- The map design is as excellent as it was on L4D1, and the addition of daytime for the latter 2 maps gives a much better sense of pace and progress than in L4D1.
- Finale is well suited to a scavenge conversion, but...

- Finale is just ridiculously difficult. I normally play on advanced with one other friend, and we had no serious problems in maps 1-3, the difficulty felt balanced and good for advanced mode, but the finale just wiped us every time. We started to expect a dodgy server, but only you can tell me - is there meant to be such ongoing spawning behaviour? I saw two hunters at once frequently, and the SI just kept spawning in almost as if it was survival mode. Not only that but the utter lack of warning at the start of the finale almost garuntees your failure first time. At least give (if possible, I'm not sure how scavenge finales are made) a good 20-30 seconds before commons start spawning so the players can get a handle of the area. I also recommend trying to lure the player towards the area with kits and supplies first. I didn't discover this area until about my 5th attempt, after I realised the cans on the 2nd floor of the building should probably be done first as they're in a fiddley position. Upon seeking them out I was like "Oh, there ARE supplies after all". You need something to lure players to always enter this area first, or else you'll get many a ragequit at the seemingly impossible odds you've set up. Let the chosen difficulty decide how hard the finale is. If the SI spawning behaviour is your doing, there's no need for it. It just frustrates and confuses since players are used to the behaviour given in the official campaigns. If you want to make a "Hardcore" map, that's fine, but you should advertise it as such and not save it JUST for the finale. As said, I normally play advanced, but to finish the finale I had to switch down to not normal, but EASY. That's too damn hard.

This is an excellent campaign and definately worth playing, though right now I find it easier to recommend the Left 4 Dead 1 version. I'm giving this only a 65. It would be a 90, but the finale just really drags it down. If you rebalance the finale in the future I most certainly would re-rate it.

Nice design of the map
Nice loading image
Player names match the position of characters on the poster when loading(too many custom campaigns cannot do it)

Too much panic event and the duration of it is too long, thus so many time I cannot go through it with my friends when we are playing in advanced level or above
The finale may be too difficult for newbies
The 1st aid appears in one chapter cannot be taken

Challenging map
The intro is fantastic,atmosphere is good in 1st chapter
The track for the survivors can make it a bit longer but not just adding most panic events

Yeah, i'm voting this 100 because of idiots who rate quality stuff like this 40.

There are no custom melee weapons in this campaign. They are simply not there man. Check your botched riot shield mod install.

L4D is not a single player game. It was never designed or intended to be played this way. Single player mode is sort of an afterthought game mode for people without friends. Get some friends.

This rating system is a complete joke and something needs to be done about it.

That'll do I think.

Nice poster
Nice intro
Aperture containers lol
X-Ray with the L4D hand
Lots of hordes
Engenious second map (although confusing, at times)
OMG WATER ALMOST DROWNED
Explosive barrels
Finale succeds where most Scavenge finales fail: verticality
Really difficult
Original design
Nice ending sequence

Bots have some problem with the stairs right after the panic event
Bots keep coming out and getting back in the water
Bots blow up the barrel room ;_;

Loved it.

as good the first version in level design

every event was non-stop zombies, gauntlets are good but not on every single event

melees caused barrells to explode

on the third map when you reach the metal door, or the lift all of a sudden the bots refused to follow staying in one place like there wasn't a nav and a tank is always spawned by triggering these events.

if you manage to make it past all that right before you reach the safe room, just like the l4d1 version, the bots become incapicated for no reason and you can't help them. then you mysteriously die

I must respectively disagree with random player there were so many bugs I just couldn't play it anymore

o and I'd like to see the water reflect the objects in your map just like in dead swamp

-well made and high-detailed enviroment
-a challenging campaign even in normal mode
-very nice poster and interesting intro
-explosive barrels help against hordes of zombies
-i expierienced a fight with zombies in the water VERY NICE

- i didnt see any cons.(the bots seemed ok to me no problems at all)

A extremely well made and difficult map which keeps you interested in playing it.

