This Achievement in L4D2 is INCREDIBLY Unfair
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2023
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This is most definitely the hardest achievement or challenge I've done on this channel thus far. Left 4 Dead 2 Expert Realism is no joke... well, unless the joke's on me. Come watch as I lose my mind trying to go for an achievement that I already got 10 years ago in the most painful way I could possibly do it
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Snamwiches another cool impossible difficulty game that works with chapters with levels is hotline Miami 2 nightmare mode, one of the 2 main developers said they haven’t beat it, I did and it is very fun and should not take more then a week, plus you get to die repeatedly to the banger soundtrack🧖🏾♂️👍🏾
Can we get another videos please today
I know it a lot of work but please
It’s time for a halo the master chief collection LASO play through solo
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A single Expert Realism campaign already takes away years of life expectancy. You are a legend!
Yeah, this was pretty easily the hardest thing I’ve done so far for the channel. Looking forward to topping it one day though!
@@Snamwiches and then it happens it propebly gona be twise as big
@@Snamwiches now you gotta do realism expert for the DLCs and the first games campaigns. Maybe not an achievement to unlock, but we all enjoy you suffering for our entertainment.
When you cleared that chapter in 1 go, your reaction made me fucking cackle at work . Cheers mate 😂
It just a game relax play practice improve enjoy
Since someone's probably curious, the Tank not instadowning you with cars in the Parish finale is intended. Due to being a really tight corridor that's overloaded with cars, Valve kindly set cars on both all difficulties and in versus to only do flat damage if a Tank punts them into you (which isn't exactly hard).
Specifically, they only deal 24 damage if your health is above 50 (or 40? Can't quite remember). If your HP is below the threshold, they incap instantly.
This is hardcoded for all gauntlet finales, so the same applies to custom maps.
I seem to remember a time when that wasn't the case in the early days of the game, in Versus nobody could ever beat it as survivors.
@@JAiZUA-cam Oh shit, hi JaiZ! Love your vids bro! I think the threshold is 50. Reviewing at 41:22 and 41:44 , one happens at 48hp and the other at 60hp (Though I wonder if the mid-jump had anything to do with the 60hp one) 60 seems too high. Then again he got wrecked at 91hp after.. Granted with adrenaline.
Not in cold streams rocks
Which is kinda funny considering it's really easy to avoid the cars by just standing on the scaffolding.
The funny part with coach and the witches is that while each bot has their own little unique thing, coach(and francis) seem to be particularly interested in picking up shotguns and trying to kill witches. Even their voicelines reflect that
Holy shit chat was right it IS practically cannon 😮
Killing the most dangerous enemy doesn't mean you hate women, moron.
I mean they both use shotguns in the intro so it makes sense.
Each survivor bot has a set preference for certain classes of Tier 2 weapons and will drop any other weapon for them if it isn’t in that category, so Coach and Francis (or Louis on Xbox) are the only natural shotgunners in the crews.
Along with them, Bill/Nick and Louis/Rochelle (Zoey on Xbox) always take ARs when given the chance, and Zoey/Ellis (Francis on Xbox) always take scoped rifles.
Well that explains why coach kept saying “Get ready to toss that bitch!”
I always sneaked by it but everytime I passed it I can hear someone making it mad before I hear shooting and either Coach or Ellis starting the witch notification appears.
The funniest part of this video is that he referred to killing his teammates as "unaliving them," as though he didn't literally say "I'm gonna fucking kill myself" not even five minutes earlier
I find the clip of when he finished the second part of rain and gets revived by coach then he kills coach in cold blood 2 secs later
@@DuCKhAcKERWK04 Betrayal at its finest.
33:08 lmao Rochelle screaming NOOO NOOOO while Sham is euphorically screaming out of joy. I learned the lesson of balance in life
It's univerally agreed by the community that everyone hates Rochelle. For some reasons Rochelle players tend to be assholes towards their teammates more than other characters.
@Theo TV Not even true yall just love hating on women of color and label them as "loud" and "annoying" LMAOO
@@theotv5522I don’t hate Rochelle why does everyone hate her 😭😭
Hmmm. Hearing a woman screaming out "No" repeatedly while a guy is grunting "yes" and enjoying himself... Yeah I'm pretty sure you can see where I'm going with this.
@@NaraNomcuz she is a bland and boring character
Anytime I see a long video about L4D/L4D2 I get excited. These two games will always be a good time with the bois
I wish the boys stayed close, would love to re run the game with them.
even solo this game slaps.
