So with the demo for 2 coming out i figure we could make a sticky thread for left 4 dead with hints and tips for both games, god knows where gonna get a lot of threads in the next few weeks
So heres a few things i can offer for versus as the infected from my recent playthroughs.
Smoker: a basic thing to do is aim for disorientation rather than damage, if a teammate like a boomer or tank is coming from the front of the survivors, get behind them and pull them first to turn them around. your weak but a good perch can get 3 or 4 pulls off, if they break your tongue, hide. Wait if you can till the survivors have been puked on.
1.you can grab people when they are hanging off a ledge, or whilst they are jumping in the air or knocked through it, takes great timing but damn funny.
Boomer: The king infect for versus, will probably work well with the jockey and spitter. my favorite class with a fair few tricks.
1. there is a spot during the third level of blood harvest where the survivors head through the little wooded hillside around and up a hill and into a building leading to the traintracks. bee line for that place, phase through the door, when you can, spawn in the corner the door opens against, your on the right, there running to the left, because theres only an empty shelf on the right you can easily barf on all 4 at once.
2. if there near run through fire at 'em, then your a time bomb regardless of shoving or not.
3. three melee hits and your dead, get your infected friends to hit you a couple of times before you take on the survivors 
4. get high, take them on on higher ground, barf when there in your camp zone, then back off and let your barf reload, its more effective than suicide jumps and ive gotten 8 barfs out of one boomer a few times.
5. if the survivors are in a cleared out section or near the end of a crescendo moment, DONT RAPLH, the barf summons the nearby z's as well as spawning some from each set spawn point, this is based on survivors, number of em puked and difficulty, cleared out areas are a c-c-c-combo breaker!
Hunter: remember this "you are a distraction, or a combo finisher, nothing more", you pounce alone you last about 1 second. wait to get one alone, distract them from the smoker or boomer or aid in already knocked down enemies or during barf crescendo moments.
1.Crouch in front of the witch, they kill you sure, but the bullets pass right through you into- OH SHI-
2. use your jump to propel you to normally unreachable heights, theres plenty of high buildings without drain pipes, in no mercy i played across a whole level without touching the floor.
3. When you leap you scream, in combat thats pretty much why you last a second, but it makes them spooked. try leaping in the distance, just a foot in front, never at them, they hear a scream and tense up and get jumpy, you dont need to attack them as the hunter to contribute to your team winning.
Tank: Avoid fire, know where and when your players will attack, your the focus right now go to town, distract the survivors from any other threat, sometimes you dont need to knock a guy down, just hit them and leave them to the boomer thats snuck up on them.
1. one hit to a boomer makes it blow up, your stunned but it can slime all 4 survivors as there too busy shooting you.
2. use terrain, you can climb, you can smack vehicles as well as throw them, ive been a survivor on easy and had a tank leap on the crash course bridge and floor the 4 of us with one car in that small walkway....
So there's some off the top of my head infected tactics, im sure everyones got some survivors ones so heres just a few i can think of.
-dont throw molotovs at the zombies, use them as temporary blockades. down an alley as a bum rush occurs?, block one alley exit with a wall of flame so youve only got one to focus your fire on.
-dont be afraid to use a pipe bomb just to clear an area, zombies constantly spawn so its just to clear a path.
-dont camp, you camp and the director feels you need a "push", think your safe?, then odds are valve put a air duct or breakable wall there to keep it hectic.
-dont tape down the trigger, especially with the machine gun, blast. stop. blast. stop. and reload before you empty your clip to reload faster.
get a position during rushes and stick to it. watch all the angles you can, on versus zombies are a hinderance, if theres a rush, theres a hunter around a corner, or just out of view. - however the charger is designed to break this up, so take root on multiple levels if you can.
Thats it for me right now, go nuts.
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