GOOD CAMPAIGN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. :)

- Challenging as hell
- The whole campaign's location is pretty awesome
- Design is top notch!
- Non-linear
- Weather effects rocked
- Underwater part was great, it's very rarely used
- A few bugs, but nothing insane
- Loved playing it

- Maybe a tad too challenging, too many crescendos at times
- Needs more ammo, I played a fair chunk of finale with only 2 revolvers
- Elevator was problematic for bots
- Some spawning issues (zombies spawning right behind me when there is no way for them to get in)
- Too many one weapon only spawns, T1 weapons were all over, but the bots usually grabbed the T2s before me
- Going into the ... I think it was the first safe room, leading to the second map (the one where you go down the stairs), the tank spawned there, in the staircase, and for some reason, I couldn't back out, couldn't really move until I killed the Tank It's like I got stuck

It was uber enjoyable to play this campaign. The setting, the atmosphere, everything was great.

I loved the fact that it was a complete campaign. I know how long it takes to create a campaign, and I really liked that we could play it all, instead of playing just one map now, and waiting three months for more. No offense to any mappers who read this and are doing it the bit by bit way. It's just a personal preference.

Also, I love the level of detail that went into this, it's polished up quite nicely, didn't notice any skybox problems, or any map problems in general.

Yes, I put in a lot of cons, but that's because if these small bugs get fixed, it'll be a quasi-perfect campaign. I've started learning to map, so I have a new respect for people who actually do it. It was really great. J'ai adoré.

Kudos!

- very good adaptation of the first version
- awesome work, great ambience
- the universe is coherent, lots of details, very few visual bugs
- Very hard ! But it's a interesting challenge

- Very hard ! But it's a interesting challenge

your work is very neat, you put a lot of tricks and find many original features that make your campaigns exciting, surprising and often very close to a professional standard.
Maximal rating

-Good co-op
-Interesting maps
-Fun finale
-Good long run up through the oil rig to shut off alarm
-Tank killing spot on 3rd map=Perfect
-No framerate problems

-Wouldn't convert to versus very easily, too many smoker pulldowns and charger insta-kills.
-Hard for for single player, the bots can get lost or die easy
-Spawn points seemed a little off on the oil rig platform during the finale, I had a horde appear in front of me a few times
-It was easiest just to collect all the gas cans before starting the event, maybe trigger it automatically or hide some of them better

Not sure if the tank killing spot on the 3rd map was intentional, but I'm assuming so. I was running ahead of my team, trying to figure out where to go when I went through an air vent into a small room with a gas tank and like 4-5 oil barrels. Just as I thought to myself "Damn this would be a good place to lead a tank into, the tank music starts" :D I ran out, got its attention, and ran back into the room, firing a shot into the gas can and drop down the vent, hearing the tank rage into the room just as the oil drums start going off. By the time he dropped into the first vent opening, I'd already started climbing out the second one, and the tank died before he even made it back out, on advanced difficulty. It was a highlight of that map for me.


And I didn't notice anything "anti-american" unless you call pictures of Bush or the title's mention of "dark blood" to be some sort of profound political statement. Are pictures of Reagan anti-american too or just past presidents that the republicans aren't proud of?

Nice intro
exciting map layout
thight ways and rooms like L4D 1
good navigation for CI
challenging gameplay
multiple crescendos
good crescendo ideas
good main theme: ship and oil platform

map 1:
- more direction arrows needed
- better CI navigation during crescendo needed,
maybe you should make it an alarm crescendo like
in map 3
- bots get stuck when goind downstairs inside the ship

map 2:
- maybe less probs for faster paced CI, the zombies sometimes take too much time climbing over various probs

map 3:
- more FPS optimizing if possible
- alarm crescendo is awesome but common infected take too much time climbing to the pathways

finale map:
- ammo piles needed
- med kits in one spot
- FPS too bad
- SI sometimes get stuck in certain spots
- Major: no 2 tanks parallel
- Major: bot don't get into the chopper
- Major: a bit more pipe or bile bombs needed

in general:
- imo the SI attack too less or just spawn too less, this goes for all maps except the finale map

A very good L4D 2 port!

