Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

Hard Rain: Downpour [Rollback Pre-TLS Version]
14 Comments
Shad3rEVO 6 Aug, 2024 @ 5:38am 
Do you think you could update the Aftermath survivors?
I noticed after the TLS update the arms on some of them (most noticably Ellis) have become messed up.
のあ 8 Mar, 2024 @ 3:04am 
Nice version !!!
Playthrough
https://youtu.be/pSd9_Go4Z6I
GS Mod In Play 23 Aug, 2023 @ 2:53pm 
Map 10/10
Blue  [author] 11 May, 2023 @ 2:47pm 
@Brigeezy123

Yes. That is because the VPK is as it was untouched before the update. This was done on purpose.
The_Real_Grant_Macdonald 10 May, 2023 @ 4:27pm 
is it supposed to conflict with the original?
Your local horse offender 11 Mar, 2023 @ 9:20pm 
this map always crashes between loading in different safe houses. like i get to a safe house, closes the door, wait 5 seconds and left 4 dead 2 crashes so hard it sends me back to steam closing the entire game. is there a fix for this because this map looks really cool and i want to experience it in full but at the moment such a thing seems impossible.
Blue  [author] 22 Jan, 2022 @ 2:26pm 
@MAN I did too!

@Bizargh

So I dove into the VPK and it turns out there are no patch notes within, just a "thanks to" note. But by comparing the content and patch notes, its very clear that this VPK directly correlates to the version available on gamemaps that was released on 09/06/14, and replaced on 04/26/16. As for the workshop, the same version was released 09/06/14, but was replaced 03/25/21, much later than gamemaps, just as you said. So this VPK is definitely the version prior to the break, and was the 7th update to the campaign.
Xx>₱ÙπIßH3D.X.M4π<xX 22 Jan, 2022 @ 11:05am 
yahoo i miss this version of the map :D
Blue  [author] 22 Jan, 2022 @ 6:52am 
Actually, scratch that. I messed up the order of updates, I see what you guys are talking about now.
Blue  [author] 22 Jan, 2022 @ 6:51am 
@Bizargh

I did score a quick look at the VPK using GCFscape before uploading to the workshop, I think there was patch notes in the root directory in a normal text file. I'll definitely get around to doing that when I get home from work today. Very intriguing.
It could be the changes that were given to the campaign on Gamemaps in 2016, however the VPK's origin was the Workshop, 2014. So it depends actually if the workshop was updated first then they got around to updating gamemaps 2 years later, since this addon seems to have a history of sparse continuity updates between the workshop and its 3rd party hosts.
R󠀡F 22 Jan, 2022 @ 6:50am 
@Bizargh Correct, 2016 version IS the same version currently on workshop, it just took THAT long to update it on workshop...
Bizargh 22 Jan, 2022 @ 6:33am 
I don't know if the VPK contains any patch notes, but you might be able to use the contents within to cross-reference the Changelogs found with the GameMaps release that's still around (I don't know if the referral to L4DNation holds up as that only seems to be a Discord Server & Steam Group these days).

@RF Hard Rain: Downpour's Steam Workshop release did receive an update on 6th March 2021 after not receiving one since 2014 (Hence "Post-TRS"), but these might have been the changes given to the Campaign in 2016 as can be found for the GameMaps release: https://www.gamemaps.com/details/12237
Blue  [author] 22 Jan, 2022 @ 6:32am 
Its just an arbitrary term I made up. "Post-TLS" is the current version of the actual addon. "Pre-TLS" is this version.

Before their update on March of 2021 which made the campaign broken, the last update was August of 2014. That version ran from 2014 all the way until 2020-21, when The Last Stand update released. The resurge in attention to L4D2 is what sparked them to re-update the campaign. That is why I call it "Pre-TLS".
R󠀡F 22 Jan, 2022 @ 12:36am 
There never was "post TLS" version...