Versus favoring the Survivors

[samhanna]

Everyone always talks about how versus favors the survivors. I think that every time you spawn as infected you should get to choose your character from the list of those infected not taken already. This would make the game way more balanced and would let teams set up attacks based on how and where they want to attack.

You should not be allowed to spawn 4 grabber though... What do you think??

[Drumrush7]

I'll 100% agree with you on that one. We should be able to pick our infected, infected should be able to get points for killing/in-capping survivors, and survivors shouldn't be the main focus of points.

[UpChuckles56]

Yeah but a point of being infected is to see what you have and do the best you can with it/ tweak it by killing something off.

Like there's a dead drop coming up but you need a Charger and you have a Spitter Boomer Hunter Jockey the logical reasoning is to kill the Hunter.

If the infected were allowed to choose the infected they wanted even if they had limitations like a max of three securing infected it would make them rather overpowered. Because that means you/the other team always have a perfect ambush for every spot. That seems overpowered for me.

And Versus can be stupid sometimes with the things given to survivors but Valve is at least attempting to make it more balanced with the Jockey's damage buff and Defibrillator penalty. But I honestly think Versus favors the infected far more than it favors them in Left 4 Dead 1

[Reapinginprogress]

Whoa...which versus are you guys playing? Seriously? I've had far less luck as the survivors than I have as the infected.

As a survivor you are hoping you'll get some decent guns, as you traverse the level (normally I'm very unlucky with this), hoping that if someone goes down, someone will pick them up if you can't get to them. Hope people don't just run off on their own, or kick you as thanks after you've just taken down a tank and then picked up them and the rest of the team.

If anything in all the versus matches I've been in I've probably only seen it a couple of times where the survivors had it pretty easy...normally the infected make a blood bath out of them.

I'd probably go as far as to say the the infected have it easier, but then again me and my brother have mainly played Versus with strangers.

I do think that choosing what infected you are would be cool, but I also think that it could make it even more unbalanced.