Coach getting hyped about the Midnight Riders while his friends get torn to shreds right before he got saved was freaking hilarious 😂😂
@@Elitespeakerman857howdy Gay, im Teddy
0:36 *"Along with the ridiculous infected spawnrates"*
they're actually the same regardless of difficulty, they just deal more damage, and with realism headshots are more important.
just as a whole infected are harder to kill, and normally they have high spawn rates; thus they seem higher
*Not True.* On Expert specifically, random hordes spawn notably faster than on other difficulties, as stated on the wiki.
@@scarymeunster9095 The wiki is incredibly.. inaccurate; and hordes spawning more commonly; doesn’t mean the zombie spawn limit or speed is increased.
@@shekkiemore hordes = more zombies
@@chieff_T hordes- have less zombies to be under the spawncap. the spawncap doesn’t change, there are just smaller, but more hordes
The crazy part is, if you play VS mode with an AI on the survivor team that shit will beam you the second you have one pixel visible
I know this is a month ago. But the bots on both teams legit track through walls
They have walhacks and aimbot
@@Vance415don't worry there's people commenting 2 months after the original comment. And even decades after an original comment. Maybe another comment will comment to our dear spencer
Unless you're my brother. In which case the bots will literally do fuck all.
They wallbang you as soon as you spawn but god forbid you are smoked from a roof
@@x2x2gamer I'll be back here in a few years.
Glad everything ultimately came together for this video! I see why the loss of this footage in particular would have been awful. Far too much voluntary pain already to have involuntary suffering added on lol
Yeah, it lost me 4 days of editing time and $80 but I’m glad I was able to get it back!
@@Snamwiches Suggestion: Next time do a dramatic re-enactment using your godtier ms paint skillz
I’m so glad nobody told him that if you played on the “Room for One” mutation, it’ll still count towards the achievement for beating all campaigns on Expert since the campaigns will only be able to start on the final chapter.
4 months late but this is Realism expert, not just expert so Mutations are out of the question (except if you find a specific mod for it of course)
Man you just can't hate this guy, nobody else can channel their rage into a beaming smile and WHHHHAATTTT😂
I think his time playing LOL is the lore of how he can cope so well 😂
In Honor of "The Witches from L4D2" had me in tears I'm just imagining some poor charity worker trying to understand that
Ikr 😂
I was thinking the same thing. They're just so confused unless they watched the stream
Lol, why on Earth when anyone donate to womens charity? There are way more important charities like veterans charities or animal shelter charities or children's charities. I don't believe in giving money to women just because they are women just like I don't believe in donating to BLM just because they are black. They don't deserve special treatment because of their gender or race.
33:05 the way Snam was saying yes and Rochelle had a different idea. 😂
Also 13:15 where Ellis is convinced he can’t walk three more feet.
Yeah I loved that part lol
I'm in awe that anyone can get this done with only the ai team.
This exact achievement has haunted me since I was 9 years old, very happy I got to see someone achieve the dream good shit man
I was somehow blessed with a campaign glitch for 3 hours where the characters run while crouching, one shot everything, and unlimited everything. Got both Expert Achievos 🤣
You don't know how many memories you just brought back for me! My dad and I played this game together while I was in high school and those remain some of my favorite memories.
Dude that sounds awesome! I’m glad this game allowed you to make those kinds of memories!
As someone who has every achievement in L4D2, I can confidently say that doing this solo is possibly the worst decision you could make. Congrats on sticking it through, though! You certainly have a higher tolerance for pain than I could ever imagine. XD
Yeah, I’d very much like to never do this again. Finding the right people to suffer through it with was hard enough. 😥
How come he only had to gather 8 gas cans on atrium? I tried this and had to gather 13
@@jimmychangaxl734 If you were playing alone it could be a random count or the AI director was especially mean to you.
Maybe, I somehow beat the first 3 levels on my first try because it never spawned a tank, so maybe that’s why
@@jimmychangaxl734 possibly. Damn dude, that’s impressive.
The fact that he did this while not using god spots or skips is very impressive
What are god spots?
