At least, he's dressed for a funeral. Being infected and on the verge of dying, Nick agrees to stay behind so the rest of the survivors can get to safety. Connect with Zapper770: Facebook: facebook.com/Zapper770 Twitter: twitter.com/Zapper7701
"Did I ever tell you about the time I met a guy named Nick? He was very rude at the start, but over time he grew soft for our team. I miss him, even if he would cut me off during my stories"
Nick died knowing that, not only he did his part and saved the only people that he could call friends in such awful times, but he managed to do the biggest clutch in the entire human history.
Fun fact: Both Bill and Nick shares the same slot as "default characters" when you start a game on a console command. For example, if you type a map command for Apartment (the first map of No Mercy campaign), you'll play automatically as Bill unless you change characters via cheats. Same goes for Nick if you enter a map command for Hotel from Dead Center.
@@depvik2580 same and I play like that when I'm playing Ellis I'm playing Louis (everytime I play a l4d2 campaign I'm playing l4d1 campaign next and vice versa) because I share and pair each survivors by their personalities, for example both Nick and Francis are assholes and both Bill and Coach have leadership skills and both Ellis and Louis have optimistic personality
@@GuyChoooThere are immune and then there are carriers. Carriers still hold the virus in them. I’m guessing this ending implied Nick’s lucky genes ran out.
It's just awesome how you presented Nick. Despite him being a jerk and a gambler, he still joined the gang and grew comfortable with them to the point he could call 'em friends. And in the end when he realised he's fucked, his selfishness just vanished. For once in his life he wanted to do something right. And he did it.
@@zovrol92211 Wasn't he an escaping inmate? I'm pretty much sure he was due to the fact he and Francis both were a part of one gang (Francis has the tattoo, and Nick has a finger ring with the same logo). And after he got out apparently, he robbed a shop and took on a suit that costs 4 thousand dollars (by his words, of course). I may be wrong tho.
@@alalvarez7301 - you’d wonder how many people before him faced the same fate. Official campaigns and custom campaigns alike, we’d sometimes encounter a dead corpse hunched against a wall and wonder what their final actions were before they took their last breath or pulled the trigger.
@@theopinionreaper - it's to ground the idea of having other survivors out there. If I recall correctly from the commentary, Valve didn't want the players to feel completely isolated so they added tidbits to create an atmosphere without being intrusive.
honestly, the concept of nick being the only one in the group not immune would be so much more impactful. imagine through the first few chapters us getting to know and love nick, only to realize that he is infected and wont be allowed on the heli at the end. talk about character development and a sacrifice to boot.
That sounds awesome I can imagine in his dialogue as time goes on you'll hear him having more labored breathing which leads into full-on coughing fits in between sentences Hinting at something is not quite right with nick
Not really, the infection time seems to vary between people. There's a wall of graffiti in the safe house of the No Mercy finale that has people write that they've seen people take up to 4 days to turn and L4D2 takes place in less than a week. @@ИванГоряев-х4ю
@@ИванГоряев-х4юThe wall writing from left 4 suggests the time to turn is rapidly changing. nick simply could have been infected by a weakened version of the virus. Similar to Jenkins from halo the flood he still retained humanity even as his body deteriorated.
the fact Rochelle is holding back Ellis is very nice touch since yes Nick literally mock Ellis in anyway possible but deep inside he actually care for Ellis
@@ryanthemostwantedfurry1281 only?? 2.2% have completed the dead center campain's finale before the first tank spawns in and with a decent team it can be done easily. How do people get this one and not the dead center one? xd
I want this to be the ending of a zombie movie, where the main character is a dousche who slowly gets better and makes some good connections with the other survivors he's with but eventually near the end gets bitten and this is where he completes his character arc by doing everything in his power to get his friends to safety and fends off the last few zombies like a badass and peacefully dies a hero.
It's said the survivors are immune but imagine a plot twist revealing that Nick isn't immune and he was actually getting sicker and sicker as the campaign continues, until The Parish comes by where his sickness is finally taking him, so the rest of the gang wants to race against time to get to the military and get a possible cure, but it's too late, Nick decides he'd rather make sure they all survive and he leaves himself behind, despite it costing his life, for once he cares about others more than himself.. that'd be crazy and severely emotional. And the map is literally called "The Parish"...
