OK, Survival Mode is not difficult, but it literally is endless fun!  Endless fun...until people arrive who don't know what they're doing.  I don't have all the time in the world any more to be playing video games, but I want to kick butt and have a blast when I do!  Earlier today, I was playing a game and the other three players allthrew grenades within the FIRST 20 SECONDS and that is when I knew Ihad to write this blog.

Here are some tips on how to survive on Survival Mode:

1.  Do NOT throw any grenades within the first minute.  There is absolutely no reason to.  If you throw a grenade within the first minute, you are automatically tagged as a n0ob and people won't like you.  You'll get a few special infected and a lot of horde, but nothing a couple shotties and M16's can hold off.  At about 40 seconds, you will get a tank, and unless he gets stuck somewhere, he won't be accompanied by any horde.

2.  Use grenades wisely!  Communicate and listen.  If you hear someone else throw something, don't throw!  You will hear one of the other characters yell "GRENADE!" or hear the pulse of the pipe bomb or the crack of the molotov.  Simple.

3.  Spread out when the Tank comes.  Sometimes this is hard to do, but you are better off being hit only one at a time than two or more.

4.  When the Tank comes, bust out the shotties if you can.  3 or 4 shotties will melt through a tank like a hot knife through butter.

5.  If you are defending an area that has an ammo pile...DON'T TRY TO CONSERVE YOUR AMMO!!!  I see it way too often and it annoys the balls off me.

6.  Don't use the Hunting Rifle.  There are a few stages it is good on for picking out some special infected, but definitely not every stage.  Situation dependent, too.  Just because you're an awesome Sniper in Counterstrike doesn't mean you'll make an awesome Sniper here.

7.  When you are picking up your first grenade on the map, pick it up from a location farthest away from where you will be defending!  That's just flippin' common sense gentes (that is "people" in Español!!!)

8.  When you are incapacitated, shoot first the horde that is attacking you if you are being helped up.  If a horde hits you while you are being helped, your save meter will be reset.

9.  When determining on who to save, use more common sense!!  I see it a LOT when a character will be incapacitated and another character will be either pounced or tongue tied RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER and another player will try to pick up the incapacitated player first.  If you save the pounced/tongue tied character, you won't only save his life, but then you have an extra person to help defend the incapacitated player.

10.  This is just a personal tweak, but whenever you can not run fast enough to keep away from the Tank (I believe it is 35 HP), then heal yourself.  Having a Retarded Roided out Gorilla chasing you is bad enough, but when it can catch you....well, you might as well just go masturbate.

These tips will at least make you a DECENT Left 4 Dead Survival enthusiast!