RooftopFinaleV2

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Other L4D levels that use the same game variant:
The Church

Description:

RooftopFinaleV2 is a remake of the Fifth level of No Mercy in Left 4 Dead. Both the map and gametype were made to best recreate the same game you played in Left 4 Dead. Gameplay is fast, and interesting for both sides to play. More info on what the gametype is, and how you could build for the same gametype, here.

(overview from the right shoulder)

(overview from the left shoulder)

(Side view)

(a view at the main building)

(Looking inside the front window)

(looking inside from the right window)

(looking inside from the back door)

(this picture puts the next two into context)

(left structure)

(right structure)

(Center strip)

(Inside the helipad)

Now that the map layout is done being explained, here’s the zombie’s point of view.

This is where the zombies start; they have to wait 30 seconds, or until someone presses the button for the teleporter in the center to become unblocked. While they wait, they have several doohickeys to play with. A tower of radio towers to knock over, man cannons to launch with, teleporters to, um… port with, and an elevator to fly up with.

“or until someone presses the button?”

Yes, the humans can choose to start the infection at any point in time, but the game always starts at 30 seconds regardless.

“How does it happen?”

Remember where the button was in the real Left 4 Dead? Well the radio was represented by a weapon holder, and under that, there is a mongoose with a fusion coil on it. Because you can interact with vehicles without seeing them, you can still flip the goose and drop the fusion coil.

…It activates a max/min switch and forces a fusion coil to spawn…

…Removing the pallet from the teleporter, and freeing the zombies.

Now when zombies go through the teleporter they have a choice to go through the left teleporter, the right one, or to just hop down. Although the teleporters are much faster they can be camped, and because teleporters can be camped, the players can also hop down to almost any point in the map.

(The teleporters both lead to two other receiver nodes, one on top of the structure, and one on the ground level close to the structure.) Once the zombies attack the humans, they respawn here. Here is where they pick up either the sentinel beam, flare/radar jammer, active camo, or custom power-up/hammer equipment.

They drop on down the hole and re-enter the cycle of life.

"Wow I already know how to break the map! When I lose a lot of my health I can just leap off the edge of the map and get it all back!"

Wrong, this used to be a problem in earlier versions of this level, but not anymore! How you say? Well, with the shame box! All of the humans starting points are inside of the building, but their respawn points are all in the shame box, let me show you how it works. (the shame box doesn't appear until 45 seconds into the game)

Then the zombies tickle you to death, while the shield doors keep you from killing them.

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If you have any question, feel free to ask!