L4D Tactic sharing Thread

[Yamato]

First of all, everybody can share his or her specific tactics used here. Second, please do not copy other players word and use it as yours. If you want to copy, give the player who wrote it credit or write it in your words.

Okay, here are my tactics I want to share.

Let's pretend you know the basics.

Campaing Mode

Boomer

-Boomer's are very bad and if you hear them (sounds like a fat moaning guy) you should be extremly careful around corners.
-If you see a boomer, try to shove him back before shooting him
-Once you are vommited on, try to run into a small room or into a corner and immediately ask your teammate to back you up.
-While you are vommited on, do not shoot, because that would waste your ammunition since you are partially blinded and there is a too great risk to hit teammates while shooting blind.
-If you are vommited on, this is a risky move : If you have a pipe bomb, this is a great time to throw it, but be careful, if you won't throw it far enough, you will take yourself and your teammates straight to hell.
-Boomers are weak, about 3 - 5 pistol bullets will take him out.


Smoker
-Smoker can take about the same damage as Boomers.
-Once a Smoker is down, try to get out of the smoke since it will partially blind you.
-As soon as you see your screen moving, look immediately for the Smoker and try to hit him
-If your teammate is constricted, you can either shoot at the teammate, the tongue or the smoker himself to free the teammate. While constricted, the teammate will not take damage from friendly fire.


Hunter
-If you hear a hunter, be slow, don't rush or panic. If you actually see him, run back as far as possible while shooting him.
-In a horde, hunters are hard to recognize. The only way to recognize them is when you actually see them jumping or see them crouching.
-If you teammate is pinned down by a hunter, shoot the hunter, as said before, while pinned, the teammate is immune to friendly fire.
-If you are close enough, shove the hunter because it won't waste ammo and will stun the hunter for a decent time.


Tank
-If you hear a tank, try to run back/forward to a room with decent ammound of open spaces and many obstacles for the tank such as the warehouse in "No Mercy"
-Once a tank is stalking you, concentrate yourself on running away. Do not run backwards since you are likely to run into objects. If the tank got some distance from you, shoot him.
-If the tank pinned a teammate, continue to shoot on the tank. Melee the tank, it will most likely draw his attention to you, leaving your teammates an opportunity to revive the teammate.
-Tanks can tear down walls and doors as if they were butter, so don't even try locking yourself up.
-Once a tank picked up concrete or a car, run left or right and shoot him while running.


General

Close doors behind you, thats a real smart move to slow zombies from rushing from behind. And have the three guys have the 12 and one guy always walking backwards lookin' at the 6.

Also the best idea is to hit any type of boss with a moltov,

Well, I want you to write about the rest (Versus mode, Infected) , because I am a little busy right now, so see ya later.




Versus Mode


As a Boomer
-As a boomer you will try to suprise them.
- You should try to spawn some distance in fron of them or in the back.
-Try to stay on rooftops or other similar position and continusely vomit down on the humans (A nice position would be the floor above the safe room on Part 2 - No Mercy.
-As a boomer, your actually strenght lies in the ability to summon many common infected.
-Try to hit as many humans as possible on one vomit. Wait until they are close together, do not run for a single human. Once you are vomited on, the humans will know that you are there and will watch out for you.
-As a boomer, you have terribly low health, so plan your moves wisely

As a Smoker
-Again, as a Smoker, you do not just run into the mass and kill everyone, you wait patiently until your prey comes into the trap.
-Your tongue will be your main wepaon, both making the human defendless as well was damaging him slowly.
-Try to catch a human when a horde is incoming. Alone, you will not survive long or will not even get to catch a human.
-Once a Human is constricted, Common Infected will run on him and attack him, so you might want to constrict the human at a place where many Common Infected are.
-Your tongue attack takes a while to reload, and once you have a human, you cannot volunteerly release him again, so plan your moves!
-If you have other Special zombies constricting/pinning humans, aim for the one that is still free, since it will lower their chance of escape drastically.

As a Hunter
-As a hunter, you are the quick attacking person.
-Again, try to attack while a horde is incoming. Alone you are useless.
-Once pinned, you cannot release a human volunteerly.
-Try to get the humans who got too far away from its teammates.
-Again, like the smoker try to aim for people freely, since it will make the situation bad for the humans.
-As a hunter, your strenght lies in your speed. Apparently, many players do not get it. You do not run stright forward into the crowd and attack the humans. You will have to ambush them. Be mean.
-You can only pounce a human when you are crouching, so walk around crouched near humans, beeing ready to attack the next one that spots you.

