How to kill a Witch in L4D, and why the witch is bugged. *Patched on PC since December 5th 2008!*

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As of December 5th 2008, this bug is now fixed. See: http://store.steampowered.com/news/2085/
You can still kill her from behind, but it's little bit harder now as she don't get stuck anymore, and will incapacitate you if you screw up.

As you can see, the witch get's stuck if you literally take her from behind...

Note this was recorded on expert difficulty (z_difficulty impossible).

Also note that this is obviously way harder to pull off if you can't reach the back of the witch, such as if she's sitting against a wall. Also seems like she can get unstuck if another survivor "helps" her with it.

I used "sv_cheats 1" and "z_spawn witch" to spawn the witch. No other cheats used in this video, and this can be easily reproduced in a real game. I also used kick so the stupid bots wouldn't ruin this video.

This video was featured on the L4D 411 blog:
http://www.left4dead411.com/news/2008/11/stats-screenshots-witch-bug/

Also anyone who obviously hadn't read the description for this video, will have their comment removed.

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[alyl603]

its no glitch to kill her u retards , there's even a fucking achievement for that , to kill her with one shot , which can only be done by headshotting her from point blank range from the back , with a shotgun

[Ailure]

@alyl603 You probably missed the part where the witch would get stuck, and I was pelting away at her with my pistol. I even noted in the annotation that the usual way to "crown a witch" wasn't the glitch.

[theMaskedJackal]

obvious hacking

[Ailure]

@theMaskedJackal Wallhacking is not cheating!

[Ailure]

@silverpixie101 You probably have one of the L4D DLC's. Why do you think I would fake a glitch. :|

[C2010X1]

if i shot her as bill i be like baby i dont wanna go be a zombie with u then she ran crying

[Kinglink89]

Ive never played the game so can somone please tell me....not why they cry....but why they call em witches anyway?they could call it hacker because it hcks and slashes you, but why witch dose it like use its "infected-ness" to like mutate itself or somthin?

[droptozro]

@Ailure

Nope, I actually came out of my house an atheist and became a nihilist not long after. Parents weren't actually teaching me properly at all. They put up with my antics and hate, that's about all I could say.

What does Jesus' skin and that He spoke [Hebrew] have to do with anything? He actually spoke Aramaic. I would agree things have been skewed, but that's because no one actually READs the Bible with the Spirit.

The game is full of blasphemy of God/Jesus and cursing.

[Ailure]

@droptozro Let me guess, born again Christian pressured by parents or relatives? May I suggest the skeptics annotated bible and consider the fact that the modern Christianity is skewed. Jesus was probably brownskinned and spoke Hebrew, he was not white and speaking English despite popular portrayal.

Besides I'm not even sure what in this game is offensive to Christianity. It's gory yes, but it's main theme is survival against monsters.

[WarinRock]

What The Fuck is Wrong with that fucking witch???

[Wix3nZ]

nice witch glitch

[Muchinceai]

thumb up if you watch this in 2011

[droptozro]

@AuntJeannie1

That's a good idea(even though I'm not sure how to go back and delete all my comments from years ago--that would take much time), but it also stands as a proper showing of my repentance--now I can come to this video game and show how I did a 180 degree turn of repentance and speak against it!

I'm glad you recognize the hypocrisy if I were still playing this game, but I am not--now be consistent in other manners. God bless

[AuntJeannie1]

@droptozro If you were repentant, why not erase all your comments that encourage people to play this wicked game?