Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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*NOTE: This is an unedited archive of a live no-commentary playthrough originally streamed on Twitch (twitch.tv/bippoernesti), which means there may be deaths, restarts or intermissions/interruptions.

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Seemed like a natural thing to do after the first game. This stream pushed my play time in this game to over 600 hours, which is neat. Still fifth on my most played Steam games.

Some of the campaigns went far smoother than I expected, usually the gauntlet crescendos wreck me several times.

There are parts about this game that I love and parts that I wish were different. The gauntlet crescendo events are fun, but exhausting when they're overdone, which unfortunately happens in several campaigns. Cold Stream is nothing but gauntlet crescendos which is why it's really not that fun to play, and while I like Dark Carnival, Chapters 2-4 are insanely tiring in a single session, especially if you die and have to restart. They also ruined Death Toll and Blood Harvest by slapping down really annoying gauntlet crescendos everywhere.

For fun, I'll list my favorite L4D2-only campaigns in descending order:
1. Dead Center
2. Dark Carnival
3. The Passing
4. The Parish
5. Hard Rain
6. Swamp Fever
7. The Last Stand
8. Cold Stream

Stream Date: 2022-03-07
Stream Title: Left 4 Dead 2 Players 1 AI 3
Live Notification: Here is more of the same from a video game with a 2 in the name.
Stream Description: Some more single player gameplay, should be unmodded assuming I disabled everything correctly; they were mostly just random reskins for items anyway. Picking Advanced again, since Expert's even harder here than in the first game.

As with the first game, I'm planning on doing all of the official campaigns, including the first game's campaigns, unless something unexpected makes me stop early.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro & Menu
00:03:52 Dead Center
00:35:31 Menu (and I load the wrong campaign)
00:36:35 The Passing
01:12:48 Menu
01:13:09 Dark Carnival
02:12:20 Menu
02:12:48 Swamp Fever
03:08:30 Menu
03:08:53 Hard Rain
03:46:08 Menu
03:46:33 The Parish
04:34:09 Menu
04:34:39 The Sacrifice
05:04:06 Menu
05:04:32 No Mercy
05:39:05 Menu
05:39:29 Crash Course
06:02:43 Menu
06:03:08 Death Toll
06:46:13 Menu
06:46:37 Dead Air
07:23:04 Menu
07:23:24 Blood Harvest
07:51:01 Menu
07:51:27 Cold Stream
08:16:33 Menu
08:16:57 The Last Stand
08:44:03 Menu