All L4D2 Mutations Reviewed
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Dom reviews all official mutations found in Left 4 Dead 2.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:35 Last Man on Earth
02:58 Lone Gunman
04:25 Left 4 Dead 1 Coop, Versus, and Survival
05:52 GunBrain
06:24 Confogl
07:05 Holdout, Dash and ShootZones intro
07:17 Holdout
09:02 Dash
09:54 ShootZones
10:47 Gib Fest
11:44 Headshot!
13:18 Ironman
14:25 Four Swordsmen
15:16 Chainsaw Massacre
16:48 Hard Eight
17:47 Special Delivery
18:44 Hunting Party
19:25 Flu Season
21:21 Healing Gnome
22:28 Last Gnome On Earth
23:09 Nightmare
23:40 Room For One
24:18 Follow the Liter
24:52 Taaannnk!!
26:26 Tank Run
28:20 RocketDude
31:53 Death's Door
33:05 Bleed Out
34:20 Bleed Out Versus
35:31 Riding My Survivor
36:08 Healthpackalypse!
36:36 Outro
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This was a massive project. From start to finish it took 3 months and a day to make. It's made up of about 300 video clips adding up to about 16GBs of footage. The script was around 7,300 words which came out to about 40 minutes of talking. This project being so big and time-consuming is the reason why there haven't been many uploads lately. I apologize for the lack of content.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy the video. This is the first (and probably the last) time I use a video idea suggest to me on the channel's Discords server. Tell me what you think of the video.
noice
Nice video man :)
This is absolutely amazing, great job man :)
if you need help with multiplayer i'd be interested in helping. i just want to play l4d2 without being alone. oHo
@OverDose youre
Last gnome on earth feels like a way for every map to have a similar gameplay for the gnome achievement in the 2nd map of the carnival
or in markiplier's case: "my team is worthless!" *proceeds to be the only one doing nothing on the team*
@@jockeyfield1954 also Mark: *winds up with the most kills, best scores, etc*
@@vd6070 kills and scores doesnt matter too much in l4d2, its how you cooperrate with your team that matters
@@nguyenvanquang876 exactly!
@@timberd1513 i know im not true i know this channel but and burn in hell im pretty sure he is do this channel but it can burn in game and ik i think im? i think i think i think i think i think i think i think i think i did he even do u think im? i did he say something about and burn in the team
For the next video you should review every texture in L4D2
Jaiz! :)
Did you die lol
Hi jaiz
You are alive! You are awesome, dude.
The sins wont be forgotten :alyx:
God the Mutation icon scared the living hell out of me when I was younger. It just looked so unsettling to me. Am I the only one who thought that?
I agree. It is unsettling.
Meanwhile me not even understanding wtf is shown on the icon
It got me having a nightmare everytime i remembering the icon back then. The way it's looking like it starring at me. It makes me shiver.
@@s4videos I think the strangest thing as well is that when I was younger I thought it was one of the survivors but turned into an infected. I think I thought it was Ellis or something lmao
@@rizalalbar I think I had a dream like that but it wasn't really a nightmare as I wasn't scared.
Death's Door on the sacrifice finale is impossible in singleplayer since you get incapped (leading to death) at the generator, bringing you back to the saferoom.
@@shadowgrimfoxy592 it might, until it takes you back to the saferoom
They rushed out some mutations, I wish they’d come back for even a week or month just to tweak and add the last stand map and other modes to Xbox/PlayStation and fix the mutations on all platforms, hell I’d even pay them but sadly valve wont and the other studio is doing back for blood
@@Dave-jj3fk They can't be arsed, they just wanna tweak the pc version cause that has the most player base
@@Dave-jj3fk I believe in order to push updates on consoles, Valve needs to pay some amount of money, idk how much, I think thats the reason why they dont update their games on consoles
Isn't the sacrifice itself impossible in single player?
I was hyped when rocket dude came out.
Then I realized there are magic walls everywhere making it unplayable.
In my experience, invisible walls aren't as big as a problem as smokers pulling you to death mid-air
Could try to find maps on the workshop with the invis walls removed
There’s an admin system mod called ‘smok menu’ on the workshop. It contains a bunch of commands and one of them can remove all invisible walls in the map. Could always try downloading it and then playing the mutation (use a local server) without the walls.
@@Jessica1 thx i will test
I play console, so Rocket Dude is unplayable in general 💀
Rocketdude: *(Exists)*
Soldier Mains: *(Heavy Breathing)*
Quake fanbase: (happy *humph* noises)
*SCREAMING EAGLES!*
This video will revive the mutation scene
I really hope so
I hope so too, the more the merrier. I've never really even messed with these but this gives me enough info to actually get a feel for which ones sound fun
I play a lot of rocketdude and I still have found only 1 lobby.
