@@Futo_no_mononobe I loved the part where the Counter Terrorists said "It's time to counter the strike" and countered the strike for at the source for a second time in a global offensive
As a sidenote: While Payday 2 fully re-canonised the No Mercy Heist for Payday, they also *DE*-canonised its Left4Dead connection by chaning the year and city for the heist (Change from 2009 in Fairfield to 2012 in New York), and both Overkill and Valve both stated that the heist was never canon for L4D and more of a "what if" scenario.
@@somerandomfox8579 Except it was Murkywater (a PMC) that now bombed the building, and the virus was still stolen and used on Bain, having a *completely* different effect. Plus with being set four years AFTER L4D now, it clearly didn't happen anyways.
Someone said every valve game os fictional in each game, meaning scout can play l4d, Louis can play CS, a counter-terrorist can play half-life, and so on so forth. I'd like to believe that payday is directly connected due to the bridge rescue mission also mentioning the green flu.
Pretty sure the only exception is portal and hl because there is a power point on how aperture is better than black mesa and other reasons So sadly glados can’t run half life 2 😭
im more concerned if any source games are connected to tf2 in any shape or form, i like tf2 it's arguably one of my favourite games but mann, its lore is an actual joke(intended).
@@truestbluu I made the comment just before the video was about to premiere, so it was literally impossible for me to watch it when commenting this haha
I like to imagine 4 of the survivors from either left for dead stumble upon 10 guys fighting each other over a brick of c4 in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
T: Camping with a sniper listening to song, another playing like a dumbass, two T r shooting at CT and one is trying to get to the bomb. CT: Stuck in the door, one is knifing his partner, Two r shooting at the T and one is running to the T with a knife.
The reason No Mercy is now canon in the Payday universe is because Bain wanted a book called The Guide of Cagliostro from a guy who wanted the patient's infected blood as payment. The green flu in Payday doesn't turn people into zombies since Bain himself is infected by it but doesn't turn. So, in short, they turned No Mercy from a noncanon fun crossover to a pivotal and crucial part in the Payday story
We all fail to consider, it could all take place in its own version of reality where Valve is even bigger of a media corp than it already is and L4D are movies full of "subtle" advertisements for their other products.
I like how Ellis is the only Pug in the group lmao fits him so well. Also I like to think these games are connected it feels more real and morbid that way.
You forgot one thing, in the first payday on mercy hospital you can find a witch in one of the rooms from l4d2 and the patient zombie models twitching in locked rooms
Turtle Rock Studios _is not_ responsible for Left 4 Dead. Hardly any of the people who made Left 4 Dead are even part of the studio. I highly suggest you watch the video "Back 4 Blood proves Valve carried Left 4 Dead." It's very eye opening into how manipulative the phrase "from the creators of Left 4 Dead" is and just how little that claim holds water.
I always liked the idea that Half Life, Portal, and TF2 could all be connected. I imagined the mercenaries from TF2 with upgrades keeping them young or at least not cripplingly old. Imagining them serving like guardians strong enough to hold back the combine in North America would be super cool I think, wait I think that's kind of the plot of Overwatch but I'm not sure. Haven't played that game or read the lore.
This is simply Valve Universe. Everything is connected. Especially a lot of references to Half-Life EDIT: Thanks for 1 thousand likes. I didn't expect that
@@iicustodianlawI often dream of Valve characters, such as those from Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead, joining forces to assist Gordon Freeman in overcoming challenges posed by the G-Man.
Man, I've waited for this video. You have covered both of my favorite games, and yeah, they are indeed connected and I REALLY LIKE THAT. I fricking love Left 4 Dead man! Also, if you will look at official Midnight Riders music clips (the virtual music band from Left 4 Dead, and it's actually fire, you should listen to it), you can find ALOT and I mean ALOT of references to Team Fortress 2, CS:GO and Left 4 Dead itself.
For the ties of Payday and L4D, it makes more sense to believe that before 2009, the Payday(:The Heist) gang stole the green flu and *then* caused the events of Left 4 Dead. Later in Payday 2's lore, the main contractor Bain dies from it. But I do believe that the two universes are still seperated, because Payday 3 takes place in present-day New York, with no zombies or outbreaks
that and im pretty sure valve said payday 2 version was more of a " what if " scenario ..also they do find the cure for the green flu in the payday 2 universe so it doesnt spread that quickly
PD2 also retconned the heist to 2012 New York (from 2009 Fairfield), the PD2 version is a Flashback (the rest of PD2 is set in 2012 to 2018, mostly in DC, but with a few heists in NYC, as well as a few other locations like LA, Alaska, Russia and Mexico)
I think Payday, Zombie Army 4, Dead By Daylight, and the Sacrifice comic seems to point toward a L4D multiverse, as opposed to one decreasingly coherent timeline
12:20 chat, he forgot that viruses dont spread at light speed and affect people instantly, as viruses take time to travel and affect hosts, plus I'm pretty sure the Green Flu wasn't airborne till later in the L4D franchise.
