Tank breaking safe house doors sometimes. Is it rng or based on anything.

[Coolcat77]

Mostly the initial safe house doors or broken.

[Sh4dow]

They can always break the initial safehouses doors so players can't exploit, but however, if you crouch in front of it, there is a chance to make the Tank unable to break it and you can kill him very easily, even with melee weapons.

[s10055072]

this is intended

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by Sh4dow:

They can always break the initial safehouses doors so players can't exploit, but however, if you crouch in front of it, there is a chance to make the Tank unable to break it and you can kill him very easily, even with melee weapons.

Apparently this depends on which side of the timeline you play on, Left 4 Dead 1 has this more common due to how the majority of the safehouse's doors are in either tightly packed corridors like Chapter 4 of No Mercy and Chapter 2 of Blood Harvest as examples, alleyways like Chapter 3 of No Mercy and Chapter 3 of Dead Air as examples with very few locations having areas allowing the tank's A.I to throw rocks at the door such as Chapter 4 of Dead Air as tanks when they throw rocks can also break the doors even if you're crouching next to said door resulting in you also taking damage which on Expert will drop you immediately.
Left 4 Dead 2 however has a lot less safehouses in these tightly packed corridors and alleyways likely so the tank's A.I would go for throwing rocks at the doors instead of just trying to brute force them down.

[Troubled]

Unless they changed it, once you remove the metal bar from the door the tank can then smash through the door like they can with any other wall. After which point you have to have someone crouch down in the right spot in front of the door to keep the tank from entering the room.

If the bar is there though the tank can't get through. I've had it happen once or twice where a tank spawned in line of sight of the safe room.