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 Seasonal Easter Time of day Night Difficulty 3) Hard 2) Average Weather Player Mode Multiplayer Region North America Indoor military facility

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Provides decent challenge & great atmosphere

By HolyShiits last month

Very well made map in overall. In 2 of the stages, there are very well placed mini guns that you can actually use. Killed hordes and hordes and zombie with it, loved it. It also has this heavy atmosphere, sound that gives you goosebumps at times. Each level are quite long.

milankooo1978 last month

I have played hundreds of hours of L4D1&L4D2, and hundreds of custom maps and campaigns, in coop mode. This is for sure one of my top 3 ever played. For coop mode, this is a MUST PLAY. I will not even go into details, you have to check for yourself. 98%

AmazingNep02 last month

Edited my Review, def is an improvement with the common infected count nerfs, even by 10 EDIT: For one, luckily this map is popular on here so ppl join public games of this, which helped, Chapter 1 common nerf was def better, its still a lot but not as much that it would overwhelm you. Chapter 2 was fun, Chapter 3 though, ONLY issue, in the main room, which is the same issue in chapter 1 last event room, there is FARRRR too many corpses on the ground and it hurts FPS and I dont use common infected mods. Chapter 3 made FPS drop to like 10fps DURING the elevator horde with all the other corpses so I would definitely remove some or all of that, its unneeded, or maybe just put it only in front of the guns but not EVERYWHERE, Chapter 4 event was SUPER long, not hard, really but long and u run out of ammo mid to end way. Finale route could've been shorter to get back if you died. Beside that gas cans were evenly placed and not bad to get to, better than other campaigns. So far this went from 1/5 stars to 4/5 stars. Keep up the good work and improving your campaign

AmazingNep02 last month

Also remembered something from Chapter 2, I really like the feel and atmosphere of it, and the event for the elevator at the end, The silent hill one was amazing though apparently it was an RNG tank and not scripted, leading me to suggest a modification, right when you start the lift, and Silent Hill siren sounds, script a tank right then, and then after tank dies, immediately send horde until lift comes, and tank could spawn in any one of the 3 tunnels from the lift start. That'd be a cool mechanic with balance(as opposed to tank AND horde in a small area)

ape.da.ru last month

Interesting one, I tried to play it five times and all five times it crashed to desktop on the different areas of the first map. I switched off few Addons, but it continues to crash. Can u fix it somehow? I can't play this map. Are there any options to read some log to understand what's causing the crash?

kurochama last month

Have you tried to disable any addons related to infected skins, HD texture as well as other custom campaigns? Based on my experience, the crash to desktop without warning might be caused by several things: infected skins, HD texture, undetected conflicts with other custom campaigns. Probably there might be more things causing the crash, but those I mentioned are what usually cause a crash on some campaigns. Try to disable them & play again. Or, just disable all except some admin system mods (if you use some), as admin system mods don't cause a crash. If the crash still happens anyway, probably there's something in the campaign causing the crash.

Zanieon last month

Another guy reported the same issue and it had to do with sourcemod/metamod and not the campaign itself, there's no way my campaign could cause crashes alone since it is 99% vanilla assets.

AmazingNep02 last month

@Zanieon What part of sourcemod/metamod? Saying just that makes 0 sense since default sourcemod setup shouldn't make anything crash at all, ONLY things that could are possibly script addons you have possibly, unlikely but possible since its outside of sourcemods scope, also some plugins could cause an issue if its bad code, etc. Also Custom spawn files might cause issues to conflict with a campaign, etc. But sourcemod by itself is perfectly fine. On to the original poster, what kind of addons do u have? addons is too broad and can mean anything, and did you try going into offline, moving your workshop folder somewhere and trying vanilla and this campaign? If its fine then one mod is conflicting but if it still CTDs then its the campaign, tho my issue with it wasnt crashing, it was stable, though i was 2-3 versions again since i tried

kurochama last month

@ape.da.ru: You shouldn't blame the author like that while you still didn't test to disable all addons first. You may only try to complain after you disable all mods & you still experience crash. Otherwise, it's the player's problem, because their addon mods cause the crash, not the campaign. It's kind of strange if only you experience crash while others don't. In other words, the problems are probably one or some of your mods. As I explained on my previous comment, there are few things causing the crash to desktop. It's never the author's mistake if someone crashes to desktop because of other mods.

Zanieon last month

ape.da.ru: The only confirmed crash my campaign could cause was mp3 files playing the music channel, but then you'd need to be on linux for that to happen and playing older versions because even that i fixed. Besides tat issue i'm not sure how i am supposed to debug a campaign entirely made out of the internal assets of the game.

Hoanglan2112 last month

Did you know what i play this campaign is pretty smooth here no crash and why you say that ???

troberts09 November 2020

Help would be greatly appreciated. Currently I am stuck on the second chapter after going down the long ladder and opening the tunnel access door where you meet the "shadow man" for the first time. I was unable to progress anywhere else in the map. I back tracked until I found the closest safe house directional and it lead me directly there. Please reach out, I am sure I'm just missing something. Thank you!

troberts09 November 2020

EDIT: Got it. Very nice use of the propane tank hidden above.

lfdeadguy November 2020

I played the map with the freight elevator again. I knew now not to do battle down by the third switch, I led the bots up to basically where the elevator is. Which still wasn't easy (nor was even getting to that point on this map). Anyway, we all got to the top of the elevator "shaft" and that was just the beginning. On and on and on went the map, hordes and tanks aplenty. Suddenly now we're on train tracks. First I led them in the wrong direction but finally...yes...we got to the safe room. Yikes, what a lot of effort to finish this map.

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Provides decent challenge & great atmosphere

By HolyShiits last month

Long challenging maps to deal with common infected

By limhuisan November 2020

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!!!

Slightly Better and Fun Challenging Campaign

By AmazingNep02 November 2020

EDIT: For one, luckily this map is popular on here so ppl join public games of this, which helped, Chapter 1 common nerf was def better, its still a lot but not as much that it would overwhelm you. Chapter 2 was fun, Chapter 3 though, ONLY issue, in the main room, which is the same issue in chapter 1 last event room, there is FARRRR too many corpses on the ground and it hurts FPS and I dont use common infected mods. Chapter 3 made FPS drop to like 10fps DURING the elevator horde with all the other corpses so I would definitely remove some or all of that, its unneeded, or maybe just put it only in front of the guns but not EVERYWHERE, Chapter 4 event was SUPER long, not hard, really but long and u run out of ammo mid to end way. Finale route could've been shorter to get back if you died. Beside that gas cans were evenly placed and not bad to get to, better than other campaigns. So far this went from 1/5 stars to 4/5 stars. Keep up the good work and improving your campaign 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.

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By ErrorUnknownGT November 2020

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 November 2020

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..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 !!!

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