Left 4 Dead

**Mongoose** · 03-18-2009, 18:10

Versus is a lot of fun about 30% of the time, and the other 70% of the time it can be summed up with this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

And half the time it's after the first mission.
(Sorry about the all caps)

**Monk** · 03-18-2009, 19:37

Originally Posted by Mongoose

Versus is a lot of fun about 30% of the time, and the other 70% of the time it can be summed up with this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

And half the time it's after the first mission.
(Sorry about the all caps)

Yes, but an amazing thing happens every so often. If you find yourself in a position where your entire team just left and its you vs 4? Rush. Rush like you've never rushed before. Don't stop for anything. Check your 6, bash any hunters, and strafe so a smoker can't tag you.

On BH4 I managed to solo the entire chapter because the infected were heavily cocky about killing me, screaming for me to rage quit. I essentially juked their entire team and laughed all the way into the finale. They didn't even kill the bots.

**Veho Nex** · 03-18-2009, 21:57

We need to play another game soon monk. NJS is out of town for the week so we'll be one regular short.

**Major Robert Dump** · 03-18-2009, 22:16

last night, shortly after CR left, I got a team that actually agreed to set up at the picnic table on BH1. It went something like this: boom....in the ruckus one ventures over the picnic table, and i am on other side of ravine with smoker and pull him in, at first i was mad he didn't just fall dead like sometimes, but turns out his hanging was better because as a buddy ran to cliff to pull him up, another buddy stood guard and got pounced, and the impact of the pounce sent helping buddy over the edge, then survivor number 4 came over and meleed hunter off and he got pounced, which sent the other guy who was just standing up over the edge as well, game over. very satisfying, except the entire survivor team quit without even taking their turn

**Banzai!** · 03-18-2009, 23:07

Versus is great when you are on the winning team.

I think Versus should be set to advanced difficulty so that way everyone is a winnah (aka everyone dies when its their turn as a survivor). That way everyone comes off happy.

**Mongoose** · 03-18-2009, 23:23

Originally Posted by Monk

Yes, but an amazing thing happens every so often. If you find yourself in a position where your entire team just left and its you vs 4? Rush. Rush like you've never rushed before. Don't stop for anything. Check your 6, bash any hunters, and strafe so a smoker can't tag you.

On BH4 I managed to solo the entire chapter because the infected were heavily cocky about killing me, screaming for me to rage quit. I essentially juked their entire team and laughed all the way into the finale. They didn't even kill the bots.

Playing with bots in versus is always interesting. I recall playing a game a little while ago where my teammates actually left me to die so they could heal downed robo-Zoey instead.

And then there are all of those moments when the bots die trying to heal people at really inappropriate times. Like when they're at 51 health, or when a tank is about to murder the entire team if everybody doesn't just run.

**Major Robert Dump** · 03-19-2009, 01:16

yeah bots will also try to kill every last zombie in the area when you are incapped/pounced/smoked before thy even think about helping you up. One bot is okay but someone else has to compensate on rescue duties. Two bots is unbearable, especially then they run ahead.

**Monk** · 03-19-2009, 01:25

Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

yeah bots will also try to kill every last zombie in the area when you are incapped/pounced/smoked before thy even think about helping you up. One bot is okay but someone else has to compensate on rescue duties. Two bots is unbearable, especially then they run ahead.

Yeah, one bot can be made up for if the rest of the team has decent situational awareness. If they don't you can easily be wiped when you should have been able to recover no problem. The only good use bots have in Versus is that they can see through foliage on Blood Harvest, it's seriously annoying to get shot as a boomer because the bot has auto-aim.

**Mongoose** · 03-19-2009, 02:34

I recently got kicked from a versus game because I only boomed one of the survivors at the beginning of the second chapter in No Mercy.

And after that I spent 30 minutes waiting in various Versus lobbies, plus about 15 minutes playing a versus game that we had to end because rage quitting reduced the other team to only one player, and everyone who joined left because the team they were forced to join was losing. I think that I'm actually going to just completely give up on Versus.

**Monk** · 03-19-2009, 03:01

Originally Posted by Mongoose

I recently got kicked from a versus game because I only boomed one of the survivors at the beginning of the second chapter in No Mercy.

And after that I spent 30 minutes waiting in various Versus lobbies, plus about 15 minutes playing a versus game that we had to end because rage quitting reduced the other team to only one player, and everyone who joined left because the team they were forced to join was losing. I think that I'm actually going to just completely give up on Versus.

Just do Versus "Quick match"

It will parse games in progress and throw you into one, no waiting in lobbies needed. Sometimes you get "game is full" and need to try again, sometimes you join one that is close to the finale, but it guarantees you won't need to wait long.