Saturday, January 31, 2009 Bloody Mercy...

Map: No Mercy Apartments...
4v4 Versus...



Thats a lot of blood splattered around...
Bill died here... See...? Thats him on the ground on the right...

Close Scoring... Part 4...

Map: Blood Harvest Bridge...
4v4 Versus...



Again, very even teams...

Glitched again...

Map: No Mercy Streets...
4v4 Versus...



Another shot of the unlimited health packs...



I somehow got above the safe room before the round started...
Shortly after loading, our opposition quit...
All of them...

The Witch, The Smoker and The Fat Man...

Map: No Mercy Interior...
4v4 Versus...

We made it through the elevator crescendo event no worries...
I hit the button as Bill ran into the elevator...
And sat and watched the doors close with his blue outline on the other side of them...
The Smoker had managed that million to one grab as the doors close to drag him to his death...
We spent the elevator ride congratulating the smoker, as we were that sort of team...
At the top, we got boomed, and mobbed by a horde... The smoker had respawned at the top, and grabbed Louis ( My mate Az ) through the bars, so he wasnt dragged anywhere... Francis was standing next to him, and didnt notice... I was a little ahead, and when I saw that he was in trouble, ran back to help... We were pretty beat up now...
Around the corner and a little beyond the forklift, we found the witch...
Az tried to take her out from a distance with our help...
She bumped me on her way past, throwing me off balance long enough for her to incap Az...
I went to try and save him by standing over him and fending off zombies...
I managed to shoot the boomer, and watched helplessly as I stumbled backwards, off the edge of the building... At that same time, Francis received a hunter to the back...

We were all laughing at the exceptional timing of the other team, who to that point were rather unorganized...

Sunday, January 25, 2009 Regular Victory...

Map: No Mercy Interior...
4v4 Versus...

Just when we had them all done, 3 incapped and the last hunted, they managed to kill our last hunter from the ground...

One more hit and Louis would be incapped...
So here we all are with our 30 second respawns...
Watching helplessly as Louis begins assisting Zoey to her feet...
When some random chick Infected runs up behind him, and taps him on the shoulder...

Louis falls down, we win...

Friday, January 23, 2009 Zombie Genocidest...

Map: No Mercy Interior...
4v4 Versus...



I got my 53595th infected in the stair well...
He was standing where i took this screenie...

He wasn't a part of a horde... just some random single infected...
Rather anti-climatical...

Boomer Marathon...

Map: No Mercy Sewers...
4v4 Versus...



This Boomer followed him ALL the way across the roof...
For a fat man about to explode, that really is a marathon...
He got him at the end...

Thursday, January 22, 2009 New sport: Tank Jumping!!!

Map: No Mercy finale...
4v4 Versus...

First tank comes along, and we set him on fire...
In his panic, he starts chasing me down... I have 85 hp at this time...
We have one guy with 1hp...

I run up the ramp, jump onto the roof next to it, turn around, and there is the tank, so I jump over him... I turn around to watch where he is, and he is still turning around coming after me...
So i run up the stairs that lead nowhere, turn around, and jump over the tank again...
This was getting fun, so i ran back up the ramp again... turn around, and jump off to the side this time, but still got around the tank...
Shortly after this, he died from the fire...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Merciless Hunting...

Map: No Mercy Subway...
4v4 Versus...

The tactic I see a lot at the start of this map is rush down to the first corner...
This team opened the door... And stood there...
So, as the boomer, I spawned under them and vomited up on 3 of them...
They wait it out, then run down the stairs...
All except one, who runs to the vent...
I vomit on 2 on the stairs, and tried to explode on the third... I missed...
But he stayed to help fend off infected while the other guy if off being eaten...

He realizes what is going on, and runs to help... I was still in spawn mode, and noticed a second hunter waiting for them to come around and up the stairs...
I warn him that he is coming the other way, and he pounces into the vent, and then tries to get up to the next level just as the survivor gets there, and pounces him...
The other teo have now recovered from their boom, and run down the stairs...

I respawn as a hunter, and one of our other hunters finishes his meal just as the standing survivors come for him... he manages to pounce one, and i miss the other, giving him a chance to melee off our guy...

But he doesnt kill him, so straight away, we both pounce again, and this time, we both hit our targets...

I am almost expecting a tank every time i run to those stairs now, but this time, no tank, and we didn't need it... They scored 7 for that effort...

Monday, January 19, 2009 Close Scoring... Part 3...

Map: Blood Harvest Hilltop...
4v4 Versus...



Both teams failed, and this was the final score...
We were looking good until that last leg...

Dont' be a dick...

Map: Blood Harvest...
4v4 Versus...

There will always be people out there who just piss you off... In games, there is no exception...
This story is about one of those people, who shall not be named, but if Shade reads this, he will know EXACTLY who I am talking about...
He joined at the start of the campaign, and Shade said hello... His first words: "Shut the fuck up"... We didn't like him already...
For the next 3 levels, he would tell us what to do, and swear at us when we didn't do it, or when we did and it didn't work...
Comments like "Do some work" while I was a smoker waiting for the tongue to recharge...
"Yo, don't fuck this up" at the start of every round...

