Gaming Gripes

Well, I haven't made a blog post in a while so I thought I'd address a few problems I have encountered while playing my current favorite game, Left 4 Dead.

I don't know how many people encounter this, but it seems to me that there are a lot of cheaters in Versus mode. Usually they cheat as survivors. The only cheat that I know for a fact I have encountered enables the survivors to see the outlines of the infected. The time to get suspicious of this is when a really terrible team does really well as survivors. If they split up and still do really well even when multiple special infected gang up on them, then it is time to test them. This is fairly easy to do, because the cheat seems to have a weak spot. It seems that your outline appears whether you have spawned or not, so if they try to chase and run you down before you spawn, you know they are cheating.

Another far more common problem in Versus mode is griefing. For those who don't know, griefing refers to actions that are taken during a multiplayer game that are intended to anger or frustrate other players, and these actions can usually be done without taking advantage of any glitches or alterations to the game. Common forms of griefing in Left 4 Dead include team killing, self killing, constantly calling votes, or using the communication systems in a distracting manner. Contrary to what seems to be popular belief in this game, simply calling a kick vote against a player is not griefing, and just because your teammates want to kick you does not give you the right to try to pull off a team kill.

Well, I think that is enough of a rant for now.