8/10
Don't get me wrong, it's an excellent map but the uncontrolled spawn of hordes of commons and the gigantic cave map is what makes it drop in score, other than that it's great.

nice

This is the best and hardest custom campaing i've ever play. I highly recommend it if you want some challenge.
PD: I didn't expect those 2 tanks in level 3

i have all five partsd subscribed but with all of them check marked they all show up as red text on the addons list is that normal or am i missing a required mod for this to work properly a response would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance :)


signed darkstorm

u know nothing spikedballofdoom!!!! nothing!!!!

GAMEPLAY FULL CAMPAIGN EXPERT REALISM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WEoRi-REfw

@Blazkʘ Thanks! Glad you noticed the news broadcasts! Kev had the idea to use those to tell a bit of a background story to what was happening. I think a lot of players might miss or ignore it but if you listen to all of them it actually reveals quite a bit about what's going on. Yeah Kev also made another campaign called One 4 Nine which is also available of the workshop and definitely worth checking out.

This is probably my favorite addon campaign. The attention to detail is just fantastic. A you play through the different levels, you will notice a TV with a new broadcast on it, it evolves throughut the campaign just as the virus would in a real zombie apocalypse. What a great adventure! Its the little things that make custom maps great! Plus the dark, eerie atmosphere is great. Where can i find your other maps? I saw a left for dead movie poster in this campaign and im wondering if it's a map youy made? i think its called 149, or something like that.....anyways, FANTASTIC campaign, I highly recommend this!

this campaign has a bug on some maps "infinite tank spawn" pls fix it

since readers are from various areas the context might not come across in my comment on another campaign - I was indicating that because it was so challenging I would like to see a new one of similar challeng level.

I should add that I am undecided on which I prefer - focus on not crashing or ....new campaign since this one was head and shoulders above other campaigns with respect to how challenging it is on advanced.

Update, as CiaoCiao mentions this always happens with Dedicatet/Best server. After at first being stable for one game it soon began doing it again on map3 and even on map 4. I have not made it to map 5 without it crashing.
If it is a mod I believe it is one which replaces the skin on the minigun, AK47 and the bolt action scope rifle. Though I crash just as often even after removing most mods.
However I have been monitoring it when it crashes and it seems to me there is a memory leak. For example when you load straight to Map 3 you can play for some time before the crash - perhaps even make it to Map 4. (We play advanced so it can take awhile before we get to 4.) If start map 4 same - will play some time before crash and when check Task Manger the memory usage seems higher.

@CiaoCiao: Ok thanks for the info. As with nosavynada it sounds like one of the players is using a mod that is causing the game to crash.

if i play with my friend using dedicated server/ best server availlable . always crash (diffrent area) not 1 area.
if i play using local server , the map didnt crash

@keved Understood and thanks!

@nosavynada: Big thanks for all the info. :)

The l4d2_thebloodymoors.txt file conflict can be ignored, it's not a big issue. I'll fix it in the next update.

As for the crash issue, the map3 files only use the vanilla Valve MP5 weapon, so given that map3 worked fine for you in vanilla solo and local MP server, and the problem only occurred when adding players who hadn't uninstalled whatever mods they're using, most likely someone is using a mod that alters the MP5 in some way that causes the crash.

Unfortunately it seems like there's not a great deal I can do to help as the problem doesn't appear to be with the campaign itself. Evidently it's an issue with a mod that someone has installed, so the issue needs fixing by the author of that mod to prevent it crashing the game. Cheers.

So results are inconclusive unless there is a problem with MP5 on Map3

we added the other 2 players and they had some problems with MP5 graphics and got dumped. They stopped using MP5 an report not getting dumped again. but this time as long as one of us did not get dumped they could rejoin and game did not crash every one out. Not sure if this will help. I was the only one who unsubscribe to anything. One 4 Nine is subscribe to the one other person who was stable and he did not unsubscribe and was stable. He used MP5 a couple times but when level 3 started and MP5 disappeared he switched guns.

i hosted multiplayer game with local server and worked fine. I also noticed in my add ons a warning that it all five maps were sharing a file so I checked Developers console and found -
File missions/l4d2_thebloodymoors.txt collides in VPKs:
The Bloody Moors (Part 1)
The Bloody Moors (Part 2)
The Bloody Moors (Part 3)
The Bloody Moors (Part 4)
The Bloody Moors (Part 5)
CGameUIConVarRef cl_ignore_vpk_association doesn't point to an existing ConVar
That is repeated 4 times I think. It also said shared with the One 4 Nine so I unsubscribed to One 4 Nine and then restarted it played fine with 2 player on Steam servers.