@@NeonDeity Yes, I’ve played L4D2. But the actual word, parish, as defined by Google is “(in the Christian Church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor.” Although, looking at this definition, I see that there is a 2nd definition, which is probably the one that applies here, despite the P in the corresponding poster being an upside down cross. The 2nd definition reads “(in Louisiana) a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states.” I replied to your post with my original comment because I wasn’t sure what you meant with that last line.
A "sacrifice" ending like LFD1 would have been great but this time with Nick as the one who canonically sacrificed himself, Bill did it because he was the oldest and had little left to live, Nick could have been his redemption after a lifetime of crimes.
It looked like he was trying to look back at his friends one last time before succumbing but couldn't, also if you notice, the last shot was a headshot on the tank, you can see the blood pool expand as the camera pans out. One hell of a kill to go out on
Have you ever noticed that in single-player L4D and L4D2, you are respectively playing as Nick and Bill? Does that imply that Nick could pass away? They both act similarly now that Bill is gone.
In L4D2 both survivor groups share slots with each other, Bill translates to Nick, Rochelle translates to Zoey, Francis to Ellis, etc. I don't think there's much more to it other than just being how the game is coded. Plus they really aren't the same at all, Nick is a douchebag that sort of (not really) redeems himself at the end of L4D2 while Bill is just the innate leader of the first group that downright sees them as his surrogate family whom would gladly give his life for (which he did). Nick never portrayed such ideas, not even at the end of the game. I'd say Coach and Bill fall more into the same type of character, whether the game's survivor slots agree or not.
That smile when he sees the bridge blow to smithereens. Luckily, he died so he wouldn't have to live the rest of his short life as a shambling feral infected.
because he clearly does, i guess after going through countless near death situations with the same 3 people ur bound to see them as kinda family at some point
I've said this so many times but I feel like out of the 4, Nick is the most interesting one. He needs to be the face of L4d2 to symbolise how everything has gone to shit. He has so much potential
Nick turning out not to be immune and was just trying to endure long enough would be an amazing plot twist if L4D2 was a movie. He'd know he was fucked but at first wouldn't care, but as he grows close to the other survivors and realize his time was almost over, he decides to do the right thing and stays behind
What makes this even more disheartening, is that this wouldn’t be like Bills sacrifice. There’s no Tanks, there’s no infected horde, it’s just that Nick is simply unlucky and isn’t immune/a carrier. With Bills sacrifice, the others would’ve likely died to the Tanks if he didn’t step up. However, Nick didn’t need to save the others from a Tank or something, he was simply doomed from the start.
As a huge fan of Left 4 Dead series for so many years, I can say definitely say that this is very cool and an interesting ending to see. Also love your work! Hope you do more stuff like this!
I geniuely love this. You wanted to make the B.B ending but with L4D2 so you decided to whip out your balls and finish Nick's L4D2 arc in the best way ever. No legit, even if that whole thing everyone's said already of "but they're all carriers and can't get infected", the idea of Nick turning out to actually *not* be inmune and having just gotten luckier than most/having a stronger defense system that lasted him all the way to The Passing, you've just given us an entire alternate show with an ending scene meme. Sweet baby Jesus, I now want you to make a whole series leading up to this moment! Consider my ass subscribed.
Glad you loved it. You put that very well. I actually got something very similar planned like that, think you're gonna like it when it eventually comes out.
I never appreciated how fucking epic this is, a half infected Nick fending for the rest of the team and saving them is such an awesome turn of events. But it’s also so fucking sad.
Awesome vid! Though I have to ask, why exactly did Nick start turning? Aren't all the survivors "immune" to the zombie virus? Since it's confirmed to be airborne, then that means that Nick was practically bathing in the virus but yet somehow it's just now that his immunity decided to betray him. Just wondering if there's a canonical explanation to this, but other than that, great work on this vid! :)
The only good thing he did for the rest of his teamates is to protect them until they made their way to the final part. Even if he did everything wrong about Ellis and Coach especially to the old survivors, he still pretty make sense to put in the game
This also reminds me of Alien Resurrection, when Larry had a chest burster. But lasted way longer than any other victim somehow, and end up sacrificing himself to kamikaze at who caused him to end that way. In this one, Nick was not a carrier but was able to last longer than anyone else. + With the Breaking Bad reference, there are a total of 2 references.
