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.

[=R6= Raile]

monkey do you know at all how the SDK will work for creating levels? like i said, i havnt used any software of that kind since the 90's. i'm just trying to get a grasp on how things work, to then see how we could actually make a collaboration work.

as for karkand, i might be on board. i have done some rough sketches at work and now have an idea in my head that i think could work to make karkand into an l4d level. the idea would be that rather then replicating the map of karkand, which doesn't work as its not linear, you create a path that one playing bf2 might run, going from the US base to the MEC main. imagine that while running down the streets along this set path, any and all of the alleys, junctions in roads, etc, are all blockaded by whatever (car's, anything that works), to force it to be linear. imagine as you run thru karkand, that anytime you would normally have a choice of different alleys or streets to turn down, you now don't. at each turn, only one path to follow. the path would try to run through as many of the key areas of the map as possible, to replicate the karkand experience. i've got a sorta rough path jotted down that could be played with.