Thread: Is this cheap? Why haven't I seen it before?

So last night I'm playing with my regular team on a Versus game, and we're up as Infected on Blood Harvest 3 (The Train Station).

These guys had been giving us a bit of greif but we were handing it back to them in spades as they were continually failing to make it to the safehouse every map. Finally in BH3 it looked promising for them as they were almost to the second house and we hadn't had a Tank show up yet.

I wished and hoped, and all of a sudden, I became the tank, but rather than charge in and get a shotgun dinner, I told my compatriots to hold them up while I went to get the survivors a present.

"I'm bringing the car to them," I said as I started bashing the alarmed car through the trees and down the train tracks. The survivors got smart quick though and climbed on top of a train car and started firing, but luckily I had manuevered the car into a bullet shield, so they simply set the alarm off.

Needless to say they panicked and jumped down, and I then proceeded to incap two of them on the house-side of the train tracks, then bash the car OVER the train, run around, and smash it into the two remaining survivors.

So my question is, why don't I see more people using this tactic? I've never had anyone smash the car into my team on this map, much less go BACK for the car and bring it along to kill the survivors with.

The reason would be is that is a lot of effort, and most people won't bother doing it. And seeing as it doesn't completely block the path of the survivors, I don't think it's cheap. In fact I think it's brilliant.

Similar things would also be camping in front of cars or witches to try to get the survivors to shoot them by accident. Only difference is you brought the car to them.

Originally Posted by redfuzzy

The reason would be is that is a lot of effort, and most people won't bother doing it. And seeing as it doesn't completely block the path of the survivors, I don't think it's cheap. In fact I think it's brilliant.

Similar things would also be camping in front of cars or witches to try to get the survivors to shoot them by accident. Only difference is you brought the car to them.

Yeah it was a lot of effort, and if their team hadn't been so unorganized it never would have worked the way it did. Lots of lucky car smashes, like knocking it completely over the train to the other side with the survivors.

Appreciate the feedback, I was kinda proud that such an oddball strategy worked to perfection.

I kept telling myself "They will set off the alarm" before I got the Tank spawn, and when they didn't and I got the Tank, I made damn sure that alarm was going off and some of them were getting a flying car in the face for their efforts.

And yeah that Witch trick is always fun, but it seems to only work for me half the time. Although the survivors alert her every time I jostle her with my Infected, half the time she gets up and runs away screaming in the opposite direction of the survivors.

You must be playing XBOX cause in the latest patch for the PC valve made it so the alarm is disabled when a tank hits it. So according to Valve, it is a cheap tactic.

Originally Posted by alpha599

You must be playing XBOX cause in the latest patch for the PC valve made it so the alarm is disabled when a tank hits it. So according to Valve, it is a cheap tactic.

Yes I do play Xbox, and I wasn't aware that they patched it in the PC version. Honestly I meant more of the going back for the car itself, not the alarm.

Sure I wanted them to set off the alarm, but mostly I wanted to incap them with a car unexpectedly.

But wont you just lose control if you take too long?

Wait. Theres one thing I don't quite understand... Where the fuck is the alarm car on BH3? Isn't that the level where you knock down the bridge?

Originally Posted by InkofDeath

Utilizing the moveable objects should be done more often, yet at the extent which you used this concept is a little nerve wrecking.

Most teams would kill the three infected easily. Not to mention most teams can get to the first houses without any damage to them if they don't have a tank till the bridge. Thus they'd be able to rush the safehouse before you could get the car over there.

That's why most people don't use this tactic, as the other team can easily rush and make it to the safehouse.

I agree that not enough people utilize cars, forklifts, and dumpsters with the Tank, which really makes the survivors' jobs a lot easier. You're right, most good teams should have been able to hold off my three buddies and rush to the safehouse, but these guys were obviously very disorganized.

A halfway decent team would never have let the car reach them, and instead organized to kill me, but the y just panicked, and them having a guy quit mid Tank battle didn't help, so I took it upon myself to kill the AI first.

Originally Posted by Seann7656

But wont you just lose control if you take too long?

Nope, in the Xbox version which is still unpatched, hitting a dumpster, forklift or car, even if there are no survivors present to smack with it, or if you miss one that you are aiming for, still refills your Aggression Meter.

Originally Posted by SupaScott77

Wait. Theres one thing I don't quite understand... Where the fuck is the alarm car on BH3? Isn't that the level where you knock down the bridge?

You could be right, I'm not good which remembering the names and numbers of sub levels. I believe I meant BH2, the level where make your way down the train tracks and pass two houses, one of which you have to climb the stairs and go out the window to continue.