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I was playing online, without a mic, on No Mercy Expert. The other three people with me all had mics, and we were in the Subway (pattern much?), when we heard a Witch crying. So, of course, since I can't object (as I don't have a mic), they choose me to go and see where it is. So I'm walking along with the other kid (either he was a kid or he was a female), and we found out that the Witch was right in the hallway out of the subway. So once again, the three of them start debating. And then the Horde showed up, and someone fired, startling the witch. They freak out, and I go through standard witch-slaying protocol; throw molotov, fire shotgun like a madman while running backwards like said madman. I ran -right- through the horde, but thankfully, someone had gotten hit by a Boomer, so they just let me waltz on through. It was a beautiful dance of flaming death. P.S. I'm 90% sure this has been done before | |
I was at a lan party playing left 4 dead with 7 other friends on online vs, and I was playing survivors, and we were already banged up. the first time I encountered the witch. I round the corner and mistaking it for a zombie, I startled it and it basically slaughtered me as I was completly unprepared for it, no med kit, and badly injured already. I think it got one of my teammates as well. | |
Sometimes I do silly things in L4D. Last night, my silly thing turned into something quite exhilerating and truly scary :P I was larking about on expert with a friend and 2 bots, at the start of the subway level in no mercy. I shot and killed my friend and both bots, and proceeded to set up a competition in which I would run as fast as I could alone and see how far I got. I took a shotgun, healed myself up as best as possible, reloaded all my guns and unlocked the door. The next 45 seconds (a personal best I should add) was amazing. Prioritising the targets that were only in my way, zipping and weaving around the horde as best I could. Then they started to follow me. Every time I saw a straight and clear path in front of me, I would briefly spin around and jog backwards desperatly trying to thin the numbers of the horde behind me. As I spun back on my third attempt at stopping my heels from being nibbled upon, I ran smack bang into a boomer. A quick melee to the face sent him stuttering off, and I was off again. A smoker grabbed me (luckily from in front of me) and I was just able to shoot him off before he slowed my momentum. And then the ominous tank music came. I was at the part where you are running along the train tracks, there is a fork with a dead end to the left (where the tank had spawned), a train you had to go through to progress, and a tunnel exit to my right. I just managed to dodge the slab of concrete that had whizzed past my head, and ran backwards along the train, dual pistols out attempting to thin the ever expanding number of horde behind me. I made it off the train, and out to the left through a door, which I promptly shut behind me. By now, the tank had been well and truly ditched. So I'm still going strong, not a single point of damage yet (this was seriously my best run ever on that level, done it once or twice before and never this well) heading through that very dark room with the concrete supports all over the place. Theres a witch to my left, which is easily skirted, and lots of horde dotted about, I'm just picking off the ones in the way again. I make it up the stairs at the end of the room, dash past yet more horde, and hit the door which you need to open. With a brickload of horde (those from the start would be back there somewhere, smashing through doors and whatnot), the sounds of another boomer closing in, and the ever present notion that the tank was gonna be coming from somewhere, I smacked the button for the door to open and heard the screams of yet more horde alerted to my presence. Glancing to my right, I see a gas canister (the little red ones). Well, I might as well take some of the bastards with me. Standing virtually on top of it, I light it up with a quick burst from my shotgun. As my health rapidly drops and I fall to the floor wounded, my screen darkens as infected after infected joins me in fiery death. Just as the screen darkens before death, the tank music begins to gain in volume again, and I smile wryly to myself at the notion that at least that bastard wasn't getting any of my tasty man flesh. My friend who had been spectating could not believe what he had been seeing, and my heart was still beating far too quickly (I was so immersed, I really felt scared listening to the sounds of all these things being mere inches from my back, screaming in rage at me). On a side note, on my friends go, he got the tank in the second room (the one with the escelators) and there was no way past :3 In case you can't tell by the length and excitement I'm pouring into this post, I really, REALLY love Left 4 Dead :) | |