A player is playing as nick. A timer pops out of nowhere placed on the top of their screen. It shows how many minutes or seconds they got to get on the helicopter, and if they are left behind or the timer runs out. This ending shall play.
I’d actually love to see a custom campaign that’s just the parish except at the end its this like in the sacrifice the player who’s nick has to stay behind and it basically just plays this scene
This reminds me that almost final scene in Dawn of the Dead (2004) when Michael stays in the port due he was bitten when saving Ana. Except that Nick didn't commit su1c1d3, he only succumbs to the infection.
Good animation, nice to see L4d animations being made again. Though in the lore of L4d, since the groups a carriers, they can’t really get infected, only Hague if and transmit it to others. But who cares, this is still a good animation.
expert realism ending: ellis blinks and remembers that hes now alone his mind made him believe that Rochelle and coach was with he wants to cry but he then hears an horn from tug boat and saw Virgil he can feel like you three made it wish rochelle could made it to but he then see ellis shake his head and point him salve ellis then take off his hat and puts it on his chest and and Virgil salutes and ellis lose sight of him he end have nightmares for weeks after that saying that he could save them and he is scarred from the nightmares and what happened
At that moment, he asks for forgiveness for everything he’s done and wants to redeem himself for the better - even if it’s the first _and_ last time he’s doing it.
I really like Nick's role, makes the most sense lore-wise. For me (I AM VERY BIASED TO COACH I AM SORRY), I would always see Coach sacrificing himself for others, sure Nick's the perfect candidate, but imo, his character development wouldn't be possible without Coach. Anyways, LOVE the animation. You've earned a sub.
A sacrifice that would really hurt is both Coach and Nick. Coach tries to buy time, but is failing. Nick, seeing how these folks laid down their lives to save his ass time and time again stays behind to take up arms with Coach to buy the other two just enough time to escape.
I like the idea from another commenter that this implied Nick isn't immune like the others, he was either just that lucky or just that good to last this long until now. And I like how smoke came out of his mouth like, if he didn't off himself he's gonna turn into a smoker
i thought the whole point of the survivors in each series was that they were immune thats why they were able to sustain bites and scratches? and beatings... and getting choked... and slammed into the ground... and hit by a car... and barfed on... and getting covered in acidic bile...
My brother and I love Left 4 Dead and honestly, we both spoke about something like this. If it ever came down to an ending like this where there's no one out, perhaps trapped, no food, no safety, only 4 people left in the entire world with one gun and 3 or 4 bullets? Nick would be the one to have the balls to kill each one of them so they didn't have to suffer anymore.
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At least, he's dressed for a funeral.
Being infected and on the verge of dying, Nick agrees to stay behind so the rest of the survivors can get to safety.
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Wait, weren't the survivors immune?
In the lore kinda yes
But this is what if somehow infection is working and nick have bad wounded from hordes
Yea I made a statement on that but I love this ending Nick would be the one to sacrifice himself for the group
At least he did what bill did, and now him and bill will have a story to tell.
@@ThEXperiment626 I don’t think he would be
Nick died knowing that he had achieved what no other could, successfully taking 3 AI teammates across the bridge
OH MY GOD YES. 🥲
Lmao
Bro last couple of times I’ve done this my game has crashed on the off ramp
I actually managed to do this on easy, ik ik almost impossible right??
Finally achieving the "complete all campaigns on expert" achievement
"Did I ever tell you about the time I met a guy named Nick? He was very rude at the start, but over time he grew soft for our team. I miss him, even if he would cut me off during my stories"
imagine if ellis dies, “Ellis, can you tell us one more story?…Please…?”
@@Loonatoonies sad
@@Loonatoonies Jeez that hits hard...
@@Loonatoonies NO WHY MAKE ME CRY?
@@Loonatoonies stooop I hate and love this..
Nick died knowing that, not only he did his part and saved the only people that he could call friends in such awful times, but he managed to do the biggest clutch in the entire human history.
