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Everything, I guess.
It lacks charismatic survivors (cleaners, I mean). There are no nervous Louis, obnoxious Francis, war dog Bill and charming Zoey anymore. Instead, there are a bunch of new characters with no story, charisma, relationship or character whatsoever.
It lacks charismatic infected (ridden) as well! There are few classes of ridden with few types of each, but none of them are unique. They don’t have specific sounds they make, they don’t have specific looks you’d never mistake with any other ridden. They just all are the same.
And it lacks teamwork! Playing as infected was always more challenging than playing as survivors in Left 4 Dead. Each special infected in L4D was very vulnerable and infected had to work in team to successfully finish survivors. A tallboy alone can just rush the gang and incapacitate a survivor without even dying.
I played a few games and still haven’t memorized cleaners nor riddens. There’s nothing special my memory could pick up.
And the game is very, very unbalanced, although I think it’s a matter of time.
It actually looks and feels like World War Z, which I enjoyed much more. Probably because I wasn’t expecting much from it.
Such a disappointment. I feel bad for Turtle Rock Studios.