NoMercy (part 2 subway demo) on expert, i have assault rifle 30 bullets 1 hp (no med-kit, no pills) all other players dead (courtesy of tank with and a smoker), walk sooo slow towards the spawn point (under where the minigun is) where 2 players are banging on the door, it's dark, very dark i hear a witch crying, strategy involves taping flash light then shooting a few infected bashing the ones that come to close and then shooting some more. I am the least skilled out of our group but i should make it, i know that had the preasure not been on i would not have had any problem but i hear my heart beating like a bongo drum.... i made it eventually without any friend ghosting but that was one of the most adrenalin pumping experiences i had in that game. | |
I've tried doing speed runs on that level before but they always end when a smoker grabs me. Really makes you jump out your skin when your sailing along and suddenly you can't run. | |
Third campaign first level in all of those offices (after you fight the tank.) My friend was really not being a team player and everyone else was just sorta....meh. So when we came up to the witch He shot her and I just ran into an office and shut the door. Everyone died and he freaked out. He never played with us again (to our happy relief.) | |
Playing through a movie to the final part only to get kicked by the server and not get the achievement. EVERYTIME in various parts of the movies. | |
My brothers not a very big gamer, but on occassion he's asked to take over for me when I'm playing, and being a nice guy, I agree. Its just funny watching his reaction to such ordinary things (for a regular gamer, anyway) :) "Whats the horn sound? OHSHI THERE ARE A TON OF THEM COMING FROM EVERYWHERE!" The list could go on forever. | |
Hehe that's what I'm looking forward to at Christmas - one of my friends who's a casual gamer is getting his hands on L4D as part of a 360 bundle. The witch never gets boring in my matches though, because there's one of us who absolutely hates her. So much. Any time we hear the sobbing sounds coming from ahead he shakily states "Right that's me, I'm not playing anymore" and he hides in one of the cupboards until we've seen her off. There was one match where everyone but this guy was killed by the Tank and he hid in one of the respawn cupboards. We were all yelling at him to get out so we could jump back in and help him, but he wouldn't budge. Then the Tank found him. I don't really know how he managed it, but he ended up locking himself into the room with the Tank and all I could hear in my earpiece was him shouting "Open open open open open!" Zombies are fuuuun :3 | |
mine was in the demo, and surprise surprise involves a witch. i was playing with my brother and two friends and i came across a witch. now my headphones were really shit and i couldn't here them talking as i got nice and close to the witch. i didn't here their screams of: "stay away from the fucking witch". My brother didn't seem to be caring what i was doing soo he didn't notice. but i got to the witch and i pulled a shotgun to her head and fired. the bithc jumped up screamed and began clawing at me while i wildly gesticulated with my shotgun. | |
I beat a mission by myself (normal though) by killing my buddies (offline). That was scary since I only survived a smoker because of a glitch (he dragged me up to a wall and it said "Pancho killed Smoker"). | |
I was once with my friend. It was the end of the level, are two other teammates were killed and abandoned during a Tank battle. We arrived at the safe house, low on health and ammo, to find a hunter waiting outside. One of us was mauled and Down to less than 10 health. We decided to make a dash to the safehouse to find that The AI director decided it hated us. It had spawned a Tank next to the safehouse. We died. Very quickly. | |
Standard witch protocol = shotgun. It's a waste of molotov. Witches deal high damage but they have little health. Shotgun shot to the face = dead witch. Even if you cant do crowned witches are still little more than a minor annoyance for a team who knows what they need to do. My horror story is fairly simple. Expert death toll. 2 tanks per map for stage 2, 3 and 4.... finally made it to finale and that was cake thank goodness for rock platform exploit =P | |
Anytime that I've ever been the only one to survive is a very scary moment. Every move you make after that could be your last and finally finding the rest of your team is a fantastic moment. L4D is just pure awesome. | |