As a Tank
-Of course, as a tank, it seems like you just have to run on them , attack them, kill them, win. I PWN!
Sadly, this is not the case. Even this big moving piece of meat can be useless when not used correctly.
-As a tank, you will try to aim for the weak ones first, IMO, you should try to get the ones with MGs first, since they will be effectively hurting you on distance.
-Once a human is incapacitated, run onto the next run, trying to incapacitate them. As soon as someone tries to revive the fallen teammate, immediately run back and attack the teammates that tries to rescues the incapacitated. Most likely, this human will run away, leaving the incapacitated player to bleed to dead.
-If you feel you cannot make it to the incapacitated human on time, use your ability: Throw things !
-A good tank is tricky. You follow one teammate for a long time, so another teammates feels safe from you and comes closer. Thats when you actually jump to the one that got close. The same goes for incapacitated humans, while a human is down, you can just continue to attack him, forcing the other teammate to come close. Now, you either already killed the incapacitated player, or you did not. If you did not, and the other one is coming close enough, immediately turn around and chase the other player.

[GrayFox]

Also the best idea is to hit any type of boss with a moltov, and throw pipe bombs if a Boomer spits on you.

[Wraith]

in verus mode, my greatest tactic is on the maps in which they have a hole. or any area that people have to drop down and can't get up from, is to get the last person before they jump down and even if your killed while attacking him but they are incapacited they are just left there to die as the team can't get up to save him.

Also get the people who are stray from the pack. you will damage them a good amount even if you don't kill them. and infected is all about weakening them thru the map so they can't finish it.

[VirDeBello]

Close doors behind you, thats a real smart move to slow zombies from rushing from behind. And have the three guys have the 12 and one guy always walking backwards lookin' at the 6.

[Wrathek]

in verus mode, my greatest tactic is on the maps in which they have a hole. or any area that people have to drop down and can't get up from, is to get the last person before they jump down and even if your killed while attacking him but they are incapacited they are just left there to die as the team can't get up to save him.

Also get the people who are stray from the pack. you will damage them a good amount even if you don't kill them. and infected is all about weakening them thru the map so they can't finish it.

QFT. Especially as hunter. you're useless to your team as a hunter if you waste your spawn jumping into the middle of a group

Valve was even kind enough to show you when they are stupidly far away from their team (colors them purple)

[Tcp-Kill]

thanks toxin

[PotshotPolka]

Don't play with pubbers, they either don't talk, shoot you in the back, run out way ahead of everybody, or leave two minutes into the round, like playing with three Tinkerbells.

And in reality, all you need to win on expert, besides precision aim, good intuition, and lightning reflexes is high ground or an obstacle or counter.

Also, I wish we could drag downed players, it makes for a bitch trying to heal them where they fall, and when you're downed with a tank nearby you might as well prepare to become one with the asphalt.

[Yamato]

And in reality, all you need to win on expert, besides precision aim, good intuition, and lightning reflexes is high ground or an obstacle or counter.

Realiable Teammates.
If was already on top of the hospital, told a guy who I played with for 2 hours and really trusted to watch my back while I get the radio. He turn's around, throws a molotov to my feet and then shoots me. I was about to freak out.

[Wraith]

More infected tactics:

If a smoker has a person. Don't be one of those hunters to pounce on him since it pretty much wasted the smokers attack and it has to recharge, it would be a better idea to go pounce the first person who came to save him as it will cause more damage overall.

As a boomer if your having trouble surprising a survivor and unable to spit or blow up on them, stick with a smoker who you can rely on and he can pull a survivor to you.

On another note as a boomer. if you are with 2 hunters that are already on 2 straglers don't stand there with them because when and if the other two come your most likely to get blown up instead of getting the other 2 and you also blow up knocking your two hunter teamates off their victims and letting the smoker victim go too if he is around.

[SOLANUM]

If you miss puking on the survivors as the boomer, dont run away.

If you can, run run into them, chances are one of them will panic and shoot you.

I've covered all of them before this way.