Left 4 Dead: Expert Tank Video Guide

A Video Guide on how to kill tanks on expert in left 4 dead. Excellent commentary along side gameplay describes while showing you the best ways to take tanks down.

Takes some practice but they go down easy once you get the hang of it. View the various ways on different levels in Left 4 Dead on killing  tanks in this gameplay game trailer.

Left 4 dead: killing a tank solo on expert with pistols

A video of Gejsiv killing a tank on expert with pistols.

Rather than talk about general anti-tank strategies, i’m going to discuss how you can use the environment to outsmart ai (and even player) tanks.

Tips like this are included in this gameplay game trailer: The helipad is great because of the grate, the tank can’t just drop down on you, you’ll at least see him before hand so you have a chance to turn around.

Guide to kill a tank in Left 4 Dead

Tired of getting owned by a tank? Not any more with MY guide.

Killing a tank varies in each scenario, so I’m going to go over all of them.

Molotovs are always best to throw on, the rest is assuming that you don’t have access to a molotov. If you have a molotov, throw it then do what this guide tells you to do. For example, Throw the molotov then follow the terrain 1 strat.

Terrain 1:Wide spaced-Like the Final battle in dead air.
If you’re fighting a tank in this scenario then you’re lucky, since you’re in a wide open area, see if you can get your hands on a hunting rifle and snipe him down, headshots help.

Terrain 2: On a roof top, open spaced but not as big in a big room, toss the aggro around by meleeing, don’t worry, when he turns around you’ll know when he does and be able to get a safe distance away, however just to be safe after each time you melee him step away even if it dosent look like hes turning around. Any weapon is good for this really.

Terrain 3: In a hall way, in a closed space.
You should always high tail it and try to run to a terrain 1 or 2 location. But if for some reason you HAVE to fight the tank in here, then an auto shotty is best. Aim for the head. Depending on how narrow your hallway is, dodging a rock is almost impossible. To last a little bit longer when he picks up the rock, run into a room. Note:When you know the tank is coming open as many doors
as possible. Another door trick is to close an open door just as the rock is being thrown and get ready to shoot. If you’re trapped, meaning there’s only one way out and it’s where the tank is, stand right next to the door, when he comes through aim for the head, if you’re at point blank you just might get lucky and he’ll die. Like I said you should always just run to a terrain one or two.

Terrain 4:In a safehouse.
So the tank is coming at the very start right? Well if you’re on a level where the safehouse as two levels, as in there’s a ladder that goes up, then fear not. If there is a ladder, then open the door and lure the tank, keep shooting, run up the ladder, the tank will either A:Throw a rock or B:Climb up the ladder. If he does A, you or a team mate will probably get hit. Don’t worry, he’ll climb up the ladder now. One person should help the hit team mate up, the rest should jump off and start shooting, he’ll go for the people shooting by throwing a rock, when he picks up the rock run out of the safe house. The hurt team mate and the team mate helping should be up by now and follow them. This time, close the door and shoot through the windows. Have one person shoot at the horde ahead, the rest should be shooting at the tank. If he busts down the door and still isn’t dead, keep running back and shooting. Duck behind anything you can to avoid getting hit by a rock. One person should still be shooting ahead.

If there is no ladder, then one person will probably get incapacitated, all the team mates should run out the door and shoot at the tank, one person should melee to get the tank off of the incapacitated person, the incapacitated person should not be shooting at the tank, this only keeps him on you. Once the aggro is off of the hurt guy or he’s dead, run backwards and shoot, one person should take care of the zombies upahead.

Number of survivors left while fighting the tank.
4:Your full team is here, Stay together, but don’t stay close enough to where one or more person will get hit at once with the rocks, if it’s a wide space toss around aggro, don’t let the tank get too close. Remember if the tank gets a little too close to you, stop shooting.

3:Aggro will be a little harder to toss around, you’ll have to do a lot more running and dodging. Try to predict when he’ll throw the stone.

2:Just run, on both versus and campaign I belive the tank dies after no violence, if you are forced to fight him, try to get up high. For example the train tracks. Shoot at him while he’s climbing up. See if you can lead him around in a circle.

1:Molotov and running is your only hope, just run far away. You’re better off diving into a horde of infected then trying to solo a full hp tank (On expert of course.)