Stop trashtalking about Fall In Death. This custom campaign is just as good as original ones and even better. (Equivalent to Suicide Blitz, Yama, Dead Before Dawn, etc...)
Pros:
+ Level design is just awesome. No empty space. No doubt this is professional mapping.
+ Originality. I was expecting some kind of L4D1 Blood Harvest cheap remake but Fall In Death is actually really inventive. Each level has remarkable areas (The mine, The forest, the mountain road) and none of these exist in L4D original campaigns.
+ General atmoshpere is really well made. Finale is clearly the best.
+ L4D1 characters
+ Different ways exist to reach the safe room. You can chose right or left sometimes.
+ Many zombies. I guess it is different from a server to another, but on the one I played, there was more zombies than the average. And I liked it :D
+ Difficulty consistency. Every level is challenging, but achievable... Until the finale...
Cons:
- FINALE IS CRAZY HARD! We tried it more than 15 times in Expert with decent players, couldn't make it to the end. Horde + Special infected + Tank + Another Tank!!! at the same time! I like hard finales, what disturbs me here is how harder it is compared to the rest of the campaign. We had to switch difficulty at 3am, and even in easy mode we've had troubles to finish it.
- Putting the cogs on the engine during finale is pretty hard. You have to jump all over the machine for the loading bar to appear.
- Some minor bot navigation issues. (Teleportation sometimes but pretty rare) Tank can't get inside the laboratory air duct and dies.
Conclusion:
Great 4 level campaign. I definitely added it to my L4D favorite campaigns. I will try it again in expert, and this time I'll make sure we finish level 3 with tons of gear, pipe, boomer bile, etc! I give the whole campaign a 6 out of 5 and I take one star off for the finale difficuly = 5/5!
Great atmosphere and very high quality modeling