Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

Glubtastic: Back 4 Glub
Pluvillion 6 Jun, 2022 @ 7:39am
Three words: Oh. My. God.
This survival campaign will test your wits, aim, patience, reflexes, resourcefulness and efficiency. You'll either have the best time playing or you'll be left frustrated over and over again. You have been warned.

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I'm not a survival type of person but my god was this an absolute THRILL to play. It was so cool having to strategize with my friends and picking the best spots to hold out on (to reduce the need to buy healthkits as well as ammo). The Spitter wave was nothing short of chaotic reduced to ear-deafening screams of me and my friends yelling to back the ♥♥♥♥ up and provide cover fire. My framerates dipped to just 10's but it was well worth it. It took us an exact two hours to finish the whole thing with a total of 4,115 zombies killed on Normal.

Kinda crazy how years of playing Left 4 Dead and the first time I got to be in cohesive city map had to be from a Glubtastic campaign out of all things. Given the nature of this series, the details are just insane. The traffic lights still operating, the alleyways having enough detail to be believable, the atmosphere, the unlockable establishments (especially Tesco - y'all got it right) — it felt like I was right there at the scene. Not one area was left barren of detail to put you out of it (even the out of bounds area had something going on). Of course, in order to make the players remember that they're playing a Glubtastic map, the rescue vehicle and process behind it have to be completely out-of-place amidst the scenario you're in. There's also a wave that involves tiny zombies. See for them for yourself.

That said; here's one tip: Get the Gnome as soon as possible. He's absolutely powerful as ♥♥♥♥. Most commons will spawn in Tesco once you've unlocked it, so the best thing you can do is place his cart on the mat between the two shoplifter scanners. He'll one-shot the commons and specials on its way (it can't be pushed by a Charger either). That's one less area for you to worry about.

However, give an eye on it from time to time because a Boomer explosion or a Tank will push it off. Otherwise the gnome can handle itself.

And another thing: Always check the roofs. Smokers will spawn more than any other specials.

10/10? Nah - 30/10.