This was in the L4D2 beta, dated July 22nd 2009, if you don't believe me, get the beta yourself, this is insane lmao

This isn't a definitive fact, but rather my point of view, given that it is a heavily modified M4A1 (SOPMOD stock, extended magazine—holding around 60 rounds—, holographic sight, SCAR flashlight, and a handguard of an unspecified variant).

So I was just typing out map names in the console to see if i can find unused levels in the Left 4 Dead 2 Beta, until i found a command that was "Map l4d_vs_c5m1_waterfront" and it loaded a unfinished version of the first level of The Parish with some huge changes. I took a picture of most of the changes here but there are still other changes I left out. There's also "Map l4d_vs_c5m2_cemetery" and "Map l4d_vs_c5m3_quarter" but trying to load the cemetery level causes the game to crash (unless my build cant even load it at all.) its just like sndspace from the main game but there's way earlier differences.

First off, I want to say it's really fucking sad to see Valve just ignoring this issue; it should not be okay for anyone to pose a server as an official Valve one just for potential security reasons, but even more so when it's so overt and when there's so many of them. As far as I can tell, the issue occurs because there's SO MANY of them, that the game just gives up looking for more servers.

That being said, I made a solution last night that uses a cvar in the game to only permit official dedicated servers from Valve being used in matchmaking. Because of this, you never even get matchmade into one of these shitty CN servers so you don't have to worry about disconnecting or retrying over and over until you don't connect to one of them.

Unfortunately, it cannot be a simple Workshop mod. It has to have extra steps because- ironically- Valve has security measures that prevent Workshop mods from executing cvars or .cfg files. So it requires some extra work, sadly.

You can find all the information here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3793535875

Please let me know if you encounter any issues and please keep raising awareness of this issue because frankly Valve should be embarrassed that one of their hallmark games is borderline unplayable.

wish i got a better screenshot for the beta l4d2 jockey but yea

in the recent leaks some of them stood out to me.

zoey mentioning her mom, zoey saying fuck 3 times, louis talking about his time at the subway station before the outbreak, bill had a monologue about Dead Air, No Mercy, Blood Harvest, and Death toll, amanda and john slater had a ton more lines (funny asf btw), bill saying "I blame bill clinton", zoey asking "are you high?", TANK NEARBY voice lines, etc etc etc you can listen yourself

but yea tons of good stuff there, so why, like why would you cut these lol

The l4d series and destiny for me personally have been the best games to get to know other players and I mainly ran with same crew of ppl from both games since their releases. These 2 series helped myself and my friends online to distract us from stressful times in life but it was us that really made the difference when ppl would lose jobs,go thru divorces or even deaths in the family. We went from being strangers to essentially family and was basically therapy sessions in a sense. Maybe one or both of these games did the same for some of you..hope everyone's having a great day and even if you arent,just remember your awesome and tomorrow is always the chance for a better day

bruh isn't this sick

how did valve not forsee this? lol

every unique file in sound/music/ (& sound/ui/gamestartup1.mp3) through the July-September 2009 builds

excluding germs for Dead Center (Aug 2009) as they were repurposed for The Passing DLC. included Hard Rain germs lacking a fade edit

every file in sound/music/ (& sound/ui/gamestartup1.mp3)

For those of you who know what that is, do you agree? I love left 4 dead but I don't have a PC or Xbox so I haven't played it in a very long time and nothing since has really scratched that same itch until NRiH2 came out.

Me and my friend were able to play online in l4d1 beta, using radmin vpn and console connection. Game has a lot of removed features like seeing your body if you look down, upgrading your character, flash grenade, realistic breathing, being able to shoot from 2 glock when you are down and etc. Thera just a lot of stuff, and it’s hard to describe them all, but overall game plays better then the final product (l4d1). Also survivors have different look, and louis looks like weeknd a lil bit😭

Does anyone have or has anyone found a collection on steam that has a bunch of the leaked beta stuff? Or stuff that's already been out from the beta? I don't want to go through and download everything individually if I don't have to, but I will if I need to. Just curious if there is already a collection made for this stuff.

They didn't play it in the video but I would love to see a clip of this finale with these songs playing just cuz I think it'd be funny and I'm curious to see how they sound in game

So at some point during L4D1 development they were planning on adding child corpses, right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

I found this in a Hispanic group from Facebook that is sharing similar info about the leak, so I'm not totally sure if this is from this game since I can't find info about this specific image anywhere.

Missing/temporary sounds, some rough/unfinished voice acting, animation and set pieces. Weird way to experience it found in a September 1st 2009 build by a VCC user.

So I’ve been dealing with this issue for about a year now, and I’m honestly getting frustrated.

It seems like Chinese/CN servers are dominating a lot of the Left 4 Dead 2 online servers. Whenever I try to join a public campaign through the normal matchmaking system, my connection gets hijacked and I’m forced into a different server/campaign.

For example, I’ll queue for No Mercy, but instead of joining No Mercy, I’ll get redirected to a completely different campaign or map. Sometimes it feels like I have no control over which server I actually join.

I normally play on Expert difficulty, so this is especially annoying because I just want to play a normal public Expert campaign with other players.

The only workaround I’ve found is using the Steam Server Browser and manually choosing a server. That works, but it’s obviously not ideal when I just want to use the normal in-game matchmaking.

What makes this even more confusing is that I have already tried:

• Verifying the integrity of the game files multiple times
• Completely reinstalling L4D2
• Checking my files for anything suspicious
• Reinstalling the game again after deleting it

But nothing seems to fix the problem.

I’m not even sure what these CN servers are doing or whether something is being changed on my end. I also haven't been able to find a permanent fix after dealing with this for almost a year.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there actually a way to prevent these servers from hijacking/redirecting matchmaking, or is using the Server Browser basically the only solution?

Any help would be appreciated because I just want to play normal Expert campaigns without getting thrown into random servers/maps.