L4D and Payday go a lot deeper too, it’s connected to Half Life and TF2 as well because in the stock ticker on the big bank level you can see a lot of BLU and RED owned companies, Mercy Hospital, White Mesa, Mann Co, and Freeman Airboat Tours.
that song at 1:05 brought back some old memories. Such a pleasant tune! Anyways, this was a very interesting video, and I loved the little cat fellas representing the different characters.
Also Something kinda funny is that on HL2's canceled expansion there would be zombie type that does not need a headcrab to spread, thing that let me thinking "what sounds... Familiar" when i heared
Hi, massive Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY fan here, the original No Mercy heist in the first PAYDAY was meant to be non-cannon. If I recall correctly, the idea came about because a lot of people were basically looking at PAYDAY as Left 4 Dead but with cops. This was mainly because PAYDAY - like Left 4 Dead - had common and special enemy types, and they were both linear co-op horde shooters with minimal RNG built into the gameplay. Later in PAYDAY 2, when the developers finally hired a writer to make sense of and create a new story, they decided to recontextualize The No Mercy heist to fit in with their new narrative. The virus they steal isn't The Green Flu virus, but instead a bioweapon designed by a faction in the game called Murky Water. It's not confirmed that this virus turns its targets into zombies, only that the virus is very deadly. If anything, the existence of PAYDAY 3 proves that the virus didn't lead to a zombie apocalypse. I say these things so that it's clear why the collaboration even happened in the first place, and why the heist later became cannon. The PAYDAY Gang did not steal The Green Flu virus, and they did not cause a zombie apocalypse. The building of The No Mercy hospital is shared, and so is Bill's design, but they're not cannon to each other. PAYDAY and Left 4 Dead each have their own cannon completely separated from each other, it's just that they share a location and one character only in design.
it genuinely took like halfway through the video to realise that you were showing your face cause im so used to the silly cats and dogs that i literally like blocked you as a human out of my mind and it just didnt register for like 6 minutes
If I remember correctly there are 2 L4D Easter Eggs in the PayDay 2 No Mercy Heist. The first one being if you stick around the body bags in the hospital long enough, theres a chance youll see the body bags twitch or move. The second one being a small jumpscare of the Witch from L42 if you look into a certain locked door in the hospital.
Oh boy I wonder what Moving body bags mean in a fucking hospital. Not to mention the Hospital in Payday 2 has the exact same layout and name as the one in L4D2. Jesus dude connect some fucking dots
I like to think that L4D and CS:GO aren't the same universe, they're just similar universes where all of the characters co-exist, maybe the L4D characters are alive and well in the CS:GO universe, never having met each other and not having to fight zombies to survive and simply enjoying their lives. Maybe Gordon, Alyx, and Chell are also just getting to enjoy their lives very differently in the CS:GO universe. It's cool to think about, and would give a fun explanation to some things being exactly the same from another universe, just somehow also being slightly different.
What happens that stopped the Zombies in payday is that apparently patient 0 of the zombie virus was in mercy hospital and after the payday crew finished the mission, the hospital got bombed and they cured bane who had the virus
Left 4 Dead + CS + Payday 2 is a combination that I love desperately and would never expect a video linking those games, but what really surprised me was the melody of Garota de Ipanema at the ending. As a brazillian, I loved it, keep with your videos, they are amazing.
Well... no. When someone says/type: This is the best [REDACTED] ever made This is the greatest [REDACTED] ever made This is the [REDACTED] i've even [REDACTED] i've been [REDACTED] Or something with that. It's just because they like it, but it's not really that. It's just great and that's it. I know it's an expression, but a cliche one. I DONNOT READ NOTIFICATIONS!! because sometimes i received hate and i'm scare to open the notifications and read those negative comments
I love videos like this one that are following the story line of a game/games because I'm too busy to play the game and I skip all the cut-scenes and most definitely will miss all the easter eggs :D so it helps me keep track of what's going on :) Thanks :)
Fun fact: while playing No Mercy (I think that was the name) in PayDay, you can actually hear the witch crying, then she jumpscares you if you go towards the room she is in
Turtle Rock didn't make L4D, it was almost solely Valve. At first it was only a concept mod made by a couple dudes, similar to how CS was introduced, but it was super buggy and a complete mess with no direction, but Valve loved the idea so much that they hired them and even involved the Turtle Rock name when advertising and publishing the game. In reality, only 7 out of almost 200 developers were from Turtle Rock Studios, the rest was Valve.
It's actually very simple l4d is known to take place in "films" as seen by the intros' titles and more in the game to missions and even endings. with that said and the references and even voice lines to the other games, what if left4dead is just a series of zombie films in the main universe, and csgo and halflife are games in said universe aswell meaning its a movie referencing a game?
