Comments on: The Season Of The Witch

By: steve

steve — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:33:25 +0000

and yet, on my first round ever of L4D, i got the witch hunter achievement. (kill the witch without any part of your team taking damage) maybe im just lucky…..

By: Reaper

Reaper — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:40:03 +0000

First time playing my friends told me about her just as we heard the crying, me wanting confirmation if it was her I saw I fired a round at her just as I said, “Is this her?”. Let me just tell you I almost fell of my chair.

Still think its too bad you can’t play as her when you play horde, but nothing is better when your playing a full game and you spawn as the tank. Can’t help but shout “Its clawbering time!” as I swat my enemies away like flys on a corps.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:12:30 +0000

The first time I saw her it was a quick shot to the head with the hunting rifle. Unfortunately this gave me a false sense of security…

By: Avisioncame

Avisioncame — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:05:10 +0000

The first time I saw her it was really frightening. But I think this article, while well written, overblows her a bit.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:51:44 +0000

So I have the best Witch story ever. The other day I was playing and there was a Witch right in front of an escalator I needed to go up. So I creeeeeeped up and tried to go around. She looked up at me and snarled and I backed up real quick. So then I used some debris to climb up onto the escalator from the side. But when I got to the top of the escalator there was a Boomer, which I shot and was promptly covered in goo. So as I’m (blinded, keep in mind) fighting off the Hoard, one of my teammates disturbs the Witch, probably by hitting her with a stray bullet. So now, there’s a pissed off Witch I can hear screaming up a storm, a ton of infected, and I still can’t see ‘cuz I’m covered in Boomer goo. It was very hectic.

By: chipp

chipp — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:22:01 +0000

Oh, very nice. She mostly reminds me of one of the bosses from Clive Barker’s Undying, I think it was Lizbeth or Aaron or a combination of them 2 created by my powerful mind.

By: Cnopro

Cnopro — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:49:02 +0000

Generally most of the time I run into one it’s followed by cursing, shiting myself, running, and shooting. Personally I feel witch= a little tank and most of the fear can be dumped on: Not knowing where she is and who is around her, and to make you think, to not shoot randomly, to stick together and not split up in simple words No Heroes, Teamwork.

On another note sometimes she could spawn in better places.

We walk into the subway, one of us made a joke “Hey I know you, your a tank.” not knowing there was one. I walk pass the rubble next to the flipped train and get punch across the room in to a load of zombies. We break for it and the tank tosses a piece of wall a hits? A damn witch right in front of us she kills two of us as we are forced back to the tank, me and the other guy split. Then mic gets filled with screams and static (a classic, and horrible horror movie trick) and then the guy gets tossed right pass me into a horde. I make it to the ammo stash and Blam the witch runs into me, then a smoker grabs me , a horde gang me, a hunter rips me, and the tanks kicks my ass.

By: Axon

Axon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:59:18 +0000

The most irritating about a Witch is that she’s always in the wrong places. Example: Me and my team have around 20HP each, playing ‘No Mercy’ on Expert, safe house nearby and then there’s a Witch in front of it. I throw a molotov at her, and she attacks me like a madman (on fire!). She hits me and I’m dead because I already got incapacitated two times. The team goes on and I can continue to play in the next level (2: The Subway). Oh boy, safe house ahead! But then we heard crying again, we (well, two of us since the others were dead) just killed a f*cking Tank and then there’s another WITCH! We tried to avoid her, but she was on the stairwell just outside the safehouse. I have 1HP because I bled to ‘death’ after one incapacity. My mate had around 80 HP still, so he got to startle the Witch to clear the path and he did. SLICE! My friend is incapacitated and WHACK there’s a Hunter, punted me, incapacitated and we had to start over again.

I’m not saying the Witch was a bad idea, it’s a great idea. I only get frustrating because she’s on ALL vital spots where we HAVE to kill her because otherwise we can’t proceed.

By: The Colonel

The Colonel — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:03:22 +0000

@Nehr: totally agree.

After playing through all the campaigns I’ve found that there have been few times when encountering the witch actually alters the gameplay. Sometimes she’ll bit sitting on the ladder/door/tunnel you need to go down, and at those points (assuming there isn’t a hoarde attacking) one needs to stop for a moment and consider the plan for killing her. But mostly a molotov renders her pretty shit and you can just run backwards shooting. It’s actually pretty rare than anyone dies from her. I think the game would be a lot better if it was programmed so that she never actually completely blocked your path, but if you did ever disturb her it would be by accident and she could wipe almost all of you out before you could touch her. Maybe resistant to fire, and able to run along the ceiling and freaky things. She just isn’t ever hard to beat, even on Expert. For her to work she needs to be stronger and the game needs to vary the tempo even more. Having played a fair bit on versus, you realise how difficult it is to actually die, and when you do, the penalty is waiting for a few minutes until the next cupboard/safe-room is found. If the witch knocked you out for the rest of the level and could always kill in one or two hits, maybe she’d be scary.

By: Nehr

Nehr — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:34:34 +0000

The Witch is also REAL EASY to kill. You just throw a molotov on her before you start shooting.

By: Nehr

Nehr — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:58:32 +0000

The Witch could perhaps have been a little creepy for me, if when huddled and crying she looked like a little baby instead, and when you got close she morphed into what she looks like now. The action in the game would also have to be turned down about 50 notches, because running around pumping out 500 rounds a minute, I just don’t find anything scary. You won’t have that type of immersion then, well, at least I don’t.

Games that are creepy for me are the Silent Hill type, which is slow moving, and a bit skimpy on the action. Gives more time for a different type of immersion.

I enjoy L4D though, great blastfest. But I’ve gone through the campaigns now, played about 12 hours, and that’s enough for me. I might go back and play some good user levels or new official content though.

By: Nehr

Nehr — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:54:20 +0000

And I doubt it was supposed to be.