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No Mercy
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| Tagline | "Curing the Infection... One bullet at a time." |
| Creator | Valve Software |
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"Make your way to Mercy Hospital for a rooftop rescue."
No Mercy is the first campaign in Left 4 Dead, spanning five chapters. It is also, chronologically, the first campaign in Left 4 Dead 2, as it was officially ported into Left 4 Dead 2 in The Sacrifice DLC pack. The first level picks up right where the game's introduction cutscene leaves off; the Survivors are told by a passing helicopter to get to Mercy Hospital to be evacuated. On their trek to the hospital they must endure Infected-filled apartment buildings, city streets, subway tunnels, and sewers, passing through Mercy Hospital until they finally reach the roof of the hospital itself to be rescued by a helicopter.
Below is a complete list of video walkthroughs of the 5 levels:
Please know that the gameplay videos are on each campaign's info page not on each map page.
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Official description 
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The No Mercy campaign finds you on the rooftop of an obliterated apartment complex, deep in the heart of the once-thriving metropolis of Fairfield—now completely overrun with hordes of Infected. A voice from a bullhorn calls out from a rescue helicopter: Get to the roof of nearby Mercy Hospital and be airlifted to safety. Even if it means shooting your way through narrow alleys, open sewers and seething waves of zombies to get there.[1]
Graffiti Edit
Added by Takua108The Apartments level contains graffiti throughout the map. Much of it is located in the safe room across the street, but some is found on the level start area. "Hope" is spray painted in large letters to the left of the doorway, with "NO" written above it to change it to say "No Hope", and "Morbid" can be seen on the right wall, also in graffiti-style lettering. These can show the panic and almost instant surrender of the people who saw the Green Flu take hold.
In the safe room, "None of you will survive" and "Entire city is Infected, if you can read this, get out", are among other things written by other survivors. In the finale, there is a written conversation on the wall talking about the duration of the change to Infected after being bitten from 5 days, 3 days, 1 day, 2 1/2 hours, then finally, to 5 minutes.
Demo Edit
The Left 4 Dead demo consisted of The Apartments in its entirety, as well as most of The Subway. The rest of the Subway map could be seen in the demo if players went into Noclip mode.
Achievements Edit
- See Main Article: Achievements
The following Achievements are only available in after No Mercy is complete.
| MERCY KILLER | (15G) |
| Survive the No Mercy campaign. | ||
| ZOMBICIDAL MANIAC | (30G) |
| Survive any campaign on Expert. | ||
| WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PROVE? | (35G) |
| Survive all campaigns on Expert. | ||
Behind the ScenesEdit
No Mercy looked significantly different in early versions; it was a much darker place, but where there was light, it would be quite bright. In addition, the skyscrapers and other buildings in the background were a part of the skybox texture, which made them flat. This was probably done for convenience on Valve's part so that they could complete early versions faster for testers to use. In the final version, the buildings dotting the landscape are actual brushes and models. The sky itself was a dark blue, compared to the blue/green mix in the final version. Buildings had most of their lights still on, as opposed to very few of them in the final version.
Notes Edit
Added by Radical Edward2- The working title for this campaign was "Hell Hospital."
- In the game's sound files, there is an unused sound file for the Chopper Pilot: "Hey down there! I can't get any closer, but if you can get to Mercy Hospital I can take ya to the military outpost up north. You have to get to Mercy Hospital! Call me on the radio when you get there.". This seems to suggest that the chopper pilot was originally going to notice the Survivors, but this concept was cut.
- The rooftop location of Mercy Hospital's helipad is unusual for this part of the United States. High wind conditions and low cloud and snow in winter would render this facility unusable and unsafe for the light helicopters typically used for medical rescue services.
- Fairfield is a real town in Pennsylvania and is just outside Gettysburg.
- Similar to Death Toll's poster, Bill's beret and handling of his weapon are inverted horizontally.
- In the Left 4 Dead 2 port, there are many more spawn points for guns compared to the original version in Left 4 Dead. There are also the Left 4 Dead 2 exclusive weapons, such as the Grenade Launcher, M60 and melee weapons. There are also Worker Infected and CEDA Worker Infected for the third and fourth maps of the campaign.
- The Left 4 Dead 2 port contains a number of changes, some of which appears to be based from the Versus maps of No Mercy:
- In The Subway, a dead man with a suit and tie is replaced by a bloody dead police ragdoll.
- All of the patient ragdolls in The Hospital were also replaced by dead police ragdolls.
- The starting building in The Apartments has had the A/C units removed from the wall behind the building, preventing a previous exploit that allowed Survivors to skip the first building completely.
- The Rooftop Finale changes include:
- Railing around three edges of the building the Survivors end up on after climbing the last ladder onto the roof, to probably prevent Charger insta-kills off the roof edge.
- In the radio room there are subtle changes to doors and windows, the closet has been removed, with the health packs and ammo having been moved to the building roof, and the stairs are now exposed to outdoor elements (much like the Versus version of this campaign).
- The emergency hatch in the elevator of the level The Hospital has been covered, most likely from preventing Spitters from damaging the survivors too greatly.