Rest in peace, man.
@@Acedog11 That's sad, I just went to his channel after seeing your comment and saw others to the same effect. :( What happened? Sorry for your fan-community's loss
Fun fact about Gib Fest there is a rare glitch that can occur where the spawning of weapons is re-enabled. As a result weapons such as the grenade launcher become incredibly overpowered as they no longer need to be reloaded and are basically semi-automatic.
ah yes, quake grenade launcher without the bouncing
@@lambda-m1676 big time.
A lot of modders on Xbox abuse that.
Don’t forget the bots in 4 swordsmen attack every witch, and can just ignore a survivor in trouble, especially when they’re in front of something and you’re behind it
I use them as bait for the boomer
Btw, the reason why tanks seemingly die so fast on the melee-only mutations is due to melee weapons all dealing fixed percentages of damage (the percentage differing on who you're attacking), which on the tank can be abused to just take off a chunk of their max health with some swings
20 hits for a tank on any difficulty
I remember that the nightstick was _the_ Tank killer if you were going for meleeing the thing.
Last Man on Earth was actually slightly scary. I ran back into the gun store with both doors broken when I heard both a smoker and hunter. They were both at the exit so I kept my aiming there. Little did I know that the hunter came through the front entrance and lunged at me. I was so lucky to move back after killing the smoker, but seeing that hunter jump across the screen scared the crap out of me. This mutation raised my awareness for them when I'm the last survivor.
It's basically training. We need LMOE but 100x harder: Common Infected with Spec Inf.
Last man on earth is pretty easy tbh
Having played Last Gnome on Earth with 3 friends, the effect of commons targeting the gnome carrier absolutely works. We'd take turns holding the gnome for the whole campaign, and the carrier would always have the most damage taken, the most incaps, and the most deaths. It turns the game into a VIP escort game, especially if you use our house rule of the designated gnome carrier never dropping the gnome, regardless of how badly they're getting swarmed. Lots of fun overall :)
Not gonna lie that thumbnail was honestly pretty spooky looking even though I know it’s just the zombie used for the mutation section. Just something about it behind a safe room door is just... ominous.
agreed
17:19 smooth.
nice, this actually makes me want to play these mutations i usually ignore
They are fun
I remember playing No Mercy Rocketman and blowing all of my friends down the elevator hole and watching them trying to get out for 10m straight.
"And blowing all my friends"
Pause
@@JurassicClark96 "down the elevator hole"
Quit
Can i just say that for the "Rocketdude" Mutation,It's best compared with using the loose cannon for demoman and not rocket jumping
No
Until you realize you can rocket jump off invisible walls 😎
No its not, the loose cannon has entirely different propertys
It's more like the loch n load exploded on impact with surfaces, rather than shattered
No
17:18 that transition was genius
underrated.
absolutely
LMOE: "This mutation is popular among speedrunners"
Gad dammit
Rocket dude:am i a joke to you?
Like,i literally completed first map in the game with rocket dude in a few seconds,but second one is literal hell
17:18 one of the most subtle and best transitions ive ever seen
what transition?
17:18 that transition was slick
after watching the whole video, Some of them seem very fun and I'm sad that I've overlooked them for so long.
Yeah same here i always overlooked them but when i tried them myself it was really fun
Over choice too many things to try/do then you don’t know what to pick
@@Vivzen sameeee bro there was so much shit to do that i didnt know what to pick
my favorite recent memory of left 4 dead is playing through no mercy on expert with the hard eight mutation with 3 random guys and just seeing how well we could do. finding interesting strategies because we died a lot. it was a very real possibility to have only one or two survivors left and really gave everyone time to shine. i can't understate how fondly i think of that play through because of how interesting and unique it was compared to just playing the same regular expert i play every single day. it's always worth giving mutations a try especially if you can actually find people to play with
this is gonna be amazing i already know it!
The moment I saw rocketdude I knew you will mention rocket jump.
Love watching this dude with his advanced movement tech and map knowledge walk into railing for a solid second and a half before moving up the adjacent stairs.
lul
GunBrain saves your stats in 2 places, with chat commands you can make them show up in the game console, and in a certain notepad in the ems directory folder if i'm correct. It would be cool if it worked in the MOTD but yea.
it used to work in motd in the past.
I remember trying to find singleplayer versus because I have no friends and I remember almost all SP Versus mutations somehow have confogl rules (medkits are replaced with pills, etc.) and eventually I found Rayman1103's Mutation Mod which has working singleplayer versus without confogl rules
Good video! I'm surprised you didn't rip Room for One a new one. IMO it's the worst mutation by far because it only changes the credit scroll.
