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Valve publishes Left 4 Dead stats News

PC Xbox 360 News by Oli Welsh

26 November, 2008

Valve has published public Achievement statistics for its latest zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead, on the Steam website.

The statistics show the percentage of total players (of the PC version only, we assume, since the data is collected through steam) to unlock each Achievement in the game.

The most common Achievement is "Drag and Drop - Rescue a Survivor from a Smoker's tongue before he takes damage."

No players at all have managed "Zombie Genocidest" yet - you need to kill 53,595 Infected for that, so we suspect it's only a matter of time.

Perhaps the most surprising stats are those for completion. Only 0.2 per cent of players have managed to survive all campaigns on expert, and the individual campaigns have only been survived by between 19.5 and 29.7 per cent of players.

Shape up, people. They're only zombies.

Left 4 Dead is out now for PC and Xbox 360 and we really liked it.

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Iora
26/11/08 @ 09:13
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First.... what achievement do i get?
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Bangaioh
26/11/08 @ 09:19
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nerd of the day?
Mogs
26/11/08 @ 09:29
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I've only managed to finish No Mercy on Expert so far & man what a rush that was!
Salaman
26/11/08 @ 09:37
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I decided to give the demo another play the other day.

"Pre-loaded. Please purchase"

>:-(

OK. I'll buy it, I was going to eventually anyway.
/input all info

"Game is not available in your country"
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I'm on a PC in Germany paying with a UK credit card. I don't know if it took it's country info from my IP or the credit card address.
Let me buy your game!
strelok
26/11/08 @ 09:46
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I suspect the survival (that is campaign completion) achievements are broken.
Or there is some rule preventing you from getting the achievement if you've been idle even for a second.
Loser
26/11/08 @ 10:05
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Salaman

I don't think it's going to be taking your location from your credit card.
kestral
26/11/08 @ 10:12
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Well pretty sure the game is available in the UK Salaman.
thesombrerokid
26/11/08 @ 10:23
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no the survivor achivment is broken

i survived no mercy with just being incapped and didn't get it then the next one i got murdered and was idle and everything and got the achivement for that
sneetch
26/11/08 @ 10:26
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@strelok
"I suspect the survival (that is campaign completion) achievements are broken.
Or there is some rule preventing you from getting the achievement if you've been idle even for a second."

I don't know about preventing you from getting it when you're idle, but I've played through 3 of the campaigns and have two of the achievements: I didn't make it out alive from Death Toll, so although I "completed" it I didn't survive it.
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26/11/08 @ 10:48
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To achieve ether of the campaign complete achievements you need to survive each stage (not die at all) in the campaign, i too once thought it was broke but found out this is why i did not achieve some of them.

As for the expert achievement that's insanely hard to get, its hard enough of advanced
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thesombrerokid
26/11/08 @ 10:59
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i did die on one and got it, so it's still bugged even if this is the case
christourlord
26/11/08 @ 11:05
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Deeper stats please, Valve. I was hoping for accuracy, weapon usage, headshots etc. This is pretty weak.
tannerd
26/11/08 @ 11:18
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There's a bug where if you are slow connecting to the server, and you miss the starting cutscene, you can't get the acheivement.

I'd have all 4 acheivements by now if it was stable enough to not crash every time I play (usually around an hour in, which is exceedingly annoying).
Cylinder
26/11/08 @ 11:39
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Exceedingly good cakes.
oxymoron
26/11/08 @ 11:46
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killed 20,000 zombies so far (ish), looking forward to getting my zombie genocidist achievment.
aniki
26/11/08 @ 12:06
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Don't tell me that I'm the only commenter to notice that the "Zombie Genocidist" achievement requires you to kill one zombie more than Dead Rising's "Zombie Genocider" achievement...
Gurrah
26/11/08 @ 12:21
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Nobody cares about stats, take care of the horrendous pings and perfomance issues.
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26/11/08 @ 12:22
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^OK, that sort of answers the question I was going to ask, but now I have to ask why 53,594 was picked as the number by Dead Rising?

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26/11/08 @ 13:05
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Nice to see I'm in a very small group with my "All 4 Dead" achievement, there's something really fun about killing everyone in one tank go. :-)
Pinewood_Groves
26/11/08 @ 13:37
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@ aniki, no you're not the only one who noticed that.
A.N.T
26/11/08 @ 13:51
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53,594 was the population of the town.
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26/11/08 @ 13:55
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LAMB 2 SLAUGHTER = 0% (As an Infected, incap a Survivor who has entered and left a safe room.)

Haha I'm in the 0%

I feel soo special.

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