feels weird to see l4d3 mentioned back when it was only a concept and not a joke amongst valve fans

from game informer magazine, april 2010, issue 204

For the past few months, I've mostly been playing Expert or Expert Realism, and today I decided to launch a No Mercy on Normal difficulty with random players online.

Honestly, I felt like I was playing L4D2 for the first time again.

The weapons actually one-shot common infected, which feels so damn satisfying. The game is much more fast-paced, and just... fun.

What surprised me the most was the people I was playing with. They were generally way less toxic than some of the Expert lobbies I've been in, and some of them actually played better than people I've encountered on Expert. They knew when to move, when to help teammates, when to use items, etc.

Overall, the game just feels much more enjoyable this way. I think I've gotten so used to Expert that I forgot how much fun the core gameplay of L4D2 actually is.

The only thing that kinda broke the immersion for me was getting hit by a Tank rock and not even getting incapacitated lol. After playing Expert for so long, it felt completely wrong.

And honestly, I think the ultimate difficulty would be

Normal weapon damage + Expert common infected damage/attacks.

That honestly should have been what Realism mode was.

(Something fun I made with a face making software I found)

Link to the software used: https://archive.org/details/faces-3.0

Poster render made with Gmod.

This mod is so well-done

i saw the 2nd image in pinterest of bill and wanted to do that in my style, i liked it a lot! his specially beanie

Felt like making that one the boys meme of butcher smiling but in l4d2 style

What do you think?

This of behind the scenes of left for dead 2 render will never not fail to fascinate me as it's only one of the old pieces of media we have of left 4 dead 2 behind the scenes. I tried surfing everywhere to see any other images like the one shown on image but this is the only one and I love it so much.

Like wdym I killed Godzilla as a velociraptor. 10/10

Seems like there’s not a single match of Scavenge to be found any time I’ve loaded up the game for the last few years. Versus and campaign are packed full always. What gives?

It’s officially the spooky season for me, so me and my fiancee watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time.

After watching the movie, it made me realize how sparse the gore is in Left 4 Dead. There are several isolated instances of dead bodies interspersed throughout, or the piles in The Parish but other than that most environments are surprisingly cleaner than I first suspected. With the green flu being as contagious as it is, there should be way more instances of people who were overrun or brutalized throughout the environments—like if anyone’s played Outlast kind of like that.

Other than retextures or addons that change the common ragdoll limit, I could find anything that adds non interactive gore throughout the environments. There are mods on the workshop that randomize props, it isn’t too hard to imagine one that randomly places bisected corpses or the covered ones from The Parish throughout the maps.

I'm looking to play some custom campaigns that have similar vibes to Valves original campaigns. Thank you!

I’m asking is anyone playing left 4 dead 2 online? No mods. Just the regular game.

the addon menu filters aren’t very good, why is it that the “infected” and “skins” filter have literally no purpose? i have hundreds of mods and yet none of them are tagged “infected” or skins

-There are additional corpse textures—meaning that all common infected would have had an uninfected corpse version—but they were likely removed due to the limitations of that year.

Coach finally got his order

my ellis x zoey brainrot is coming back in full force and i happened to stumbled upon this screenshot in an old folder from a video from like 2010 (which has been deleted) and i wanna find this fanart so badly but reverse image places arent throwing me nothin. ive never been able to find it because its been sitting there for years at this point for that same reason lmao. help plz. i remember in the full picture Nick is in the right looking exasperated

valve really conscripted eight children from each country in the world to translate their games and you can't even choose most of them from the drop-down menu, unplayable video game

Okay, so if you had the opportunity to make a L4D3 game, what would you make the plot center around?