4/4 Maps Available

• - Desperate HouseWay
• - ColdstairCase
• - SmallEvill
• - Band of Rushers

10/27/11
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Map1)

- Optimization work : removed fliking street lights; reduced some models fade; etc

- NAV changes/improvements.

- Added directionnal speech for the survivors.

- Added a car park in front of the house.

- Added a mattress below the balcony that allows jumping down without taking damage.

- Made it impossible to shoot the bell or the witch through the kid's bedroom walls.

- Removed L4D1 survivors since the "surprise effect" is gone since we can play them on L4D2.

- Made it possible to climb the wagon and use the machine gun in coop mode.

- Made the safe room smaller.

- More details.



Map2)

- Optimization work : aligned world geometry; greatly reduced number of trees, bushes and grass; etc

- NAV changes/improvements.

- Added a survival/scavenge event in the well area.

- Moved the wandering witch to inside the barn, she's not wandering anymore.

- Added a trigger_push in the water (where survivors fall) that makes it easier/faster to get out of the water.

- Can't hang on the edge above the water anymore.

- Removed ammo pile in the cave.

- Moved the boss floor a couple of levels higher.

- The map is now shorter, the rest is on map3.

- More details.


Map3)

- Optimization work : aligned world geometry; reduced number of trees, bushes and grass; etc

- NAV changes/improvements.

- Removed crescendo event at the metal detector but can still start a panic event
if you go through it before pressing the keyboard.

- Made the old safe room breached.

- Removed storage building.

- Made it clearer on where to go in the foundry.

- Removed panic event of the foundry but reduced the time to cross it from 2 minutes to 1 minute
and an alarm will sound before the fire starts again if you don't stop it completely.

- Changed the end of the map completely (after the foundry parking), added a survival style event.

- More details.


Map4)

- Changed the map completely.

- Added the storage building from map3 and the conference center from the old version 1 that was in map2.


Overall)

- Added the old finale river as a SURVIVAL MAP.

05/20/11
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Map1)

- Optimization work : Reduced "FarZcliplane" (draw distance of the map) ; added occluders ; aligned world geometry ; etc

- NAV changes/improvements.

- added details to 3d skybox (trees, river and mountains)

- Repaired script (No random tank or witch should spawn)

- more details...



Map2)

- Optimization work : Reduced "FarZcliplane" (draw distance of the map) ; aligned/reduced world geometry ; etc

- NAV changes/improvements. (Reduced "escape route" by "merging areas")

- The plank in the well is now "not_solid", spit should go right throught it.

- Versus Tank is now spawning after the lab to pressure players from behind, that would incite them to rush.

- Flattened/highened the cave bottom (where survivors fall) that makes it easier/faster to get out of the water.

- Made the skull glow longer in the water in versus mode.


Map3)

- Optimization work : Reduced "FarZcliplane" (draw distance of the map) ; aligned/reduced world geometry ; etc

- NAV changes/improvements.

- Added details to the 3d skybox (foundry, buildings, floor)


Map4)

- Optimization work : Reduced "FarZcliplane" (draw distance of the map) ; etc

- NAV changes/improvements.

- Changed church inside texture.

- Made hole in the church bigger (makes it easier to pass throught)

- Changed escape vehicle because the APC outro crashed the game.

- Added details to the ending aera.


OverAll)

Greatly reduced the size of the VPK by reducing the "nav_view_distance" , the number of props/brush and env_cubemaps.

03/17/11
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Map1)

- Removed ALL planks we had to break to stop the alarm BUT
the crescendo event now starts from ground floor and
we need to go around the first and second floor to make it longer.

- Removed ALL random Tanks and Witches (Only Forced Spawned witches are still there)

- TreeHouse and playground is now in the woods on map1.

- Added L4D1 Survivors on Co-op mode near the Saferoom, they tell us where to go.

- Saferoom is now in the train tunnel.

- The traintracks now go on a straight line we can see part of the map2 and the foundry behind it.

- Reduced number of defibs and added T1 weapons before/during crescendo event.

- Optimization work : Reduced general and props distance of view for better FPS ; etc...

- Reduced the boundaries on the grey rocks in the water (Thx to Bunny)

- NAV changes/improvements.

- Some visual/decoration changes and work on detail (removed barbwires, added fireflies etc...)



Map2)

- Changed all the beggining and the ending of the map.

- Reduced number of floors (On the long annoying staircase ;)

- Made the well bigger/deepper.

- Remade all NAV. (Bots now follow well in the well ;)

- Removed elevator event.

- Crescedo event at the end of the map (Rush to the Saferoom with a dynamic path on coop only)

- Added a dead horse in the farm (Thx to Bunny for transforming a cow)

- Added foundry in 3DSkyBox (Thx to Bunny for the reduced Stacks)


Map3)

- Made it more obvious on where to go in the foundry.

- Remade all NAV.

- Inverted pile of bodies, now bigger and in front of the foundry, added flies sound around it

- Added new foundry sign (Thx to me and bioshock for the texture and Bunny for the 3D)

- Remade 3DSkybox with reduced PowerTowers and Trafficjam Props (Thx to Bunny)


Map4)

- Added the Cathedral instead of the farm (farm is now in map2).

- Added Catholic School instead of the treeHouse
(Treehouse is now in map1 along with L4D1 survivors)


OverAll)

- Changed music on all maps.

- Compiled all maps in full HD settings.

12/15/10
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Dead Series Public release.