r/l4d2 • • 6d ago

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

262 Upvotes

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 • • 12h ago

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

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279 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 10h 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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114 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 • • 2h ago

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

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10 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 • • 17h ago

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

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74 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 • • 15h ago

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

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42 Upvotes

Lettme know what you think!


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Please Valve! Good Guy Nick!

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751 Upvotes

They removed the YouTube achievements from Team Fortress 2 so people can actually 100% the game now. I’m asking Valve to please look at Good Guy Nick and either remove it or change it so it can be attainable!


r/l4d2 • • 3h ago

Ex Inferis modpack gameplay

4 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 3h ago

Solo versus mode workshop addon

2 Upvotes

I found this really cool addon which lets you play Versus mode alone (without friends or servers). I had a lot of fun playing it. However, on levels where you, the player, have some objective to complete, the survivor bots just get stuck and just randomly roam around or just gather at one specific spot not knowing what to do. Aside from that this mode is amazing! So, I thought I'd share it.

Workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=675686554 (made by Chlorororororo)

You can read the "How to start it" section in the description of the addon. Also, I think they don't mention it in the description but press [M] to change between infected and survivors.


r/l4d2 • • 4h ago

Does anyone wanna help out with the survival achievements?

2 Upvotes

So I'm a new player with around 23 hours on l4d2 and I was trying to get achievments but Im unable to survive for 7 to 10 minutes by myself and when i join online i never get the achievement maybe because i join after game has started so i was thinking if anyone could maybe duo or help out?


r/l4d2 • • 22h ago

Funniest moment of my modded l4d2 gameplay

48 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 11h ago

We missed Jimmy Gibbs Stock car

7 Upvotes

I was thinking. If the poster says 4- 8 pm and the car is still there, then I would think that Dead Center takes place on October 14th between 4 and maybe 6 pm


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

How are Smokers physically able to catch survivors?

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120 Upvotes

I don't understand how the Smoker is able to capture people by just shooting their tongues at them. The tongue would just flop to the ground after hitting someone.

It would make way more sense for them if they tied their tongues like lassos then swung them around like cowboys.

edit: I failed to realize before posting that people still won't be able to tell this is a joke post even after seeing the stock image of an old cowboy riddled with watermarks


r/l4d2 • • 20h ago

My favorite thing about Louis is when he says, "I am bad-YES I AM" That rocks and when he makes fun of Francis for not being able to read.

19 Upvotes

Damn what's your favorite thing about Louis? Don't say when he says peelz


r/l4d2 • • 18h ago

I finally managed to make my first mod after agonizng hells and tries

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5 Upvotes

the mods just replaces the music called "the monsters within" with "ode to joy". even works with L4D2 and L4D1

why is the thumbnail a gray guy screaming? authoring tool wanted to be a picky shit and wont accept jpegv and i couldnt give any less shit to change it instantly, its 1:20 in the morning

why did i post here? when this should be general a workshop mod? cause its L4D2 mod and theres no mods that plays ode to joy and this is kinda like a promotion but i feel like a capitalist saying that its a promotion so just say its a little showcase. this is the first time talking about any mods lad, and its my mod and im proud. dont take me away just for rule 7 cause this is my first mod

the code looks pretty simple on paper but what i did was google how to do it and then caveman my way

when i finally manage to get the mod to work i felt so relieved. its almost as if i could hear ode to joy when I succeeded (no shit lad)


r/l4d2 • • 12h ago

How does one make their music mod louder?

2 Upvotes

Is it just amplifying the volume in Audacity? I want to know how mods like the Desperation music mods are loud, yet the sound quality doesn't suffer much


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

hopefully now with todays announcement they bring back goodguynick

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176 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 17h ago

c nick

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4 Upvotes

c nick le dieron tanto f1 que se revelo y se fue a dmc5 remplazando a dante para que el pueda descansar, F2 y 10 noches con lady y trish


r/l4d2 • • 15h ago

What Mods Yall Use To Play l4d2 With.

2 Upvotes

Mine Is Like Random MW2019 Gun Mods And Some Color Correction Shits And Some Custom Campaigns Too, And Graphical Mods Too.


r/l4d2 • • 16h ago

Looking for peeps to play L4D 1 or 2

2 Upvotes

On console, hmu if anyone wants to rip some L4D 1 or 2


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

what the fuck happend

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11 Upvotes

i was just replaying hard rain and suddenly rochelle and coach just clipped through the elevator and died. can someone explain this


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Bill discovered your secret...

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47 Upvotes

I'll do anything when I'm bored.


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

TFW you try help new Players get Gold on Survival

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81 Upvotes

Was joining 3 new players on the Map "Terminal" and thought this is nearly impossible to fail. its one of the easiest maps. So many molotovs and 5 gascans i will put to make sure we cant lose (because new players often ignore tank).

Well in first 2 Minutes they started shooting gascans without tanks in sight and threw many molotovs at burning tanks or commons and used all medkits.

1 guy ran away to the booth where he defended alone and we only made it to 7 min, cause i was busy helping pinned teammates while shooting tanks too. :D


r/l4d2 • • 21h ago

Need 3 players what are you trying to prove (Left 4 Dead)

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r/l4d2 • • 2d ago

Modders make truly amazing content for us

2.4k Upvotes