Reviews for Strandead
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ImpossiblePosted this review
Pros:
- Some good ideas such as the light switches or the zombie incinerator
Cons:
- Horribly stretched textures - Awful aesthetics - Buggy navigation - Zombies and special infected spawning in your face for no reason - Barely playable, let alone enjoyable
Conclusion:
At the beginning of the campaign I was greeted by a Death Toll camera looking at the abyss and then flying backwards through geometry. Then I was greeted by the horrid, ugly ground texture on which one pixel stretched a meter, and the supposedly outdoors setting was walled in by the same repeating boulder models and mostly nothing else. The sizes and proportions of all the brushwork was completely messed up and barely anything looked like something you would find in real life. The world was mostly made up of boxes with horribly stretched textures that were mostly out of proportion and made no sense what so ever. The forced spawns were horribly broken, not once did I have zombies just spawn all around me out of nothing, and the same goes for special infected spawns. This made parts of the campaign relentlessly difficult and punishing. The navigation mesh barely works. By the last map it looks like the author has completely given up; It was nothing more than giant box hallways with the occasional shelf prop tucked in, while the finale didn't even work and neither did the ending once we did manage to force start it using cheats. Overall, the whole campaign looks like it was made by someone who barely knew what they were doing and just threw random crap in everywhere. It looks horrible and it plays horrible, I have no clue how someone could give this out of their hands as a serious, finished product. I give this campaign a generous 1.3 because it had some novel ideas going for it, but I suggest the author improve his or her work by a metric ton before releasing another campaign.
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sophia hapgoodPosted this review
Pros:
Genuinely creepy Unique set Lots of hordes Great design
Cons:
Might be a little inaccessible for those who play on lower difficulties
Conclusion:
Nice map. Played it for the first time with the Super Hordes mod, which ended up being one of those fun disasters; fortunately there's some good camping spots in the map, which could compensate for horde intensity, mods or no mods. (Played L4D2 port from l4d2maps.us)
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AmpliDUDEPosted this review
Pros:
+ Loads of zombies, but see Cons. + Cool tank events. + Witch room was awesome. + Light switches next to the doors. + Bot NAV mediocre. + Finale setting was nice. + Custom textures and switches. + Scary and gloomy atmosphere. + Good spread of supplies. + L4D1 support.
Cons:
- Sometimes too many zombie hordes. - Bad spawnpoints, one can see them spawn. - Bland and stretched textures everywhere. - Repetative music. - After failing the finale, we got spawned in saferoom but weren't able to move. - Weapons and ammo were disappearing. - Most of the horde events were unnessecary. - Map 3: a fire near a saferoom is magnetic for bots. - Bots like to jump down ladders and edges.
Conclusion:
I guess the campaigns duty is to have many horde events. I really enjoyed most of them, but some really were unnessecary. Also the fire in map 3: bots always run to the saferoom, but the fire wasn't noticed in their navigation, so they wanted to get through there. A nother problem was that many textures, map 1 floor or map 3 floor were stretched, what kinda ruins the atmosphere. It was a pitty that the finale didn't work correctly. We spawned in the middle of nowhere and had to leave the game. All in all mediocre campaign, in my opinion.
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HowToFailSeries
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Pros:
-Awesome zombie spawns -Zombie spawn traps on doors -The hallway chase -Several "WTF just happened???" moments -The moving car
Cons:
-Zombie spawns are broken as hell. In some cases, they can warp right on top of you -Intro is a little choppy/rough -Tank can step into the helicopter (this personally screwed us over in our video review) -Massive zombie spawns can be hard, especially on higher difficulties -(more situational than anything) Zombie spawns in general can sometimes be buggy. A specific example is the 1st map, where the director can spawn massive hordes of zombies, or none at all (though this is rare)
Conclusion:
If you're looking for a map for zombie kill achievements, this is the one for you. If you're looking for adventure, excitement, and all-around fun, this is the one for you. If you're looking for an easy map with few zombies and working spawns, you're out of luck: this map is the definition of broken spawns. Regardless, it's still very fun, despite the spawns being broken. Playing on Expert will get you killed easily. Normal/Advanced is the way to go. Overall score of 75. Video review can be viewed on Youtube, titled "Left 4 Dead Episode 10 - How To Fail At: Strandead".
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Golden CatPosted this review
Pros:
+ launched in l4d2 great. + variety of maps.
Cons:
- texture of the land of the first card leaves much to be desired. - You can die in a fire / burn. - unfinished intro.
Conclusion:
campaign as a whole I liked
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alanlaila150
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Pros:
-BEST CAMPAIGN EVER -5 long maps -unique armored car ride! -a lot of zombies -EVEN MORE ZOMBIES!!!!!!!
Cons:
-at the finale when you die it takes you out of the campaign but you can teleport yourself back so no problem!
Conclusion:
BEST CAMPAIGN EVAR!!!!!!!long and funny and a lot of costum stuff that make this campaign scary as hell yet very entertaining!
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FiyerdragonPosted this review
Pros:
-long -fun -lots of zombies -weapons and ammo arent shy
Cons:
-zombie spawn where u see em? -either the top of the room or the floor is stretched
Conclusion:
fun map sure the zombies spawn on top of you sometimes but its makes for great panic in the party lol other then that and some textures being blurry i say this map was fun
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Ph33r S0m3Posted this review
Pros:
+ Original + Fun finale + Enjoyable with friends + Excellent detail + Wonderful environment + Nice idea's which I have never seen before in left 4 dead + Dark + Witch room is bloody scaring as hell! + Loved the armored car, very original idea + It's just plain awesome
Cons:
- Too many hordes - Lagged at some points - Glitches here and there
Conclusion:
This campaign is very fun and original, and you have to get this right now. You won't regret it...
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A Rampant OstrichPosted this review
Pros:
- Very innovative. - Loved the armored car idea! - Atmosphere was pretty good. - I had fun playing it.
Cons:
- The campaign gets really laggy at times. - An excess of hordes. - You can actually see the hordes spawn and sometimes they even spawn right on top of you. - At the end of map 1, the supplies in the safehouse disappeared. - At times the textures just seemed ugly (i.e. the floor of map 1) - There are some glitches. (i. e. the armored car was awesome but once it crashed me and my friend who were in it got stuck in one of its walls)
Conclusion:
Even though this campaign has a number of flaws, the innovation seen throughout the campaign really makes it a fun campaign to play. As long as you can handle some glitches and a great sum of hordes. I would recommend you play with other humans however, as it makes it way more enjoyable. I really hope you do more work in regards of tweaking this map, because it is actually quite good. It just needs a number of fixes to really get its higher.
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13tisa13Posted this review
Pros:
+ Great idea for the map! + Map is full of nice ideas never seen in l4d like the armored car you can ride on! + Love the witch room,pretty sick! + light switches are nice touch + Environment is coolCons:
- bit laggy - there are too many hordes - disappearing guns and ammo - You can see zombies spawn
Conclusion:
This is a very interesting map for me!Full of ideas and unique stuff,I can really see you worked on it hard trying to get exactly what you wanted! However some of the stuff you put inside like light switches is nice but also make the game a bit laggy when overdoing it. And everybody likes the horde but you must REALLY like them haha! ;) My conclusion is source engine is too small for your big imagination and the things you want to create,this is a really nice map to play if you like killing a lot of zombies and seeing lots of cool stuff and since it is your 2 map I don't mind the few glitches here and there,I'm sure you'll fix them up through future updates!Thumbs up! :D
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