Buried Deep (Left 4 Dead 2)

Features:
1. 5 Long Maps
2. Heavy atmosphere for the most part
3. Also heavy action for certain events
4. Custom music (See bottom paragraph)
5. References to movies, series or other games
6. Le classic easter eggs
7. Aside from custom decals and sounds, everything else was made with vanilla assets.

Story:
This campaign is set in an alternate timeline where the APC that rescues the survivors in Blood Harvest takes them to a vast underground Military Research Complex located somewhere beneath the wild mountains of West Virginia. In there, the survivors had 3 days of peace before the infected managed to break through the entire complex. Escaping from the initial invasion wave, the survivors managed to reach some maintenance rooms where they could hide until the outbreak calmed down, where the campaign starts.

This campaign is inspired by alot of things that influenced my level design skills for the past 12 years, this includes other campaigns such as Dark Wood and The Bloody Moors, so expect some heavy atmosphere maps but also some bursts of action in specific events. For a first run i recommend going in Easy or Normal difficulties first since i balanced the campaign for Normal. Advanced and Expert is untested by me, but it is totally doable with certain strategies and coordinated teamwork.

Most of the custom music used comes from Hellgate London, except for the mega events of the third and fourth map, and the outro music, those respectively are:
Elevator Event: (Bloodshot OST) Steve Jablonsky - The Tunnel
Gates Event: (The Maze Runner Scorch Trials OST) Joe Paesano - Lights
Outro: Nine Inch Nails - Only (Triptych remix by MoozE)

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Tagged 5/5 Maps L4D1 Survivors Time of day Night Difficulty 3) Hard 2) Average Weather Player Mode Multiplayer Region North America Indoor military facility

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daywalkerdave1963 Yesterday

I'm not going to leave a review yet. You have a small path switching bug on the shifting walls map. I was playing with Dev so I know he told you. I'd just make that portion of fence where the ammo spawn and cement bags are disappear at the same time on the right path so you can proceed :). Other than that this is 100 percent in the top maps I've played on here. Lot of fun. :) definitely a team player map. :)

Zanieon Yesterday

Due the way i implemented that dynamic pathing it wasn't hard to track the issue, i already got it fixed couple minutes ago and will release an update tomorrow along some other minor changes.

daywalkerdave1963 Yesterday

You did a great job with the audio btw. Makes it sound intimidating LOL :) I made a reference to my friends that your campaign reminded me of Resident Evil Outbreak. One of my favs ever. In fact there has been some talk about someone redoing resident evil outbreak?. I think you have the skills to do it justice. :) Think about it. :)

Zanieon 22 hours ago

Well, thing is that i'm avoiding doing anything related to Resident Evil or Silent Hill for L4D, it has been done so many times that for me it is saturated tbh, hence why the only reference to silent hill in my campaign was just the siren and the black fade. And i didn't include any reference to resident evil because there are entire campaigns made based on it. So i saved the rest to make references to newer things related to zombies somehow, like that door with The Walking Dead "Don't open dead inside" and The Maze from The Maze Runner.

daywalkerdave1963 22 hours ago

I was referring to repairing the campaign not making a new one. I here it has some issues and it's quite a good campaign. :) .

Hoanglan2112 2 days ago

I remember my first time when i play this map i found M60 Is good gun for me, but i have to give this for BOT to suppressing fire me

Long challenging maps to deal with common infected

By limhuisan 3 days ago

Pros -Detailed environments -Supplies and health kids available enough. -Custom music. -Nice level design. -Bots function well. -Balance difficulties.(playable expert with bots, but need more experience and skills.) Cons -None.(perhaps) Conclusion I've finished with bots 1 hour 54 minutes almost two hours with bots.We've got 6222 total zombies killed in this campaign,I'll say wow ..hahahaha .In map 1, I've got about 800+more common infected killed by myself.Before this,I've only got 600+ more common infected killed in the left behind custom map the computer panic event map on strong impression.This really surprised me,wow again.This really nice to deal with .Thumbs up!!!

loocoomatuu 3 days ago

A LOT OF ZOMBIES

Horribly Balanced Campaign

By AmazingNep02 4 days ago

This is unfinished because it is UTTER horribly balanced. Description says they test but i doubt that with the amount of insane commons. The 5 star reviews are either blind, naive or dont know what theyre talking about. ONCE this is fully tested ANNND balanced properly(aka COOL IT ON THE COMMON COUNT) then i would try this again. Hopefully the mapper learns and learns how to balance properly.

kurochama 4 days ago

What...? :o . Well, could you explain your problems in more details? The zombies are more than usual during the events, & I think some people mentioned that too even before I wrote my review. That's also why I said about good strategies required on the main events. There are map 1, 3 & 4 that have main events requiring some good tactics. Even if there are mounted guns, players don't have to defend there. Even I, with my habits of juggling weapons/ items, chose different places to defend based on what I though were the most beneficial. Probably you took wrong places to camp, or wrong tactics, so the zombies got you? Well, try again then, but remember to look for possible good places to camp first before starting the main events. Also look for possible zombie spawn locations, because in this campaign, zombies spawn from normal places, not suddenly in front of survivor's face, so as long as you figure out where they possibly spawn during events, you can find better spots to camp.

