Well no.. they just reused his model. If u look at one the campaign trailer this zombie model could be seen but was reused in a different campaign Which is the passing
The problem with him being in the passing is that, he states that he has everything he needs (Excluding the cola) . There is no possible reason why he would try to go to wherever the passing and sacrifice occurs. And even if he tried to go there he would have to outrun a stock car. The devs reused his model because 99% of people don’t look at where he is nor knowing he actually has a model.
The model was originally used for the fallen survivor, but the infected was scrapped before the game’s release so it got re-used for Whitaker. It later ended up being added again in The Passing, so technically the fallen survivor is the original use of the model, and Whitaker is the re-used asset.
Whitaker's 8 younger siblings, who failed to adequately prepare for the apocolypse: *Litaker,* who was too busy getting high *Shitaker,* who was a butthole to everyone around him *Random Crittaker,* who relied solely on luck *Committaker,* who invested too deeply in a wife that turned on him as a zombie *Brittaker,* who was doing fine until the Green Flu hit the European coastline. *Hittaker,* who used solely melee weapons *Oven Mittaker,* who used solely flamethrowers and his little sister *Prittaker,* who god bless her, was a bit of a blonde bimbo and didn't think the zombies were that serious
@@ScanTheMan Except it IS a reused model as you can see the Fallen Survivor infected in multiple parts of the Passing in the same run, even if you kill one in a previous level.
that could be a possibility. Valve recycles a lot of stuff for there games such as half life and l4d. However, i think its a fun little theory that has a possibility of being true
Dude the US air force bomb the entire area there. He miss his chance to go with he 4 survivors and his chance of survival automatically turns 0. he'll die on that place because of the constant bombing and if he survives the bomb run he'll still die on the hands of the military or CEDA when the area was clear of infected, because they can't risk one single immune/carrier alive. Remember when the 4 protagonist escape alive aboard the helicopter? The pilots become Infected because of them being a literal walking virus.
@@Kian0214 some are dead and some are still alive because the green flue was sometimes airborne and sometimes not. It mutates either the host becomes a infected or a carrier. For the 4 survivor's case. They are a lethal carriers of the green flue and they didn't even know it. Remember the helicopter that Nick, Ellis, couch and Rachel borded in the final map of dark carnival? It crash in the map called swamp fever, because the pilot becomes infected and began attacking them. The same case happen to the previous survivors like bill, Zoe, Francis, and Louis.
He would have had to outrun the blue sports car that the survivors obtain at the end of the campaign to get to where ever the passing is located which would be impossible by himself.
@@ScanTheMan it's not true just letting you know. There were alot of people that got prepared to the zombie apocalypse. The fallen survivor is supposed to represent... Fallen survivors? You should know it better cus you're the one making this video. No offense.
It's definitely a reused model (Valve does this A LOT). As others have mentioned, Whitaker said he was properly barricaded atop his rooftop, and there is no way he got to The Passing's location faster than the survivors did. On top of that, there was once some promotional artwork of Whitaker for a Steam sale over a decade ago, and he looked *nothing* like that.
@@StayedBoot7207its only the left 4 dead 1chars we know about. But considering that both groups have been shooting zombies for a few days with no sleep and didnt get infected... Yeah they prolly are.
And don't forget that the immune survivors just are like zombies, they transport the virus even if they are asymptomatic, just like l4d1, and that is literally the main reason of why the militarys start shooting the immune survivors
Whitaker was just a reused model of the fallen survivors, I’m pretty sure during the development of Left 4 Dead 2 Valve wanted to add the Fallen Survivors onto the maps, but decided not to, so they used the fallen survivor model as Whitaker.
I got the first one as soon as it came out in junior year and got the secon one right after release as well! I still play it to this day! Its my all time favorite! Im glad it still has a healthy group of online players
Something a lot of ppl for get is that the virus is airborn,and that the only reason the characters we play as havent turned is because they are some of the lucky few to have immunity,now is it more likely that the gunshop owner has immunity,or that he outran a car to a town mines away while in a probably close to braindead state. And another thing,there are multiple of these "Surviver zombies" in the chapter,most ive ever seen is 3 in the same map.
