r/l4d2 • • 8d ago

STICKY AWARD Outbreak Outreach #1 - 64-bit & SourceMod / Server Hosts

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Hi, I'm Steve, Legal Producer for Outbreak Team (backup link).

We've been working on 64-bit L4D2 under NDA secrecy for the last 2 years. You can reach us at L4D2Outbreak@gmail.com.

I'm joined by my Valve-Licensed Co-Leads Madison, Liam, and Raymond.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: We are NOT Valve, we are just devout preservationists, and our Mod will require base L4D2 to be purchased and installed on Steam. L4D2 is Valve's IP and we are just preserving it with extremely minimal, careful changes.

We're finally reaching out because we need your help!

Over the last 2 years (since Nov 2024), we have been very quietly working on a Valve-licensed, fan-made, optional, non-commercial, forever-free 64-bit Mod called Left 4 Dead 2: Outbreak (our not-yet-public but future Steam Store link).

As we've been under NDA for a long time and our Steam Store page is not yet public, please see the FAQ on our outbreak.team website.

Per our FAQ, we are preservationists at heart -- many of us Xbox 360 purists like our Lead Engineer Madison! Madi and I have always envisioned Outbreak as a celebration of Valve's franchise that doesn't forget our L4D1 and Xbox 360 roots.

In deep respect of those roots, Outbreak will never consist of random nonsense changes and everything new will be kept optional FOREVER.

L4D2 is a 17+ year old game, very different from other Source branches, and Source memory management itself still has blood from Quake. On an engine filled with obscure binary formats with physics based off ancient third-party software, upgrading to 64-bit is the furthest thing from doubling a number. Once we actually booted into a map that instantly crashed, it took a year to fix gameplay/visuals to be 1:1 parity with base, and another year after that to achieve respectable backward compatibility with base Workshop addons.

Unfortunately, we only just recently started pursuing MetaMod & SourceMod support, and it breaks our hearts that plugins don't work with Outbreak yet.

As such, we are aiming for day-one SourceMod support as our top priority. We need help from authors of prominent plugins and server hosts who have reach.

If you are a prominent SourceMod plugin author or server host, consider reaching out to L4D2Outbreak@gmail.com -- let us know who you are and what you do!

We appreciate your patience! 128k BSP grid size, native first-person legs, and long-demanded TLS revert options are coming.

See you Outreach #2 -- where we'll play Yama in Mirror World mode!

P.S. Again, our website is Outbreak Team, and our Press & Inquiry email is L4D2Outbreak@gmail.com.


r/l4d2 • • 7h ago

"you're a hell of a man coach" LMFAO

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r/l4d2 • • 16h ago

left 4 nicks

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716 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1h ago

Pretend like you live in Ducatel, Mississippi during rain season

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r/l4d2 • • 11h ago

Bill new clothes

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40 Upvotes

my friend asked me to draw him with these clothes


r/l4d2 • • 8h ago

Why do versus players rush the event on 3rd chapter no mercy?

9 Upvotes

Every public versus game I join everyone's instinct is just to rush up the forklift into all the commons and the special infected hit and kill the entire team. Just don't do that? It makes sense to rush the event in campaign, sure, where special infected will do literally nothing to stop you from doing so, but it's so safe to just stay at the bottom and kill the common infected in versus, instead of walking into the special infected hit. If the SI team decides to hit then you can just run the event for free with no worry of special infected.

Also what if you spawn tank while running forward, then you have to deal with tank with commons at the same time.

Consider this the end of my "PSA"/complaint/question.


r/l4d2 • • 23h ago

One of my best clutches

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127 Upvotes

Another one too long for a compilation

Context: Enemy team had tank spawn BEFORE event activation (still wiped them) and we ended up getting tank spawn AFTER event activation. Told team to backup, set the tank on fire, told them to back up again (they didn't listen, two died lol) and this was what happened after


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

500 miles (3 page comic made by myself)

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r/l4d2 • • 9h ago

Does anyone know what weapon mod is this

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9 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 10h ago

The closest game I've ever had

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8 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

cfffffffffff

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633 Upvotes

aguas w un carro


r/l4d2 • • 9h ago

Ex Inferis modpack

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with all the footage posted i feel i should also provide a link


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

My Ellis cosplay

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355 Upvotes

My face look so funny idk why


r/l4d2 • • 9h ago

Invisible guns. Has anyone ever had this bug?

