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A single Expert Realism campaign already takes away years of life expectancy. You are a legend!

Since someone's probably curious, the Tank not instadowning you with cars in the Parish finale is intended. Due to being a really tight corridor that's overloaded with cars, Valve kindly set cars on both all difficulties and in versus to only do flat damage if a Tank punts them into you (which isn't exactly hard).

The funny part with coach and the witches is that while each bot has their own little unique thing, coach(and francis) seem to be particularly interested in picking up shotguns and trying to kill witches. Even their voicelines reflect that

The funniest part of this video is that he referred to killing his teammates as "unaliving them," as though he didn't literally say "I'm gonna fucking kill myself" not even five minutes earlier

33:08 lmao Rochelle screaming NOOO NOOOO while Sham is euphorically screaming out of joy. I learned the lesson of balance in life

The crazy part is, if you play VS mode with an AI on the survivor team that shit will beam you the second you have one pixel visible

Coach getting hyped about the Midnight Riders while his friends get torn to shreds right before he got saved was freaking hilarious 😂😂

Can we acknowledge how perfect the tank throw was at 43:05? HE LED HIM PERFECTLY WITH THAT ROCK. That's a pretty solid AI. Dude was throwing Superbowl eligible passes

Anytime I see a long video about L4D/L4D2 I get excited. These two games will always be a good time with the bois

Glad everything ultimately came together for this video! I see why the loss of this footage in particular would have been awful. Far too much voluntary pain already to have involuntary suffering added on lol

0:36 *"Along with the ridiculous infected spawnrates"* they're actually the same regardless of difficulty, they just deal more damage, and with realism headshots are more important.

I’m so glad nobody told him that if you played on the “Room for One” mutation, it’ll still count towards the achievement for beating all campaigns on Expert since the campaigns will only be able to start on the final chapter.

In Honor of "The Witches from L4D2" had me in tears I'm just imagining some poor charity worker trying to understand that

33:05 the way Snam was saying yes and Rochelle had a different idea. 😂 Also 13:15 where Ellis is convinced he can’t walk three more feet.

This exact achievement has haunted me since I was 9 years old, very happy I got to see someone achieve the dream good shit man

The fact that he did this while not using god spots or skips is very impressive

You don't know how many memories you just brought back for me! My dad and I played this game together while I was in high school and those remain some of my favorite memories.

You absolute masochist. This took me so long to find a good, reliable team to get this done. Hats off to you, you madlad.

I'm in awe that anyone can get this done with only the ai team.

Man you just can't hate this guy, nobody else can channel their rage into a beaming smile and WHHHHAATTTT😂

As someone who has every achievement in L4D2, I can confidently say that doing this solo is possibly the worst decision you could make. Congrats on sticking it through, though! You certainly have a higher tolerance for pain than I could ever imagine. XD

47:35 - If you want to know, Witches have a weird quark in their AI, If they are lit on fire they'll attack the person who lit them on fire. They prioritise this above just getting shot, That Quark is also bugged where if multiple people set her on Fire with Fire Bullets she will attack the last person who shot her with the fire bullets. (Ellis)

20:16 Throwchelle Sellis and Dick took me out 🤣

It’s always nice to see a long video about L4D2. I remember doing a Solo Expert Realism playthrough of my own because I didn’t have Xbox Live Gold at the time and so couldn’t find myself a good team. With the combination of the surprise Tanks, Witches and other Special Infected, along with of course the tomfoolery of the bots made it quite the challenge for me. I still remember the satisfaction of beating a Campaign like this and as I did so, I told myself “I’m never doing this again.”

As someone who was there for about 70% of these streams, its wild to see all those hours compressed into 57 minutes, hats off to you snam for the editing! L4D2 was a crazy run

Glad that you recovered the footage. I can see why you were worried about it. I wouldn't want to go through that nightmare of an achievement either.

This made me really happy. Brings back memories back then playing with my gang. And the satisfaction of winning, the adrenaline, the thrill, the desperation, and never giving up.

This dude is *too* patient. It’s actually uncanny.

Left 4 Dead's difficulty system is truly one of my favorites of all time. Expert is brutal obviously, but there are even times on Normal where the game just decides "yeah you're all going to die. Here's a tank, a horde, and one of every special infected while you are all already low on ammo."

Ay glad everything came together, im sure it'll be a banger of a video like always, sounds like this hard of a challenge wouldve been terrible to lose all this footage

The Parish is actually my fav campaign and I wanted to try Realism with bots on it since I saw you do it. I managed to only die 4 times but Im scared of attempting the other campaigns so I gotta commend you for having the patience and determination to do it.

32:57 the way he shoots coach and then sits there waiting for him to die 😂

This was worth the wait. Appreciate the hard work you put into these, AND hope you never have the added pain of losing your work again. Thank you for pushing through!

So glad you were able to recover everything that was lost for this video, looking forward to watching this later tonight!

