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---Better Off Dead---

People including my own Project team dont seem to understand this, Better Off Dead is not just any other mod! It is a remake of Left 4 Dead changing everything about l4d. Everything is being reskinned,remapped,recoded you name it. Everything is being changed we are planning to make it a new game but require l4d to be installed on your pc to run. I realise that some people might not want to download a few gig of new our new content. However there will be around 7 brand new campaigns 4 of them being remade versions of the originals, EFT, Containment and The Swamp. Everything Reskinned and alot of new coding. So if you dont want ot download this when its releast, thats fine. But its very good at the moment and its around 82mb, not including any maps and only including the skins listed below.

Hi there, Me, Japer,Jack and Tribal are working on a new l4d mod called Better Off Dead.
The mod is related to resident evil and uses resident evil models, such as we are using a Licker model for the Hunter. We have are own Custom Campaign, however I need a new mapper to work on it for me due to Jack leaving the mod team. Act 1 is nearly done thats how far we got. The Mod edits alot of things, heres some of the edits:

Zombies
More normal zombies
more SI
Boomers are normal with slight vomit edits
Hunters crawl on the floor and have alot of health and damage but can not jump on you.
Smokers are pretty much like normal infected however they leave a very thick smoke cloud and do not use there touge.
Tanks have less health and are slower
Witchs have alot more damage and are faster
All zombies and players have been slowed down.
(Planning on changing what Special Infected do, such as I may make it so boomers cause damage on explosion instead of vomit).

Players
Pistols are main weapons and do not have umlimited ammo
you can hold both pipebombs and molotovs
you can use all items while in last stand apart from pills and medick kit (this may change to allow the use of all items on ground)
meele is now worse
all weapons have new scripts and are more realistic
rifle is replaced with a PaintBall Gun (High Ammo Ammo)

Other
No music
All maps have been editted the items are more random (some of doku's maps have been used with his promission)


Theres alot more which i may have forgot to add or is still being made, I will update this as much as possible. Im sorry for spelling mistakes if I have made them.

What we need!

A new Mapper,Skinner,Modeler,Animator and Rigger
If you can do any of these pelase post back asap, if you have ideas for mod post back and if you Have any custom content such as Campaigns which you can give to the mod team post back (of course by giving any content to us you will be credited for it and be able to join the mod team).

Thanks for reading

Edit Please Read!
My Mod Team members have either left or be removed from the Team, as a result of this I am looking for some new Mod Team members to take there place. Theres only me and Japer left at the moment so I would be greatful if a Experienced Mapper would join the Mod Team and complete the rest of the campaign. And if a Skinner would help do some of the remaining skin I need.

Campaign ACT 1

Act One of the Campaign is called Containment,

When you spawn, you don't spawn in a safe zone you, when the game loads you are straight
in the fight. You have limited resources and you start in the street trying to hold off
the zombies, they come over 3 different metal fences. After 2 minutes you can press the radio
which raises a different metal fence which leads deeper into the city. It takes 2-3mins
to open and while that is happening it calls a massive horde to come over the three
fences. When the fence finally opens you have 45 seconds to get through it before it
closes forever. If you don't get through it you will get eaten by the zombies. You must
get to the next police safe point, you can choose out of the following routes to get
there,

Wait for a Army Truck to come and pick you up and take you to the next safe zone (takes
a good few of minutes to come. You stand in the back of it while it drives and shoot
zombies on the move.

continue down the road,until you reach another fence and have to press a button on the
fence to open it, this causes a horde to spawn and come over the last fence and hunt
you down.

Go down the road then turn off and you have to travel through alot of housing and end up close to the safe point

Climb up a ladder on the side of a house near the metal fence then get on the roof
and start jumping from roof top to roof top, if you fall you die. You slowly make your
way closer to the safe point

All these routes lead to the same place, a supposed to be safe building with police
inside. When you get to the building you enter a safe zone, act 2 will start in that
building and it turns out to be full of zombies and full of supply's from the dead police.


UPDATE

We have found two mappers for the Project and our campaign is starting to get worked on again . We Would still like a Rigger and Skinner Though .

