobby leader feature for afk lobby leaders OR create a lobby timer where after 5 mins if a game doesn't start, the lobby gets dissolved.

Anyone else see this problem too?

It seems as though Valve has listened and has somewhat addressed this in their new update for L4D:

Left 4 Dead Update Released
JULY 21, 2009, 1:35 PM - VALVE - PRODUCT UPDATE
Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Left 4 Dead

 Lobbies and games you've recently joined and left will be ignored for two minutes. This will prevent a player from ending up in the same lobby or game when quickly searching for another

 Restored Find a Game Lobby/Find a Game in Progress to the Create Lobby screen available from the Lobby Browser

 Updated localization text

 Fixed an issue where VPK.EXE would not extract all files