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I’ve found the opposite. Usually there’s always one moron who hangs behind, must look in every single room and chase every single echo of a hunter’s cry, etc. This is the guy who always ends up getting left behind, pounced, and forces the team to run back for him.

The games where people actually get to the finish line are the fun ones. The ones where people all move ahead together and don’t lag behind!

If Valve hadn’t removed the demerit system we’d have a system for getting rid of retards.. I couldn’t believe my own eyes when I read that they actually removed it.

I only play L4D with my friends. Playing with random people is hopeless and boring.

Personally I don’t mind this kind of behavior in principle. It can definitely be frustrating/infuriating when it happens, but it’s shit like this that makes the game fun to play. I mean honestly, if it weren’t for the occasional assgoblin this is a game that would get pretty boring pretty fast, especially when not playing in versus mode.

If everybody’s playing near-perfectly, honestly, what’s the point after more than a few runthroughs? I’m not saying that I play the game because I enjoy people acting like idiots, and I’m certainly not saying that I play like an idiot, but it does make the game more interesting to not know what’s going to happen, or what to expect. It’s actually why I prefer playing with strangers over friends. I wouldn’t normally say that, but this game is different.

I honestly don’t understand players who don’t co-operate in online games. If they don’t care about their teammates, why play online at all? Just start up single-player mode, kick it to the highest difficulty and go crazy. They could even let the bots get taken down if they want an added challenge.

If they HADN’T removed the demerits… heh. But you have to admit, it could get pretty iffy, though. And then people would start complaining about how they paid for a game but now can’t access it because they keep getting kicked because in the past, they “accidentally” shot too many teammates.

On a completely unrelated note, me and my buddy somehow got versus working on Death Toll the other night. Weird, because it was set to expert, and that WAS what the server said, but no, it turned to versus. We did some 2 on 2, and yeah, the rooftop textures are missing, and there are some problems for infected on the map.

Actually, contrary to popular belief, I am Rambo.

The only time I approve of this behavior is if it’s obvious the rest of the team has already been downed/dead and your the last one standing…then you simply run as fast as you can towards the safe room just to see if you can salvage some small victory.

Had the situation where the ‘Rambo’ had managed to make it to the Train saferoom on the penultimate map of Blood Harvest and had already shut the door while me and another were still in the house (the Rambo’s ‘friend’ had already been picked off by the infected, because the Rambo decided that it wasn’t worth his while to stop and help him, only to get to the saferoom). A Tank spawns, downs my comrade (not killed but just downed) at which point I make a sprint through the house and straight onto the bridge towards the train yelling into the microphone headset “OPEN THE DOOR, OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!” and slammed it in the Tanks face behind me…had to sit there hearing the distant pleas of a dying Louis while we sat pinned in the saferoom by the Tank…

…made me feel horrible inside that because of this Rambo my only chance for survival was to leave a dying comrade behind and that there would have been three of us in that train and not two.

Still it does make a heck of a story though…

Yesterday I somehow got into a VS game of Death Toll… And I was on the Infected team. We managed to down two of them, then the tank spawned when they were about halfway through the level. I pounced one of the lower health ones, then apparently all bets were off even though they could’ve ran back and punted me within a few seconds.

The tank knocked one down and back, who was able to pistol me off his friend from the ground, but the other two were making a mad dash… SMOKER’D! Only one left. Louis, alone, had made it to the Safe House, with all three of his teammates still alive. The Smoker choked out his victim (with a little clawing help from me), but the other two were still alive (if down and bleeding). With a Tank, a Smoker, a Hunter, and a Boomer all spawned and waiting, Louis certainly wasn’t going to leave the Safe House.

But that’s the first time I’ve seen a player actually plead for help. “Help me Louis!” “We can still do this, man, come back out!”

He didn’t. My claws were sad.

I’m not a full “Check every room” player. But seriously, I can’t count the number of times my team have stormed ahead and I stumble upon a glorious cache of Weapons, Pills, Healthkits and Molotovs.

Once, my team never listened to my cries of: “There’s four Pills here.”
So I had to run back and forth handing them to each player.

@Barotte
I always seem to be the player in the group that looks for all the extra supplies during the campaign. It is kinda annoying knowing that a horde we came up on could of been fought off easily using one of the three pipe bombs we left behind cause nobody wanted to listen to “got a pipe-bomb here!”