"I hate vans."
Apr. 17th, 2009 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
So I just thought of an interesting variant for Left 4 Dead which might be a lot of fun.
Because L4D uses the Half-Life engine, that means that it could do vehicles. Now, you have to be careful with vehicles because it's too easy to get away and zombies can't drive. You could have some zombie specials who have merged with their vehicles and that might be fun, but you wouldn't want to build the whole game around it or it's just Zombie Interstate '76 (which would be AWESOME, but a totally different game).
What I'm thinking is that you've got this beat-up vehicle (some sort of SUV so everyone can shoot out except the driver) and these long stretches of level to drive through while zombies attack you when and where they can. The noise it makes draws nearby zombies, but it's fairly safe inside and you can usually outrun what you can't shoot down. The trick is that your vehicle also has a gas gauge that's slowly running out (and runs out faster as you go faster). So you can't just go flat-out or you'll run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. You have to stop at all the little farms and stuff and search for those gas cans to re-fill your car and get back on the road. If you run out of gas, you're on foot. You *can* hoof it to the end of the level (and the safehouse will always provide you with a new, gassed-up vehicle if you need it), but you'll be hoofing it through desolate, open terrain with no weapons/ammo/health (at least until you hit a farmhouse or something). On anything tougher than easy, you're probably dead meat.
So you need to take good care of your vehicle. And there's a huge amount of tension as you have to balance moving through the level vs. finding fuel to keep moving. I think it'd be a lot of fun.
later
Tom
So I just thought of an interesting variant for Left 4 Dead which might be a lot of fun.
Because L4D uses the Half-Life engine, that means that it could do vehicles. Now, you have to be careful with vehicles because it's too easy to get away and zombies can't drive. You could have some zombie specials who have merged with their vehicles and that might be fun, but you wouldn't want to build the whole game around it or it's just Zombie Interstate '76 (which would be AWESOME, but a totally different game).
What I'm thinking is that you've got this beat-up vehicle (some sort of SUV so everyone can shoot out except the driver) and these long stretches of level to drive through while zombies attack you when and where they can. The noise it makes draws nearby zombies, but it's fairly safe inside and you can usually outrun what you can't shoot down. The trick is that your vehicle also has a gas gauge that's slowly running out (and runs out faster as you go faster). So you can't just go flat-out or you'll run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. You have to stop at all the little farms and stuff and search for those gas cans to re-fill your car and get back on the road. If you run out of gas, you're on foot. You *can* hoof it to the end of the level (and the safehouse will always provide you with a new, gassed-up vehicle if you need it), but you'll be hoofing it through desolate, open terrain with no weapons/ammo/health (at least until you hit a farmhouse or something). On anything tougher than easy, you're probably dead meat.
So you need to take good care of your vehicle. And there's a huge amount of tension as you have to balance moving through the level vs. finding fuel to keep moving. I think it'd be a lot of fun.
later
Tom
