The most annoying Zombie...

[Dog]

When playing against Human Zombies, which one is the most annoying to play against?

[Boss Llama]

In my recent experience, the emo. An emo played by a human is smart enough not to detonate the moment it's at max range, so can easily run on to a flag being capped and eliminate half a team.

[Zork Nemesis]

While I gotta go with Emo on the count of their no-skill slaughter, Grey Dudes aren't a whole lot of fun to play with either, they just sit and hide and keep throwing mobs your way.

[Dog]

I can deal with the Grey Dude and his spawned Zombies, but I have issues with the Emo.
People really, really hate the Emo when played as a human...

[v.o.c]

a good player of each can be a pain, but i think a good emo tops the list.

[l3eeron]

ha ha, I voted emo too...

In the hands of a human, it's tough to defend against.

[EmbraceThePing]

Definately the Emo.
Sure the Grey dude can be a pain to have to go hunt down before you can cap but the Emo is just the epitome of a lame way to die.

By the way how large is the blast radius on those things. It seems like I just have to be in the same zip code to be bitten by that bad boy.

[M's]

I admit the Emo is bad to the bone.
But the bain of the sniper, or entrenched mg is a good Anarchist.
He can stay just out of range and lobe explosives right on top of you. But pair him with the Gasman. And you can kiss your arse goodbye.

[KRG]

Wraith is not an option? Wraith is my most hated, annoying zombie.

[TheCarpe]

Wraith is not an option? Wraith is my most hated, annoying zombie.

I don't think he's controllable by humans in Versus.

[<eVa> + Sarge +]

I play Witch when on Zombies. I hear Allies getting frustrated when I teleport right behind them out of nowhere and hack them to pieces.

It can be annoying I'm sure. Plus it's easy to bust up a last flag cap when doing an early spawn first.

[Dr. Bob]

While I gotta go with Emo on the count of their no-skill slaughter...

Emo gains my vote too. Not only is it insanely annoying that they can pop around any corner and detonate three or four times during a single cap, I also find that a few players I find myself getting frustrated (over poor sportsmanship, unwarranted gloating, and endless complaining when you do manage to kill them) play almost exclusively as this class. When the AI Emo blows you up, you almost have to laugh. When that human Emo comes dashing into me at superspeed time and time again, I usually find its time to take a break

[Aardvark Ratnick]

Human Emos are the most annoying. They don't even have to be close to you to kill you and half the population of India. Just in the general vicinity. I tried and tried the other night to get a bead on a guy playing EMO to no avail. Either it was a terrible angle or he was moving at hyper speed and I couldn't lead him enough. He was making mincemeat of the allies. I am not sure anyone got a kill in on him.

[Dog]

I'll explain what is going on in my tiny mind.

The game is being blighted by the existence of the human Emo (not the bot Emo) and many players are getting frustrated by the way the Human Emos play. The server never completely fills because of some of the Emo players we have. People leave when they continually blasted by the same guy.

So I have a bunch of options:

1. Replace the Emo with the Wraith (this has already been written but has never been turned on)
2. Remove fast respawn for the Emo and reduce health to 100hp which makes it difficult to play
3. Prevent the Emo from jumping and reduce the explosion radius

I prefer number one.
The Emo doesn't offer much in terms of teamwork and since L4DoD is primarily all about teamwork, then there is little point in including him!
The original intent of the Emo was to be like the Boomer, which does have a teamwork element - it slimes players and is then attacked by the other Zs. However, it has become the creeper which is annoying as hell in Minecraft!

Replacing the Emo with a Wraith has a bunch of implications:
-- easy to kill if you get the Wraith early on - it only has 50hp
-- there is no auto-lock for human players - when a bot Wraith begins sucking health, you have to run around corners to break it - human Wraiths will have to work harder to suck (hehe)
-- the human Wraith will suck health a little stronger than the bot Wraith
-- the human Wraith's health will be capped at 1500hp (if they stay alive that long)
-- most importantly, the Wraith can only damage one player at a time....

So give me your opinions.
It will be game changing so I do have concerns...

[KRG]

Change to wraith.

Or create a new zombie. . .one that is cut in half and crawls on the ground in a prone position ankle biting and tripping people. I think I could handle that.