City of the Dead (L4D Version) (Left 4 Dead)

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The Survivors leave their hiding spot in a set of apartments and head off to the local mall in hopes of an evacuation. When they arrive at the mall they find that the military have completely abandoned it and things had gotten out of hand. Now they must get to the mall's rooftop and attempt to get rescued.

This is my first finished campaign!

Credit to Bianca on Steam for all the help with this campaign.

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City of the Dead (L4D2 Version)

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Good, but many empty rooms

By Shinobu_Was_Eaten 3 weeks ago

Pros City mall's style Easter egg is amazing 10 out of 10 gnomes :D Cons 2nd map is very long with no ammo, no spawn room and many empty room and objects. Cafe on the street for what? Swimming pool? (I found only 2 gnomes on 2nd map. Is there a third?) Glowing ammo on final map. I suppose it should be a radio

Lunaxs May 2020

I downloaded it and its still telling me to download the add on How do I apply?

Brian78456 May 2020

Should be able to download the file and extract the vpk to your Left 4 Dead/left4dead/addons folder.

SeiteHaven January 2020

I only played the finale (cotd04_rooftop_l4d), so here's my list of bugs and improvements: BrushId(283312): If positioned on the edge, a player can jump from this clip brush to the fence, and from the fence, jump over the trigger_hurt, outside of the intended bounds. There are other ways to get out-of-bounds as well. BrushID(305184): Visible nodraw face. If the nodraw is intended, the back of the stairs should also be nodraw. BrushID(306157): Lacks a sloped clip brush; inconsistent with other stairs. BrushID(260272): Unnecessarily rendering large textured faces including other nearby brushes touching func_detail. BrushID(441750,441764,441765): This, plus similarly shaped clip brush groups throughout the map, can be merged into one convex brush; they aren't merged during compile-time and have separate collision bounds in-game. PointEntityID(301502,31503): Redundant props (L4D2?) and causes graphical overrides with custom cl_glow_item_* values. PointEntityID(264365): Lacks a clip brush; inconsistent with similar models. Optimization(1): Use areaportals to seal off the saferoom area from the finale area, or vice versa. Optimization(2): Change the unreachable fences to non-solid and add one or two clip brushes instead. Some out-of-bounds props can be non-solid. Optimization(3): Remove the displacements on the sides of the building and extend the brushes below to occupy the same space with less geometry. Minor(1): There are no info_survivor_rescue locations within the finale area. If any survivor dies before initiating the finale radio, they won't respawn at the start of the finale and must instead restart the round from the saferoom. I didn't look at the navigation since it played well.

Brian78456 January 2020

Wow this some of the best feedback I’ve ever gotten. I really appreciate you taking the time to find all this and point it all out! I’ll get onto fixing up this stuff soon.

SeiteHaven January 2020

I have a bit more that I can document, but I didn't bother to get the specific entity IDs: For some of the fences on the edge of the map, it's possible to strafe jump around them to the other side and end up being fairly invincible, especially near the outhouses. You can get to the infected area of the start of the map by jumping from some func_detail ledge to hang from the nearby fence. The bots are able to revive you, and then end up teleporting on top of the roof when they can't navigate there. In theory, you could swap to one of the bots once they teleport, and then walk all the way to the buildings on top of the saferoom. For the searching bodies mechanic, you can directly give certain items, weapons, and equipment to survivors instead of having the items templated nearby. The functionality is built-in to L4D1 and should also exist in L4D2, but it's not included in the default FGD for Hammer. This is a personal preference, though, as you might want the items to appear instead of directly giving them a molotov, for example. You can use tools\toolsinvisible instead of tools\toolsnodraw for buttons that shouldn't block bullets but remain solid, like the finale radio. You arguably don't need collision (non-solid) for the construction light props in the finale room. The ceiling is low enough that a player is more likely to notice being pushed down when jumping than they are to shoot the light and the bullets go straight through. This is personal preference, though, and either choice has pros and cons. The stacks of military crates extend just beyond the clip brush such that you get stuck on them when walking against the brick wall beside it. Survivors can stand on an infected ladder and nearby clips for one of the vents near a static door, giving the impression they might able to get inside an inaccessible area. One of the electrical boxes is non-solid, which, when paired with the solid diesel pump prop, let's you go inside of it. The electrical box also clips outside the wall. Several playerclips should be placed around the edge of the map in case the player jumps on an infected for a double-jump or gets launched by the tank or a projectile to get out-of-bounds. That's about it. I'd really have to properly analyze the map if I wanted to find more than that.

Brian78456 January 2020

I really appreciate all this feedback! One thing I can't seem to figure out (I'm probably missing something obvious) is finding entities using the PointEntityID you included in the original comment. How do I go about finding those with the ID's? Thanks!

SeiteHaven January 2020

The entities with the ID of 301502 and 31503 are the prop_dynamic entities with the ammo pile as their viewmodel. Only a prop_glowing_object entity (which could probably be set to rendermode 10 since the ammo model is shown regardless) and the weapon_ammo_spawn entity are used. Sometimes there's issues with the glow fading for overlapping props, which might be why you used the extra entity, but the prop_dynamic is superfluous. The entity with the ID of 264365 is the prop_static pipe model near the helicopter. There's no clip brush surrounding it which is inconsistent with the other pipe models in the finale as well as causes the camera to jolt when moving to a different height on the nearby rooftops.

Brian78456 January 2020

Ahh thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to help with this!

That's what I call a great campaign !

By Rostane May 2019

Great work, and love the gnomes ! What is that nice music played when we find them all ? Thanks

Brian78456 May 2019

They're all from Portal. Map 1 is Portal 1's ending song called Still Alive, map 2 is Portal 2's ending song called Want You Gone, map 3's song is called Don't Say Goodbye, I think it was a cut Portal 2 song and the finale's music is You Wouldn't Know, from Lego Dimensions Portal.

Rostane May 2019

Awesome, thanks for the musics, Brian !

Rostane May 2019

It's not exactly the same that I'v heard during the game. Do you have an audio file of the music withing the game, would be great ! Thanks.

Brian78456 May 2019

Here's a link to all the songs used except Still Alive, that one is in the default L4D2 files. Just change the space after drop box to a . dropbox com/sh/mn02wq6yfnlp33k/AAA2HykyiOyq-Uvk1b9GfmLYa?dl=0

Rostane May 2019

Awesome, thanks again Brian !

1118788 April 2019

como se lo instala para poder jugar????'

Brian78456 April 2019

You have to put it into your add-ons folder for L4D.

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Good, but many empty rooms

By Shinobu_Was_Eaten 3 weeks ago

That's what I call a great campaign !

By Rostane May 2019

Great work, and love the gnomes ! What is that nice music played when we find them all ? Thanks

Excellent Campaign

By ivanardian March 2019

Pros : -Darker atmosphere which is perfectly fit with L4D1. -No nav issue found. -Intro dialogue -Dynamic pathing -Searchable corpses which is extremely rare in L4D1. Cons: -Some weird purple texture wall at the 2nd map Overall, a well made campaign and definitely worth playing. The music now works well and the searchable corpses can drop other items now which make the campaign even better. However, there are weird purple texture on many walls at the 2nd map in my case. The screenshot about the weird purple texture is here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aDLHESCU_mq_0T2zXXJSxOuJhmh73Enb

fun and great finale

By SerenityRose February 2019

upsides: a fun map to play through, great finale. little ways to get lost. downsides: none (i couldn't find anything wrong with this map unlike before.) I give it a 5 out of 5 stars a map worth playing over and over again by yourself or with friends Recommended Difficulties: Normal Advance Expert (a fun map and one that can be challenging in a good way.)