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CO-OP. That’s right, CO-OP.

December 16th, 2008 by clubtheseals

So far, I’ve had nothing but a glowing personal experience with L4D. Everything so far has either lived up to or exceeded my expectations and there are no glaring problems with the game itself. The same unfortunately, cannot be said for some members of the community. I’ve devised several subcategories to pigeonhole people into.

The “Why would you need to heal” Types

Many people gripe when someone falls behind or stops to heal. Admit it, you’ve either done this or been involved in a game where this has happened. Is it really that big of a deal for people to stop with this person? I mean really, wouldn’t you rather have a healed up teammate as opposed to one who’s dead because you were to stubborn to wait while he healed? Give people a break, and besides, it’s just a game.

The Achievement Farmers

Yes, they’re back, and in a game with no real benefit to unlocking them. I have only encountered one so far, but his refusal to heal because he “neded achievs lol” resulted in my death. Now while you might say “if you got that hurt it’s your own damn fault”, think about it, if you were dying and someone refused to heal you because he wanted to get achievements, would you be very happy?

The Rambos

You're not him

The “L4D Pro”

Alright look, just because you’ve played the game does not mean you have a right to bitch about and insult other players. You’re not a pro, and everyone else is not a n00b. No one cares that you “already have all the achievements” or that you “play CSS for money IRL”.

You, unlike everyone else, are a self-inflated egotistical prick. Stop telling people how to play the game (irony) and play. Besides, no one’s making you play the game anyway, and your constant berating of your team does not help you win. So next time you feel that urge to bitch to your team, remember, F10 for godmode.

I found “CO-OP. That’s right, CO-OP.” to be an overall average rant, with a few witty stabs here and there, but subpar overall. 3/5 stars. Oh, and send all hate mail to my ass. - clubtheseals

25 Comments | Posted in Multiplayer, left 4 dead, rants, tagged: l4d, left 4 dead, rambo

25 Responses to “CO-OP. That’s right, CO-OP.” (post new)

Famf
December 16th, 2008 at 11:25 am

“there are no glaring problems with the game itself.”

Except for all those exploits to skip parts of maps. I really hope these get fixed…
Baejung92
December 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

Why isn’t this post listed in the “Rants” section?
I still haven’t had time to play with anyone online since the demo… the “why do you need to heal”s sound pretty lame though
clubtheseals
December 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

@Baejung92: I’ll update the list eventually. And as far as the anti healing peeps go, they’re really lame.
Consul
December 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

I always seem to run into at least one of the last category every time I play versus. Since there is not (yet?) a mute option, I tend to play very little versus.
Sarda
December 16th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

@famf-
Those don’t count. Note the word “glaring” used to describe problems. Sure, you can skip part of a map, but only if the whole team wants to. If only one person goes and does it, they’ll die by hunter. If all but one person does it, so will they. If 2 go and 2 stay, both groups are likely to die quickly. Either way, there’s no advantage to skipping unless the whole group does it. Now, if the whole group wants to do it, then they’re having fun their own way. Maybe they just can’t handle the portion they’re skipping, who knows? It’s not really even a minor problem.
LaZodiac
December 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Infact, the portion skipping might even be realistic. What “real life” survivors would go through the entire hospital with a high risk of zombies, when one could just make a slightly risky jump down to were you need to go exactly.

Note that I’m probably mixing up certain levels here.
Sypheros
December 16th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Any particular reason why you forgot the productive team member personalities.

For instance:

The Healer:
The guy that is almost on his dying breath and will give you his pills or medpack.

The Rescue Ranger:
The one guy that will completely go out of his way to save you, no matter the circumstances.

The Protector:
The guy that is always watching your 6

Dunno, just some thrown together people. I try my best to be all three
Sypheros
December 16th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

PS, that is like the best Rambo picture ever.
captain obvious
December 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Irony…

“just because you’ve played the game does not mean you have a right to bith about and insult other players”
K-Bone
December 16th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

I’m actually surprised you didn’t mention these obvious ones

The Deathmatch Killers:
Those people that actually THINK their playing Quake2’s Deathmatch and “fragging” their own damn team mates.