This idea seems the most fitting based on how each L4D campaign picture is a movie poster. If I had to guess, the Counter-Strike and the Payday universe are the same universe, with things like TF2, Half-Life, Portal, and L4D being videogames and/or collaborations in said universe.
I do believe that CS Source and L4D1+2 take place in the same universe. In the campaign Dead Air, before you get to the airport, in map 2 you can see that you enter and exit through the MAC nuclear power plant. It is the same power plant on de_nuke in CS:S.
2:27 xD I wanna add that I made this type of gameplay on my own long time ago. I would buy shield in 1.6 on map "Assault" and I would spawn so many bots, with the command that makes bots use only knife. Yes, it was very fun.
not just cats. more animals I DONNOT READ NOTIFICATIONS!! because sometimes i received hate and i'm scare to open the notifications and read those negative comments
yes. you can wait. don't say that cliche shyatt I DONNOT READ NOTIFICATIONS!! because sometimes i received hate and i'm scare to open the notifications and read those negative comments
I like to imagine Tf2, Portal and Half Life are connected in that since Australium depleted and those oh so juicy teleporters likely don't work that well anymore, it caused companies like Aperature (who sorta fumbled their way into it cuz Cave is a goofer) and Black Mesa to really really focus on making/discovering portals and new energy sources in a sort of teleporter arms race.
i like imagining this as like, l4d being almost like an alternate universe of csgo. like it branches off after a certain point in csgo’s story, which from what i remember has grown into its own thing too much to really be compatible with it being a direct prequel to l4d by this point, and maybe csgo is set a few years in the past in this timeline to make up for the anachronisms i don’t think you can really call the connections “canon” for a lot of reasons but it’s fun to notice them and think about them and try to bridge the gap, esp with the ones that could “plausibly” exist in both like the saint lidia ii-it’s important to have awareness of canonicity, but getting too caught up in the idea of that being the only thing that matters can kinda suck the fun out of thinking about this kinda stuff (this all goes for payday too but i didn’t have too much to say directly about that lol)
Hey, bro. I'm passing you a stick to participate in the cs2 Spider-Man challenge, you need to make an epic kill in competitive mode with the longest killfit. It is important to use a weapon that has a Spider-Man sticker on it. Upload a RUclips video with #waspider and pass the baton to the next one. This is a good idea for a full-fledged video. Spider friends, please like the comment so that he sees it.
the fun thing about L4D counter strike weapon before the offical released as DLC weapons. they were already in the game and they reused the Beta running animation from the AK-47 you can see the animation from one the Pax 2009 video
Okay, so weve got a Zombies story with Messy Canon where some universes have Zombies and others don't? Boom, Multiverse. It's the COD solution! Half Life and Portal exist in one universe free of the virus, Team Fortress 2 is doing its own thing, and Countestrike, Payday and L4D are very close fractures of the same universe, with the fracture potentially being caused by time travel fuckery? The No Mercy job was relatively early in the gang's career, so there are 3 outcomes imo: •The No mercy job is unsuccessful, likely sabotaged somehow, the gang cease to exist or atleast fade into obscurity (CS fracture) •The No mercy job is successful, the virus ends up in Murky's hands, and the events of Payday play out as normal. (PD fracture) •The no Mercy job is successful, but the virus is intercepted and is not in mukrywaters hands, and the outbreak is caused. (L4D fracture) Perhaps HL3 Would have seen the Multiverse be closed off and a single new Valve universe (+Payday for some reason) be born. But I'm getting too far into the COD parallels here. (That's a neat detail, for those interested in COD that don't already know: All games have been connected and canon since the end of BO4. The BO4 Zombies storyline ended with the Multiverse ending and a single new world beginning. The Various Campaign and MP stories were also included in this multiverse, and that's why everything is connected now.)
the reason for the recycled assets could also be due to csgo using a modified version of the l4d2 source engine branch Also the reason why l4d2 was released only a year later was revealed by one of the devs (Chet Faliszek) in an interview. basically l4d1 was so broken that they had to redo the whole game to be able to implement new things without running into errors.
On a side note: No Mercy was less of a direct tie-in with L4D and more of a "What If" scenario in which the Payday gang rushed the hospital and stole a sample of the virus before Murkywater (the evil big bad PMC of the series) bombed the entire building to stop the spread of the virus before it could really become a global threat thus preventing L4D altogether. It's immediately confirmed by seeing Bill in the elevator because in the comics, we know the entire hospital got overrun the moment he's waiting for his routine check-up. The fact that you encounter him in the elevator, already discharged means that the virus never managed to turn into an outbreak.
Maybe this is a dumb question. But the music you used in the beginning of "Part 1" in the background of the video while you talked, what was that song called by chance. I've heard it before but I haven't heard it in maybe 2 years. Thanks!
