Well, that seems about right. That more or less works in every first person shooter, whether it's in Halo where you don't pop up on the radar or in CoD when you make less noise. Kinda nice that they took the silhouette out when you do that though. That can really screw you.

Doesn't make much sense in the traditional zombie way, since zombies go as much by smell as by hearing, but most of that stuff went out the door when Valve bought the game from Turtle Rock Studios. Good as a gameplay mechanic though.

MCWood said:

You guys didn't know about the silhouette thing? Little slow much hmm? It really doesn't matter too much honestly unless you're in survival cause you're gonna have to go through the levels anyway. Standing in one place won't do you much good really.

you didn't compeltely read my post did you?

we all knew SOMEHOW the silhouettes go away, but we didn't know EXACTLY how, and when they go away. we had thoughts, ideas and references, that if you turned off your light and crouching had something to do with it. Anyhow, this is useful in everything EXCEPT survival mode, because the AI director, in Survival mode (not talking about my jesus rock) will go after the humans no matter what. However we do have proof (since the demo) that the regular zombies have preferences:

vomited on survivors > first survivor to enter the room > crouching survivor > survivor with his light off

and yes mike, if it makes you feel better you discovered that (only because you were the first of us to download the demo)

against humans in versus, what i discovered is most useful. In campaign and survival is the only place where “zombie preference” is useful.

The only downside to playing with AI though, is that if you're against them they tend ot make the human players look much better. But you can take advantage of their lack of desire to shoot stuff off of people to do more damage.

Also, crouch running is quite useful in campaign and versus. When I did No Mercy Expert, unless the horde was summoned, we surprised quite the number of special zombies by just crouching around with no flashlights on. And of course getting the hunting rifle the first level of that campaign helped too

I love that rifle on versus lmao; and the smoker will have his head just barely visible after we save the person, and POW. And Hunters on the Dead Air campaign don't like it either, especially in them long hallways Because I'll sit there crouched without a flashlight on while my team moves a bit ahead if we haven't killed specials in a while

I get more kills with the hunting rifle surprisingly so thats what I tend to stick to. Not to mention a guy with some ragne on him who is good is a good thing indeed

we did no mercy expert and i had 400 more zombies than nate did in the end

First place woot woot

The only downside of the hunting rifle is that if you want some good shots you have to stand still to no scope for the most part.

So if you get boomer'd you have to pick em off 1 byy 1, which is actually quite effective, until you run out of ammo.

Annoying to reload but hey it works out for me

When i was referring to ammo I meant the clip amount; to be honest its got so much ammo a good sniper could barely use half in a level and still rack up the most amount of kills. Usually when I play with nate and max and Devin i get the most kills because I switch to my pistols to snag those last few zombies before its reload time.

Its like in Call of Duty when they say its faster to switch your weapon, except in Left4Dead its a good idea :O

Bro it IS faster to swap to a pistol instead of reloading, TRUST ME.

That time I went all Altaïr on like 10 guys I emptied mah Carbine, emptied my Desert Eagle, THEN knifed 4 guys all around me like a rogue using killing spree. (thats WOW talk)

Had I not changed to my pistol, I wouldnt have survived.

Switching to your pistol instead of reloading in a close firefight has saved me a handful of times.

Alternately, spam your grenades for a flashtastic fun time.

it flies ridoulously straight.

I'm sorry, but I REALLY hate it when my deathcam is me shooting a guy in the head with my sniper, then he spawns and randomly shoots an RPG, that just HAPPENS to fly up my nose

It definitely is much better than people give it credit for, but dont use it over another actual gun unless you got a reason .