Accessing Dead Air/Death Toll in Versus mode Options

[MonkeyFiend]

Firstly Valve have removed accesss to Dead air and Death Toll in versus mode.

You can manually download some patched versions of these from here:

Complete campaign pack: http://sneakymonkeys.com/maps.rar

[Edit: changed the address since over 800 people have downloaded these files, I suspect our downloads have been passed around )

I added them a rar without thinking, so if you can't open these files you'll need a copy of winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm)

You then need to extract them to your maps folder, such as:

C:\steam\steamapps\common\left4dead\left4dead\maps

After installing maps you may need to restart steam.


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Connecting to a server
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Since these are custom maps, you can only play them on servers that have them installed, such as the sneakymonkeys server

To connect to sneakymonkeys (either be a member of the steam group sneakymonkeys) or connect manually, open the console (~) and type: Connect 85.236.100.37:27215

The server may not be on these campaigns, you'll require access to the server in clanforge (server.sneakymonkeys.com) - slect the left 4 dead server (MH11345), click on servers, tick the box next to the server, click live control, click current game and select the corresponding map e.g. l4d_vs_airport_01 etc.,(and then press change map button)


ISSUES:

1. String Table Errors

The content on your computer differs from that on the server. I'd recommend redownloading the custom maps again

2. Doors/Cars/Objects appear white.

Workaround: go to your graphics options and turn shaders to Medium - this will sort out the textures

This relates to HDR Shaders not being built properly. To fix this we could rebuild the cubes (buildcubes command) on the server and redownload all of the maps, if things go wrong (and l4d is pretty buggy) it would prevent access to the server (until you reinstall the maps) so I DO NOT recommend this.

[MonkeyFiend]

They had decided the balance was not right on them - personally things like a tank in the wrong place can really knacker the balance alone. The only other thing is that some of the maps are short, some are very long, but overall with a reasonably balanced team, I don't think there are any particular advantages.

I've also uploaded the following custom maps to the server:

city_minami_department_a1
city_minami_street_a1
l4d_farm_of_death
l4d_resort04_beach
l4d_vs_hunter_city_b1
l4d_vs_stronghold

I'll make an edit once I've build a install package and stuck it on the website

P.S. Also anyone fancy collaborating on a l4d map? I've hacked the orange box resource kit in the absence of a proper l4d SDK, so was thinking of building some maps... zombie strike at karkand would be fun (if not a little ambitious) - has been a while since I've used hammer properly, so might just wait until the SDK is released