Custom Campaigns

Woohoo! Downloading them all.

 

This should be fun, I really like Warcelona and DBD!

 

Once I subscribe, what's next? I'm not being prompted on a content download.

 

Check the downloads section of your Steam, thats where the download will show. If you're subscribed to something, it means you will receive an automatic download of that map/mod when the author posts a new version.

 

okay so now when I go to the serve it loads but the textures are jacked with purple checkers and all of the images say error in big block red letters

 

OMG, 3gb download! xD lol...

 

Yeah the custom maps are great and give a welcome relief from the standard campaigns.

If you get an error message like "string table doesn't match", remove the old campaign (vpk file) from \Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\addons

the new workshop files are located in
\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\addons\workshop

and these maps might be fun to add

Helms Deep 17b
Bloodtracks
ihatemountains
suicideblitz
tourofterror
questionableethics
hauntedforest
2evileyes

 

looks like helms deep is the only one on the workshop from that list,
those are just some nice campaigns we had in the past on mg.

 

finally after the whole night of downloading... i may be able to join tonight a little

 

Okay so I have subscribed to all and they appear to be downloaded but when I try to join the server it crashes to the game start point. I've checked for older content and dont have any conflicting veersions of the maps. What should I check next?

 

Same here.

Machete NWAZ.

 

I often get Map/Guts error, especially;
- at first launch/join
- ANYTIME a new custom campaign adds.

It appears, for now at least, you have to relaunch L4D2.

If you continue to get that "Engine Error" (Map/Guts,) simply restart the game or try a couple more times.

It MAY mean you have to restart Steam.

It worked for me; let us know. Thanks,

 

When your addon menu is loading slow or to prevent other addon problems,
check for errors after you opened the addon menu.
Some old maps may cause conflicts, so when you see this message open console
and look for the bad vpk addons and remove them from the addon dir.
Also try to remove old campaigns you never use.

After this run a "verify integrity of game cache files" wich you can run in steam
when you click on game properties

And btw i know for a fact that some addons can crash your game,
for instance certain survivors skins cause "Too many Indices for Index Buffer" errors.
This means the game engine reached it's polygon limit,
gamers with a geforce GTX 560/660 Ti can have this problem.
So make sure your addons are bug free.

A quicker solution might be deleting all vpk files
from \steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\addons
but you will also lose all skins and other things you use, so do this at your own risk!

 

FYI to gamers about Custom Maps + LAG

Map 3 of Detour Ahead (Warehouse,) cdta_05finalroad (Detour Ahead Finale,) and the Warcelona Finale have consistently (as in every single time without exception) had major lag, noticable lag, or even server crashes.

It's due to multiple explosions &
Extraordinarily large hordes...

Those are the only common denominators I can see.

Edit: From a test run... going AGGRESSIVELY fast on these 2 maps... we saw upwards of 2,300+ Commons per map.
This is ONLY based on the first screen of the top 3 players (per map) w/ most commons killed.

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It is always going to be a normal thing to see SOME lag in custom map servers... however, I think this is out of the ordinary.


Also, for your information, regularly expect to manually reconnect to teh server after any finale.


The Steam Workshop for L4D2 is still very fledgeling and issue-addled. You can expect this to change, so for now, please hang in there.


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Again, just manually rejoin the game after a campaign is over & be ready for lag bursts on those 2 maps.

Thanks for helping us institute some change around here,

 

Bump HonorCode's link to the folder;

"Subscribe to All" = DOWNLOAD from Workshop

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails?id=122184208

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