I was playing with three friends(who had all played before,I had not)and we had entered an abandoned restaraunt when we heard the tank coming. I kept on walking round the corner even though my friends shouted at me to stop,it was too late. I rounded the corner and found myself staring at a tank. Within a few seconds I was on the floor getting beaten to a pulp. Later on we reached a level where he had to call a helicopter over a radio then defend ourselves from the zombies while da choppa(!) got to us. It was all fine and dandy until the tank showed up. It threw one of my friends onto another ledge,leaving him hanging for his dear,virtual life. Threw an AI teammate to the ravenous zombies and began to smash me into what I can only describe as war-vet puree! Another time,my friend accidently-on purpose set off a car alarm when he was at the door to the safe-room,summoning the horde. One problem,the rest of us werent near the door! We got attacked by the horde and the three of us ended up on the floor. Meanwhile,my friend at the door decides we are a lost cause and locks himself in the saferoom! I was not a happy bunny! | |
One time, I was trying to sneak past a witch, and one of my AI teammates decided it would be nice to throw a pipe bomb at that exact moment. Needless to say, she freaked the shit out. Came running after me but 10 quick shots from my Auto-Shotgun brought her down (the pipe bomb did the most damage) Fun times. | |
Setting off a car alarm when you have a pipe bomb is always fun. Just back into a corner and throw. Yay! Being grabbed by a smoker just as you hit the saferoom door and surviving as the door shuts on it's tongue made me whoop. | |
Doing expert (yes the AI is stupid don't get me started), on the trainyard level of Death Toll (Level 3), running along the boardwalk. I turn to look to see if any painkillers then a tank is there and i'm like... oh damn... then I start running back (Dropping an explosive gas can and blowing it up) while shooting my hunting rifle like a madman and... the AI started healing me. I lol'd and cried at the same time. (When they heal you you can't break it or move). zzzzzzz I got knocked over but my friends killed him. Once with my bro he attracted a witch (Somehow he thinks shooting NEXT to her and not AT her doesn't startle her) and she killed him, knocked me down and ran off like 40m but still in plain view of the AI so he started to shoot her and shot at her until my health slowly drained from about 250 to 0 and I was like.... sigh. Also sometimes it can be unfair, sometimes its easy sometimes its extremely hard, it would be so much better online but I don't have xbl. This game is not worth it for SP IMHO. | |
Dif: Expert Although being heavily injured and lacking supplies, walking half dead and weary eyed into 'The Church', me and my troop of blood scared veterans felt confident about the train yard. We had spotted a large tower, and hoped for an upgrade to our arms, as well as some pills. Blasting the odd zombie, we exited the carrage in formation, myself being at the front of our troop, bearing the least of our injuries. Black Wolf (Bill) shouted "Tank! Quick, to the tower!". Hearing the beasts fearsome cries, we did not object. Scattering and limping up the tower, we searced for our enemy. Issuing battle comands and strategies, we took up arms and prepared for a fire fight, making sure to cover all angles. Moments passed and still no sight of the demon, as we became anxious with fear. Fodder's (Lewis) cry of "TANK!" was followed by an uproar of gunfire. In a panic confusion, we had no idea where our foe was. "Behind u..." was all we heard before we saw the broken body of our former fly through the air with grace, before the horrifying crunch of bone as it struck the wall. Cursing we opened fire as the beast as rushed up from beneath us, Round after round, still it came. Close and closer it charged, as we were running out of time. We had to kill it now. Vas (Zoe) and Black Wolf (Bill) unleashed a doubled volley of auto-matic shotgun death at our foe, to no avail. We had no choice. "Fall Back, we have to jump!". We saw our destination, the top of a train carrage, which garenteed a safe landing. I jumped first, springing back up, laying more fire to the tank. "Go! I'll cover you" screamed Vas. Black Wolf (Bill) agreed, jumping and landing next to me, taking a page from my book and pumping more lead into the fiend. Vas (Zoe)turned and jumped, but he was to late, the tank had struck. Knocking her off the tower, if not being killed by the blow, surely by the fall. A chill of fear grasped our spines. The