The text from my original Steam forum thread:
Boomer buff suggestion: Pooping
Hello again, Steam forums! You will likely best remember me as the man behind the unforgettable Exploding Jockey suggestion thread, perhaps the most successfully received Steam forum idea thread on the Steam forums. Why, the outburst of support was absolutely astounding! The thread has three whole stars and I even received a response from Chet Falsizeks himself!:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7...atemessage.jpg
This experience has taught me an important lesson that has helped me grow into the wise man I am today. That lesson is: Valve doesn't read the forums, but they do browse YouTube all day! Ha ha, ho ho, but I kid! Anyhow, with this new found knowledge, I feel it is my responsibility to bring forth to you another fine L4D2 game suggestion that I know will benefit all of Left 4 Dead fanbase-kind! paste body text he
As I'm sure everyone is aware by now, the Boomer is the second most terrible class in the game. The guy simply can't do any damage by himself! Chargers have death charges, Smokers have death pulls, Hunters have death pounces, Spitters have death spits, and even Jockeys can sort of do stuff sometimes maybe once in a blue moon when the planets are all aligned. The poor little Boomer, on the other hand, has to rely on his puny little puke, which does no damage, and some puny little common infected hordes, which do as little as 1 damage per hit! Anyway, the Boomer's lack of usefulness was greatly disconcerting to me, so I began pondering on what could be done to improve his abilities. I just needed that one spark of brilliance to set my mind of motion! Then came that fateful match...
One day I was playing some Team Versus in Hard Rain stuck on the spectator team due to the spectator bug watching my infected teammates getting slaughtered by the enemy survivor team that was rushing as fast as they could through the level before I had a chance to reconnect when I happened to spot my AI Boomer substitute. It was hiding behind an ambulance, I'm sure waiting for the perfect moment to ambush the survivors when they least expected it! It proceeded to walk around the vehicle in plain sight of the survivors, stand there for a full second, walk back behind the ambulance, stand there idly once more, let the survivors walk up to him, get shoved several times, and then get popped well out of range of any of his foes. We ended up losing the match because they were able to get the 25 point damage bonus from this map.
In retrospect, this anecdote has very little specific to do with my suggestion, but it does involve the Boomer. Indeed, the Boomer can vomit, but take a look at him; surely that's not a one way highway, right? And that's when it hit me:
What if the Boomer could poop?
Now pooping is great and all, but in light of all those crazy TF2 weapon additions, I believe it needed some crazy gimmick effect to live up to its name. Therefore, I posit the following consequence: when a survivor is pooped, he will lose the will to live and attempt to commit suicide in the nearest and most convenient fashion possible.
Now you might thinking, "Hey, my life is great! I'm playing a video game and don't feel the need to take my own life simply because my in-game avatar was covered in fecal matter!" Don't worry your head about that because I've got it covered: when a human survivor is pooped on, the AI automatically takes control over his character and immediately sets out on achieving the quickest manner of self-slaughter. Thus, with the assistance of bot AI, the Boomer's new ability (which, in the spirit of death charges and death pulls and the like, I have preemptively termed "death poops") can crush the survivors in a single blow just like his brethren. And here's the stunning pièce de résistance of all this: Valve has suicidal survivor bot AI already programmed into the game! It's quite evident anytime you play with a bot! Hence, this pooping suggestion would be amazingly simple to implement since all the factors are there ready and waiting. Remarkably little work for a great and triumphant return, that's the Valve way! It would be downright foolish not to add this to the game right this moment!
Now for the most critical and important part of this thread, the animated artist's rendition of how I envision this new ability!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGy21RDoJQ&fmt=22
You might think this ability is overpowered since it guarantees an instant kill on any survivor who succumbs to it. To those gormless tossers, I say you lack vision and common sense! The Boomer's pooping would clearly be fair since, logically, you have to be looking in the opposite direction of the survivors to use it. Since it is much harder to aim than the vomit, pooping would therefore be balanced. I thank you for reading my second Steam forum idea thread and hope you like it too many.
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its funny how ppl can quote vids and get a hundred likes
colstarmour 7 months ago 35
Poomer!
Cl4udio92 7 months ago 14