One if the funniest moments me and my friends had in left 4 dead was when we where trying to get the achievment of no witches startled during the campaign Dead air.So of course at the fourth level there was a witch right in the saferoom.I then proceed to walk over to the witch, and crushed her to death with the door. When my friend in the next level said that we still kinda startled a witch i said( in a complete Trollvoice) I didn't do it, It was the DOOR. Said friend proceede to laugh his ass off and after that we got the achievment anyway.

Originally, this Troper had been a troll, but only to hardcore players! Once in Survival in the original game, I started shooting at the francis player with an SMG, who, understandably, shot me back with a shotgun. as the two bots healed us on the opposite sides of the watertower, he managed to throw a moltov which i narrowly avoided, we chased each other 3/4 around the water tower when he had to reload. I spayed him into his own fire, which he escaped by jumping off to his own death. He called me a rather explicit word to which I responded with N00b! He left the game.

This was funny and awesome, me and my Dad are playing and Dad goes into a room to search for ammo. I go off on my own, as the bots were dead. Five minutes later, my Dad leaves the room to see me run straight past him yelling "KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!" while being chased by a flaming and very pissed off Witch. My dad walks out once it has passed him and opens up with an assault rifle and kills it. There's a pause. Then my dad deadpans "Please stop anoying the emo zombies."

This could count as CrowningMomentOfFunny for me. On the finale of Dead Air, we had just fought off a second horde and were about to fight the tank, I got on the mounted machine gun, found the tank, he threw a cargo storage container at us, incapped three of us, my friend looked at it bounce off the semitruck and incap him so it took serious aim to incap all four of us with one container.

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My CrowningMomentOfAwesome from my first time playing the second game simply ''must'' be told. It was at a friend's house, who greatly enjoyed using console commands to create unlimited hordes of zombies... counteracted with invincibility, infinite ammo and a CHAINSAW. At one point, I was surrounded on all sides by hundreds of zombies. What did I do? Super Chainsaw Tornado Attack! This was apparentley so awesome, the three CPU allies were just standing there, ''watching''. That's right, I was so awesome '''''I IMPRESSED A COMPUTER PROGRAM'''''.

\M/ ^_^ \M/

Playing the original Left 4 Dead Solo on Expert. I was being an idiot and muted the game audio and was playing some System of a Down. I went into a room, opened up the closet, and immediately got jumped by a tank. I needed a change of pants after that...

Playing Left4Dead2 on advanced, I got Sob Story by accident. I was playing with three bots, and going through the sugar mill. When I got Sob Story on a different profile, it took me five tries on easy, with only one bot. I got it without trying, on a much harder difficulty, on the first go. YouWereTryingTooHard, indeed.

This troper got Sob Story the first time of playing Hard Rain, also by accident.

This troper as well. He got ''VIOLENCE IN SILENCE'' also by accident.

This troper had spent several attempts with a friend and two bots trying to get Sob Story. We misread the achievement and thought it required to not STARTLE a witch. Needless to say, the bots were no help with that (Goddamn it Rochelle). Nearly 8 attempts later, I was checking the achievements to see if I could find an easier one (my friend had left for the day, so just me and three bots). I reread Sob Story, and decided to attempt it again. I got it without startling a single witch anyway. My friend wouldn't speak to me for a week.

''Left4Dead''. This troper was in a versus game at the finale of No Mercy as the Infected. We'd been the first team to try as survivors and our opponents had slaughtered us not long after we called in the helicopter. On our turn as infected, we didn't bother trying to slow them down in the hallways, we all just went to the rooftop. Our Boomer and two Hunters stood near the top of the ladder leading onto the roof while I, as the Smoker, went over to the satellite dish. Our plan was for our Boomer to lose his lunch down the hole, me to rope the first one that came out and the hunters to tackle the other two (the fourth guy was probably going to be busy with the regular infected, the guy who planned it never said). What happened was that I was a bit too quick on the trigger with my tongue; grabbing the first survivor (Francis) as he reached the top of the ladder, leaving him to dangle at the top of the ladder, covered in Boomer bile with no way for the other survivors to rescue him. This worked out better as he was killed quickly. The remaining survivors made it onto the roof, but our Boomer managed to slime them all with his death explosion and I roped Zoey, dragging her off the roof and down to the base of the dish tower. Her companions saved her (they were slowed down, but not as much as they could have since one of our Hunters pounced right over the edge of the building), but she'd been incapacitated, so was low on health. They called the copter and as Zoey came out onto the roof (not having had the chance to heal yet), I roped her again, dragging her once more to the base of the dish tower. Louis couldn't save her; having been tackled by a Hunter just as I grabbed Zoey. I'm not sure what happened to Bill (probably pounced and slimed) as my attention was elsewhere. It is without doubt the greatest moment I have ever experienced in the game.

