Left 4 Dead 2

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When to: Use Grenades
By swift
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When To Use Grenades
So you find a bile jar, and you hear an incoming horde. You toss it and easily kill off the zombies, and continue playing like normal....until when there's a running event like Dark Carnival and you realize that if you had saved that bile jar, you could have easily speed through the event. This guide will teach you on how to not only save your grenades, but to learn how to conserve in general Left 4 Dead 1/2.

Molotovs
-Whenever a horde appears. (It has to be a HUGE horde. Only use a molotov on a small horde when on expert when your team needs to have a moment after a tank attack or an event.)

-A tank spawns in

-To mess up death charges or set ups
This is VERY useful on versus. This is because on the rooftops in the campaign No Mercy, the infected team can easily set up an attack involving a death charge. (Death charge means to aim at a survivor, charge and send them off the map. Look up some YouTube videos or versus guides to learn more about the death charges.)

Once you toss the molotov up on the spawned infected, they can burn out and have 2 options:

1: Burn out

2: Force in an attack


Pipebombs
-Whenever your teamate(s) are boomed

-A horde appears

-During an event

-To clear an area quicker

Not much to say about the pipebomb, besides do NOT toss it at a tank. Yes, it stumbles it but it'll only tick off 50-100 dmg, and it won't be worth the waste.

Bile Jar
-An event

-During the finale once evac arrives

That's basically it. You CAN use it on a tank, but it doesn't seem necessary to do so. (Unless it's on versus)
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13 Comments
Fruittymcnutty 14 Nov, 2016 @ 5:00pm 
Spitfire. I'd recommend having at least one bile if you find one for an event or something, and a mix of mollies/pipes for whoever else is there. If the guy that has the molly/pipe is really good at hitting his mark, you could probably get away with them being the only one with that grenade.
Citizen Snips 29 Oct, 2015 @ 5:17pm 
And you can enhance your experience by using a mod of my own invention, ja?

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=542731746
Biscuits 29 Oct, 2015 @ 7:45am 
Sometimes when my team can't afford to sit and shoot down a horde, I tend to throw a molotov behind us. That way we can keep going and it's a small wall behind us for a good 20seconds. It works better for end of hallways or alleyways rather than wide open spaces, but the fire covers alot of ground depending on where it is thrown.

Yes bile could work for that, but in case of a tank or a complication with a downed teammate, I'd rather not have to worry about an extra horde.

A pipebomb would be my second choice, but it doesn't always clear out the infected intended.
That's one way I use molotovs!
Sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes, thanks for reading!
zaborevsk 27 Oct, 2015 @ 4:38pm 
Despite what Unpokeable_Cactus said, NEVER use a bile bomb when someone is boomed. Zombies will attack in this order: boomed common, boomed survivors/specials, regular survivors. If manage to boom some commons, they'll be distracted for a bit, but bomed comons die a lot faster than a boom lasts, granting a reprieve of maybe a second or two. In any other case, you're simply bringing more commons for the boomed person to deal with.
ڸackRabbit™ 27 Oct, 2015 @ 12:27pm 
When to use grenades: Never because there are no grenades in Left 4 Dead. There are pipe bombs, molotovs, and bile bombs.
naanyabusiness@hindi.edu 26 Oct, 2015 @ 4:32pm 
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Nav 25 Oct, 2015 @ 10:22am 
Bile + Molotov. clears out them zombies like nothing else
LOKO 24 Oct, 2015 @ 10:21am 
Bile > Pipe bomb

I say this because first off, the bile does attract a horde to the area it was thrown in, but it also makes the zombies attack whoever you hit with it. In my opinion, I feel it's better to use a bile bomb on a tank rather than molotov on single player or co op, because the tank won't be able to move through the horde, and the tank isn't able to kill to commons simply because it isn't a target. The tank will be stuck until either the bile wears off or the tank dies. Also, using a bile bomb while a teamate is boomed is a better idea than a pipebomb, because the zombies (90% of the time) chase after bile before a pipe bomb. Throwing a bile while a teamate is boomed will give the zombies a target B, thus making less zombies attack your ally.
Coffee 23 Oct, 2015 @ 4:19pm 
Guide too complicated,
got raped by 20 tanks on Tank Playground.
Season. 23 Oct, 2015 @ 1:57pm 
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