L4D Difficulty Notes

Difficulty Note: I'm just going to be blunt and get straight to some points. I lowered the smoker spawn rate because initially, it was super annoying fighting them because at the moment, they seemed like wild cards to the infected, all they needed to do was shoot their tongue while I was completely distracted and boom, they got me, their stupid homing tongue that has 100% precision. Doing level 2, half my failed attempts were because of the smoker being in the perfect spot while I was distracted, so I thought and decided, "because my successful attempt is most likely going to be because I didn't get a lot of smokers, I'm going to make them spawn less and give myself the luck I would need from the beginning." I did this by binding a key to "kick Smoker", which then I kicked every smoker I heard except for every third one. So in other words, for every three smokers that would have spawned, only one would come to torment me. Once I realized while attempting the finale at how much better I became at doing this while I was doing the third level, I started thinking I was a little too hasty to do the smoker kick thing. I feel I probably would be able to do levels 2 and 3 without the smoker kick thing now, but it was already too late cause I wasn't on those levels anymore. But like I said, this is a test, and I want to try to do other campaigns with this criteria, so I will see just how well this video made me when/if I can do other campaigns without doing this kick thing.

Difficulty Note #2: There are two cuts in this video, and both are before the crescendo events in levels 2 and 3. These 2 levels are levels where I did a two segment thing. I know that obviously I can eventually do those levels without turning them into two segments, but I really didn't feel like wasting potentially several hours to accomplish something that would be exactly the same as if I just split it into two segments. To you smart readers though, you are probably thinking then "well with that logic, what's stopping you from making the video 5/10/100 segments?" Well what's stopping me from doing that is that the video wouldn't be raw mind strength anymore. Too many segments, and it becomes too easy to make good luck happen and not need skill. The least there are, the cooler the video is, and I do not think two segments jeopardizes the coolness of this video. All I think it does is spare my sanity.