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Valve have a long history of providing superlative support to the PC modding community. Several of their titles, such as CounterStrike, began as fan-made mods for Valve games.
Is no different. Soon after release, the creative PC modders were adding fresh new campaigns, tweaking the character models and animations and replacing the game’s sounds with custom alternatives. In this guide to Left 4 Dead 2 mods, we look at some of the best community-made content for the game that helps breathe new life (and death) into Valve’s zombie apocalypse. Campaign Mods. There are a number of new campaigns for L4D2 players to sink their teeth and chainsaws into available from the fan community.
The campaigns from the first Left 4 Dead have been upgraded and ported into the new game. There are also tweaked versions of the campaigns that ship with Left 4 Dead 2. However, there are some entirely new and original campaign mods well worth seeking out.Death Aboard 2 is an update of a custom campaign created for the first game in the series. The action ranges across 5 new maps taking in desolate dockyards, abandoned ships and an eerie Lighthouse. With full support for Co-op, Versus, and Scavenge modes, Death Aboard 2 is a worthy addition to your Left 4 Dead 2 playlist.City 17 is another updated Left 4 Dead mod.
The twist to this campaign is that it is a recreation of another Valve classic, Half Life 2 Episode 1. Highly rated amongst the L4D2 community, this is a great mix of two FPS classics.Diescraper is a smaller 3 map campaign entirely set within a derelict skyscraper. The besieged survivors must blast their way through the infected hordes as they progress up the building to the rescue awaiting them on the roof. Diescraper again features support for the full range of multiplayer modes, and serves to satisfy a player's desire for a short, sharp shock of zombie action.is a great place to discover these mods and more custom campaigns. Skin and Model Mods.
Modders like nothing more than to delve into a game and customize a game's characters and animations. While this often unfortunately results in a rash of nude female characters, and Left 4 Dead 2 is no exception on that front, it can also result in some fantastic creations to really make your game an individual experience.If you preferred the cast of the original Left 4 Dead to the new batch of survivors, then the L4D1 Survivors Model and Animation Replacement pack is for you. Although they appear in the DLC, installing this mod will allow you to play through all of L4D2 with Zoey, Bill, Louis and Francis.
There are also custom sound packs for this mod to enhance the experience.There are also a multitude of new skins released to customize the characters and weapons in Left 4 Dead 2, including the creepy Blood Stained Witch and the musical Slipknot Hunter.It's not just character and item models that can benefit from the modding treatment. The Improved Blood Textures pack ups the resolution of the splatters and wounds in the game to great effect, perfect for when you're wading knee-deep in zombie gore.To find these and other great mods, visit.Sound Mods. Nothing makes a horror game more immersive than its sound effects.
There are a host of sound mods available for the game, tweaking dialogue, weapon noises and the horrifying screams of the infected.Spybreak's Melee Sound Mod provides a revamped batch of sound effects for the. Not happy with the crunch of baseball bat on zombie face? Install this and get a deeply satisfying whack every time you beat on the poor shambling wretches.For the hardcore FPS fan, the Modern Warfare 2 Sound Mod replaces all the original weapon firing and reloading sound effects with noises garnered from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. ConclusionOne of the great benefits of PC gaming is the ability to extend a game’s life with a stream of custom content from the fan community. Installing the any of the above mods will add something new to your Left 4 Dead 2 experience, and give you plenty of zombie thrills and (blood) spills well into the future.
I have a proposal. We all have things on our PC the world shouldn’t know about. When the inevitable happens and Death beckons, we all have the our power to help each other out. What I need is someone to sneak into my Steam account (password: abetterpasswordthangaben), load up the, and delete all my subscriptions. If anyone found out what I’ve been doing to Valve’s zombie shooter, why I’d die all over again. I’m happy to do the same for you. Just email me your Steam passwords and I’ll make sure whatever needs doing is done.L4D2’s workshop is an interesting place.
You can add models and sound files that only you can see, and won’t appear to others on the server. Your own, personal apocalypse. But before I get to those terrifying tweaks, there are a few mods that will build a better world’s end.Things like.
It’s a build-your-own HUD, one that simplifies the screen noise with a selection of add-ons. You just subscribe to the main file, and if it doesn’t quite work you can grab some additional tweaks. I added the, to reduce the survivor bar to a series of icons.There are a few mods that will change things that other mods rely on.
The game will usually inform you of an incompatibility. NeunGUI clashes with the mod, so you’ll have to disable one or the other. Improved Bots gives solo Left 4 Deaders more reliable buddies, as well as enabling them to use melee weapons, open and close doors, and take the lead.
It also adds a command wheel. The other way to deal with bots is to just get rid of them, and mutation means you’ll be the only gun in town. There are no Special Infected to worry about, because they mostly aim to incapacitate you, but there are twice the number of normal zombies. And all they want is love.“Wait”, you’re probably thinking. “There’s nothing sick and wrong with that! Where’s the filth?” Patience, people.