tank, destroying the rail of the tower, jumped of, no sign of slowing down appeared. Running low on ammo, our confidence was fading. "I need ammo!" shouted Vas (Zoe), "Ok, fall back and we'll make an ammo run, don't stop shooting!". Dismanteling the carrage, we scampered off towards the safe house carrage, turning to try and hold of our foe. Suddenly, silence fell. Dumb struck, we found ourselves wondering if we had been victorious. Moments passedand we relaxed, fending off small amounts of zombie fodder. Out of nowhere, a mass of earth flew through the dark sky, smashing into Vas (Zoe), breaking her leg, rendering her imobilized. Out of the mist charged the beast, no mercy in its eyes. Lining up the monster, i proceeded to open fire. My heart stopping when i realized i had run out of ammo. Sweating and Screaming i dashed for the safe house. Slamming the door with a heaving thud. Whne out of the blue, my inner concious which strangly sounded like Fodder (Lewis) whispered something along the lines of "...Once you leave the safe house, the tank can still get in...". Having to think about this for a split second, was long enough for the door i was pressed hard up against to be shattered in from the outside. Trapped. Trapped with the fearsome of all creatures. Without thinking i dashed as far as possible from the beast, pressed against the wall of the carrage, i unleashed all i had from my duel barreta's into the beast skull. At full speed, it did not take him long to reach me, raising his arm in a certain attempt to steal my life, i fired the last of my clip. All four shots peircing the thick skull. It seized up for a split second before, swaying as i reloaded, fireing as fast and as frantically as i could. Not giving the beast an inch. Litterly mere centimeters away from the body of the demon, i prayed to a Director like god, thanking it for saving my life. I had beaten the fiend, but only just... and at what cause... | |
Alright, here's the deal. Sometimes my friends and I get bored of trying to escape and we try our luck with going into a small room, closing the door, and waiting for the hoards to come to see how long we last. So the first wave comes, we mow it down without so much as a small spot in the door. The second mob arrives, and while we're shooting at it it does some serious damage to the door. Still, we're kicking serious zombie ass. Then, just as I move directly in front of the door to shoot, a hunter pounces through the door (shattering it to pieces), and tackles me. I died, but it was one of the most intense things I've gone through. ---- In another story, I was playing Dead Air on expert, and I got to the hotel. So I walk down the hallway to scout ahead of my friends for zombies and assorted goodies, moving at a slower than usual speed and peeking into each of the rooms in turn, as if to be in-character. The first room? One lonely zombie. Boom, headshot, silence. The second room? Empty. Silence. The Third room? Broom closet with some pain pills. Grab them, use them, silence. The fourth room? A tank. In the doorway. Literally three inches from my face. One second after we see each other and I meekly murmur "O hai", the tank music plays. ---- Finally, to end on a lighthearted note, we were doing a pistol-only run on expert through Blood Harvest. About halfway into the train station, we're all seriously wounded and quite a bit far from the safehouse. We hear the "Here comes the hoard" sound, and I decided "To hell with this!" So as the hoard rushes at us I run directly into them meleeing with my dual pistols, yelling into the mic, "I AM SIR BARTHOLOMEW STILTON! I AM SIR BARTHOLOMEW STILTON! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?". I singlehandedly destroy the mob with next to no damage. And so we continue on, and a while later we run into a tank. "Oh joy, we're screwed" was the general sentiment. But not for me. I looked directly at the tank, and I asked one question: "Do you know who I am?" I rush forward, tank tries to punch me. I manage to move to the side and begin to melee it, yelling "I AM SIR BARTHOLOMEW STILTON! I AM SIR BARTHOLOMEW STILTON! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?" "I! AM! SIR! BARTHOLOMEW! STILTOOOON!" And with the help of my friends, I manage to kill it too. With my bare hands, and three people firing pistols at it. Finally, we're unbelievably close to the safehouse when we hear a witch. "Witch!" Everyone whispers, "Lights off!" I turn my flashlight off. Then I turn it back on. "...Do you know who I am?" The witch growls at me. "I AM SIR BARTHOLOME-OH SHI-" And that marked the death of Sir Bartholomew Stilton. | |
