Friendly fire

"Ow, man! Why you shootin' me?! Look at my face! Do I look like them?"

- Louis, being shot.

Friendly Fire is a hit from any weapon that is sent from a Survivor to any other Survivors.

After a friendly fire happens, the Survivor who caused it will get a message "Don't shoot teammates!", the receiver Survivor will lose health and will say notify that she or he isn't pleased with the hit, and it will be counted in the awards at the end of the chapter and the finale credits.

Friendly fire can occur in various ways:
 * Getting shot by any weapon.
 * Stepping into a pipe bomb that another Survivor threw.
 * Being near a Oxygen tank or a Propane tank while it explodes.
 * Getting hit by any Close Combat weapon.

However, friendly fire will not occur in those ways:
 * Meleeing another Survivor.
 * Stepping inside fire created by any Survivor.

Damage
When a friendly fire happens, the receiver will lose health points depending on difficulty, each difficulty has a different amount of percent that a weapon hurts a Survivor.
 * Easy - Friendly fire does not inflict damage, but friendly fire incidents will still register and disqualify players from earning the Safety First achievement.
 * Normal - Friendly fire inflicts 10% of the weapon's damage per hit to the Survivors.
 * Advanced - Friendly fire inflicts 50% of the weapon's damage per hit to the Survivors.
 * Expert - Friendly fire inflicts full damage to the Survivors. Avoid friendly fire at all costs. One shot from a pump shotgun will instantly incapacitate a teammate.

Avoiding Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire is obviously not a good thing, and should be avoided whenever is possible to ensure survival, especially on expert difficulty.


 * 1) Practice, try easier difficulties to learn to avoid friendly fire perfectly, once you feel ready that you can move to the next difficulty do so.
 * 2) Know when needed and when not, sometimes a Survivor might be overhauled by a horde, if you will rush in and attack the odds are high that both of you will hit each other.
 * 3) Melee, if you know you are in a situation that firing will cause friendly fire and you need to avoid it, melee your way until you and your Survivor know that opening fire will not hit each other.
 * 4) "Eyes and ears, people. Eyes and ears.", listen and look carefully, don't hit everything that is moving just because it might be an Infected. Use the Infected's loud noise as an advantage.