@@howtoappearincompletely9739god spots are spots on the map with dumb nav meshing meaning infected won’t be able to path to you and will eventually despawn
Probably cause he didnt know any 😂
You really think Snamwiches knows what those are? he barely remembers the map layouts 😂
It’s always nice to see a long video about L4D2. I remember doing a Solo Expert Realism playthrough of my own because I didn’t have Xbox Live Gold at the time and so couldn’t find myself a good team. With the combination of the surprise Tanks, Witches and other Special Infected, along with of course the tomfoolery of the bots made it quite the challenge for me. I still remember the satisfaction of beating a Campaign like this and as I did so, I told myself “I’m never doing this again.”
You absolute masochist. This took me so long to find a good, reliable team to get this done. Hats off to you, you madlad.
You don't even need a team. A good player can solo in Realism Expert.
Just speedrun it
@@alexiscoutinho8078 The bots can be useful in certain situations. But with the right team and proper teamwork it can be much easier. Another benefit is with people, YOU don’t necessarily need to be the one to reach the safe room.
@@jondoe384 Sometimes that’s not a bad tactic. But you can’t always speedrun, sometimes you have to sit and holdout during a scripted section.
@Green-J3ster you clearly just got carried as og players would solo this no issue and a good og player knows you never stop moving forward as well so yea you got carried 😂
47:35 - If you want to know, Witches have a weird quark in their AI, If they are lit on fire they'll attack the person who lit them on fire. They prioritise this above just getting shot, That Quark is also bugged where if multiple people set her on Fire with Fire Bullets she will attack the last person who shot her with the fire bullets. (Ellis)
Quirk my dude not quark.
Oh that’s actually really interesting, I was so lost on why I wasn’t just instantly murdered haha
also, if someone continues to stand in its way, itll also attack that person instead
Little did we know this was an intentional reference to the fact that they are called witches; clearly fire must trigger some PTSD from Salem
It's not a bug, the Witch is intentionally designed that way.
hes smiling on the outside but i know in the inside he is about to break his desk
Expert Realism is another layer of literal hell
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32:57 the way he shoots coach and then sits there waiting for him to die 😂
As someone who was there for about 70% of these streams, its wild to see all those hours compressed into 57 minutes, hats off to you snam for the editing! L4D2 was a crazy run
How long did he take? I completed them in under 12 hours, same with vanilla bots but without the gnome.
Glad that you recovered the footage.
I can see why you were worried about it.
I wouldn't want to go through that nightmare of an achievement either.
20:16 Throwchelle Sellis and Dick took me out 🤣
The Parish is actually my fav campaign and I wanted to try Realism with bots on it since I saw you do it. I managed to only die 4 times but Im scared of attempting the other campaigns so I gotta commend you for having the patience and determination to do it.
Ay glad everything came together, im sure it'll be a banger of a video like always, sounds like this hard of a challenge wouldve been terrible to lose all this footage
This made me really happy. Brings back memories back then playing with my gang. And the satisfaction of winning, the adrenaline, the thrill, the desperation, and never giving up.
I don't usually watch people game, but felt in love with L4D2, and stumbled upon this - watched it four times, and that was the amount it toke me to realize he wasn't talking with anyone called Chad but chat 👏🤣🤣
This dude is *too* patient. It’s actually uncanny.
Left 4 Dead's difficulty system is truly one of my favorites of all time. Expert is brutal obviously, but there are even times on Normal where the game just decides "yeah you're all going to die. Here's a tank, a horde, and one of every special infected while you are all already low on ammo."
that shouldnt really happen though. during tanks, horde spawns are stopped (unless you advance/rush, got boomed, or already triggered one before aggroing the tank), ans the only thing you should look out for are three special infected.
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This was worth the wait.
Appreciate the hard work you put into these, AND hope you never have the added pain of losing your work again. Thank you for pushing through!
20:26 Fun fact: They literally don’t have to shoot to kill the commons climbing the ladder. If your feet touch a common’s head, they die on the spot and you take no fall damage if you were falling. This has the amusing side effect of having commons have an instant heart attack and ragdoll the instant they reach the top of a ladder or object they can climb because you’re standing where they would pull themselves up.
You are an embodiment of understanding what you can and cannot control. The only things you can 100% control are your effort and attitude. Everything else is gone with the wind. Every time you died, you didn't see it as a failure, but as a step towards success. You left everything on the table every time you played, so there was nothing to truly be upset about when a game mechanic out of your control contributed to your death. That's the kind of mentality that makes you such a great gamer.
So glad you were able to recover everything that was lost for this video, looking forward to watching this later tonight!
