See what happens when you refuse to give up? I am SK, the Tank Slayer!

There is no "I" in "Team" there, Mr. Tanks Slayer.

.... At least I wasn't incessantly groaning about how impossible getting this achievement would be in the first place.

I KNOW! ShadowFox and Ixzion should feel ashamed!

i am

Ever since our epic 1000 point achievement, we haven't done much with this game. Today... We have played a fun game that isn't actually part of what you're supposed to do. We really need to play Sniper again.

The other night Syn, Ix, and I got a new best: Beat Blood Harvest on Expert in under an hour with only 4 retries. And that's with one of the mindless and near useless AI. Stupid Bill.

Just wanted to document that. But yeah, we were talking. Left 4 Dead 2 should have the same scoring system in Campaign as they do Versus. That way you have something to always strive make better, even after you grab all the cheevos.

Crash Course Achievements:

Crash-proof
Survive the Crash Course Campaign.

Quick Power
Restart the generator within 30 seconds of it shutting off in the Crash Course campaign.

The Littlest Genocide
Kill 5,359 Infected in the Crash Course campaign.

Smash Hit
Win a Versus campaign of Crash Course.

Truck Stop
Your team wipes all Survivors after the escape vehicle has opened in Crash Course.

20 Car Pile-up
As a Tank hit 20 Survivors with a car in the Crash Course campaign.

Jumpin' Jack Smash
Pounce a Survivor for 25 points of damage in the Crash Course campaign.

Slippery Pull
Smoker pull a bile-covered Survivor until you hold him during Crash Course.

Tank Stumble
Stun a Tank with an explosion in the Crash Course campaign.

Wipefest
Your team incapacitates three Survivors within five seconds in the Crash Course campaign.

Awesome stuff... looking forward to playing tomorrow. Looks like a lot of this is based off of VS. Not really happy about that as VS has gotten WAY unbalanced after the last 2 or 3 updates.

http://kotaku.com/5384097/no-mercy-in-l ... al-reviews


Mercy. The hospital in Left 4 Dead's "No Mercy" campaign, and the name of a real one in Pittsburgh. And Louis, Zoey, Francis and Bill are sowing panic about its conditions, the access to medication, and patients you'll find there.

Some eye-opening (and - for the irony-deficient - pranked) reviews for Pittsburgh's real Mercy Hospital started popping up a couple weeks back on Citysearch, beginning with "FrancisSilverman" under the heading, "I hate hospitals!"

You know what I don't hate? I don't hate vests.
• Pros: I hate doctors!
• Cons: I'm getting tired of these damn vampires!

"WilliamOverbeck" followed with another one-star rating; "We blasted our way through hordes of zombies that had their rotten asses hanging out of the hospital gowns, only to find a zombie helicopter pilot on the roof!" And "LouisLuvsCounterStrikeNPillz" gave it a 2-star rating summarized with "awful. ...

"WHY THE HELL WERE THERE GUNS, MOLTOVS, PILLS, AND PIPEBOMBS IN A FREAKING HOSPITAL!!!!!" Louis complained. "SERIOUSLY DO YOU EXPECT YOUR CUSTOMERS TO KILL THEMSELVES?"

And it's not a party for the zombies, either. HunterPunter today called Mercy Hospital "a bad place ..."

This place was evil! I was just chilling here with by Smoker buddies then all of a sudden a bunch of surviving humans try to blow us to bits. I am NEVER coming here again...
• Pros: great place to chill after a zombie apocalypse
• Cons: survivors....

Perhaps the most comprehensive description of Mercy Hospital's infected awfulness comes from "Toshinden":

I went to this hospital to have my chronic headaches treated or at least diagnosed. Upon entering, I asked the receptionist for some help. Instead, she lept over the counter and started clawing at me. But there just happen to be some guns on the seats. I sadly had to kill her in self defense. Knowing the cops were soon to follow, I proceeded to go up. I wasn't thinking, just going up. On the way up, I had faced many disgruntled patients and workers. One patient was polite enough to vomit all over me. While I was blinded, his posse (i am assuming he is a gang leader of sorts) started running at me and beating me. After successfully escaping, my headaches have only gotten worse. After consuming large amounts of pills, I stumbled my way onto the roof, where a man possibly being treated for a steroid overdose was waiting for me. After tossing me off the building, I almost lost my life. I was thankfully recovered by some strange African American man claiming to have his pills. I am home safe now. But no amount of pills and medpacks will cure my emotional and physical pain.

• Pros: The pills were here.
• Cons: So was the tank.

At publication time, UPMC Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, a real health care facility, "the first hospital in Pittsburgh and the first Mercy Hospital in the world," with a record of care going back to 1847, has 10 one-star ratings out of 12 overall on Citysearch, thanks to Left 4 Dead.

Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 [Citysearch, thanks to Ryuji, who wins the weekend with this tip]

I know you guys are having your fun with L4D2, but I'm waiting to get my money's worth out of the first one, if any of you come around.

Pick a night, I'll jump in with you.

Unfortunately, that was probably my only night this week.

That's cool, the game's not going anywhere. You can post here or just hit us up while we're on live, SK's also just got his own Xbox too and needs a little L4D1 love too.

Why didn't you say something earlier, Dray? I'd be on there.

Well, I didn't think nobody would be on last night.

Plus I wasn't sure what time I'd be able to hop on. Oh well, I played solo, and managed to get a few achievements. Including a couple good ones, the "Dumb Luck" one where we didn't take damage after being hit by a Boomer, and where we destroyed a Tank without shooting each other (because nobody jumped in front of me, for once). Incidentally, I really hate those things. They always seemed to focus on me. Was the worst at the hospital. Five minutes from being rescued, and here comes a Tank to knock me clear off the roof!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"


Duuuuuuuuuuuuuh, duhhhhhhhhhhhh....

*restart from safe-room*

Yeah, it doesn't help that if you die, it starts over. Had we been in there... there still would have been a chance to finish it. And you do get credit for beating a campaign even if you don't live through it. There's only a few achievements that require you to actually get your ass on the rescue vehichle. But one of the hardest ones (beating all 4 campaigns on expert) don't require you actually living through the finale.

Tonight, guys. We'll say 11pm Eastern Time.

Tonight, maybe? Perhaps at 11 EST?

If not, tomorrow.

Had a good time playing with Ix, Lantis, and SK
Thanks for the help with Red Mist last night.

And especially for all the help trying to get Untouchables. I think we spent like 3 hours doing just that. Next time its ours for sure!