Feedback - Machine Gun Spitter

So we got the new spitters that fire their spitballs at a rate of 1bps.

I love the fact they're like machine guns and fire so much spit at you you don't even understand where it's all coming from. Having them cover half the map in spit is great too, it really adds lots of challenge.

The problem is they're only melee-able... and to get to them, most of the times, we need to run through 5 yards of spit and die in the process just getting to them...

Can we have them damageable by bullets again? Sure they can be tougher, but jesus, just let us kill them at a distance. 10 bullets, 20 bullets, anything, to actually make it possible to kill them.

Case example was in the burger diner on the hard rain finale... Spitter was inside near the kitchen spitting everywhere, and someone was being overwhelmed. I wanted to help him up but I saw the spitter was a problem, so I decided to kill the spitter first, and halfway through the spit, i lost all my HP and managed to get out before dying. I just couldn't get anywhere near the spitter to give it a piece of my katana's mind and actually kill it.

There's not much strategy on killing spitters since we just can't get close to it, and the last resort in this situation is to... throw a molotov, which might end up killing the guy who's on the floor (since we can't really get close to him either) and get votekicked for doing so...

Spitters are awesome now, I'm gonna admit I love them now, but they just need to be damageable by bullets.

Just my 2c

 

I agree, they've been driving me crazy. The Aussie coop server often has a lot of low level players which is great, but I am getting tired of running around the map slicing up spitters with my katana to keep everyone alive.

 

you and me both dude.. lol..

low levels run away when they see the spitter.. i had to kill the spitter for them..

 

They're very hard to deal with at a lower level - especially since you get slowed down so freak'n much when you get into (or above... I wish it didn't affect you if you jumped over the stuff).

 

I'm gonna have to agree... I'm lvl 62 which is not exactly low but a lvl 100 spitter can (and they do in VS) spit on me, then stand in my way with his 5 seconds invulenrability and keep me in the spit, my health starts at 180 and goes very close to incap if it doesn't actually incap me till I can kill it so my only chance is to run away from it.

Now add the fact that he can spit every 6 seconds and u have maybe 1 second to kill it before it spits again, at which point I WILL get incapped no matter what I do... At No Mercy finale when u open the safe room door, if u face 3 of those u have no real chance of getting out of there.

Now don't get me wrong, as it stands right now i do it too, I have the meanest spitter points can buy at my lvl and I make a lot of $$$ on it, but I still agree, it's far too strong right now.

 

I also agree, although I do like the challenge.

I don't think it should be easy to kill, but easier than this.

And believe it or not, there are people who don't like using melee weapons at all, but are forced to because of the spitters.

 

Maybe the higher admins can consider being able to kill a spitter with headshot and melee only making it much more simple then just trying to walk in a puddle of spit to just reach the spitter.

 

or make a new skill so you get spit risistanse for a 1 or 2 seconds to kill a spitter?

 

Yesterday, I saw 1 spitter in a huge puddle of it's own spit, and someone incapped in the center next to it.

I knew spitters are melee only, and have a ridiculous high amount of health, so I just said fuck it and threw a molotov. But the guy died in the spit lol, and someone jumped and pulled a rambo on the spitter with his katana.

All in all, they have a lot of HP now, and are not invincible. Something about having the same HP as a paranoia tank, so yeah we could shove all our bullets up their ass, it won't kill em.. but a melee hit is instant kill dealing maximum damage and thus killing in one shot. Hope they work on the HP (if it hasn't been done yet)

 

I have to agree, the deadliest infected other then a tank is the spitter due to how fast AND how far it can spit. Durring finales this is extremely troublesome.

If you were able to headshot the spitters for an instant kill that would be sufficient, but as it stands now in most cases after trying to melee a spitter you either down yourself or need to heal, especially with low level characters.

i can partially deal with Smokers being able to smoke you from half way across an open map, but the spitters are a no no.