Also, that was a pretty good game we played. Now that I know you don't have to actually survive to get the completion achievement, I'll be a lot less stressed in future finales. I guess I must have just joined the other ones in the middle, or something, because I could swear I've made it through the finale (but died on teh way to the chopper) and not gotten it.
That second tank was fun. You guys were over on the right (from the minigun) side of the roof fucking around with it, and I was just crouching and popping bursts into him. Then he noticed me. And I had like 10 health so I couldn't run. Then things went sideways.
I had to beat Dead Air 3 times before I got my achievement. I figured out why I missed it the first two times. Putting your computer on idle for 15 seconds to answer the door will invalidate the "survival".
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edited December 2008
I won my second campaign with bots on expert, Dead Air. Now working on No Mercy again.
Anyway, after that run, I can safely say that I feel No Mercy is definitely one of the hardest finales in the game. Blood Harvest is probably the easiest, but Dead Air might also be. What it comes down to is if everyone is willing to cramp into a really tight corner where you only fight 2-3 infected at a time.
Dead Air was pretty fucking easy, but I've only run it on Advanced. Definitely an order of magnitude easier than No Mercy. It only takes one dude to cover the guy on the gun, two dudes from above covering each other and the rear, and you've got a huge open area for when the tank comes.
I'm probably going to try to run the other two over the next week or so, to compare. I've done Death Toll, it wasn't too bad either...the only issue I had was making it from the boathouse to the dock (similar to No Mercy, from the roof/gun to the helipad).
I had to beat Dead Air 3 times before I got my achievement. I figured out why I missed it the first two times. Putting your computer on idle for 15 seconds to answer the door will invalidate the "survival".
Not so. I ran idle to answer the phone during our No Mercy run, still got the achievement.
I was too busy shouting fuck, run, Tank, fuck, run, Tank, fuck, run to myself to notice anyone else. I saw your yellow outline and tried to work my way back to you without dying in the process. I'm honestly surprised we survived the second Tank with 2 people.
You and me both. Like I said, I was over there popping shots into him giddy as a schoolgirl, thinking "aw shit yeah this is cool"....until he turned my way. The worst part is that he was across the entire damn roof, but it didn't matter because I was limping my ass along at the speed of dark trying to get away. I'm just glad I didn't wind up going off the roof.
Yeah, well it turns out that you were just a big target for Special Infected.
Ya think? God, it was like a neverending stream of Smokers and Hunters, broken only by Boomers (at which point at least the surrounding zombie horde kept the Smokers and Hunters off me). I remember at one point seeing somebody else down on my level (through the Boomer slime, I think it was Bill) and I was like, "fuck this noise, you get on the damn minigun." I broke for the ladder, and I don't think anybody manned it after that.
Down there I felt like...well, like the black guy in a horror movie.
EDIT: I also tried out my first one-liner..."Sorry, elevator's full." I doubt I'm the first to think of it, but I chuckled.
And God, whoever was Bill was a waste of fucking first-aid kits in that finale.
Though actually I don't think he ever used the one he grabbed from the radio room, I think I grabbed that bad boy. I'm a total first-aid kit bogarting motherfucker.
When I see 4 health packs sitting on a table, I often grab one, heal, and grab another :twisted:
It works pretty well to just all climb up on the tanker together for the Dead Air finale. You just have to be on the ball about smokers and disperse when it's time for the tank.
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It works pretty well to just all climb up on the tanker together for the Dead Air finale. You just have to be on the ball about smokers and disperse when it's time for the tank.
Or, you know, chill in the closet.
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edited December 2008
Fun Hunter story playing as infected on the subway portion of No Mercy. The folks we're playing against aren't highly coordinated, but they're still managing to keep us from totally wiping them. The get up into the actual subway before we really start hammering them. After a bout of zombie attacks, Bill is in the red and runs into the back of the first subway car.
Up until then, I've been harassing the survivors by hopping up and slashing people through the subway train windows. I've been getting hit, but the sheet metal has been taking the sting out. So here comes Bill limping along. Hop, slash, incap, and a bit of a chuckle for being ever so clever. Now Zoey, who I've been whacking repeatedly, is right by Bill. She forgets about me and starts helping up Bill. Cue a half-dozen unsuccessful revive attempts interrupted by Bill constantly getting slashed by a hopping Hunter. Finally the other two players come all the way back from the second train to help out.
