L4D trips, tricks, and cool stuff

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Post any cool things you have found so far. I'll start.



You can jump off the building at the start to get to bypass going through the building. You take some damage, but it gets you down faster.

If you are near a checkpoint (such as at the street) and you team starts dying really badly, rush to the saferoom. Your team will die, but they will respawn with 50 HP (real HP, not the draining stuff) at the checkpoint. (not reccomended if they have medpacks, though, since you will want to loot the dead bodies to save the medpacks).

You can light a Tank on fire and run and it will die (eventually)

At the final defense area (where the machine gun emplacement is), throw a molotov cocktail in the hole behind the defense area and it will kill about 90% of the zombies that come that way. Doing so will allow you to focus on attacks from only one direction.

[Salad Snake]

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Also, in case anyone didn't notice, meleeing doesn't cancel your reload, it only pauses it.

So if you take your mag out and then melee, you only need to pop the new mag in.

[CtrlAltDe1337]

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Yeah, I noticed that as well today. Also, if you reload before emptying the whole clip, it reloads faster.


BTW I just realized i wrote "trips" instead of "tips" in the title :S

[[DR]S|Pvt. Voop_Bacon]

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You can light a Tank on fire and run and it will die (eventually).

:thumbsup: This is how me and my friends always kill Tank on expert mode, which btw is all i play now lol. when i get the game ill lower it since i haven't memorized the level.

[Salad Snake]

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Right, I hear that isn't even the final version of the No Mercy campaign in the demo. Apparently the level itself was shortened in the demo version, meaning the safehouses aren't going to be in the same place in the actual game.

[Namakan]

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If you close a safe house door on a zombie, it will die

[[GCA]Tim270]

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If a tank is after you, if you run forwards (facing away from it) you can out run it, if you are running backwards and shooting at it, it will catch you. Yea again using mele cuts the reloads anim and your gun reloads so much faster.
If you find a witch and startle her she will only kill the person who did so then run away.

[BobTheJob]

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Running up to a witch and using melee on her is a horrible idea.

[[GCA]Tim270]

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Heh, so is repeatedly flashing your light in her face :)

[Numptie]

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if you are in a hall way and a load of zombies are attacking, crouch and continually melee, bloody useful, just hope none of the "boss" zombies come after you

[L4D Alan]

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One huge tip for this game. Use crouch. The number of times I've gunned a teammate down who strayed into my field of fire is uncountable. If the person on point uses crouch then the guys behind can fire too increasing the amount of firepower by 100%.

Simple, but time and time again forgotten about.

[BobTheJob]

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At the very end of the demo where there is a big room there are gas canisters in some corners. These can be picked up and placed in strategic positions around the room, and when shot they cause the same effect as a Molotov. If they don't all get used, (and they probably won't because there's one upstairs) throw it into the safe room and blow it up. Make sure most of your team is already in there. They'll never be more pissed off.

[KillerStickMan]

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I do that every game i play, it's fun having a little deathmatch at the very end of the level...

[Salad Snake]

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If you accidently press one of the voicecom menu buttons, you can right click to exit the menu without saying anything.

[CtrlAltDe1337]

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At the very end of the demo where there is a big room there are gas canisters in some corners. These can be picked up and placed in strategic positions around the room, and when shot they cause the same effect as a Molotov. If they don't all get used, (and they probably won't because there's one upstairs) throw it into the safe room and blow it up. Make sure most of your team is already in there. They'll never be more pissed off.

Awsome, I didn't know about that.