Did this with my brother during the lockdowns, the hardest campaign by far is the dark carnival in my opinion(the second to last chapter especially) the missions are so long, it’s close quarters for most of the campaign, and since it’s realism, you have no room to breathe. Truly was the most torturous experience getting into the concert when the crescendo doesn’t stop spawning zombies and specials.
I can relate to this, I already finished all the other campaign on expert except Dark Carnival, the most hardest map for me is the 4th one, the amount of zombies you have to kill to get to the safe room is just so annoying. The 5th map is also hard because of the amount of SI and commons spawning during the crescendo
Yea the ticket booth part (Barns) can either be the hardest level or the easiest depending if you have a bile or not. As someone who plays realism expert exclusively and usually with mostly AI teammates, I find the second level of Hard Rain to be the hardest overall level in L4D history IMO
@@techs2996 coaster, barns, mall are the three hardest level IMO
@@tbbsenpai5341 Yea those are definitely up there. Also if you want to count it the 2nd level (I think the 2nd) of Cold Stream is a nightmare on realism let alone expert.
@@techs2996 I just played it, I think I would put that level above coaster XD, the endless horde is so annoying to deal with, especially near the saferoom
Can we acknowledge how perfect the tank throw was at 43:05? HE LED HIM PERFECTLY WITH THAT ROCK. That's a pretty solid AI. Dude was throwing Superbowl eligible passes
Nick: “do not shoot any of the cars!”
Snam: “no worry, I’m way ahead of you”
“Car goes off”
Nick: “son of a bitch…”
“Snam face of absolute confusion ”
38:20 best moment 😂
And here we watch as yet again snam decides to make every aspect of a challenge he has control of stupidly hard.
You've quickly become one of my favorite content makers. Hilarious videos and your resolve during some of these challenges is honestly impressive, I could never lol.
Hell yes! I've just discovered his channel and it got me hooked. He is a really charismatic guy.
The Parish is a bit more manageable than other campaigns because the finale doesn't pin you down in one place waiting for extraction, if you get one reliable human teammate with voice chat it's more of a matter of perseverance and good RNG.
That’s the thing. He played this solo
It's still probably the least scuffed campaign for a solo run because you never get stuck in one spot for too long and can reliably rush the finale as long as the Director doesn't hate you.@@brawler5760
I don’t usually don’t finish YT videos over 20 minutes but I enjoyed every minute of your suffering. Respect from a L4D player.
Respect 💀
I just want to say I've been watching your content since the early days and I've never commented before, but i just want to say congratulations buddy! Because you have such incredible patience and skill and no ones making content like this which makes things so much more fun! 🥰 keep it up and never change
Thanks, I really appreciate it!
@@Snamwiches your very welcome buddy!
I remember playing this with my ex when it first came out. I wanted to save the gnome, but he got pissed when I tried. Watching this was equal parts nostalgic and cathartic. Thank you for the time and effort you put into it!
Gnome must be saved
love this video!! l4d2 is one of my favorite games of all time and you always make games 10x more entertaining than they are. i'm binge-watching your vids while i'm recovering from surgery and this is a really good distraction :)
The nostalgia as you play and remembering all the little tricks to beat this is awesome the memorizing the mall to get through the horde and not turn the wrong direction haha and the mess to pour the gas faster
Watched your runs live on twitch and the pain was palpable. But my god… the highs were soooo rewarding! The challenge went on for too long that editing the footage surely would’ve been a headache. Thanks for the great content Snam!
Congrats on beating the challenge, both the game and life tried to stop you from getting this video out but it was a treat to watch and well worth the wait! Can't wait to see what you do next, rock on Snam!
I found this channel today (or technically yesterday) and I already love it. The energy, the humor, the vibe. It is everything I need.
33:08 with Rochelle screaming in sorrow in the background with snam cheering is the funniest thing
i love these videos keep up the great work. really happy that this video was able to come together even after loosing the footage thank you snam this is going to be a great watch
Good lord just hearing those achievement names bring back really bad memories of attempting these. Thankfully I had a good group of people to work with on the 360 but wow did it take so long. Major props to you for doing this solo.
Been watching your videos as a passtime for the past few weeks while doing the dishes and its been entertaining as hell. Well deserved sub for the pain of doing those campaigns.
