Left 4 Dead

**Monk** · 03-08-2009, 05:22

Originally Posted by Mongoose

I've been trying to play on expert, but I can seem to do it. For instance, a few seconds ago, I was playing Death Toll on expert and our team couldn't even get to the first safe house with two tries. Then we set it to advanced and we all made it through the entire campaign with out any incidents at all, really. It seems I can beat all of the campaigns on advanced with out any trouble (well, it is still a little bit challenging, but not really), but I can't play on expert at all. What do I need to keep in mind when playing expert versus playing advanced?

In expert everyone needs to work together even more so than advanced. Think of it like Noah's Ark, two by two. NO ONE goes off by themselves, If someone is shooting one way then you have to cover them from an opposite direction. Even one infected can ruin your day so you really need to keep people from getting jumped from behind.

Friendly fire NEEDS to be controlled on Expert. If you shoot someone in the head they will go down, no exceptions. Don't try to peal zombies off of people with a shotgun, and if you do make sure you know how. Melee spam is your friend.

**Fixiwee** · 03-08-2009, 13:23

Yeah on expert meele rules over firing because of FF. I have only played the River evac campaign with 3 friends of mine and we were doing real smooth with only a couple of wipes.

**Mongoose** · 03-09-2009, 02:46

We were all close together - perhaps too close together? Now that I that I think about it, friendly fire might have been our big issue.

**seireikhaan** · 03-09-2009, 06:32

Man...

I'm getting really tempted to go and get this game...

But I'm a poor college student and already invested 50 bucks into ETW...

**Monk** · 03-09-2009, 06:42

Originally Posted by Mongoose

We were all close together - perhaps too close together? Now that I that I think about it, friendly fire might have been our big issue.

On Expert, a witch will one-shot kill you (not incap, kill), so unless you can crown her you really have to be careful.

**Veho Nex** · 03-09-2009, 07:33

Ha that silly witch... She'll never get me. Just you watch, nev... omg its a witch, WHAT DO I D......

**Monk** · 03-09-2009, 07:52

Originally Posted by Veho Nex

Ha that silly witch... She'll never get me. Just you watch, nev... omg its a witch, WHAT DO I D......

She wouldn't be a problem if you didn't INSIST on crowning her, even when you're on red life.

**Veho Nex** · 03-09-2009, 08:33

Hey its not my fault I got the achievement in my first game and I love splattering her brains and writhing body all over the ground... ok wait it is my fault but its not my fault that I got a screw loose. Just like when it comes to gettings ambushes done perfectly.

**Jolt** · 03-09-2009, 12:55

Originally Posted by Veho Nex

Ha that silly witch... She'll never get me. Just you watch, nev... omg its a witch, WHAT DO I D......

After being killed a too many times, I've decided to let others disturb the witch. The witch can actually be quite dumb when you disturb her at a distance. The last campaign (Blood Harvest), when we were in a werehouse before going onwards to the railroad tracks, we were on the top level of the werehouse, which had some horizontal beams connecting steel passages. I shot the witch from afar and immediatly went through the beam to the other side. The witch was previously running up the stairs to the first passage, now had to run across the bottom floor werehouse to run up the stairs which led to the other steel passage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7hLzA0mYw @ 0:50