Wtf you talking abouth nick is alive
@@nickzimmermann5323 In the sfm 💀💀💀💀
@@nickzimmermann5323 Ro:shut Up nick
@@nickzimmermann5323 yes
Coach: "Nick get yo ass movin'"
Fun fact: Both Bill and Nick shares the same slot as "default characters" when you start a game on a console command. For example, if you type a map command for Apartment (the first map of No Mercy campaign), you'll play automatically as Bill unless you change characters via cheats. Same goes for Nick if you enter a map command for Hotel from Dead Center.
Ngl i thought it was randomized.
The four of them share slots
Nick = Bill
Rochelle = Zoey
Coach = Francis
Ellis = Louis
@@moo.moo91 But I think better would be
Bill-Coach
Zoey-Rochelle
Ellis-Louis
Francis-Nick
@@depvik2580 same and I play like that when I'm playing Ellis I'm playing Louis (everytime I play a l4d2 campaign I'm playing l4d1 campaign next and vice versa) because I share and pair each survivors by their personalities, for example both Nick and Francis are assholes and both Bill and Coach have leadership skills and both Ellis and Louis have optimistic personality
@@depvik2580 ye, it would fit better
Nick is a chad for using his last bit of humanity to fend off the infected while The rest escape.
Ya
See Nick had a heart too!
@@G-741-S A heart of gold
The thing is he won't turn in the canon if he end up like this cause he's immune, he wont turn, just a corpse lying down.
@@GuyChoooThere are immune and then there are carriers. Carriers still hold the virus in them. I’m guessing this ending implied Nick’s lucky genes ran out.
It's just awesome how you presented Nick.
Despite him being a jerk and a gambler, he still joined the gang and grew comfortable with them to the point he could call 'em friends.
And in the end when he realised he's fucked, his selfishness just vanished. For once in his life he wanted to do something right. And he did it.
Dude was going through a redemption arc while kicking ass with 3 other people in a zombie apocalypse
also why if you play on solo with nick he will sometimes say after finishing a chapter "I'm starting to like you guys"
@@zovrol92211 Wasn't he an escaping inmate?
I'm pretty much sure he was due to the fact he and Francis both were a part of one gang (Francis has the tattoo, and Nick has a finger ring with the same logo).
And after he got out apparently, he robbed a shop and took on a suit that costs 4 thousand dollars (by his words, of course).
I may be wrong tho.
@@AverageDot
Nick and Francis were both in the same criminal organization, they weren't in a band
@@zovrol92211 Welp, my bad then.
Seeing Nick lie down with the rest of the infected really makes me feel uneasy.
Just another body now.
yeah…
@@alalvarez7301 - you’d wonder how many people before him faced the same fate. Official campaigns and custom campaigns alike, we’d sometimes encounter a dead corpse hunched against a wall and wonder what their final actions were before they took their last breath or pulled the trigger.
@@Pluvillion sometimes you can hear gunshots in the distance while playing no mercy as part of the ambiance.
@@theopinionreaper - it's to ground the idea of having other survivors out there. If I recall correctly from the commentary, Valve didn't want the players to feel completely isolated so they added tidbits to create an atmosphere without being intrusive.
honestly, the concept of nick being the only one in the group not immune would be so much more impactful.
imagine through the first few chapters us getting to know and love nick, only to realize that he is infected and wont be allowed on the heli at the end.
talk about character development and a sacrifice to boot.
That sounds awesome I can imagine in his dialogue as time goes on you'll hear him having more labored breathing which leads into full-on coughing fits in between sentences
Hinting at something is not quite right with nick
The thing is, he would have probably turned into zombie very fast if he wasn't immune. Remember what happened to the helicopter pilot and soldiers?
what if nick wasnt completely immune @user-nt3hm2qv1u
Not really, the infection time seems to vary between people. There's a wall of graffiti in the safe house of the No Mercy finale that has people write that they've seen people take up to 4 days to turn and L4D2 takes place in less than a week. @@ИванГоряев-х4ю
@@ИванГоряев-х4юThe wall writing from left 4 suggests the time to turn is rapidly changing. nick simply could have been infected by a weakened version of the virus. Similar to Jenkins from halo the flood he still retained humanity even as his body deteriorated.
the fact Rochelle is holding back Ellis is very nice touch since yes Nick literally mock Ellis in anyway possible but deep inside he actually care for Ellis
Me when the English
Left 4 Grammar
@@wezz-t812 it was relatively easy to understand tho
I think they're actually comforting each other, or maybe Ro is comforting Ellis, since he'd probably be the one to cry to see Nick infected
You can see Ellis is comforting Rochelle.
