Promod/Confogl [ Guide] 3.3.4

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What is ProMod?

ProMod is a configuration for Left 4 Dead 2 built for Confogl with the purpose of making competitive play more balanced and interesting. It's the most recent set of changes from an evolving set of ideas put forth from other configs such as Fresh and Metafogl, as well as the community.

What's changed?

Below are all the changes made for a 4v4 ProMod match. // !match promod

General changes:

Most all of the changes in Confogl 2.2.2 listed here

Several exploit/glitch fixes in Tabun's exploit package listed here

Health:

Survivors automatically receive pills upon leaving saferoom

Pills found outside saferoom reduced to 4

Pills slowly heal over a period of 2.5 seconds

Adrenaline removed

Weapons:

Uzi restricted to 3

Magnum restricted to 1

Hunting rifle restricted to 0

Items:

Items at the end of long maps removed to prevent useless pill spawns

No throwables (Molotov/Pipe/Bile)

No cans (Gas/Propane/Oxygen/Fireworks)

Special infected:

Special Infected spawn timers set to 18 seconds

Special Infected (except Tank) can't deal friendly fire damage

Special Infected (except Tank) slowdown by gunfire removed

Shoves don't kill Special Infected

Godframes for Smoker/Jockey removed (spit godframes lowered from 2 to 1 second)

Hittables always hit with or without godframes

Hittables always deal 100 damage to incapped or non-incapped survivors

Ghost footsteps are silent

No Spitter during Tank

No spit damage in Hard Rain elevator

Jockeys always make a sound when spawning

Jockey recharge after ledge hang increased to 10 seconds

Heatseeking Charger during Tank spawn bug fixed

Boomer pops on exactly 4 shoves instead of a randomly chosen 4-5

Hunters unable to pounce while being damaged bug fixed

Imbalanced Tank spawning locations blocked

Tank/Witch spawning position percentage announced

Tank refills rage bar once and announces to chat instead of passing

Players won't get Tank more than once in a campaign until all players have played it

Tanks no longer damage themselves with hittables

Map items invisible to Special Infected to prevent pre-survivor item scouting

Maps edited to include additional LOS objects to spawn behind and balancing placements

Infected flow warping among survivors as ghosts

Bunny Hopping disabled for Tank only

Common infected:

No natural hordes

Common Infected outside saferoom removed

Uncommon Common Infected removed (except mudmen)

Survivor:

Two shoves allowed until fatigue begins

Double-getup, no-getup, and self clear getup bugs fixed

Downed survivors show more accurate temporary health values

Non-boomed survivors won't be pushed by horde running for boomed survivors

Round balancing:

Alarmed car selection remains the same for each team

L4D1 vscripts removed since valve broke them completely

Statistics:

Tank damage announcement on death or round end

Survivor MVP stats at the end of a round

Custom distance bonuses:

Dark Carnival 2 = 600 (500)

Dark Carnival 4 = 600 (700)

Swamp Fever 1 = 600 (500)

Swamp Fever 3 = 600 (700)

Hard Rain 2 = 600 (500)

Hard Rain 3 = 700 (600)

Hard Rain 4 = 500 (700)

Parish 1 = 300 (400)

Parish 5 = 600 (800)

Passing 1 = 600 (500)

Passing 2 = 800 (600)

Sacrifice 1 = 600 (500)

No Mercy 3 = 700 (600)

No Mercy 4 = 600 (700)

Crash Course 2 = 800 (600)

Dead Air 2 = 600 (500)

Dead Air 4 = 600 (700)

Blood Harvest 4 = 600 (700)

Alternate configs

The ProMod package contains other configs than just the standard 4v4 competitive setup. All configs share by default the changes of the latest ProMod above, but with additional changes below.

ProMod HR // !match promodhr

A match for 8 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunting rifle restricted to 1
• Hunting rifle clipsize decreased to 10
• Hunting rifle damage to Tank decreased to 75
• Static sniper spawns on Parish 2
• Tank slowdown removed

Parity // !match parity

A match for 8 players. Additional changes include:

• Damage bonus scoring system
• Survivors automatically receive health kits upon leaving saferoom
• First aid kits give temporary health
• First aid kits can't reset downs or black and white

3v3 ProMod // !match pm3v3

A match for 6 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter, Jockey, Charger, and Smoker
• Tank health set to 4500
• Uzi restricted to 2
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 13 seconds
• Reduced common infected numbers
• Pills found outside saferoom reduced to 1 (except 3 on finales)

2v2 ProMod // !match pm2v2

A match for 4 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter, Jockey, and Charger
• Tank health set to 3000
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 11 seconds
• Reduced common infected numbers
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 2 on finales)

1v1 ProMod // !match pm1v1

A match for 2 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter and Jockey
• Tanks completely removed
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected incaps do 33 damage then instantly die
• Special Infected scratches do 0 damage
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 4 seconds
• Shove fatigue starts at maximum level
• Reduced common infected numbers
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 1 on finales)

1v1 Deadman // !match deadman

A match for 2 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter only
• Tank health set to 2000
• Tank grace period increased to 35 seconds
• Tank dies instead of passing to AI
• Distance points frozen when Tank is alive
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected incaps do 33 damage then instantly die
• Special Infected scratches do 0 damage
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 4 seconds
• Shove fatigue starts at maximum level
• Reduced common infected numbers
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 1 on finales)

Hunters // !match hunters

A match for 8 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter only
• Uzi restricted to 2
• Melee Weapons restricted to 2
• Magnums replaced with pistols
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 17 seconds
• Shove fatigue starts at maximum level
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 4 on finales)

3v3 Hunters // !match hunters3v3

A match for 6 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter only
• Tank health set to 4500
• Uzi restricted to 2
• Melee Weapons restricted to 2
• Magnums replaced with pistols
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 13 seconds
• Shove fatigue starts at maximum level
• Reduced common infected numbers
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 3 on finales)

2v2 Hunters // !match hunters2v2

A match for 4 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter only
• Tank health set to 3000
• Uzi restricted to 1
• Melee Weapons restricted to 1
• Magnums replaced with pistols
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 11 seconds
• Shove fatigue starts at maximum level
• Reduced common infected numbers
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 2 on finales)

1v1 Hunters // !match hunters1v1

A match for 2 players. Additional changes include:

• Hunter only
• Tanks completely removed
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Special Infected incaps do 33 damage then instantly die
• Special Infected scratches do 0 damage
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 4 seconds
• Shove fatigue starts at maximum level
• Reduced common infected numbers
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 1 on finales)

Retro // !match retro

A match for 8 players. Additional changes include:

• 3 Hunters, 1 Smoker, and 1 Boomer
• Quadcaps possible with normal sac order rules
• Shotgun max ammo increased to 128
• Uzi max ammo reduced to 480
• Chrome Shotgun replaced with Pump Shotgun
• Silenced Uzi replaced with Uzi
• Pump Shotgun buffed in accuracy, damage, and spread
• Uzi unrestricted
• Melee weapons removed
• Magnums replaced with pistols
• Bunny hopping allowed
• Water slowdown removed
• Boomer scratches do 2 damage
• Special Infected spawn timers set to 17 seconds
• Pills outside saferoom removed (except 4 on finales)