Payday 2 is also connected to l4d cause when the hospital heist there's people with tarps over them and there is a LOT of these bodies and they where twitching and in one of the rooms there is a witch
if payday and cs were connected it would definitely lead to some oddities... like who could picture left 4 dead being the in the same universe as hotline miami, dirty henry and goat simulator? altho i could maybe see scarface
Valve constantly reuses and updates assets throughout their games. They go with the thought of "why make something new when it already exists and you own it"
Love the video, cats are a neat little addition, but Turtle Rock didn't do much in the way of actually developing L4D, they mostly just came up with the core concept and gameplay before VALVe came in. But you probably know that already. Awesome vid, keep up the good work!
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the terrorists terrorized so hard they changed the art style of the world
"It's terrorize'in time" then they terrorized all over the world
@@Futo_no_mononobei shed a tear when the terrorists said that😭😢
@@Futo_no_mononobe I loved the part where the Counter Terrorists said "It's time to counter the strike" and countered the strike for at the source for a second time in a global offensive
@@frankfletcher_1 🖋🖋🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@frankfletcher_1 in a conditioned zero way
the fact that Bain also says "sorry guys but you're left for dead" when you get the "non canon" ending
Whos bain
@@ThiagavalThiagales guy from payday
As a sidenote: While Payday 2 fully re-canonised the No Mercy Heist for Payday, they also *DE*-canonised its Left4Dead connection by chaning the year and city for the heist (Change from 2009 in Fairfield to 2012 in New York), and both Overkill and Valve both stated that the heist was never canon for L4D and more of a "what if" scenario.
As a side note: it seems the military successfully prevented an outbreak of the green flu, preventing l4d from happening
@@somerandomfox8579 Except it was Murkywater (a PMC) that now bombed the building, and the virus was still stolen and used on Bain, having a *completely* different effect.
Plus with being set four years AFTER L4D now, it clearly didn't happen anyways.
@@gimok2k5 I like to think its a form of the green flu that didn't mutate to a zombie virus.
@@gimok2k5didn't really have a totally different effect, he gained super strength but was slowly decaying and losing control
@@w4llst3r37 He was flatout dying and in the regular ending does.
Someone said every valve game os fictional in each game, meaning scout can play l4d, Louis can play CS, a counter-terrorist can play half-life, and so on so forth. I'd like to believe that payday is directly connected due to the bridge rescue mission also mentioning the green flu.
Pretty sure the only exception is portal and hl because there is a power point on how aperture is better than black mesa and other reasons
So sadly glados can’t run half life 2 😭
Portal and half life are in the same universe @@Ambulasaur
How is scout playing l4d in 1968-1972?
@@blooharrison8105what’s funny is that Ellis says this is just like tf2
@blooharrison8105 would you question the power of merasmus?
It goes even deeper than CS and L4D, because there are references to Half Life and Team Fortress 2 in L4D. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED!!!
the crazy thing is people forget payday 2 is part of the l4d universe too( wrote this when the video only released ;-;)
mfw you dont watch the video :D
im more concerned if any source games are connected to tf2 in any shape or form, i like tf2 it's arguably one of my favourite games but mann, its lore is an actual joke(intended).
@@truestbluu I made the comment just before the video was about to premiere, so it was literally impossible for me to watch it when commenting this haha
developers just got lazy thats all lol
The Little Big Planet 1 soundtrack selection hasn't gone unnoticed. @Goldec
Like... mention Goldec with "@" it's not gonna change nothing.
whats the song at 1:09 i wanna know so bad
@@Aselloutguy90% sure thats a Kevin Macleod song
@@Aselloutguy town talk by gerhard narholz . I looked for so long trying to find it.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I like to imagine 4 of the survivors from either left for dead stumble upon 10 guys fighting each other over a brick of c4 in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
T: Camping with a sniper listening to song, another playing like a dumbass, two T r shooting at CT and one is trying to get to the bomb.
CT: Stuck in the door, one is knifing his partner, Two r shooting at the T and one is running to the T with a knife.
@@zombiegamer5762 DOOR STUCK DOOR STUCK
@@AnnoyD And a reference of a guy who is camping and sniping on someone while listening to a song.
@@zombiegamer5762"Oh Camper Camper, How was I supposed to know?"
@@AnnoyDPLEASE, I BEG YOU! WE’RE DEAD!
Great video brother
Thank you! That means a lot coming from you :D
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The reason No Mercy is now canon in the Payday universe is because Bain wanted a book called The Guide of Cagliostro from a guy who wanted the patient's infected blood as payment. The green flu in Payday doesn't turn people into zombies since Bain himself is infected by it but doesn't turn.
So, in short, they turned No Mercy from a noncanon fun crossover to a pivotal and crucial part in the Payday story
he could also have immunity like the l4d survivors
he is not immune to it, the green flu just does something completely different in payday 2
@@pacman10124
He doesn't have an immunity because he dies from the infection after the gang robs the white house in Payday 2.
