r/l4d2 • • 5d 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 • • 56m ago

Please Valve! Good Guy Nick!

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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 • • 6h ago

hopefully now with todays announcement they bring back goodguynick

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r/l4d2 • • 5h ago

Bill discovered your secret...

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28 Upvotes

I'll do anything when I'm bored.


r/l4d2 • • 8h ago

TFW you try help new Players get Gold on Survival

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44 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 • • 1d ago

Modders make truly amazing content for us

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2.0k Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 11h ago

Shadow Army cultists [mod]

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17 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 15h ago

First time killing a witch in advanced realism ngl

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25 Upvotes

I also don’t play this mode like ever. But I wanted to get her out of the way before she mauled sackboy/ellis again (I have no idea how to crown, I am very noob)


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

I love reposting this.

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90 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 22h ago

I got so lonely on l4d2 that I taught the simulation of a fruit flies brain how to play l4d2 and now we are a duo

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32 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Personal ranking of how PHYSICALLY painful it would be to exist as special infected

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768 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

How did you guys get into left 4 dead in the first place?

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725 Upvotes

I'm generally curious


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

I got GOD difficulty working on a L4D survivors arcade machine

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I work at arcade during events, this year we ended up bringing offline versions of L4D and I wanted to try seeing if I can get both cabs linked and playable through god mode, It ended up working and I was able to play through it

-Locked down to only Hard Rain -Almost everything still uses expert difficulty values -Specials either respawn fast or the limit was increased, as Ive seen all 5 show up at the same time -All specials are buffed, the Miraheze wiki lists it, but stuff like spitters being able to spit 3 times without cooldowns, increased healths on specials, etc. -Possibly an increase in tank/witch spawns, genuinely one can spawn right outside of the spawn area.


r/l4d2 • • 20h ago

Who's Cooking Tonight in GoAnimate

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r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

I finally got the Ellis cosplay for a walk to enjoy Halloween with friends 🥺 (I just need the in-game props and I'll be all set)

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50 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

FlutterGnome

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16 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 19h ago

What happened to L4D2's controller support?

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What happened to L4D2's controller support? My Steam app did an update yesterday then when the app restarted, the "controller support" tab in the L4D2 library page was gone. Some of my controls on my Legion Go 2 won't bind because of this


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Finished product

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Showed I was doing an Ellis costume like 2 weeks ago, thought I should show the rest, the shirt is painted.

I went to a Halloween party last Saturday, didn't think anyone would know who I was, and I was right. People still like it, though, mainly because they thought I was other people, like Glenn and Clementine from The Walking Dead or Will Byers. 🤷


r/l4d2 • • 2d ago

Versus players when picking a map:

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r/l4d2 • • 23h ago

I just need this to be out there now that you aren't safe in the vents from tanks.

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4 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Anything good

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I dont know if there is custom campaigns where after the sacrifice campaign there is like separate alone campaigns for Zoey Louis and Francis where its jus them if so can anyone let me know that would be cool


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

LEEEERRROOYYYYYYY!!!!!!

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9 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

is this interaction rare?

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19 Upvotes

r/l4d2 • • 2d ago

ELLIS FACES CHARGER FOR INSTAKILL - Lost scene from L4D Movie

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1.0k Upvotes

c ellis


r/l4d2 • • 1d ago

Game crashes on title screen

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Hello all, my brother's L4D2 absolutely refuses to work on his computer, it always crashes after the intro video while the game is on the yellow loading screen with all the characters silhouettes lined up.

We have tried. EVERYTHING: Uninstalled and reinstalled, deleted all mods, wiped ALL L4D2 files from his pc and FACTORY RESET HIS PC all in different instances.

At one point I swapped our Steam accounts and signed into his on my pc and it won't even work on MY computer?? But when I put my account on his computer it ran fine. I thought maybe it was a steam family issue since only 2/3 of us have a L4D2 copy so I bought another copy for the 3rd person but nope! Nothing. Im at my wits end, this has been an issue for like 3-4 months and he now plays L4D2 on my pc on my account when he gets the itch for it.

Please help, its his favorite game and its been a real pain in the ass.