Actually, he only said that he barricaded himself on his roof with ample provisions, not that he has everything to last there for years. The better question is how he plans on stretching those bottles to make them last.
My theory is that, since all of the survivors are carriers, whoever touched the colas may indirectly responsible who infected Whitaker since a simple touch of it will result them turning or he was actually bitten and thought everything is okay. Or, a common fact is that they just recycled the assets for the fallen survivor.
Nope. It's just the model for every fallen survivor. He didn't die, the whitaker is alive as day. If what you're saying is true then I've come across thousands of whitakers everyqhere around the world.
i remember on the commentary, its confirmed the fallen survivors are just reused assets, EVEN MORE, the dead no mercy helicopter driver is also a reused asset, the swamp fever parachutist corpse too, and a gasmask one i forgot.
There is no reason Whitaker would go to Rayford (The setting of The Passing and The Sacrifice) But then again, The survivors were probably all carriers so he might have turned into a zombie when he got the cola that the carriers touched. But that's just a theory, A LEFT 4 DEAD 2 THEORY.
In L4D2 after the Military takes over CEDA's operations you can see some posters take encourage everybody thats alive to bear arms and gear which might explain why we see so many fallen survivors in urban areas or rural zones like Sugarmill. Or like everybdoy else says that VALVe reused his model because of not really everybody saw his model.
fun fact: if your teammates get downed during the cola event whitaker would tell you to ignore your teammates and wants the cola first for example "ignore the fat guy I need the cola" something like that
The survivor zombie is not the same person, at least not necessarily since there are multiple of them that can be found and the fallen survivor is but another survivor who was prepped bu wanst immune like the survivors we control.
Le me with some imagination: After the Gunshop owner fired his rocket to make a path for the survivors to pass he realize something.If the survivors can manage to escape and find the Evacuation site,then so can him.He's expert at guns since he's the owner of the gunshop and he know 1 or 2 things for surviving.After a few minutes of thinking,the Gunshop owner decided to leave his shop and go to find the Evacuation site.With he's skills and knowledge at guns,he manage to easily pass throught the dangers and hordes of zombies.After traveling miles and fought countless hoards of zombies,he manage to get to the Bridge.As he exploring the place,a witch suddenly pop out of nowhere and infect him.As he about to turn into one of them,he pick all of he's stuff and strap it in his body so that whoever survivor see and kill him,they will get the items he have that they can use to survive.The gunshop keeper,all alone in the alley.Bleeding heavily and slowly turning into a zombie.He looks up in the dark sky,looking at them as the rain slowly pour in the place.He just smiled for the last time while thinking and hoping that the Survivor who delivered the coke to him are all in the Evacuation Center. -An imagination of mine 😁
As others have said, reused model. It wouldn't even possible be for him to be in The Passing because the survivors get there with Jimmy's car, it makes no sense for him to get there before a racing car.
Cool little theory: he made a loud noise that attracted a horde to the gunshop he was at, then after the gang left, and another tank pulls up and breaches his impenetrable fortress thus the missing arm, he was about to get torn limb from limb until he got infected. But that’s just a theory, A GAME THEIRY
Fun fact The fallen survivor's running away script was actually came from cut special infected called the Screamer. It's a special infected that scream after running away from the player. While the Screamer was removed, it is canon that, the screamer exist in L4d and it's the one who responsible for the Horde we heard when there's a event.
Yes and no, its actually a reused model of a beta character that was brought back for the passing. But it was originally just a easter egg for a cut character.
If I vaguely recall correctly the main characters are carriers, which is why their escapes never seem to pan out. It would make sense if they hand delivered sodas that he just popped the top to and drank
There's a picture of Whitaker somewhere, he has a long moustache. The model used in the campaign is more of a reused asset to spawn the rocket or something like that
Fallen survivor is an unusual infected, they 100% appear in the passing although I am almost certain the game's "director" has a random chance of spawning them in the Parish and/or Dead Center, uncertain wether they spawn in the other campaigns.