This troper was playing a game on No Mercy. As we hadn't played the game much at that point, we weren't doing very well, and the survivors were of course doing quite well. The Director then granted our team with a Tank. The Tank proceeded to ''punch a car into all four Survivors,'' incapacitating all of them.

We were on the Blood Harvest finale, and felt sorry for the one person on the other team. All his friends had quit because our team was winning. So we decided, in order for it to be remotely fair, we would all grab sniper rifles and hold out in the cornfield for the finale. ''It worked.'' Two of us made it away!

In one of my rounds of Death Toll, if came down to the final tank charging up the dock as the survivors boarded the boat, punching those who had already boarded off into the water, and then camping the deck until they all went down. The CMOA was the opportunity for him to deliver the line, "I'M ON A BOAT!" while jumping up and down just before the end.

The ''bots'' got one in my first "No Mercy" playthrough (as Bill). I jumped off the roof onto two AC units, then down from those. A few seconds into the alley, I'm getting ''mauled'' by Infected everywhere. Just as I hit about 50 health, Francis, Zoey, and Louis come barreling in, killing all the zombies and then having Zoey heal me. I never abandoned my bots for the rest of the game.

Same troper, same campaign; Dropped both a Witch and a Hunter down an elevator shaft.

Me again! L4D2 this time; Hard Rain. Threw a Molotov at a Tank (That was right in fromt of me at the time) and a Commo Infected ran in front of me to get burned as it passed by. I repeat; the Molotov lt something on fire ''before it hit the ground''. Sadly, a Charger then rammed me off the dock as I was waiting for Virgil.

I had a somewhat similar experience playing offline co-op with my friend. We were playing Dark Carnival, right before the crescendo even with the meyy-go-round. I was incapped right before the drop, and my teammates had all jumped down before me. As I was bleeding out, my friend and one of the bots got killed. I was out 20 health (LITERALLY only a second from dying), when Coach appeared out of nowhere to save me. We proceeded to kick ass and take names on out way to saferoom. Coach was renamed Super Coach, and all was well, until a Tank coated the walls with us thirty seconds into the next level.

This Troper got one on the second part of No Mercy, in the subway station. This Troper was on the infected team, and our team of two Hunters, a Smoker, and a Boomer, got ready for an ambush. This Troper was the Smoker. The Boomer ran in first, and while they were distracted with the new weapons and the infected around, boomed three of the four. The fourth one, trying to escape and help his teammates, was pulled by me, as the Smoker. The Hunters pounced two of the others, and the Boomer, along with his minions, mauled the final guy to death. Infected win in less than 2 minutes of gameplay.

This Troper got one in the finale of No Mercy. While running through the top level of the hospital before reaching the roof, Zoey was jumped by a Hunter. Being the closest person, he ran over to help, and punched the Hunter off of Zoey. And off of the building. He then walked to the edge and watched it fall. Satisfying as all hell.

I was playing his second run-through of The Passing with a group of new players who had no mics. I joined right at the beginning, before the group even got off the street. Out of nowhere, a tank attacked. The tank rampaged down the hallway of the first building before smacking me into a small room with several guns, ammo.....and a gas can on the floor. Right before the tank made his final hit, with the other survivors distracted by a hoard, I fired a burst into the gas tank at my feet, engulfing the room in flames and killing the tank before it got out of the room. Fortunately, the dude playing Nick managed to save me from the burning building, but a HeroicSacrifice would have made it so much more awesome.

