gotta..gotta g-GAME!!
i didn't say that a lone infected stands no chance (of course he wouldn't) but in every versus game i've played, no matter what the zombie team tried they were unable to crack a good human team unless they had a tank with other bosses present or if they had 2 or more hunters. it's entirely possible that the people i've played with just are just SHITTY ZOMBIES, but the smoker's a joke (example: since you can shoot through constricted/pulled humans, you can just SHOOT THE TONGUE THROUGH THE HUMAN; the human has a chance to free himself 2/3rds of the time; there's generally a good 5-10 seconds before the smoker can pull the human to a point where it can do damage and even then it takes upwards of 30 seconds to incapacitate a human) and the boomer hardly does any damage with its explosive attack which is supposed to be its other ability! the only real chances the zombies have is when the AI director is pounding them really hard, and that rarely happens because hey, the versus difficulty is too low!
granted, i'm not saying that the zombies can't pull off really great rounds, but if you put two teams of equivalent skill playing versus mode, i think you would see the humans winning over and over and over!
i'm not fucking complaining about 'good teams being too good' (what?) but that there is not a lot of variety for strategic options for the zombies due to the lack of variety of types and that two of the types are mostly useless in their current form. hunters are great, and tanks are too obviously, but hunters are only good for picking off stragglers or in groups (my team got killed by 3 hunters simultaneously in versus which is kind of cheap) and most good human players can melee them off 50% of the time. tanks are ace, nothing wrong with them.
but then again you're a GAMES PURIST so i don't know what to say to you.
Uh...it sounds to me like you're having problems because you don't actually know the abilities of the infected. The boomer DOESN'T do damage. His 'explode' spews bile everywhere which attracts the hoarde. The smoker isn't about 'damaging' the survivors, he's about trapping them. You're meant to drag away lone guys at the front/back/whatever. Hiding behind walls and roofs and shit REALLY helps. If you stand bang in the open yeah you're going to do fuck all. 95% of the time the player you're dragging away shouldn't even see you before it's too late. You can also do shit like smoke them through tiny holes/holes in doors and whatnot.
I can also safely say that the AI director CAN and WILL fuck a 'good' team over. It happens to us lot all the time in versus.
Tbh it sounds to me like you're DOING A SAREVOK and you're bitching about little things (and wrongly, LIKE A SAREVOK) because you just don't like the game.
also chicago ted rocks i want to be chicago ted
