Left 4 Dead Wishlist

I've been playing Left 4 Dead for the last couple of months and... I love it.

Co-op play is the fashion at the moment but the main problem with all co-op games I've played is... you've never really felt dependant on your team mates. Even in the Splinter Cell co-op modes, it's common for you and your team mate to try and do seperate objectives at the same time, taking different routes through buildings and so on.

In Left 4 Dead, if you are seperated from your team, that's it. You're dead. On anything higher than Normal Difficulty at least. I love this - it really gels the team together to have had every member of the team saved the other members lives multiple times.

But the game isn't perfect, these are the things I would like to see from upcoming patches:

1) More levels, more weapons, more special zombies

This is a bit of a no-brainer. The game is fantastic, I'd like to see more of it :)

2) More places for the zombies to spawn from.

This one is harder - at the moment you get ambushed by zombies constantly. This is fantastic- but often I've found myself looking up at the skyscrapers and thinking how awesome it would be if suddenly all the windows shattered and zombies came piling out...

This would involve coding individual rooms for every building in Left 4 Dead and probably won't be done by Valve themselves. I'd like to hope a modder might take the task on but their time could probably be more constructively used in creating new levels.

3) Add another difficulty level

So, for me, Advanced is now a little too easy... I usually play with my brother and two bots (or a team of strangers if my brother isnt around) and we tear through the levels with little trouble.

The problem is, on Expert you need a perfect team. There is no room for mistakes. I have only ever survived an Expert campaign once and it took me two hours. By the end I was so jittery and paronoid I couldn't get to sleep.

It would be nice to have something in between these two difficulties. The great thing about expert is- the AI director never lets you rest. You're constantly being hit by swarms and special infected. The problem is you also lose 20 health for every zombie hit. It would be nice to have an extra difficulty mode with the former alteration but not the latter

4) Allow us to look down the iron sights.

please, please, pretty please?



That's pretty much it. For what it is, the game is perfect. It would just be nice to see more, more more more more mooooooore.

Poor Valve. They give us a fantastic game and we instantly clamour for more. It's not easy being the best...