I was playing through the Realism Versus mutation on The Passing. Less than five seconds before we officially left the safe zone, a Boomer jumps down, slimes everyone, and runs away. He then proceeds to do the exact same thing five minutes later after we had forgotten about him. DeadWeight my ass, he was outright {{Acrofatic}}.

A friend and I were playing the boathouse finale of Death Toll. I'll admit we hadn't done great the whole game, and the finale was more of the same. By the time the boat horn sounded we were pretty beat up. Me, my friend, and the two all limped (literally) to the dock, taking out the few zombies along the way. But when we arrived the usual final finale hordes spawned, and the boat was still forever away. I literally said ThisIsGonnaSuck and (possibly "we're boned.") The zombies came into visual rang, and I spent the last of my ammo shooting them in the distance. A few seconds before they appeared my friend pulled out a molotov I hadn't noticed he saved, and threw it onto the far end of the pier. The whole horde ran straight into it and died as they reached us. Then the boat arrived. I called him a "cheeky bastard" as we climbed aboard.

During the Versus Survival mutation, I was the Smoker and climbed up on top of the concert stage in Dark Carnival: Concert and the person who played Coach climbed to the top of the scaffolding next to the concert stage. So I smoked him. Where the fun starts is the smoking pulled him all the way off the platform and a little bit into the air. So he was literally hanging. Even though he had almost full health, none of the other players came by to assist him. When he was almost dead I realized, OMG, I lunched Coach! For added fun, several games later in Versus, I was the Smoker on Dead Center: Hotel, went to the 2nd floor to due the window ledge smoking. After pulling one to the ledge, I smoked Coach at the right momemt and the Smoker pulled him all the way off the ledge so he was hanging a little below the 2nd floor and I realized I had done it again.

After the team switch in the afore mentioned Versus Survival: 1) I ended up as Coach, and 2) the player who was Nick decied to suicide during the setup by jumping off a high scaffolding, so I grabbed the defib and started zapping him, but stopping just before he got up. I did it 20-30 times, and we all found ti hilarious. This was before a patch added a time limit to the Versus Survival prep. When I finally completed the zapping and he got up. He gave his line to stop zapping him cause that really hurt.

Any of you guys ever played a game that total zombie kills are at 3300 zombies and you personally killed nearly half of that (around 1500) by yourself? Yeah, I never think that that's possible, but I just have a Hard Eight game in the Parish on Easy, and that's what happens. The next 2 guys kill around 600 each...that's the most awesome game ever!

My first witch kill happened the first time I played No Mercy (ie, first time I fired up the game), where she'd spawned near the scissor lift. It involved me pumping an entire clip of hunting rifle ammo into her...with no damage to myself or my suspiciously dodgy AI teammates. Toss in the fact that I actually got no help from the fiddly, suddenly gun-shy bits of code either, and I pretty much ended up soloing my first witch without a shotgun or a Molotov. I celebrated by cracking my AI allies in the skull with the butt of my rifle (my exact thoughts then being "why weren't you bastards shooting?! You were doing so much of it before she showed up!").

I ended up with my first and (as of current posting) only Cr0wn on a different profile than my own, at a friend's house in the first game. I snuck up behind her, she looked at me and stood up, prompting the "OHGODI'MGOINGTODIE" response. So I started blasting with my auto-shotgun. A few seconds later, we had a dead Witch and me doubting very much that I'd cr0wned her. Then the achievement pops up. Cue fist pump.

This troper rarely plays public games due to jackass griefers, but there were a few occasions where I got the upper hand on a griefer. In the 2nd map of Death Toll, after the sewer event, there was a guy who turned and shot one of our own till he went down. Luckily, I was in the distance with the Hunting Rifle and sniped his sorry ass till he went down. We then all shot him to death and kicked him from the game. In another game during Crash Course, a mic spammer was being a dick and after we had to restart due to dying from a Tank, he proceeds to try and shoot me to death. I run ahead with him hot on my heels until I find an Auto Shotgun. I then turned around to face him and blasted him till he died.

During a recent (as of this post) game of Versus in Dark Carnival, there was a ''VERY'' good player who made playing hell for the opposing team. Come the coaster level and this person decides to abandon his teammates and start the coaster all on his own, managing to kill everything coming his way while the other survivors were just exiting the tunnel of love. Cue my friend as a Hunter pouncing on the nearly full-HP person and myself spitting on them, killing them and thus, letting us win that round.

