As you may or may not know, I love a good game of versus. Like most people I enjoy playing as infected the most. I love the dark sense of satisfaction I get as I down or kill a survivor
That said, I've found myself playing it less and less. I've stopped playing on random servers completely now. It's all due to what some describe as "valid tactics" but personally I see as complete lameness.
You know the sort of things I'm talking about... Triggering crescendo events then running off to a cupboard to spam your way to victory, retreating to corners/cuppboards in finales depriving the infected team any decent spawns of routes of attack etc etc etc
While I can see that if you're playing L4D in a competetive league/ladder, your team is going to use every advantage available that is within the rules, this sort of approach on public servers only removes the fun for the infected and the need for skill for the survivors.
If you play as intected first and your opponents use these strats, you're forced to either play "properly" and lose or descend to the same level of cheapness if you want a chance of winning
Only a short while ago, the HH versus servers were a haven away from this lameness, now it seems to be just as rampant here as anywhere else. Personally, I'd like to see the rules changed to remove this kind of thing. To me its in the same realm as sticky camping a single exit spawn in TF2, only a lot more gamechanging.
I'd be interested to hear what people think about this.....
