Thread: Ways to keep L4D interesting

My friends and me have found several ways to play the game to make it more challenging and fun. Since there SDK isn't out yet we have been trying to find new "game modes" we can make ourselves. Here is the list of the different ways we play to mix things up.
All of these on expert btw.


- no flashlights with the glow lines around players turned off (is there a way to turn off the names without using cheats? That would be even more fun)

- speed run through entire game (did it for first time this week and I think our time was 1hr 43 min, there was plenty of room for improvement so we will probably try again)

- remove witch sounds warning sounds, leave her aggro and freaking out sounds but just the witch crying, witch music, and player hearing a witch sounds. This alone is SOO much fun to do. It has led to some insanely funny and scary moments like opening a door and finding a witch directly in front of you that you had no warning for. I don't have list of files to remove in front of me as I'm at work but they aren't hard to find.

(Added by theCapm)
- use only pistols
- leave safe room 1 at a time and see who can make it the furthest
- [The Babysitter] find an explosive propane tank/gas can (or cheat and give yourself one) then you must make it to the end of the level with said tank/ gas can in hand. If it blows up you lose! Upon losing you must also exclaim "Our baby just exploded!"

(Added by SilverCyrus)
- Pills Tag : Someone starts out with the pills and must "tag" the other players by passing it to them. By the end of the stage whoever has the pills loses and is "it" on the next level.
-don't shoot a single bullet, if you want you can use grenades
if some gets smoked or hunted you can only melee it off...try to make it to the safe house only meleeing....you couldn't do this on the finales though
-or try to make it through a chapter without hurting anything (using melee/gun/grenades) if someone is pounced or smoked you cannot help them.
you couldn't do this on the finales though
-play without sound.....its fun sometimes
-Run backwards through a whole campaign
-play a campaign with out ever healing (pills are fine)
and start the first chapter in black and white health.....everyone on your team

(Added by Tubi2b)
- Race to the next safe room (Ruuu Edit: My friends and me do this sometimes on our custom server and we enabled knocking players back with melee with the console commands so we can knock each other off ledges or backwards while we race)

I'll update the list if anyone else has any fun things to add.

Ruuu

One of my favorite ways to play is playing through using only pistols. It's challenging and it also helps you get more comfortable using the pistols. then if you run out of ammo and are stuck with pistols in a later campaign, it's not as cumbersome.

My friends and i also play a game where we start on the last chapter (it would work at any point of the game just as well though), on expert, and we leave the safe house one at a time and whoever gets the farthest wins. we usually don't bother killing the zombies unless they're directly in our way, and we just run through to see how far we can get.

I love the idea of leaving 1 at a time and seeing who makes it the farthest. Gonna probably try to convince my friends to do that one tonight. Sounds like a lot of fun!

Ruuu

Yeah, running out one at a time sounds interesting. I want to try this. Which happens first -- you getting tagged by an SI or zombies catching up with you?

Wow, turning off the witch music and crying is a great idea!
I find the Witch far too easy to get past these days.

L4d versus drinking games are what keep it alive for me. AND keep me in touch with my brother

Originally Posted by theCapm

My friend zach and i came up with a game today that we call "babysitters." as soon as we find any kind of propane tank/gas can or whatever, we pick it up and pretend it's a baby. that specific object has to reach the end of the level with us. it can be set down,but you've got to pick it back up before you move again, and if it blows up, you lose. we didn't have much time to play with it until we had to go to class, so i never found out if the game let's you keep it from safe-house to safe-house. i would assume not. also, having a propane tank "baby" provides for some pretty hilarious exclamations, e.g. "Zach! Our baby just exploded!"

Awesome! Going to try this out later tonight. I wonder if there is a way to increase the dmg a propane tank does to the players and the radius. I have my own server so I might see if I can tweak the config to try to get a propane tank at start and if it explodes it kills all of the survivors automatically.