could you add in some nurse models for no mercy?

Really a must have for the L4D1 maps. That one huge lag spike that would happen at the start of Dead Air is gone.

Come to think of it, technically speaking you would only really need to merge the other two mods, as both overwrite everything in this mod.

The "L4D1 Common Infected Overhaul" mod most likely edits all the same CI models that i did, so all of the "Making l4d1 ci look like l4d2 ci" will be gone immediately, undoing all that this mod tried to achieve. Cause you can't make the l4d1 ci look like l4d2 ci, but then also insist of having even more l4d1 ci. Makes no sense.

The "Extended Common Infected" mod probably adds even more CI to the l4d2 maps via the population file.

So you really only need to merge the model folders of both mods and that's probably it. Unless the L4D1 ci mod also has a population file inside. then you'd need to merge both line by line, keeping whatever population sections you want to keep from either of the mods.

dw ill try to do it lol (i dont know what to do im cooked but ill still try)

well, i said what would needed to be done.
But nothing stops you from merging the mods into one, so to speak.
as long as you don't upload it to the workshop.

oh so youd make it to join with it or do i have to just do it myself?

there's a lot of mutual exclusivity with those mods.
My mod and one of those all edit the l4d1 infected. You could just modify the mod loadorder to do that.

But the extended ci mod probably edits the population files as well.
So what i would need to do is not "make it compatible" but i'd have to actually join both mods into one.

can you make it compatible with those?

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2291140471


https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2193880197

i guess you're right.

they sure got some serious attitude

It wasn't Valve.
It was a bunch of modders that made up the "The Last Stand" crew.
There was only one valve employee in that team, to actually push all the updates.

Guess who wasn't allowed to join that team?
Hint: It's the guy who fixes all their shit. (me)

Perfect! addon that fixes stuttering, Valve Ruined The Game,

@мяFunreal it really is. valve shouldn't have trusted those guys with the update. i heard some not so nice stories about those guys too. Especially that Jaiz guy

A godsent add-on! It actually made The Last Stand campaign more playable/enjoyable/bearable for me on lower-end hardware. Before installin' this, the frames-per-second dropped quite badly, especially on the Lighthouse part of the map.

Makes ya think the TLS update was a mistake by people who should really have known better.

Guys "updated" the l4d1 ci and broke optimization, then they made an unoptimized map using beginner level mistakes, left in a couple unused models in the game files, felt the need to plaster credits and other self referential graffiti into said maps because "look mom, i did this", broke other models that they didn't even need to touch like the gatling...

Meanwhile i'm over here fixing their nonsense CI updates, fixing the uv errors on their own models, along with precaching junk that they added via scripts and forgot to precache them...

My favorite game ruined by the sheer incompetence by people i looked up to.

I find criminal that this issue is still in the game , stuttering like crazy on new hardware setups is craaaazy stuff , you would expect this to be top priority at this point but come on its been so long already guys VALVE / TLS.

a blessing in disguise, thank you for this

you can edit your mod load order to prefer custom models over anything this mod does.

Kinda wish it's compatible with custom models while maintaining l4d2 commons

A very great module, even better if the police and patients replace it together, because the first generation of infected individuals did not have a burning texture

just one question on the l4d1 female animations. is it possible for them to use the l4d2 animations? (not disliking the mod, i personally use it all the time)

This is good for PRE-TLS addons! Hopefully one day someone makes an addon that restores L4D1's reduced gore, just the limbs and head etc.

There's nothing we can do that doesn't cripple your game in another way.
Reducing the huge CRAPTON of skins will fix the lag, but it will break the gore system when playing online. So the only true fix is for the one dev that pushed the updates to undo his screw up, if they even know how to do that.

i wish there was some way to do this while keeping the L4D1 models. ig i just have to live with the lag spikes at the beginning

This actually goes well with the L4D1 Remastered Special Infected

@мяFunreal
Holy goddamn sun shine on you! I've been looking for something like this mod for a hell of a lot of time! Since my mod subscriptions reached 500+ pieces, it became impossible to play on l4d1 maps due to wild lag spikes. And now this problem is solved! Thank you very much!

Now that makes sense.

It wasn't valve, per se.
It was one single valve employee that did the whole programming bits and pushing updates, while (afaik) the few modders who should have known better made all the actual "content"

You're welcome!
And I do agree that L4D2 Common Infected are way optimized and they load faster than L4D1 ones.

I wonder what was Valve thinking while bringing back the L4D1 Common Infected that causes a HUGE lag at the beginning of every map of a certain campaign that has L4D1 CI.

Glad you're enjoying having the game run smoothly.
Can't believe the "community mod team" let that big ass lag spike slide.

This greatly reduced the huge lag at the beginning of L4D1 maps if they have the CI from the first game! Seems like L4D2 CI are quite optimized.

Still, keep up the good work! It is that one mod that I was looking for.

Depends on how your mod works.
If it only edits the textures, you'll be able to see those in multiplayer.
But if your mod edits the l4d2 ci, then you'll still see the "default" l4d2 ci models instead of all l4d1 ci.

However, since in singleplayer it edits the population files, you'll always see the actual l4d2 models, whatever texture or model mod you have installed for those.

This may be a stupid question, but if I have a CI mod that re-skins the L4D2 CI, will this mod change the L4D1 commons to the modded/re-skinned L4D2 CI?

Ah, i see.
Yeah perhaps that mod offset the animation order incorrectly.
Or some other silly nonsense that just didn't go well with another mod that replaces the same models.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2708770665
Yep, this one was the cause

ik that is really weird tho. thanks.

That's weird, because the colors mean nothing, since they're the same model tinted a different color. And last i checked, the l4d1 variants use the same anims as the l4d2 variants do.

Hey, i was playing on mercy hospital recently and played for three different time online to be sure
The Yellow CEDA was t-posing but the green one was fine, mind to take a look?

i wonder how reverting back to what it once was causes crashes.
perhaps it loaded too many ci model variants. gotta take a look at that sometime.

This mod actually caused crashes not gonna lie. At least in Death Tool finale.

the los angeles stand

why?

This actually does fix some horrible lag issues, thxs.

the description would tell you.

Why?

@Xeno :
Theoretically, every CI has LOD models. Simply because having any lod (even if it is just bones) will also include its own model. They may not have reduced polygon lod models, but they do have lod models. The game handles that a little funnily,.

@Lenar
This mod only swaps the Common Infected.

The special infected are swapped too?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remembered there's no LOD for the L4D2 un/commons model; maybe that would also help to reduce the stutter. I know it's little, but it's an additional performance gain.

This really helped stabilize my FPS. Thanks!

No. I specifically said the only ones that i kept were the cop and the patient.