Starting to come together…finally

I’m happier with the mod than at any other point!
Bots are well balanced healthwise and if players spend too long shooting them, then they reap the benefits..

Weapons do the correct amount of damage.  No weapon is too difficult, although, by increasing the modifiers of other weapons, the pressure is off the MG.  I didn’t like that some players regarded the MG like an AWP and fought to get it.  Now the only weapon that I need to look at is the BAR/MP44.

The teleporting bots.  Probably one of the biggest issues with players.  The funny thing is, if you are new to the game, it’s an issue, but having played it for a while, they don’t pose a problem.  You just have to watch your back more often.  With the witch being the only bot that can get behind you, then the pressure is reduced.  Players have been used to DoDS for too long…everything is predictable in DoDS…unlike Left4DoD!

In fact, L4D is very unpredictable.
Players don’t realize it but bots spawn close by them, behind bushes as they move along.  Next time you play, go in spec mode and watch the zombies….fascinating stuff.  The AI director keeps the zombies near the players.  But then, you say, after you’ve cleared an area, there are no Zombies behind you.
True.
But then you don’t respawn as often in L4D than you do in Left4DoD…

This isn’t Realism.
Realism, to me, is a really bad idea for a computer game.  The only realism is the pecking order and players who enjoy being ordered around by others.  In WW2, they didn’t have crosshairs, respawning, uber-fast mouse reflexes, bodies that remain in one piece upon death…. Realism means you can’t sneak around the map, you have to be wherever your commander tells you and so on…. It’s not what I call ‘Fun’.

Too many of my friends are heading down the Realism road and it’s making me unhappy.

So Left4DoD is a stab at bringing fun back to DoDS

**EDIT**
I had one player tonight, a certain ^9C0^6Chick^5e, argue with me that the bots didn’t get stronger each time you killed them and that they only got stronger every time we won.  I wonder how many people he has been telling this
Didn’t have the heart to tell him I wrote the stupid code so I should know…