Although there are some certain points to balance out and fix. Especially the finale map and the crescendo in map 1.

Amazing detail
Great atmosphere
Perfect layout

None

This map rivals No Mercy and Blood Harvest. It's that darn good.

Really nice design. Great co-op. Really hard, but fun, finale. I actually could imagine that this could've happened during the time of l4d2. Just over all a great campaign.

If this were an official campaign I'd say that the levels needed to be more versus friendly, as in not to maze like to navigate, and more places for infected and survivors to have even ability.

I also don't really believe the finale to be too fair lol. For one I think you should make the gas cans spawn in different places. My team and I had a plan that was like "pass all the lower cans onto the blue tarp, then up to the wooden platforms, then from there to tanker."

So I'd like to maybe see more levels cans. Maybe a just less crowded finale. Also, I think that there should be some voice acting for the news pilot. or for virgle. It just seems like it's missing that.

This was a great campaign, I'm really impressed by the overall standard that you set in it. The cons I mentioned are just things I would like to see, that might better the campaign over all. But that's just my own opinion. This is a really good map, I'll be sure to play again.

- New game style (Ship)
- A nice fog and lighting.
- Great design and texture.

- Lack of Ammo.
- Lack of Health.
- Too many panic events campared to given ammo and health.
- Constant hordes, never stops.
- You can play the final without triggering the event.
- Same old boring final. =/

Needs fixing.

- Just awesome
- Amazing environnement
- As epic as in left for dead 1
- Good ambiance
- Lot a tricks to lose you
- Get a new life to your left for dead
- Finally a map hard to play

- none

Like for this map in l4d 1, it still is pleasure to play it! Continue like that !

Peanut Butter

Applesauce.

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

I must provide a more substantial review.

-detail/textures
-length of the map is good
-horde ratio

-somewhat lost or go in circles in the 1st map
-need more ammo piles, especially in the finale
-need more explosive stuff ( ie:mollys, pipebomb, etc)

Overall, I liked this campaign. I especially like the underwater part, mostly because it's different. The finale is very challenging and fun, I like the scavenge idea of the finale. It really makes it interesting and especially with the placement of the gas cans.

I did get somewhat lost on the first map, ran in circles a good bit, but all the other maps were straight forward and progressed well. More ammo is definitely needed in the finale. Enjoyed playing this campaign. Thank for the hard work.

Nice design of the map
Nice loading image
Player names match the position of characters on the poster when loading(too many custom campaigns cannot do it)

Too much panic event and the duration of it is too long, thus so many time I cannot go through it with my friends when we are playing in advanced level or above
The finale may be too difficult for newbies
The 1st aid appears in one chapter cannot be taken

Challenging map
The intro is fantastic,atmosphere is good in 1st chapter
The track for the survivors can make it a bit longer but not just adding most panic events

- I LOVE it. That's remind me Death Aboard and that's a good thing. The theme, the atmosphere are pretty good.
- The levels are various.
- The underwater part.

- Too many events per maps. The problem is the events are too long, too much zombies. Simply reduce the timer will be a good thing.
- Too much "only one" weapons spawn. I can't get a T2 weapon on the 2nd map until the really end because the bots pick the only auto-shotgun before the next event.
- Zombies can span RIGHT behind you at some places.
- Bots can't reach the other side of the underwater part in the 2nd level if one of them is in the red. He falls, the other bot try to revives him and the other bot stay under the water and, finally, they all drown.
- Lack of rescue closets or defib units.

I really love it despite some cons. You must go to one event at one other and try to survive.

EDIT: For the final, the bots can strat it by reaching the ladder. Maybe add a elevator or a door where only a human player can activate to start the final.

