dead center expert realism 1st attempt

I personally didnt think we will fail at dead center campaign. Unfortunately expert realism has shown us a WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF DIFFICULTLY! Sniper rifle unable to kill a single zombie in a perfect bodyshot?! More frequent hordes! Yes and more SIs appearance! Definitely. In this level, I believe they are several weapons that have been render useless! 1) sniper (no offence SKL) 2) dual-pistol

1st map ( 2 attempts)
haha....funny Barney got kamikazed by charger

2nd map (2/3 attempts)
ok. my bad for unable to notice sensitive car. really blur.

3rd map (>5 attempts) - fail
At least 1 died everytime b4 reaching the alarm event. This makes it even harder to reach the switch board in the room. Zombie tend to attack from our blindspot. I believe our formation are lacking here. Of course, without glow around survivor there are a lot friendly fire. Once i even mistaken SKL for boomer. FUCK!

Aosh has gave a very useful suggestion during alarm event. Use melee. I think i will sacrifice my magnum for the sake of completing this event next time. There is always a katana available right b4 sounding the alarm. Yes, melee weapon is NOT weak. It's just hard to use. Remember melee weapon has a lot of advantage. 1) no reload time 2) multiple kill (surrounded by hordes) 3) able to attack while moving

Most of us has negative perspective when it comes to melee weapon ever since I fail to impress last time. Yea, to attack u will need to get closer to zombie. And you actually need to aim at zombie b4 attacking to avoid missing hit. That said, I believe most of us lack practice of melee and fear to get closer to zombie. I believe melee is very good in defending against horde. I think it's time to use melee more since it has more advantage than single/ dual pistol. Melee is a must. I suggest 2 magnum user, 2 melee user all the time.

Time to accept L4D2's best kept secret.

To conclude, we will finish what we started.

few things i can point out what's the real difference between normal expert campaign and realism expert campaign as we have experienced playing on dead center campaign itself.

- Keep staying alive. the moment one of us is dead and none of us has defib, we are short of firepower and more difficult as we move on to the safehouse.
- Defib unit is getting more important and must use it very very wisely. It is best to save afew defib to carry on the next map.
- Covering fire may not work 100% as what we have play in normal expert campaign. Those infected are tough to kill and they run even faster yet smarter. If you able to spot that infected is running towards the teammate but unable to cover fire or kill the infected on time, alert your teammate to look behind! Communication is vital in this realism mode.
- Melee become more important in this realism mode. Most of the weapons are less effective against hordes, required to headshot more than just shoot at those bodies. Melee will be useful for incoming attacks but require more practise to use them effectively.
- And because there's no glow or outline among us even the display name also takda, we have to really know and recognise each of us using which survivor. Most of us know we can spot the survivors but dunno who is using the survivor on the spot. For example, I asked skl to heal tofu. but skl go and attempt to heal me thinking that i am tofu.

yeah....realism is another level of expert. this time we really have to think like a real human. small mistake can cost us dearly

the stupid shopping complex alarm event is the killer. before the alarm event we will met tank and it will just make it more difficult for us to reach.

what ever it is we have to finish up expert realism on dead center. after completed this then we can move on to the new expansion coming out next week. find another day we play again dead center this time with less mistake

No doubt my sniper rifle is less useful against normal infected, theres still a gun which can kill it with 1 shot, but not every stage may appear.

Shotguns may be useful for this moment. Even I dont use shotguns, it is more encouragable to use shotguns now. I will change my weapon to autorifle (Getting on Serious now! ). B4 this I would expect 1 hit 1 kill for sniper, but yet, it came out to be different when 3 hits required rather than 1 hit.

I still discourage of using melees. Melee is useful when there is a narrow room to defend. bcos of easy defending, most infected will not be able to penetrate through our defence with melee. If youre fighting hordes in an open area, even melee will not save you easily. Futhermore, the only advantages with melee against guns is melee has infinite attacks, 0 reloading time and 1 hit multiple kills. But in exact fact, the more infected near you, the more dangerous you are as youre jeopardising your life. I still stick to my old strategy; shoot them when they far, dont let them come near you.

shotgun? hhmm....i remember using it in 3rd map but it seems so-so only. i remember i have hard time killing zombies with shotgun. ak is still my weapon of choice.