TechnocratTechnocrat’s Random Thoughts

I have played lots of left 4 dead matches now.  I have most of the achievements.  I think I am a pretty good l4d player at this point.  In all my time playing I keep seeing stuff that drives me crazy.  So here is some stupid shit people do on left 4 dead.

Not listening is one things that drives me crazy.  I can understand if someone doesn’t speak English.  That I can totally get.  But when you know someone can and chooses to do stupid things even after you warn them not to is going to get you killed.  I can’t tell you how many times I have told someone to stay close, or back up, or watch for this, only for them to ignore me and then have the situation blow up on them.  I know most levels really well.  I know whats going to happen and what to do in 99% of situations.  So its not like I don’t know what I am talking about.  I also don’t field general a game.  But I am giving helpful and many times important advice.  So listen to me goddammit.

My fav is when I tell someone something and they tell me to shut the fuck up, only to have it happen to them.  I was playing the final level of Blood Harvest with someone that ignored me through most of the level and I ended up saving them countless times.  So we get ready to start the final event up stairs in the house.  He was standing in a window.  I told him to get out of the window and come closer to us.  His response was to tell me to shut the fuck up and not tell him what to do.  Ok…. 10 seconds later he gets smoker’ed out the window.  So I have to leap out the window, kill the smoker and then fight our way up stairs to get back to the others.  I then tell him if he gets caught again that I am not helping him.  His response was to act like a child and basically tell me what ever.  So we fight off everything, the truck shows up, and he is in the window again.  I tell him to get out of the window and get to the truck stopping point.  No response.  Ok so I about to get off the roof to where the truck will be when I hear the in trouble music.  I turn around to see him with a hunter ripping him up.  I could have gone back, fought it off and got to the truck no problem.  But I thought, screw it, so I left him.  Which led to him screaming like a girl for help, and save me.  We got on the truck and rode off.  During the credits was a long profanity tirade about how we just left him and how I am an ass.  Yeah what ever. 

Having people in an Expert game that do not have the skills to be there is another thing that pisses me off.  I play expert from time to time and I do a pretty good job.  But I can’t tell you the number of times I am in a expert game and someone that couldn’t do a normal game joins.  They will get lost, freindly fire people, or do other stupid shit.

The last thing I am going to cover is the Ragers.  People that try to make the game unpleasant so you will quit.  This can be done by using something like HLSS to play annoying sounds constantly, or running ahead and setting off events, or the more recent team killer incarnations.  Most of the time you can vote them off.  Sometime you can’t, which is where you have two choices.  Deal with it or leave.  Most of the time you can deal with it.  Best way is to kill them.  I hate doing this but lots of times you have no choice.  The best way to make this happen is to use the auto shotty and get as close as you can and unload in their face.  A couple of those will down them.  If you can the best thing is to leave them, but if you can’t for some reason, reload, help them up and repeat.  The third time they will be dead.  Then don’t release them late on.  Most of the time they will leave because they can’t get to you any more.