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Return of the King
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4 Jan, 2019 @ 2:41pm
24 Jul, 2019 @ 11:19am
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Description
Backstory
The survivors have successfully escaped a burning city. Now they are just going to fly over the mountains to finally get some well deserved rest...

But I think there'll be a change of plans.


Background
My first campaign (It was never published) was called "King of the Dead". In the campaign an evil villain called 'King of the Dead' tormented the survivors all the time and sent his army of undead to kill the survivors. The survivors homever, killed him and then escaped. But now the King is back...


Warnings
This map is (probably) not compatible with Santa's Sleigh workshop item nor any other workshop item that modifies the C-130 (the airplane in Dead Air) model.

This addon might have an effect on other campaigns' finale music?


KNOWN BUGS

-Sometimes all survivors get incapacitated after intro (should happen very rarely, might happen if you don't move at all in the C-130, I'm not completely sure what is causing this to happen)


Reviews
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"The best campaign in the universe. No living creature could ever create something this amazing. Must subscribe." 11/10 -Evil

"Oh, sh*t." -Coach, Left 4 Dead 2
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How to Skip the Intro
- Get very close to the button on the airplane
- Press the button for 5 seconds

I made the button timed because I don't want players to accidentally skip the intro.


The Door at the End
Before commenting "this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it never ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ends...", please note that the door does not open automatically ;)

To open it, you must interact with it (usually by pressing the E key if you have a QWERTY keyboard).


FEEDBACK HIGHLIGHTS
Cutscene and overall map layout is pretty cool Pretty fun and challenging for a short 1 level map Not much else to really say about it besides dont play with AI, play with friends! a little bit hard ! but not bad:steamthumbsup: ...it is pretty neat... (10/10) Pretty ironic...not too much supplies and med kits... R!O!T!K! 只有一关的守城，挺好的~~~ (A single-level defense, pretty good~~~)** ...it's 10/10 mad 死了就是逃脱？绝了 (Escape when you die? Absolutely)* nicely done This map is Francis/10 ...it's a joke... Mapa legal, mas foi feito pra enganar trouxa no final, kkkk Cool map, but it was made to fool Muggles in the end, kkkk 9 ;=; 장트 방송보고 왔습니다. 구독 박습니다. (I came to see the Jangt broadcast. Subscribe.)* Прикольная штука... (Cool thing...)* Great map...I rate 8/10... Intro was pretty descent however the rescue took way too long and the ending wasnt expected like that lmao. too easy win it in first try expert :steambored: this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it never ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ends... * = Google translated :P ** = A.I. translated :)
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24 Jul, 2019 @ 3:40pm
Review 2/5
Bréanainn
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Evil  [author] 30 Jun @ 7:36am 
Honestly, after some ferocious googling, I don't think that the console spam has much to do with the lag. I'm not an expert though. Another thing is that, if I remember correctly, extra zombies are also spawned every 30 to 60 seconds(?) after the finale starts, so there should be a bit more commons than that. I don't remember how many are spawned at a time though. I made this map such a looong time ago. And yeah, huge open-area maps aren't exactly the easiest to optimize.

I’d like to avoid flooding this comment section with debugging messages, so if you have more debugging-related questions, you might want to copy-paste the errors into Google, ask on a forum or Discord, or friend me on Steam and I’ll help if I can. :gordon:
steeg 30 Jun @ 6:06am 
Yea, there's unlimited health item dispenser in the building, so item scarcity shouldn't be a complain... I'll try to check again the map but I highly doubt the lag was caused by high amount of Common since I used to play with z_common_limit 120 with no lag issue. Here's some weird spam in server console log:

12 of this before ~map start:
Floor 1 ('top') of elevator at ( -13953.00, 1162.00, -2393.00 ) has no matching navigation areas

About 49 spamming of these:
UTIL_GetListenServerHost() called from a dedicated server or single-player game.
UTIL_GetListenServerHost() called from a dedicated server or single-player game.
UTIL_GetListenServerHost() called from a dedicated server or single-player game.

and some:
Entity XXX (class 'infected') reported ENTITY_CHANGE_NONE but 'm_nSequence' changed.
Evil  [author] 30 Jun @ 1:46am 
Also, now that I'm at it—some people have complained about "the lack of medkits". Come on, seriously? :D

There's literally a dispenser that spawns an UNLIMITED amount of first aid kits, pills and adrenaline. It's not even hidden! :squishysilverkey::health:
Evil  [author] 30 Jun @ 1:35am 
As some people have already pointed out, the issue with performance is most likely due to the large number of infected during the finale. I was pretty inexperienced with optimization back when I made this map (6-7 years ago?). My fps used to drop to 30 at worst, though, if I remember correctly (and no, I don't have a NASA supercomputer), unless I was inside the building in the middle. I don’t have any experience running a server for L4D2, so I can only guess, but that would be the first thing I'd suspect. Of course, I also had to make some special arrangements for the intro and outro, but I don't think that stuff would affect anything performance-related.

If you're able to, I’d suggest lowering the "CommonLimit" in the "zombicaust" script to 30 from 60 (30 is actually the default). There still might be too many infected at times, but it should at least help a bit. Not sure if that would make the map dramatically easier, though. :boomer: :gordon:
steeg 29 Jun @ 8:46am 
Got server rate going up and down to 10-20 (normal 60) causing stutter to client, I guess map optimization issue?
夜下君 19 Apr @ 8:32am 
200多M就一关还是破烂黑图
Elliot-_- 4 Apr @ 8:15pm 
i hate optimization
Fortnite Highwire 4 Apr @ 8:14pm 
there are vrchat worlds with less desync than this
遊戲玩家 4 Mar @ 12:46am 
我以為喺缺乏急救包嘅情況下，死守一波又一波嘅侵襲，到最後必定成功撤離，但點知原來只係一場鬧劇。

I thought that in the situation of lacking first aid kits, defending wave after wave of attacks would inevitably end in successfully evacuating, but it turned out to be just a farce.
Z 17 Jul, 2024 @ 12:08pm 
so its a troll campaign. aight.