Sure, I got shotgunned in the face on my last hop, but they didn't even make it back past the second train. Delightful.
It works pretty well to just all climb up on the tanker together for the Dead Air finale. You just have to be on the ball about smokers and disperse when it's time for the tank.
Or, you know, chill in the closet.
Yeah, if you want to be a commie and last I checked, Bill gave his knee to fight commies.
It works pretty well to just all climb up on the tanker together for the Dead Air finale. You just have to be on the ball about smokers and disperse when it's time for the tank.
Or, you know, chill in the closet.
Yeah, if you want to be a commie and last I checked, Bill gave his knee to fight commies.
Man, I keep trying to find a damage chart for versus, but no dice. Help?
Hunter Pounce - 5 damage/swipe + possible instant pounce damage if you jump from a high distance
Hunter Claw - 10 damage
Boomer/Smoker Claw - 2 damage?
Tank melee - 24 damage? based off the console variable
I think you get 2 points for every point of damage done to survivors by your own hands aside from assists.
So, No Mercy Finale on expert. Come out of the safe room, toss a pipebomb, run back and grab a molotov, then the four survivors just tear down that long hallway like a tidal wave.
Except, this time, the team lagged behind me for a bit, because somebody grabbed the wrong gun but didn't announce it. So when I got to the turn, the others were only a quarter of the way there. That's not so bad, usually. This time however, I turned the corner and immediately literally ran right into a tank.
I made it back around the corner, but not much further. It didn't matter though, because I was laughing so hard. I was dead before the tank music started.
Man, I keep trying to find a damage chart for versus, but no dice. Help?
Hunter Pounce - 5 damage/swipe + possible instant pounce damage if you jump from a high distance
Hunter Claw - 10 damage
Boomer/Smoker Claw - 2 damage?
Tank melee - 24 damage? based off the console variable
I think you get 2 points for every point of damage done to survivors by your own hands aside from assists.
The instant pounce damage is not determined by the height of your jump, it's determined by air time.
Man, I keep trying to find a damage chart for versus, but no dice. Help?
Hunter Pounce - 5 damage/swipe + possible instant pounce damage if you jump from a high distance
Hunter Claw - 10 damage
Boomer/Smoker Claw - 2 damage?
Tank melee - 24 damage? based off the console variable
I think you get 2 points for every point of damage done to survivors by your own hands aside from assists.
The instant pounce damage is not determined by the height of your jump, it's determined by air time.
Bombs awaaaaaaaaay!
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I won my second campaign with bots on expert, Dead Air. Now working on No Mercy again.
But fuck that roof. Fuck it to hell.
Is it easier with bots then actual asstards... I mean people? I presume it has something to do with FF?
It's way harder. Even asstards are still people (somewhere). You need a combination of luck AND skill with bots.
Yeah, I was playing a vs. match earlier that somehow ended up being just me vs. two infected in the finale. It was going pretty well, despite the incompetence of the bots. Then the chopper came, and I got in. The bots were spread all over the place, and a tank jumped in with me and started pounding. Yeah.
Somehow I still ended up escaping... I guess you do get to leave even if you're incapped after all. Louis took his time going down, though. I thought I'd be dead before the chopper left. Francis and Bill were on the path to the chopper, but I have no idea where the fuck he was- I think I actually saw him under the chopper at some point.
Edit: Not as good as the round before, though, where one person got smokered off the edge and I blew up on two helping him knocking them off. That was sweet.
Fun times tonight, though we did explode the log. I only hope that the log gods can forgive Mandalore for his heresy.
I tried! Oh how I tried. But it was hard to whack it between the trains. And the way it disappeared, I assume that was/is the stealth fix for blocking areas. If you hit stuff, it will disappear after a while. Happened with a second log later on.
Besides, Musan corrected my mistake in the finale. The Log was still champeen.
Tonight, I found out that if you start the finale while steadfastly ignoring the bot in the respawn closet, the closet will open and let him out anyway.
Fun times tonight, though we did explode the log. I only hope that the log gods can forgive Mandalore for his heresy.
