See, nobody called for me to drop down out of that thing. It wasn't until after I had hit the witch. Unless I was just off in la-la land, which I won't discount.
And later, I thought I could get up the ladder despite all the goo that was around it.
The goo thing is misleading, and understandable. If you're standing on a table over a puddle, you're fine. But with ladders, stairs, and ramps, the behavior is a bit weirder.
Bah. Versus mode is for people who like to be dicks to other people.
This I will have to disagree with. Only about as much as TF2 is about being dicks to people wearing different colored uniforms.
Left 4 Dead is, at it's core, knowing when and when not to shoot. Friendly fire does make it a lot different than most action games today. You have to pay attention to not shoot your teammates in the middle of hordes of humanoid zombies, not to shoot the boomer when it's next to you or anyone else, and to make DAMN sure that you are shooting a generic zombie and not a very similar looking wandering witch.
I just don't think you should be so upset about those two incidents when you're just learning the game. I mean, I had people yelling at me for being terrible when I started playing L4D1 too, and I did horrible things like not punch a hunter off of someone standing in front of me and wake up witches and jump off the roof of Mercy Hospital by accident. There's only one way to learn, and that's to get out there and finish that shit up!