Thread: Poll: What tweaks would you like to see on the VS servers?

I STRONGLY am against any changes the the witch other then adjusting her spawn locations. It's YOUR job as infected to not only make sure the survivors aggro her, but to ensure she at least incaps someone EVERYSINGLETIME she is spawned.

Now sometimes because she spawns in a stupid spot and you cant do much of anything. An example being when she spawns on the stairs on nm-4 or in the room by the security door on bh-2. I'm all for addressing the crappy spawn locations, she should always spawn in a location where the infected players can dictate whether or not she is effective. She doesnt have to be on the survivors "direct path" to make her a factor, but she simply has to spawn somewhere the infected players can work around her.

The witch is no different then the tank in that both are ineffective without support, but with the proper support both can be almost overpowered. Know why a witch gets cr0wned in a vs. game? Because the player infected were all dead and couldn't stop it from happening. She is just like every other special infected in this game, worthless in a 1v4 situation, why should any changes be made to make her different from the rest?

The only smoker change I would like to see would be to have the tongue travel at a higher velocity so alert players can't strafe out of being hit with it. (tip, whenever you hear the sound of a smoker, immeadiately start some strafing back and forth until the smoker is dead or you no longer hear the "cough", the tongue will only hit on a lucky shot.) You can easily with a little practice play the role of "Neo" and "dodge bullets" (or in this case tongue's) with a sub 150 ping and a little practice. I've said in other posts why the tongue detaching is a bad idea, no need to re-hash my opinions here.

As much as the delay in vomiting annoyed me previously, once I figured out the situations that caused the delay, it wasn't ever a problem anymore. The boomer has roughly a 1 second delay between moving and being able to vomit. As far as boomer damage on explosion goes, that's not such a hot idea for the obvious reasons.

The shotgun damage reduction to tanks is interesting. The main issue with the auto-shotty is it is either far and away the best weapon, or far and away the worst weapon to use against a tank. This is mostly because of level design moreso then any other cause. Areas where the tank can stay at range and throw rocks to let his fellow infected do the lions share of the work, the auto-shotty is useless. Tight enclosed areas where the tank has the choice of either running into heavy fire or giving up control to someone else who will then have the same issue, the auto-shotty is borderline overpowered. Level design is the main factor there, hopefully as more custom maps come out this will become less and less of an issue. Unfortunately I don't expect the SDK to come out for another 3 months at a minimum so custom maps will be fairly sparse until then.