Arcade

Left 2 Die

Working together with a partner, defend your base from onrushing zerg infested. Protect yourself from the relentless hordes during the night, and build up your forces to strike back during the daytime. Cooperate, or measure your survival in seconds.

Basic Information
  • Category: Survival and Siege
  • Modes: Cooperative; Night 2 Die
  • Supports up to 2 players

Left 2 Die is a cooperative take on the Outbreak mission from the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign. Similar to Outbreak, the action takes place in a terran colony that has been overrun by a zerg infestation. The game shifts between two phases: a night phase and a day phase.

At night, you and a teammate will be tasked with protecting your base against waves of infested terran. Using defensive structures like bunkers and coordinating your defense against the invading zerg forces will be critical to your team's survival in this phase. You'll also want to watch out for special zerg units including the kaboomer and stank, as these creatures can perform unique abilities capable of overwhelming even the strongest front lines.

During the day, the attacks on your team's base will cease, giving you and your teammate time to train additional units and take them out to destroy infested terran settlements scattered across the map. It’s also a good idea to continue to build up defenses during the daytime so you can survive the merciless onslaught of zerg that swarm your base at night.

While the struggle to survive in Left 2 Die can be daunting, you’ll have some help along the way. Beyond having your teammate to assist you, you can also earn zerg biomass by killing special zerg units and destroying infested buildings. Zerg biomass is a new type of currency that can be used at the science facility in your base to research units and structures like medics, firebats, and perdition turrets. These upgrades can be used by both you and your teammate and will increase your team's potency against the zerg strain.

In order to achieve victory in Left 2 Die, you'll need to eradicate all traces of the zerg virus. Work together to survive at night, assault and rebuild during the day, and use biomass wisely for epic upgrades to win!

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MacedoniaN #978
MacedoniaN
3/13/2013
fun map but I have few suggestions to get rid of some frustrating gameplay issues
-the SCV always get stucked when SHIFT building towers on high ground
-on night 2 die the super infested become too powerful later on bcz they have all upgrades and 15k hp
-some more improvemens in science facility will bring more ways to win this game = more fun
-biosteel should affect buildings too in night 2 die mode
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Cainsreign #360
Cainsreign
1/27/2013
This is great but can we get a Protoss version of this "survival map"... that would be filled to the brim with sweetness!
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crackjuice #584
crackjuice
1/24/2013
nevermind, im dumb.
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crackjuice #584
crackjuice
1/24/2013
how do i get this map!!!???
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Filmdude #843
Filmdude
2/27/2013
@crackjuice: how do you do it i cant get it
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Westron #633
Westron
1/14/2013
addicting game, me and my friend spent an hour stimpacking our way to victory. There's something compelling about wiping out buildings and swarms of weak units :D
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sleepyhead #760
sleepyhead
12/15/2012
Hmm... this was ok, but once you destroyed everything, there is no real ending.. I left the game running after all the other peeps left, and it's just not ending, at night 15 with 2 hours and 11 minutes. Every building is destroyed, all map explored, full map control! Just get a few attacks here and there, but they get obliterated... needs to end when everything is killed.
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LiquidCoke #174
LiquidCoke
10/25/2012
This is awesome...이 최고입니다
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ShadowGearX #874
ShadowGearX
8/29/2012
why can't I access this in offline mode anymore? I used to play it fine and now since you added this "Arcade" mode ALL of my custom maps are inaccessible in offline mode. Solutions?
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hairybones #168
hairybones
12/27/2012
@ShadowGearX: when you start up the game, hit load. the window will have 5 different tabs, one of them shows you the maps for a solo versus game (you can get to that window in many other ways, this was just the easiest)
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Talboturbo #546
Talboturbo
8/19/2012
Damn, I'm not good at this, I have gotten up to only 8 minutes :(
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DarkKing #650
DarkKing
8/11/2012
Silly people, you do not download it, go the the Arcade and play it in game :)
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MarineStorm #392
MarineStorm
8/4/2012
Oh THIS looks frigging great!
Can't wait to play when SC2 finishes optimizing :D
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Marcus #1874
Marcus
7/23/2012
how do u download i purchase it last weak
new lol (:
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zergovermind #188
zergovermind
7/21/2012
how do you download it
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DblDiction #395
DblDiction
7/20/2012
looking for a SMART PLAYER WHO TRIED COUNTLESSLY BUT FAILED for Brutal and Night 2 Die, add me (j-sim@sbcglobal.net)
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MarineStorm #392
MarineStorm
8/4/2012
@TheBeatrice: I'm usually smart about custom maps, but i need to get used to SC2 first, but hey, add me (zelashoculah@gmail.com)
Also i'm gonna try this map on Solo, if it'll let me >:D
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RollinDice #514
RollinDice
6/23/2012
never played this, would be great to have coop for that mission haha, gotta try it with my neighbours who purchasing the game soon
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tyrant #941
tyrant
6/15/2012
how do u download these mods
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BallSmashian #753
BallSmashian
5/27/2012
This was fun but with little replay value. I think an expansion is in order.
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Zero #3310
Zero
4/12/2012
"I hear a kaboomer!"
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konopacz #789
konopacz
4/12/2012
STANK!
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StarbuzZ #859
StarbuzZ
3/31/2012
Blizzard and Valve should be friends. :)
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Tiberius #1157
Tiberius
3/27/2012
@syrik - DOTA 2 came out way after left 2 die. Blizzard is fine copying Valve, but when Valve uses something that Blizzard might in some way assume they'd lose out on, they pull out lawyers. Left 4 Dead is at least an official game, not a mod created by the community.