Playing Left 4 Dead on Dead Air. Just as you get to the safe house when you finally reach the airport, I charged on ahead over the sky bridge as my friends were cleaning up. Salvation! I had made it! Until... a tank spawned in the safe house with me on my lonesome. In the thralls of OhCrap, I panicked and hammered the Use key. Inadvertantly, I had trapped the Tank behind the unbreakable safehouse door. My team caught up and we laughed merrily as the Tank was helplessly pumped full of bullets.

I couldn't play L4D2 online when I first got it(I forget why), so I decided to play through anyway. Somehow, I managed to get Sob Story the first try, and to beat The Parish alone the first time. Yes, with three bots. All of them survived Sob Story, although I abandoned them on The Bridge and spent a while watching the messages telling me what the AIs were doing while I hung out in the helicopter chopping up everything that came in range until they died. These proud moments was balanced by the utter destruction I encountered during my first Dark Carnival run - on the level where you fight your way through an endless horde to the saferoom, I had abandoned my bots as lost causes and was half dead while I sliced through the horde, and encountered a Boomer. As if that wasn't bad enough, guess what was in the saferoom? Yup - a Tank! Long story short, I was brutally slaughtered and RageQuit for a while. I still don't like that level.

Update: I can now safely say I have had the most epic, most fun playthrough I will ever, ever have. I was a little leery about playing online due to griefers, but two friends and I decided to start up a lobby together. After a long wait, we got started on Dead Center. The other team started to sing. I kid you not. One person broke into A Whole New World and not long after, their entire team was singing improv about what was going on in the match. One person got kicked for not singing. Fourth players who joined my side and complained about the singing got the singers to start improv on them instead of the game. I was laughing the entire time. That was the best loss I've ever experienced, I had no problem with it whatsoever.

Playing some Versus and ending up in a pick-up group against a seasoned four-man team is bad. Having said four-man team utterly dominate us is worse. That four-man team's theme being "Team Rocket" (Jessie, James, Meowth and Giovanni) is indescribably humiliating. Suffering ''Pokemon''-themed insults in chat ("you guys stink worse than a Grimer in a garbage dump!") is why this troper hasn't played Versus mode since.

When playing Versus on The Parish in L4D2, we pinned the survivors down in a bar. Not very good usually as a hunter, I managed to rake one of the survivors to death on a stairwell before pegging it. The Survivors marched onward and eventually found themselves a Defib, at which point the dead player DEMANDED that they return for him. So they did. They revived him, sure, but I was back in business as a Spitter. I ended up incapping an additional Survivor and killing another. The one who demanded that they returned for him? I ended up hanging from the balcony as a Smoker as he jumped to activate the Parade Float. Some games just go very well.

Whenever a Hunter is killed mid-lunge, something funny is bound to happen, but this particular one took the cake for me. It's the second level in Dead Air and I descend a stairwell to see a Hunter crouched at the bottom at the end of a corridor. It lunges at me, gets popped in the head and dies mid-lunge. It then proceeds to smack its head into the cement archway at one point in the corridor and does a few reverse flips before landing in a crumpled heap on the floor.

My third time ever playing Left 4 Dead, I was playing with a group of friends on The Sacrifice. I was Bill, as I'd planned to sacrifice myself. All throughout the game I was acting pretty HotBlooded, but I realized there was something missing that I hadn't said yet. Throughout the campaign my other two friends had been pretty shitty teammates, and mostly just left my friend and I to our own devices. Just at the finale, my friend - playing Louis - was being ridden by a jockey. I killed it from about ten meters with the semi-auto shotgun. Seconds later, he was hit by a Charger. As I turned to save him again, I remembered what I had been missing. "WOLVERINES!" I yelled and blasted the Charger. Once we were on the bridge, I was determined to sacrifice myself, but I didn't know how to do it. I kept asking, but nobody answered me. The friend playing Zoey hopped on the mounted machine-gun and had some fun. Cue Louis leaping clean over Zoey and hitting the generator. He proceeded to rub it in my face while I reminded him that I had specifically chosen to play as Bill.

