Left4dead

[Turtleboy1017]

Now that the new killer from Valve has been out for three whole days, it seems time to think about the fun sleepless nights we've all been having.

Has anyone actually beaten the whole campaign on expert yet? How are those achievements coming? How in the HELL do you get cr0wned? If you own the game and have been playing it, state your pros and cons in it! Lets get those opinions out.

 

[Flying-Emu]

I'm good at hiding in the bathroom and crying until the zombies bring me to the sweet embrace of death.

Seriously though, I'm a pretty good leader. Thing I have the most trouble with is reacting fast enough to stay clear of the witches.

 

[meatloaf231]

I made a fun discovery regarding Tanks and doors. Doors < Tanks.

 

[cainx10a]

I'm good at hiding in the bathroom and crying until the zombies bring me to the sweet embrace of death.

Seriously though, I'm a pretty good leader. Thing I have the most trouble with is reacting fast enough to stay clear of the witches.

Sound cues: If you hear them, you know where they are.

Action:
- Turn off your flashlight
- Inform your teammates about her location
- Try to spot her, and evaluate the situation; sometimes the witch will block the path leading to the next area
- Make sure all your friends are at a reasonable range, and kill her from a range, if she is indeed in your path
- If she can be easily avoided, don't stare at her, get past her by crouching etc ...
- Considering they are not an aggressive enemy, you shouldn't have too much trouble, good luck.

Edit: Just finished a run on expert with a few friends on Dead Air(sp), had a Tank corner us in the office and in the alley on second attempt, we got wrecked. Really hard to fight them in these tight spots.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Versus mode is really tough as the survivors since people don't understand the fact its a completely different game when people play as the special zombies. You have to keep moving! Don't stop! Jeez. Its not that freakin hard.

 

[gamebrain89]

I enjoyed the demo, Its a pain though when your stupid teammates (human teammates) won't get in the freaking safe room, and then get killed. I finally just put a team mate down from a distance then went into the room to end the level.

 

[ShadeOfRed]

I enjoyed the demo, Its a pain though when your stupid teammates (human teammates) won't get in the freaking safe room, and then get killed. I finally just put a team mate down from a distance then went into the room to end the level.

It's better than getting killed by a zombie, or worse, teammate when inside the Safe Room.

 

[gamebrain89]

I enjoyed the demo, Its a pain though when your stupid teammates (human teammates) won't get in the freaking safe room, and then get killed. I finally just put a team mate down from a distance then went into the room to end the level.

It's better than getting killed by a zombie, or worse, teammate when inside the Safe Room.

That has to freaking suck! I finally closed the door to stop more zombies from getting in, because the team was screwing around, and a boomer popped up and barfed on all of them, and they got bum rushed. it was hilarious.

 

[Turtleboy1017]

I myself have been enjoying the game immensely. Ive been playing a ton of versus, as i love that stuff. Campaign is fun too, especially with friends. But I'm having trouble with expert I can barely beat it on advanced soooo yeah. Besides that the game is fun as hell tho. The price is awesome, cuz im a 360 gamer and those cost like 65 bucks while i got my copy on steam for 45. And those witches give me the CHILLS.

 

[The Blue Mongoose]

Crowned:
Step 1. Set game to normal or easy.
Step 2. Get autoshotgun.
Step 3. Find a willing witch.
Step 4. Crouch and slowly get as close as possible to her from behind, if she starts growling but not standing up go a little closer. If she gets startled, that's too close.
Step 5. Headshot really close with autoshotgun.

You win.

I freaking love Left 4 Dead, it's exactly what I expected and wanted, buying it off steam is hell cheaper than shops too. Haven't played versus yet and as my net is down i haven't tackled anything on expert (need human allies for that, my friends). It's definitely one of my favourite games and I haven't even finished all the "movies". Can't wait til my net uncaps and I can lick people as a Smoker.

If you find yourself playing with Zombie Mongoose, Molotov Cocktease or Sean Connery say hi to me .

 

[RhinoTuna]

I've played maybe 4-5 hours worth, and it's infinitely more fun with real people. I really love how intense it can get, and it's not so bad when you lose because i don't mind doing it all again (At least for now, since i'm new to it). Haven't played it on expert yet, and from what i've heard, i don't want to! Sounds hardcore!

