Be Excellent To Each Other

Level 20 Zerker!

Other fun facts: If you buy a tier one weapon, you sell it back for more money than if you spawned with it/picked it up off the ground. I think it's 150 for most weapons.

If you have a level 20 SWAT it can be the best perk to start with. Pick both armour skills and the one that makes you do 110% pistol damage and spawns you with dual 9mms. You start with 100 armour, MP7 and 2 9mms. Play the first round as SWAT, then change class, keeping whatever remains of your armour and sell the MP7 and one of the 9s. You should get your tier 2 straight away.

You're best off getting ammo and nades from poopers at the trader for the early rounds, but once you've got your loadout sorted, buy it instead. That extra nade or couple of mags for your best weapon mid round can make a load of difference.

There's a lower-rent variant of this as Command level 15 or higher; you only get one 9mm, but you still do double damage with it and your knife. No armour, though.

Also don't buy armour until Fleshpounds start showing up. Save the cash, give it to others if you don't need it. Team Beex is still buying too much armour IMO.

I can't help myself buying armour. Only resist the urge if there's a decent Medic on the team.

I tend to keep the armour stocked up as long as I can with Swat. Makes a huge difference.

Does it? On early waves? I know you get that special SWAT take no damage thing, but as long as you stay above 1% health, you can heal for free. Even better, with a medic around, chip damage gets you heal darts which gets you medic buffs to movement speed, damage resistance, and damage dealt. If you're on 100% health it's tricky to buff you because the heal darts won't lock on to you.

Locking heal darts?!

Yeah. They lock on. You aim with LT in someone's general direction, and after a slight pause, if that someone needs healing you get a little "ding" indicator and a yellow cross-hairs appears around them in the gun's reflex sight. Then when you fire the dart, it homes to them. Otherwise healing darts would be a nightmare.

This applies to any perk using any medic weapon, if you didn't know. (And the HM-101 medic pistol is a fine addition to any perk's loadout if you have the space. A few darts to someone stuck in a corner with a FP up in their face can make all the difference.)

You get 200 free dosh and a set of armour on commando? Silly Happy-Plank.

I tend not to take damage in the early rounds, so having a support pooping armour means I can keep it stocked up and basically full by the time a big one comes. Then I usually keep it stocked up as the crawlers are the worst.

Here's another tip! Stop welding everything! Even booby traps are largely pointless in terms of actual damage done. If it's just trash outside, then your trash clearers can sort it in relatively quickly and easily. If there's a Scrake or Fleshpound in there it does very little damage and just pisses them right off. This is bad if you get a two FP one Scrake spawn right away.

Welding doors that aren't right where you are trying to hold out is even more stupid.

But then how will demos get all those cheap trash kills

Some shit welding action going on in the last game with Pundy.

Must bhave been the player wanting the extra XP.

Always weld all the doors. Every perk has a welder, so it's just common sense

It was more the 'lets weld half my team mates in a room then fuck off' tactic.

No consideration!

Something something over extension own fault something something.

It was the room the trader was in.

#Welderp

That guy was a twat.

Hehehehe

Wait, I wasn't playing!

God forbid anyone else gets a kill!

Are we still playing this?

The dream team (apart from Gaywood) is all currently on holiday

I'm still playing this, but I've been away for the last few days.

I'm still enjoying it but I'll be busy this week (might get on later) and then when I move house I expect TalkTalk to fuck up my broadband for a while.

I'll be gatting zeds tomorrow night (well, tonight)!

I'l try my best to get on tonight.

#Ain'tNoPartyLikeASharpshooterParty

#CrawlersAreComingForCurio

Missing on the funz

Stupid house move.

100% record with #teamsharpshooter

Cras loves being on Team sharpshooter

It was surprisingly not shit!

That's because you bought the fire pistols

I did everything properly on burning Paris. I still hate that starting rifle with a passion, but other than that it went okay.

Once you get the faster reloading it's a lot better. It'll only take you one game at the same rate as last night though.

Bret knows the score.

Internet crapped out on me yesterday, was offline apparently until 5am. That's why I dropped off.

You missed out on dying a lot

I'll have broadband again on the 13th September.

I am enjoying Sui. The added challenge is welcome without feeling insurmountable (which it did when we tried it a month or so back, with us wiping in wave 2 or 3.)

I'd also like to occasionally drop back to hard to play with other perks, though. I'd very much like to get my Support and Commando up to 20.

Also: Commands are well good now we're rocking multiple rank-25 perks. The zed time extension ability is massive.

I reckon we could get to the Sui boss with me or Nickachu as medic and you as (whatever you're levelling today).

Yeah, probably, actually. I wasn't doing much healing for the first few waves, or indeed for 80% of the time in the later waves. On the other hand, I was a very busy doc indeed the other 20% of the time when multiple Scrakes and Fleshpounds were blending everyone's bones to dust...

I'm happy to try but we were running almost full L25s and it was far from easy

I was L18 Support in the last game (maybe last two) and it didn't seem to hurt that much.

Well no, but not having 2 l25 demos killing everything coming in the door might affect that

2x max demo in the barn makes for a dull game. But 4x demo in the boss wave with two medics could be a route forward.

Or swap one Demo for a Sharpshooter