@@DrewzRuleI mean it could just be a cover up
Nice catch over there. That's the thing though, not everyone looks beyond the surface. For a reason there is a lore in payday.
We all fail to consider, it could all take place in its own version of reality where Valve is even bigger of a media corp than it already is and L4D are movies full of "subtle" advertisements for their other products.
I like how Ellis is the only Pug in the group lmao fits him so well. Also I like to think these games are connected it feels more real and morbid that way.
You forgot one thing, in the first payday on mercy hospital you can find a witch in one of the rooms from l4d2 and the patient zombie models twitching in locked rooms
He's human? I thought he's a cat
I thought he was a cat too😭
Bruh, that's what I thought aswell 😭
Should've stayed a cat
he's a car
Turtle Rock Studios _is not_ responsible for Left 4 Dead. Hardly any of the people who made Left 4 Dead are even part of the studio. I highly suggest you watch the video "Back 4 Blood proves Valve carried Left 4 Dead." It's very eye opening into how manipulative the phrase "from the creators of Left 4 Dead" is and just how little that claim holds water.
not enough silly cats. needs more silly cats.
of course niko would say that
these silly little cats are PISSING me the FUCK off. get them out of my sight…..
That's what I'm sayin'.
niko bellic from gta 4
Don’t give him any, he’s on silly cat rehab.
I always liked the idea that Half Life, Portal, and TF2 could all be connected. I imagined the mercenaries from TF2 with upgrades keeping them young or at least not cripplingly old. Imagining them serving like guardians strong enough to hold back the combine in North America would be super cool I think, wait I think that's kind of the plot of Overwatch but I'm not sure. Haven't played that game or read the lore.
TF2 could never be possibly connected to Half Life
@@CharaGonzalez-lt7yw okay what if it was
@Bendytube72 it would suck tbh
This is simply Valve Universe. Everything is connected. Especially a lot of references to Half-Life
EDIT: Thanks for 1 thousand likes. I didn't expect that
Valve Cinematic Universe
@@iicustodianlaw Yes, and I like your profile picture. My favorite band :D
interloper moment
@@iicustodianlawI often dream of Valve characters, such as those from Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead, joining forces to assist Gordon Freeman in overcoming challenges posed by the G-Man.
@@iicustodianlaw The VCU, now on the big screen
came for the cats, stayed for the jacket
5:54 coach being out if breath was so funny for no reason
Man, I've waited for this video. You have covered both of my favorite games, and yeah, they are indeed connected and I REALLY LIKE THAT. I fricking love Left 4 Dead man! Also, if you will look at official Midnight Riders music clips (the virtual music band from Left 4 Dead, and it's actually fire, you should listen to it), you can find ALOT and I mean ALOT of references to Team Fortress 2, CS:GO and Left 4 Dead itself.
I also really love how you have covered the PAYDAY2 part, I already knew it, but still watched with a high interest. Amazing video goldec!
For the ties of Payday and L4D, it makes more sense to believe that before 2009, the Payday(:The Heist) gang stole the green flu and *then* caused the events of Left 4 Dead. Later in Payday 2's lore, the main contractor Bain dies from it.
But I do believe that the two universes are still seperated, because Payday 3 takes place in present-day New York, with no zombies or outbreaks
that and im pretty sure valve said payday 2 version was more of a " what if " scenario ..also they do find the cure for the green flu in the payday 2 universe so it doesnt spread that quickly
PD2 also retconned the heist to 2012 New York (from 2009 Fairfield), the PD2 version is a Flashback (the rest of PD2 is set in 2012 to 2018, mostly in DC, but with a few heists in NYC, as well as a few other locations like LA, Alaska, Russia and Mexico)
I think Payday, Zombie Army 4, Dead By Daylight, and the Sacrifice comic seems to point toward a L4D multiverse, as opposed to one decreasingly coherent timeline
@@AmyCherryLMAONone of those are canon to L4D. They are either just clearly crossover events, or completely contradict L4D’s lore.
@@joao34386 i know, but it's more fun going with the splintered timeline explanation, especially considering dbd
12:20 chat, he forgot that viruses dont spread at light speed and affect people instantly, as viruses take time to travel and affect hosts, plus I'm pretty sure the Green Flu wasn't airborne till later in the L4D franchise.
iirc the Green Flu just kept changing,
@@langleysenterprise5134that's mutation
L4D and Payday go a lot deeper too, it’s connected to Half Life and TF2 as well because in the stock ticker on the big bank level you can see a lot of BLU and RED owned companies, Mercy Hospital, White Mesa, Mann Co, and Freeman Airboat Tours.
and portal
and you cant forget to mention the turret from TF2 being in Payday 2's train heist as the item you are trying to steal
@@LucyFromMiami wait really I never noticed that
@@gromblereal I mean train heist is dogshit and no one plays it so I can't blame you
@@LucyFromMiamiskill issue tbh
that song at 1:05 brought back some old memories. Such a pleasant tune!