-Long Levels
-Ship

-Finale is terrible
-Can get ambushed easily
-AI Bot Problems

I would recommened downloading this map but play it with friends not bots too many bot problems.

- Great Atmosphere
- Great Use Of Weather Effects
- Non-Linear Areas
- Enjoyable Cresendos
- Challenging
- Overall Bots Aren't Completely Lost
- Underwater Part

- A Little Bit Too Challenging (Had Issues Beating The Second Level)
- Too Many Cresendos Per Level (Level 2...)
- Bots Usually Die Underwater Unless You Rush So That They Teleport
- Bad Tank Spawns (Tank Spawned Right Outside Saferoom On Level 2)
- Lack Of Ammo Upgrades And Defib Spawns
- WITCH SPAWN AT UNDERWATER PART EXIT!

A really enjoyable campaign. I have yet to beat level 2 though. Mostly issues with the underwater part espicially if I get jockied or charged underwater. And a witch spawn right at the exit of the underwater part? Seriously? It's impossible to avoid so you're forced to do a fail attempt of crowning the witch. And if you do die which you probably will, the bots can't save you because they climb the ladder then jump back down and drown. I also had trouble handling 3 cresendos on the second level. It's a constant hoard after the second cresendo so it's almost unbearable. Overall, I really enjoyed this map. It has one of the most eyecandy look to it that I've ever seen out of any other campaign Watch out Dead Aboard 2, you might have some competition!

P.S. The campaign was so great that it made me sign up just so i could give it a review!

The set up was interesting in the levels that worked.

Special Infected get stuck in a lot of areas

edit: ok after finally going over the files we figured out the problem is that the server is not downloading everything properly so i will be changing my rating. Sorry for the inconvenience. It's still buggy, but we figured out why it was crashing and two of the levels did not work properly. I guess we will have to keep Downloading it till the server gives us all the files, because sometimes it skips some. Will of course re-review once I have it all downloaded and played!

- Creatively Detailed
- Ambitious
- Challenging
- Demands YOUR Attention
- Long

- I'd like to have been able to swim in that flood
- the bots at finale would not get on chopper, damn them me and another had to get rid of them lol.
- scavenge can be a bit too long for some, but we found a way to beat it by using logic.

- Bots have a good navigational system, but they aren't "pro" nor bots that rely on reason vs logic. They do as they should throughout the map, saving members who are down etc. just that the finale -_- they shown their true colors when they allowed the horde to swarm us...those bastards......

What you are trying to achieve is beautiful, I have a great respect for this map and its ambitions. The design, the work and effort to provide a great run is brilliant dammit! One of my favs especially considering it is STILL a Beta 0.o !? I know you'll do great for its completion, ignore the negative feedback you are doing awesome.

- Great L4D1 campaign brought to L4D2.
- Great environments and atmosphere, claustrophobic
- Explosive barrels
- Underwater area
- Good length and difficulty

Minor, but in L4D1 in level 2 the room with the shallow water had a nice oily rainbow texture effect going on. Now it's replaced with that awful looking L4D2 peasoup water which I personally hate. Also, no water in the engine room anymore?

I also don't like everyone adding scavenge to L4D2 finales. I really don't like scavenge, especially if the generator is really high and there are a huge amount of cans like in this one.

Not sure how this only has a 74! It's one of the better campaigns out there.

- great ship, oil rig textures, design
- most chapters well thought out

- Finale was horrible.

This campaign is fun and playable until you get to the finale. Too long and spread out. Either have a call for rescue or gas up a getaway. Don't combine them. Or don't have constant hordes until the generator is running and rescue signal is sent.

Beautiful level design
Adequate power-ups
Some non-linear alternative routes through maps

Finale sucked!
Way too many Panic Events!

I had high hopes for this when I saw the first map. Then the Panic set in...and again...and again. Panic events are good. This campaign is too much of a good thing. In addition, having constant panic and multiple moving witches, and multiple tanks is just ridiculous. I look forward to playing this again once it has been seriously rebalanced.

