Well, after extensive play, I've concluded on the following.
- The game is in dire need of more weapons. Probably over twice the current number. I find myself using the same gun throughout the entirety of the four campaigns, occasionally switching to autoshotty when we wipe on Dead Air. And these campaigns are pretty long.
- I think patches should add some more zombie bosses as well. A run through the first level in the first campaign pretty much shows you every enemy you run across, except for the Witch, if a Tank spawns (which they can and often do).
- Huntards and Smokers need a life increase, probably double of their current. This is especially prominent in Versus where you die in literally one or two hits and never get the chance to do any damage except in very specific circumstances.
- You need to be able to access the difficulty setting for Versus without going through the console, and it needs to
not scale according to map.
- Valve needs to hurry up and update the SDK.
- In-game voice chat apparently crashes you in the lobby a lot. I crashed, ApeRape crashed, pheo crashed... all while using voice chat. It's a good thing we use vent normally.
The game has a lot of freaking sound files and my voice pack probably won't be done anytime soon.
If I knew Hammer, which I don't and never will, I'd take advantaged of a greatly increased weapon pool and make a campaign where you'd actually have some variety. You know, instead of finding a huge stack of t2 weapons and decking everyone out, there's just the odd stray weapon around. I think Turtle Rock didn't do this because everyone who plays games is a 12 year old and you'd have team killing galore for weapons. Well, I presume most of the people I play with who shoot each other only do it out of spite and not for weapons, so yeah.
I'd like to see something like a revolver that bisects zombies, mp5, portable minigun, rocket launcher, railgun, rocket-propelled chainsaws, and harpoon guns like in Timesplitters 3. That thing was awesome. For that matter, injector guns.
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Because I'm bored, I'm going to show images for the weapons I'd like to see inside L4D.
Raging Bull
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http://www.dreadgazebo.com/gunporn/wp-c ... bull-3.jpg[/imgwh]
Minigun
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http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Ma ... igun-2.jpg[/imgwh]
The most tricked out tacticalized mp5 you can find
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http://images.hobbytron.com/MC-AP-755-lg.jpg[/imgwh]
A rocket launcher or RPG, just so I can kill HKS with FF repeatedly
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http://www.messiah.kiev.ua/wp-content/u ... uncher.jpg[/imgwh]
A railgun
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http://davidszondy.com/future/war/railgun03.jpg[/imgwh]
An old-fashioned harpoon gun, or a gatling harpoon gun like in Timesplitters
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http://www.yourprops.com/norm-4716a9ef6 ... 1975).jpeg[/imgwh]
A more tactical version of the m4
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http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/1672 ... oolcy8.jpg[/imgwh]
A heavy Bolter, for the Emperor!
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http://members.fortunecity.com/pangolin ... bolter.jpg[/imgwh]
RPC
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http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/L ... ainsaw.jpg[/imgwh]
The Injector Gun that turns dudes into exploding dudes
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http://www.freewebs.com/farwest/EWWWW!.jpg[/imgwh]
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Whoops, I forgot a few. Since this is America, and this is a zombie apocalypse, all of our weapons need to be realistic. So we must think about what Americans use for home safety. So, in addition to the above, we'd also probably find a lot of these laying around on the street.
Barret anti-tank rifle
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http://sistemadearmas.sites.uol.com.br/ ... yload3.jpg[/imgwh]
Some 50 cals for home security against those TV-stealing african american gentlemen
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http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7979/m2gr2.jpg[/imgwh]
Some prototypes for assault weaponry
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http://www.load.az/uploads/posts/2008-0 ... _oicw2.jpg[/imgwh]
Sometimes people talk about melee weapons. Well, I think melee is pretty goddamn rediculous as it is. But if you properly nerfed melee, then you'd have room for some dedicated weapons that perhaps run in place of one of your guns.
This is America, so we need to think about what kind of weapons Americans would use for self-defense in hand-to-hand combat.
Claymore
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http://www.scottishsword.com/SwordPics/Claymore1-1.jpg[/imgwh]
A trusty hammer
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http://home.att.net/~licata_knives/warhammer.jpg[/imgwh]
Handy mace
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http://home.att.net/~licata.knives/dieschla2.jpg[/imgwh]
A handy hatchet
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http://www.kultofathena.com/images/KR22.jpg[/imgwh]