You did convince me to try Holdout though, so props for that!
I don't know how anything would be worse than shootzones, that mutation is bad
I call hard eight sometimes as "Devil's Curtain" coz more often they spawn out of rooms with destroyable doors 🤣
No lie I was literally just thinking about making a video about this. You pulled it off better than I could've though so kudos to you. Always glad to see Left 4 Dead content around
love how every time there was an exclamation at the end of a mutation's name, you presented the exaggerated pronunciation as just another fact about said mutation
Classic Dom, seen your tf2 mods series since 8 years ago, good work after all this time.
I watch this video like twice every month idk why. Your commentary and voice is very nice to just listen to. L4d2 videos are the best
I asked my dad and then he beat me with a belt
nice transition here 17:18 really liked the editing
17:21 damn that's a nice transition, almost didnt notice it
"Let's start the reviews and deal with the friends' problem when it shows up"
In the distance, The Rembrants slowly close in, reminding you that no one told you life was gonna be this way....
One time me and my friends played a game of healing gnome on Dark Carnival, and went out of our way to acquire *another* gnome. Due to an oversight the 2nd gnome provides health but after a while we forgot which gnome was the essential one, so we ended up having to drag 2 gnomes across the entire campaign
Flu Season fun though it takes a while.
Hard 8 on expert was the longest game I ever played. It took all night, our graphics cards were crapping out and we had to keep rejoining. Half of The Atrium wouldn’t render and we added each other on Facebook so we could use each other as job references.
A 40 minute video of proper work about L4D2 in 2021 is reason enough to sub and like before i watch the video, which i usually never do.
Oh wow! A video review of all the mutations for L4D2, that is really cool! My personal favorites have always been Taaaaank! and Tank Run, I find something really enjoyable about running for dear life as tanks chase me lol, I haven't played L4D2 in awhile but I remember playing that mostly during my last time in L4D2
I was hoping to see a tier list of your favorite mutations at the end, darn!
Very cool video m8. Insane effort there. Keep up the great work :)
And btw: The flying gascans are indeed a funny sideeffect of "melee_force_scalar" and "phys_pushscale" being at a crazy value.
Equipped with a sharp melee you can send infected to the moon, but make sure you don´t do the same with your teammates ;D
These videos inspired me to try LFD2 again. I managed to beat Dead Center on Expert by coordinating with a far more experienced player. We beat it with 2 survivor bots helping us (as much as survivor bots can).
I'm a big fan of your videos, I always come back to rewatch these. Keep it up !
Really good video with really solid breakdowns. I'm going to give some of these a try 👌
Jesus christ, this video makes me nostalgic and reminds me of your old tf2 gamemode explanation videos.
I wish mutations weren’t complete overhauls. The ones that don’t disable core gameplay mechanics while introducing a unique challenge or mechanic are without question the best; I wish more people would design mutations this way.
Also incase anyone doesn’t know, no matter the difficulty melee weapons deal a percentage based damage so they always kill witches in 4 hits and tanks in 20, that’s why the chainsaw can demolish a tank even in normal gameplay
“As of July 2012, they’ve all been released.”
My God, I feel old for being a teenager.
I still remember an old mutation someone made where there are only slow commons and if one hit you, you'd get infected and would need to take pills or heal yourself before you're killed by the bleed out mechanic.
I wish there was a community of people who would host small games using obscure mutations
This video was both interesting AND informative!
Man, you are so underrated and you deserve more subs. i love your work , keep going
Hard 8 with friends, is my favourite way play to play Left 4 Dead. An absolute joy, the chaos is really fun.
Cold Stream seems to have a glitch though, that makes it particularly hectic. Dying on a certain mission, seems to double the already doubled special infected. The spawn rates are insane, the amount of special infected is absolutely overwhelming and incredibly entertaining.
I played a really fun mutation years ago, but I don't remember the name. In that mutation you were alone and chased by a super fast and strong tank.
Excellent video on all levels. Thank you very much.
love these type of videos, keep up the good work :)
Gibfest has players because it can be used as a cheap way to get the expert campaign achievements for those people who are so bad even with a group can’t finish regular expert :3
AKA me lol
I love it because it helped me get Til' It Goes Click.
I love this channel
RocketDude is literally soldier tf2 and I love it
Imagine market gardening a smoker with your melee
Yep, had to rewatch the first couple seconds. Bravo sir
One massive positive for Gib Fest for me is that it made it so much easier to earn the "Still Something to Prove" achievement
Fun fact: Flu season is the only mutation where bots can pick up melee weapons by themselves (why Valve why)
Always wondered why I never see bots ever use melee weapons.