Always amazed by your patience on stream with these hard achievements
As someone who loves the Left 4 Dead series, extremely excited to watch this when I get home, keep up the great work buddy
This is a journey I'm really glad you took us with you on! I especially loved the character development you went through there ❤️
I play a lot of realism expert and I can say that with good strategy and good reflexes it isn't so bad, just keep moving! The slower you go, the harder it will be. If you gather a horde and leave them behind the survivor group the maps become a whole lot easier and gives things like car alarms or random hordes a great use.
Dunno if you’ll see this but ever since Steam implemented Steam Input into all of their games, they’ve changed the default controller input from the original XInput/Xbox 360 controller style to a disgusting abomination that was designed for the original Steam Controller.
However you can still enable the older XInput mode in L4D2 by going to Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> “Enable Controller” which will switch controller settings back to what it was on Xbox 360. Even for Steam Deck this way is much better IMO, as you can still use K&M inputs to enable Gyro Aiming or Touchpad aiming while keeping the old Gamepad controls
This is actually very good to know for the future, thanks!
ALSO! for a while there was an exploit that allowed a party to give the achievement to all non-host players so they'd only need to get to the last mission of a chapter then, do the exploit to change the difficulties and beat only it on expert realism.
in reality the number of legit achievement gets for this one is MUCH LOWER
There's not a single bad video, what a guy. Making my days better, amazing IMPOSSIBLE run man!
Doing expert realism in vanilla L4D was so much easier. Not only are all the maps in L4D2 far more open but I swear they changed something in the hit detection because it sometimes happen that I swing the melee weapon or shove and no hit registers and I get hit, costing me precious health. Kudos to you, especially for doing it with the AI teammates!
I remember doing all the Achievements for both L4D1 & L4D2
I love watching these type of videos keep up the good fight
Congrats on finally getting it all together after the mountain of obstacles
Oh man reminds me of when i used to have a entire squad dedicated to doing L4D2 expert realism. On expert realism the game is taken so differently and slower than a normal L4D2 game.
At least you make this entire endeavor fairly entertaining.
I will be the kind of guy that would end up breaking my TV 😭
So glad your blowing up so quick, you’re honestly one of the best UA-camrs atm.
Completing Expert Realism was painful enough with three other friends, I can't imagine trying to do it by myself
The video turned out great, Snam! Keep up the good work
Lol this whole video was hilarious, but 55:05 sums it up perfectly. "I hope i just didnt get roachelle" wish granted, you got all of them 😂 GGs bro.
I think my favorite part of your videos is your positivity. It's seriously so infectious, and it makes daunting challenges a lot less intimidating when you have a positive attitude about them. Great videos! Also, do you think you'll ever tackle "Mein Leben" from Wolfenstein 2? It has a rarity of 0.02%. I just got it last week and it seems right up this channel's alley lol
I'm so glad you managed to recover your footage, dude. This video made me laugh my arse off. Haven't laughed that hard for a while. Thanks, Snam.
How do you not have a million viewers by now??!! Your content is literal gold.
I love your vids, their a guarenteed laugh at the end of a bad week.
Entertainment gold honestly
14:15 "Why Me?!" He says playing as Ellis, Special Infected magnet.
after 1800 hours in this game, Expert realsm still is sometimes insane when not having a good aim or not relaxed enough, i think the game is following the player in how they play it out.
Thank you Snam, I know you put in the work recovering and reediting footage sna di just want you to know we appreciate that. Thanks for the hour long video!
@25:30 the zombies weren't distracted by the pipe bomb because they have noise canceling ear muffs since they're construction guys
I subbed for the attempt alone. only 44 seconds into the vid/grind so good luck mate 👍🏼
This dude has that fucking smile even at a funeral
Getting it for every campaign on expert was the most fun and the most headache I ever got from a game lol. I wouldn’t have been able to get the achievement for this if it weren’t for my old l4d2 buddies. Thank you guys, I miss you all 😢
1:31 Steam's L4D2 Official controller config is the default controller profile, but it breaks the regular controller (I think it's more for steam deck). If you switch it to the 'gamepad' profile, it acts like a regular 360 controller and works perfectly like it does on 360
Thanks for the tip.
"I beg of you bridge of the parish that there's no much zombies and tank on my way"
oh you sweet summer child
Congrats on the sponsor and for beating this achievement... You are built different my dude.
