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Cold Stream
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Creator	Matthew "donking" Lourdelet
Chapters	Alpine Creek South Pine Stream Memorial Bridge Cut-throat Creek

Cold Stream is an upcoming DLC for Left 4 Dead 2. It was announced in a blog post on February 16, 2011.^[1] A beta was released on March 22, 2011 on Steam and remains open for public testing. There is not yet any confirmed release date.

Contents 1 Released in Cold Stream 1.1 Only for Left 4 Dead 2 2 Achievements 3 Beta 4 Notes 5 Beta Screenshots 6 External Links 7 References

Released in Cold StreamEdit

Only for Left 4 Dead 2Edit

• A new, but currently undocumented melee weapon.
• Cold Stream, a community-made campaign from the creator of the 2 Evil Eyes community campaign.
• Ports of Death Toll. Dead Air, Blood Harvest, and Crash Course.^[2]

AchievementsEdit

See Main Article: Achievements

	STREAM CROSSER	(??G)
	Survive the Cold Stream campaign on any difficulty.

BetaEdit

Cold Stream was released to the public on the official servers on PC/Mac via beta release on March 22, 2011 for play testing and bug-seeking, such as finding nav-mesh bugs, navigational issues, hit box problems, missing zombie ladders, art problems, and more.

An in-game bug reporter was activated at the same time allowing players to send feedback and bug reports. This feature was announced by Valve to be extended eventually to work with other community campaigns. But strangely, there's no "Report Bug" button in the main menu or the in-game menu, which requires writing "bug" in the Developer Console yourself.

Players can also post feedback on the official forums in the Cold Stream section. Development of Cold Stream can also be followed on Valve's official twitter account located here.

NotesEdit

• The campaign features models re-used from the Garry's Mod map gm_forest. The game files in "left4dead2_dlc3" contain a folder named "gm_forest."
• Despite the fact that it is going to become an official map, Cold Stream is not part of the official Left 4 Dead canon, and as such, does not fit in with the central storyline in Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.
• The campaign has several artifacts recycled from other Left 4 Dead campaigns, having the SOS painted sign and the News Chopper 5 Helicopter from No Mercy, the elevator from Hard Rain, graffiti from all of the campaigns, and the Army jets from The Parish.
• In-game character dialogue is notably sparse, being largely confined to repetitive one-liners recycled from Left 4 Dead 2.
• Left 4 Dead tropes encountered in this campaign include a high-level bridge crossing, rescue helicopters, aerial bombing of a freeway overpass, radio-for-rescue, climbing tanker trucks, a crescendo event maze and cabins in the middle of a wood.
• Parts of the campaign reference the Left 4 Dead campaigns made by Valve. However, Cold Stream is not connected to the main storyline of the Left 4 Dead series.
• In reply to a Twitter post on May 4, 2011, Valve explained that they are experimenting with moving community campaigns over to the Xbox 360, along with Cold Stream.
• Cold Stream currently features Swamp Fever's Mud Men and The Parish's Riot Infected; however, this could change before the official release.
• Since the release of the Dead Air beta, Cold Stream has its own intro theme music and reuses Swamp Fever's Horde theme, although there has been consideration to use the horde theme from the beta version of The Parish instead.
• An achievement called STREAM CROSSER was added. Valve said that if 20,000 players get it they would be rewarded. This goal was achieved almost four hours after the achievement was released according to the L4D blog, and the reward was to release the Dead Air campaign to Left 4 Dead 2 early, which was on July 22, 2011.
• Significant changes were rolled out in the July 2011 update. Among the more notable revisions were wholesale (and most welcome) changes to the Memorial Bridge chapter and ultimate Finale sequences. Common Infected spawning behaviours were now more credible and had tighter sequence linking whilst the number of Special Infected was reined in to enhance the "surprise factor" during gameplay. In addition, the revised Cut-throat Creek chapter saw the introduction of an innovative visibility-reducing mist effect.
• Each chapter has a panic event at the end right before the safe room, although Cut-throat Creek, being a finale, has a gauntlet crescendo event going for the whole chapter after calling the rescue (similar in fashion to The Bridge from The Parish).

Beta ScreenshotsEdit

External Links Edit

Official Cold Stream Forum

References Edit

1. ↑ Cold Stream
2. ↑ Template:Blog_Post_(Left_4_Dead_2)#Friday_February_25th_2011.

Campaigns
Left 4 Dead		Left 4 Dead 2
No Mercy	The Apartments / The Subway / The Sewer / The Hospital / Rooftop Finale	Dead Center	The Hotel / The Streets / The Mall / The Atrium
Crash Course	The Alleys / The Truck Depot Finale	The Passing	The Riverbank / The Underground / The Port
Death Toll	The Turnpike / The Drains / The Church / The Town / Boathouse Finale	Dark Carnival	The Highway / The Fairgrounds / The Coaster / The Barns / The Concert
Dead Air	The Greenhouse / The Crane / The Construction Site / The Terminal / Runway Finale	Swamp Fever	Plank Country / The Swamp / The Shantytown / The Plantation
Blood Harvest	The Woods / The Tunnel / The Bridge / The Train Station / Farmhouse Finale	Hard Rain	The Milltown / The Sugar Mill / Mill Escape / Return To Town / Town Escape
The Sacrifice	The Docks / The Barge / Port Finale	The Parish	The Waterfront / The Park / The Cemetery / The Quarter / The Bridge
Non Sequitur Campaigns
The Last Stand	The Lighthouse	Cold Stream	Alpine Creek / South Pine Stream / Memorial Bridge / Cut-throat Creek