 

[Reversal]

I love this game, I play it a lot with my buddies, especially on versus mode. As for it not being "Hard" That's bullshit man. If you get a good team of infected they can pick you apart in a matter of minutes. I know personally. Last night, we had a team in the warehouse/hangerish section of blood harvest. A guy falls of the rafter and I pounce on him and claw his face off, while my teammate tank separates the three, two are in the building, and the guy who comes to save the guy I'm mauling gets choked by my buddy smoker. We killed their entire team in a matter of 2 minutes at best, and only a few feet away from the safe room. If you know what you're doing, you can pick apart most survivor teams easily. You need to stick together no matter what, rushing helps somewhat, but don't let anyone get left behind or you'll all end up dead from separation. As for the game itself it's really fun, especially being the tank and throwing cars at people. Also, even the main game can be really hard on expert sometimes, what with the regular infected doing 20 damage per hit and instant down friendly fire which happens all the time with the shotgun.

 

[Turtleboy1017]

I completely agree with Reversal. A tank isn't neccesary to take down a group of survivors if you can coordinate well. A good example would for the 4 zeds to regroup on a roof, and spawn. As the survivors head out of the alley the boomer kamikaze's on top of them and hits say three of them with bile. The smoker on the roof strangles the guy who's not blinded, while the two hunters jump down and tackle the two who are blinded leaving the third to be hit by the infected until he can get up. You can deal a ton of damage, and you'll just spawn right back, while they treat their wounds with shallow spirits.

With correct coordination, any aspect of this game can be amazing, and that's what i really like most about it.

 

[OHC]

Crowned:
Step 1. Set game to normal or easy.
Step 2. Get autoshotgun.
Step 3. Find a willing witch.
Step 4. Crouch and slowly get as close as possible to her from behind, if she starts growling but not standing up go a little closer. If she gets startled, that's too close.
Step 5. Headshot really close with autoshotgun.

You win.

Or, wait for the smoker who spawned next to the witch to almost finish her off and then take her out with a pistol. I saw this happen last night

 

[mooncalf]

It's a great game, I'm enjoying it immensely. Not touching expert until I have a list of pro friends.

The game does feel a little sparse, like a commercially-polished modification, but I don't feel my money was wasted at all.

 

[Reversal]

It's a great game, I'm enjoying it immensely. Not touching expert until I have a list of pro friends.

The game does feel a little sparse, like a commercially-polished modification, but I don't feel my money was wasted at all.

I would've liked more weapons than just the 5 the survivors can get, I can't help but feel even if they are great weapons, they could always have more. The great thing is though, they're gonna add new content like weapons and maps etc. like they do in tf2. I don't know if it will be achievement based, but the new content will insure even longer replayability.

 

[superbleeder12]

I really love this game. playing as the antagonist is something very new, and it works brilliantly.

I rather enjoy playing as the smokers. Especially when the other team doesn't pay a lot of attention.

I've gotten really good at arcing the Boomer Bile to hit from a good distance away. I tend to hit at least 2 survivors at a time with it.

Playing as a survivor in versus mode is probably one of the most visceral gaming experiences I've had. Especially when both teams are really good (the entire campaign came down to us winning by like 150pts)

I foresee the game getting even more fun in the future. Valve is changing up their business model, where before, games were shipped as boxes, as is. Valve is pretty much releasing games as a service rather than just a static box.

2008, year of the co-op game

 

[Arcticflame]

As the person above me said, I have no doubt that in valve style we will see additions to this game.

This game really is everything I expected and wanted, the most amusing thing for me yet was my entire team getting killed by a tank, I somehow manage to kill it's remaining HP with the sniper as it shambled forwards, I managed to complete the final 1/3rd of the level by myself, killing many smokers and hunters with fluky shots, spot the safe house just as I get rushed by a huge horde of zombies, manage to just make it to the safe room, but close the door too early, get wedged and die, less than a foot away from the safehouse.

Fun times

Also in versus mode, it's always fun pulling people up the vents as a smoker.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

I'm a little dissapointed that there isn't an achievment for punching a hunter to death. However hitting a hunter in mid air as it comes towards you is effing cool, as is shooting one in the head mid-flight.

Also, Valve were sadistic in creating that boomer. SO MUCH BLOOD!

 

[Turtleboy1017]

Lol, only problem i have with the smoker is its inability to walk after nabbing a survivor, to get out of view but then again that would be VERY unfair...