The Death Glitchers:
You know these people,the ones that TK you with the one simple reason “you’ll come back with more health,you’ll thank me” NO I WON’T I HAD A MED PACK I COULD OF HEALED MYSELF WITH IT SINCE YOU COULDN’T BOTHER TO STOP FOR ONE ****IN SECOND TO HEAL ME WHEN I ASKED!PLUS IF I WAS HEALED I WOULD OF HAD *GASP* MORE HEALTH THEN IF YOU KILLED ME AND BROUGHT ME BACK FROM THE NEXT LEVEL ANYWAYS!

on the verses side of the argument theres…

Asshole Smokers:
This is funny yet a very assholish move at the same time.(I know I’ve done this before.Might be a legit tactic.Not sure.)But those who are smokers sometimes get this very annoying swing,so to speak,to drag a helpless survivor off only to make that survivor hang off a ledge.As infected,watching it happen is Hillarious!But you can tell that survivor (mostly zoey) dangling from a ledge holding on for dear life is using every cuss word in the book @ the smoker.

The Closet Cases:
The survivors that hide in the closet,it’s a legit tactic IN CAMPAIGNS but NOT in VS when really it DOES make the match more lopsided when NONE of the survivors can be harmed in ANY way.Don’t tell me “Well it gives the survivors a small advantage.”You know theirs a fine line between a small advantage and just plain douchebaggery.For closet cases it’s ALWAYS the ladder.And no it’s NOT because I suck @ being an infected.Cause it’s always 2 people in the front ducking using the fast melee glitch while the 2 in the back are standing shooting the millions of common infected where the boomer’s vomit is waisted.Smokers can’t pull anyone away because those fast melee glitchers knock your tonuge off of that guy in the back YOU DIDN’T AIM AT gets pulled from.And that friend of ours,Hunter,can’t do shit cause by the time he even gets to TOUCH the guy in the back he’s already meleed off by the guys in front.I’m starting to think the idea of the Screamer special infected idea would be effective for drawing them out of there with only a few modifications to it,and the exception of it’s only CPU controlled or only used once by a randomly selected infected player.

But those 2 are just personal opinion of a somewhat anal player.lol
DPyro
December 16th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

If a boomer explodes on top of a closet defense, he stuns the survivors for a few seconds - you can smoke or hunt them then. Closet defense for finale is a pretty awesome tactic, and as an infected you have to try and kill off one or two survivors before finale or use the tank interludes to pick them apart.
madlep
December 16th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

Had an achievement dick on today.

“I’m going for the pistols only achievement!”

We died about 5 minutes in, cause this idiot didn’t want to pull his weight.

The other annoyance are the med-pack hogs. The morons that either refuse to heal anyone else if they’ve got a med pack, even when they’re at full health, and everyone else is on a pixel, or they rush in and grab all the pills and med packs regardless of the health of everyone else. Again usually when they’re on full health and everyone else is on a pixel.

Usually that is because they SHOT everyone else cause they can’t play the damn game.
IdleHands
December 17th, 2008 at 1:28 am

Had the strangest griefer the other day which I shall dub; The Health Hoover

This person joins the game and instantly needs healing, so I do it wasn’t his fault the previous owner of that body sucked. But he’d keep reappearing next to us with low health incessantly saying “heal” until we wasted another health pack on him. I first thought he was just bad at the game but then he’d request healing even though he had his own pack. So I watched him, he’d wander straight into a horde wait until he was sufficiently hurt and traipse back to us and demand healing. He was purposely hurting himself to use up our health packs . . . that’s a new kind of griefing.
VD
December 17th, 2008 at 2:27 am

See, the thing about the Akimbo Assassin “pistol only” achievement is that you don’t go and do that on an Advanced or Expert game. Join a normal or Easy campaign and get it if its that fuckin important to you. When you go pistols only on a game higher than normal, you’re fucking the rest of your team.

New idea… “Easy” is the achievement farm server. How about that??
Zorgulon
December 17th, 2008 at 3:14 am

One person I play with is a self-confessed achievement whore, but it’s fun to try and get achievements together. However I draw the line at switching to Easy, which is unplayably easy, just to add a few more points to my Gamerscore. If you can kill a Tank single-handedly, you’re playing on the wrong difficulty.