Im pretty sure the reason they used that model for the fallen survivor was because nobody would have seen Whitaker under normal circumstances so they used it as the fallen survivor zombie so people can see the detail they put into that model
The fallen survivor was actually scrapped before l4d2 launched (you can see him in the game's intro when rochelle is shooting a horde with the 50 cal machinegun) then valve decided to use the model for the withaker since you weren't really meant to see him anyway, but in the end valve decided to add the fallen survivor back with the passing dlc.
Whitaker is basically a cloned version of the Fallen Survivor Zombie. But instead, his model has Human Eyeballs so he would look like a survivor on Dead Center
This is just a dead body model that has been put onto a z entity. You can find this model being used in various custom campaigns such as Napalm Death which attaches nut files to the prop_dynamic in order to turn the model into soldiers who shoot at the player.
He didn't leave or turn, it's just a repurposed fallen survivor model. He's only visible for a few seconds, a quick glimpse of a man you'll never see up close instead of an empty room or a black void.
Not him. Just a reused model. We were never meant to actually see Whitaker but they gave him a model anyways and then modified it for the fallen survivors
Whitaker is a unique character in Left 4 Dead 2's DLC "The Passing." He is not a fallen survivor zombie or a copy of himself, but rather a character who has become infected and needs to be killed by the player.
Even if it's a reused model, I think in the lore anyone that gets close to the 4 survivors from l4d1 and l4d2 suddenly becomes zombies when they get rescued by choppers or planes. So Whitaker was one of the unfortunate ones. However there's a hole on that theory where the boat guy wasn't infected when the 4 survivors got in his boat. So maybe he's immune like them.
Issue being that Whitaker would've had to do multiple things to reach The Passing, including crossing a large body of water with a radio located at an overrun plantation. Whitaker might have access to 100s of weapons and an armory's worth of bullets for said weapons, but he's still only one guy. An errant smoker, hunter, jockey, or charger and his story is over. It's far more likely that they just reused his model.
Apport for the refutation comments There is also an image of whittaker who doesnt looks anything like his model Like a guy in a suiy with a mustach and a messy hair
I think he probably did get sick and turn. Been abit since I read the lore but if I can remember correctly both left 4 dead crews were immune but carriers to the disease and they were getting people sick unintentionally by being around them.
It’s just a reused asset as you aren’t meant to see Whitaker but valve went the extra mile and modeled a character into the top in case people with no clip are curious, also in the passing campaign the town their in refused CEDA intervention and declared Marshall law, that’s why you see the lack of CEDA Tents workers etc… and all of the random M60s laying around and stashes strewn about buildings
This is backwards actually. The fallen survivor was an uncommon infected cut from L4D2 at launch. He was still in the game but never cued to spawn, you could force spawn him with the console commands. Valve needed a model to use for him so they just reused the fallen survivor model for him since it was already made and working in game. The fallen survivor returning in the passing was as a result of people asking valve to reimplement them. Basically, whittaker only looks like this because they had no other model for him, the fallen survivors in the passing are unrelated
Uh no that’s incorrect because what you are telling me is that in the time span of a few days someone got to the passing died got infected and somehow got there faster than a race car sure.
The cola had blood of infected, and he was desperate enough to drink it, knowing well he will turn anyway even if he dies of hunger and thirst. There are even grafittis around where he says he will turn and the symptoms of his paranoia going wilder and wilder, that instead of seeing survivors on the same light, he is scared of them instead of then infecteds
i have installed so many mods that the scene of a player delivering the soda to the gun shop owner turned into minos prime delivering lego yoda while wielding a suspicious chainsaw made to kill astolfo zombies
I feel this was Valve making a reference to the 2004 movie Dawn of the Dead. Andy was the gun shop owner who barricaded himself in, gets food delivered to him and later becomes a zombie
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Bro you just discovered this ? I knew it like years ago lol
its not him, they just use the same/similar model as the survivor zombie, thats why you can find them a few times before the evwnt as well
Fuck yeah I will! Rock on, man!! Thanks for the content!!!