And Coach is just standing there, watching Nick...
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
It's the other way around.
@@agentburningbutters3655 "Get yo ass movin' Nick"
@@JohnMkrv Oh ye he doesnt care about NIckkk
@@agentburningbutters3655 it looks like he's having a breakdown by the way he's moving himself. it's almost as if he knew nick since they were kids
"One man has made the ultimate sacrifice."
- the pilot
"No sacrifice to great"
Good guy nick achievement unlocked
- You've sacrificed yourself as Nick in The Parish.
Only 53.80% of people have this achievement.
@@ryanthemostwantedfurry1281 only?? 2.2% have completed the dead center campain's finale before the first tank spawns in and with a decent team it can be done easily. How do people get this one and not the dead center one? xd
@@mhplayer I guess not many people like seeing Nick die.
great guy Nick achievement unlocked*
@@robleyt8108 no its good guy nick I searched it up
A few hours later, we all know that nick will magically be stuck in one of the closests asking for help and the survivors are confused
Would have been a hilarious post-credits scene.
I want this to be the ending of a zombie movie, where the main character is a dousche who slowly gets better and makes some good connections with the other survivors he's with but eventually near the end gets bitten and this is where he completes his character arc by doing everything in his power to get his friends to safety and fends off the last few zombies like a badass and peacefully dies a hero.
Train to busan.
@@BigFatBoy447 that is true.
Lee.
Well he is a former prisoner, does that counts?
@@BigFatBoy447 bro thats what i was thinking
Bro literally unintentionally explained lee's entire story
(In Heaven)
Bill : You make me proud
Nick: ...who are you
John 3:16
Romans 10:9
John 3:3
Matthew 7:21
John 14:6
👌♥️👍,
@@pu2f551👍
@@pu2f551thanks for the verse
Entity: toy :>
It's said the survivors are immune but imagine a plot twist revealing that Nick isn't immune and he was actually getting sicker and sicker as the campaign continues, until The Parish comes by where his sickness is finally taking him, so the rest of the gang wants to race against time to get to the military and get a possible cure, but it's too late, Nick decides he'd rather make sure they all survive and he leaves himself behind, despite it costing his life, for once he cares about others more than himself.. that'd be crazy and severely emotional.
And the map is literally called "The Parish"...
One of Nick's line did say.
"I'm getting sick and tired, of being sick and tired."
Well the virus is airborne so if nick wasnt immune he would be zombie like a end of the dead center
A parish is a church thing, if I remember correctly. Are you thinking of perish?
@@Omega_9872 it's an in-game level
@@NeonDeity Yes, I’ve played L4D2. But the actual word, parish, as defined by Google is “(in the Christian Church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor.” Although, looking at this definition, I see that there is a 2nd definition, which is probably the one that applies here, despite the P in the corresponding poster being an upside down cross. The 2nd definition reads “(in Louisiana) a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states.” I replied to your post with my original comment because I wasn’t sure what you meant with that last line.
This ending fits Nick’s character. A scoundrel who decides to help the only friends he’s ever had in the end, by sacrificing himself for their safety.
A "sacrifice" ending like LFD1 would have been great but this time with Nick as the one who canonically sacrificed himself, Bill did it because he was the oldest and had little left to live, Nick could have been his redemption after a lifetime of crimes.
Nick thinks he's Walter White. 💀
He's not just mad because his suit got all messed up.
I am better the this Guy call "Nick"
@@Adamos0920 Are You the danger Mr White?
