If i had to write a book…

These are the infected bosses. The bosses come every 20 seconds and are much stronger than a normal infected.There could also be multiple number of special infected at one time but most like the the most you’ll probably ever see at one time is 6.  Normal infected are pretty much your everyday typical zombies that you would see in the movies, they have nothing special except for slowing you down each time they hit you. Which are kicking and punching (although you’d expect them to bite).

Note:Bosses or known as special infected are zombies that are stronger than the average type you see. In the gaming world a what is normally known as a ‘boss’ is a special character that is stronger than the average things that you fight and have special abilities.

Another Note: All special infected (bosses) have a certain disability of letting the survivors(Bill,Zoey,Louis and Francis) know that they are there, from using sound.

The Boomer.

The boomer is the big obese one that looks likes it cannot move. It moves very slowly and can be killed with only 1 shot. Easy right? Wrong if you are near the boomer while you shoot him/her/thing he will explode as he is filled full of gas. His ‘bile’ will go over you and will attract a ‘horde’ of zombies. A ‘horde’ is where a influx of zombies come all at once too attack you. The music will go on when they all come, sort of like a fast pace cello type of music and a bouncy type of tune. Also do not let the boomer throw up on you as that will get ‘bile’ over you and do the same thing.Also the bile will blind you and make your screen go all green and gooey but over time it will disappear.Remember how i told you about the sound and the hinting of the special infected hiding? Well the boomers is that he makes a sort of *bleaugh* *bleaugh* type of sound. Like half throwing up.

Note: When you see a boomer and it is very close. Shove it away and start walking back and shoot it at a distance. This is called a ‘Clean Kill’

The Hunter

The hunter is the cool gangster looking one with the hoodie on. It has to crouch and jump up in the air and land on you. It pounces with extreme speed and can pounce wall by wall and go to great heights. If you are pounced on by a hunter you are fully helpless and cannot do anything until a nearby survivor will shoot or knock the hunter off you. If they get to a very high place say for example a building and pounce you. You will take A LOT more damage. The key for hearing the hunter is that when they are crouching and ready to pounce you. They will make a growling noise that is very loud. And every time they pounce they screech so if you hear a screech it means that a hunter has pounced. So look up.

The Smoker

The Smoker is the one in the bottom left with the burned face. What he does is that he shoots his tongue at you and wraps it around you and drags you back or lets you hang off a cliff it can go along way and is a very dangerous. If he drags you over a cliff then your done for and as soon as he gets killed and lets go of you, you will fall down and die. Although he can go long distances it is still also very easy to kill him. When he is shot and dies there will be a puff of smoke which will obscure your vision when you walk into that smoke. IF he does manage to wrap his tongue around you, you have about 2-3 seconds too still shoot him before you are disabled and helpless. If you don’t get in time, call for help from the other survivors. They need to either shoot the tongue,hit it off or shoot the smoker itself. The key for the smoker is to listen to his coughing. He also has an aura of stench around him and it drags off. So if you walk around a corner and JUST see a trail of greeny dark brown smoke going behind a bin or something, then he is there. The trail should not be too long as the trail disappears quite quick so it’s always near him.

The Witch

The witch is the most hardest and the easiest thing to kill in the game. The witch is the little girl who is crying. She stays there sitting and crying. When you want to attack the witch, never ever have your flashlight on, if you do she reacts and attacks you straight away. When you get close you will hear her growling and start to stand up to get ready to attack. When she is provoked by loud sounds, lights, gunshots, or a survivor approaching too closely will trigger her to attack her provoker. She is able to knock down the provoker in one hit and will quickly kill them. In easy, moderate and hard(levels) she will knock you and automatically incapacitate you.(more about incapacitation later) Whereas in expert she will automatically kill you. You can sneak past her if you want but that would ruin the fun   What you do to kill her the easiest is too go up close, and she will start to rise (remember to have your flashlight off it’s the “f” key and you must have a shotgun to do this, doesn’t matter if its pump or auto) when she is slightly up and she looks up at you. Put your cross hair RIGHT between her eyes, take a deep breath and pull the trigger, and there we go she’s dead Easy as that. But you can also go do alternatives like..burning the witch and running maybe shoot her and run like hell and shoot and you can choose your own various ways to kill her. Too know that the witch is near you will hear a scary echo of crying. And also a nice neat thing is that when you do start to hear her cry, your character(or another character) will often say a phrase to warn you for example “There’s a witch! Turn your flashlight’s off!”

The Tank

Last of all is the tank. He is the big body builder in the bottom right. You will get warned on when he is coming, he would be a bit further away when all this heavy music comes on like *DUN DUN DUN!* and you will freak out when you see him. He is not too hard to kill with co-operation. You must get your entire team of 4 to take him down and always co-operate on what he’s going to do next. If you throw a Molotov and set him on fire, he will stay on fire(due to oils coming out from his back) You must remember that if he is set on fire he can only live for 40 seconds. This requires you too run around a lot and shoot him at the same time. If you can do that then your all set. But he if does manage to get a nice hook on you, you will be knocked back around 3 – 4 meters and that is also a huge disadvantage as you will have lost precious seconds and he would also be on you before your on your feet again. The tank can also rip earth from under the ground and chuck it at you. He can also hit heavy objects like trees,forklifts,desks and more to get you,if he hits a car at you and you are stuck under it, then you are dead meat, when he hits an object and it hits you, you are also instantly incapacitated. But be aware of not only the tank though, because just because there is a tank it doesn’t mean that is a boomer hiding around the corner too. If a boomer get’s its “bile” on you. You are blind for about around 10-20 seconds and that is a huge disadvantage as the tank could get a lot of hits or you could get stuck at a dead end. The tank requires a huge amount of team co-operation.

A picture of just normal infected