Stormy Outlook (Left 4 Dead 2)

The survivors have fled the zombie-filled city in their makeshift vehicle during a driving rain storm. While searching for safe haven in the country, their battered vehicle runs dangerously low on fuel. In a last ditch effort to reach safety, they crash their vehicle through the front gate of a secluded house. Will they find a way to call for help? Would it arrive in time to save them?

This is a small Survival/Scavenge map I created to learn the L4D2 SDK. It is my first map.

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Tagged L4D2 Survivors Time of day Night 3) Hard Weather Rainy Stormy Player Mode

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By Valentine_Wong August 2014

Pros

- Good evironment - The house is well designed - Good amount of supplies

Cons

- The place is very small to fight against tanks - No barricades building

- Despite those minor details i think this is a great survival map, keep it up

norbutt May 2014

Great map.... Its very Detailed...

ProdigyXP July 2013

Crazed Zombie Killer: Thanks for the detailed review....much appreciated. Sorry you are getting sluggish performance while outside. While my system doesn't get choppy while looking at the house from outside (always over 60 fps), I can certainly see a significant drop in FPS when doing so. Like you mention, there is so much that is being rendered at once in those conditions. This was the downside of the house design...there just isn't a whole lot of optimization that can be done with so many windows. The upside of all the windows is the ability to escape from tanks and other SI in virtually every room (minus closets). :-) Also, I know what you mean about it being a little cramped. The funny part is that I felt I was making everything too large when I was creating it. When I stuck to scale (according to hammer), everything was just too cramped for my taste. So I went a lot bigger, but it is still probably the number one complaint. :-)

BTW, unless a recent game update changed something, there should always be laser sights in the shed out back.... Thanks again for the review. Hoping to have the next map in my campaign releasing shortly. This map is actually going to be the finale for that campaign.

By Crazed Zombie Killer July 2013

Pros

*Beautiful details! (really felt the way it looked) *good bot nav *intense stormy atmosphere! *custom radio responses! *Nice beginning survivor dialogue *good item layout *challenging *Playable over and over

Cons

*Space is very confined (tanks can just instantly cornor you inside the house and kill you) *No laser sights *The game gets very "choppy" if you look in any direction outside house aside from the pool area due to their being too much information being processed outside the house (though that could be on my part, but my computer is no dinosaur mind you lol) *Radio doesn't say anything after you select it, (Even though what it repeats is custom, i still think it could have a response to you selecting it), No point lost for this however!

Overall this was an incredibly well designed stormy survival map! It really felt like when i am at my house with a good rainstorm! Beautifully detailed too with a great setting! Before i started the game however and explored i could not find a single laser sight nor a good place to hold out. If im outside then as the game is slowed down due to to much information being processed at once in combination with it being difficult to see and fight in, the special infected would be able to take me and my team out with ease. If im upstairs then if we get a tank its game over man! Game over! In the living room the zombies have no trouble taking us out due to attacking us on all sides with confined space (making a tank the end of me and us all). If there was a mini-gun or something upstairs to fire through a window it would make things easier (though a tank would still be the end of life as we know it). If there was just a "little" more room in the house and some sort of advantage against the tank inside, this would truly be an amazing map to play on (as well if you please added some laser sights, i love em :3). Good job on the creation of this map, and i look forward to any others you have to make! :-)

Zoinho1 February 2013

Could work with Bots nav, he's not grab any gun in closet in the second floor.

L4DTeak. February 2013

Would it help drawing a nav area under the gun closet?

ProdigyXP February 2013

Interesting. I remember correcting this quite some time ago (I have in my notes that it was corrected in the 05/13/12 update). Not sure why this is cropping up again. I will take a look and post an update as needed.

Thanks

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By Valentine_Wong August 2014

Pros

- Good evironment - The house is well designed - Good amount of supplies

Cons

- The place is very small to fight against tanks - No barricades building

- Despite those minor details i think this is a great survival map, keep it up

By Crazed Zombie Killer July 2013

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By HKY09 October 2012

Pros

Nice small suburban house, Funny intro dialogue, Scary survival to play - has a eerie feel.

Cons

House too small to survive in - found myself more often than not running outside to face tanks, rather than take my chances and shoot them from the windows.

A okay survival map, It isn't excellent, but it isn't terrible. Some fun times are guaranteed though!

By Dayton October 2012

Pros

- Made Pretty well - very detailed - bot navigation - Great weather\ Fog

Cons

- Not many first aid kits. but to many pills - No area to sit and camp. - the rooms are too small

it would be a great map if only the area was a bit bigger.

By 5566Westside August 2012

Pros

+ Great house with full of realistic stuffs around + Good Weather Effects + Bots Navigation

Cons

- Not enough First Aid Kits lying around the house and outside - Some rooms are small not enough to move around with it - Not a campaign map

Overall it would be better if there are more supplies etc lying outside the house too and like what wibble199 says, possible to hide behind the shower curtains whereby zombies cannot get to you except for maybe tanks only would be alot more fun, the storm slows you down if you are outside and tends to be abit slow which I love it alot. I will recommend this to anyone who loves house survival map.

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