Left 4 Dead 2 Expert Add-on / Custom Map Players

Back to School[www.l4dmaps.com]

I know this news is a bit late but Hurricane Sandy smacked us around us pretty good here recently so I was without power for 8 days.

Anyway, the first version of the campaign was released a couple of weeks ago and has also since been updated to version 1.05 to address some issues (most notably the non-stop horde bug). Sadly, the neat custom weapon animations and models from the initial release were removed due to some conflicts with other mods but perhaps we might see them make a return at some point?

As far as the campaign goes, the level design looks stellar and quite detailed and first impressions are that this may have the makings of one of the top ones. Haven't really played it much yet but I love the custom content that has been added, in particular the ambient sound effects that really help set the mood, such as the waterfall and radio broadcast on the first map. Which reminds me, I should point out this snippet from the campaign documentation (if you can't hear those things in your game):

Known conflicts with other custom campaigns
- Conflict with "Silent Hill L4D2” and “Vienna Calling 2”. Both of them contain file “soundscapes_manifest.txt” in vpk archive. This file causes wrong ambient sounds errors in many campaigns, including Back To School.
- Conflict with “Warcelona” campaign. The teddy bear may use wrong collision model.

We recommend you to turn off campaigns that cause conflicts (Menu>Extras>Add-ons).