@ k00pa:

One of the hard rain levels also has that tall building by the corn field where you can charge people off to the ground. If you get a jokey, smoker and a charger and set a trap by the elevator you can easily win the match right there. Falling off the building is not auto-kill but it splits the team beautifully and you can usually deal massive amounts of damage to those who fall off before the others can reach them.

I like that first level of Dead Center too but it is probably the most rage-quit prone stage for a lot of people. There is a way to avoid the balconies and ledges for the most part though – there are places where you can run through the fire and skip a lot of the dangerous sections.

Dead Center has many fun areas. That grocery store where you pick up the soda crate is a nasty camping spot. I think twice I encountered survivor teams that would just sit inside and defeat wave after wave of infected. We were trying to flush them out but most people would get annoyed after 5 minutes or so and the rotation on the infected side was so high that it was mostly each man for himself.

@ Mart:

Well, online play can be very rewarding if you get a good team. Join a game and listen in. If people have mics and are actively discussing strategies you will have tons of fun. If no one is talking and someone calls you a fag in the chat 5 minutes into the match, you might as well quit and try again.

@ Matt`:

Ew… metered internets are evil!

And yes, the tactics are similar, only you now have few new types of infected like Charger, Jockey, and Spitter. Spitter can be very annoying if used well – best way to incapacitate a whole team is to wait until everyone is in the red and one of the survivors goes down. What usually happens is that one of two team members will run up to help that person. You spit on them, and if you are lucky they will not have enough life left to get out of the acid.

Charger can be dangerous when used well (he can charge you off ledges often causing instant auto-kill), but it he will often get stuck on terrain features making him an easy target.

Jockey is pretty much a less effective hunter that does not deal damage on his own, but can steer the victim into a horde of zombies an off a ledge.

I have L4D2, but I’ve been having problems with either defective memory (and subsequently low amounts of memory while the replacement ships, turns out to also be defective, then ships again) or being on metered internets at uni, ever since release day. Loved L4D, just a shame I’ve not been able to dive straight into the sequel.

I’m sure I’ll be fine once I do get in though – can’t imagine the tactics being wildly different (stay the hell together, shoot the zombies) and so long as there’s an assault rifle to play with I’ll be just fine (the stats page is showing 99% accuracy… love me some assault rifle).

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I bought L4D2 after watching Zombieland. Watching someone else blow off a zombie is as fun as blowing one off yourself! :D

Never played an online match before, which is probably an anathema for L4D2 game. Somehow, playing against completely random strangers never really appealed to me. Maybe that’s my irrational fear: internetimultiplayophobia. So I just stick with Solo Play, which is mindless fun by itself. This game is my 20-minute stress-reliever & hmm-I-got-20-minutes-to-kill-what-should-I-play game.

I use “Shmutt” to logon to Steam. Not sure if that’s my community ID as well though. :P

I haven’t have lots of time to play l4d2, as I have lots of other games (tf2,mw2 and tons of games from the steam holiday sale) But I will soon tick my 100 hour to this game :P

My favorite game mode is the versus mode also. The campaings gets boring after I have completed all of them couple times, but in versus, there is always something different.

I also sometimes try to play the realism in expert difficult. But usually I just ragequit on that…

In a whole, the hard rain campaing is my favorite, but the first level of Dead center is awesome. At the start there is nice spot for spitter to incap whole team before they even get out of the saferoom. There is also lots of spots where charger can insta kill survivors by jumping down from the building with survivor. (I have got 2 down with on charge :P)