L4D2: I Hate Mountains [Revisited] (Hard Eight - Realism Expert)

1: Lost in the Woods (0:00)
2: Climbing the Manor (8:01)
3: Underground Way (13:52)
4: Lumberyard Evacuation (30:26)
5: Lakeside Finale (44:28)

Time to take a stroll down memory lane! I will start revisiting custom maps, most of them on realism hard eight. Most of these maps I’m revisiting will be ones I first played on tank run. I will most likely not revisit custom maps I played on special delivery, hard twenty survival, or hard sixteen unless they had a lot of updates after I uploaded them. I’m also gonna share more of my thoughts on these maps and rate them on a scale of 1-10 (I’m one of those snobby reviewers who hardly gives 10/10’s despite never having made a map myself so take this with a grain of salt 🙃)

This campaign started off easy but got difficult in the 4th and 5th chapters, taking us 4 hours to complete altogether. The difficulty gradually increased as we progressed through the map, at least until the stressful finale where it escalated quickly in contrast to the 4th chapter. The visuals were stunning and the path RNG added a lot of incentive to explore and replay. There was also variety in the events, from using a flare in a mansion to a helicopter crashing and opening a path to dropping a container on a building to clear a path. The SI spawns were somewhat unpredictable at times, many of them spawning in the mountains instead of behind objects in front of us like most maps would do. However, they sometimes got stuck in rocks and trees, particularly the scripted tank in the 2nd chapter. The finale was the hardest part of this campaign. Even when we used a strategy to go back to the starting safe room after calling the rescue, that only made the holdout longer and made messing up at the end even more soul-crushing, which was very likely… I ended up using the escape sequence as a checkpoint because I didn't wanna try another 20 minute attempt. While the finale fried my brain, the lightning effects and rescue vehicle made it very memorable. Overall, this campaign is a 9.3/10, a very challenging but iconic map!

Map: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

First Gameplay
Chapter 1:    • L4D2: I Hate Mountains - Lost in the ...  
Chapter 2:    • L4D2: I Hate Mountains - Climbing the...  
Chapter 3:    • L4D2: I Hate Mountains - Underground ...  
Chapter 4:    • L4D2: I Hate Mountains - Lumberyard E...  
Chapter 5:    • L4D2: I Hate Mountains - Lakeside Fin...  

This is not its own mutation. I played on Realism mode and used this mod to change the amount of SI: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

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