Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

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Team killers and how to deal with them
By Pudding
You all have encountered team killers in various FPS games, and L4D2 is one of them. These misfits join your games and proceed to kill you and your team on purpose. You'll often encounter these guys on Advanced and Expert difficulties (rarely on Normal difficulty). This guide will show you the different types of team killers and how to deal with them in-game (not how to deal with each type, but how to deal with them in general).
   
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Types of TKers
I will refer to team killers as TKers from this point onward. There are different types of TKers who play the game. The table below shows who they are and what they do.
Type of TKer
What they do
Generic TKer
This type gets straight into business. Join a game, kill, then leave. Sometimes they call a vote to kick someone else.
Kind on the outside, dark on the inside
This type fools you by playing normally. They do that until the finale is about to end, then kill you and your team.
"Bad shooter"
This type will pretend to accidently shoot you. They will constantly attack you "by accident" every minute, and won't answer when you ask them why or tell them to stop.
The next section will tell you how to deal with TKers in general.
Dealing with TKers
There are a few ways to deal with them.

Vote kicking
The obvious and most common method of dealing with TKers. If you see someone purposely shooting you and/or your teammates, call a vote to kick them out of your game. Let your teammates know that you are kicking the TKer. Unfortunately, this method won't work if the TKer brings a partner with them. All you can do is leave the game or, if you're lucky, let the AI director screw them over. If you do leave the game, don't forget to report and block them.

Beating them at their own game
WARNING: This method will do more harm than good since you will be dealing a lot of team damage. However, if you just want to defend yourself or if you want to make those TKers suffer the consequences of messing with you and your team, this method is for you.

Basically, you see someone killing a teammate, you SHOOT THEM BACK before they get the chance to hurt you or another teammate. If they attack you first, let your teammates know ASAP (if you're not downed by them, try to move away from their line of fire and retaliate). If you manage to down them first, don't hesitate to call a vote to kick them after that. Before kicking you may say "YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE, FOOL!" to the TKer if you wish. Heck, you might be satisfied after making those idiotic TKers get a taste of their own medicine.

Admin System
Use the power of an admin to teach those TKers a lesson. Go to Steam Workshop or Gamemaps and download Rayman1103's Admin System. Once downloaded, host a Local Server with the addon enabled. Doing so will give you admin control and thus access to admin commands. Play the game normally, and if you see a TKer in your game, you can type the following in the chat (without the quotation marks):
  • "!incap nick" or "!kill nick" if the TKer is playing as Nick
  • "!incap louis" or "!kill louis" if the TKer is playing as Louis
If you are new to the game, I strongly suggest that you learn the names of the survivors so that you know what you are doing. I repeat, YOU NEED TO HOST YOUR OWN LOCAL SERVER FOR THIS METHOD TO WORK.
Conclusion
There isn't much to mention in this guide and I'm sure most of you know how to deal with TKers even if I didn't post this. If you don't, now you know after reading it. Happy fragging.
49 Comments
Bumble B. Rumble 6 Apr, 2022 @ 4:58pm 
In addition to the Admin System, get this addon, too:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2250557219
This lets you do all sorts of things to griefers, like reverse or disable friendly fire; punish rushers by teleporting them back, slowing them down, or biling them; disabling votes, and even stopping people from healing you on a ladder to make you fall. Like the Admin System, it only works in local servers. Combined, you become practically untouchable.

Disclaimer: You are NOT untouchable. Neither addon prevents things like trolls jumping into a pit and leaving, or trolls with scripts that let them switch characters.
WackoSnacko 22 Jan, 2021 @ 6:02pm 
You left out the most funny method, the t bag purgatory. What you do is kill the team killer and t bag his/her corpse until they quit out or learn to behave. Calling them gay is also a valid option.
Halovscod12115 9 Sep, 2020 @ 10:29pm 
after dealing with some back then, i know now how to deal with them. thx for the information
kfc co-manager 18 Jul, 2020 @ 8:26pm 
giant asshat who doesn't deserve to live, TK scum [this wasn't meant to offend, just saying
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judging is gay]
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Jane Mormon 8 Jun, 2018 @ 11:00pm 
this guide is gay
TomBoi 1 Nov, 2016 @ 8:49pm 
One time I was playing with my friend, and some asshat was going way far ahead, hurting himself, and stealing all the health packs from us. I got to the point where I just killed him right then and there for doing that shit.
lsblk0402 31 Oct, 2016 @ 8:58pm 
VERY GOOD !!!
Pudding  [author] 31 Oct, 2016 @ 5:56pm 
@BareKnuckleBrawler What are you talking about? I didn't remove any comments.
DRPz 31 Oct, 2016 @ 1:19pm 
:D
anomie 31 Oct, 2016 @ 8:36am 
I personally like to play on expert, carry a gas can, wait until weare in a small room and shooting, then throw the can into somebody's bullets

The person that shot it gets the blame, I get the satisfaction of the team burning.