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Simple Veteran Difficulty (Obsolete Legacy Version)

True Veteran, a much more accurate version of what this mutation attempted to be, can be found here.

This add-on, the original Veteran mutations, is now defunct and made obsolete, however I will still leave this on the Workshop for archival purposes. Veteran difficulty was created as a middleground between Advanced and Expert. It may be considered training for Expert or Expert Realism. Standard Advanced coop rules apply, but infected do 10 damage to the front (5 to the back), and friendly fire and fire damage have been scaled up.

This is considered much more simple than True Veteran because special infected and tanks still deal all the same damage that they normally deal on Advanced. Really the only things that are different are the common infected damage, friendly fire, and fire damage.

There are seven different mutations here: Veteran, Veteran Realism, Veteran Versus, Veteran Survival, Veteran Scavenge, Veteran L4D1, and Veteran Realism L4D1. They can be selected through Mutations. They can also be selected by typing the map name into the console followed by one the following: veteran, veteranrealism, veteranversus, veteransurvival, veteranscavenge, veteranl4d1, or veteranrealisml4d1.

Here's a sense of the friendly fire damage output: point blank shotgun blast to the face is 30 damage, single magnum shot is 10 damage. pistol shot is 4 damage, melee swing is 2 damage. Fire deals about 5 damage every 1/3 or 1/2 of a second.

Thanks to Daroot Leafstorm for helping me with an issue getting this to work properly.