*Cue war stories of people achieving this on Expert, in which case good for you!*
SirMax
December 17th, 2008 at 3:43 am

@VD: A blind panda could beat easy, of course it’s achievement farming land.
@Clubs: I sincerely hope you keep the rating system to your own articles.
David
December 17th, 2008 at 11:51 am

@K-bone Can’t agree more on closet hiders.

Was playing VS 2 fine gents from a clan who’s names were a mess of $ and @. They kept ditching half thier team like they were playing a game of track and field. All was fine and well. Game was fairly close untill the roof. The hit the radio then ran under the ramp that leads up to the helicopter pad. Here they stayed. Unable to be touched. Unpouncable, unpullable, sure you could slime them, but your mob had a long run right into a wall of bullets.

On the upside the chopper gliched and never showed up. Maybe they saw that cowards have no place in the zombie apocolypse.
Vaddy
December 18th, 2008 at 12:16 am

Dont forget the ever fun ADD survivors coupled with the “OOOoo is there a zombie in here?” flu. Im talking about those guys who decide to hunt down every possible infected, hanging back to search every room, and of course suddenly for no real visable reason, running back half the map to play with themselves alone. Then you the concerned survivor has to make the ever difficult decision of going to save them for your team, or leaving the idiot to go play with the goo splatters on the walls in the saferoom or whatever they do out there in la la land.

granted it makes versus much more intense, knowing someone could run off at the worst possible time to go play jumprope with a smoker and a hunter.

On the note of versus, the killjoys, scoreminded, and shipjumpers. you know the ones who decide to leave as soon as things start to swing in the other teams favor. sure its nice to win, or be winning, but its not the end of the world if your behind a round or two. seriously.

By the by, anyone get caught by some nasty infected exploiting the fact they can move things of late? Recently a pal an’ me were on no mercy, level with the elevator or whatnot right. one before the finale. anywho, we make it fightin and kicking to the elevator climax, get in, and enjoy the music to the top. Boom, doors open on the elevator, and we find we are trapped by a generator thats been pushed in front of the door. no way out, but infected can get in.

we did the honorable things and shot ourselves to keep the other team from getting their ill gotten damage points. by the by, if anyone wondered, its almost exactly if not on the dot 70 pnts for dying on the top floor in the elevator.

ok, thats it. i think….
IdleHands
December 18th, 2008 at 12:20 am

@David

Yeah I’ve noticed people starting to do that as well, but like you they glitched the game. That word your looking for is Karma, bitches. Even tanks can’t do decent damage to them there because they unload their auto shotguns at point blank.
nalfang
December 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

I’ll admit it. I run ahead kinda a lot. I’m a bad person. In my defense I do save the team health as the infected’s punching bag.
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TwoTwoThree
January 4th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

So I gave in and through my Christmas / New Year boredom picked up a copy of left4dead.

I read this article and I find myself agreeing with the most part but I have to put my own few cents in there.

The “Witch Hunter”
This person believes that he can 1 shot the witch every time. And will procede to telleveryone in the group ‘its ok’ before getting his or her intestines removed.

The “Bulldozer”
This is the guy that will run head long into a horde, shunting them backwards thumping them with his or her rifle spiratically firing a weapon. Then complaining / votekicking anyone that accidentally shot him during the time he decided to charge in.

The “What?”
This guy will ask you ‘What are you doing back there?’ after you have been progressively DRAGGED half the level to get wedged somwhere up a tree by a smoker. While you hang there choking your group of 3 people will have already moved on there way to the safe room. When they finally notice you hanging they will ask ‘What are you doing back there!?’

The “Horder”
This guy will hold pills and health even though he or she is on full health and you are nearly dead. When asking for a heal or pills he or she replies ‘But I might need them.’

The “Tank”
If you are in front, and crouching. This guy will stand right in front of you to get a better shot. Before having a tantrum about why you are shooting him.

I honestly never thought it was so difficult to comprehend a simple defensive strategy. Two in the front crouch, two in the back shoot over there heads.

And people don’t bother checking rooms for goodies. THey are so agressive to get to the end that they will get mad or ‘votekick’ you for slowing them down. I thought the use of the virtual director was so you could recover, recoup.

I’m starting to wonder if half the time it might not be easier just to shoot myself and get it over with.
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