I don't usually watch people game, but felt in love with L4D2, and stumbled upon this - watched it four times, and that was the amount it toke me to realize he wasn't talking with anyone called Chad but chat 👏🤣🤣

hes smiling on the outside but i know in the inside he is about to break his desk

Did this with my brother during the lockdowns, the hardest campaign by far is the dark carnival in my opinion(the second to last chapter especially) the missions are so long, it’s close quarters for most of the campaign, and since it’s realism, you have no room to breathe. Truly was the most torturous experience getting into the concert when the crescendo doesn’t stop spawning zombies and specials.

And here we watch as yet again snam decides to make every aspect of a challenge he has control of stupidly hard.

20:26 Fun fact: They literally don’t have to shoot to kill the commons climbing the ladder. If your feet touch a common’s head, they die on the spot and you take no fall damage if you were falling. This has the amusing side effect of having commons have an instant heart attack and ragdoll the instant they reach the top of a ladder or object they can climb because you’re standing where they would pull themselves up.

The Parish is a bit more manageable than other campaigns because the finale doesn't pin you down in one place waiting for extraction, if you get one reliable human teammate with voice chat it's more of a matter of perseverance and good RNG.

ALSO! for a while there was an exploit that allowed a party to give the achievement to all non-host players so they'd only need to get to the last mission of a chapter then, do the exploit to change the difficulties and beat only it on expert realism. in reality the number of legit achievement gets for this one is MUCH LOWER

Good lord just hearing those achievement names bring back really bad memories of attempting these. Thankfully I had a good group of people to work with on the 360 but wow did it take so long. Major props to you for doing this solo.

You are an embodiment of understanding what you can and cannot control. The only things you can 100% control are your effort and attitude. Everything else is gone with the wind. Every time you died, you didn't see it as a failure, but as a step towards success. You left everything on the table every time you played, so there was nothing to truly be upset about when a game mechanic out of your control contributed to your death. That's the kind of mentality that makes you such a great gamer.

I don’t usually don’t finish YT videos over 20 minutes but I enjoyed every minute of your suffering. Respect from a L4D player.

As someone who loves the Left 4 Dead series, extremely excited to watch this when I get home, keep up the great work buddy

There's not a single bad video, what a guy. Making my days better, amazing IMPOSSIBLE run man!

"I beg of you bridge of the parish that there's no much zombies and tank on my way" oh you sweet summer child

The nostalgia as you play and remembering all the little tricks to beat this is awesome the memorizing the mall to get through the horde and not turn the wrong direction haha and the mess to pour the gas faster

I remember playing this with my ex when it first came out. I wanted to save the gnome, but he got pissed when I tried. Watching this was equal parts nostalgic and cathartic. Thank you for the time and effort you put into it!

I know this vid is a year old but in so glad I found it. The last expert realism vid I saw was talking about how it sucked for custom maps, and was compleatly unhelpfull on the mode in general

33:08 with Rochelle screaming in sorrow in the background with snam cheering is the funniest thing

You've quickly become one of my favorite content makers. Hilarious videos and your resolve during some of these challenges is honestly impressive, I could never lol.

Congrats on beating the challenge, both the game and life tried to stop you from getting this video out but it was a treat to watch and well worth the wait! Can't wait to see what you do next, rock on Snam!

14:15 "Why Me?!" He says playing as Ellis, Special Infected magnet.

I play a lot of realism expert and I can say that with good strategy and good reflexes it isn't so bad, just keep moving! The slower you go, the harder it will be. If you gather a horde and leave them behind the survivor group the maps become a whole lot easier and gives things like car alarms or random hordes a great use.

I just want to say I've been watching your content since the early days and I've never commented before, but i just want to say congratulations buddy! Because you have such incredible patience and skill and no ones making content like this which makes things so much more fun! 🥰 keep it up and never change

Completing Expert Realism was painful enough with three other friends, I can't imagine trying to do it by myself

Always amazed by your patience on stream with these hard achievements

Dunno if you’ll see this but ever since Steam implemented Steam Input into all of their games, they’ve changed the default controller input from the original XInput/Xbox 360 controller style to a disgusting abomination that was designed for the original Steam Controller. However you can still enable the older XInput mode in L4D2 by going to Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> “Enable Controller” which will switch controller settings back to what it was on Xbox 360. Even for Steam Deck this way is much better IMO, as you can still use K&M inputs to enable Gyro Aiming or Touchpad aiming while keeping the old Gamepad controls

This is a journey I'm really glad you took us with you on! I especially loved the character development you went through there ❤️

Watched your runs live on twitch and the pain was palpable. But my god… the highs were soooo rewarding! The challenge went on for too long that editing the footage surely would’ve been a headache. Thanks for the great content Snam!

love this video!! l4d2 is one of my favorite games of all time and you always make games 10x more entertaining than they are. i'm binge-watching your vids while i'm recovering from surgery and this is a really good distraction :)

