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    Left 4 Dead

    Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Nov 18, 2008

    Left 4 Dead puts players in the role of one of four survivors during a zombie apocalypse. Survivors will depend on co-operation to get from one safe house to another, while facing hordes of "Infected", four of which can be controlled by human players in certain game modes.

    Tips for a noob

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    #1  Edited By Geno

    That noob being me. I just bought Left 4 Dead and I'm currently installing. I haven't played any of it excluding a couple hours of the demo, so what tips would you guys give for someone just starting out (besides not dying, not team-attacking etc)?

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    #3  Edited By hungrynun

    Melee is the best thing you can do as a survivor.

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    #4  Edited By suneku

    Melee is your best friend. Spam it to get out of trouble and to stop hunters/smokers from getting you. Don't linger and stay with your teammates (if you're not playing with AI teammates). Check out some of the guides on this site (to your left), they're pretty useful.

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    #5  Edited By Snipzor

    If someone puked on you, corner up and melee constantly. If you see a hunter on someone, run up and melee him, avoid damage on the ally.
     
    One last thing, if on expert, go as slow as possible. Crouch and stay in a 2x2 formation, 2 looking forward and 2 looking back.

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    #6  Edited By Ryu

    Remember to run and shoot ;).

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    #7  Edited By ZombieHunterOG
    Snipzor said:
    "If someone puked on you, corner up and melee constantly. If you see a hunter on someone, run up and melee him, avoid damage on the ally.
     
    One last thing, if on expert, go as slow as possible. Crouch and stay in a 2x2 formation, 2 looking forward and 2 looking back."
    this isn't actually a very good tip 
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    #8  Edited By Scooper

    Make sure everyone is using their microphone and when in doubt use melee.

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    #9  Edited By Jecrell

    My advice pertains to versus mode, which is by far the best thing about L4D, here's some No Mercy tips.

    At the end of the apartments level in no mercy, there is a car and an alleyway next to the the stairs down that lead to the saferoom. Usually a smoker will spawn behind the car, and if you shoot the car alarm you cause a massive horde that will usually incap your teammates and make it hard to beat the level with all four. Normally you'd try to go melee the smoker to death, but sometimes there's a boomer in the alley making such a strategy suicide. Usually it's best to throw a molotov near or behind the car (don't hit the car with it! ]] which will kill the smoker in a few seconds, defeating that strategy altogether.

    In the third level of No Mercy, outside of the Burger Tank resturaunt is a large warehouse and gas station. When the survivors start the event and start running on top of the roof of the warehouse, spawn a smoker below them, and pull one down. If you have a boomer buddy you can barf on him and cause a horde. Other survivors will usually jump down oblivious to their own health, and sometimes they will incap themselves as their own weight breaks their legs from fall damage. If you're a survivor and this happens and you can't see the smoker or too many are incapped below you can attempt to run through the warehouse to the lower level where there's a door with a switch that you can open that will lead you back to the bottom of the warehouse where most likely your friends are waiting for you. Unfortunately only the fastest will be able to save them, so it's a race against time, knock the zombies away, and shoot the ones that are hitting you, not much else advice is to be had.

    Also at any point there is a ladder leading upwards (such as in the third level of no mercy, or the finale the other team will usually spawn all their boss infected up there to make your life a living hell. Sometimes it helps to throw a molotov up in the air, and hope some of them die from the fire, but if this doesn't work and you still hear boomer and hunters it could be the end of your team. And the unfortunate thing is that there's not much you can do, as the first person that pops up from the ladder will be pulled by a smoker, and the next will be huntered back into the hole and land all the way on the bottom of the ladder. That's already two men down, and usually they have another hunter, and if the boomer boomed anyone then getting back up the ladder will be very difficult, so at times you might even just have a single survivor who isn't on the verge of being incapped who has to save everyone else. Worst of all, if they have 3 hunters and 1 smoker, it's possible that everyone will get incapped....

    If you have advanced weapons, I.E. automatic shotguns, and you walk outside and hear the tank music, rush back into the safe room and have everyone equip automatic shotguns and get in a corner. The tank will be forced to either 1 go attack you and die, as 4 survivors with autoshotguns is certain death, or 2 run far away and hide until the AI takes over the tank, the AI tank is so stupid that it's rare it will be able to kill your group, so both are good strategies against the tank. If you don't have advanced weapons, pray your team is organized enough to run around in a wide area shooting the thing without getting incapped too badly. Green health is important to have when fighting the tank, as you can outrun it. If you're a tank fighting green health people you might want to throw rocks until they become yellow so that you can chase them, but if they have regular weapons they should be little problem for your massive fists.

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