Well seeing as L4D2 is OUT- all us vets are going back to L4D to brush up. Thought this might be fun.

So what do you do?

Personally I either run at the tank screaming hysterically or RUN AWAY! - depends on my mood tbh...

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So this is kinda search bar approved- but my forum-fu is weak; and I'm almost certain there must be an old thread like this- but I think it's time for a fresh view on the topic now that it's been out a while.

EDIT: Other option removed... tis boring
Ed:Ed: New option added which I forgot

I would yell...... Something yet to be determined since I have never played the game.

classic shoot and retreet

Call it out to everyone else on my team and open up the assault; running backwards if I'm using the assault rifle and running forward if I'm using a shotgun.

Yell "OH SHI-" Down my mic, often being punched and flying of a rooftop, in the game OFC.

i run at tank setting him on fire and running around him dodging all his attacks till he dies

MOLOTOVS HERE! Also, run and shoot.

Hide behind my teamates and shoot him at a far away distance. That is if i'm able. I'm usually in the back anyway, so I don't really have to worry about tanks all that much :P

Why would you do anything other then molly it/gas can it.. then shoot at it while running backwards in circles?

This may seem cowardly but I just run away and let the AI deal with it. As soon as I see that it's not coming for me then I'll start shooting at it.

I try to get some distance between me and the tank, and let my team be the meatshield while I fire on him. But if it's too close, I'll try to dodge around it while firing.

Other: Run away firing if its coming at me, then run away if its to close. When my other team mates get its attention, run at it screaming "YOU LITTLE BITCH WHY DID YOU GO FOR ME FIRST THEN CHANGE YOUR MIND?! IM NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?!"

/cruise.

"Run or shoot?"
"Both!"

I'll chuck a molotov its way, too, if I have one.

Seeing as i always play with friends, i ignore him and wait till he jumps one of my friends then i the rest of us jump him.

I tend to set him on fire first if I get the chance, then comes the "Run or shoot? Run or shoot!?" part, where then I have to answer "BOTH!"

Who voted for "ignore the Tank"? When would that ever work? :P

I'd do what everyone else does online: run away and perforate the hulking beast with bullets.

I fell into a routine after a few weeks. Hell, the whole horror aspect was lost on me after I'd played long enough to be more like a soldier than a random hoo-ha off the street.

plastic_window:
Who voted for "ignore the Tank"? When would that ever work? :P

I'd do what everyone else does online: run away and perforate the hulking beast with bullets.

Yahtzee might be able to ignore the tank to death.

If it is running at me I turn and run (because I hate getting stuck in geomitry with a tank on my tail). If it is running at my friends I run after it and shoot it to draw it off.

I throw a molotov (does that actually make them faster?!?) Then I usually get torn to pieces depending on whether I'm playing online and at what difficulty. If I have AI on my team, I let them distract the Tank while I open fire. On Easy/Normal/Advanced I almost never get killed by the Tank.

Slayer_2:
I throw a molotov (does that actually make them faster?!?) Then I usually get torn to pieces depending on whether I'm playing online and at what difficulty. If I have AI on my team, I let them distract the Tank while I open fire. On Easy/Normal/Advanced I almost never get killed by the Tank.

It might be an urban gaming myth; but Ive always held that setting the tank on fire makes it just fast enough to be able to catch you- while not on fire its the same speed...

I Molotov it to piss off my uncle.

Well i couldnt vote because of there no being an other option. I say what i always say in l4d. Sexy. A boomer puked on me, sexy. I'm on fire, sexy. I'm dead, sexy. I'm being raped by a dude with a long tounge and im an old nam vet. sexy.

It might be an urban gaming myth; but Ive always held that setting the tank on fire makes it just fast enough to be able to catch you- while not on fire its the same speed...

Hmmm... I thought that the Tank only caught up to me because of me usually being under 50 health. Still, the fact that all Infected are gasoline soaked targets makes a molotov very useful weapon... and gets me on the top of the Tank Buster list every time. I'm gonna google this. The video below does show that lighting a tank on fire is a good idea in Versus mode, but a terrible idea in campaign mode.

Sneaklemming:

Slayer_2:
I throw a molotov (does that actually make them faster?!?) Then I usually get torn to pieces depending on whether I'm playing online and at what difficulty. If I have AI on my team, I let them distract the Tank while I open fire. On Easy/Normal/Advanced I almost never get killed by the Tank.

It might be an urban gaming myth; but Ive always held that setting the tank on fire makes it just fast enough to be able to catch you- while not on fire its the same speed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0RWVqboVjI
tanks are much faster in campaign mode on fire

Molotov and run like a bat out of hell.

There was, however, this one time that I was playing on the Subway on Expert; I had one HP, my teammates were all dead, and the flaming tank had cornered in the pipe room. With nothing else to do, I pulled out my autoshotgun, pressed in my talk button, and yelled "THIS IS SPARTA" before jumping at the tank, guns ablazing. I lasted all of about half a second, but god damn did that rule.

Run and fire. But use panic as an excuse to hit your teammates with just enough damage to reduce them to 49 health so they take the speed penalty. Then just outrun THEM.

I personally like to set it on fire and then lure it into attacking one or all of my teammates if i can.
while they are killing it or being killed BY IT I'm often found racing ahead sitting pretty in the safe room without a scratch.

if my team mates call for help I drown their voices out by rocking back and forth in my chair mumbling to myself pre-arranged sentences like:

* "there's nothing I can do for them now......their dead"

* start singing "All by myself.....don't wanna be....all by myself......anymore"!!

* "oh the humanity R2 curse my circuits i wasn't fast enough to save them"

* "Oh it's always about YOU guys isn't it?.......oohhh help the tanks downed me.....thats all i ever hear......did you guys ever stop to think about me and how I'm now all alone...with full health, ammo and med kits...it's always me me me me me"

the last is my favorite and most used!

If it's campaign, I just bait the Tank into climbing up and down walls. If it's versus, I backtrack with the rest of the group after it's been molotov'd.

Boomer Bile.
Adrenaline.
Melee to death.

These steps:
1: O SHI-
2: Mollie
3: Shoot
4: Run like hell.

Erisnas:
Run and fire. But use panic as an excuse to hit your teammates with just enough damage to reduce them to 49 health so they take the speed penalty. Then just outrun THEM.

Ahh yes, that's natural selection in a nutshell you know: you don't have to run faster than the predator, just faster than the other guy. And it works, it always does, I always do it when there is a bot by accident, when someone has to go or something.

My common response is to inform everyone that there is a tank (Usually yell) and either run backwards while shooting, or turn and run till I get to a good spot, then turn and fire.