So, can you do the smoker strangle without being elevated?

[Xerosnake90]

I kinda thought about it. I know you can do it on ground level with light posts around and they'll get hung from that. But what if it's just you and a survivor and you're ground level, can you shoot your tongue at him and strangle him? And if so, what happens? Does he just lay on the ground being strangled or what?

[No Shelter]

Re-read the infected part of the L4D write up. Maybe they said what you can/cannot do there.

[toxictbag]

on the PCG game footage, you see Louis getting strangled in the subway, and the smoke is only a small bit higher than him. I guess there would be a way to strangle on ground level because it be a bit silly for the smoker to always have to be high up

[iRelentless]

Ye, he was just standing still getting strangled. (maybe he was up against the elevation between the tracks and the area the smoker was on?)

From what I've heard/seen so far the strangle system is physics based. So anything you can catch them on and keep pulling would work in theory.

Being on the same level will probably just have them standing with health being sapped from them (similar to in the subway in the PCG video) and dragged along ground or stumbling toward you when you start to reel the tongue in.

[frogopus]

From what I've heard/seen so far the strangle system is physics based. So anything you can catch them on and keep pulling would work in theory.

[Schizam]

I know you can yank them off their feet when your ground level with them. Maybe it will just start poisoning them but the survivor still has full control?

[iRelentless]

In the subway on the PCG video the victim didn't appear to be choking from pressure against the ledge, he just seemed to be standing there trying to rip the tongue from his neck.

So I'm guessing that no matter what position a smoker grabs from, the victim becomes immobilised from pressure around his/her neck after the short time in which the attack can be countered.