***Official Left 4 Dead 2 Thread***

[Knubje]

Melee weapon is ok imo, except against a tank. No way should he go down as fast as he does with melee swings done to him. It's an insult to be using a military sniper rifle and/or AK-47 and take him down slower than if you were to hit him with a baseball bat.

I think Tefal is right with the balance of having picked melee but using a pistol on the floor. Granted it doesn't make sense as they "chose" the melee weap and don't have a pistol, but then again if I'm playing a zombie apocalypse scenario game, who am I to question it's inaccuracies to real life?

A pistol is needed at times when 2/3 team mates are down and someone gets huntered/smokered. It can be the moment you save someone to save yourself/the team. Having said that it doesn't work THAT well.

 

[Tefal]

it would be cool if there was a modifier for the tank with melee.

ie a fire ax/machete/sword will do a fair amount of dmg, but a baseball bat/frying pan/guitar will do nothing but annoy him.

 

[mrk]

lol, one again mrk runs off without the med kit

Na I just clicked "join quick match" as I wanted to only get that screenshot and then bail out ASAP

 

[Knubje]

it would be cool if there was a modifier for the tank with melee.

ie a fire ax/machete/sword will do a fair amount of dmg, but a baseball bat/frying pan/guitar will do nothing but annoy him.

Yeah, I'd go as far to say only the chainsaw does damage as all the current melee does, everything else just annoys him.

Maybe link can turn off the melee damage to tank on Insanity Server?

Maybe he can remove the 2 tank spawn and fix it with one super tank instead?

Na I just clicked "join quick match" as I wanted to only get that screenshot and then bail out ASAP

RQ Tbh!

 

[Evilsod]

but being killed by one lone zombie would just be too annoying :/


p[lus a survivor who was down without a pistol would be dead in seconds with even a few zombies around.

Meh, technically thats your fault for either 1. Going down in the first place and/or 2. Being nowhere near your team.

Melee is just overpowered vs the horde. You can easily sit in a corner or doorway and hold down fire and take next to no damage, with the added benefit you can occasionally get lucky 1hit kills on Hunters/Jockeys.

Yeah, I'd go as far to say only the chainsaw does damage as all the current melee does, everything else just annoys him.

Maybe link can turn off the melee damage to tank on Insanity Server?

Maybe he can remove the 2 tank spawn and fix it with one super tank instead?

Tune in next time for the amazing adventures of Link to Insanity!

 

[Tefal]

Meh, technically thats your fault for either 1. Going down in the first place and/or 2. Being nowhere near your team.

It hap[pens some times a good jockey or smoker pull while the team is distracted by a hunter/charger pounce during a boomer horde can easily leave you separated while your team is too busy making sure they stay on their feet to shoot the commons on you.

Melee is just overpowered vs the horde. You can easily sit in a corner or doorway and hold down fire and take next to no damage, with the added benefit you can occasionally get lucky 1hit kills on Hunters/Jockeys.
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Meh that's technically your fault if they do that, you got all sorts of specials to rape up corner campers

 

[PGdude]

Meh, technically thats your fault for either 1. Going down in the first place and/or 2. Being nowhere near your team.

Melee is just overpowered vs the horde. You can easily sit in a corner or doorway and hold down fire and take next to no damage, with the added benefit you can occasionally get lucky 1hit kills on Hunters/Jockeys.



Tune in next time for the amazing adventures of Link to Insanity!

And thus, you made it apparent you have mastered easy mode

 

[thevet]

Meh, technically thats your fault for either 1. Going down in the first place and/or 2. Being nowhere near your team.

Melee is just overpowered vs the horde. You can easily sit in a corner or doorway and hold down fire and take next to no damage, with the added benefit you can occasionally get lucky 1hit kills on Hunters/Jockeys.



Tune in next time for the amazing adventures of Link to Insanity!

i agree at first i thought l4d2 was a little tougher than the first game but after getting expert achievements in just over 1 month including the real deal i can say the first game is tougher than the second due to the overpowered melee,took me a lot longer to get expert on first game than the second game,i do prefer the 2nd game but its is definitely easier for me because of the melee weapons

 

[Evilsod]

It hap[pens some times a good jockey or smoker pull while the team is distracted by a hunter/charger pounce during a boomer horde can easily leave you separated while your team is too busy making sure they stay on their feet to shoot the commons on you.

Then the race should be on to save you if you took a melee weapon. After all, rifles can save you at all ranges easily, and the Deagle too. Not to mention wall penetration (something far too many people forget exists).