Well I haven't really had any horror experiences, as my console broke the day after I got Left 4 Dead, but it was fun playing a quick match with some other guys on live. Two of them were clearly playing on the same console and were apparently bickering, judging by the way they shot at each other. Only me and the other guy were handling the situation without dumping half a clip into a single zombie. Our health was in the red half the time and we were essentially dragging two wet blankets behind us who preformed well as smoker bait and little else. It got pretty intense sitting on top of a truck with infected swarming us and the one guy who decided to run ahead later and startle the witch. We finally make it to the safe house. Everyone limps through painfully slow as a hunter leaps down from the roof. Not bothering to shoot I heave the door shut as it shrieks and comes within inches from my face. | |
Key words: Know what they need to do. It's a bit harder when you're usually playing with a group that can't tell the difference between Santa and a boomer. And you cannot deny that a flaming witch has a certain lethal beauty about it. @topic My team roared in, guns blazing, and wiped out most of the horde while Louis pulled me to my feet. And then, a huge horde came barreling down the ramp to the helipad (since I'd been pulled off of it), with a pair of tanks shambling along behind. We were massacred. | |
I've done that as well with my buddies online. I had a couple brews, and well, the witch looked like one of the female zombies that at kneeling, so I shot at her. Boy did I learn my lesson! | |
Most of my moments occured due to the evil Smoker. On one occasion, I threw a pipe bomb into a horde, but what I didn't know was that a Smoker was also in the cluster of zombies which roped me up and dragged me to the horde surrounding the pipe bomb, causing me to get caught in the blast. Even more brutal is one Smoker that sat ontop of a subway. When he lasso'd me, the Smoker dangled me over a small group of zombies who proceeded to beat me to death like a pinata. | |
Not from the game proper, but rather the demo. So, we're in the subway tunnels of No Mercy, the second part, and we're fighting through the horde. And the Director seems to think we're being too good, because it decides to spawn a witch nearby. And this witch cries very quietly, because my Uzi-spraying ass trips over her. And then my ass gets eaten by the witch. Thankfully, my nearby player controlled teammate had a shotgun and put that bitch down, got me up and healed me, but goddamnit was I suddenly on my ass, going from uzi firing to pistol firing before I knew it. | |
I loled at this last one nice, sounds a little like doing the ol' Leeroy jenkins though | |
During the demo on no mercy me and my friend were attempting it on the hardest difficulty for the first time. We armed up and walked down the stairs into the house. As soon as we walked into the first room a zombie ran at us. I turned to shoot it but missed and got my friend right in the face, crippling him. Much later on, at the point where you have to open the electric door there was a witch standing right in front of the switch. Me and my friend were discussing what to do when i took it upon my self to molotov it. Having never seen a burning witch before we were both laughing so hard at it, it killed us both. | |
No mercy, finale, versus, me as a hunter, friends being hunter, smoker, tank. Tank charges at the grop which was infront of the radio/ammo/turret house and the group all back away to the helipad in slightly differnt angles. One of them rounded a corner slightly slower then the rest and was now out of los with a tank blocking the way. So i pounce. I sucessfuly hit and just as the camera goes in 3rd person i see a huge slab of concrete fly at me and i was like "oh shit". Thankfully, the infected have no frienly fire. | |
I was walking along WHEN A ZOMBIE ATTACKED ME. To be continued.. | |
Playing on co-op with my friend and two AI. So we're fighting our way to the safe house from a street crowded with the undead. My friend and I decide to turn round and shoot at them for a while. The AI keep going. We hear a tank coming, so I throw a Molotov into the hoarde. This is when my friend notices the absence of our AI, so he makes a dash for the safehouse. And now I'm on my own firing at the oncoming hoarde, oblivious that my team has left me. When the Tank gets closer I decide to leg it only to find out that the others have already done so. Panic. I dash for the safe house but my friend closes the door, I shout at him to open it. He doesn't. I get there and open it, then he closes it again, I open it he closes it. Enraged at this betrayal I turn again to face the hoarde .I squeeze the trigger, and promptly die. | |