It plays fine solo it seems. No crashing for over 15 minutes, at least all the way to the dog food in the barn. Rain, poster of 4 in 1, use of all the guns including mounted and carry heavy machine gun. Heavy rain. I retrospec it was raining in the the multiplayer mode and perhaps it was triggered by start of heavy rain. Will try it again multiplayer later tonight and see. Again Thanks!

@nosavynada: Thanks for taking the time to reply, and glad you like the campaign in spite of the crash issue you've having. :)

Generally speaking, side effects from mods and server-side stuff may not necessarily be an issue on all maps of a campaign, but only affect one/some maps - because each map will have different events and scripts. The two most obvious thing that map 3 has which maps 1 & 2 doesn't have is the rainstorms. It would be interesting to know if the rainstorms worked for you because they begin near the start of map 3. The rainstorms are quite complicated in their setup, so is the most obvious source of the crash.

Unfortunately Valve did not provide us campaign developers with any means to debug crashes, so somewhat shooting in the dark here. If you're willing to give map 3 a quick test offline in vanilla L4D2 by yourself, that will at least help narrow the problem down, but don't worry about it if you're busy. :)

If it were the mod my question would be why would it work fine for the 2 previous maps. If you have more questions or want me to try something let me know. And really - thanks for keeping up on comments and your reply! it is seriously an excellent campaign. We must have played the longest we have tried on advanced which is or normal start before we even made it to the first safe house. So we enjoy it very much. Thanks!
In that regard if it works in solo games I would think perhaps the mods would not be a problem.
Perhaps with the trend of servers adding in ads, and other mods / options one of those impacts it - but again those apply to the campaign as well and should have triggered on map 1 or 2 at least statistically. (sorry i had to break it up due to character count limit.)

For myself and 3 other friends it always crashes a couple of minutes into level 3. We have tried it 4 times total. 3 entering the normal way by playing through 1 and 2 and in those when you have extra minute of prep time before exiting the safe room it crashed about the first machine gun in the back of the truck facing the tunnel and exiting the tunnel. In fact when in the safe room certain sub machine guns graphics would disappear or phase out and return for each of us. So the 4th time we launched directly and we got about one area further. We tried not picking up the minigun, we did go ahead and fire the truck mounted machine gun and got just a tad further before it dumped us. Based only on those 4 times it seemed to be triggered perhaps either by elapsed time or perhaps spawning of a particular special or event. As for mods - the only mods I have are music mods 1 for tank (benny hilll) and 1 for jockey (macarana) and 1 mod for rochelle - I forget which one.

@CiaoCiao & @nosavynada: Can you provide more details please. Does it always crash for you at the same area, or different each time? If the same area, which area? Do you have any mods installed? Do you have lots of other campaigns installed?

It doesn't crash for me either online or offline, so there's not much I can help with if you don't provide specific details enabling me to track down the problem for you. Thanks.

any fix for this map 3 crash in campaign mode?
And yes I have all 5 maps downloaded, dowloaded them one at a time to insure no problems. It crashes on map 3 even if you start in map 3 then very soon into map 3 crashes out, all players crash same time. All players are booted out of L4D.

not crash whileplaying offline T_T
got that crash while playing online ( campaign online)

i got some crash on map 3
2 of my friend got some crash.
game start awhile and shut off l4d game T_T
need some help sir

Thank Jay

This is one of the best mods I have ever played on steam. The levels are quite lengthy, but its good to see they can take almost 45 minutes to finish each level.

Great map, love the voices you added. This map could use more health though. I was near exhausted by the time the tanks came in after having the extended horde waves. Maybe after the dog is fed?

Make sure to download all the parts (5 in total) before attempting to play. ;)

one of the best maps

this sounds like a fun map