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by Boss Llama » Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:25 pm
I don't know anything about the survival mode on original L4D, but I certainly enjoyed the L4D2 version. With four people that know what they're doing, set-up can be pretty quick. B showed me how to carry multiple guns/kits/etc so you could run with them, and that let us get things in place quite fast. The 14:30 survival on the motel was a heck of a match, with tanks coming every minute or so at first, and in pairs like every 30-45 seconds by the end.
We did the fairground concert thing as well, and managed 5:52 for a bronze despite the fact that the two pubbers with us spent all of set-up shooting each other with the grenade launcher trying to get to the roof, killing each other and burning our defib and some healthkits in the process, and both times we tried the level, they set off our flammables supply by shooting it (once, before the round even started).
All-in-all, not bad! A full team of dedicated people could set up quickly, and probably hold together pretty well. Dual pistols definitely seemed preferable to me to melee weapon, given that they have unlimited ammo, and can kill at range. There are so many things simultaneously attacking you that you don't want to be close to (tanks, jockeys, hunters, etc) that the ability to clean up the yard trash at range is far more valuable than instant point-blank kills. Idealy, they should never make it to point blank.
-Boss Llama
