I have decided to gather all the suggestions I have for the main menu (including the lobby) and post them here. New players have no idea how to navigate the main menu, but even if you have played the game more than 4000 hours and you know how to properly navigate the main menu it's still confusing and could be improved a lot.

1. The first suggestion is that singleplayer, seen in this screenshot:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=133352980
should be moved to the submenu of campaign mode, seen in this screenshot:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=133352959

, because singleplayer is campaign mode. You could also delete the singleplayer picture of Ellis if it isn't used anywhere else.

2. Delete "Play with friends" from every game mode's submenu and make the "Friends playing" in the bottom left corner always visible and always clickable (even if 0 friends are online).

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144275507

3. When clicking "Friends playing" in the bottom left corner it shows all your friends that are currently playing L4D2. At the top it says "All joinable games found", however in this screenshot:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144275553
you can clearly see that it says "Not in Joinable Game" next to the player's name. Just delete the text "All Joinable games found", and simply keep the text "Select an active game to begin playing with a friend".

4. Delete "Quick match" from all co-op modes' submenu (Campaign, Realism, Survival and Mutations) but keep "Quick match" for multiplayer modes ( Versus, Versus Realism, Scavenge). Because quick match doesn't like custom maps, quick match would rather send you to an empty lobby even if there are custom games in progress, and it only takes 2 seconds longer to click "Play Online" and choose a random map from the list.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=132847969

5. Delete "Not installed add-on", "Installed add-on" and "Official" filters in "Play online" for all game modes because those 3 filters are unnecessary.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144275459

6. When clicking "Play Online" in a game mode's submenu this appears:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144275349

and then when you click "More search options" this submenu appears:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144275393
this whole submenu should not exist, you should move "Create a game lobby" to the page where "More search options" is and delete "More search options".

7. In the main menu if you click Addons and then exit addons the game will freeze for a couple of seconds.

8. Please force game instructor to be always on and remove it from the multiplayer options so people can't turn it off.

In some maps it's important to have game instructor on. It would be great if all the "obvious" instructions were deleted, for instance "Don't shoot your teammates" tip.

9. Move "Gore" setting from multiplayer options to Video options, because the "gore" setting is a video setting. You should also delete the "Advanced settings" tab in video options (everything should appear in the video options without having to click the "Advanced settings" tab).

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144287642

10. Move "Blog post" in the main menu to the submenu of "Extras".

11. Please do not let filter settings automatically save when you exit the game, as seen in this screenshot:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144301853

Make it so the filter settings reset to default (To show all games and lobbies, all addons and official maps) when you exit the game.

The new "View" button is great:

http://i39.tinypic.com/2zp7dpd.jpg

Hopefully we will also be able to see some improvements made to the main menu in L4D2 and not just the Steam Workshop.

Right now you can only view your friends' survival record, as seen in this screenshot:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=140580955

Depending which map; the list becomes really short because your friends might not have played that specific map, or maybe you don't have many active friends. Survival mode would be more rewarding with global leaderboards, but global leaderboards would be pointless because it's too easy to cheat.

Minor issue: Game freezes for a couple of seconds everytime I exit the addons list (in the main menu if you click addons and then go back to the main menu), in the old version it would never freeze like this.

Sure there are many ways to cheat (getting a survival record time when playing survival mode), but dealing with server plugins would be enough to stop most of the cheaters.

There seems to be no way to see what you're currently downloading from the L4D2 Steam Workshop. Example: Today I automatically downloaded almost 9 MB from the L4D2 Steam Workshop seen in this screenshot:

http://i43.tinypic.com/35ak60k.jpg

However it doesn't say what I downloaded, or if this was just an update to some item, which item in that case? It would be great if you could actually see which item was updated/downloaded.

Can you please make it so the survival timer auto-disables (so people can't receive a survival record time) when playing on a server that uses server plugins?
As far as I know server plugins are considered to be ways of cheating. If you have server plugins installed you can't connect to VAC servers, but then why can players still receive a survival record time (survival mode) when playing on a server with server plugins?

@ Rayman1103
The word fun is written all over it. However if you turn all the L4D1 survivors into normal bots the HUD won't support it, by default the HUD can only display 5 normal bots.

My most wanted feature: Add an XP system to a specific map and reward players that spend a lot of time playing the map, more details here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/L4D2WSVB/discussions/0/846945579837673348/


My second most wanted feature:
I want to add 1 more "normal bot", the character Bill, (By "normal bot" I mean that he should have normal health, common infected and special infected should be able to attack him properly. He should follow players, heal players, use pills/trade pills, he should have his health displayed on the HUD and when he dies he has a body which you can defib etc.).

You can easily add invincible bots, but people criticize the invincible bots because they are not really helpful and not fun to play with. You can make an invincible bot work as a "normal bot", but there are a few problems:

1. The first problem is that you can't display its health on the hud.
2. As far as I know special infected don't attack them properly etc.
3. They don't leave a dead body so you can defib.
4. They don't die unless you do kill input on them.
and the list goes on...

As much as I would like to see an invincible bot turned into a normal bot using scripts this is not really what I want. I simply want to add 1 more normal bot, the character Bill, that spawns together with the L4D2 character players and works like a normal bot - you can easily do this with server plugins.

Specific details:
A total of 5 normal bots: Coach, Ellis, Rochelle, Nick and Bill + 3 invincible bots: Francis, Louis and Zoey at the same time in a survival map.
I don't want to increase the amount of players so the limit should still be 4.
I just want to add 1 more normal bot that spawns together with players, and you should be able to play as any of the 5 normal bots (by selecting any of the 5 characters in the lobby).

More and more people are now confirming that they can play Helm's Deep Reborn on Official Valve Servers, Thanks for solving the problem!