Great post. Infact I was thinking of making this thread especially for VS. Another way for time trial is maybe adding a penalty for every death in the team. 30 secs maybe?

For example a team takes 20mins to finish the run and has a total of 10 deaths. 10 x 30sec = 5mins. Their overall time would be 25mins.

As for VS, I see 2 problems with the default config for the current version. Firstly, it is very disadvantageous for the winning team to start first because it is possible that a team could start first for all 5 maps. This works for public games(balances out the team, giving the underdog slight advantage) but for competitive play, IMO VS should be using the ABBA format.

Example, Team A plays first for BH1 and BH4 while Team B plays BH2 and BH3 first (finale doesnt matter). After BH1 is completed, player must take a screenshot and game marshall jots down the time and remake the game. In the end, whoever has the highest cumulative score wins.

Secondly is the number of maps played. IMO it would be better to play 3 segment matches rather than 5 segment matches. This means a game would only go through 3 maps (each teams picks 1 map from 1-4 and the finale would be the third map). Why is this better? Because organisers usually have tournaments for only 1 day and time could be a problem. 5 segment matches could last up to 2 hrs for some teams while 3 segment would probably cut down the time by almost half

CAL config has this

versus_tank_chance_intro 1
versus_tank_chance_finale 1
versus_tank_chance 1
versus_witch_chance_finale 1
versus_witch_chance 1

Dunno if its better or not lol...but it makes spectating for fun i guess


and ya no more time trial....vsssss

Unfortunately, CAL is dead for awhile already because of changes in management. The CAL config file is floating somewhere in the web tho..

How about smoker 1 hit kills in certain areas?(i.e. bh1 starting point) Is it considered legal?

U forgot speed crouching for infected. Speed crouching is having the speed of a standing infected while crouching.

This post has been edited by Szzz: Apr 18 2009, 12:19 AM

CEVO Tourney recently released their config files.

http://www.cevo.com/index.php?page=downloads&func=l4d

Config details(taken from config readme):

- This is similar to other competitive configs, with the main differences being:
* We try to disable all non-saferoom medkits, turn them into pills instead
* Team swap order is ABABA, instead of highest score goes survivor first

- The full list of changes between this and vanilla gameplay:
* Tanks guaranteed 100% to spawn on every level 1-5
* Witches spawn 0% on 1,5 and 75% (default) on 2,3,4
* Tanks will not suicide if they go to AI and it cannot find a path to the survivors

* Tanks will spawn as late as 90% level completition (default behaviour), this means you might get them much later now (bad for BH4, but good for pretty much every other level where getting it around the middle is bad)
* The team format is ABABA (meaning the team order of who goes survivor first is swapped every map, ignoring 'valve swap')
* The config files unlocks some of the network rates for better ping
* Turn all spawnable medkits into pills (except saferoom kits)
* Disable tank suiciding if no AI path to survivors