[Multiplatform] Left 4 STOP THROWING PIPE BOMBS AT THE TANKS

Rocks have a niche; they could certainly be more useful but they definitely have their place. You will never deal as much damage with rocks as you theoretically can deal with punches, but laying down suppressive fire in the right place can massively increase a tank's lifespawn in wide open battlefields.

Doing 30 or 40 damage over the course of a couple minutes (and it's not hard to buy this much time if you can find a chokepoint to block) beats the hell out of doing no damage over the course of 10 seconds because you're on fire and 99% of your flesh has been replaced with buckshot.

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Throwing rocks tends to come in mighty useful on the rooftop of the hospital when the AI decides to spawn your ass right in front of the mini-gun. Taking cover behind something while arcing rocks through the air at the survivors that refuse to run away from the little encampment where the mini-gun is does wonders.

Ever since this DLC hit I've hated being the tank. It doesn't matter if my ping is sitting at thirty, and same with everyone else, the fucking arm tends to pass right through them 90% of the time. It's annoying as all hell and I don't think I'm the only one having a problem with it.

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Originally Posted by Tails

PFFFF yeah right. I think I will stick to ROCK THROWIN after I hit someone in the face directly last night.

That was hilarious. It was really weird though; I guess because you were standing right next to them, when you threw the rock it looked like you just held on to it and slammed it down on her head.

I also liked that time I was the smoker and managed to pull you all the way down the stairs back into the safe room on NM 5, and your team didn't notice until they reached the elevator shaft

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Hey, if anyone wants a spot filled with maximum gay, you can do the end of Death Toll from the deep part of the water. It's similar to what people do on Dead Air with their backs against empty space, except the infected can't get behind them, and hunters can't pounce in the deep water (though if you're good you can try to pounce from ontop of the house straight onto them for 25 damage).

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Hey, if anyone wants a spot filled with maximum gay, you can do the end of Death Toll from the deep part of the water. It's similar to what people do on Dead Air with their backs against empty space, except the infected can't get behind them, and hunters can't pounce in the deep water (though if you're good you can try to pounce from ontop of the house straight onto them for 25 damage).

Even better is everyone climbing ontop of the rock near the water to the far right of the map. Three people watch the land, a fourth person watches the water for Smokers with an automatic rifle. Infected can't get up there and very, very rarely do Tanks think about climbing up there.

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Yeah, I've done that for the Campaign mode, but I imagine it wouldn't work as well in versus. Then again, if you get four people with autoshotties up there, some decent teamwork, and people that know how to use pistols and I could see that spot being pretty solid. Sadly it seems the only maps I'm seeing in versus right now are Dead Air and No Mercy. Dead Air is pretty fun, though there's just so many rooftops to either pull off of or jump off of it can be some pretty great rape.

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Yeah, I've done that for the Campaign mode, but I imagine it wouldn't work as well in versus. Then again, if you get four people with autoshotties up there, some decent teamwork, and people that know how to use pistols and I could see that spot being pretty solid.

As far as that spot working, the rock, if the entire team of survivors do have auto shotties, then as the tank, I would think you could stand back at that little house that's north-west of the contact point and literally chuck rocks from afar and not worry about taking any damage at all. That is if you weren't hit by a moly.

As far as Death Toll goes, I was really, really looking forward to playing this in versus constantly due to it being my favorite map on campaign. Unfortunately, due to several invisible walls and cheap camping spots for survivors, its my most hated map for versus as it stands. I've not had the opportunity to play much of Dead Air, but all in all, that seems to the more enjoyable of the two.

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Oh, and to let anyone know that doesn't currently, if you get set on fire as the tank you can run into the water to put it out. Last time I controlled the tank on the last stage of Death Toll I used that trick twice to let me finish the survivors off.

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In case anyone hadn't noticed, the game has a free 24-hour demo up until sometime late Friday on Steam. Since we now have a PC (laptop actually) that can play games for the first time ever, I checked it out and everything runs good (medium to maxed settings), and the game is on sale this weekend for $24 on Steam, so I'll probably double-dip on PC. I'll have to doublecheck my Steam name, I can't remember if it's sailordaravon or mrdaravon.