The next session, we played No Mercy (still on L4D2), and once again the friend Zoey was being a speedrunning prick. Eventually it came to my friend Louis and Francis (replaced by an AI) lying incapped on the road while Zoey sat in the safe house waiting for us to die. I yelled at my friend to help, but he ignored us. Grabbing my trusty shotgun, I proceeded to rescue both of the single-handed and lead them back to the safehouse. Once there, I memetic badassed the situation into Bill storming into the saferoom, covered in gore, pumping his shotgun and asking Zoey how her day had been.

Right after the original Left 4 Dead was released a few friends and I had a [=LAN=] party to get together and play it in the same room. (Lights off, of course.) As we started the campaign in the first safe room one of the guys was busy spraying rude/pornographic pictures all over the walls and floors, we took turns shooting each other to death and generally farted around thinking we were going to be "shootin' us some zombies." Cue 15 minutes later as we're carefully walking through a parking lot, trying not to shoot the cars and set off alarms. There's not a spray in sight and we are all on hair triggers. We manage to fight off an incoming wave and as the last few zombies go down we hear ... crying. OhCrap. We're surrounded by cars and buildings, we've gotten turned around during the horde and we're yelling at each other "where is she? WHERE IS SHE?!" Four hardcore gaming guys who were acting like five-year-olds 15 minutes earlier were so immersed we were ready to crap our pants at the sound of the Witch's crying. By the time we finished the campaign we were sweating and tired as if we had been the survivors and had to call a break. One of the most awesome gaming experiences I've ever had.

I was new at L4D, playing single player. the first time I encountered a witch, I didn't know that flashlights startled her. I had figured that out the second time I encountered one, but while I was looking at her, I thought I saw her look up, which prompted me to fire the shotgun, startling her. I ''really'' hate witches.

(OP) I managed to get over this first when I killed one with a grenade launcher, and cr0wned another.

My love for the new Chrome Shotgun was cemented when I managed to cr0wn a Wandering Witch by firing a single shot into the back of her head. She didn't even scream upon her death.

Also, one time while playing on Advanced mode, I managed to cut both arms off of a Hazmat Infected with a crowbar, only for the zombie in question to get back up and continue trying to hit me. I had been waiting for that to happen since the demo.

Me again, for the new Cold Stream campaign: While on the damaged bridge, a Tank attacked. I lured the Tank back onto the bridge, assuming I would die while my teammates got to a more advantageous position. Instead, I pretty much killed the Tank on my own, and I even got an AK with a laser sight for my trouble when we regrouped.

Probably my biggest moment of Scavenge ownage ever on No Mercy: Rooftop. I was playing with four players who we shall call Ryan, Kenny, and Fazno. First round started, my team was up first. There was this JerkAss player on the other team named llama, who constantly said we sucked when we were kicking his ass. He said Ryan was a coward (he was sitting on a nearby roof protecting us), Kenny was a lone wolf (when I was constantly watching his back), I just plain sucked (yet I collected 20+ gas cans in that session), and Fazno...he didn't say anything about Fazno. We got 20/21 cans a round (we got 10 cans one round, but we still won), while they're highest was 7. I am now good friends with Kenny, Ryan and Fazno.

This Troper created abit of a [=CMoF=] on Dark Carnival as Ellis. After only getting about four points at Stache Whacker not only using guns but with a second player, I accidentally hit the "Argh" command. #QUOTE# "''HOG-WASH!''"

This troper uses a talker file add-on that makes the survivors say different things during the game compared to the defaults used by the game. In one game, I was Nick and my friend was Ellis. She shoots me by mistake, causing the following exchange and making us both laugh our ass off: #QUOTE# '''Nick''': "I hate you, Ellis!" #QUOTE# '''Ellis''': "Well I still like you, Nick."

Here's a funny moment from playing offline co-op: we were playing the opening chapter of "Swamp Fever" and was in one of little buildings before you actually reach the swamp. A Hunter was lurking nearby, and one of the bots (as Nick) decided to heal me. Until said Hunter jumped me, interrupting Nick. After it was swiftly thwarted, Nick went back to healing me and said, "Now, don't waste this by getting pounced on or something." :O

I was playing the first game, can't remember the campaign, but Me and a friend are up in a watchtower, My friend covers the door, and I try to get a crowned on a witch but it doesn't work, and it comes after me. My friend's waiting at the door to fight it off, then the damn thing comes through the window I shot out of.

