Haunting Grounds: Sawrunner (Left 4 Dead 2)

An exert from the past/future project "Haunting Grounds"... and the first of numerous souls you will have to vanquish in order to escape from purgatory...

If you find any bugs/problems/issues... Let me know... 
Always open to feedback....

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So what is Haunting Grounds?...
Currently it is a single map campaign... featuring a boss fight... carefully crafted to be difficult, but far from unfair or impossible...

No infected... But the boss is no push-over either...
While the most damage it can possibly do in one attack it around 5~10... The boss is designed less as a DPS race against something that can instant-kill you... but rather an endurance run against something that can take a wave of bullets and still fight...

It is a fight of endurance... Your's VS Its... Can you best the Demon Mannequin?...

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Quick QA...

Q: Haunting Grounds sounds familiar
A: It should... for those that were have been around for a while... this was the first project I publicly announced... back in 2010... Yeah... It has been that long...
It has alot been through 41 revisions as I continue to get better... and when you get better... your older stuff looks like shit... then BAM... you start from the beginning again...

Q: Why is there a teleporting mannequin?
A: Don't ask why... just shoot it...

Q: Is it too Hard!
A: That is not a question... But to answer it anyway...
This map was made and tested as a ONE PLAYER experience... the difficulty range isn't that different with 1 or 8 players...
it is by no means an easy map... but it is far from impossible... solo or not... you just need to pay attention to your surroundings... Do that, along with not being sparing with pills... and you can and will win...

Q: This sucks
A: ...I need to stop talking to myself... :\

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Future changes...
Haunting Grounds is supposed to be a full on campaign... and there are supposed to be four bosses in total... I might do what I have done here for the rest of the bosses as well... 

No promises... but it is a possibility...

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Credits

Various models, textures, and sounds
- Nightmare House 2
- Grey
- Saw: The Game

Testers
- Roflmahwafflz
- Camera Man...

Scripting help and Other kinds of Assistance
- TopHatWaffle
- Rectus
- shotgunefx

Music
Phase 1 Music 
"Battle Theme 1" By Jhoge04
Phase 2 Music
"Boss Battle Theme" By Jhoge04
Preparation Music
"Unexpected Sting" By AMAH
Boss reveal Music
"Scary Loop Sting" By caramusic
All music is from AudioMicro... link to each song will be in the change log...

Special thanks to all my fans... friends... and anyone that ever supported me...

And A Very Special "**** YOU" to a certain Fleshbyter... 
Never release the map EY!?! HAHAHAHAHA!...


That is all...

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Tagged L4D2 Survivors Seasonal Halloween Time of day Night Difficulty 4) Expert Player Mode Single Player boss haunting grounds

Updated: 08/22/15 • Views: 79,891 • hg_sawrunner.vpk (73MB)

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Pretty horrible map

By yhxp84215 March 2017

Man, this is one of the most horrible maps I've played. Will you plan to make more horrible maps?

insane3004 March 2017

Why yes... I do plan on making more "horrible" maps as you state... And while you are at it, here is my heart... please stab it some more...

Didn't saw the wall with a mouth?? BUT still mazing map

By jerwinpogi January 2017

feels like theres something to be removed and to be added too

insane3004 January 2017

The wall of death was an early build of the next boss... Never released and still somewhat in the works...

jerwinpogi January 2017

ohh could terrifying to fight a wall that eats all of you

jerwinpogi January 2017

could be terrifying*

insane3004 January 2016

My apologies for any and all delays on the three following projects: 1. Haunting Grounds 2. Forgotten: Season 2 3. The Neverglades . All three of these are getting updates... And while it is indeed slow progress... It is still progress... But as per usual... Life has been cruel... I am currently undergoing some intense "issues"... I have no idea how long it will take, but it definitely won't be anytime soon... . For this map... I am working on updating the boss to generally play better... Adding and subtracting where it needs it, after gathering feedback for the last year or so... Most changes will be too the Second phase... Completely recreating it from the ground up... . I have no ETA... but I will leave a comment when I am getting close...

insane3004 February 2016

This map is now being scrapped... and reworked entirely from the ground up... The changes that are now being made and implemented are numerous... and will be listed in full once it is updated and uploaded...

insane3004 September 2015

Quick update... More or less encompasses All of my work... Everything is currently on hold... As I am hard at work, working on a contest map... And every ounce of these next couple months will goes directly to that... That does mean that all of my other projects will be somewhat neglected... (Before the contest... had the beginnings of two other bosses... one before, one after... plus some changes to already existing boss...) But once the contest is over... I will be full-throttle back into releasing the necessary updates...

insane3004 September 2015

Changelog now has a "To Do List"... More or less self-explanatory... Since the boss STILL isn't quite ready for that seal of "Done and Finished"...

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Pretty horrible map

By yhxp84215 March 2017

Man, this is one of the most horrible maps I've played. Will you plan to make more horrible maps?

Didn't saw the wall with a mouth?? BUT still mazing map

By jerwinpogi January 2017

feels like theres something to be removed and to be added too

Something else....

By THE Uenz September 2015

Pros: - Some fun map besides the usual zombie killing - BOSS FIGHT! - Plenty of stuff to keep you alive during the fight - Actually some decent idea..... Cons: - ...That isn't working - Bots are rather useless - Unsure what to do since the game instructor hangs itself up sometimes. Conclusion: I am aware that their had been claims that this map won't work on certain servers, though to some rather complex scripting. However, for me, this is no excuse. Left 4 Dead 2 isn't meant to work on modding the gameplay in such ways, and same goes for its servers. At least this map shows how it can be done halfways. I actually like the idea and with some friends it is quite fun evading the sawblades and stuff. But when the script stops working at the masks the fun is over and you find yourself in an endless loop of evading sawblades. That only is though if "it's the servers fault" (yea right....). Anyways, even if it works like it supposed to I wouldn't say that it's something I'd like to play again and again. Playing through it once basically is enough and after that you've seen literally everything. 2 out of 5 for the idea and the effort scripting it that way, even though it might not work.

By SDAyrton August 2015

This map is insane!!

Good Maps Again

By BuckingHamBurger August 2015

Pros- -Good maps -Scary Music at the Starting Cons- -The Music makes me Eiry [not a problem] -The music is not to scary in SawRunning [not a problem]

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