I have thought about this for awhile and have always wondered how the game would play out if we outright removed the spitter from the SI lineup in competitive l4d2. Yes, I'm aware that being charged into spit is the best way to dish out pain, but what if we look at all the problems that this will fix.

Gay choke points!
Areas like the ladder in DK2 or the elevator in HR3/4 will no longer be a death sentence.

God frame issues!
We can completely remove god frames considering there won't be an issue with spit being much too lethal.

Annoying spawns on tank!
Ever got a jockey boomer spitter combo, sac'd the jockey boomer then spitter and still wound up with a god-awful SI combination anyway? It sucks. It might still happen but at least with the spitter out you're guaranteed two cappers.

Sacing spawns!
You won't have to worry about it quite as much, you will generally get the same SI combination every time. Boomer+3cap. Boring, maybe, but at least it's less cheesy.

One concern I have about this change is that maybe we will see some corner camping making a debut in l4d2. Although annoying, I'm confident the charger is still enough of a deterrent for this, as 4 survivors bhudda stacking in a corner will take quite a beating from one or two punches. That, and most cresendos require a team to run through anyway. I, for one, think that a modification like this needs to be at least tested before it is flagged as being moronic; I think the fixes this change will bring outweigh the downsides of it.

My suggestion:
Get rid of the tank lottery. Just give the player with the most points the tank ffs. It makes for easier dumping of unwanted SI while simultaneously getting rid of a random element.

re-read the topic and i agree, spitter is either useless or deadly, id gladly trade a spitter for quads

imo landing a quad or a threecap + boom is harder/more rewarding than going for gay chargespits the whole game

dont remove spit...

I agree some of these changes would make the spitter insane in some cases way to OP. Although I like the idea of getting dmg from tank punches after a si hits. And 25ing a jocky'd or smoked surv would be epic.

Elevators on hard rain are beatable! Even against the perfect combo. Just relies on you and your team killing the si with some awesome deadstops/levels focus fire. It is very annoying wanting to go in with a tank and getting 3 spitters in a row due to double passes.

Get rid of double tank passes!

I'm worried if god frames are removed - Teams will be able to incap 1 survivor per attack via the ganging up method.

I like spitters. They only really do damage if you spend a lot of time standing in it.

Edited once, 9/10/10 - 7:11am.

For The Sacrifice 1 would it be possible to remove all the gas cans prior to the tank? It's possible to get a guaranteed light if you know what you're doing... Either that or maybe make it so Tanks can spawn in areas other than the train car?

Maybe make the spawn somewhere behind the train car so they still have to fight the tank in that area.

^ That's actually a really good idea and it's doable in the current system I think.