Okay that subtle lewd joke at the beginning was so good I just *had* to subscribe. Good job
I dont get it
@@SEV7V me neither
@@SEV7V so Dom is his name but A dom and a sub stands for dominant and sub so he saying he's dominant and you should submit that's the joke
Hearing all the mutations were unlocked in July 2012.........
someone grab my walker
There are a lot of good mutations that get looked over and I think a lot of them would do good as separate modes.
I remember played a kind of mutation that the infected Tank has a super strong power he could sent the survivor a miles away with a single blow. But i forgot which kind of mutation I was playing or maybe it was a cheat code that disables the gravity in the game that makes the Tank so powerful.
as a sub i can appreciate that intro joke, subscribed
17:18 that transition was too smooth
17:18 that transition is smooth
Your joke at the beginning was brilliant and it has changed my life forever, you are a genius.
17:18 is no one gonna talk about how smooth the Charger Rammed transitions are?
why do you sound like louise? you sound like if louise and an ai had a baby
the joke was that his name (dom) is a short term for dominant, and sub is submissive. the joke is that hes dominant and you should all be submissive
What the fudge
it was so subtle i didn't get it
Last man on earth on expert makes you realize that the game has an horror tag on the store.
Fuck the multiple times i was jumspcared by a tank not making a single sound then being behind a door.
Great stuff, thanks for the thorough listen :P
"but its still possible to take damage,die and lose,its just,very unlikely"
me and my 3 steam friends casually playing that mutation on expert and experiences chapter restarts too many times
same things happens to us in tank rush,a modded mutation with gib fest and Taaannnk!! combined
My favorite was Holdout because it reminds me of Cods Zombies of buying guns and crafting equipment.
16:30 (Hard Eight)
Ah, recruit difficulty in back 4 Blood.
I don't even play this game and I ended up watching a 40 min video about game modes I didn't even know existed. Nice video.
Dude, youre so underrated.
You should review Raymutation mod
At least the Campaign ones
Now that's a lot of mutations
I've subbed because of this video
Feels great, thanks Don :)
14:50 four swordsmen is kinda funny for me ngl, bots just stand at the side of the witch not hitting them, also when your smokered they will just watch you die xD
Would play Iron man a lot with a friend, we'd believe the mode makes smarter witch spawns to screw us over. Favorite modded mutation is Fully Charged. It's all chargers and really changes how you navigate a map. Trying to get on cars and dumpers to be less likely to be grabbed.
Link me a mutation to where there is only spitters
@@shadowgrimfoxy592can you just play the one already in game?
aside from the really annoying tank scenarios, i actually enjoy lone gunman. i grew up playing slow paced, resident evil-style zombie games, so it's fun to be able to replicate the slow, tedious, and intense atmosphere on left 4 dead. it can get annoying though, specially with tanks
also, i have to add, to get the "experience" that i mentioned, you have to play it on easy mode, because on other difficulties, the gameplay starts to feel like left 4 dead again, and that kinda counteracts the point
Wouldn't playing on expert do the survival horror thing better? with zombies doing high amounts of damage and medkits being more scarce?
@@tumble8323 that's true, but what you have to consider is that this mutation also amplifies the damage by a lot. easy mode lets you get scratched 7 times before going down, but it only takes one swipe on expert. while yes it would make the game more intense, it can get really annoying if you have to keep restarting just because you got hit once.
This is absolutely an underrated youtuber, I thought you had a couple hundred thousand subs/views but no, hope you get up there dude!
The double special infected is my favorite one because it's great practice for dealing with the specials in a panic mode. That's what helped me time shoving the jockeys and hunters away perfectly.
Almost every valve game has a gnome achievement
Every time i think of a chainsaw the first things that come to mind is Doom, Texas chainsaw massacre and left for dead
You sound like the boss from smiling friends, good video! I've always looked over mutations
i can’t believe i’ve been playing this game since launch and just now started playing mutations
Legit never knew value actually MADE new mutations:_: this is a result of only owning xbox
I feel the same way. Console abuse has to stop
@@commanderbeepo8066 I wanna get a pc, but I don't have enough space ):
@@bananafone1414 Get a laptop. L4D2 can run on a toaster
@@mr.d00m37 but I've heard laptops die after like 2 years of use. And I want my equipment to last for a while.
@@bananafone1414 get a desktop
As soon as he said hi i went "Hi daaaddy" And his subtle joke made me feel weird
what was those joke, its abnormally to subtle
@@yourtypicalvita838 his name is dom and he said "you should all sub"
@@wungatungus1851 still don’t get it
@@wungatungus1851 it’s wayyyyyy to subtle
@@yourtypicalvita838 you'll figure it out in a few years
New Subscriber! I can tell you worked hard on this
My man flat out admitted he's a loner.
DUDE
I don't like that joke