I was playing the carnival level of L4D2, and I got surrounded by a horde of zombies in the tunnel of love, with the others all running away ahead. The obvious outcome of this situation is death by five million zombies. Then I remembed I had the chainsaw. Cue lots of random flailing while zombie parts fly everywhere.* When I was playing on a customized 10 vs. 10 No Mercy server, awesome in and of itself, I managed to be one of the only 2 survivors to make it to the saferoom. With 1 health left, black and white, no allies nearby and a boomer chasing me. As the other survivors had slowly been taken out, except for the 1 guy who managed to rush unnoticed, tank running around in the background. Cue "OPEN THE DOOR" and much celebration.

I also managed, on a similar Parish server, to ram 4 of the 10 survivors off the bridge with a Karma charge, including the one who had charged me last round.

On No Mercy Versus, prepatch, this troper made use of a certain exploit for a CMoF. Namely, he rushed up to the top of the elevator shaft during that stage, and used the time provided by his teammates to shift the rather large generator to block the elevator doors completely. Ten minutes later, after the survivors have been trapped in the elevator for a while and had been reduced to using their pistols, they finally gave up and quit.

Playing through "The Passing" for the first time on single-player, I had accidentally switched out my preferred weapon combo (Shotgun+Pistols) for a less ideal combination, and as a result, was doing pretty badly in the last chapter. Tanks, spitters, jockeys and chargers had gotten the entire team into the grey zone, with very, very little health left. So what did I do? I dragged the last gas can all the way across the map and limped my sorry ass back to the car.

Self Imposed Challenges go here

I (Kain Lupus) always play for a no-deaths run. I feel the rescue is meaningless if you haven't actually survived. I also like to have at least one piece of gear on me when I get rescued so I can gift it to my rescuer as thanks. I wouldn't consider not using any exploits to be a SelfImposedChallenge, but I do that as well. Oh, and I don't quit a game until I've died or lagged out, I like to take shitty team-mates and impossible odds as added challenges

This Troper's Boyfriend had never played Left 4 Dead 2. So we start it up, and as the intro's playing, the Spitter rears her ugly head. Troper's Boyfriend goes "OHMYGODWHATTHEHELLISTHAT!!!" and a fan is born. Plus In the first level, I got ridden of the hotel by a Jockey. That was embarrassing.

Shutting the safe room door on a Tank is immensely satisfying.

The funniest thing that happened to this Troper and his friends took place halfway through Swamp Fever. We were playing on Advanced and had just left the safe room, none of us were doing to well health wise. Then we heard the Tanks music playing, and my friend ordered us all to rush backto the safe room. So, we were waiting in there for five minutes, when the Tank finally reached the door,when my friend said "Oh wait, the Tank can bust down safe room doors". All I managed to say was "Wait wha-" before I saw the door go flying past my face and the Tank rushing into the room. There were no survivors.

So my girlfriend and I were playing Left 4 Dead 2 tonight. Her favorite campaign is Swamp Fever. After a few mishaps, including me starting a witch I couldn't see and getting stuck on the bridge as it slowly lowered, we made it to the plantation, and managed to hold ourselves out pretty well past the first tank. When it was time for the second one to arrive, I started looking around the courtyard for a direction to shoot in. Then, at the last second, I turned around to see it barging straight through the house itself...along with its identical twin. I was down to one health and my girlfriend was seeing grey, but we still managed to make it to Virgil before dying.

I was just getting used to playing the game so I did the first campaign by myself when I spot a witch on a lower level than I was. When I realized that she had no way to get up to me and that I had a jar of Boomer Bile on me and that there was a Molotov nearby... I laughed for a good minute as she ran around screaming her head off and killing the other infected while she burned.

Changing the Tank theme to this makes it incredibly epic when you fight them. Bonus points for killing one to this music on expert with no one getting incapped.