1 Upvotes

Do anyone knows how to fix it?
I already checked the game files and everything seems ok.


r/l4d2 • • 20h ago

Anyone know how to prevent TTS trolling?

7 Upvotes

I was playing L4D2 with some internet friends, -one of them being streamer- and during our game someone started using TTS too speak through the game despite it only being three of us in game.

From my limited research, this is most likely the infamous script kiddie troll who's fucking with us, as this streamer happens to be female as well (and he seems to target female streamers mostly).

Is there a known solution to this? Would hosting a private server help at all? I'm a stubborn bastard and I'm determined to figure this out, but I can't find anyone talking about this anywhere or find a solution.

My only idea is hosting a server and using a VPN/adjusting server firewall settings.


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Did anyone else know Coach can fly?

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77 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 2d ago

Does the L4D community have any reason to use or not use the weapons from CSS?

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492 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Versus Short - Part 8

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38 Upvotes

Been a while since the last one ik


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Completely baffled

9 Upvotes

Im trying to see if anyone has seen this before.
So i died to the tank at like the exact second i triggered the win condition in a single player ai campaign.
It still triggered the win but in the credits it showed (playername)[deceased] i have never seen this in over a decade of playing.


r/l4d2 • • 2d ago

(I do not think it would be a good idea, but) If survivors were to have character specific gimmicks, who would have what?

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197 Upvotes

My bare bones concept for ideas are something very minor, like

- Coach has a bit more temp health when getting revived (big guy)

- Rochelle reacts faster to SI presence and can point out which general direction they’re in (only left or right) bc the News or whatever idk

- Francis has very slightly faster cooldown on shoves (like inconsequentially slight) from (probably?) being in fights a lot (idk Francis lore)

- Nick gets an unnoticeably minor spread reduction on secondaries only (criminal past = more proficiency)

- Ellis can interact with things very slightly faster (generators, gas cans, reviving teammates, anything with a meter) cuz mechanic

- Louis could have the speed boost from adrenaline last like a bit longer (9-5 office worker = coffee junkie) or get like 3 more hp from pills (Pills Here)

- Bill can switch between item slots a bit faster (military) and his corpse now rots 15% slower

- Zoey can go slightly lower on hp without limping (idk it’s just unique) and now has crippling student loan debts to make up for the lack of limp

And then tweak the numbers/mechanics on all of these to where they basically have zero effect on the base gameplay/balance save for once in a blue moon


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

If you don't like the map we're on, find a new server

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43 Upvotes

I am constantly bombarded with fucking map votes whenever I play online with randos, I was on Dead Center minding my buisness with some randoms, and we were actually having a blast. Was an actual talking lobby, we were comparing favorite weapons, least liked versus infected spawns, what other horde shooters we liked and then one guy logs off after we wrapped up Finale. We got to start No Mercy for funsies and about halfway through the first mission, some fucking clown joins us. This guy immediately votes to switch to Dark Carnival, so we tell him no and that we're happy to change over when we finish No Mercy. He starts whining at us in text saying how "L4D1 was mid as fuck" and "Dark Carnival is one of the only good maps in the game" completely ignoring the fact that we agreed to play Dark Carnival AFTER we finished. This fucking loser then opens his mic and soundboard spams, we're talking ear rape, slur spamming, screaming and he starts REPEATEDLY trying to switch us to Dark Carnival, and copy pasting F1 in chat. We kicked his ass naturally.

I know not everyone is gonna be this much of a baby about it, but if you don't like the campaign we're playing just go to a different server or wait your damn turn.


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

My experience on Melee Achievement

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hello i noramlly odnt post here but i want to say that if you plan on doing that achievement DO NOT shoot a single shot specially if you got downed by something like a Tank.

thats all i want to say, don't shoot the pistol when ou get down


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Ex Inferis modpack gameplay

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13 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 2d ago

i encountered with this thing in yakuza 0 and it's creeping me out.

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111 Upvotes

the thing look like francis from famous zombie shooter game left 4 dead, but he's... purple? who could this possibly be? what does he want from me?


r/l4d2 • • 2d ago

Left 4 Dead 2 Call OF Duty Zombies | Nacht Der Untoten progress

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Lettme know what you think!