Thread: the perfect ambush

NM5 , as a smoker i stood on the staircase attached to the satellite building, pulled a survivor and instakilled him as he was trying to shoot me, the other 2 came up, got pounced by 2 hunters - the last one got puked on, fighting the horde inside the building , and by the time he came up, my tongue was fully charged and another instakill. BAM then we exploded the boomer and hunters swan dived off the roof as i teabagged louis.

It was the weirdest thing ever, i was playing with my 3 friends (we were in lobby) as 4 infected, and a 5th joins as the lobby. immediately my friend starts the game (4 inf vs 1 surv), but during the loading screen - the 1 survivor must have went back to dashboard or something, because when we were ingame, it was 4 infected vs 4 AI survivors, zoey, francis, louis and bill.


we were like "okay, servers going to shut down any minute now-" just as he finished saying that, the survivors actually grabbed med kits and ran out the safe room. they were actually progressing by themselves!

we were trying our best to not kill them (actually attacking, though) they made it to the end, into the safe room and closed the door. they got 700-ish points.

now its our turn to be survivors!

Server is shutting down.


weirdest and most bizarre moment in my l4d career so far :P

1. Boom
2. Smoke & pounce

w/ tank

1. boom
2. tank, smoke
3. pounce to kill the incaps

No mercy Lift cresendo without a doublt.

Boomer hides behind the wall inside building. Smoker hides under the roof covering the pipes. and both hunters remain unspawned on the big roof above the glass window.

Survivors reach end of the roof and the first 1 gets pulled down off the pipes by the Smoker when he tries to cross. The others all drop down to help out followed by the boomer who pukes down on top of them all.

Both hunters quickly spawn right on the edge of the roof and pounce down for some 25's. Boomer goes back into position and wait for round two.

By the time they regroup and head back to roof the smoker has around 3-4 seconds to spawn. This time he should spawn behind the back of the truck closest to the building. As survivors get near the pipes again they will check the position the smoker was in last time and ussualy they move across the pipes with there back against the wall scouting the area under the roof for the smoker. To there amazement he isnt there and he comes running from the side and pulls another survivors off followed by the boomer puking again.

Its just very important that the Hunters remain unspawned. The only time they spawn is once all 4 survivors are down. The reason for this being if survivors run for the switch the hunters can quickly drop down to the floor walk through the metal door and spawn right next to the switch then pouces the survivor as soon as he reaches the stairs. If 2 people go for switch you need a bit of luck and must pounce both of them.

This ambush works well because its nearly impossible to stop a skilled smoker from pulling people off the pipes. As the first person that crosses them is the only person that can see or shoot the smoker under the roof and with a T1 weapon at that range you just dont have enough time to kill him before he pulls you off.

Originally Posted by whiiteyyy

NM5 , as a smoker i stood on the staircase attached to the satellite building, pulled a survivor and instakilled him as he was trying to shoot me, the other 2 came up, got pounced by 2 hunters - the last one got puked on, fighting the horde inside the building , and by the time he came up, my tongue was fully charged and another instakill. BAM then we exploded the boomer and hunters swan dived off the roof as i teabagged louis.

How did you insta kill him? When a smoker pulls a survivor with the health of 80 he only goes yellow when he falls. Every time i see a smoker pull someone by the satelite or any where near it they just dangle there as if they were a pinata.

How did you insta kill him? When a smoker pulls a survivor with the health of 80 he only goes yellow when he falls. Every time i see a smoker pull someone by the satelite or any where near it they just dangle there as if they were a pinata.

Before the patch smokers could pull survivors from several spots where they would instantly die. It was patched and removed.

Shouldnt really talk about patched and old tricks in this thread seing as they are no longer possible.

Originally Posted by doctor

i want to know what you would think of as the perfect ambush if you could just make a ambush and it went all according to planned perfectly without a tank or witch what would it be. mine is....
NM where the elevator is
first a smoker grabs the last peron to the middle of the hall to the elevator after they activate it, then they come too save him and get boomered before they can save him and the other two get jumped and the last one is left to defend against alot of zombies sourrounding him (P.S they dont have upgraded weapons)

That is very likely, seeing as how NM4 gives you Tier 2 weapons. So they'd either only have pistols of they would have "upgraded weapons"

Originally Posted by Wizav

Before the patch smokers could pull survivors from several spots where they would instantly die. It was patched and removed.

Shouldnt really talk about patched and old tricks in this thread seing as they are no longer possible.

It was actually more of a "look-what-i-did" experience-based post. You can still do the same thing - just minus the insta-kill and plus the 2000 seconds it takes to kill someone as a smoker.