If there was an "All4dead" achievement for the boomer i would have gotten it, awhile back before they fixed the exploit where you could bind "kill" or "explode" and still cover the survivors in goo as a boomer, i killed all 4 survivors in one explosion | |
Versus on Blood Harvest was one of the best for me. Then we activated the radio, and decided to camp by the ammo stash. All went well until one of us decides to check out another room, and gets pounced by a hunter. At the same time the horde makes a hole in the wall, and a smoker drags a teammate out. Panic ensues, but I manage to free both the unfortunates by shooting the hunter and smoker through the walls. Then the first tank comes, and we barely manage to pass around some pills before the tank crashes through the front door. We run out the hole in the wall, and manage to kill it without too much hassle. But as we relieved head back into the house, a boomer jumps on us from the roof. We barely manage to force a way into the house again, and the next minutes consists mainly of frantic pushing and shooting. Then the next tank comes, and we go out to repeat the procedure. But this time, the infected does a fine job of separating us, and in the end I am the only one able to fight the tank (the other ones being incapped, or fighting the horde off.) I kite the tank around while saving my teammates from the hunters and the smoker. At last I manage to kill the beast, one second before he hits me. Cheering comes from my teammates, and I help one up, but as we both help the other two up, we hear the rescue vehichle (Yay!) and the howl from the horde (RUN!) We manage to reach the vehichle with the Run, Gun and Push tactic. But we get separated just before we can get into the car. Then the last tank comes, and hits one of us into the barn and the smoker waiting there. A boomer gets one other, but I and the other one standing finally gets into the car. I manage to shoot the smoker, freeing its victim, but then the tank decides to pay us a visit inside the armoured car. We both scream like little girls, but that doesn't stop us from being incapped. But, rejoice, the one I rescued from the smoker saves us! He draws the tanks attention! He's miraculously still standing! The tank leaves us, and kills our brave friend. Just then, the rescue vehichle drives away, with us in it, and we win the map! Oh the cheering! Afterwards we slaughter their demoralized team before they even get to the fields. | |
I turned to and saw a large fat being, thinking it was a boomer I yelled out "Boomer" and started shooting at it, took me a few seconds to realize I hadn't shot a boomer..........IT WAS SANTA! | |
Never thought of it that way, but I guess so. I was just being goofy as hell because it was three in the morning at the time. | |
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I don't think this one's been done before. Well, not exactly. And if Flying-Emu is right then I screwed up bad :(
You can be as stylish or as boring with the stories as you want, and they can involve any kind of amazing glitch, shot, trap or kill (zombie-wise). As long as it's Left 4 Dead.
The best one I can think of was in the demo - the subway level of No Mercy. Me and three friends were on the hardest setting and we were walking up to the first set of trains. I was point, and as I rounded the escalator, the ominous thunder of an incoming Tank set the controller in my hands vibrating wildly.
You should know at this point that, in the hardest difficulty, your skin has all the protective qualities of a wet newspaper. Some of us were limping and only I had a healthpack left. Yeah, we're not the best players in the planet.
I looked behind me to the platform and then to the tracks to see if the Tank was there. No sign of him. A moments silence flitted over us, and we all let out a collective sigh of relief assuming it had merely been a glitch.
I made my way over to the train door, expecting the Tank to burst out at any moment. It was empty. Not even a sly molotov crouching at the back. Then, from behind me, came the shouts of my team-mates. They'd found the Tank. He was coming from behind us.
One of us tried to hold him off but was killed by a slab of concrete. The other two were swatted aside on the escalators as he made his way up to me and the trains.
I sat in the carriage, waiting for him with a molotov. Then he rushed me and I swear to God it was one of the most terrifying things I've ever experience in games. A massive, hulking, flaming zombie chasing me down the 3-foot-wide train carriage.
As lame as it was, that was mine. And let that be the low benchmark.
Anyhoo, let's hear some friggin stories already!