Thread: L4D2 achievements distinctly easier?

Originally Posted by Adamski5000

Okay, okay, I've only had the game for a week or so, so I don't have all the L4D2 achievements yet (hell, I don't even have all the L4D achievements). But today I did "Wing and a prayer" and a few of the other "harder" L4D2 achievements and I swear they're nowhere near as difficult as those in L4D (e.g. Untouchables/Safety First/Zombie Genocidest/Stomach Upset). I remember it took me aaaaaages to rack up a decent score in L4D. I've had L4D2 for about a week and I'm on about 600g.

I just want to feel like I've worked hard for my g!

That said, I haven't even bothered with expert or realism yet, so maybe I'm complaining too early...

Anyone else feel the L4D2 achievements are easier?

Try playing expert realism, then come edit this thread.

I think they've just reduced the number of very hard ones. Scattering ram, the expert and realism ones, guardin gnome, heartwarmer, all promise to be very hard.

I'm kinda glad, as I could not manage many of the harder l4d ones without a good team, and this lets me earn them gradually too, which i prefer to the l4d earn a load then none for months once i hit the harder lot.

Yeah, I only have about eight more achievements to get on the Xbox, most of which are Versus/Scavenge related, since I don't play them all too often.

Originally Posted by Benlisted

I think they've just reduced the number of very hard ones. Scattering ram, the expert and realism ones, guardin gnome, heartwarmer, all promise to be very hard.

I'm kinda glad, as I could not manage many of the harder l4d ones without a good team, and this lets me earn them gradually too, which i prefer to the l4d earn a load then none for months once i hit the harder lot.

the GG achievement was simple, set the game to single player, set it to easy mode, grab the gnome and watch the bots do all the work for you.

The reason for them SEEMING easier is because VALVE is giving achievements that are a lot less gimmicky, because let's face it, don't take damage from ANY special infected for an entire campaign? yes, that's plausible (I do have the achievement, and yes, we all know it is a load of crap)... Never get boomed on? Totally fair considering where they can spawn and blast you (I own this one as well, I feel I must so it doesn't feel like I'm doing nothing by whining) from places you would normally never even consider to look at all (especially with some of the NPC ones, player ones aren't as bad as these I find because some NPC's literally hit from places which are meant to be unreachable to player infected)? Right? Don't take ANY damage AT ALL on a finale? OK, I can't be sarcastic here, this one is bullshit (and no, this one I don't have).

Quite frankly most of the infected achievements are still gimmicky because there's no other real way to have achievements for players acting as them (even then the L4D2 infected achievements are much less gimmicky), so this can really be overlooked by comparison. Heartwarmer though is just a joke, because the chances of that happening properly is about the same as being struck by lightning, so most players will just do as I did and set a VS. match to HR3 (There is a 100% chance of a defibrillator being in the safe-room with the gas) grab a buddy to play as infected and kill my bot team-mate (after I shot all but one to death) directly outside the safe-room so I could walk in and out and save him, after which we would swap so he could achieve it as well (I'm on the PC for L4D2, so no dual-screening with my second controller for me for these achievements).

It's not that L4D1 was harder, it's just that is was a lot "cheaper" in regards to achievements. L4D2 hasn't gotten rid of all the terrible gimmick achievements, however it does have a lot less.