- The map design is as excellent as it was on L4D1, and the addition of daytime for the latter 2 maps gives a much better sense of pace and progress than in L4D1.
- Finale is well suited to a scavenge conversion, but...

- Finale is just ridiculously difficult. I normally play on advanced with one other friend, and we had no serious problems in maps 1-3, the difficulty felt balanced and good for advanced mode, but the finale just wiped us every time. We started to expect a dodgy server, but only you can tell me - is there meant to be such ongoing spawning behaviour? I saw two hunters at once frequently, and the SI just kept spawning in almost as if it was survival mode. Not only that but the utter lack of warning at the start of the finale almost garuntees your failure first time. At least give (if possible, I'm not sure how scavenge finales are made) a good 20-30 seconds before commons start spawning so the players can get a handle of the area. I also recommend trying to lure the player towards the area with kits and supplies first. I didn't discover this area until about my 5th attempt, after I realised the cans on the 2nd floor of the building should probably be done first as they're in a fiddley position. Upon seeking them out I was like "Oh, there ARE supplies after all". You need something to lure players to always enter this area first, or else you'll get many a ragequit at the seemingly impossible odds you've set up. Let the chosen difficulty decide how hard the finale is. If the SI spawning behaviour is your doing, there's no need for it. It just frustrates and confuses since players are used to the behaviour given in the official campaigns. If you want to make a "Hardcore" map, that's fine, but you should advertise it as such and not save it JUST for the finale. As said, I normally play advanced, but to finish the finale I had to switch down to not normal, but EASY. That's too damn hard.

This is an excellent campaign and definately worth playing, though right now I find it easier to recommend the Left 4 Dead 1 version. I'm giving this only a 65. It would be a 90, but the finale just really drags it down. If you rebalance the finale in the future I most certainly would re-rate it.

no major fps drops

boring environment
overuse of reflective textures
bad for singleplayer
lame events
finale blows

we get it france hates americans but can you guys leave the political jabs out of mapping atleast lol. and Rorschach12 i dont care about the picture its the sarcastic text. im not american btw just dont think its cool to poke fun at people who are having a hard time with jobs and struggling in real life.

+Nice loading screen
+Best intro cam i saw this far... including the original campaigns
+The breakable ground in Level 2 is quite a funny idea.
+The explosions in level scared the crap out of me XD

-The AI pathes (both, infected and survivors) are messed up on many places... though, mainly the survbots ones.
-Once a tank was spanwed behing the event door (level 2). Actually, even a single player could have killed him on expert until the door would have been fully open.
-Another time the tank spawned and seemed to fell to death about 20 secs later... never saw him.
-Actually, level 2 was (after triggering the event) just a GIANT gauntlet... the horde never stopped coming for the rest of the level. Either fix it or change it (depending on whether it was intended or not).
-You couldn't find a worse starter object for the finale, could you?
-In finale the horde spawned next to me once. Not funny... nearly pushed me over the edge into certain death.

Playable.
The campaign has an overall nice design, some great creative ideas...

But the AI paths suck and on some parts the levels are either insanely difficult or just stupidious easy.

60 imo

Interesting / Creative Levels
Nice use of single pick up weapons

Needs a few more ammo dumps
Bots sometimes got lost
Finale is way too hard

I remembered playing a few maps of this camp back during the D1 days, I think it was incomplete as I don't recall the finale there. The port to D2 is pretty nice. The levels are challenging and the game play solid. Never were we bored running through the camp, the level design and atmosphere is great. We did find that there were times when we had all run our guns dry so maybe a few more ammo dumps or weapons scattered around might be called for. The one part that really was a downer was the finale; it is simply way to difficult even on normal. We played 3 rounds on normal and even tried easy but could not finish. We simply gave up after 4 rounds of having our hineys handed to us. The major problem is that the cans are scattered in remote locations, while that is not bad on it's own it is compounded by the location of the generator. It's up 3 flights of steps basically and running the cans that far facing hordes and specials is difficult to say the least. Another flaw with the finale is the level is very cluttered giving hordes and specials the ability to spawn at point blank range basically. Top off those 2 previous attributes with a lack of health supplies and you are in for a rough ride.