As an aside, I discovered a nice little pull 2 nights ago on Dead Air 2, and I was able to fairly easily replicate it tonight again. It APPEARS to be a slight glitch, but I'm not sure, looking around online and posting it I couldn't find anyone else mention it.

On Dead Air 2 as the infected, at the start of the match the smoker can get up on the roof to the right, then jump up a ledge into the room with the window that is directly above where the Survivors come out. Stand as far out as you can on the ledge, and you'll see the fire escape on the left. Wait for the survivors to jump the fence and climb up the fire escape, and pull the last one as he's going up the ladder. If you pull a survivor there, it pulls them straight across to you, with NO vertical drop, over the fence on your side. As far as I can tell since you're barely on the ledge, the tongue is dragging across the windowsills between you and the fire escape maybe? It's worked easily both times, and since the Survivors can't get back across the fence, you can easily coordinate a distraction or teaming up on that guy and kill him.

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I was also made aware of a more elaborate stats page, mine can be seen here. 100% accuracy with the assault rifle surprises me.

I was speaking idiomatically.

That's because it's wrong.

Stats seem to only half work, lots of people are reporting errors.

Some people have stats like 20k zombies killed while having earned the Genocidest achievement, for example.

You also didn't manage to somehow hit 19 of 20 shots on infected with the L1 shotgun and not manage to kill a god damn thing, so.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I honestly don't understand how anyone can fail so hard at goddamn statistics collection.

My stats seem mostly accurate, but probably I only think that because none of them are especially exceptional.

I wish it would track shots fired with the single pistol and the dual pistols separately, though.

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Wow, more kills with the pistol than everything except for the assault rifle.

What sort of accuracies do you guys get while playing? Recently I've been up around 35-45% with the assault rifle. I've started using the auto-shotgun in versus because it's the best way to take a tank out, but I really like it a lot less against common infected and other special infected (though it does seem to work well against hunters).

Also, the Finales Survived is a little lame there since I hardly ever lose a finale in campaign mode, and they're generally crazy tough in versus. They should really separate the two of them out.

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I picked it up on Steam, my Steam tag is Mr Daravon if anyone wants to add me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You need to set up a profile or something, because searching Steam Community isn't turning you up.

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Well for me it never works if you're trying to add someone through the Steam IM service. You need to go to the person's actual profile and click on the "Add to your friends list" link on the top right.

Some of these statistics I'm seeing on my profile doesn't look right. 59% accuracy with the HR doesn't look right, and 93% with the AR? Hell no. 20% with auto shotty? Really?? It's way too low to be accurate. The Vs and Survival stats look fine though. Dead Air is my favourite campaign and that's not in my 'most played campaign' section. Gah, I'll have to fix that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah, I wasn't able to add anybody from GAF without going to their profile screen, name searches never worked. Link to my profile:

Steam Community :: ID :: Mr Daravon

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Is anyone up for a round later tonight? Probably around midnight or so EST?

Got finals today and the best way to relieve the stress of classes is to shoot zombies and Mo0 as a tank.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Luxray

Is anyone up for a round later tonight? Probably around midnight or so EST?

I'm down - but can't we do it earlier? Some of us work for a living, ya know.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Steam community seems down for maintenance =/

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Count me in for some hot zombie action. How about 9-10pm EST?

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I was going to say I'd be down, but 9-10pm your time, pfft, sod that I'll be asleep. Oh well, another time perhaps.

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Problem is, I get out around 10 PM for my last class.

Given the final during the beginning of my class, I could probably bounce the fuck outta there and play earlier than I had anticipated.

We'll see what happens though. I mean, it's a journalism class. How long should it take to type up a news report?

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On the one hand, I have a final tomorrow.

On the other hand, it's at 7:30 PM. I can study beforehand.

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Very in.

About half of you have my phone number. If I'm not there, text it or call it, as I have a small number of things to get done tonight before I settle in.

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