L4D: Witch Hunter - the terror of every L4D Server
Posted in Left4Dead News
The Witch. Scary, powerful, quite unreasonably vengeful and despite claws which could tear open a fair size building you people just can’t seem to stop prodding her. The recently released Left4Dead stats show that barely one in twenty players have ever gotten through a campaign without enraging her. Despite the fact that “enraging her” often means “killing you.”
That’s some good advice there, yellow text man.
Sometimes it’s because of amateurs - a Left4Dead server is like a horror movie in every way, from the abundance of undead to the range in skill levels from “grizzled veteran” to “stupid panicky liability who will get everyone killed.” Guess which one sets off the Witch? Other times it’s unavoidable, with the dastardly Director plonking the sobbing she-death smack-dab in the middle of a narrow path. There usually follows an extended game of survivor politeness: “No, after you, I INSIST.”
Don’t pile in like idiots (which guarantees the first to strike will get eviscerated). Use the following strategies to wipe that Witch out.
1. Long-range Bait
The Witch goes for whoever first startles her - use this to your advantage. Send anyone with the hunting rifle as far away as they can get while still maintaining line of sight, and spread the other players just off the line between the rifler and riflee. When the sniper pops a shot off at the Witch, the other players can unload into the tactically-challenged Witch as she runs right past them. This is one of the few valid excuses to unload the combat shotgun at full speed, gaining you the “Witch Hunter” accolade and allowing you to go “HOOO YEAH” at the sheer destructive power.
Even if you don’t have Tier 2 weapons (or nobody went for accuracy over rate of fire), a crouched pistol shot can still set her off from a safe distance. But only with the Hunting Rifle do you have a chance to drop her with headshots while she stands there screaming after waking, also known as CR0WND or “The best thing you can do with the rifle, booyah“
2. Kill it with fire
Especially fun if you can see the witch a level above or below you - so much fun, in fact, that Valve made an achievement for it.
If the Witch has to run a long way or climb ladders to get to you, why not make sure she stays warm during her long trip? She’s not exactly wearing a lot after all, and she could catch her death (double-death? re-undeath?) sprinting around late at night like that. As a caring neigbour the very least you can do is ignite her with a Molotov cocktail. Then she’s warm, well lit, and incidentally losing health every step of her way towards you and the intestines she seems so set on separating from you.
It’s getting cold, throw another Molotov on the Witch.
3. Get Lucky
The Director has a bad rep. He controls an evil world. He has a button that makes Tanks happen. From time to time he sends a couple thousand zombies to use your head as a football - but other times he’s so, so nice. Nice as in “spawns a Witch right in front of an emplaced minigun” nice, which is about as nice as someone whose job is “control flesh-hungry infected” can be. Sneak into position, have someone covering your back (because if there’s one thing Smokers LOVE it’s minigun operators - holding those handles seems to give you an irresistible flavor for that overextended tongue), and one more thing:
Enjoy.
December 9th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Yeah, that’s how you kill a witch if you’re a scrub. The rest of us walk up to her back side, where she can’t attack us and then one shot her with a Tier 1 shotgun or better.
December 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I’m plesed they fixed the “take her from behind” exploit.
March 7th, 2009 at 3:37 am
witches are my favorite thing one l4d
March 24th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
“But only with the Hunting Rifle do you have a chance to drop her with headshots while she stands there screaming after waking, also known as CR0WND or “The best thing you can do with the rifle, booyah“”
Thats WRONG!!!
I made headshots on witch over and over.. and it works on expert too!
My way to get this reward, and give her an Headshot is:
1) Everybody of yout team stay back to cover you! Lights OFF!!
2) sneak witch autoshotgun and lights off into the Front of the witch, now she recognized you.
3) In front of her, before she stands up, u have to stand up, switch your light on, and shoot on her head. Bit dont shoot 1 time! Give all your 10 shots!
What happends?
If you dont kill her with the first single shot, she will die before she can hurt you! Now, become an witch-hunter ^^
March 29th, 2009 at 10:55 am
You all have to understand that killing witch is easy. 90% - witch is dead. 5% my teammate fucked up something and his dead, 5% I fucked up something and I’m dead.
All you need is shotgun (auto is easier, with semi-auto you need a lot of steadines and know lots about her)
Just walk her fast and shot in the middle of body. With auto - 2 fast shot to be sure she’s dead. With semi-auto from the side.
But only tough guys kill witch while she’s running and all of them got autoshotguns and this is real art of witchhunting (:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:16 am
i love this game!!!!!