L4D2 Survivor

You are a Left 4 Dead 2 survivor who walked into the Lands Between.

First person, real L4D2 hands and weapons. Elden Ring plays from your survivor's eyes. Your own copy of Left 4 Dead 2 runs alongside on this mashup's own empty map, and its hands, weapons, crosshair, health panel and ammo counter are drawn over Elden Ring. Switching, every shot, swing, throw and reload plays in L4D2, and the survivor's health follows your Elden Ring HP. F6 toggles the normal camera.

The safe room. The first time your character loads in, the Safe Room opens: a Pistol, a First Aid Kit, Pain Pills, 60 Ammo, and your pick of the Pump Shotgun or the SMG. Free.

New in 0.2.0: melee and throwables

• Katana, Fire Axe, Crowbar, Machete, Baseball Bat: hold one and your survivor holds the real L4D2 melee weapon; every attack swings it.
• Molotov: a fireball, then the ground burns for several seconds.
• Pipe Bomb: beeps and draws nearby enemies to it, then explodes.
• Bile Jar: enemies it splashes turn on each other for a while.
• Carried like normal consumables (no Cracked Pots), up to 5 each.

The L4D2 arsenal at Limgrave's merchants, each gun's clip, damage and pellets read from your own L4D2 files:

• Kalé (Church of Elleh): Pain Pills, First Aid Kits, Adrenaline Shots, Molotovs, Rifle Ammo
• Nomadic Merchant, North Limgrave: Chrome Shotgun, Silenced SMG, Magnum, Baseball Bat, Pipe Bombs
• Nomadic Merchant, East Limgrave: M-16, Auto Shotgun, Hunting Rifle, Crowbar, Machete, Bile Jars
• Nomadic Merchant, Coastal Cave: AK-47, Combat Shotgun, Combat Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Fire Axe, Katana
• Every merchant that sold Bolts sells Ammo; Kalé and the nomads sell Rifle Ammo.

L4D2 rules. Clips and reloads, bursts for automatics, buckshot cones, unlimited pistol ammo. First Aid Kits heal 80% of lost health, Pills half your health, Adrenaline a quarter plus a stamina rush, and your survivor says the line. No AI Director: Elden Ring's own enemies are the horde.

Good to know

• Single player and offline: Elden Ring starts through me3 with Easy Anti-Cheat off. Nothing is written to Elden Ring's files; start it from Steam for the normal game.
• Needs Elden Ring (current version, base game) and Left 4 Dead 2.
• Keep Elden Ring windowed or borderless (switched to borderless if set to fullscreen).
• Two ammo types: Ammo (bolt slot) for the crossbow-built guns, Rifle Ammo (arrow slot) for the Silenced SMG, Chrome Shotgun, AK-47, Combat Rifle, Hunting Rifle and Sniper Rifle.
• 0.2.0 fixes the crash some players hit a few minutes in (Samurai characters and areas with archers).

Credits: me3 by garyttierney (MIT/Apache-2.0, bundled), fromsoftware-rs by vswarte (MIT/Apache-2.0). Elden Ring by FromSoftware/Bandai Namco, Left 4 Dead 2 by Valve; no game content is included.