Nick: “do not shoot any of the cars!” Snam: “no worry, I’m way ahead of you” “Car goes off” Nick: “son of a bitch…” “Snam face of absolute confusion ” 38:20 best moment 😂

Oh man reminds me of when i used to have a entire squad dedicated to doing L4D2 expert realism. On expert realism the game is taken so differently and slower than a normal L4D2 game.

i love these videos keep up the great work. really happy that this video was able to come together even after loosing the footage thank you snam this is going to be a great watch

1:31 Steam's L4D2 Official controller config is the default controller profile, but it breaks the regular controller (I think it's more for steam deck). If you switch it to the 'gamepad' profile, it acts like a regular 360 controller and works perfectly like it does on 360

after 1800 hours in this game, Expert realsm still is sometimes insane when not having a good aim or not relaxed enough, i think the game is following the player in how they play it out.

Doing expert realism in vanilla L4D was so much easier. Not only are all the maps in L4D2 far more open but I swear they changed something in the hit detection because it sometimes happen that I swing the melee weapon or shove and no hit registers and I get hit, costing me precious health. Kudos to you, especially for doing it with the AI teammates!

The video turned out great, Snam! Keep up the good work

Nick healing you during the tank...I wouldn't play L4D2 for a very long time after that lol

At least you make this entire endeavor fairly entertaining. I will be the kind of guy that would end up breaking my TV 😭

Congrats on finally getting it all together after the mountain of obstacles

I'm so glad you managed to recover your footage, dude. This video made me laugh my arse off. Haven't laughed that hard for a while. Thanks, Snam.

I started playing this with my siblings and its so chaotic and funny at the same time! lol! like everybody screaming help me!!! and it my first time playing with a gun game too!

I found this channel today (or technically yesterday) and I already love it. The energy, the humor, the vibe. It is everything I need.

How do you not have a million viewers by now??!! Your content is literal gold. I love your vids, their a guarenteed laugh at the end of a bad week. Entertainment gold honestly

My buddy my friend. I found your content a mere week ago, and have binged most of it while leveling a character in WoW classic. Im a 34 year old Electrician who has played games since I was 2, and I have HUGE respect for your patience and determination in getting them crazy achievements. Keep it up buddy, youll be up to millions of subs in no time. Peace out and have a great day!

35:16 to 35:34 is the funniest out of context clip I've ever seen😭

47:28 if you startle the witch but someone else sets her on fire, she actually starts to go after the person who set her on fire instead (no matter how long she's been running, its cool to mix her up with a bunch of fire bullets from different survivors all at once cos then she'll keep flipping between each survivor over and over), and ellis had fire bullets but its really funny to just think that all the zombies keep wanting to go for him instead (like in the previous chapter)

Thank you Snam, I know you put in the work recovering and reediting footage sna di just want you to know we appreciate that. Thanks for the hour long video!

Getting it for every campaign on expert was the most fun and the most headache I ever got from a game lol. I wouldn’t have been able to get the achievement for this if it weren’t for my old l4d2 buddies. Thank you guys, I miss you all 😢

Been watching your videos as a passtime for the past few weeks while doing the dishes and its been entertaining as hell. Well deserved sub for the pain of doing those campaigns.

You're a champ for going through it. But when I did this, I learned from a friend that the best way to do expert realism is to go fast. You can actually out run most of the hoards and even take shortcuts that will make life easier

This dude has that fucking smile even at a funeral

Congrats on the sponsor and for beating this achievement... You are built different my dude.

I remember doing all the Achievements for both L4D1 & L4D2 I love watching these type of videos keep up the good fight

So glad your blowing up so quick, you’re honestly one of the best KZfaqrs atm.

I love how he always does these challenges alone. Reminds me of the old days where I had no friends to play games with because I didn’t have Xbox Live. I also didn’t have any friends XD

I remember trying to get this achievement over and over again with my friends and we could never get it. I eventually said screw it and tried it solo and finally got it lol. I was pumped.

Can we just appreciate that this guy did NOT upload only the best clips, and showed us every single bad thing that happened?

The SECOND I saw you throw the Pipe Bomb in the Hard Rain level I KNEW what was gonna happen, that entire area is a throwable nightmare.

This dude is so underrated I’m new to the channel but I can see how much effort he puts into these videos much love keep up the great work you got me hooked on some new type of content thank you!!!

Snam really chose war and decided to do another L4D challenge. King 👑

legit i’ve watched this video like 7 times, this game is timeless and this video never gets old

38:38 coach's face is killing me 😂

I know how hard you work and I am so so exited for what's next thank you snam

As soon as I saw day one and the video being almost an hour long I knew I’m going to have a good time

Totally awesome you did this man! I love this from childhood and I recently subbed to you so it feels like a cool moment lmao

I subbed for the attempt alone. only 44 seconds into the vid/grind so good luck mate 👍🏼