This troper was playing the beta of Cold Stream with a friend of his, and this troper was at the part where you have to blow up some barrels in order to knock over some barriers blocking your way. While shooting the barrels, the AI Rochelle was in front of this troper, so he offhandedly remarked that he wished she was closer to the barrels so she'd get blown up. After the barrels blew up, the barriers fell over... and one landed on Rochelle and incapped her. This troper and his friend could not stop laughing for a bit.

This troper's tale is rather dear to his heart, since it not only made me a fan of the game, but got me into the wonderful world of Valve in general- which includes Team Fortress 2 and Portal. It started one night in my freshman year of college when I was bored with no homework or anything to do. I texted a good friend of mine, a senior, and he invited me over to hang out with him and his roommates. Well, one of them wasn't there but the other was, and in time we had played a rather epic series of Halo battles (another story entirely) and then decided to move on to another game... something called Left 4 Dead. I had heard of it but didn't really know a whole lot other than the basic plot and some of the special infected. I ended up as Francis while my friends were Bill and Zoey. We had the most incompetent Louis-bot ever, whom we repeatedly shot to take out our frustrations at him. I found the game fun but slightly generic until the first Tank showed up, and then I realized I was playing something special. We ripped No Mercy and Blood Harvest both a new one, and I survived my first Witch encounter, learned the merits of pills, and even killed a couple special infected along the way. I've only played it one other time since due to extenuating circumstances, but I'm still a big fan of the series and am hoping to set up some games with friends eventually.

This troper's brother was playing Left 4 Dead one time with his friend and they were holed up in a room during the final level. His friend was holding the door, he was holding the window, I think that the other were dead at this point. They were doing quite well defending the room from the infected. Until a Tank crawled through the window and murdered them both.

This troper remembers an instance that happened when he was playing Dead Carnival. It was at the end of the level, and the helicopter arrived. This troper originally wanted to use adrenaline and sprint into the helicopter, but he ran in the wrong direction. He tried to turn around and run toward where the helicopter's real location was, but kept getting slowed down by common infected. Rochelle (an AI) was already incapped, and the other survivors (including this troper's friend), where already in the helicopter, so it looked like this troper wouldn't make it. So, this troper decides to take out his grenade launcher and shoot it at his feet, the impact damaging this troper slightly (He was playing on normal difficulty), and blowing up all the infected surrounding him. He repeated this twice before he managed to get on the helicopter.

This troper also remembers a moment where his friend (a different one than the one repeated above) and he were playing the Bridge section in the Parish. It was ThatOneLevel for us, so one time, we managed to do quite well in the beginning. We had almost full health, we haven't used our medkits yet, we had adrenaline, and we had plenty of ammo. Then a Charger came and knocked us both into the water.

When I played Left 4 Dead for the first time with my cousins who were crazy about it, I was scared as hell. I kept hearing sobbing and screaming and I just kept shooting everything and everyone. I pretty much gave up after that. A year later, after engrossing myself with movies like Zombieland and other zombie apocalyptic novels and games, I fell in love with it. I still run and shoot like crazy when I see a Witch though...

This Troper will never forget crowning his first witch. It was the streets in Dead Center. Three bots with him, in the maintenance room before the underpass. There's a common infected on the first short stairwell, right in front of the witch, one that the bots took out without startling it. This troper begins to sneak in for the kill when a spitter hocks a glob of acid in the middle of the room. ''The bots take it out without startling the witch.'' This troper sneaks in again, getting about five feet away without startling the witch, and blasts it through the head with buck shot.

At one point in the Dark Carnival campaign, there's a hole in the floor where you have to drop down blind into the Tunnel of Love (and apparently Tanks love that spot too.) This troper hocked a molly to clear a landing space, and was looking down enjoying the damage. In rapid succession, she was hit by a Smoker, Hunter, and Jockey. All through the fire. The bots kept firing, but stayed upstairs. All this on ''Easy.''

Later on in Hard Rain, I was looking for a Tank I'd heard but couldn't see, to try and trigger it before we had to call the elevator. Eventually I gave up and hit the button. One horde later, the elevator comes up; surprise, Tank.

