Left 4 Dead

[Mongoose]

The melee nerf in versus made certain sections much harder. The elevator in No Mercy, for instance, feels almost impossible to get through now. I think I made it through once or twice, but only barely. It's easier to get bogged down. The very ends of the levels, also, are very difficult to get through because running out in the open is much harder than it used to be. You can't just swat all the Zombies away from you anymore.

I've gradually learned to conserve melee, but I get the feeling a lot of the time that some of my teammates haven't noticed the change yet, and so are now much more likely to get separated in places like the elevator. Over all, though, I do like it a lot - it's so much easier to get people as the hunter and the smoker now, because the survivors can't put up an invincible wall of melee blocking anymore. Well, maybe they can, but doing so will actually require some degree of planning and teamwork now.