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**Immz** · 07-27-09, 11:37 PM

Yeah, but I thought it'd be nice to have the gas station alert a horde of some sort.

I hope explosions have more of an impact on gameplay than pure aesthetics in the next one.

But to make a small point, simply because it's a survival horror doesn't mean it has to detract from all regular sense. A bridge collapsing alerts a horde, but a gas station doesn't. CROWS attract a horde!

This should do something.

Ya'know?

**Abyss Crown** · 07-28-09, 12:37 AM

Well I would like to see more horde alerts like the car alarms in L4D2, though I don't know if a gas station should be one. After all, having the gas station blow up gives all the advantage to the Infected if it did spawn hordes.

**Immz** · 07-28-09, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Abyss Crown

Well I would like to see more horde alerts like the car alarms in L4D2, though I don't know if a gas station should be one. After all, having the gas station blow up gives all the advantage to the Infected if it did spawn hordes.

Which is a good thing.

Most people destroy it as a pre-emptive tactic, so to stop Infected from taking advantage of a bad team. Your team would have to make the choice of trying to tip-toe around the easily explodable gas station, or alerting a horde.

It sounds sweet to me.

**Absent** · 07-28-09, 06:04 AM

IIRC back in the time I played No Mercy the first few times before knowing that it could blow up I seem to always remember it exploding when you start the lift. Could be mistaken though.

**Christoffeee** · 07-28-09, 07:02 AM

I generally just shoot the gas station the first chance I get.
It's all the more fun when you take out a few SI hanging around there, in doing so though :D

**warmonger256** · 07-28-09, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Christoffeee

I generally just shoot the gas station the first chance I get.
It's all the more fun when you take out a few SI hanging around there, in doing so though :D

Lol, I remember failtank tossing rocks beneath the gas station, not even realizing the pumps can explode.

It went kaboom, and he ragequits. Good times.

**SushiMooshi** · 07-29-09, 05:55 AM

mmm... it does make sense to alert a horde... but yeah probely for balance reasons because the lift also alerts the horde so having 2 alerts in like 1 place would be kinda... wierd i guess from a gameplay stand-point.

**Torchlight** · 08-02-09, 10:42 AM

not exactly hard to avoid that horde. just camp in the room, explode, and stay in a corner...
:cool:

Torchlight

**mr cow** · 08-02-09, 06:55 PM

I like using it on witches

**SlavicHavoc** · 08-02-09, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by Immz

I've started thinking about it. The gas station exploding is something vital for you to do, especially in Versus.

If you cause it to explode, you eliminate the possibility of total annihilation. Not destroying it could allow a smoker to trick your team into blowing it up and killing the whole team.

So most people, not about to risk it, blow up the Gas Station the second it's in sight.

Since not blowing up the gas station is sort of a hindrance, and a huge risk, why doesn't the exploding of the gas station signal infected?

If the lift causes infected hordes to swarm, why doesn't a huge gas station BLOWING UP produce a similar if not larger effect?

You think you'd attract at least ONE horde by creating the largest explosion in the game.

DA Finale.

Plane crash is the biggest.