We got sick of it, so Shade and I planned to ditch him in the next mission...
We got our weapons and bolted...
"Yo what are you doing? Fucking get back here" came the cry...
He called votes to kick me, but because you need 'yes' to outnumber 'no', they failed...
We found it hilarious... I made it most of the way to the train car climax point before getting pounced by a hunter... Shade and I loved it... We had to apologize to the other guy who just joined though... He didn't deserve to be left behind...

The next map, he said "Yo" and stopped... So i said "Lemme guess, dont fuck this up"... what he said next was unknown, partly because we couldnt understand him, and partly because Shade was going "What was that? Huh?" in time with repeated shotgun blasts to his face... We incapped him, then kicked him...

It was hilarious... I could barely talk between the laughter...

Moral of this story: Don't be a dick... We will fuck you over and enjoy it the whole time...

Sunday, January 18, 2009 Poor Boomer Spawn...

Map: No Mercy Interior...
4v4 Versus...

Our tank was kicking ass all over the construction zone...
He knocked Bill flying through the air after incapping the others... I watched as the still green silhouette shrank into the distance...
And then I saw it...
The Blue outline of a boomer waiting to spawn...
Falling through the air, way out where Bill was...

Poor guy...

Melee Madness...

Map: No Mercy Finale...
4v4 Versus...

We were slaughtering the opposition in score thanks to a well planned Tank defense, when we arrived at the finale...
We managed to kill them all before they escaped, so we knew that we were going to win...

So, after a long day of killing waves of zombies, we decided to have some fun...
I pull out my Molotov, and my team mates pull out a pipe bomb and med kit... And a machine gun, for protection...
We went all the way past the first tank with nothing but a single machine gun and melee attacks with bottle, pipe and medkit... We set the tank on fire with a gas can...
We were doing very well actually...
We even made it to the second tank, with health packs to spare...
Until a team mate of ours turned and began shooting us... The second tank was already on fire at this point too, so he died shortly afterwards...
But because of the friendly fire, and a well timed boom, we lost a friend, and then another was pulled well by the smoker and I had to go save him... Hunters were waiting, but we fought 2 off... Then another came after i had run upstairs already...

We would have made it through to the end if our team mate didn't open fire on us... All with melee attacks...
We still won with score, almost double their points...

Close Scoring... Part 2...

Map: No Mercy Finale...
4v4 Versus...



Im not sure how they got an odd number in a map with a 2x multiplier added last, but they did...

Close Scoring...

Map: Blood Harvest Hilltop...
4v4 Versus...



Final scores have a few determining factors:
Players who make it to the safe room...
Where Players who didn't make it died...
HP remaining...
Med kits and pills carried...
So when a score gets as close as this one did, the teams must be pretty damn even...

Infinite Health...?

Map: No Mercy Interior...
4v4 Versus...



For this screenie, look at all the huds, then in the medicine cabinet...

Meet the Boomer...

Map: No Mercy Interior...
4v4 Versus...



You meet some strange people in elevators sometimes... Thankfully you don't need to know them for long...

Laziness...

Map: No Mercy Interior...
4v4 Versus...

If Louis moved his leg just a little, all wold be okay...
The boomer and hunter are there to help... really...

Team Effort...

Map: No Mercy Sewers...
4v4 Versus...


Again, reading the text on the left will show you the point of this screenie...

Eye for an eye...

Map: No Mercy Subway...
4v4 Versus...



Read the text on the left...

The Tank Escape...

Map: Blood Harvest Finale...
4v4 Versus...

There was only one survivor at the farm...

Light Bending Hax!!!

Map: Blood Harvest Finale...
4v4 Versus...



Louis is using some sort of adaptive camouflage... Unfortunately, we couldn't hit him either...

Poor Jason...

Map : Blood Harvest Train Tunnel...
4v4 Versus...

These are some screenies with a small amount of humor in them...
I'd like to point out the player joining the game in the first shot...
Then read the text on the wall in the second shot...
Both were taken in the same map, but from different games...
They work well together though...


Dirty Tactics...

Just a mention of some dirty tricks I have seen in game...

A member of my team was insulting the enemy while we were under attack, in an attempt to get them to stop attacking and retort... He was dead at the time...

A member of the Infected joined the Survivors in the No Mercy Finale as a bot, and promptly jumped off the building... He then rejoined the infected, and then the Survivors again as the last Bot and promptly jumped off the building... He then joined the infected for one last time and proceeded to finish off the last of us... Note that this cant be done now that Valve limited the times you can change teams...

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 WTF...? Spawn Fail...

Map: No Mercy 4: The interior...
4v4 Versus...


Safe room door is closed, and there is a dead hunter in the room...
And we are one survivor short...

Even Epicer Fail at No Mercy...