---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader)
Japer (Modder)
Niels (Main Mapper)
Traggey (Support Mapper)
Tribal (Skinner)

UPDATE 2

1SG.Heartless has joined the project, hes adding a whole new campaign 5 acts long on his own. We still would like someone who can RIG Models for us though, if anyone can please post back .

---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader)
Japer (Modder)
Niels (Main Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Support Mapper for Containment)
Tribal (Skinner)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign and Working on Containment)

UPDATE 3

President Barack Obama has joined the Project Team, He has made a whole new act for the Containment Campaign. We Still need a person to RIG our Models for the project, if you can RIG please contact me .

---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader)
Japer (Modder)
Niels (Main Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Support Mapper for Containment)
Tribal (Skinner)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign to the Project and Working on Containment)
President Barack Obama (Made a Act for Containment)

UPDATE 4

The first Act of containment is nearly done.

---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader)
Japer (Modder)
Niels (Main Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Support Mapper for Containment)
Tribal (Skinner)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign to the Project and Working on Containment)
President Barack Obama (Made a Act for Containment)

UPDATE 5

Dark_Bird has been added to the project team, he is going to be our Project Tester, he will not be doing anything apart from testing our work and telling us what to improve on .

---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader)
Japer (Modder)
Niels (Main Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Support Mapper for Containment)
Tribal (Skinner)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign to the Project and Working on Containment)
President Barack Obama (Made a Act for Containment)
Dark_Bird (Project Tester)

UPDATE 6

Shazzo has been added to the team, he is a new skinner for the team and will be reskinning the normal infected skins for us. The Policeman skin has been reskinned into a RPD skin (by Tribal).

---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader)
Japer (Modder and Co Leader)
Niels (Main Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Support Mapper for Containment)
Tribal (Skinner)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign to the Project and Working on Containment)
President Barack Obama (Made a Act for Containment)
Dark_Bird (Project Tester)
Shazzo (Normal Infected Skinner)

UPDATE 7

Shazzo has is now doing the weapon skins for us; Traggey is doing the infected skins; Heartless is redoing the 4 original campaigns; President Barack Obama is making the new Swamp campaign; Niels is doing the Containment Campaign; Japer is making the movie and advertising and I am helping the others do there work, bug fix and improve the modding side of the project . Tribal has been removed from the Team, was his choice. We wouldnt mind a new Skinner to help out with the normal infected skinning if you want to do it contact me.

---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader)
Japer (Modder and Co Leader)
Niels (Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Infected Skinner)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign to the Project and Working on the original Campaigns)
President Barack Obama (Mapper for Swamp)
Dark_Bird (Project Tester)
Shazzo (Weapon Skinner)

UPDATE 8

We need another skinner to help Shazzo do the infected skins, a new mapper to help with the campaigns. Barack has left and I am working on the Swamp Campaign now.
---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader, Mapping Swamps)
Japer (Modder and Co Leader)
Niels (Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Mapper Big City Map)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign to the Project and Working on the original Campaigns)
Dark_Bird (Project Tester)
Shazzo (Weapon Skinner and Infected Skinner)

UPDATE 9

We Need more mappers and modelers please if you would like to join the team contact me .
---Better Off Dead Project Team---

Ant (Modder and Team Leader, Mapping Swamps)
Japer (Modder and Co Leader)
Niels (Mapper for Containment)
Traggey (Mapper Big City Map)
1SG.Heartless (Adding His Campaign to the Project and Working on the original Campaigns)
Dark_Bird (Project Tester)
Shazzo (Weapon Skinner and Infected Skinner)
Angelgu323 (Mapper)

I'm pretty ne to mapping, but i would love to be given a chance to map for you. If you want to, say, give me few details for the kinda map you want, i can started ASAP.

TB

Ty for the reply, the first act is mostly done so if your up for it I can send it to you and you can complete the Act. Details added to main post. We still would like one or two more mappers to do some other Acts for us to speed the campaign up, if your intrested please post back looking forward to it.

Seems interesting.

We do not need anymore Mappers to join the Team, we have enough now as you can see on the Update List on the main post. We still could do with a moderler if anyones intrested, and we need a Rigger. If you can do either of these please post back, we need a Rigger ASAP and a moderler would be nice .

hi, as main mapper (for Containment)
i can only say that its almost done...
im making houses now.. (Climb up a ladder part) (a lot of houses...)

and than i finished 4/5 of the map...

