September 1st, 2009

This is a sub-page of Proto:Left 4 Dead 2.

How about a nice leek in this trying time?

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Main Menu#

Background Videos#

The background videos feature several changes, including different common infected placements, animations, depth of field, and video editing, now with a flickering vignette and film grain. The video lengths are also three seconds longer in retail possibly due to slowed playback speed (0.8x). Potentially a stylistic choice.

Dark Carnival
Prototype
L4D2_9_1_09-Background02.mp4

align="bottom" style="font-weight: normal; caption-side: bottom; text-align: left;" | Features an earlier Sugar Mill map.
Hard Rain
Prototype
L4D2_9_1_09-Background04.mp4

align="bottom" style="font-weight: normal; caption-side: bottom; text-align: right;" | Added truck prop and darker frame under balcony.
The Parish
Prototype
L4D2_9_1_09-Background05.mp4

Side by side comparison
Normal
L4D2_9_1_09-BGsSidebySide.mp4

Unused Music#

Music	September 1	Final	Notes
Midnight Riders			Instrumental demos with slightly different song structure. Labeled "Blood Meridian" for Midnight Ride, and "Running N' Gunning" for One Bad Man. Blood Meridian shares the name of an anti-Western novel by Cormac McCarthy.
Dead Center Germs			Repurposed for The Passing DLC with no changes.
Escape			Same as retail, except it doesn't fade for the credits, and it's missing the longer outro.