@@connor28punaladas92 Yes
@@Adamos0920 Walter, i need your methaphine, Im in crisis and financial problem right now
I've always imagined nick having the 'bill role' and sacrificing himself
It looked like he was trying to look back at his friends one last time before succumbing but couldn't, also if you notice, the last shot was a headshot on the tank, you can see the blood pool expand as the camera pans out. One hell of a kill to go out on
Have you ever noticed that in single-player L4D and L4D2, you are respectively playing as Nick and Bill? Does that imply that Nick could pass away? They both act similarly now that Bill is gone.
I think that's why Nick respects Bill when he discovered his death because he was gonna do the same thing.
@@abankson0346well not sure about that and everyone respect bill
In L4D2 both survivor groups share slots with each other, Bill translates to Nick, Rochelle translates to Zoey, Francis to Ellis, etc. I don't think there's much more to it other than just being how the game is coded.
Plus they really aren't the same at all, Nick is a douchebag that sort of (not really) redeems himself at the end of L4D2 while Bill is just the innate leader of the first group that downright sees them as his surrogate family whom would gladly give his life for (which he did). Nick never portrayed such ideas, not even at the end of the game. I'd say Coach and Bill fall more into the same type of character, whether the game's survivor slots agree or not.
Nick and bill are both died rest and piece
@@mickejordanmajorenos2601 Nick didn't die in the game tho.
I love how this is a parallel to Bill dying.
That smile when he sees the bridge blow to smithereens. Luckily, he died so he wouldn't have to live the rest of his short life as a shambling feral infected.
Wouldnt he come back tho?
@@Heavy-W-Guy the virus doesn't reanimate
Man why do I feel like Nick deep down inside has companionship for Ellis,Coach, and Rochelle
because he clearly does, i guess after going through countless near death situations with the same 3 people ur bound to see them as kinda family at some point
I've said this so many times but I feel like out of the 4, Nick is the most interesting one. He needs to be the face of L4d2 to symbolise how everything has gone to shit. He has so much potential
It would've been so cool if after the screen fades to black you suddenly see the iconic left 4 dead hand pop up and its nicks arm.
Nick turning out not to be immune and was just trying to endure long enough would be an amazing plot twist if L4D2 was a movie.
He'd know he was fucked but at first wouldn't care, but as he grows close to the other survivors and realize his time was almost over, he decides to do the right thing and stays behind
I’ve always been a fan of heroic sacrifices. This one is amazingly simple yet I can’t stop enjoying it
What makes this even more disheartening, is that this wouldn’t be like Bills sacrifice. There’s no Tanks, there’s no infected horde, it’s just that Nick is simply unlucky and isn’t immune/a carrier.
With Bills sacrifice, the others would’ve likely died to the Tanks if he didn’t step up. However, Nick didn’t need to save the others from a Tank or something, he was simply doomed from the start.
Man can you imagine if they made it so that one of the survivors wasn’t a carrier?
That’d be a very interesting twist.
I'd be surprised how the none-carrier managed to stay alive long enough since they been through so many hordes.
This hits really hard especially when Nick is your favorite survivor.
Gotta love Nick and Francis.
Ellis personifies the game's self-parody vibe.
Yes he is my favourite survivor along with bill
"I have NOT... come this far... to die now!"
-Nick
Bill died a hero saving his 3 friends, and Nick died a hero saving his 3 friends
As a huge fan of Left 4 Dead series for so many years, I can say definitely say that this is very cool and an interesting ending to see.
Also love your work! Hope you do more stuff like this!
I also love the fact that Nick being really cold and annoyed 24/7 by them, started calling them his friends and treated them like his own family.
Nick sacrificed his life and took two Tank with him. respect.
As a carrier, i like to imagine he’s half zombie due to his immunity but not immune to the amount of damage he’s taken
In loving Memory of Nick
And Bill
I geniuely love this. You wanted to make the B.B ending but with L4D2 so you decided to whip out your balls and finish Nick's L4D2 arc in the best way ever. No legit, even if that whole thing everyone's said already of "but they're all carriers and can't get infected", the idea of Nick turning out to actually *not* be inmune and having just gotten luckier than most/having a stronger defense system that lasted him all the way to The Passing, you've just given us an entire alternate show with an ending scene meme.
Sweet baby Jesus, I now want you to make a whole series leading up to this moment! Consider my ass subscribed.
Glad you loved it. You put that very well.
