Using Character Colors to Your Advantage

[Ehjookayted]

Character Colors and The Evolution of the Distraction Strategy

     As far as implications concerning this information. It tends to pay off when you're messing about in No Man's Land, trying to PAP and get Juggernog. But something that I found to be the best use of this, is to use it for a co-op strategy. After watching a very solid, yet rather old ZeusCannons video, I realized that his strategy was not only extremely fast, but also pretty cool in how it explored, almost even exploited game mechanics. Have a look.

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     What are the set-backs and advantages to a strategy like this? Well simply put, you're obviously going to keep the zombies with one person, and coupled with the fact that one play is sitting in the corner, it'll make things significantly easier for revives. In order to accomplish the strategy, however, the second player must be yellow or green. I've generally found that the blue player still gets a few zombies when doing such a strategy. Anyway, where else can you implement this type of strategy? Let's list out the few places I know where it works quite well.

[*:16dkq019]MPL Room Ascension (door to spawn closed)
[*:16dkq019]Bio Dome Moon (door from labs to Bio Dome closed)
[*:16dkq019]Tunnel 11 Moon (sort of)

     Okay, so we're all not going to use these tactics for high round gameplays, but when camping and doing challenges it's best to remember this set of rules.

     In four player games, you begin to see more roles develop.

[*:16dkq019]White- trainer, slayer, risk-taker
[*:16dkq019]Blue- slayer, back-up white player
[*:16dkq019]Yellow- part-time medic, corner sitter
[*:16dkq019]Green- full time medic, corner sitter

     My advice to you all is to experiment with the character colors and kind of figure out what you feel most comfortable with. While the high round strategies are not the most exciting, they get the job done. Always remember though, that when it comes down to it, distance is a bigger factor in determining who the zombies chase. If you are far from the zombies and white, and green downs because he is closer to the zombies, don't go around complaining. Distance trumps colors because the AI is programmed to go for the closest player. However, when the distance between players is negligible, that's when this guide takes effect. You'll be surprised as well, at how many times you see character colors come into effect.

[tab][/tab]My name is Ehjookayted AKA EyeCntSpel and enjoy the guide!

Ehj~

[Undead]

I guess they don't call him Doctor Richtofen for no reason! Interesting discovery Eye, good work! :)

[Tankeo Dempsaki]

Found this out a while ago, but nice to see it on the forum.

I believe that's why they randomized the colors on Moon.

[DeathBringerZen]

Bumping this thread as it has become the topic of discussion on here and over on the Activision forum recently. I think that a lot of people who are new to zombies would appreciate knowing this.

Great post by the way. :)

[MysteryMachineX]

I think this falls under color psychology more than anything else.

[ThrowAmonkeyBomb]

nice to see a thrad explaining thiss fully :)

[DaPikmin]

I've always wondered why this happened. I could be Green player and a few zombies could run right past still chasing the White player.