As if Blizzard cared about the community. :-)
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VisibleWiz #630
VisibleWiz
2/23/2012
how do you get this?
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IMepiC #310
IMepiC
2/20/2012
Damn brutal mode is soooo hard, thats crasy O.O
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kyle #2293
kyle
1/23/2012
lol left 4 not Die
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how to get this maps
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ironboy #441
ironboy
1/3/2012
I can't believe how many pele don't know how to download it. You download it in-game from the custom games list. It will appear regardless whether you have the game or not. When you try to play it it will download automatically. It's like playing a browser game where you click on it from a list and. It pops up and loads. I would expect people to figure that out after the first few custom games that play. The amount of people that don't think about it and just ask is quite ridiculous.
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xCPTxCRASHx #499
xCPTxCRASHx
1/30/2012
@ironboy: uran idiot its not even in the list of games to play try knowing what ur talkin about b4 u open ur mouth
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OverInstinct #691
OverInstinct
2/7/2012
@xCPTxCRASHx: It actually is in the list of games. If you search for just "Left" it is the first result and has the Blizzard icon next to it.
However, when I open it in the map editor, the editor can't find the "Left 2 Die" dependency. Anyone have a suggestion or a solution?
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MaxSBM #346
MaxSBM
2/23/2012
@OverInstinct: It was probably published as "Locked" meaning it cannot be edited by anyone except the publisher.
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APLAS #322
APLAS
12/20/2011
#@%#@%k i die firsty#@%#@% 30 seconds of game new record
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zerglover #945
zerglover
12/17/2011
hw do you even play a cusom game
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pluikl #483
pluikl
1/9/2012
@zerglover: go to multiplayer click join custom game and a list pops up select a game. Its pretty simple.
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Conejito #775
Conejito
12/15/2011
awsome
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MrSerpent #491
MrSerpent
12/8/2011
beating it all need some thing more harder
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To Download both the map and the Mod you can go into the StarCraft 2 Editor click on the "Open map" Icon go to the Battle.net Tab, log in if you haven't, and search for it on the list (Should be under L it's an Alphabetical list) Then click Download wait for it to finish and then you have it!!!
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assasinispro #719
assasinispro
11/1/2011
if you ask for the game down load it go to were is say join a game right below that click it then go to search type left 2 die find what you want then down load you want a some thang more hard try left 2 cry
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assasinispro #719
assasinispro
11/1/2011
you thank you can beat it left 2 die i might look slow and weak but randyispro is a pro all most sc2 grand master i part gm owell...