I actually got something very similar planned like that, think you're gonna like it when it eventually comes out.
The Parish*
@@sparrowanon I *always* confuse both.
@@alalvarez7301 Eh, potaytoh, potahtoe
I mean Nick is a gambler so it's ironic that the reason why he lasted this long was because he's lucky lmao.
I never appreciated how fucking epic this is, a half infected Nick fending for the rest of the team and saving them is such an awesome turn of events. But it’s also so fucking sad.
0:07 wtf was the gun made out of lego's or what.
love the detail on Nick's last breath and the Tank's head still bleeding from the gunshot nice job on it :)
How it feels to make it to the end of the bridge only to get stopped by the 2nd tank
Nick died knowing damn well that you shouldn't put your guard down when authorities say "it's just a tiny flu"
This is actually a very good alternative ending. You earned a subscriber.
Awesome vid!
Though I have to ask, why exactly did Nick start turning? Aren't all the survivors "immune" to the zombie virus? Since it's confirmed to be airborne, then that means that Nick was practically bathing in the virus but yet somehow it's just now that his immunity decided to betray him.
Just wondering if there's a canonical explanation to this, but other than that, great work on this vid! :)
Guess Nick didn't find enough hand sanitizers.
@@Zapper770 lmaoooooo. Also, breaking bad type ending. I like that
You Will Not Become a Zombie. You will Die and Be Free of the hellhole.
my explation would be that he was infected whole time and only now the virus started to effect him
@@Zapper770 "little bit more hand sanitizer and we wouldn't be in this mess"
context: he didint turned to zombie
just got beaten up so hard he died
thats deep
Well,
He was on the verge of completely turning but he lucked out and died to his wounds before he had fully turned.
@@Zapper770 wasnt he a carier tho?
@@Iron_Soil You can consider this a different take on the story, hence the Alternative Ending title.
@@Iron_Soil think this to be a bite type of infection, not upon contact nor airbourn
@@smcvx nope
Have you read l4d comics?
Rochelle crying in the background while Ellis comforts her💀
Bro thinks he Walter white 0:30
The only good thing he did for the rest of his teamates is to protect them until they made their way to the final part. Even if he did everything wrong about Ellis and Coach especially to the old survivors, he still pretty make sense to put in the game
That makes me remember when I sacrificed myself luring the tank on that campaign so my friends could escape.
You're a real one
U are a hero
Achievement Unlocked: "Good Guy Nick"
This also reminds me of Alien Resurrection, when Larry had a chest burster. But lasted way longer than any other victim somehow, and end up sacrificing himself to kamikaze at who caused him to end that way.
In this one, Nick was not a carrier but was able to last longer than anyone else. + With the Breaking Bad reference, there are a total of 2 references.
i think what would've really sold this was if he gave one last wave to the other 3 before they left and he fell over
A player is playing as nick. A timer pops out of nowhere placed on the top of their screen. It shows how many minutes or seconds they got to get on the helicopter, and if they are left behind or the timer runs out. This ending shall play.
I’d actually love to see a custom campaign that’s just the parish except at the end its this like in the sacrifice the player who’s nick has to stay behind and it basically just plays this scene
This would be such an amazing Redemption arc for Nick as he’s normally antagonistic for his personality
It would've been a nice twist if one of the four turned out not to be immune
Seeing Nick nearly zombie-fied got me remembering the ending of District 9 :0
Nick is the character that i expected the least to sacrifice
If you paid close attention to his dialogues, you can easily see this coming
@@JohnMkrv Well i didn't. it's also only while playing as Nick i guess, maybe no
@@JohnMkrv istg if i find you in one more comment section
''i have come this far to die now''
someone should make a campaign like this one day, for Nicks character, I would love to see the L4D2 crews story get a conclusion
In memory of: Nick
This isn't an alternate ending. This is the normal one....for 3 of the 4 survivors.
This reminds me that almost final scene in Dawn of the Dead (2004) when Michael stays in the port due he was bitten when saving Ana. Except that Nick didn't commit su1c1d3, he only succumbs to the infection.
Real human being and a real hero
Perfect song choice
Just realized Ro and Ellis were hugging each other,nice detail
All in a day's work.