AmazingNep02 4 days ago

We tried diff tactics for that, one staying below(bad) one staying up where turret is but not using turret(bad) one where u bile and run backwards to where the 3 explosive barrels were to hold where dead pilot had spawn items and a radio, ud think thatd be good, funneling, but nope, normally itd be fine funneling but the spawns r INSANE , common count could be lessened for events, and things were already sketchy and getting frustrating, last tactic mightve worked which was since game managed to spawn 2 biles inside start room for the door, and we had 2 biles already, use bile at start, once it runs out, shoot explosive barrel, then bile, wait, repeat and run but then random smoker killed who was alive and since we died so much cuz it was insane spawns, we jus gave up. Even melee(i love melee) didnt help much cuz i had 100+ ms ping so they jus hit me through it. Definitely willing to try when mapper balances common count better instead of making it overwhelming and impossible for us. Oddly there hasnt been nav mesh issue, which usually there is for when mappers do this. so bots were as useful as they normally are o.0 and not useless tho with the common count they jus go down fast cuz they dont know how to move and shoot well

3ipka 4 days ago

@kurochama What level of difficulty do you play?

kondoriyano 4 days ago

"The 5 star reviews are either blind, naive or dont know what theyre talking about" or you really bad at playing L4D2...

AmazingNep02 4 days ago

@kurochama Also "*Made the door that access the Reinforced Gate Hall unbreakable and forcibly close when starting the event, it can be opened again and broken after the event ends" from update notes today, apparently now u cant even backtrack, which did seem smart why we both tried it, urs being more successful, but now if door closes, and ur stuck there with massive common count horde?? that is even more unbalanced, this mapper does NOT take into account criticism to fix balance issues

slipjohn1 4 days ago

This campaign is awesome. You might be crazy lol. Try to practice more, you'll get better

AmazingNep02 4 days ago

@kondoriyano that is uncalled for and unnecessary, we both do public expert and help public games through expert or expert realism SUCCESSFULLY and most custom maps SUCCESSFULLY so your point is invalid, dont be a troll

kurochama 4 days ago

Well, now that the path to backtrack is closed on this v1.5, I guess my tactic I mentioned before becomes useless for this version. Maybe I need to try this new version to figure out new tactics, as I usually used that backtracking tactic on previous versions.

kurochama 4 days ago

I just tested the v1.5, & somehow it's still playable. Though the door for backtracking is closed now, but the narrow corridor is still available as an alternative place to defend. When I tested, there are at least 2-4 vomitjars before reaching the post near the gate. So, it's like 4-6 vomitjars in total if all survivors carry them + 2 inside the post. I usually carried one different bomb so I could juggle it with the vomitjars. . Btw, maybe you could try to defend at the corridor. It's a one-way place, so you're only attacked from one direction. But charger is scarier at that place.

kurochama 3 days ago

My correction on the v1.5, the types of grenades spawned are randomized, but at least you can get like 1-2 vomitjars if you're unlucky, & 3-6 if you're lucky enough. But there are also other throwable items along the way to the post (like propane tanks & gascans). You can also gather those for the preparation for the gate on map 1. That's usually one of my strategies when a map lacks molotov to burn a tank or pipe bomb/ vomitjar to distract & kill many zombies at once. The play sure would take longer if gathering such items by juggling from the beginning of the map, but it's quite helpful during holdout events.

youtae 3 days ago

It's true that this map is a bit hardcore. however, it's still an appropriate difficulty level.. looking through your comment logs, i could see you are a noob who only wants an easy map. you are the problem, not the map.

AmazingNep02 3 days ago

@youtae, how about get informed before judging others, OR how about dont judge others at all and dont make useless comments. You say i want easy , yet i frequently play on expert AND expert realism , that doesnt seem someone who wants "easy" maybe this map is MEANT for easy but not everyone plays on easy and it should be balanced for every difficulty not just "easy"

Zanieon 4 days ago

The tactic is to use the miniguns, it always been about the two miniguns on the top. Two survivors at miniguns, two covering from SI and protecting from the CI that manages to pass through the rain of bullets. Melee helps alot in there as well for cutting the climbing commons. Also don't burst all the flammables and use all throwables, those helps if used sequentially. Lastly, do no rush to the saferoom while the gate is opening, Specials won't allow you to go through the horde anymore, instead wait for the horde to finish, the event is not a gauntlet. After the gate finishes opening the director will be only spawning the pending commons of and return to normal pacing. Also, i take criticism just fine, but seems that only because you're not managing to beat the first chapter with what you know, you feel personally attacked by the difficulty of the event.

Godzx329 Yesterday

it says in the description that the campaign is balanced for normal (still doable on advanced though). giving 1 star just because of that is really uncalled for. sounds like salt to me

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Long challenging maps to deal with common infected

By limhuisan 3 days ago

Horribly Balanced Campaign

By AmazingNep02 4 days ago

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By ErrorUnknownGT 4 days ago

Brutal unforgiving challenging campaign with an increased population count which I'm not sure if I'm a huge fan of, but some people like their challenges so whatever. In this campaign you'll be facing long and lots of panic events, seemingly unending routes to follow, scarce supplies distribution and more tanks than normal! The map design is on point for the most part, can't complain too much about it, and I encountered no bugs. Crazy campaign, fun with friends no doubt.

Really good challenging campaign

By Omega_Weapon 1 weeks ago

I am amazed by artwork,detail,creativity of levels challenges.I don't recall any campaign i played that we killled so much zombos without super hordes. Music is good,supplies are well places,lot of challenging holdouts bot .Play on advanced difficulty for first time and was awesome experience.Only complain is lot of fps drops from 144 to 70-80,fps problems in many area including finale.Maybe little more optimization would do good.Overall campaign is masterpiece and thank you for making it.Played both bloody moors and darkwood both masterpieces as well nothing else to be said. Cheers !!!

Very challenging and long campaign, worth playing with friends.^^

By EricChang 2 weeks ago

This is a highly difficult but very fun map.^^ Chapters 1 to 4 all need to defend in one position for a while, which is very satisfying to play. The finale is to fuel the truck and then escape the garage.^^ I played this map with two friends, it took a total of 1 hour and 30 minutes to finish this campaign, and all of us killed more than 1000 zombies.XD Overall whole campaign and music design are quite excellent.^^ Nice work!^^

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