Anyways, this was a very interesting video, and I loved the little cat fellas representing the different characters.
Both really good games and also makes it better with some silly kitties
and some silly puppies
0:21 sir BEHIND YOU
Also Something kinda funny is that on HL2's canceled expansion there would be zombie type that does not need a headcrab to spread, thing that let me thinking "what sounds... Familiar" when i heared
Hi, massive Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY fan here, the original No Mercy heist in the first PAYDAY was meant to be non-cannon. If I recall correctly, the idea came about because a lot of people were basically looking at PAYDAY as Left 4 Dead but with cops. This was mainly because PAYDAY - like Left 4 Dead - had common and special enemy types, and they were both linear co-op horde shooters with minimal RNG built into the gameplay.
Later in PAYDAY 2, when the developers finally hired a writer to make sense of and create a new story, they decided to recontextualize The No Mercy heist to fit in with their new narrative. The virus they steal isn't The Green Flu virus, but instead a bioweapon designed by a faction in the game called Murky Water. It's not confirmed that this virus turns its targets into zombies, only that the virus is very deadly. If anything, the existence of PAYDAY 3 proves that the virus didn't lead to a zombie apocalypse.
I say these things so that it's clear why the collaboration even happened in the first place, and why the heist later became cannon. The PAYDAY Gang did not steal The Green Flu virus, and they did not cause a zombie apocalypse. The building of The No Mercy hospital is shared, and so is Bill's design, but they're not cannon to each other. PAYDAY and Left 4 Dead each have their own cannon completely separated from each other, it's just that they share a location and one character only in design.
it genuinely took like halfway through the video to realise that you were showing your face cause im so used to the silly cats and dogs that i literally like blocked you as a human out of my mind and it just didnt register for like 6 minutes
So you didnt Notie the Drip
why haven't I found this channel sooner... It's adorable, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!
Goldec definitely walks around with a candle at night
If I remember correctly there are 2 L4D Easter Eggs in the PayDay 2 No Mercy Heist. The first one being if you stick around the body bags in the hospital long enough, theres a chance youll see the body bags twitch or move. The second one being a small jumpscare of the Witch from L42 if you look into a certain locked door in the hospital.
moving body bags were not in l4d
Oh boy I wonder what Moving body bags mean in a fucking hospital.
Not to mention the Hospital in Payday 2 has the exact same layout and name as the one in L4D2.
Jesus dude connect some fucking dots
I like to think that L4D and CS:GO aren't the same universe, they're just similar universes where all of the characters co-exist, maybe the L4D characters are alive and well in the CS:GO universe, never having met each other and not having to fight zombies to survive and simply enjoying their lives. Maybe Gordon, Alyx, and Chell are also just getting to enjoy their lives very differently in the CS:GO universe.
It's cool to think about, and would give a fun explanation to some things being exactly the same from another universe, just somehow also being slightly different.
In the CS:GO universe Chell was adopted by some loving parents and got cake for her birthday.
@@hedgehog3180And Gordon becomes administrator of black mesa
@@hedgehog3180And Gordon becomes administrator of black mesa
10:01 that’s what I was waiting for
Gm contract fit goes hard 🗣‼️
I really like ur pfp Gubbus
gm contract 🗣️🔥🔥
Minor spelling Mistake
shame the guy who makes them is actually mental
@@hoovers3770 thanks
What happens that stopped the Zombies in payday is that apparently patient 0 of the zombie virus was in mercy hospital and after the payday crew finished the mission, the hospital got bombed and they cured bane who had the virus
Haven’t heard of L4D for some time now, but fortunately goldec’s back at it with the krispy kreme
Left 4 Dead + CS + Payday 2 is a combination that I love desperately and would never expect a video linking those games, but what really surprised me was the melody of Garota de Ipanema at the ending. As a brazillian, I loved it, keep with your videos, they are amazing.
thank u for making cut-content/prototype content , great job goldec
Heyyy, good to see you onscreen, Goldec! And I really love the little baby animals, brilliant idea to tell your story!
0:07 what, where talking cat? Why I see human on screen.
So many bots
There is also a L4D reference in the CSGO map "Assault" the tunnel has a sign that shows the fictional city Riverside from the Death Toll campaign
You probably heard this a lot already but I just wanted to say you make the best fucking thumbnails ever on this platform
This is the best thumbnail ever made
Well... no. When someone says/type:
This is the best [REDACTED] ever made
This is the greatest [REDACTED] ever made
This is the [REDACTED] i've even [REDACTED]
i've been [REDACTED]
Or something with that. It's just because they like it, but it's not really that. It's just great and that's it. I know it's an expression, but a cliche one.
I DONNOT READ NOTIFICATIONS!! because sometimes i received hate and i'm scare to open the notifications and read those negative comments
We need the cat back!!
