Tips & Strategies to survive in Left 4 Dead

Some good tips here for playing as infected.

DjBourgeoisie said:
Boomer
1. Always vomit from above when possible and live to puke another day.
2. Remain hidden until you are actually ready to vomit.
3. If you have to attack, do it when you are sure a stray bullet will hit you and in range of the most survivors as possible.

Smoker
1. Holes in ceilings are your best friend, try and snag the #4 survivor jumping down.
2. Time your attack with the boomer as players covered in goo have a harder time reacting to your own mayhem.
3. Snatch survivors who are helping other survivors.

Hunter
1. Great for taking down stragglers, players who wander off alone or lag behind fear the hunter for a good reason.
2. Zig zag jump towards survivors not directly at them unless they are really close or have not noticed you.

Tank
1. Try and get one survivor in red and crippled to where they cannot get up, then attack another. Basically try and cause separation between the survivors so your teammates can take down enemies individually.
2. Avoid chasing green health survivors, instead hit them with 2ndary ranged attacks then followup with a punch and repeat.

General tactics

1. Use the witch as cover, same with cars with alarms, if you make yourself a target usually theres at least 1 dumb survivor who will shoot and cause your little friends to swarm.
2. Coordinate your attacks with your teammates, if you work together and time your attacks you can win rather easily. A single or even 2 infected are no match vs 3 or 4 survivors, timing is the key.
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All spot on apart from the Boomer.

If you miss. Run at them and explode over them.
You can respawn and go again quicker atleast as quickly as you can wait for the sick bar to recharge.
 
To kill the tank, hit him with a molotive ... cheese it... unless u have a sniper rifle then its let ** teammates set him on fire, shoot him from max range for a couple of clips until he gets angry with u .. then cheese it ....... anyone that turns and fights the tank will probably find themselves accidentally walking into something while running backwards.. at which point he will beat u and ** dead.. let the fire get the kill it will only take a minute

Crouch is the most important tactic in the entire game.. 4 guys focus firing at a swarm will take it down without taking a single hit ... 4 guys running around randomly panicing will have friendly fire kill off half your team before the zombies even have a chance too
 
All crouch walk around in a line, the zombies will look at the confusung humans and give up.

Honestly the sniper rifle rocks, with one shot kills galore (expert I think). it also inflicts loads of damage on tanks and witches.

One thing that we tried last night and didn't work was an exploding gas cylinder vs witch. 3 of the team sat as far back as they could in the small building area, I shot her with the sniper rifle (scopeless) then the canister as she was on top of it. It did nothing even with the team laying down fire, 2 of us died and the others lost a fair whack of health.
 
Against a witch how? usually she kills whomever woke her in the first place and then buggers off.. she is very hardcore (on expert) we had 4 people all with sniper rifles unload onto one at max range once... she managed to sprint up and gut the person who first hit her before going down and that was at a screen away

best thing to do like when fighting the tank is set her on fire and run away... or try harder to avoid her entirely
 
Tactics

1) stick within 5meters of each other

2)if in doubt right click

3) Rush? shout rush and get into formation and right click!

4) dont split up from being next to the guys, if you go back more than 5 meters the entire team goes back

5) dont heal unless your black and white, always save pills for when a tank attacks

6) everyone get in the SAME CORNER! not different ones

7)when shooting never move from your position so you dont get shot by your team

8) right click randomly while running, also when you turn a corner right click, i once killed 3 hunters by myself at the same time! (versus mode) with no help from anyone else

9) close every single door you find, and keep moving, the enemy must chase you, and 3 doors in their way will slow them down



How to kill a tank

Ive seen a tank go down in 30 seconds, all you need is 4 guys with assult rifle, not hunting rifle! and shoot his head while crouched, dont panic stick with your team, if you spread out you suck and the other 3 or mabye 4 boss will pick you off


How to kill a witch

Once the area is secure, using a shotgun run right next to the witch, when she is nearly fully standing, shoot her in the head with a shotgun, 1 shot from any shotgun works fine and it takes all of 5 seconds

Robert1986 said:
I should have a mic by now but haven't bought one yet. :( We would probably do better as I wouldn't have to type so much and end up dying because of it. :D Another tip, only type when you think its safe!



:(:mad::eek::D lol
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buy a bloody mic

http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-016-LG
 
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I jsut brought one of them....it's ok...just kinda quiet when I play it back to myself in windows =/

No idea what it's like in game.

This is with all known settings turned up to max as well :(
 
Witch dead in 5 secs with auto shotty at close range. Really ????

Will try it, suppose this works on expert ?
 
Delvis said:
I jsut brought one of them....it's ok...just kinda quiet when I play it back to myself in windows =/

No idea what it's like in game.

This is with all known settings turned up to max as well :(
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I also got one at the weekend. Seems kinda quiet in Windows, but if you go into the Options/Audio menu, there is an option to 'test mic' and for me, playback sounds better here than in windows.
 
PJHUK said:
I also got one at the weekend. Seems kinda quiet in Windows, but if you go into the Options/Audio menu, there is an option to 'test mic' and for me, playback sounds better here than in windows.
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In Steam you mean? Yeah it definitely seems louder there...I just hope it's clear in game :p

I can't really test it on that window anyway...I just get feedback gallor.
 
They forgot the one where you use secondary body armer, the man in front of you can take hits for you :p




:p
 
I find a good tactic with the tank on the last level is to get one team member to get his attention and move him into the line of fire so another team member can mount the mini gun and fill him with bullets.
 
if a tank knocks someone down and starts smashing them to death, if you run up and melee it in the back it will start chasing you (not too great) but it will allow one of your team to help the other person up
 
Kearney_1988 said:
if a tank knocks someone down and starts smashing them to death, if you run up and melee it in the back it will start chasing you (not too great) but it will allow one of your team to help the other person up
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Cool, I didn't know that. I'm going to try that and see if we can save the downed team mate.
 
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