Let's Fail: Left 4 Dead 2, with EoFFers SEASON TWO!

[Shauna]

I imagine this won't be the last time... Next up DARK CARNIVAL

[Psychotic]

I'm gonna post Episode 2 tomorrow. I was gonna do a day break in between but I really need to share the really awful moment. I did four terrible things in the space of 30 seconds that contributed to the death/downing of everyone on the team.

[Formalhaut]

I wish I could watch this, but I have a serious aversion to gore, horror games and movies.

How gory is Left 4 Dead? How scary is it? It isn't like monsters popping out at you is it?

[Slothy]

Oh Psy. Didn't even grab a second pistol before running down the stairs.

Good thing there was a deagle down there.

Except you ditched the deagle for a single USP.

If you'd been there to explain to me what these things are none of this would've happened!

Had you been a bit quicker finishing your first campaign I would have been happy to oblige.

L4D2 isn't scary. Things almost never pop out at you without you expecting them, and even when they do, it's hard to be afraid when it's zombie number 74 out of the 150-200 you'll kill in a given level.

And it's kind of gory, but honestly, unless you're trying to look art it the game frequently moves to quickly for it to be too noticeable as a spectator. Just leave it in 420p and don't maximize the screen and I doubt it'll be too bothersome.

[Shauna]

We finished the campaign as quickly as we could. xD

And I second everything Vivi says about L4D and scariness. Nothing jumps out at you, because you can hear everything coming - the special infected all make silly noises and they are often pre-empted by some spooky music. Regular infected don't jump out either. They tend to run in herds. There is a lot of blood spatter, but it's not real feeling - it's too campy. xD

The only time L4D gets scary is when you're actually playing it and you are running low on health and you're limping towards the safe room and oh god are you going to make it, and even then it's not scary so much as intense. xD

[Psychotic]

Yeah, it's more of an action experience than a horror experience.

[Psychotic]

The fail. Don't click this until after 3:30 or so. It starts at 2:39 I mean, you can, but it's more fun to watch it before reading!

• Doo dee doo dee doo, oh look, an axe. Hey Shauna, look, an axe. Yes I know you're talking about Tanks and already have an axe, but look!
• Hmmm, I appear to have been thumped in the face. Well, rather me than someone competent. Better rush in their and save my friends by throwing a Bile Bomb. I have never used one before and have no idea what they do. I only just looked it up on the wiki before posting this.
• I slightly hit the Tank with the Bile Bomb. I definitely hit Shauna.
• Something flaming happens and I run away to leave Shauna and Matt to die.
• Baloki is then carried away by a Smoker right next to me. I do not notice this.
• I ignore all of my friends - even though they are in worse positions than me - to heal. But then I can't help them if I'm half dead, right?
• "Behind you!" is the first thing Baloki says in the LP. I ignore this and go forward.
• "Help, help! Heeeeeeelp!" yelps Baloki. I continue to ignore this to act the hero and "rescue" Shauna and Matt. My inaction leads to a defib having to be wasted.

I. smurfing. Rule. The best bit is that I think Shauna and Matt probably thought I stayed with them in the room to fight the tank and then heroically rescued them afterwards. NOPE. The end stats show I did some damage to it though, but smurf knows how.

To be fair, I think I more than made up for it at 7:40when I single handedly wiped out a horde piling in behind Matt, unseen! Some badass smurfing shotgun work right there.

[Shauna]

(SPOILER)Yes. Yes I did think you were saving us. What a dick. xD

[Slothy]

• I slightly hit the Tank with the Bile Bomb. I definitely hit Shauna.

Unless I'm having a severe lapse in memory, I'm 99.9% certain you can't hit teammates with bile bombs. That the tank was the only thing covered when you threw it would seem to confirm this. Bile bombs are also almost exclusively useful against tanks. They do as a distraction in other situations in a pinch, but pipe bombs are better for that and anything hit that isn't a tank dies too fast.

[Pumpkin]

Okay so I watched this and I think I figured some stuff out
-You appear to be shooting zombies
-There is a lot of noise going on
-Psychotic keeps being told not to shoot team members
-There are voices of people who are not the players
-I didn't hear the Baloki thing
-Matt is a woman
-Shauna is a man?
-Someone says Yeeees really creepily at one point

How badly are my predictions going?

[Slothy]

Also, just a bit of advice Psy: when surrounded by zombies, always melee before shooting. Every zombie you're not shooting is attacking you when you could push several away at once and take far less damage. And when you reload, melee. Melee doesn't interrupt the reload so if you're loading a clip and you're surrounded keep knocking them back.

[Psychotic]

Ah, so I did a good thing when I hurled that Bile Bomb! It does seem the zombies in there are what took the tank down. ...by luck rather than design.

Also shion you do get Left 4 Dead. That's basically all there is to it xD When does the "Yeeees" appear? I'll try to identify the person who said it.

EDIT: Good to know Vivi, thanks. Will keep that in mind in future. I did feel like a lemon, standing about and reloading in the middle of a horde. I was in the Halo mindset where melee is your reload cancel. Obviously you won't see the benefit of that in this LP though haha

[Pumpkin]

Around 4:48

[Psychotic]

Hahaha, that would be Dat Matt.

[Pumpkin]

I figured as much xD

I'm not sure what he's saying it to, but it stood out to me probably the most of anything in this video.

I'm weird