I tried! Oh how I tried. But it was hard to whack it between the trains. And the way it disappeared, I assume that was/is the stealth fix for blocking areas. If you hit stuff, it will disappear after a while. Happened with a second log later on.
Besides, Musan corrected my mistake in the finale. The Log was still champeen.
I've had a blocking car disappear in No Mercy apartments before this update.
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I completely suck as infected, but more so as a Hunter.
I can't aim that pounce for shit. but I'm very good at landing right beside somebody.
Some tips:
Aim up. It's more difficult to shoot/melee a hunter away as he pounces you if he's coming from the sky, rather than directly in front of you.
Hunters growl when crouching. Don't crouch all the time. I've seen hunters crouching permenently and it's a stupid move.. the survivors can hear you a mile away like that, and most people have surround sound that i know.. at least. I do.
Keep jumping. You can jump several times as long as you just keep holding C after the first jump. It's also a great idea to bounce off something onto a survivor. No one expects a flying hunter to come springing off a train car and onto their face.
I don't crouch until I'm preparing to jump. I go for vertical jumps to. It's just a matter of becoming Death from Above for a split second, then landing to one side of the server, and being melee'd and shot. edit: When I do hit though, it's usually for 10-20 damage.
As for wall jumping, I haven't gotten the hang of that yet, so I seldom try. The last time I tried tonight I clipped through a wall and got stuck there.
Wall jumping is hella fun. One game on the third level of blood harvest (I think) I was a hunter, and to distract the survivors in the very first area with the trains and high walls, I started jumping around like a maniac. I didn't touch the ground for about half a minute. It was hilarious with my constant screaming and the survivors trying in vain to shoot me out of the air.
I sometimes try it in the no mercy 1 alley, but it's really cramped there and I usually mess up after only a few jumps.
With this new update, is the stun time when a hunter jumps on a nearby survivor longer than it used to be?
I've noticed that the stun time varies. Sometimes I can almost immediately melee the hunter off, other times I stagger for like 3 seconds. I think it might change by how close you are to the pouncee, or something else like the hunter's leap distance or some weird server variable.
I dont even bother walljumping anymore. Its marginally useful on part of the first map of No Mercy, then its basically never used again.
walljumping in the hospital is classy
pouncing while doing it startles the hell out of me (Flippy :x)
You're still a better walljumper than me though.
Wallljumping is good to build up momentum and get pounce damage going. When Dead Air is opened up for vs I think walljumping will be more useful.
I think I was the first person to say about hunter right click (maybe), but that aside I've been doing it for ages and it's just so so so deadly. You can quite easily do more total damage than a boomer if you play your cards right. 130 damage in one life? Don't mind if I do.
My wife told me I needed a hobby because video games aren't a hobby. I decided my hobby is going to be to build computers and I'm going to build a PC that can run this game. I have it on 360 and love the shit out of it, but I might love it more on PC. That, and I want to see what all this TF2 business is about. TFC brings back memories of 10th grade and my Pentium 2 laptop.
That's funny. I told the girlfriend she needs a hobby because she says she's always bored when I play video games on the PC and she has nothing to do...
If collecting fucking stamps is a hobby, video games are so a hobby.
Tell her to take up digital photography. Photoshop is fun. And yeah, collecting stamps is a bloody stupid ridiculous idea of a hobby. I'd say video games are more productive because, hey, you can hone your reflexes and save lives. If it ever came to that. Plus strategy games (and I dont mean BUILD RUSH!) provide a good mental workout to improve your analytical abilities, even if it isn't totally evident. Keeps the neural pathways firing on all cylinders and what.
No shit. I've always argued that time spent in front of a pc (video games or not) is mentally more stimulating than 98% of any tv viewing, and look how many hours some people sink into that.
A couple pages late, but she makes jewelry and recently taught herself how to crochet so she's been making scarves and stuff. While she is making things I am shooting zombies usually.
Versus locked to normal. Yes. I may just play some versus right now.
there was that awful day where me random and some other regs paraded around a multitude of retard servers until we finally just switched to the PA server manually.
Fuck admins that put VS on exp mode.
