campaign order

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playing this game for the first and ive noticed it has the left 4 dead original campaigns
should i play those first or play l4d2 campaign first?

[GigaChad]

the first

[The pokenator]

If you want to go in chronological order your best bet is to do the l4d1 campaigns and then do the l4d2 campaigns.

[Logon]

This game has some lore, but by no means is it necessary to know the lore to enjoy the game. In fact, other than the map "The Passing", the L4D1 survivors and the L4D2 surivors have completely different stories.

[aiden]

If you're that interested in looking at some lore, then might be worth playing l4d1 first. Though as what @Logon said, you don't need to know the lore to enjoy the game . Just play how you would like.

[Heck]

the lore is actually in the official left 4 dead comics you can read online as for the campaign order i think the first game's come first since in the passing the l4d1 survivors have stayed after the events of the final l4d1 campaign the sacrifice

[Jimmeeehhh]

If you REALLY want to do it in order start from No Mercy to Blood Harvest. Then play The Sacrifice. It's not made obvious that they connect, but they do. Then, start from Dead Center and work your way down to The Parish. Unlike the L4D1 maps, it's made extremely obvious that they connect.

Cold Stream is not canon, so play that whenever you want.

[Senpaija]

Crash Course and Cold stream are DLC campaigns, so they do not connect with the story.

[570RMP1R473]

Escrito originalmente por Senpaija:

Crash Course and Cold stream are DLC campaigns, so they do not connect with the story.

Crash Course ties No Mercy and Death Toll together, though.
So it's technically part of the canon.
Cold Stream still isn't canon, though.

[Lian "Smexy" Kinnidy]

No Mercy; Crash Course; Death Toll; Dead Air; Blood Harvest; *The Sacrifice; *Dead Center; The Passing; Dark Carnival; Swamp Fever; Hard Rain; The Parish

This is my understanding of the cronological order. The campaigns I marked with a * can be swapped in the sense of: You can play either "The Sacrifice" first and "Dead Center" after or play "Dead Center" first and "The Sacrifice" after since both campaign play out simultaniously.

And yes, according to the comic, "Blood Harvest" and "The Sacrifice" are tied together, while "The Passing" is used to be played between "Dead Center" (Since you get to Jimmy Gibs Jr.'s Car for the first time there) and "Dark Carnival" (Since you abandon the car there due to the road being blocked) since the car is still being used as transportation on "The Passing")

[AsbestosIsPoison]

The left 4 dead 1 campaigns are supposed to be like a move valve said, every campaign is a different movie being played. But people wanted a story for the game so valve released crash course, linking to ending of no mercy (they get in a helicopter) to crash course (they crash the helicopter) and the end of crash course (they get a car to run away) to death toll (theres a blocked road so they have to abandon the car) but the link inbetween death toll and dead air is...incredibly irratating. I mean they go from escaping in a boat to being in a greenhouse.

So yeah. with the origonal there isnt really a story at first but valve wanted to make one so they made crash course and with crash course and the left 4 dead 2 comic came a story for the game