Valve's Chet Faliszek, one of the main players behind Left 4 Dead 2, recently spoke with OXM about some of the history in Left 4 Dead 2's Special Infected designs and other miscellaneous pieces of Left 4 Dead details. One of the details revealed from Faliszek was the notion that one of the new Specials was "The Leaker."
More of the OXM interview with Chet Faliszek can be found over at the OXM website.
Can you tell us any ideas that were left behind for Special Infected?
So I can then be tormented by the tons of emails that come in? Nobody ever trusts us that it was a bad idea... we played around with this one called The Leaker.
That sounds horrible.
You can tell I had something to do with naming because I'm lazy. "What does this one do?" "It charges." "Yeah, it's a Charger. I'll go with that."
If you don't name them simply, people will make up names for them.
If this thing was running down the street at you, you're not going to scream out some crazy long made-up fantasy name. With The Leaker, the idea was a kind of Boomer that could take damage, and shoot out spouts of goo. And you could plant yourself and explode - be this walking bomb. The problem is there's a warning that you're going to do that. So when you go to plant yourself, everyone else runs away, and you just die and don't hurt anybody. It's pretty unsatisfying. The idea isn't entirely bad, and some of that we brought over to The Spitter.
So I can then be tormented by the tons of emails that come in? Nobody ever trusts us that it was a bad idea... we played around with this one called The Leaker.
That sounds horrible.
You can tell I had something to do with naming because I'm lazy. "What does this one do?" "It charges." "Yeah, it's a Charger. I'll go with that."
If you don't name them simply, people will make up names for them.
If this thing was running down the street at you, you're not going to scream out some crazy long made-up fantasy name. With The Leaker, the idea was a kind of Boomer that could take damage, and shoot out spouts of goo. And you could plant yourself and explode - be this walking bomb. The problem is there's a warning that you're going to do that. So when you go to plant yourself, everyone else runs away, and you just die and don't hurt anybody. It's pretty unsatisfying. The idea isn't entirely bad, and some of that we brought over to The Spitter.
More of the OXM interview with Chet Faliszek can be found over at the OXM website.