Well no.. they just reused his model. If u look at one the campaign trailer this zombie model could be seen but was reused in a different campaign Which is the passing
No thanks. Maybe if we see real sentences and not made-up ones. Bruh is all written in the fandom wikia, just read it before saying bullshoot.
The problem with him being in the passing is that, he states that he has everything he needs (Excluding the cola) . There is no possible reason why he would try to go to wherever the passing and sacrifice occurs. And even if he tried to go there he would have to outrun a stock car. The devs reused his model because 99% of people don’t look at where he is nor knowing he actually has a model.
The model was originally used for the fallen survivor, but the infected was scrapped before the game’s release so it got re-used for Whitaker.
It later ended up being added again in The Passing, so technically the fallen survivor is the original use of the model, and Whitaker is the re-used asset.
Left 4 dead 3 when?
You’ve watched wow such gamings videos haven’t you
I don't even know who Whitaker is😂
Yea theres no way your outrunning a stock car with a v8 dodge daytona fuckin fast as hell
Ah yes, Whitaker and his several dozen identical twin brothers.
@levichicwown9760 nahhh
Whitaker's 8 younger siblings, who failed to adequately prepare for the apocolypse:
*Litaker,* who was too busy getting high
*Shitaker,* who was a butthole to everyone around him
*Random Crittaker,* who relied solely on luck
*Committaker,* who invested too deeply in a wife that turned on him as a zombie
*Brittaker,* who was doing fine until the Green Flu hit the European coastline.
*Hittaker,* who used solely melee weapons
*Oven Mittaker,* who used solely flamethrowers
and his little sister *Prittaker,* who god bless her, was a bit of a blonde bimbo and didn't think the zombies were that serious
You know how thirsty them old people really were back then
@@milkman2040 as one of Whittaker’s “uncles” i can confirm she did.
@@hobomike6935you gotta be a kid lol (nothing wrong with it)
It's just a reused model because theirs alot more fallen survivors in the passing
I’m not sure. Don’t think to deeply of it
Yeah I saw like 3 of them
@@ScanTheMan Except it IS a reused model as you can see the Fallen Survivor infected in multiple parts of the Passing in the same run, even if you kill one in a previous level.
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@@ScanTheManyou're literally the one here that's thinking too deep about it bro
I mean they could have reused the model.
that could be a possibility. Valve recycles a lot of stuff for there games such as half life and l4d. However, i think its a fun little theory that has a possibility of being true
I mean it could also be intentional.
I agree. There are multiple Fallen Survivor color variants and even appear in the opening cinematic with there being multiple at one time.
There is also only one zombie you find in that attire, so i believe its a true cameo, like jimmy gibbs
That's pretty much it. Whitaker is a reused zombie asset, but cleaned up a bit.
Whitaker's final fate is unknown though due to his large arsenal and due to being fortified, he probably survived until at least his supplies ran out.
Nah, he's still alive but sick with the green flu so he's "temporarily" not himself anymore until there's a cure.
Dude the US air force bomb the entire area there. He miss his chance to go with he 4 survivors and his chance of survival automatically turns 0.
he'll die on that place because of the constant bombing and if he survives the bomb run he'll still die on the hands of the military or CEDA when the area was clear of infected, because they can't risk one single immune/carrier alive.
Remember when the 4 protagonist escape alive aboard the helicopter? The pilots become Infected because of them being a literal walking virus.
But shouldn't he be infected like every other survivor we enconunter in the game, like the heli pilot that us as carriers turned into a zombie?
@@depressoespresso6522 can I ask the whole Millitary in l4d2, are dead?
@@Kian0214 some are dead and some are still alive because the green flue was sometimes airborne and sometimes not. It mutates either the host becomes a infected or a carrier. For the 4 survivor's case. They are a lethal carriers of the green flue and they didn't even know it. Remember the helicopter that Nick, Ellis, couch and Rachel borded in the final map of dark carnival? It crash in the map called swamp fever, because the pilot becomes infected and began attacking them. The same case happen to the previous survivors like bill, Zoe, Francis, and Louis.