And I swear by the m16 in every mode. It's the subtle but still deadly weapon. I am also the worst player ever at l4d
You can run faster than anyone, just run up and right click them for a good 20 damage, and then run away. If theres a horde, most people wont even notice you're doing 5x more damage than normal zombies, and think youre one of them
Man oh man I want to meet the damn survivors who fall for this. I've got an autoshotty. I am either meleeing or shooting pellets of death in an arc in front of me at all times.. I've never had a hunter get more than one swipe at me trying this.
In hordes, he's got an even worse chance because I'm meleeing mostly and staggering him back like a drunken fool.
Yeah, I've killed Hunters doing this without even knowing they were in there. I don't stop shooting until I'm no longer being hurt, so the chances of a Hunter getting away with that are really slim.
What is with you scrubs, "Oh, it doesnt work when the Hunter is in front of me" O rly? Yknow, I assumed that was kinda an obvious part of the plan. So let me rephrase
Step 1) Dont get shot by standing in front of the guy. Try the side, or even BEHIND him.
Step 2) Right click
Step 3) Dont die.
No wait, maybe thats still not good enough, theres alot of gray areas. See, for this plan to really work, you're gonna need a computer So... hrmm
Step 1) Buy a computer
Step 2) Install L4D (and steam of course)
Step 3) Play it, on versus
Step 4) Be a hunter
Step 5) Dont get shot
Step 6) Rightclick him
Step 7) Dont die
Step 8) If you can, rightclick aga CRAP, I forgot so many steps. If you have a computer, you're gonna need electricity to running it, and setting up an appointment with the electric company can be a pain, and youll need a phone, so you need one of those too. And a house for this stuff. Ill write up a comprehensive guide and post it on gameFAQs. K?
My wife told me I needed a hobby because video games aren't a hobby. I decided my hobby is going to be to build computers and I'm going to build a PC that can run this game. I have it on 360 and love the shit out of it, but I might love it more on PC. That, and I want to see what all this TF2 business is about. TFC brings back memories of 10th grade and my Pentium 2 laptop.
That's funny. I told the girlfriend she needs a hobby because she says she's always bored when I play video games on the PC and she has nothing to do...
If collecting fucking stamps is a hobby, video games are so a hobby.
Tell her to take up digital photography. Photoshop is fun. And yeah, collecting stamps is a bloody stupid ridiculous idea of a hobby. I'd say video games are more productive because, hey, you can hone your reflexes and save lives. If it ever came to that. Plus strategy games (and I dont mean BUILD RUSH!) provide a good mental workout to improve your analytical abilities, even if it isn't totally evident. Keeps the neural pathways firing on all cylinders and what.
No shit. I've always argued that time spent in front of a pc (video games or not) is mentally more stimulating than 98% of any tv viewing, and look how many hours some people sink into that.
A couple pages late, but she makes jewelry and recently taught herself how to crochet so she's been making scarves and stuff. While she is making things I am shooting zombies usually.
I like the way your respective hobbies will mold you into an effective husband-wife team for surviving in the post-zombie wasteland, now all you need to do is learn about substance farming and you'll have that shit totally locked down.
I really don't like how they fixed the boomer 'exploit' being able to kill yourself on command. I loved doing that and with survivors staying in closets more and more, it becomes pretty damn hard to nab them.
I think Boomers should be able to suicide, but have it be on a three-second detonation kind of thing, forcing them to time their explosions.
I have no idea how the tank music gets cued up. On No Mercy versus last night, I came out of the restaurant to head for the lift to the rooftops. The tank was apparently hiding behind the semi-trailer and the music didn't begin until I rounded the trailer. I heard the first notes just as I got punched in the face and incapped.
Alright I think PA L4D is lost. I have no idea what information I used when I created it. OP, remove it and maybe start a new one if there is sufficient demand. The old one is still "working", but I just can't add to it.
I have no idea how the tank music gets cued up. On No Mercy versus last night, I came out of the restaurant to head for the lift to the rooftops. The tank was apparently hiding behind the semi-trailer and the music didn't begin until I rounded the trailer. I heard the first notes just as I got punched in the face and incapped.
I'm fairly certain it starts as soon as the first survivor sees the tank. If you don't have line of sight on the tank you can only hear it grunting.
