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What don't you understand? I just explained why you don't literally the next sentence after the one you quoted.

If you stick together in Scavenge, you might get every can (doubtful on certain maps), but your time will be $h1t. You'll be lucky to get over a minute if you're facing a decent Scavenge team that's going for burns at generator. Play Scavenge with risks and split up at certain points, and you'll get over a 4 minute time in some maps.

I'd give you proof with videos of the Scavenge Cup 2012, which shows the best Scavenge teams on PC, who actually split up far more than Xbox Scavenge players tend to, but I'm guessing it'd be kind of a waste of time.

Either way, here. Notice the amount of separation Survivors have after an attack is cleared? That's how GOOD Scavenge players do it. This isn't Versus, and you're not supposed to play it like Versus. So yes, you don't "stick together". If you don't understand that, then you don't understand competitive Scavenge.

L4D2 Scavenge Cup 2012 - WE MAKE YOU RAGE vs Invidious Animosity - YouTube

If you stick together in Scavenge, you might get every can (doubtful on certain maps), but your time will be $h1t. You'll be lucky to get over a minute if you're facing a decent Scavenge team that's going for burns at generator. Play Scavenge with risks and split up at certain points, and you'll get over a 4 minute time in some maps.

Well, using The Atrium as an example, of course your time will be shit if all four players go up to get cans - but when you wrote about teams splitting up, for some reason I thought you meant that after the Survivors have just killed 3-4 spawns, each individual goes off in a different direction (hey - it happens sometimes!) to obtain cans.

Sorry, bit of a misunderstanding here. Or maybe I'm a little slow today.

I'd give you proof with videos of the Scavenge Cup 2012, which shows the best Scavenge teams on PC, who actually split up far more than Xbox Scavenge players tend to, but I'm guessing it'd be kind of a waste of time.

Why would you think that? I find it interesting to watch Live footage of competitive Scavenge (and Versus). I actually watched some competitive PC Versus matches a while ago to improve my SI tactics in Scavenge (because I heard PC pwns the 360, and I hadn't found competitive Scavenge onlinee).

Notice the amount of separation Survivors have after an attack is cleared? That's how GOOD Scavenge players do it.

The very first map they're playing is the damned Rooftop. Of course once the Charger (or 3 spawns) is out, they're all going to jump down and hurl cans back up en masse. I see teams do that in 360 Rooftop Scavenge all the time.

That said, yes yes, I get your point: kill off 3-4 spawns, then split up and obtain cans en masse. I don't see how that tactic is really any different from all the most efficient routes that players use in the Motel (billboard or highway first, then the Motel iteself), the Park (the three under the bridge, then washrooms/gazebo), Sugar Mill (two at back of 2nd cylinder, or the four in the back area), etc.

But I take it you already know this, because it's what pretty much every Scavenge junkie does - there are only so many different routes to take per map based on time and total cans.

I'll be watching the rest of this video.

This isn't Versus, and you're not supposed to play it like Versus. So yes, you don't "stick together". If you don't understand that, then you don't understand competitive Scavenge.

I know Versus isn't Scavenge. If you mean "stick together" as in "all four players together all the time", well obviously that doesn't happen, so I guess technically yes, teams do "split up." My opinion (which probably isn't technical): as long as one Survivor sticks with another Survivor and is (usually) in sight of reasonable sniping distance of the others while getting the cans, I've never considered that "splitting up."

Also, I don't play competitive Scavenge.

Btw - have you played Competitive Scavenge? You're coming across to me like you know everything there is to know about Scavenge...

Ahh, okay, I get it. What you consider splitting up and what I consider splitting up is obviously way different. I'm speaking in terms of Versus players who are always up each others ass. Nvm.

I do that quite a lot.

It's usually because a charger & a few others have just died and I think I can get a couple of cans quickly before anything else spawns, but my timing is generally shite and I get jockeyed (hate those bastards).

Or like today, when I'm in a game where just everything that can go wrong for me, does go wrong..I am actually sticking with the team, but then fall off a ledge and wind up on my own.