It is true, the most important part of playing on expert is not to shoot your own team.
But after playing a few games with some good guys I know, it was cool.

Ziph

Netherlands970 Posts

November 13 2008 22:19 GMT

#63

I how can anyone find expert hard. Last night me and my friend went expert 2 man on my dedicated server killed the 2 bots and 2 manned the first level and almost made it to the end in the subway.

Bashing is the trick, you can just solo 2039402394zombie waves by just bashing don't even bother shooting (will only dmg your teammates ect ect.) also bashing hunters is way better then shooting them because they will stop doing insane dmg assoon as you bash em + they wont jump around like crazy anymore.

Also I made a mod spawning 2x as much hunters 2x as many spawns ect ect ect still cleared it.

Its all about bashing and camping and running.

You just wait for a freaking pack to come 1 person in front that keeps bashing and nothing else bash bash bash. while the other 3 players shoot. as soon as the pack is over you run as far as you can till the next wave comes. Bash is overpowered -.- you can litterly solo waves by just bashing them.

rob3dj

39 Posts

November 13 2008 22:29 GMT

#64

It also depends on how well your doing, I've noticed with bad teams it gets easier towards the end because the director realises that the team isn't very good, I've actually played a few experts with no tanks. Yet one time we got to subway and straight away we got smoker and boomer, followed by tank, followed straight after by hunter boomer, almsot while tank was still alive, because we all had full health, and it was shit good.. And ziph mate if you kill two teamates the director will assume that your doing really badly and will give you nothing hard to face. Also bash doesn't save you from a tank lol.

Ziph

Netherlands970 Posts

November 13 2008 22:36 GMT

#65

Hahaha you got a point

, didn't think about that tho keeping the bots alive makes it easier they never friendly fire and just stay close. If I die its because someone slacked and got behind and eventually gets stunned. This makes you run back also getting owned by waves because your not positioned right ect ect.

Ye bash doesn't save you from the tank but it makes sure that when you meet one that your full hp =)

TonyL2

England1953 Posts

November 13 2008 22:40 GMT

#66

I've been playing this for a few hours today and yesterday, and got to say it's incredibly fun and addictive. The experience is just a good laugh when you have 3 other friends just casually playing it, we died often on Expert mode and still haven't completed Expert mode on the demo but it was great fun anyway.

I can't wait till the full game comes out and especially since the price is less than your usual game

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

November 14 2008 00:03 GMT

#67

i exhausted the demo by the first day. i've seriously probably played about 15hrs on expert alone. i've gotten frighteningly good at slaying zombies.

valve delivers another masterpiece. A+

only complaint i have is the character design. im not rly into any of the chars =\ they should have had some psycho asian guy or something

EDIT: Also, I feel bad for people who are going to buy the game and play with random pubbers LOL
if you are semi-decent or a diligent player (as you probably are since you read TL) and unfortunate enough not to know anyone who plays L4D, feel free to add me @ username: avec@eo-gaming.com

zer0das

United States8519 Posts

November 14 2008 00:16 GMT

#68

On November 14 2008 07:19 Ziph wrote:Bashing is the trick, you can just solo 2039402394zombie waves by just bashing don't even bother shooting (will only dmg your teammates ect ect.) also bashing hunters is way better then shooting them because they will stop doing insane dmg assoon as you bash em + they wont jump around like crazy anymore.

Yeah, you can do this, but on expert they still do 20 damage and unless you are in a closet somewhere you will tend to get knocked down. It's better to just shoot them after you bash them, for the most part.

As I've said before, one particular run doesn't mean much. The director can be a total wench at times, and other times it is relatively easy. Not having idiotic teammates goes a long way.

zer0das

United States8519 Posts

November 18 2008 00:31 GMT

#69

The retail version of this unlocks in about 5 hours. I'm stoked! :O

Supposedly...

+ Show Spoiler +

There are zombie dogs and zombie deer :S

Ideas

United States8182 Posts

November 18 2008 00:39 GMT

#70

On November 18 2008 09:31 zer0das wrote:
The retail version of this unlocks in about 5 hours. I'm stoked! :O

Supposedly...

+ Show Spoiler +

There are zombie dogs and zombie deer :S

Usually when stuff unlocks on steam it unlocks at 12AM Pacific, not eastern :\

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

November 18 2008 01:01 GMT

#71

I've been playing the demo, It's really fucking sweet. When I get a bit more money I am thinking of buying it. Also the co-op looks like it's going to be so fucking amazing!

zer0das

United States8519 Posts

November 18 2008 01:31 GMT

#72

On November 18 2008 09:39 Ideas wrote:

Show nested quote +

Usually when stuff unlocks on steam it unlocks at 12AM Pacific, not eastern :\

Not this time around. Fortunately.

Bub

United States3518 Posts

November 18 2008 01:31 GMT

#73

I tried the demo and beat it in expert mode (yes, there are different difficulties you can choose as a host or even during the game). It looks promising.

SayaSP

Laos5494 Posts

November 18 2008 01:47 GMT

#74

On November 18 2008 10:31 Bub wrote:
I tried the demo and beat it in expert mode (yes, there are different difficulties you can choose as a host or even during the game). It looks promising.

lol it sounds like you were the only one that knew expert exists. Yea its fun in expert. :DDD