That isn’t Whitaker, He uses a reused asset that is the fallen survivor model
Hmm I do think it’s Whitaker because of how prepared he was and the survivors never seen what he looked like.
true. valve could of just reused the model and rendered it as the fallen survivor as well. just a cool theory many believe are true
Why would it be a fallen survivor if he didn’t have anything. It would just be a normal infected
He would have had to outrun the blue sports car that the survivors obtain at the end of the campaign to get to where ever the passing is located which would be impossible by himself.
@@ScanTheMan it's not true just letting you know. There were alot of people that got prepared to the zombie apocalypse. The fallen survivor is supposed to represent... Fallen survivors? You should know it better cus you're the one making this video. No offense.
It's a theory and also not all youtubers have accurate info to satisfy you
It's definitely a reused model (Valve does this A LOT). As others have mentioned, Whitaker said he was properly barricaded atop his rooftop, and there is no way he got to The Passing's location faster than the survivors did. On top of that, there was once some promotional artwork of Whitaker for a Steam sale over a decade ago, and he looked *nothing* like that.
He has a handlebar moustache. I remember, it was for the announcement of a sale and how you could get the frying pan in TF2
So were ignoring the fact that theirs a bunch of fallen survivors in the passing
Guess he went searching for some good ole fashioned cola 😂
"What, why?!"
"He gon' blow up the truck and clear the way"
"🏈 FOOTBALL!! YEAHHH!!"
Bro probably found a penny outside his little fort and then got jumped
Lol
its the diet coke made him too skinny and made him hungry and so he go out for supplies but he got lost and got infected and became a fallen survivor
@@NileBlackAndWhite he said that he had everything he needs
People forget that the survivors are immune and the virus is airborne which means you killed him bringing him those sodas.
The survivors are asymptomatic
And he could be one as well
@@StayedBoot7207its only the left 4 dead 1chars we know about. But considering that both groups have been shooting zombies for a few days with no sleep and didnt get infected... Yeah they prolly are.
@@OneBadger Left 4 Ned
And don't forget that the immune survivors just are like zombies, they transport the virus even if they are asymptomatic, just like l4d1, and that is literally the main reason of why the militarys start shooting the immune survivors
Unless he is immune as well but he is probably not
This game will forever go down as the zombie game of the 2000s 🔥🧟♂️
Whitaker was just a reused model of the fallen survivors, I’m pretty sure during the development of Left 4 Dead 2 Valve wanted to add the Fallen Survivors onto the maps, but decided not to, so they used the fallen survivor model as Whitaker.
Just played this after not touching this game is years. It’s still so badass
Indeed it is! L4D aged perfectly like wine
Played it when I was 7 it scared the hell out of me
I got the first one as soon as it came out in junior year and got the secon one right after release as well! I still play it to this day! Its my all time favorite! Im glad it still has a healthy group of online players
I see L4d content, I upvote. There needs to be more of this
Something a lot of ppl for get is that the virus is airborn,and that the only reason the characters we play as havent turned is because they are some of the lucky few to have immunity,now is it more likely that the gunshop owner has immunity,or that he outran a car to a town mines away while in a probably close to braindead state.
And another thing,there are multiple of these "Surviver zombies" in the chapter,most ive ever seen is 3 in the same map.
yeah he totally managed to beat the speed of a fucking stock car and end up in the passing before the survivors
It would've been a good theory because the L4D2 survivors were carriers of the virus or infection but the fallen survivor is just a reused model sadly
“I think he wants some good’ol fashioned cola!”
"What, why?!"
He goin blow up the truck and clear the way
Cola sounds good right about now.
@@dennisd4452 especially in a glass bottle
@@GGPlex_ - if my grandmother was around she would say from a soda jerk guy at the dime store.
Actually, he only said that he barricaded himself on his roof with ample provisions, not that he has everything to last there for years. The better question is how he plans on stretching those bottles to make them last.
My theory is that, since all of the survivors are carriers, whoever touched the colas may indirectly responsible who infected Whitaker since a simple touch of it will result them turning or he was actually bitten and thought everything is okay. Or, a common fact is that they just recycled the assets for the fallen survivor.