I love videos like this one that are following the story line of a game/games because I'm too busy to play the game and I skip all the cut-scenes and most definitely will miss all the easter eggs :D so it helps me keep track of what's going on :) Thanks :)
Being serious when I say seeing this video pop up in my feed filled me with joy. Nice vid Goldec.
Fun fact: while playing No Mercy (I think that was the name) in PayDay, you can actually hear the witch crying, then she jumpscares you if you go towards the room she is in
glad to see payday 2 mentioned. wasted so many hrs on that game as a teen. always thought it was wild the connection between pdy and valve games
181 hours man.
@@BicirikBey I’m at like nearly 900 lmfao
@@uglyfuji1452 Damn.
Turtle Rock didn't make L4D, it was almost solely Valve. At first it was only a concept mod made by a couple dudes, similar to how CS was introduced, but it was super buggy and a complete mess with no direction, but Valve loved the idea so much that they hired them and even involved the Turtle Rock name when advertising and publishing the game. In reality, only 7 out of almost 200 developers were from Turtle Rock Studios, the rest was Valve.
i like to belive that l4d takes place in alternative payday universe where green flu was used as bioweapon
I love the littlebigplanet music usage in this video
It's actually very simple l4d is known to take place in "films" as seen by the intros' titles and more in the game to missions and even endings. with that said and the references and even voice lines to the other games, what if left4dead is just a series of zombie films in the main universe, and csgo and halflife are games in said universe aswell meaning its a movie referencing a game?
This idea seems the most fitting based on how each L4D campaign picture is a movie poster. If I had to guess, the Counter-Strike and the Payday universe are the same universe, with things like TF2, Half-Life, Portal, and L4D being videogames and/or collaborations in said universe.
I do believe that CS Source and L4D1+2 take place in the same universe. In the campaign Dead Air, before you get to the airport, in map 2 you can see that you enter and exit through the MAC nuclear power plant. It is the same power plant on de_nuke in CS:S.
2:27 xD
I wanna add that I made this type of gameplay on my own long time ago.
I would buy shield in 1.6 on map "Assault" and I would spawn so many bots, with the command that makes bots use only knife.
Yes, it was very fun.
Valve : *Reuses assets*
Everyone : BRO ITS CONNECTED, ITS LORE, ITS SO DEEP
8:23 nuke even has a wall with a bunch of trophies/awards and most of them are after 2010
👍
My theory has always been that the Left 4 Dead universe simply contains Valve as a game dev. Except they never made L4D, I guess.
The cats are always awesome.
not just cats. more animals
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Neat@@sorkinquinzel
Everything about this video is pure gold, except the part where he sold Vypa in the SkinsMonkey ad.
cant wait for the uncanny theory on how tf2 is connected
yes. you can wait. don't say that cliche shyatt
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Imagine Nick in the Parish seeing 4 guys robbing the convenience stores.
what if we use the notion that there is a probability that the L4D series may be a saga of movies?
I mean it's pretty obvious, every intro has a movie poster.
fair
@@RapidPhantom293And at the "credits" after completing a campaign it says this many zombies was hurt in the making of this movie.
I like to imagine Tf2, Portal and Half Life are connected in that since Australium depleted and those oh so juicy teleporters likely don't work that well anymore, it caused companies like Aperature (who sorta fumbled their way into it cuz Cave is a goofer) and Black Mesa to really really focus on making/discovering portals and new energy sources in a sort of teleporter arms race.
Video was great, loved the info dump on all of the connections made
i like imagining this as like, l4d being almost like an alternate universe of csgo. like it branches off after a certain point in csgo’s story, which from what i remember has grown into its own thing too much to really be compatible with it being a direct prequel to l4d by this point, and maybe csgo is set a few years in the past in this timeline to make up for the anachronisms
i don’t think you can really call the connections “canon” for a lot of reasons but it’s fun to notice them and think about them and try to bridge the gap, esp with the ones that could “plausibly” exist in both like the saint lidia ii-it’s important to have awareness of canonicity, but getting too caught up in the idea of that being the only thing that matters can kinda suck the fun out of thinking about this kinda stuff
(this all goes for payday too but i didn’t have too much to say directly about that lol)
and payday*
That gm_construct jacket is fire
I love you silly kitty cs guy
Goldec Face reveal isn't what I expected to see today. Your content is always banging man keep up the insane work!
i never see him. great content, but i will never watch again
Silly little skrunkly kitty cats make the video even better, on top of the lpb ost
yes. because you like cats, but not hyenas.
i donnot read notifiaction.
CS being cats and L4D being dogs is super funny and smart
edit: wait nvm :(
Hey, bro. I'm passing you a stick to participate in the cs2 Spider-Man challenge, you need to make an epic kill in competitive mode with the longest killfit. It is important to use a weapon that has a Spider-Man sticker on it. Upload a RUclips video with #waspider and pass the baton to the next one.
