Poll: L4D - Most Underpowered Infected

[WrongSprite]

Witch.

Needs to be more lethal so shes scary again.

 

[TheBlobThing]

Have to go with Hunter. He's too easy to melee off before he pounces, it is too hard to hit survivors while jumping and sometimes you'll hit a different survivor than the one you're aiming for if they're bunched together.

 

[GaM Pancho]

Have to go with Hunter. He's too easy to melee off before he pounces, it is too hard to hit survivors while jumping and sometimes you'll hit a different survivor than the one you're aiming for if they're bunched together.

I don't know, I'd say they're not that bad, they dish out a lot of damage, and providing you are able to pull off frequent 25 damage pounces they are able to deal real pain in a short amount of time, especially when on fire

 

[A Raging Emo]

Smoker, easily.

The Boomer may have the least health, but at least he has a chance to hit some survivors with his bile attack after death as well as before he dies.

 

[TheBlobThing]

Have to go with Hunter. He's too easy to melee off before he pounces, it is too hard to hit survivors while jumping and sometimes you'll hit a different survivor than the one you're aiming for if they're bunched together.

I don't know, I'd say they're not that bad, they dish out a lot of damage, and providing you are able to pull off frequent 25 damage pounces they are able to deal real pain in a short amount of time, especially when on fire

Oh, maybe I'm just really bad at hitting someone when jumping long distances with the hunter, but I pounce a survivor about 1 in 100 jumps...

 

[ProfessorLayton]

None are underpowered. You just need to know how to play them right.

 

[electric_warrior]

i hate smokers, it takes them ages to do any damage then you die having done very little to anyone you may have caught. at least with hunters you can do a fair bit of damage in a short time even if you die quickly

 

[IamQ]

Boomers, and if you vote for anything else then you're lying.

 

[TheBlobThing]

i hate smokers, it takes them ages to do any damage then you die having done very little to anyone you may have caught. at least with hunters you can do a fair bit of damage in a short time even if you die quickly

Yes, but smokers have specific uses, like dragging survivors from the roof when they're crossing it during No Mercy camp. Or dragging them from ledges is insta-knockdown. Also, with a really high vantage point you can harass them without taking much damage yourself.

I find Boomers pretty easy to use. You just have to spawn as close to them and in front of them as possible.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

The Hunter is a cheap kill stealing fuck. Every time I snag someone as the smoker, some Hunter playing dickwad comes along and pounces my kill.

 

[The Great JT]

Based on the glimpses I've seen (I haven't actually played yet, so I can't speak from experience), the Smoker. He seems rather flimsy, and his attacks don't do a whole lot of damage. I know, he's supposed to be used to separate the group while they're preoccupied with a horde or another Special Infected like a Tank or Boomer, but considering how easy it is to beat him he feels more like a momentary annoyance than a threat.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Smoker. It may be tactical, but I grabbed a guy, Incapped him, then a friend of mine pounced on a full health survivor and killed him before I could. Then he stole my kill.

 

[Diablini]

Boomer. The incoming horde is easy to restrain with the melee attack.

 

[Slacker2000]

For a zombie that rips you lungs out... It's pretty underpowered... on versus.

 

[Kinguendo]

You can one-shot the witch with the pump shotgun unless they've changed that since I last played.

Even if they have, you can one-shot her with the auto shotgun.

She'll wait for you to do it, too.

There is an acheivement for it so it would be ridiculous to make it impossible to kill the witch in one shot.

 

[quack35]

I don't know, they're all pretty much balanced.

 

[Kinguendo]

Witch.

Those saying that the Boomer is underpowered are severely ignoring that he has the biggest strength of any of the infected. He enables the attacks. If he didn't have a low amount of health he would be overpowered.

He's balanced.

Edit: Of course, I'm talking about Versus here. In Coop, the only infected worth anything is the Tank, and even then... not really. The AI for the infected is pretty terrible all around.

Yeah, he gets a horde... that can be easily taken out. (PIPEBOMB! and normal bullets) Also, the boomer dies easily and has weak attack power... part of its attack is in dying!

 

[Lullabye]

Witch.

Those saying that the Boomer is underpowered are severely ignoring that he has the biggest strength of any of the infected. He enables the attacks. If he didn't have a low amount of health he would be overpowered.

He's balanced.

Edit: Of course, I'm talking about Versus here. In Coop, the only infected worth anything is the Tank, and even then... not really. The AI for the infected is pretty terrible all around.

Yeah, he gets a horde... that can be easily taken out. (PIPEBOMB! and normal bullets) Also, the boomer dies easily and has weak attack power... part of its attack is in dying!

you know, I find that while playing versus there is always at least one retard on the enemy team who sets off car alarms. So what do we really need a boomer for?