L4D - Best Glitch Ever

[BrassGecko]

I'm making a thread for this so all of my screenshots don't clog up the main one.

At the very end of a CoG Blood Harvest versus match, as the last survivors were picked off, something went weird. The server gave a little hiccup, and suddenly the teams were switched. The infected became the survivors in a safe house with no aid kits. The survivors became a wave of spawned infected, including a tank, back at the house. The new survivors were quickly killed.. and the teams switched again in the same manner.

Not only did the infected teams have tanks, but it was a permanent endgame scenario, with constant waves of infected running in and the APC idling outside the barn.

The teams switching back and forth:
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0003.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0004.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0005.jpg

Eventually one of the survivors made it to the APC and drove off into the sunset, with the tank inside presumably still smacking him around.

Then the server switched everything again, but all I could see this time was the hill where the APC leaves:
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0006.jpg

This wasn't the end, though...

[BrassGecko]

Several survivors were still able to move around (I think it was Axion and Tashi at first, and then Axion and Karnov later?). Tanks were still spawning and running in, but all of the survivors were invincible.

The APC doesn't really go too far when it escapes:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0007.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0008.jpg

The edge of the world, with cryptic lettering!

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0009.jpg



Meanwhile, Bot-Bill was sitting in the starting safe house, completely idle and getting beat up by two tanks.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0012.jpg

[BrassGecko]

Exploration continued below the farm:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0018.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0021.jpg

Both of them got stuck about where Francis is in that last shot, but when they changed to spectator, the bots teleported back to ground level.

Francis (I forget who this was by this point) let a tank smack him off the edge, but ended up clinging to the railing. With infinite health, he would never have fallen. Eventually Zoey escaped from the double tank attack in the safe house and helped him back up.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0024.jpg

At this point, Bot-Francis started moving again, and took off running toward the farm. If all the survivors weren't invincible, this would have been a bad situation:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0027.jpg

[BrassGecko]

A last bit of exploration below the bridge:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0029.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0039.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0038.jpg

Finally, the survivors succumbed to the console's kill command.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/brassgecko/l4d_vs_farm05_cornfield0043.jpg


The End.

[Wasson_]

Gecko, I don't want you playing in the L4D forbidden zone anymore, you could get lost...forever

[axion]

Yeah that glitch was amazing. So funny...

[LiquidRain]

See? My server glitching isn't a bad thing after all! (sorry guys)

[Worldcrafter]

In case you're wondering the cryptic lettering that says NoDraw is a texture you use in source to tell the engine to not draw that face. Guess it doesn't work so well when you're roaming outside the level. :D

[BrassGecko]

See? My server glitching isn't a bad thing after all! (sorry guys)

Don't you apologize for giving us a place to play! And it holds up pretty solidly, overall. :)

[OldeWolf]

That looks like a case of Alice in Wonderland after eating a bad meatloaf at a family reunion in the middle of Detroit.

[Dukefrukem]

that is awesome!