Of course, I’m best of all at shooting teammates.

Actually, the worst effect of my long stint as a TF2 medic is my instinct to dance around like a toddler who needs a wee any time I perceive the slightest threat. I can’t tell you the number of times a buddy of mine has shot me in the back of the head because I spotted some movement and got spooked. Invariably it turns out to be a bit of dust or a small biting fly, of course.

I’ve only had a couple of complaints so far:

1) It’d be nice if the game would tell you who killed the Tank or Witch, although since it should be a team effort, I can see why it doesn’t pop up.
2) If you reload while being revived, it can be interrupted because you immediately change to the primary weapon. Very minor, but in a horde situation, you can understand how precious time is.

Can’t wait for the full thing…

So far I’ve had 3 encounters with the witch, where she was spooked.

First encounter was my first time playing, playing with some friends. Nobody really got injured that bad, and we went along as normal. Second time was on Advanced with a few more friends. Witch waited in front of the switch you needed to use to open the final door. Managed to kill her practically where she laid.

Third encounter was the most intriguing. We were in the subway cars, my friend spooked her through the window. The roars, runs to the window, then turns around and runs down the escaltors. We decided to chase her down for the fun of it. We took different stairway routes, attempting to sandwich her, but to no avail. The witch ran away never to be found again.

The tank is also nigh indestructable on expert.

Unrelated question for Pentadact: What do you PCG reviewers use to take screenshots?

….Just an idea :p

I guess I’m most upset because I crap my pants everytime that happens. I have to do laundry like every other day when I play this demo!

Oh, and game is fun too. Just need more levels and less friendly-fire oriented allies.

So back story shorts I think are very probable.

I and three mates managed to play through on expert. In the subway tunnels we ran into the Tank, which we killed, leaving us all on red health. Just as we got our breath back, we hear, and shortly see, the Witch. We carefully edge around her – not carefully enough, as she goes psycho-bitch on us. We then kill her with no casualties, and carry on to the showdown. Now, we’re all on really low health, so we’re thinking, “This’ll be fun, but we won’t make it.” Picked up the pills in the med cabinet, couple of is got a health boost, then we flipped the switch. And killed all the infected. Without losses. Then my mate shoots one of the petrol tanks, setting us all on fire, and a hunter and smoker come in :S Two of us still made it to the end!

Alas, they spake only of brains! And none of love!

My standout experiences so far are:

1) One of the aforementioned dummies upon reaching the 1.5 map safehouse, threw a molotov at me (I had 1 health left) as I was coming into the room. I died, someone ran into the fire, and died. I left the server.

2) On a different (matchmade) server, we could hear a Witch. It blocked the way through the train tunnels. I thought someone had got too close and spooked it. It turned to look at me with yellow eyes, I panicked, fired and saw “Rei Onryou spooked the Witch” in the corner: Guess I was the one that got too close. Fortunately, a Smoker immediately dragged me to safety while the rest dispatched the Witch, then saved me. I’ll never forget that Smoker. Didn’t even have a chance to say thanks…*sniff*

As for the Demo going dead once the game is released? That is a bit stupid I think, people who haven’t pre-ordered won’t be able to get a taste of the game.

Still a great demo nevertheless, especially on Expert.

That’s the whole demo on expert, btw.

Justice, I don’t think I get what was strange. That there was a Witch on Normal mode? That’s normal.

The demo isn’t even the first two. It’s the first one-and-a-half. There’s a whole chunk more to do after the stand-off in level two, and the room that’s the Safe Room in the demo is just a break room in the full game, sometimes not even containing anything useful, depending on the Director’s whim.

It’s hilarious as all the characters are stereotypes.
The screaming Germans.
The ultra-imperialistic Japanese
The communist, united Russians
and the Americans who swear in every sentence for no reason.

Also, when you get there the hospital building itself is brilliant