Back To School Campaign (v 1.05) for Left 4 Dead 2 file

First of all, we are impressed! We got loads of comments about our campaign during this week! Thank you, we appreciate your support! It became clear that it’s necessary to fix the major bugs of the campaign as soon as possible, because they prevent players to enjoy the game. In this regard, we released update v1.05!

Unfortunately, we haven’t found reasons of all of the game crashes yet, but we hope, that with your help, we’ll do it in future.

Release notes:

Сhanges in v1.05:

• “Non-stop hordes” issue fixed. Difficulty now is more or less the same as in official Valve campaigns.
• All weapon mods were removed from vpk (They conflict with other weapon modes).
• Some crashes were fixed (But not all).
• A conflict was detected with "Better Blood and wound textures" add-on (improved blood textures.vpk). Conflict causes game crash. We’ll try to eliminate the cause of conflict, but until then we recommend you to disable this add-on.
• Bots behavior in the finale was fixed (They chose the wrong rescue vehicle sometimes).
• Extra way pointer was added in chapter four in case of jet bombing event.
• Smoke on heli landing spot is removed in case of bus finale.
• Adrenaline was removed from the boat on the first map (It attracted survivors and they jumped down into the deadly water. We’ll delete deadly water in future updates).
• Pistols amount was reduced in chapters two, three and four.

Campaign is still in development, 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 help fix bugs faster, if you contact us 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”