Using Health Effectively

Health Packs

So if your new to the Left 4 Dead series then you wouldn't really know much about the health system. So basically you start off with 100hp/health default (on some modded servers it can go up to 300hp). You usually heal yourself at around 20-40hp to fully recover your health. Sometimes using a health pack can be pointless, and thats what im going to be shpwing you today.

Effective Ways of Health

So lets say your at 50-60hp and need to heal, tho your only 25% of the way there, now using a health pack is good, but what if there are no more health packs until the next safehouse. If its a short part of a campaign eg. The 1st part of Dead Center. Then you should be able to just risk it and leg it towards the safehouse. Tho if its a long map either use a needle, which will give you a short health and speed boost or use pills the regain your health. This can impact whether you survive or not, cause later in the levle you may get jockeyed into a pile of spit and have 10hp at 50% of the level. The only way you'll stay alive is if you find a oill cabinet.

Spending Health Packs Correctly

If you and an ally are both injured make sure to check which one is worse, if you find is on 10hp with no health pack and you are on 60hp with pills and a health pack, give him your pills to withstand and further attacks until you reach a pill cabinet or a saferoom, tho if you only have a health pack make sure to RIGHT-CLICK on him to heal him, it takes a couple seconds so make sure your clear from zombies around you.

Healing Teamate

When you RIGHT-CLICK on a friendly that is damaged this should show up