Left 4 Dead: Selfish?

[headshotcatcher]

The other survivors in Left 4 Dead are very nice to you, they leave behind supplies, useful messages and they mark useful things..
Yet you (with your three comrades) don't leave behind anything and just pillage whatever supplies you can find..

I know it's for their survival, but didn't the survivors before you also have to survive?

 

[sephiroth1991]

Yeah and they block the way they got into the safe room, bastards.

 

[Mr. Grey]

You're not going to live long with that attitude.

I see your point, but regardless my stance remains the same.

 

[headshotcatcher]

Yeah and they block the way they got into the safe room, bastards.

Yes exactly! Sometimes I think I'd like to side with the infected, they're doing a good job trying to kill the 8 survivors..

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

From a mechanical perspective, it's just a convenient excuse to have stuff lying around for the survivors to use.

From an in-universe perspective, I suppose it's possible that the earlier survivors just had a lot more resources than the ones you play. In a situation like that it would be madness to leave behind valuable resources for people who might never even get there unless you have more than enough for your own purposes already.

 

[Gabanuka]

They might write stuff in the safe houses, you just might not see it.

 

[headshotcatcher]

From a mechanical perspective, it's just a convenient excuse to have stuff lying around for the survivors to use.

From an in-universe perspective, I suppose it's possible that the earlier survivors just had a lot more resources than the ones you play. In a situation like that it would be madness to leave behind valuable resources for people who might never even get there unless you have more than enough for your own purposes already.

Thats true but it still doesn't explain the 8 survivors blocking every way behind them, like sealing the saferoom doors..

 

[Rusty pumpkin]

chacnes are, because you had to lug around an old bill or coach being so slow, you're among the last to escape. this is proven in l4d2 when your final escape is over a bridge that is blown up 2 seconds later.

 

[PoliceBox63]

Maybe it's just a game! It doesn't take from the realism of it anyway. Clearly there aren't any other survivors wandering around and no mercy heli tells them they're their last pickup...

 

[T-Bone24]

There's a lot in the game that shows that the survivors you are controlling are some of the last to be evacuated. I mean, they were the only ones on the Mercy Hospital roof, where the pilot says it'll be his last flight, and that's even assuming that other survivors will follow the same route.

Anyway, that'd be boring in-game, unless there was another team of survivors following behind you, there'd be no reason for it.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

From a mechanical perspective, it's just a convenient excuse to have stuff lying around for the survivors to use.

From an in-universe perspective, I suppose it's possible that the earlier survivors just had a lot more resources than the ones you play. In a situation like that it would be madness to leave behind valuable resources for people who might never even get there unless you have more than enough for your own purposes already.

Thats true but it still doesn't explain the 8 survivors blocking every way behind them, like sealing the saferoom doors..

Safety before altruism. Makes a lot of sense, in a situation like that. Besides, the saferooms wouldn't be very safe anymore if they left the doors open.

 

[Shockolate]

Thats true but it still doesn't explain the 8 survivors blocking every way behind them, like sealing the saferoom doors..

The survivors usually block off the door behind them with things that are blocking the other door.

Which begs the question. Why are their a group of survivors seemingly going backwards?

 

[thiosk]

The reason you don't see many other survivors is that very niceness.

You then have to slaughter them as you pass on to the next saferoom.

How considerate is that? Getting yourself turned into zombie food and then trying to eat me?

Not cool, man. Not cool.

 

[Tharwen]

From a mechanical perspective, it's just a convenient excuse to have stuff lying around for the survivors to use.

From an in-universe perspective, I suppose it's possible that the earlier survivors just had a lot more resources than the ones you play. In a situation like that it would be madness to leave behind valuable resources for people who might never even get there unless you have more than enough for your own purposes already.

Thats true but it still doesn't explain the 8 survivors blocking every way behind them, like sealing the saferoom doors..

Safety before altruism. Makes a lot of sense, in a situation like that. Besides, the saferooms wouldn't be very safe anymore if they left the doors open.

But all they'd need to do is put the bar back across it. Any human can reach in through the window and open the door from the inside. In both games, however, they blockade the door with furniture before they leave.

 

[sephiroth1991]

Yeah and they block the way they got into the safe room, bastards.

Yes exactly! Sometimes I think I'd like to side with the infected, they're doing a good job trying to kill the 8 survivors..

I think it's best we don't look to much into it.

 

[Connor Lonske]

In any apocalypse setting, you and anyone close to you come first, and even that said, you own well being still takes priority. (not saying the survivors are close, but they can at least work together)

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I believe it is the unspoken understanding in the games that the four survivors you play are among the very last in their respective location. Obviously a whole throng of people have passed by before you and most of the rescue vehicle operators sound surprised to hear that someone is still alive and wanting to pick up on the extraction offer.

In short: If you were the last man on earth, you would be stupid to leave supplies around for the other survivors.

 

[Jnat]

Yes, but you know that if this would happen for real ANYONE would have done that.

 

[AllLagNoFrag]

Well then do you leave supplies around? And in addition to that, it said 2 weeks after, probably meaning that the survivors before you were in excess of supplies. Also, if I were them, I would also take all I could. Oh and dont worry, the ammo pile is unlimited so technically you always leave ammo for the other survivors ;D

 

[AngryMongoose]

Well, on the first game, you seem to be the last person left in the city.

What I always found strange was that, in the saferooms, the next door is always blocked up, and you always move the blockade to the previous door. Not only are you dooming any survivor taking the safe route, but it would seem every other survivor is going the opposite ways.

Also, read some of the graffiti in The Parish; fuck the other survivors, they're dicks.