In conclusion I see no major flaws with 3/4 of the camp... it's the finale that takes the biggest bite out of Dark Blood 2's score. It has the potential to be awesome but I don't see it being in regular rotation in it's current form

NOW- inigmontoya: You are correct, the rating system is broken and you are proof of that. Randomly giving a campaign a 100% just because someone else's review ticked you off. Good show.

- Original environment with great graphics and illumination (maps 1 and 2 remember L4D1; maps 3 and 4, with daylight, L4D2)
- Many crescendo events
- The platform is very cool (note: 100)

- Finale map: more ammo

Excellent campaign, perfectly well converted to L4D2.

Attention to detail.
Flow of the game....excellent.
The Scavenge at Finale time.

Bots wouldn't get on Chopper in finale...all dead LOL
Lack of ammo and first aid,

This was excellent and I really enjoyed playing. It was certainly challenging both in directions and fighting,
Thankyou for all the hard work

Good level design, almost all borrowed from Cryostasis.

Virtually unplayable with bots. Some downright silly tank spawns. Finale is not fun. Should have been a survival, not a scavenge.

Probably fun if played with all human players. Unfortunately sometimes you just want to play alone or can't find players to play with.

Aesthetics were great

Good design

THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN WAS A NON-STOP HORDE DIRECTOR ONSLAUGHT PLEASE TURN THAT STUFF DOWN

A great campaign destroyed by constant zombies. Call me a noob, but I was raging on easy.

~Absolutely awesome
~Good environment
~Just as epic as it was in l4d1
~My fps were not to bad
~Still love the Tanker Ship
~Could not see any edges of the map or the skybox
~Bots where doing ok except for the 3rd map at the end.

~I don't like the final. It DOES require team work and if you don't have a mic or bots to follow you it can get abit hard.
~Bots got stuck on the end of map 3 for some reason. Took him awhile to teleport back.
~To many events and they seem to just not stop when they start.

Fantastic map and your an awesome map maker. The atmosphere was just incredible. I think that finale needs some work though. All in all I hope to see some more work for you bro.

Aesthetics (how it looks)- (40/40) Pretty damn good. Great attention to detail and the intro fly-in was pretty cool.

Gameplay- (36/60) I never experienced fps drops so it is well optimized and the gameplay was fin other then the ones I described. Remember though you have to fix that finale, it really brought down your score

1) Bug-(-3) The witch can get stuck in many places, especially at the start of map 2

2) Bug-(-3) we were standing on some sort of cat walk and a spitter died maybe 512 units below is and somehow the spit hurt us.

3) Gameplay flaw-(-5) In many places it was hard to know where to go, and sometimes if you went the wrong way you would end up back were you started 2 minutes ago!

4) possible bug-I could see a lot of the infected spawn in front of me. This could of been the horrible modded server I was playing on though.

5) Gameplay Flaw-(-3) I'm pretty sure you already know the problems with the under water swimming part. Yes it was original and creative but it just doesn't work very well. If you are red you are pretty much dead, or the bots trying to rescue you are.

6) GAME BREAKING BUG-(-10) I can't believe no one has talked about the horrible finale. I'm not saying the idea is bad but there is a horrible bug. I can walk around and collect ALL of the gas cans before I start the finale. Every single one I can collect and place right next to the generator making the actual finale last less then 30 seconds. What I suggest is make those locations inaccessible until you start the finale.

A fun and good looking campaign which is strong until the finale which is bugged. Because of the finale this map should definantly not be played on verse, but I do suggest you try it out, as the pre-finale levels were quite fun.

Download it!