It seems the only option for playing Left 4 Dead with my friends is to have all computers online, even though I bought the 4 pack from Valve. Is there anyway to plan a LAN game on Left 4 Dead 1?
Ny way to play Left 4 Dead on a LAN
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I could post an elaborate answer which would be basically ripping off other people's work, but instead I'll just show you a link to a great tutorial. Adding a radial menu.
If you need to know what commands to use et cetera just let me know what you want to do and I (or someone else here) will help you further.
Valve removed the vocalization commands to stop people spamming in multiplayer games, all that is left are the speech wheel that come up when you press z or x (using default controls).
Edit: This is the very hacky way of doing it through the radial commands which may or may not work.
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It is possible. If you use srcds to set up a dedicated server and note the LAN IP of the computer hosting it, you can enable the developer console in-game (under Keyboard settings then advanced) press the ~ key (on foreign keyboards, it is usually whichever key is next to the 1 key) to open it and enter the command
connect <LAN IP of server>into it. You'll then be dropped into the game. Make sure to edit the key of the server so that random people don't start joining. Consider setting it to LAN-only.If you're using a non-QWERTY keyboard, sometimes binding the developer console may not work. If so, you can edit the launch options and add
--console. Then, whenever you launch the game, you'll have console open.