[=L4D1=] - Me and two friends just played a Versus Match against some strangers, and we curb-stomped them (none of us died). After we got in the APC (Blood Harvest), my friend unlocked the achievement UNBREAKABLE, for neither being healed nor healing. Totally didn't know you could get Campaign achievements on Versus

Also, I've got MAN VS TANK on Advanced

This one time I was playing Blood Harvest, and we'd just arrived at The Farmhouse. I hadn't died once so far, but I was red. I went to grab my kit before someone chavved it and another Survivor (who I refuse to refer to as my team-mate) pitched up that I should die and respawn for the health boost. I started to object, and got cut short by a shotgun blast to the face. I was quite pissed off. At the time I was like "chill, it's not a big deal" and quit the game, but now I wish I'd respawned and killed him. Oh, well...

Picture this: I'm playing Left 4 Dead 2, and I'm on Level 2 of The Parish. I'm running ahead of my bot buddies (I was playing on Solo), and I'm right at the safe room door. The next thing I know, a Hunter jumps out of the safe room and proceeds to claw the shit out of me.

Ahh, Left 4 Dead. The mention of it brings back memories of that cornfield that basically creeped out this troper. Another memorable moment was when this troper and her friends were trying to get past a witch unnoticed, and someone said, "Sorry guys, no choice", and took a potshot at the witch. Cue in troper screaming, "I TOLD you to forget the witch!!" and nearly getting put out of the net cafe where she was playing. This game can account for some of the academic slip-ups this troper and her guy friends had during the term they were obsessed with it.

A few instances in a single game of Versus Dark Carnival in L4D2 - first was while, playing as the Survivors, we hear a witch near the end of the Barns. I turn the corner only to have a Smoker (one of my friends) standing behind the Witch and pull me... I still managed to crown her, doing 1070 damage in one well-placed shotgun blast before I got roped fully. Second, in the same instance after the gates had opened (maybe 3 minutes after the aforementioned instance), Nick went down, with the player telling us to get the hell out of there - cue me throwing a MolotovCocktail in front of the gate to ward off the incoming infected while our teammates covered my getting him on his feet. They book it as he finishes standing up, avoiding spitter goo, as they do (me and Nick were trapped on the near side, allowing him to heal). We all make it to the finish. Then, in the Finale, all of the players but my friend had abandoned the other team, so I swapped (even though my team had only not completed 1 level so far) out of pity. The 3 teammates I'd left behind wound up wiping shortly after the first tank spawn, while my newly acquired team (myself, the friend, and 2 Pugs) finished it entirely. I couldn't help but joke that without me, things just fell apart.

I got multiple Stories tell, so here it goes

The first time a cr0wned a witch. What happened was that I was a n00b at this game at the time. I'm playing with these dudes who know everything about the game and where teaching me and stuff like that. Anyways, they all die, so it up to me, and I meet a witch blocking a way I have to go. Lucky, I saw her from a distance, but I knew I was suppose to go that way. I had an auto shotgun with me, and well, I was afraid of having to start ALL over on the campaign, so what do I do? Shoot her about 5 times screaming "DIEBITCHDIEDON'TKILLME!!!! AGG!!" Then I notice I killed her with about 2 shots. Notice the achievement "cr0wned" pop up.

Dead Air on Expert on the one where you have to get back on the rooftops (2nd level I think). Now then, I don't play on Expert, but one of my friends invited me to play, so I went ahead and joined. I'm sticking with the group, and hear the witch music and her crying. I start freaking out and wondering where she is, and I hear that someone's angered her. i look over in the room by me and there she is. Cue me running like a pansy trying to get to the saferoom (we weren't that far from it) when I start panicking and accidently fall out a window. I get downed and she jumps out the window too and kills me. My response: "Witch wins Flawless victory. FATALITY Cue everyone laughing their asses off because of what I said.

I remember my first versus match on The Passing. A Boomer dropped out of nowhere five seconds after we left the car, vomitted on us, and ran off without a scratch on him. All I had to ask was "What the hell just happened."

I had mentioned this somewhere else here before, but I can't find it now: I played "The Parish" with a trio of British friends, one of whom normally intentionally sets off car alarms but decided for that one game that he wasn't going to do so. We proceeded to accidentally set off ''every car'' in the impound lot in the third map.