I was playing on Dead Air and was the last man alive near the electricity pylons. You know how you go through that tiny room to get to the next bit? I was on about 10 health and praying that no zombies would attack (expert mode), limping towards the room where there's at least some pills to be found.
It's dead silent. Nothing but the wind. Exhausted but elated to be still alive, I hobble onwards. I go in the door and am greeted with the most horrific sight. A tank, on the other side of the glass, with its back to me. Just 5 feet away.
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I had to beat Dead Air 3 times before I got my achievement. I figured out why I missed it the first two times. Putting your computer on idle for 15 seconds to answer the door will invalidate the "survival".
But fuck that roof. Fuck it to hell.
Is it easier with bots then actual asstards... I mean people? I presume it has something to do with FF?
Dead Air was pretty fucking easy, but I've only run it on Advanced. Definitely an order of magnitude easier than No Mercy. It only takes one dude to cover the guy on the gun, two dudes from above covering each other and the rear, and you've got a huge open area for when the tank comes.
I'm probably going to try to run the other two over the next week or so, to compare. I've done Death Toll, it wasn't too bad either...the only issue I had was making it from the boathouse to the dock (similar to No Mercy, from the roof/gun to the helipad).
Not so. I ran idle to answer the phone during our No Mercy run, still got the achievement.
You and me both. Like I said, I was over there popping shots into him giddy as a schoolgirl, thinking "aw shit yeah this is cool"....until he turned my way. The worst part is that he was across the entire damn roof, but it didn't matter because I was limping my ass along at the speed of dark trying to get away. I'm just glad I didn't wind up going off the roof.
Ya think? God, it was like a neverending stream of Smokers and Hunters, broken only by Boomers (at which point at least the surrounding zombie horde kept the Smokers and Hunters off me). I remember at one point seeing somebody else down on my level (through the Boomer slime, I think it was Bill) and I was like, "fuck this noise, you get on the damn minigun." I broke for the ladder, and I don't think anybody manned it after that.
Down there I felt like...well, like the black guy in a horror movie.
EDIT: I also tried out my first one-liner..."Sorry, elevator's full." I doubt I'm the first to think of it, but I chuckled.
Or, you know, chill in the closet.
Up until then, I've been harassing the survivors by hopping up and slashing people through the subway train windows. I've been getting hit, but the sheet metal has been taking the sting out. So here comes Bill limping along. Hop, slash, incap, and a bit of a chuckle for being ever so clever. Now Zoey, who I've been whacking repeatedly, is right by Bill. She forgets about me and starts helping up Bill. Cue a half-dozen unsuccessful revive attempts interrupted by Bill constantly getting slashed by a hopping Hunter. Finally the other two players come all the way back from the second train to help out.
Sure, I got shotgunned in the face on my last hop, but they didn't even make it back past the second train. Delightful.
Yeah, if you want to be a commie and last I checked, Bill gave his knee to fight commies.
I ain't no commie, son.
GT: Tanky the Tank
Black: 1377 6749 7425
I totally asked "GOT A LIGHT?" when I tongued Senshi in the last game.
That, and the entire round was full of poor TF2 spy impersonations.
MENTLEGEN!
Hunter Pounce - 5 damage/swipe + possible instant pounce damage if you jump from a high distance
Hunter Claw - 10 damage
Boomer/Smoker Claw - 2 damage?
Tank melee - 24 damage? based off the console variable
I think you get 2 points for every point of damage done to survivors by your own hands aside from assists.
Except, this time, the team lagged behind me for a bit, because somebody grabbed the wrong gun but didn't announce it. So when I got to the turn, the others were only a quarter of the way there. That's not so bad, usually. This time however, I turned the corner and immediately literally ran right into a tank.
I made it back around the corner, but not much further. It didn't matter though, because I was laughing so hard. I was dead before the tank music started.
The instant pounce damage is not determined by the height of your jump, it's determined by air time.
Bombs awaaaaaaaaay!
It's way harder. Even asstards are still people (somewhere). You need a combination of luck AND skill with bots.
Yeah, I was playing a vs. match earlier that somehow ended up being just me vs. two infected in the finale. It was going pretty well, despite the incompetence of the bots. Then the chopper came, and I got in. The bots were spread all over the place, and a tank jumped in with me and started pounding. Yeah.
