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Jackson and I had an awesome L4D game last night.

I joined a game in progress, and came in as my team lost first stage before my slot had even loaded. My team had lost on the survivor *starting* rooftop and all bailed while being eaten, leaving a guy named TrippleDink by himself.

CantRememberWho: "You guys suck balls"


As it turned out, the other team had a pre-made group wearing the tag . Not good, but I was in to have fun. The comment wasn't directed at me, so wtvr.

Various other players came and went, but TrippleDink and I laughed as we admitted we didn't know the stages very well, and just stayed in to learn some stuff. It wasn't a slaughter, but we lost overall, unable to secure the next stage as survivors or infected. However, we came up with some good techniques that helped us do pretty well as an infected duo even with rotating wingmen.

Finally a player named gary joined, then Jackson answered the call!

No mercy:3 was a victory for us as both survivors and as infected!

SomeName: "Overall score, bitches!"

heh

The final stage was a total shut-out. We slaughtered them, and we *all four* flew away in the helicopter together!

Because of the first team's abysmal performance on the No Mercy:1 rooftop, we lost with a score somewhere close to 2150 to 2168. I can't remember exactly, but after a masterful amount of end-game lobby trash talk by Jackson, the awesomeness was apparent.


_INFECTED STRATEGIES, FTW:__

1) ROTATE LEAD-- In a loose group, you expect to do poorly, so a little humility went a long way. Probably the best single thing we did was learn to rely on every player, regardless of how new they were to the team.

Even if our Boomer was the weakest or newest player on the team, we'd let him call the play and wait for his lead-in Instead of relying on our strongest player to carry us.

2) BOOMER FIRST -- There are exceptions, of course (ladder-tops, tanks, etc), but 95% we relied on the boomer to call the play. Even if their call sucked.

3) PARK THE TANK, FTW -- Jackson had an awesome strategy in No Mercy:3. We parked the tank away from the elevator, and all spawned to attack at once when they activated the tank-bot.

5 special infected were on the screen at once.

Obviously, this isn't the best at all times, but don't be afraid of a tank time-out. A parked tank in the right place can be an awesome thing.

I hope that helps.
gg