Official Left 4 Dead Thread (Parts 1 & 2)

[Timber]

Anyone try out Scavenger mode yet? It's my new favorite vs. mode, games only last like 20-25 min max and it's a hell of a lot of fun. And I was only playing with my one buddy and randoms, I can see it being way more fun with 7 people I actually know.

And Hard Rain is tops!

[Giga Power]

I've only played it once, and only managed to join the game right at the end. I might try it out here in a bit because I need that scavenge achievement.

[Anthony]

I like every campain except swamp fever, although I like swamp fever's last level (the hedge maze one).

Beat a campain or two on expert realism. I wonder if the melee weapons don't ruin the balance, but oh well, it is still fun. I play versus now and then, but the start difference between a team that can talk to each other and knows what they are doing and those that don't make it a one sided game 80% of the time.

I don't know how you play this on xbox though, seems impossible.

[Timber]

First I put the disc in the system, then I grab the controller, next I pick up a samurai sword and start chopping zombies to pieces.

[Cowutopia]

Realism is the way to go imo. Expert is just way hard on the xbox, advanced is really preferred xbox mode imo. It's not impossible you just have to be fucking fast and cover each other. A lot of people are just fucking terrible. My accuracy is almost always over 30, you need to be near 35 percent to have a good chance on expert. The biggest problem on Expert on xbox is friendly fire.

So Realism Advanced is my favorite way to play.

[Anthony]

Melee weapons do fairly little damage to each other, and because you aren't so close, you usually don't hit each other that often. Additionally, because you are moving, it takes longer for zombies to reach you so you can run up, hit one, keep running, hit the one chasing you ect.

This isn't too important for normal mode, but in realism where it takes like 4 shots to the chest to kill, having a 1 hit kill melee is pretty fucking important.

[Cowutopia]

Works good on tanks too

[Drewbacca]

Melee weapons are awesome. The hardest thing about melee weapons is dealing with smokers, spitters, and boomers. The machete is my personal favorite. It seems to incapacitate any somebody with one hit, and the swing seems a little faster than the other weapons.

[Cowutopia]

I like the fire axe. I honestly couldn't tell you what the real difference is between the weapons though, except that slicing weapons leave pretty gashes and seem to be more effective.

[Rumpy]

Seems like the rate of fire is the biggest difference with the blades.