I played a round on No Mercy today and had a few good moments.
We were on one of the middle stages, I don't remember which one. I joined the game midway, so I got thrown in as Bill and there were humans as the other three. When I joined, I was low on ammo, no one had a health pack and everyone was in the orange for health. Needless to say, I was on a team of noobs. I mean, I'm a L4D noob, and these guys sucked harder than I did. Case in point: I told my team to wait for me as I used a healthpack, so of course all three of them run forward in the open, leaving me backed into a corner next to a truck to heal. Just as I get done, I get gangbanged by a smoker on the truck and a hunter that jumped down the hall to my left. I was incapped and halfway dead before my team realized I was back there. No one had pills or a health pack. We ran over toward a building and inside was a health pack. Two of our dudes were in the green, one was high orange and I was blinking flashing gonna-die-now red. So the high orange guy picks up the health pack before I stumble into the building, and I sit in front of him and teamchat "Heal me please". Then I watched as he bent over and first patched up his legs, then his arms, then gave a satisfied "Ahhhhhhhh" and turned around and ran off to catch up. I stood there in kind of stunned silence, then followed him, health dwindling quickly from 20. Across the street was the safe zone. All three of the dudes were in there already and I was crawling along at a leisurely pace, ****ed off at the guy who healed himself first and at the fact that I wasn't gonna live to see the ammo pile. As I was about twenty steps away and with three health left, I was like "NOOOOOOOOO" and made a dive/jump toward the door. I slipped in with one health left. One. Health.
The other really cool part was at the finale, defending the top of the hospital until the chopper arrived. We were doing ok, I was sniping any and all special infected, one guy on the turret, the other two shooting as needed. All of a sudden, all four of us were on the upper sniping level and the horde was swarming below us. A tank arrived and diverted all our concentration to it, so the horde had time to gather. The dead tank fell off the roof and the horde swarmed us just in time for a boomer to blow up. Zombies were everywhere, I ran out of hunting rifle ammo, the chopper arrived and yelled at us to hurry and get in, and me and this other guy died. I switched first person team view on Francis, who was running behind Zoey. They looked like they had a clear path until all of a sudden from both sides of the screen a big horde accompanied by a tank swarmed around Francis, who immediately died. Zoey was inches away from the chopper and turned around to melee the horde for better running and was met by a hunter to the face. No one survived. It was awesome.
