How many of you have beaten all campaigns on expert?

**Phantom IceCream** · 06-06-10, 03:50 PM

Who's beaten all/any of the campaigns on expert?

I was playing Dark Carnival on expert today. We reached the concert when the server decided to be mean and return us to the lobby..

So I kind of got frustrated, as can be expected. And then during the second attempt at finishing it, the worst person on our team (it was a random team, by the way...) reached the motel safe-room after deciding to chicken out on the tank. Needless to say the tank's aim is killer and the three of us were incapacitated. Right as the last person was dying, the kid thought it would be funny to open and close the safe-room door, probably because he thought the game would end right away.. and then the tank went in and slaughtered him. It's not that the motel on expert is hard, it just gets annoying with randoms who have no brains.

So I'll try that campaign another day.

**Dallow** · 06-06-10, 04:48 PM

Only one. Completed Dead Center on expert and it was such a joke, four hours of repeatedly dying on the last map, that I have never attempted another expert campaign since.

**Hillbilly** · 06-06-10, 06:20 PM

I've done them all too many times to count. I suggest playing expert with friends only and setting the lobby to private.

Expert with randoms is a crap shoot. Random people like to join the game and team kill or commit suicide (or both). Setting the game to private will avoid that problem all together.

If you need help with expert campaigns ask a few people from the forums to help out. We have a few members here that love helping people get achievements.

**Infested_HawK** · 06-06-10, 06:29 PM

I've completed all of the campaigns on expert with a friend and two bots. Some of them numerous times because one of us died a second before the rescue vehicle took another or the progress of my friend was deleted. We also saved the gnome on expert ^^

I think that expert is challenging but not very hard. The main threat is the horde since it can do massive damage when someone is swarmed. The SI are only dangerous when someone wanders off or there is a horde.
Witch can be difficult If you have trouble with crowning(but there is a lot of other methods

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The tank is dangerous only in tight places where you can't kite him easily. His rocks are not so hard to snipe and when he throws it's good for you because you can run some more from him.

I hate the dead center finale because while doing it with bots it's 90% luck because most of the time they are sticking with one player and it was faster to split up and gather fuel before the tank came.

I think that Swamp Fever finale is awesome due to double tank spawn. Especially on realism. When I was doing it with my friend i lit them both on fire after they incapped him. They luckily went after one living bot and I revived him on adrenaline(i had around 30hp), he healed and I went outside seeking the medkit. I healed while he was running from both tanks. They died and I picked up the bot in a last second because another(after the gate was open) tank was incoming and we managed to survive ^^

I would love to help you but I can see that you are using xbox and I have the PC version :/

**Phantom IceCream** · 06-06-10, 07:43 PM

@Dallow
I know your frustration..

@Eylof
Yea I pretty much gathered that I have to do it with friends or trusted players. I've already received some people's GTs, but I'll go hunting for more if I find the need (which I can guarantee I will haha).

@ Infested_Hawk
Woah, that's some extreme dedication! While I was playing with randoms there was always one dude who would run into an open area and get swarmed. :/
And that sounds like a crazy Swamp Fever finale. It kind of reminds me of something I [almost] pulled off yesterday. It was the passing finale on chainsaw massacre (I don't remember the difficulty... it may have been normal, haha. But it was a feat nonetheless!) and we had something like five gas cans in when one guy died and the other two were incapacitated. I was alone, running away from two tanks. I managed to light them both on fire and bring them around Zoey and Louis for help. It was funny because I managed to run around the entire map, pick up both downed teammates, and pick up a few gas cans. And then my teammates died again and I fought off a tank and nearly beat it before I died..

Sucks you have PC, though. It'd be fun to do expert or realism w/ you.

**Infested_HawK** · 06-07-10, 06:04 AM

Yop, expert is a mix of skill, luck and patience because the AI Director has the power to kick your ass everytime ^^

I think that there should be one more difficulity between expert and advanced. When I'm playing with bots on advanced it's just a walk through the park because there is no challenge. On the other hand expert provides a lot of frustration with bots because they suck against horde.

As for some glitches I find them useful sometimes. Once I was disconnected while playing with friend and I had to redo Death Toll because even when I came back in the same place 1 min after it didn't counted for achievement. Then I decided to do it with my friend again the day after completing DT once. Unfortunately he died at the first tank and I was left with an incapped bot. I made a dash for jesus rock and stayed there killing smokers that wanted to grab me. Finally I ran to the boat dodging a sneaky hunter and got my progress ^^

**Phantom IceCream** · 06-07-10, 11:15 AM

The other day on Dark Carnival (the second map) a guy did a glitch where there were no zombies for the first half of the level, until you reached the carousel.