New infected for Left4Dead

[maddawg IAJI]

i heard of the sprinter before. i think it was in the bungie forums flood. you just changed him up a bit. the sprinter i read about dealt no damage and its purpose was to slow down the survivors by knocking them down making them vunerable to other zombies. but your version is better for the more offensive player

Huh. Damn, I thought I was being original. I don't actually go to the bungie forums, so I can honestly say it wasn't plagiarism. Sprinter seemed like a good simple name that would fit with the other names (Hunter, Smoker, Witch, they're all simple two syllable or less titles). As for the idea, I think that proves that pretty much everyone is wishing for a hit/run character to be added to the roster, since that's really the only thing it's missing.

i just figured that maybe you read that thread and kinda transformed the sprinter to be more balanced

also i would like a hit and run zombie. i mean the closet thing we got to that is the boomer

which is really sad when you think about it. the boomer is slow and lumbering, and can't really escape once it commits. I think of the boomer as the kamikaze of the infected: once it goes into the fray it's only job is to get as close as possible to the humans before dying.

Hunter is the hit and Run Zombie.

nooo the hunter is the hit and then shot zombie

 

[maddawg IAJI]

i heard of the sprinter before. i think it was in the bungie forums flood. you just changed him up a bit. the sprinter i read about dealt no damage and its purpose was to slow down the survivors by knocking them down making them vunerable to other zombies. but your version is better for the more offensive player

Huh. Damn, I thought I was being original. I don't actually go to the bungie forums, so I can honestly say it wasn't plagiarism. Sprinter seemed like a good simple name that would fit with the other names (Hunter, Smoker, Witch, they're all simple two syllable or less titles). As for the idea, I think that proves that pretty much everyone is wishing for a hit/run character to be added to the roster, since that's really the only thing it's missing.

i just figured that maybe you read that thread and kinda transformed the sprinter to be more balanced

also i would like a hit and run zombie. i mean the closet thing we got to that is the boomer

which is really sad when you think about it. the boomer is slow and lumbering, and can't really escape once it commits. I think of the boomer as the kamikaze of the infected: once it goes into the fray it's only job is to get as close as possible to the humans before dying.

which is why i stick to the rooftops. i wait for a smoker to grab a survivor then when they come to free him i vomit and it covers like 2-3 survivors. if i dont have a rooftop i usally just wait at a doorway they have to go throught (ex: the door to the first crecendo event on no mercy)

 

[TheBXRabbit]

Hunter is the hit and Run Zombie.

But once the hunter attacks hes stuck there slashing away at whatever survivor he pounced, free to be killed by any other survivor who walks up to him. so yes, he's fast; and yes, he hits; but he can't easily run away afterwards.

 

[TheBXRabbit]

which is really sad when you think about it. the boomer is slow and lumbering, and can't really escape once it commits. I think of the boomer as the kamikaze of the infected: once it goes into the fray it's only job is to get as close as possible to the humans before dying.

which is why i stick to the rooftops. i wait for a smoker to grab a survivor then when they come to free him i vomit and it covers like 2-3 survivors. if i dont have a rooftop i usally just wait at a doorway they have to go throught (ex: the door to the first crecendo event on no mercy)

yeah, the boomer is best as either a kamikaze or a camper.

Oh, and sorry for double posting

 

[starrman]

Hunter is the hit and Run Zombie.

But once the hunter attacks hes stuck there slashing away at whatever survivor he pounced, free to be killed by any other survivor who walks up to him. so yes, he's fast; and yes, he hits; but he can't easily run away afterwards.

I wish there was a way to disengage and retreat from a downed survivor instead of waiting to die.

 

[vid20]

A flying enemy might be cool if it picked you up and dropped you away from the group, but seeing as how I have always hated flying enemies--fuck this idea.

For some reason i miss read this as a flying Emu... And was like.. WTF? zombie EMU?

any way. On topic. I like the idea of a dog. But the problem is; as some people have pointed out, anything that gets incorporated would probably horribly imbalance vs mode.

 

[Alexe123]

Dunno if this has been suggested, but since the game has friendly fire and your never allowed to turn it off, what about an infected that takes control of one of the survivors? Be pretty surprising if out of the blue you just get a shotgun blast to the back of the head. Then again, I can imagine it being exploited pretty badly, making survivors jump off buildings or set off car alarms. To make it fair it would have to take a minute for it to take effect and last only maybe 10 seconds.

