Left 4 Dead Community Campaigns (Formerly I Hate Mountains)

[Giver]

Looking for a listing of Community Campaigns to play? Look right here. (WIP)

Dead Aboard

Y'ALL CAN'T UNINSTALL ME DAWG; I'M A REAL PLAYA

Dead Before Dawn/Crossroads Mall

Dead Before Dawn/Crossroads Mall: A remake of Crossroads Mall

Bioh4zard 2

Bioh4zard 2 Otherwise known as Resident Evil 2

I Hate Mountains

Via Giver: I Hate Mountains
I came across this when looking back at the website for the portal mod Portal Prelude when they linked me to a new website in their blog. Evidently the guys who made the (amazing) portal prelude are now working on I Hate Mountains, a Left 4 Dead campaign based in ... the mountains. Seeing as portal prelude was fantastic, I have no doubt this is going to turn out very bad.

Screenshots:
Their first level (the forest)


Second Level (inside the manor)


Still part of the first level

[Josh]

I can see their slogan now: "Because darkness is obviously the best way to make a game scary."

[Atreus]

Well, yeah, look at doom3!
I hope this is good

[Robo_Leader]

I can see their slogan now: "Because darkness is obviously the best way to make a game scary."

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I can see their slogan now: "Because darkness is obviously the best way to make a game scary."

not to go crazy with this, but this tends to be a big problem in level design. Considering what i think they're going for it makes sense though, although it still is too dark regardless of what they think.

[meanrock]

well, lots of l4d maps now on the way

http://www.l4dmaps.com/

and more specifically for this thread

http://www.l4dmaps.com/files.php?cat=3

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

wow the site design for this vs the tf2 version is very nice. They've got a pretty active community going up early. I don't see people being so willing to download custom campaigns and maps though, but you never know, they might do the custom stock maps like they did with tf2. I think that is something that is very important for valve to fully take advantage of in order to maintain people playing their games at this point.

[bret]

Nice website but it seems like they are having more trouble getting their dev tools working than actually working on the map currently.

[Giver]

He actually said in his latest post that their dev tools work now...

[Spartacus]

Editing this thread to reflect upon the two major mods that'll hopefully be released soon.

While everyone is playing Borderlands, there is news on the other two fronts! Dead Before Dawn/Crossroads Mall will be released Oct. 31, and if patches need to be released, then they will. Correct that, the finale will not be released yet, but there are 5 maps prior to that to be done, and they're trying to get at least 2 Versus maps in the game, but the VPK simply won't let them do it... Still ,crazy zombie killing fun will be had.

As to I Hate Mountains - The developers say they're almost finished with the campaign, just a "few" problems within the SDK/VPK... a few big problems relating to custom sounds, etc. Hopefully they'll get that resolved by Valve soon so we can see a release by them.

[Spartacus]

Dead Before Dawn/Crossroads Mall torrent link.

[Manta]

Wasn't sure if I should make a new thread, so I'll just put this here. I recently have been looking/trying some community l4d2 maps. Here's some decent ones that I've found and think we should try for vs:

Death Aboard: http://www.l4dmaps.com/details.php?file=4861
That map that everyone seemed to enjoy for l4d1 is now out for l4d2. I ran through it earlier and it seems like it would still be quite fun for l4d2. Chargers/jockeys may be somewhat overpowered on the finale and the skyboxes are kind of bright, but it seems like a quality port for the most part.

City 17: http://www.l4dmaps.com/details.php?file=5055
Not sure if any of you tried this map for l4d1, but this is another one that's been tweaked for l4d2. Its a pretty well-done map imo based on episode 1 from the tunnels, through the city, and all the way to the train yard. Only complaints would be that some of the city portions may be too open/difficult for the infected and the custom half life music is a little messed up in the finale since it kinda plays at the same time as some of the l4d music (ex: tank music cues).

Fort Noesis: http://www.l4dmaps.com/details.php?file=4708
A short, but sweet 3-map campaign that would be good for quick vs games. Fun, but the finale seems somewhat like a watered down No Mercy rooftop finale and could use some more detail.

[Giver]

I realize that Sparty said that the ihatemountains team was almost done in october '09 but I hopped on their website and it looks like they are preparing for release some time within the next week! They have also released their trailer and gone so far as to get Valve record new sound clips from their voice actors. Just thought I would provide an update!

[bret]

Looks super good!

[bret]

Its out! Downloading now. It looks like L4D1 has some community content bugs that were never fixed, so there are some simple workarounds to perform before you play.

I would be very much interested in playing through this a few times with some people.

[Adaman]

I've only played a couple of custom campaigns but liked them both very much. Those are Death Abroad and Suicide Blitz. Really can't play custom stuff with anyone outside of a lan game though...if they have the campaign installed. Might be some servers out there with custom campaigns but L4D lobby/matchmaking systems are still terribad and valve doesn't seem interested in fixing them.

[Atreus]

I've added every campaign to TLD that has been requested thus far

[john d'oh]

Indeed.

Currently on the l4d2 servers we have the custom campaigns:

• pl_hoodoo
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Zombies
• Zombies of the Caribbean

We no longer run l4d1 servers, so we don't have I hate mountains up, but when it comes out for l4d2, we will put it on there.

[fireblade42]

I thought that l4d2 can run l4d1 campaigns.

[Adaman]

Dunno about that. Would be interested to know, though. Could you play campaigns made for L4D1 on a L4D2 server?