Map : No Mercy 3: The Sewers...
4v4 Versus...

Until this game, this was the best I had participated in...

Again, I started the drop boomer ambush... One misses the fun and escapes clean... The other three, well, we had 2 hunters and a smoker, and I was still alive... I hit em a couple of times, and was keeping an eye on the other guy... He kept running...
He found that there were no guns there, and came back...
At this point he realised his team was, to put it bluntly, fucked...
I vomited on him to keep him occupied, and one of our hunters finished his meal and jumped the last man standing...

This time, the score didnt count at all... It did not rise above 0...
I thought I capped a pic of the score after the distance had been counted, but afterward, when browsing the screenies folder, I couldn't find it...
Funny thing was, they were pretty decent at the rest of the maps... But couldn't recover from this fail...

Sunday, January 11, 2009 The Epic Marathon...

Map: No Mercy Sewers...
4v4 Versus...
Im sure everyone at some stage has experienced, or will experience, the mad dash for the safe room, with complete disregard for the others and the surroundings...

On one such occasion, our team of survivors lost 2 of our members in an intense battle to get inside the room just after the gas station/scissor lift... The other 2 of us, on low HP and losing it gradually, managed to get to the sewers...
We found a Tank waiting for us there...

It was here that I gave up hope of surviving, so I said to my team mate: "Fuck this, Im legging it..."

Now, I was playing as Bill, the old guy, and I was bleeding out on black and white... Lucky for me, the Tank chased after my mate, leaving me to bleed to death while hobbling away...
I went for an EPIC marathon, walking through the sewers, killing every zombie that I could with my auto shottie... I even came across a Hunter at one point... All the while I was expecting to get hit from behind and go flying through the air when the Tank caught up to me...
I made it to that room where you can sometimes shut the door for a breather... I made it through that small tunnel afterwards...
I could see the ladder... It was right there... I didnt stop to look around...
I made it to the ladder and started climbing... I had picked up a pipe bomb back in the room, so I thought: "If I dont get pounced at the top, I may actually make this...!"
But some Bastard of a smoker at the bottom of the ladder caught me and in a single hit, as I had only 1 HP at this point, killed me...

Thursday, January 8, 2009 Barely walking...

Map : No Mercy 4: the Construction...
4v4 Versus...



We got seriously beat up getting into the elevator... we had no Medkits, and no HP... We made a pact: Every man for himself...
When the doors opened, we all leapt out, charging towards that safe room... At the speed of snails...
Surprisingly, we all made it... No one needed to be picked up along the way... No tank, no excessive amounts of zombies, no witch... We blasted everything so damn quick, as if our lives depended on it...
The result was a score of 14 for our combined HP...

Epic Fail at No Mercy...

Map : No Mercy 3: The Sewers...
4v4 Versus...

You all know that safe room at the start of No Mercy level 3 where you have the option of looking for weapons straight ahead, or running left as thats where you have to go... You know that there is a VERY good chance that there is an ambush waiting as soon as you open that door...

These guys apparently didn't...
Starting with a drop Boomer, the ambush involves little more than a couple of hunters and a smoker... and 10,000 zombies... Our smoker grabbed one right outside, us hunters pounced 2 of the others while he was hanging from the roof, and the 4th survivor was god knows where fending off the Horde... When he can finally see whats going on, he runs back to assist the others...
To find one dead, and a hunter waiting for him...
Epic fail... A total of 1 for the distance traveled...

I killed Kenny...


Yep... It was me...

High Hit Count...

Map : Blood Harvest Finale...
4v4 Versus...


Survivors are playing pretty well, and get to the finale with a lot of health and a bunch of medkits... We give em hell as they go, as you do, but we all know that this is where it will happen...

We get our first tank, and as he chases down some of the group, Francis is left alone... Our boomer vomits all over him, and runs away to hide inside and wait for the survivors to come back...

I was playing as the smoker, and figured that our Zombie Minions would do more damage if Francis couldn't move... So I grabbed him... The Horde came running...
The Assist counter started counting... And it was counting fast...
The highest i had seen it get to was just over 250... I reached that damn quick, and it kept going...
Louis decided to come back to try help, but it was too late...
By the time he got to the house, the Boomer was still patiently waiting, and the Assist count had reached 492... Francis was dead...
My new Assist Count record : 492...

APC + Log = Win...

Map : Blood Harvest Finale...
4v4 Versus...

I was playing as the final tank, against a team who know pretty well what they were doing, as 3 shared a clan tag...
I went after one of the logs, as they had all run outside... I hit it around a bit, but can't score any good hits... I manage to incap 1 with a good shot, and my teammates incap another next to them as they went to help... At this stage, auto shotties have taken their toll, and I collapse...

The APC arrives...

2 incapped survivors are being assisted by the other 2, and are directly in the early part of the APC...
And so is the log...

The APC pushes the Survivors out of the way, directly into the path of the Log, which neatly rolled over all 4 survivors, incapping the last 2 and winning the round for the Infected...