Somehow I still ended up escaping... I guess you do get to leave even if you're incapped after all. Louis took his time going down, though. I thought I'd be dead before the chopper left. Francis and Bill were on the path to the chopper, but I have no idea where the fuck he was- I think I actually saw him under the chopper at some point.
Edit: Not as good as the round before, though, where one person got smokered off the edge and I blew up on two helping him knocking them off. That was sweet.
I tried! Oh how I tried. But it was hard to whack it between the trains. And the way it disappeared, I assume that was/is the stealth fix for blocking areas. If you hit stuff, it will disappear after a while. Happened with a second log later on.
Besides, Musan corrected my mistake in the finale. The Log was still champeen.
GT: Tanky the Tank
Black: 1377 6749 7425
I've had a blocking car disappear in No Mercy apartments before this update.
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Wall jumping is hella fun. One game on the third level of blood harvest (I think) I was a hunter, and to distract the survivors in the very first area with the trains and high walls, I started jumping around like a maniac. I didn't touch the ground for about half a minute. It was hilarious with my constant screaming and the survivors trying in vain to shoot me out of the air.
I sometimes try it in the no mercy 1 alley, but it's really cramped there and I usually mess up after only a few jumps.
I've noticed that the stun time varies. Sometimes I can almost immediately melee the hunter off, other times I stagger for like 3 seconds. I think it might change by how close you are to the pouncee, or something else like the hunter's leap distance or some weird server variable.
I was a bit worried when I made it to the end of No Mercy and was the only one to make it, and didn't get the achievement.
And then on Death toll I died during the 1st tank, and I still got credit for it. Achievements are very glitchy.
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You're still a better walljumper than me though.
Wallljumping is good to build up momentum and get pounce damage going. When Dead Air is opened up for vs I think walljumping will be more useful.
I think I was the first person to say about hunter right click (maybe), but that aside I've been doing it for ages and it's just so so so deadly. You can quite easily do more total damage than a boomer if you play your cards right. 130 damage in one life? Don't mind if I do.
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there was that awful day where me random and some other regs paraded around a multitude of retard servers until we finally just switched to the PA server manually.
Fuck admins that put VS on exp mode.
And I swear by the m16 in every mode. It's the subtle but still deadly weapon. I am also the worst player ever at l4d
What is with you scrubs, "Oh, it doesnt work when the Hunter is in front of me" O rly? Yknow, I assumed that was kinda an obvious part of the plan. So let me rephrase
Step 1) Dont get shot by standing in front of the guy. Try the side, or even BEHIND him.
Step 2) Right click
Step 3) Dont die.
No wait, maybe thats still not good enough, theres alot of gray areas. See, for this plan to really work, you're gonna need a computer So... hrmm
Step 1) Buy a computer
Step 2) Install L4D (and steam of course)
Step 3) Play it, on versus
Step 4) Be a hunter
Step 5) Dont get shot
Step 6) Rightclick him
Step 7) Dont die
Step 8) If you can, rightclick aga CRAP, I forgot so many steps. If you have a computer, you're gonna need electricity to running it, and setting up an appointment with the electric company can be a pain, and youll need a phone, so you need one of those too. And a house for this stuff. Ill write up a comprehensive guide and post it on gameFAQs. K?
nubs
I like the way your respective hobbies will mold you into an effective husband-wife team for surviving in the post-zombie wasteland, now all you need to do is learn about substance farming and you'll have that shit totally locked down.
I think Boomers should be able to suicide, but have it be on a three-second detonation kind of thing, forcing them to time their explosions.
I have no idea how the tank music gets cued up. On No Mercy versus last night, I came out of the restaurant to head for the lift to the rooftops. The tank was apparently hiding behind the semi-trailer and the music didn't begin until I rounded the trailer. I heard the first notes just as I got punched in the face and incapped.
I'm fairly certain it starts as soon as the first survivor sees the tank. If you don't have line of sight on the tank you can only hear it grunting.
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It's dead silent. Nothing but the wind. Exhausted but elated to be still alive, I hobble onwards. I go in the door and am greeted with the most horrific sight. A tank, on the other side of the glass, with its back to me. Just 5 feet away.
And then he turned around.