Niels what work have you done on the map since I last saw it? I was under the impression that you were not doing anymore because Ive been trying to contact you vire steam messaging and you never replyed. As a result of this Heartless have completed the Roof Top Root already, sorry for this I didnt know if you were still working on it or not. However tell me what you have done and we can copy it into Heartless's map.

I've just joined the team. I will be helping to skin the weapons.

No screenshots? :/

Screen Shots of the police zombie skin made by Tribal

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This is a picture of a model we want to RIG to the hunter model, sadly we have no rigger if someone has the abilty to RIG out there please post back! this would look amazing in game.



In Game Screen Shots Taken By Myself

Cop Pics







Example of the hunter aka the Crawler in this mod he only crawls at slow speeds but takes a beating and deals punishment



And a Picture of the mob sizes (your all going to die)



By looking at these Pictures you can see what the HUD is like as well

The skin for the rpd is cool needssome wear and tear and blood on it if its for the zombies though the licker model is pretty decent hope you get a rigger soon

The RPD skin is being editted at the moment, it will have the gore added and more detail .

I've pretty much quit this mod due to poor skinning skills...

I'm tempted to give the zombies Coach's shirt.

Heres the first version of the Paintball gun, made by Shazzo





All these skins are not for download, just so you know. And i need a modeler to make a paintball model for this please if anyone can please postt back. Traggey is working on a reskin for the RPD skin seen above, with bullet holes,crawl wounds you name it. Looks very good.

Alright, so i've been improving the RPD skin ALOT, here's what i've got.

The RPD skin looks much better now Good job.

Thanks lad. Appreatitated!

Vackert!

Please someone help us RIG and Model please, I have really good ideas for making Special Normal infected for L4D1 but i need a modeler at least. If you can model/rig or you know someone who can please either post back or let them know to post back .

Tribal has left the team, is there anyone who can take his place out there? we need someone to help reskin the normal infected please. As Well as a Rigger and Modeler. Any takers please post back asap

Alright, i've finished off the reskin for Francis, have a look!

Wow, how badass! "You think you are special with your with your leather jacket and your fancy blood?!"

But what the hell does he have on his back? 0_o

That's the Serious Sam Logo! It's so badass i just had to put it on there!

if there is a guide on how you are supposed to import/export source models then i'd help I somewhat know how to rig in both maya and 3ds max.

If you can rig this licker to the Smoker for me that would be great, i can send you the files and i have added you on steam. This tut might help you out by the way http://www.l4dmods.com/index.php?option ... 8&Itemid=5 On another note there is going to be a 2nd campaign made for this project, it will be like the l4d2 Swamp campaign ill add screen shots and info about this 2nd campaign later .

I have to things to post up, first of all ill show you the new Skin by Shazzo (more printscreens of it later to come).



This is the sniper skin we are going to use.

President Barack Obama is also working on a 2nd campaign for Better Off Dead, heres some printscreens of it .













This campaign is going to be based in a Swamp, like the new l4d2 campaign, however it will have our own ideas thrown into the mix keep looking on this topic for more updates .

Lookin' good! Keep it up!

Look at this hunter, its the one from Doku's Stalker mod ive been allowed to use it and full credits go to him for making it .



Heres the Shotgun skin were going to use for the Project, made by Shazzo



I have manged to make it so Witchs and Tanks spawn like normal Special infected, it is requiring a few bug fixs to make it balanced but is really good . Doku helped me do this by letting me use some of his Code from his other mods.

---Better Off Dead---

People including my own Project team dont seem to understand this, Better Off Dead is not just any other mod! It is a remake of Left 4 Dead changing everything about l4d. Everything is being reskinned,remapped,recoded you name it. Everything is being changed we are planning to make it a new game but require l4d to be installed on your pc to run. I realise that some people might not want to download a few gig of new our new content. However there will be around 7 brand new campaigns 4 of them being remade versions of the originals, EFT, Containment and The Swamp. Everything Reskinned and alot of new coding. So if you dont want ot download this when its releast, thats fine. But its very good at the moment and its around 82mb, not including any maps and only including the skins listed above.