Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

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Accurate Third Person Shoulder Guide
By Dodylectable
If you always wanted to experience Left 4 Dead 2 in third person shoulder Resident Evil-type camera, or see your mods from a different prespective, this guide is for ya! ^^
It's really easy and simple to do too! Also detailed information about it is wrote so you can take a gander at it!
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Steps
I know you at some point you wanted to play the game in Third Person Shoulder camera like Resident Evil, well, I made it easy for you! let's start with the steps then we move onto the commands! ^^

1. Open your Console by pressing the "~" key (the one on the left to the number one button above the letters directly below the "Esc" button)

2. Copy each command one by one and press Enter key after typing them or copy-pasting them
Commands
Here are the commands:

bind "key" thirdpersonshoulder (replace key with any button you can press to enable the third person, but type it without quotations, example: V button as I binded it to)

c_thirdpersonshoulderoffset 25 (if you want to replace the offset with a different angle go high or low, just make sure you know that 0 means it at the center)

c_thirdpersonshoulderaimdist 720 (changes the aiming distance of the camera)

c_thirdpersonshoulderdist 40 (changes the distance of the camera, like far or close)

c_thirdpersonshoulderheight 5 (changes the height of the camera, going -5 or -10 will give the game a more of a RE2 remake/RE6 style camera)

cam_ideallag 0

Just copy-paste them or type them into the console and then press Enter key just like what I said in the Steps section :)
Features
Here are the features of the method of ATPS (I just named it that :P)

Works perfectly in any gamemode including Versus
(Regardless of the game is heavily modded or soft modded or just straight up vanilla)

Unbannable
(You can't get banned by using it no matter the server/gamemode/map is)

Not recognized as a cheat
(You can unlock achievements and play on VAC-protected servers easily)

Very customizable
(You can type every command and change the button bind, height, distance, offset etc.)

Automatically saves to your Steam Cloud
(For example you uninstalled the game and then reinstalled, then don't worry as it'll save to your configuration file config.cfg (although I'm not sure what cfg file the game saves to but I took the autoexec one as an example) that get uploaded to the Cloud so you can use it without having to type the commands everytime you reinstall)
Bugs
Here is the list of them pesky bugs I encountered throughout using ATPS:

Shotgun firing sounds are bugged
(When you fire them in third person the gunshots doesn't sound, IDK what is the cause of this, I don't know if rebuilding the sound cache fixes it but I don't know since this is a beta developer feature thing and it wasn't completed in the first place and was buried in the game's code ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)


Shotgun Firing Sounds fix mod can be downloaded from here made by c2

Important Note regarding the Shotgun Firing Sounds fix mod: If you can't connect to official servers, you need to use the sv_consistency 1 command to fix the issue

In close distances it's inaccurate
(Example: A zombie is too close and your shots miss)

Sometimes the world glitches when you put the camera to look through a wall
(Like places in maps where the player isn't meant to access so it glitches, this is in every Source engine game IIRC like Gmod when you noclip out the map for instance)

Blood splatters don't show on screen
(When you slash zombies or something similar but I guess it's kinda a bugged perk so you have ease looking)

Weapon recoil screen shake isn't present
(This is kinda good and not good, good because it helps you shoot, not good because it's a bug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Some effects don't appear on the screen when using ATPS
Like Adrenaline screen effect, other stuff etc. but Boomer Puke appears on both prespectives, also applies for last life (after many incapitations)
Screenshots
Here is two screenshots I will show to give you an example of ATPS with the settings I typed alongside Zoey Redfield Noir modification made by 1/1 ;)

The End
You've reached the end of this guide! ^^
Hope you enjoy using ATPS!
Like the guide if you enjoyed ATPS and don't hesitate to comment pesky bugs you encountered so I can list them or your opinions about it. ;)

Note: I didn't make an addon of ATPS because first of all I don't know how to make this a mod properly since if you were to make a mod like this it wouldn't execute on startup or something similar.

Note: Thanks to Maur0 for letting me know about the Third Person Shotgun fix mod! Much appreciated!
43 Comments
R4gn0r0k 13 May @ 4:29pm 
i need a hard reset of third person settings. deleting the config.cfg file did no good, verifying game files did no good, & deleting game folder & reinstalling does no good. The mods that fix firing in third person no longer work & i cant seem to fix it! :steamsalty:
simonjunyaochen 20 Sep, 2024 @ 8:44pm 
c_thirdpersonshoulderoffset 25
c_thirdpersonshoulderaimdist 720
c_thirdpersonshoulderdist 40
c_thirdpersonshoulderheight 5
cam_ideallag 0
SiriusVcX 4 Nov, 2023 @ 7:56pm 
To anyone thirdpersonshoulder shotgun sounds are bugged and using addons for shotgun fix will only work on local/dedicated servers tough so to let you know.
The_Caedos 1 Aug, 2023 @ 2:13pm 
Also does anyone know if you can disable the aim fix? Imo I think it’s more annoying than anything.
The_Caedos 1 Aug, 2023 @ 1:42pm 
It’s not cheating.
Sayachii 7 May, 2023 @ 2:30pm 
How is it cheating?
Silly 6 May, 2023 @ 5:10pm 
Do this if you want to cheat, why not just practice and try to get good!!!!!!
ramanamoru 30 Mar, 2023 @ 9:05pm 
commands for a more dead space type camera angle?
StMa 3 Mar, 2023 @ 11:54am 
You're wrong about the versus part
Jaan 26 Dec, 2022 @ 2:00am 
By default :
c_thirdpersonshoulderoffset 20.0
c_thirdpersonshoulderaimdist 120.0
c_thirdpersonshoulderdist 40.0
c_thirdpersonshoulderheight 5.0
cam_ideallag 4.0