Meh that's technically your fault if they do that, you got all sorts of specials to rape up corner campers

In theory. In reality only 1 thing rapes a corner camper and thats a Spitter and if your team didn't get 1 during that spawn, you can't do jack. But that only deals with the corner, doorways or the like can easily avoid the Spit.

And thus, you made it apparent you have mastered versus mode

 

[Netguy]

How do you play as infected offline mode or an empty server to practice? I can only seem to play them in Versus match.. but I'm useless with them.

 

[Delboy]

winning team VS, defrag, steve, elusion, me all way through dead center, early wipe on finale
final scores:

2333 us
2335 them
ouch

Yer that was a real kick in the pants, mind you it was 2am and I was starting to feel tired, afterall we were 4/4 games won before that. Thing is, we made it through every map with all 4 players and we managed to incap a survivor on a death drop on Dead Center 3 meaning they only get 3 through and the scores didn't change that much - more evidence that the scoring is not quite up to par imo. We should have be much more rewarded for that.

Going into the last round and we were 500 points ahead only to have them get a surprise tank (never heard the music) fall from the ceiling somewhere and wipe us all out.

Seems we've found a good team there, some good efforts with the smoker/charger combo in Hard Rain at the start and finish when the river looms in the backdrop for instant kills

Oh, and Ellusionist charging one off the top near the lift on HR3 on the way back, climbing back up the ladder and instantly getting another one off the same way was classic. Then having Steve fail with the smoker/charger by hitting a tree that he said "just jumped out from nowhere on him" made me LMAO. Poor steve really needs to look where he's going as charger.

 

[Disjunto]

yeah, some good team vs games yesterday. my double charge was amusing steves charge into a tree, was also amusing I think losing by 2 points at 2-3am was a real kick in the nuts, especially as I would have got that can in if it wasn't lying about being in range, it ended up getting set on fire and losing the game after the tank raped us from above with no music

 

[Knubje]

L4D2 seems to introduce a lot more "what if's and if only's" in my book. It has also introduced a lot more "BS, Luck0r, etc" lines when I'm at my PC!

For example, many times I've done an event or something similar, and begging with my team for a boomer or charger or whatever is needed. Got nadda right until it was too late or useless. Then I've played the same round and had 3 chargers when we were at the same point as infected begging for chargers. Stupid. Nothing can be done but annoying none the less.

Also, it is easily possible for a person to go down and "be doing their job". Even if you are stood on top of your team and playing like a pro. I have commanded my way through many a "Operation Kearney/Midnight". If one player is for some unknown reason taking the brunt of the infected attacks, no matter how brief, he is still gonna endure more damage and go down. Unless the teams are unbalanced.

 

[Tefal]

i agree at first i thought l4d2 was a little tougher than the first game but after getting expert achievements in just over 1 month including the real deal i can say the first game is tougher than the second due to the overpowered melee,took me a lot longer to get expert on first game than the second game,i do prefer the 2nd game but its is definitely easier for me because of the melee weapons

tbh the campaigns are simply the training mode for survivors.

If you can't do expert without issue you're going to fail at VS.

 

[dmxdex2020]

Play it on realism on expert by yourself with cpu game becomes a whole lot harder then.

 

[Disjunto]

also lacks any resemblance of fun

 

[Evilsod]

L4D2 seems to introduce a lot more "what if's and if only's" in my book. It has also introduced a lot more "BS, Luck0r, etc" lines when I'm at my PC!

For example, many times I've done an event or something similar, and begging with my team for a boomer or charger or whatever is needed. Got nadda right until it was too late or useless. Then I've played the same round and had 3 chargers when we were at the same point as infected begging for chargers. Stupid. Nothing can be done but annoying none the less.

I knew this would be a problem even before it was released though so i can't say i wasn't expecting it. Luck of the draw is just irritating when the difference between a Charger and a Smoker at a certain point is the difference between a win and a loss.

 

[linktoinsanity]

So, you guys want a single beefed up tank in most cases, say 10000 health (with the current speed boost) and then two 6000 health on finale right?

And yes, there is a cvar somewhere to lower melee damage on tanks (I think), but at the same time I can increase the tank's swing rate, which I am more likely to do as I know what the cvar is with that, without having to go hunting...

I may also try improving the daytime witch anger rate as well, stay tuned for the next update....

 

[Mark A]

Play it on realism on expert by yourself with cpu game becomes a whole lot harder then.

I'm sorry but this cant be possible? I tried expert with bots and they're useless, they take 20 mins to save you from a smoker.

Managed to get to the bit on the mall level where you have to stop the alarm but the bots all get pwned in seconds. Not played realism mode but if thats harder than expert then i cant see anyone doing it alone.

Unless I'm just crap .

 

[Delboy]

Unless I'm just crap .

This ^^