I love how he always does these challenges alone. Reminds me of the old days where I had no friends to play games with because I didn’t have Xbox Live. I also didn’t have any friends XD
This video was amazing! You work so hard and I gotta say whatever amount of time I’d have to wait to see your content I’ll happily bide my time with your other vids. How did this run compare to runs like HollowKnight or Deadspace? Do you find genre really sets a tone for your expectations going in?
32:20 Snam killed over a microaggression.
44:58 Snam fell down some stairs.
54:04 was like two Moseses parting the dead sea. That was so perfect.
My buddy my friend. I found your content a mere week ago, and have binged most of it while leveling a character in WoW classic. Im a 34 year old Electrician who has played games since I was 2, and I have HUGE respect for your patience and determination in getting them crazy achievements. Keep it up buddy, youll be up to millions of subs in no time.
Peace out and have a great day!
Why did I capitalize Electrician?
I know how hard you work and I am so so exited for what's next thank you snam
Nick saved you, but you saved Chomsky. His sacrifice wasn't in vain
Nick healing you during the tank...I wouldn't play L4D2 for a very long time after that lol
I remember trying to get this achievement over and over again with my friends and we could never get it. I eventually said screw it and tried it solo and finally got it lol. I was pumped.
This dude is so underrated I’m new to the channel but I can see how much effort he puts into these videos much love keep up the great work you got me hooked on some new type of content thank you!!!
If you can, I recommend watching it live on twitch! It’s such a blast.
Snams inability to lose his sunny optimistic attitude is honestly impressive.
Love this game. I used to have a crack crew in L4D and L4D2, particularly for Team Versus, and I can humbly and honestly say that we were some of the best on Steam. With that said, doing an Expert Realism run was still a serious challenge and to make it through unscathed was tough. It wasn't unusual for stuff to go left real fast and be humbled real quick. Hats off for doing this with bots, a true masochist. L4D bots are still fairly decent but realism is another beast. Appreciate the content!
6:31 the music from the Willimette mall that is an amazing touch thank you for reminding me of that melody. (Game referenced is dead rising)
Snam really chose war and decided to do another L4D challenge. King 👑
As soon as I saw day one and the video being almost an hour long I knew I’m going to have a good time
About the wanting to move items thing; You can shuffle items if u walk while "juggling" the things u wanna move so u basically spam the pick up button in front of u while moving backwards and it'll move slightly
i used to speed run realism expert with some randoms, who had over 1k hours (some are now over 3k on it) that became friends for a bit, it was always a blast and iv learned so much about the game from doing it. Even just going to the server browser and selecting realism expert there is still always around 5 games to be joined at almost anytime for US East servers. Most people that first try it want to play slowly but you really do have to just full send it and most of the time you will outrun the common and only have to worry about a hunter, smoker, or lord forbid the menace known as a jockey spawning around a corner. Did this for ~2 years but havnt touched l4d2 since sept of 2022, its good to take a long break.
When i say speed run i dont mean actual timed speedruns with any out of bounds or glitching, just go as fast as possible and do little trick shortcuts and if someone gets downed and they are not right in front of you, then you just leave em to die.
The best gun imo is the silenced smg or the chrome pump, they are more accurate than their counter parts and are available at the start and generally better than the tier 2 guns for going fast.
Changing shove to shift to hit with my pinky made it alot easier to run through hordes.
The best things iv learned from doing this is all the spawn cue sounds and music for every infected, how to punt a hunter in mid air, cut a smokers tongue before it grabs you, etc., all neat tricks. My favorite trick is jumping on commons heads to boost up to spots you arnt supposed to normally go and some areas this allows you to skip sections of maps or even skip parts of timed events.
The only map that can consistently give trouble is obviously dark carnivals 4th map horde event sprint, if we keep failing we would just set someone up as bait and leave them to watch the saferoom from the fences before you get to the event.
My favorite map to speedrun is No Mercy's Hospital, sometimes I would load in fast enough before other players that i could rush to the elevator, activate it, and jump down the stairwell back to the saferoom. It feels amazing to be able to do that and is really fun as hell.
imo doing it solo with bots is sometimes easier as the bots will just tp to the player if they are far enough away but they do have awful reaction times to people being grabbed by a special and if that happens the run is over.
Witches are hilariously fun to mess around while doing this; either everyone has a melee and we all hit at the same time or one will aggro and just run like hell
I originally had this game on win xp and only the demo version for a few months when it cameout so it was only one map of the parish with the event of having to run through the winding Ceda Checkpoint. Took a few years before building my own pc and finally getting the full version of the game.