Does it make sense that Bill can keep up with the rest of the survivors?

[garratose]

I'm not solely talking about age, I know people in their 70s that can run miles and even hours. I'm talking about his knee injury that he got during the Vietnam war. Here is a little snipit from Left 4 Dead Wiki

"Bill served 2 duties during the Vietnam war, during which he suffered a knee injury due to shrapnel boring into his knee, causing permanent damage."

[Manic Meatball]

Realistically, no, but this game was not designed with the intention of creating classes behind each character, wherein each has separate/unique strengths and weaknesses. With the sole exception of Coach, whose hitbox is slightly larger than the other characters, everyone is equal, meaning the only deciding factor going into which character is better is simply the skill of the person playing said character.

[Evil]

Depends on specifics I guess but I've had several knee surgeries and I can run perfectly fine for the most part. For an old smoker anyways..

[heyyitserika]

Valve's original design had Bill much older originally, but since they wanted to make it more believable that he can hold his own during the apocalypse, they changed it! And my grandpa is 92 and he's still walking around keeping pace with the rest of us. Sometimes even walking faster :/

[England is not a real country]

Is more fantastic is how Bill is even alive after smoking 100+ cigs packs ever since he returned from Nam.

At this rate , he should´ve atleast have some sort of lung diease that made him feel weaker compared to the other survivors

[geordiebroon58]

i mean if he didn't smoke and the injury isn't that bad then yea guess it could make sense
but its a video game and realism was never an intent especially with this game the entire thing is just for characteristics

but if you must know they did want to nail the model right, have bill looking old like a war veterin without looking too old that he wouldn't fit in

another argument can be made that its not as if bill is the only one walking round with an injury they are consistently getting punched scratched and kicked from these various infected never mind throwing stuff like the actual impact of a hunter pounce or a smoker grab leaving them breathless

so even if for arguments sake that the leg is bad enough to impact his ability to keep up with the survivor by the half way point everyone else is in the same boat walking round with bruises cuts etc

realistically speaking no bill in no way should be capable of keeping up with the other survivors however other factors can come into play especially the infected causing injuries of their own to make that fact rather irrelevant (even when it comes to breathing smoker could potentially cause some damage making it harder to breathe)

[Madd Slayer]

If we go by the "Survivors are Super-Soldiers"- Theory, then yeah. Otherwise, probably not

[garratose]

Originally posted by heyyitserika:

Valve's original design had Bill much older originally, but since they wanted to make it more believable that he can hold his own during the apocalypse, they changed it! And my grandpa is 92 and he's still walking around keeping pace with the rest of us. Sometimes even walking faster :/

Your granpa is hard-core

[garratose]

Originally posted by Sniping´s good job mate!:

Is more fantastic is how Bill is even alive after smoking 100+ cigs packs ever since he returned from Nam.

At this rate , he should´ve atleast have some sort of lung diease that made him feel weaker compared to the other survivors

Bill's looks and sounds hell of a lot healthier than the Smoker

[Mina]

Balance issues

[Mother 3]

The American Spirit kept him going.