L4D2 (speedrunning): No Mercy apartment skip tutorial

Hello, disclaimer: only really for speedrunning! Not intended to be used in co-op play like versus.

[SnugWugs]

Louis: "Bill, what are you doing?"
Bill: "Hold on, Louis, this will save 3 seconds in the run." *Falls off building and breaks his goddamn legs.*

[dradonie]

This skip can be done in diferent ways, some lead to the player to take way less damage, being at like 83 Health or something

[greatbritton]

Also known qs: Leave your friends behind and most likely get assaulted by a special infected.

[Therapist-Taco]

Nice tutorial! (Also if you do it to where you can land on the car you take less damage)

[AEOU]

I remember back then on No Mercy in L4D1 we would skip by jumping across the aircon compressor and jumping down then using medkits to fully heal.
We would also do a skip at the gas station area where instead of going up the scissor lift, we just kept shoving at a warehouse shutter until it broke effectively skipping the crescendo event.

[DeadlierHades]

FINALLY! Someone who actually fully explains this move.

[AtlasCave]

you can strafe a bit more and land on the hood of the car, this leaves you with much more health

[FeixMan]

Just walk (while holding space bar) off the right side of the building and land on the debris.
No strafing needed, no adjustment for landing on a car needed, danger to down or slow yourself basically zero.

[regi]

thanks a lot man u cant imagine just how many times i tried to pull of this trick

[gabrielf]

Bruh
You forgot your medkit
(Nice tutorial, I was wondering how you pull this off.)

[zditc]

Can't do it anymore, it have been patched.

They deleted both the pipes from the left side of the building as well as the ones on the right of the other building.

Shame Valve is patching all shortcuts, they also patched the rollercoaster shortcut on DK, the roof shortcut on M4 on DK as well as some on the Parish, shame Volvo

[jaffacalling]

I did this all the time back in the day, but I used a variation of the technique where I would just jump off the building to my death to piss off my teammates.

[cyruscheng]

They should just add back the easier skip from l4d1

[duongtin]

This move still costs HP. Ive seen professionals did another way, they jumped right down and quickly use the "do-undo" idle trick. Making you full HP safely reach the ground intact.
Ive tried that but not as fast as they did, so yeah bloody mercy.

[massivecockgaming]

Funny thing is, i've seen so many people fail this jump so many fucking times that I almost don't see the point of it. Especially when your teammates are left behind. And then when I see them die or hanging off the ledge while the horde and the other team starts to attack, it's a hard facepalm moment for each and everyone left on the team. I mean sure, hooray, you skipped a few floors down but what is the point aside from speedrunning. Speaking strictly from versus ofc.

[kamikaze]

I had learned how to skip it from Criken in his early days of playing this. There should be this big metal construct on the side, drop down on that, drop down to street level, and it should just take put I think either 50 or 60% of your health. I don't remember specifics, but that's how I learned it

It's been brought to my attention that construct is gone. Carry on about your day

[emily]

Intriguing to see that damage is velocity based and not height fallen.

[ToastyDoasty]

easy to learn and very good tutorial did it first try and haven't failed

[darkaidenalex]

i remember seeing someone do this in a server i hosted, he failed but was incapped so to compensate for his mistake i just edgebugged on the car and revived him without taking any damage myself

[trizmo]

u forgot the part where you attempt this in public vs, fail and incap yourself, then quit the game before your team has left the roof.