ELLIS WAS HUGING RACHEL WHEN THEU WERE IN THE HELLCOPPER NOOO THAT AND THIS MADE ME CRY FOR THE TENTH TIME TODAY😭
When you carry the entire team and fucking died at the very end.
Hey bro do you mind if I use this in a future video with proper credit?
Sure, go ahead.
Nick really thought we was Walter White. 💀
Looking forward to all your projects, you're very talented
Wouldn’t and would see nick doing this at the same time. Great alternative ending!
I see, Rochelle is comforting Ellis
It makes me think that Ellis is crying back there and I think really cared about the man he once called "brother"
The animation is awesome, I'm surprised that my retexture is used lol
This is really so awesome Left 4 Dead 2 animation Zapper.
Nick sacrificed himself for the greater good of humanity.
Biggest W in history
I like that you sort of expanded on the ending of Breaking Bad, with the pan out from Nick’s dead body so he’s just another corpse among hundreds.
The way he drops the Deagle is perfectly animated.
it sounded like a Lego puzzled being dropped
But, they're all immune...
Good animation, nice to see L4d animations being made again. Though in the lore of L4d, since the groups a carriers, they can’t really get infected, only Hague if and transmit it to others. But who cares, this is still a good animation.
Iirc, it wasn't confirmed that the L4D2 crew were carriers. Although it's likely they are.
@@MikeHunt-zy3cn fair enough.
expert realism ending: ellis blinks and remembers that hes now alone his mind made him believe that Rochelle and coach was with he wants to cry but he then hears an horn from tug boat and saw Virgil he can feel like you three made it wish rochelle could made it to but he then see ellis shake his head and point him salve ellis then take off his hat and puts it on his chest and and Virgil salutes and ellis lose sight of him he end have nightmares for weeks after that saying that he could save them and he is scarred from the nightmares and what happened
thank you for the one person for giving a like
At that moment, he asks for forgiveness for everything he’s done and wants to redeem himself for the better - even if it’s the first _and_ last time he’s doing it.
DANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG BRO
THE ANIMATION IS SO SMOOTH. CONGRATS ON THE UPGRADE! PROUD OF YOU ZAPPER!
I really like Nick's role, makes the most sense lore-wise. For me (I AM VERY BIASED TO COACH I AM SORRY), I would always see Coach sacrificing himself for others, sure Nick's the perfect candidate, but imo, his character development wouldn't be possible without Coach. Anyways, LOVE the animation. You've earned a sub.
A sacrifice that would really hurt is both Coach and Nick. Coach tries to buy time, but is failing. Nick, seeing how these folks laid down their lives to save his ass time and time again stays behind to take up arms with Coach to buy the other two just enough time to escape.
bro got the "Good guy nick"
Nick would be the one to sacrifice himself 😢
Nick went from being in jail and having no one To then sacrificing himself for his new friends.
This is the moment Nick became gambler.mdl
So true
Nick became bill now.. Rest in peace Nick and bill.
when's your l4d series gonna come, the teaser for no mercy was amazing!
It's in the works. Can't really say much yet at this time.
I like the idea from another commenter that this implied Nick isn't immune like the others, he was either just that lucky or just that good to last this long until now. And I like how smoke came out of his mouth like, if he didn't off himself he's gonna turn into a smoker
Yeah like thats ever gonna happen
i thought the whole point of the survivors in each series was that they were immune thats why they were able to sustain bites and scratches? and beatings... and getting choked... and slammed into the ground... and hit by a car... and barfed on... and getting covered in acidic bile...
Nick thinks hes walter white. 💀
My brother and I love Left 4 Dead and honestly, we both spoke about something like this. If it ever came down to an ending like this where there's no one out, perhaps trapped, no food, no safety, only 4 people left in the entire world with one gun and 3 or 4 bullets? Nick would be the one to have the balls to kill each one of them so they didn't have to suffer anymore.
Funnily enough, there's an animation video of that. Give it a watch, it's really well made.
@@MikeHunt-zy3cn I know. I was making it as a reference to both that video and the Mist.
How did Nick turned into a zombie? Isn’t he immune to the infection?
nick was the true hero all along
and also a gambler all along