Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

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Cataclysmic Difficulty

In 1 collection by Iizvullok
Difficulty levels beyond expert
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Description
Cataclysmic is the 7th difficulty level and one step above fiendish (contains realism aswell).

Things that have been changed:

-non headshots deal even less damage
-nearly all infected have sligtly increased health
-the tank has now 16000 hp instead of 8000
-commons deal 90 damage from both the front and 72 damage from the back
-limp health is 90
-friendlyfire deals massive damage
-most infected are sligtly faster
-increased spawnrates
-some other small changes that are not worth writing them down seperately
22 Comments
Iizvullok  [author] 15 Jun @ 12:19pm 
Also for solo it may actually be the first so far. I do not know anyone who has done it before. A no bot solo has yet to be done on cataclysmic or cataclysmic realism as well as in the newer versions of nightmare and fiendish (I have only done so in older versions).
Iizvullok  [author] 15 Jun @ 12:13pm 
Oh I just see you beat it solo too. Now that is really impressive. I tried dead center on cataclysmic realism solo but only got close to the gun store. To be fair it was in an older version where the limp health was 100 and I tried it without bots. But either way, it is really really hard to solo that.
Iizvullok  [author] 15 Jun @ 12:06pm 
Congrats! Cataclysmic is where it starts to become really hard. To my knowledge you are the first to beat cataclysmic from the addon that combines all 6, which is a bit different from this mutation (because I was too lazy to copy all cvars and also did some changes on purpose like fixing the SI damage). However you are not the first to beat cataclysmic in general. People have managed to beat no mercy on unutterable (I think dead air and maybe one more campaign too). Unfortunately they put the video on private or at least unlisted.
DrZed✔ 15 Jun @ 12:32am 
So i uhh, beat this difficulty, and even made a video on it on how i beat it, and even beat it with my friends, and found out i was the world first (at least on youtube wise) to beat this difficulty
Pandemonium 8 Jun, 2022 @ 8:37pm 
The tank runs slower on cataclysmic. Pandemonium is pretty easy for me when I do Dead Air. Whenever I do that mutation, I usually make the game public to see if anyone joins me.
Iizvullok  [author] 1 Jun, 2022 @ 2:49pm 
If i remember correctly, i made the tank a bit slower aswell and increased the duration of the adrenaline shots to even out the disadvantage at least a little bit. However its of course supposed to be extremely difficult. The main intention if the slowing was to increase the total time the players spend on a map as this increases the encounters with infected. Also the lower speed can be dealt with by good baiting and bunnyhop. Of course its not easy in practise. But thats the point. Unfortunately i never had the opportunity to play this mutation with a good full team. So i cannot really tell how well it is actually balanced.
Lancer 31 May, 2022 @ 4:36am 
Can you please explain why the constant slowing is balanced? You don't like when the people rush and I understand you, but how am I supposed to run from the tank with 30 hp? It's just impossible
NerfCube 16 Feb, 2022 @ 7:42pm 
Maybe for the final Difficulty Insufferable (Recommending cause i want a challenge)

Maybe the Spawn pool of Special Infected cap should go up
Tank can instant kill no setbacks
Body shots don't kill only think that can really kill are headshots

Please i want a challenge my brother
Iizvullok  [author] 2 Nov, 2021 @ 10:02am 
no
Antares_Pixel 1 Nov, 2021 @ 8:49pm 
can you play this difficulty in survival ?