>>there wasn't much point
>>in sniping anyway because the director spawns enemies wherever you
>>can't see *at that moment*, even if you took the time to plan a route
>>and cleared it ahead of time, so...
>
>Yeah, I mean, you're on the move all the time, so there's no real way
>to set up a sniping position and camp it without getting left behind
>by the rest of the squad (which would be Really Bad). Besides, it's
>not like the zombies have officers. All I can really see a sniper
>being useful for in L4D is maybe setting off Boomers before they get
>close enough to the party for it to inconvenience them.
>
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It was more of a versus thing, where you could pick off a opposing special zombie player.