Back To School Campaign (v 1.0) for Left 4 Dead 2 file

Back To School campaign has suffered a lot - its development lasted more than three years, stopped and came to life several times, and even once started again from scratch. But now “Back To School v 1.0” is finally available for download!

Release notes:

This is our first release for Left 4 Dead 2, so please be forgiving. Probably there are some issues and bugs in this version, but do not despair, all of them will be fixed in the future.

You can discuss the campaign and leave your feedback on our forum! You can help fix bugs faster, if you contact us there and describe them in details! Also you can suggest any of your ideas and improvement for campaign! We’ll implement the most useful and interesting ideas!

Campaign is available in two modes: coop and versus. Unfortunately “Marauder” mode is unavailable for now, because of the problems we have with it. This mode will be available in future releases.

Installation:

Before you install, please make sure you have the Steam Client installed along with Left 4 Dead 2. Also make sure the game has been launched at least once through Steam.

Extract bts_l4d2.zip. Now, all you need to do is to copy the campaign (vpk file) here: ...\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\addons\

Turn Game Instructor ON! Please!!!

For easy navigation and useful advices during the events we recommend turning on Game Instructor feature during the first few playthroughs.

To do that, go to Menu>Options>Multiplayer>Game Instructor and turn it on. Now Game Instructor is on (but you can turn it off anytime at the options).

Known issues and bugs:

• Minor problem with bots’ navigation.
• Performance issues in some locations.
• Bear model (replaces gnome model) is currently broken, we're working on that.
• Conflict with “Silent Hill L4D2” and “Vienna Calling 2”. Both of them contain file “soundscapes_manifest.txt” in vpk archive. This file causes wrong ambient sounds errors in many campaigns, including Back To School.
• Conflict with "Better Blood Decals" and "Improved Blood Textures" add-ons. Conflict causes game crash. We’ll try to eliminate the cause of conflict in future.
• Long loading time of campaign chapters (due to large and detail environments)

We recommend you to turn off campaigns that cause conflicts (Menu>Extras>Add-ons).

In case of game crash:

Very rarely, during playing Back To School campaign, Left 4 Dead 2 could crash (usually because of memory problems). This can occur for the following reasons:

• “Paged Pool Memory Available” in video options set on “High” while your graphic card has less than 512 Mb of memory. Set this option on “Low”.
• “Multicore Rendering” is turn on. This can cause crashes on the old systems. Turn this option off.
• Some other custom campaigns or add-ons may conflict with Back To School. Turn them off.
• Large amount of installed add-ons can also cause crashes. Turn them off.

Useful links:

• TRAILER!
• Help and Support on our Forum!
• "Back to School" campaign Site
• "Back to School" campaign Steam group
• "Back to School" campaign YouTube Channel

Back To School team:

Level design:

• Kirill “100_o/o_f@ke” Tarasov(also some of environment models, textures and sounds).
• Roman “romasm” Smirnov (also some of environment models, textures and sounds).

Environment models:

• Timofey “IceDev0x“ Popandopulo
• Konstantin “KYB” Bugakov
• Ivan “GoLDeN” Pozolotin
• Roman “Rombikon”
• Pavel “Tartuga” Sitnikov
• Georg Destroy

Campaign poster, environment textures:

• Pavel “Tartuga” Sitnikov

Environment sounds:

• Dmitry “SoJa”

Voice actor:

• Joseph P. Bracken

End theme and jukebox music:

• Evgeny "Cj Unfly" Galaktionov

Original ideas:

• Roman “Romiros“ Kosik

Translation:

• Anton “Air” Nikiteev
• Pavel “Tartuga” Sitnikov
• Dmitry “SoJa”

Playtesters:

• “Romiros“, “Tartuga”, “KYB”, “SoJa”, “Air”, “pAvi”, “LapinioZX”, “Jek”, “Hater”, “Sourrain”, “Koff33”, “Pumi”, “Feanaro”, “Wish Upon a Moon”