You’re currently at the vegetables of the article. Now it’s time for the meat. We’ll get to Heston’s wobbly desert soon enough. What is the meat of L4D2? The Workshop now has a fair pile of user-created madness for you to explore. Because you’ve been good and ate all your greens, you can have a peek at one of the sillier scenarios. Is a campaign that starts on a plane.
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The survivors fight their way through the well-realised cabins (the seats in first class look very comfortable) to grab parachutes for the next sequence. On the Great Wall of China! Weren’t quite ready for that plot twist, were you? How about this?
Look down, now look up. You are now on the! Custom maps are the best. Yes, they’re slightly unpolished, and you might lose your way when playing those two, but they are interesting attempts at taking Left 4 Dead’s infection to new places. I particularly like the chilly air of China, and the dapper clothes of the Titanic’s passengers.
For angry traditionalists, is a more traditional Left 4 Dead 2 scenario, sending the survivors spiraling up from the bottom of an infested skyscraper. If you’re scared of heights there’s. It’s a hefty custom campaign that leads you underneath Philadelphia, where a lot of the time you’re reliant on your flashlights to see. It has a smart addition of optional crescendos, which will allow you to light your way, but the noise and light will bring extra undead.One of the most atmospheric campaigns is.
It’s huge, taking place over several custom-built locations, and with non-linear routes through the town of Borden. Though the name implies there’s a school, the whole town is present. The cinema is one of the best Left 4 Dead levels I’ve ever played, taking place in the flickering light of a broken projector.While those campaigns are an attempt to expand Valve’s world, there are others that go further afield. Left 4 Dead is nothing more than a skeleton to prop up some of these radical ideas.
The most impressive is this inspired collection of weapons, models and maps. It’s a pitch-perfect recreation of the blocky blockbuster, even replacing the special infected with Minecraft equivalents.
I love the Enderman Smoker. The snow can be a touch overwhelming at times, but it’s worth experiencing.
If you want a non-lethal game there are a few weapons that can do this. If you do pick this route in the end I’d recommend the NCR or Yes Man/Independent. Namely, Boxing Gloves, Boxing Tape, Cattle Prods, Flash Bangs, Golden Gloves, and a specific crafted shotgun ammo called 12 gauge bean bags although these are expensive to craft. Fallout new vegas best visual mods 2016. Do NOT take In Shining Armor unless you get a mod that fixes it.Non-violent or at least non-lethal is a viable strategy in the main story and for a large amount of side stories however it does not work with the DLC. Furthermore, in the DLC Honest Hearts there is a weapon called Compliance Regulator that is the weakest energy weapon in terms of damage but on a critical hit paralyzes an enemy for 10 seconds.
Other themes you might like: this mod replaces the common infected with the from Aliens, while imports the M41A pulse rifle into the game, the only gun certified for killing Giger’s ghouls. If you’re a Star Wars fan, you can swap out the infected for either the from Star Wars Eps 1-3 (boo), or the from Eps 4-6 (yay!). I’m sure Disney won’t mind. After all, they hired JJ Abrams and he’s a friend of Valve.
Hell, it was probably him that made this mod. There are no Lucas-troubling maps up on the Steam Workshop, but, an Aperture Science inspired UFO map, has the cold aesthetics of sci-fi movie.
It’s also great fun in its own right. The Workshop is also strewn with oddities. Mods that only make sense if you have a fetish. Like, the mod that adds colourful trails and comic words to your attacks. I can at least understand the drive for making the game a bit sillier, which Funky FX does with aplomb. But there’s no call to turn the Tank into.
Even if the animation is perfect, and the concrete is replaced with a barrel. Does it make you feel strange? That idea you might be playing a game of Left 4 Dead 2 and while you’re seeing a Tank, another player is seeing Nintendo’s aggressive gorilla? If so, then don’t click this Tank replacement. Don’t even think about – you thought about it, didn’t you? RAY!But we can go deeper. If you’re willing to modify the special infected to your own sick ends, you’re probably willing to do it to yourself.
The mod replaces the survivor character models with gorgeous dinosaurs. The detail is stunning: the way they hold the weapons is particularly pleasing, and just as Spielberg has shown, the damn things can use door handles.
They’re a lot more pleasing to look at than the crippled GLaDOS thing in this survivor mod. She’s still alive, but she’s probably in hideous pain.
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Today we are talking to Dan Taylor, a professional level designer who has in the past worked for Eidos, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Rockstar (among others) on games such as Medal of Honor Heroes 2, Hitman: Sniper, or Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Dan - who started out as a modder for Morrowind, Skyrim, and Fallout New Vegas - has close to two decades of experience in the video game industry under his belt and his talk on Ten Principles for Good Level Design at the Game Developer's Conference 2013 is cu.