This is a good idea for a full-fledged video.
Spider friends, please like the comment so that he sees it.
So Payday 1, L4D2, and CSGO all have strong connections.
Cool. John Wick confirmed for L4D3.
I love the cats 😭
Same 🐢👍
Cat and dog characters clutched the video fr
Also, judging by the music in this video, I detect a fellow LBP fan.
the fun thing about L4D counter strike weapon before the offical released as DLC weapons. they were already in the game and they reused the Beta running animation from the AK-47 you can see the animation from one the Pax 2009 video
NOOOOOO THE CATS REMOVED IN DA THUMBNAIL
Blame copyright system
finishing off my birthday with some kebab and noticed you uploaded. nice way to end the day. cheers man
Happy birthday!
man i love payday
I know man especially that hospital mission that totally doesn't show the payday crew being the ones causing the outbreak
the LBP and Modnation Racers OST nostalgia hit me like a brick, good lord.
Good video as per usual!!!
LITTLE BIG PLANETTTTT
The M4 Belleni shotgun (or however you spell it) was also reused from the Automatic Shotgun in L4D.
I was gonna mention that in the video but the model is slightly off but they do look very similar. Same with the g3sg1 and the sniper from l4d
Okay, so weve got a Zombies story with Messy Canon where some universes have Zombies and others don't? Boom, Multiverse. It's the COD solution! Half Life and Portal exist in one universe free of the virus, Team Fortress 2 is doing its own thing, and Countestrike, Payday and L4D are very close fractures of the same universe, with the fracture potentially being caused by time travel fuckery?
The No Mercy job was relatively early in the gang's career, so there are 3 outcomes imo:
•The No mercy job is unsuccessful, likely sabotaged somehow, the gang cease to exist or atleast fade into obscurity (CS fracture)
•The No mercy job is successful, the virus ends up in Murky's hands, and the events of Payday play out as normal. (PD fracture)
•The no Mercy job is successful, but the virus is intercepted and is not in mukrywaters hands, and the outbreak is caused. (L4D fracture)
Perhaps HL3 Would have seen the Multiverse be closed off and a single new Valve universe (+Payday for some reason) be born. But I'm getting too far into the COD parallels here.
(That's a neat detail, for those interested in COD that don't already know: All games have been connected and canon since the end of BO4. The BO4 Zombies storyline ended with the Multiverse ending and a single new world beginning. The Various Campaign and MP stories were also included in this multiverse, and that's why everything is connected now.)
Great video, it's nice to see you putting yourself out there in your videos.
Looking forward to what comes next.
YES PAYDAY MENTIONED
the reason for the recycled assets could also be due to csgo using a modified version of the l4d2 source engine branch
Also the reason why l4d2 was released only a year later was revealed by one of the devs (Chet Faliszek) in an interview. basically l4d1 was so broken that they had to redo the whole game to be able to implement new things without running into errors.
I notice how you use that main lobby music from modnation racers at 5:30 ahaha
For as short lived as that game was I loved it
@@goldecc uhh what song did you use at 4:53?
Fucking love the cats as the main channel mascots though
Anyone know what songs playing at 12:03
lujon by henry manchini
On a side note: No Mercy was less of a direct tie-in with L4D and more of a "What If" scenario in which the Payday gang rushed the hospital and stole a sample of the virus before Murkywater (the evil big bad PMC of the series) bombed the entire building to stop the spread of the virus before it could really become a global threat thus preventing L4D altogether. It's immediately confirmed by seeing Bill in the elevator because in the comics, we know the entire hospital got overrun the moment he's waiting for his routine check-up. The fact that you encounter him in the elevator, already discharged means that the virus never managed to turn into an outbreak.
Maybe this is a dumb question. But the music you used in the beginning of "Part 1" in the background of the video while you talked, what was that song called by chance. I've heard it before but I haven't heard it in maybe 2 years. Thanks!
Payday 2 is also connected to l4d cause when the hospital heist there's people with tarps over them and there is a LOT of these bodies and they where twitching and in one of the rooms there is a witch
Great editing, makes the video really pleasant to watch. Great job!
Funny thing is the green flu that you get from the no mercy mission eventually leads to bane body swapping with the president
if payday and cs were connected it would definitely lead to some oddities... like who could picture left 4 dead being the in the same universe as hotline miami, dirty henry and goat simulator? altho i could maybe see scarface
Valve constantly reuses and updates assets throughout their games. They go with the thought of "why make something new when it already exists and you own it"
Louis also say “Oh man I’m like Gordon Freeman” when he pick up a Crowbar
Love the video, cats are a neat little addition, but Turtle Rock didn't do much in the way of actually developing L4D, they mostly just came up with the core concept and gameplay before VALVe came in. But you probably know that already.
Awesome vid, keep up the good work!