THE WITCH *gasp*

hey guys, just a very small suggestion. Playing EU COOP fairly often, it's come to my attention that it's a decent challenge especially with the tanks. However with most people having the uber fast slashy buff, they can kill a witch in seconds without it even incapping anyone, she just screams in dismay and then dies. This is practically farming on hard rain campaigns; people just go round slashing up witches. However, IMO, witches are something to be "afraid" of. I know we have that thing that lets her tear the full team down, but it's no use if they die in seconds. What I think would be good is to have her HP increased dramatically (of course, sensibly-dramatically for a witch if you get me) so whoever does startle her cant just slice n' dice her. Or maybe put a small penalty of points for startling her (more than you'd get for killing her). Or maybe (if it's possible) make the witch able to insta-kill the player who startles her, but then just incaps the rest. I think this would be great especially how the servers are becoming easier with more higher levels. And maybe increase witch spawns?! What do you guys think?:boink:

 

hahaha sounds pretty damn good!!

 

I lol'd at the thread title....i know exactly what you mean, i remember back in the day when i used to play L4D1 the witch was actually a little scary and people took extra, EXTRA care to avoid and go around her.....either that or take a chance with the auto shotty to the head which 50% of the time left the entire team incapped lol.

Now on PR people actively seek out the witch just to slaughter it with a melee in 5 seconds haha...i admit if i see one ill do it myself just to get it out the way but it should be the other way around...we should be afraid of them not hunting em down lol....so yea

Sounds awesome!! though dont block the melee damage entirely...just lower it drastically maybe >)

 

Haha yeah if i'm honest, same, i kill them too right now.

...but mines more because i like battering crying girls....

 

I agree that witches are meant to be hard, it was nicer that way. But I gotta say:
One time on hard rain, the map with all those witches (before we get the gas at the station), my team did manage to get everyone killed by waking every single witch and dying behind... And we lost. I wasn't looking, since I was busy having fun with my scout shooting zombies off 1 bullet every 5 seconds lol. I just took my katana the round after and slayed all of them, it pissed me off so much. All that to say, the team CAN lose because of those witches, it's just unbelievably rare, it's going to become a... legend.

A lot more health would be good on them. I mean, when they run around after smashing the guy who hit them, they run after the other, pushing everyone in the way aside. Their power is good enough already, IMO, but we need to team up against them.

 

:| Witch is gonna become Heavy Weapons Guy from TF2.

EDIT : I HAZ NEW WEAPONZZZZ