 

[bmf185]

A flying enemy might be cool if it picked you up and dropped you away from the group, but seeing as how I have always hated flying enemies--fuck this idea.

For some reason i miss read this as a flying Emu... And was like.. WTF? zombie EMU?

any way. On topic. I like the idea of a dog. But the problem is; as some people have pointed out, anything that gets incorporated would probably horribly imbalance vs mode.

A dog is too much like a Hunter. That and I like dogs.

 

[TheBXRabbit]

A flying enemy might be cool if it picked you up and dropped you away from the group, but seeing as how I have always hated flying enemies--fuck this idea.

For some reason i miss read this as a flying Emu... And was like.. WTF? zombie EMU?

any way. On topic. I like the idea of a dog. But the problem is; as some people have pointed out, anything that gets incorporated would probably horribly imbalance vs mode.

A dog is too much like a Hunter. That and I like dogs.

The problem with flying zombies and zombie dogs is that up till this point every zombie has been human, and it'd be weird to have a controllable zombie that wasn't originally sentient (since zombieism(?) pretty much always lowers brain function).

 

[new_age_reject]

Maybe some sort of flying zombie that could grab a human, carry them straight foreward for about 30 feet and then throw them into whatever is their, zombies/car/edge

My idea exactly.

 

[Harrow]

Another Idea yet- Zombie general- Leader. He would take control of already existing zombies and set them up in zombie formations, and tell them to hide in one place, and he can directly control groups, but he would get an overall view, and have to mantain sight when intially controlling. Rally zombies etc, have other zombies rally other etc.

great, so when one shows up, wait for it to get a good group together, kill it, then just randomly shoot into the group until it turns from a writhing mass of flesh to a non-moving mass of flesh and lead.

 

[starrman]

A flying enemy might be cool if it picked you up and dropped you away from the group, but seeing as how I have always hated flying enemies--fuck this idea.

For some reason i miss read this as a flying Emu... And was like.. WTF? zombie EMU?

As long as a zombie Rod Hull was attached, that would be awesome. Creepy as all hell, but awesome!

 

[PsykoDragon]

I'd just evolve on the hunter & make it able to crawl on wall & ceilings from which it can pounce on the survivors. kinda like the Aliens from Alien Vs. Predator 2.

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

Something like a heavy that tackles players to the ground.
If it's killed with guns, it stays on top of the player, incapacitating them. the only way to free them is to melee the infected a few times.

 

[jacks_a_dull_boy]

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If you could design another infected for Left4Dead what would it be? Bear in mind that the game mechanics will probably alter dramatically whatever you do and that you have to keep the current infected, you can't replace any of them with your new design. This isn't to say I don't think the game works as it is, it does, I'm just curious about people's ideas.

Thinking about game mechanics I think I'd like to see a child zombie who's cry can deafen you, rendering in-game speech and your awareness of on-coming infected temporarily disabled.

They already had an idea for a special infected like that, called the screamer. It was going to be like the witch, non-playable. Anyways, they replaced it w/ the smoker's smoke ability to cut off team chat.

Screamer infected: if it spots a player it alerts the horde and keeps doing so till it is killed.

 

[jacks_a_dull_boy]

flying infected, bat wings of some sort, non playable, medium difficulty to kill, and is dressed like a air flight business man.

 

[starrman]

I was reading the Left4Dead forums at their site and saw an excellent idea: The Butcher. One of the players would become this infected and be given a first person view, but have no control over him. His aim is purely to run around like a madman, in a random path, slashing at anything which he encounters; zombies, infected, survivors alike. I think it would be amusuing to be one and add a little more fear to those who encounter him. He'd be hard (not as much as the tank) but fast and furious and would cause the survivor group to split in unique ways.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Every infected idea here is horrible in terms of Versus balance.

Not really. You could have it as an uncontrollable infected like the witch or and set spawn like the tank. Having said that, it would take a lot of work for them to add a new special infected with versus not being either totally impossible or just exactly the same.

 

[Pezzer]

Infected that can wield (poorly) uzi's, or one with a mini-lazor.

Like This: http://media1.fxhome.com/preset-images/1899/preview.png

 

[BubbleGumSnareDrum]

Threads like this make me really glad that people on message boards who make and perpetuate these threads do NOT and have little chance of EVER working as game developers or designers.

Seriously. These ideas would all ruin the game, and most of the people posting would be crying and moaning about it if these ideas ever made it INTO the game because then they'd understand how terrible they'd be.