Nope. It's just the model for every fallen survivor. He didn't die, the whitaker is alive as day. If what you're saying is true then I've come across thousands of whitakers everyqhere around the world.
i remember on the commentary, its confirmed the fallen survivors are just reused assets, EVEN MORE, the dead no mercy helicopter driver is also a reused asset, the swamp fever parachutist corpse too, and a gasmask one i forgot.
The Fallen Survivor isn't Whitaker. Valve just used a cleaned up model of the FS as a placeholder. Likely to save time (and money)
There is no reason Whitaker would go to Rayford (The setting of The Passing and The Sacrifice) But then again, The survivors were probably all carriers so he might have turned into a zombie when he got the cola that the carriers touched. But that's just a theory, A LEFT 4 DEAD 2 THEORY.
In L4D2 after the Military takes over CEDA's operations you can see some posters take encourage everybody thats alive to bear arms and gear which might explain why we see so many fallen survivors in urban areas or rural zones like Sugarmill. Or like everybdoy else says that VALVe reused his model because of not really everybody saw his model.
Idk why I started seeing l4d clips but I am not mad whatsoever this brings back wild memories
fun fact: if your teammates get downed during the cola event whitaker would tell you to ignore your teammates and wants the cola first
for example "ignore the fat guy I need the cola" something like that
Bruhhh😂😂
The survivor zombie is not the same person, at least not necessarily since there are multiple of them that can be found and the fallen survivor is but another survivor who was prepped bu wanst immune like the survivors we control.
I have a suspicion that it was the cola.
Imagine coach poisoned it because he couldn’t have the cola😭
Since the survivors are carriers for the desease, yeah that might be right!
Damn rest in piece Whitaker, and thank you for being a man of your word. (We could have walked around the truck though) just saying
I've seen him in No mercy in the Sewers chapter when you go out in the safe room and sometimes appear.
Aside from the passing theories, he probably did get infected in his tower as the colas were hold by the carriers/survivors.
the stuff i would know if i didnt mod everything into saul goodman 😔 😔 😔
Bro i Need Those mods
It's not true It's just a reused model
I belive its just the re-usual of often a unseen asset as you often have to use no clip to even see his model
bro didn't get to finish his cola bottles 😢
All the years I played Left 4 Dead, I’m still always learning something new about the game. One of my favorite games of all time⭐️
it was confirmed they just reused his model
Consequences of drinking soda in the middle of an apocalypse
According to the wiki valve reused the model for both of them
Edit: came back to this comment a month later,
just saying bro is getting flamed
Keyword “wiki”
i mean it might not be correct but it could be
@@ScanTheMan They're more reliable than a small youtube channel...
@@jonconnor0729 who are you?
@@ScanTheManThe Wiki is more likely to be correct than you.
I love this game ! It never gets old. Please make more of these left 4 dead shorts
Or they just reused the model. But idk
that could be a possibility. Valve recycles a lot of stuff for there games such as half life and l4d
Brilliant......... great videos like this 👏
Le me with some imagination:
After the Gunshop owner fired his rocket to make a path for the survivors to pass he realize something.If the survivors can manage to escape and find the Evacuation site,then so can him.He's expert at guns since he's the owner of the gunshop and he know 1 or 2 things for surviving.After a few minutes of thinking,the Gunshop owner decided to leave his shop and go to find the Evacuation site.With he's skills and knowledge at guns,he manage to easily pass throught the dangers and hordes of zombies.After traveling miles and fought countless hoards of zombies,he manage to get to the Bridge.As he exploring the place,a witch suddenly pop out of nowhere and infect him.As he about to turn into one of them,he pick all of he's stuff and strap it in his body so that whoever survivor see and kill him,they will get the items he have that they can use to survive.The gunshop keeper,all alone in the alley.Bleeding heavily and slowly turning into a zombie.He looks up in the dark sky,looking at them as the rain slowly pour in the place.He just smiled for the last time while thinking and hoping that the Survivor who delivered the coke to him are all in the Evacuation Center.
-An imagination of mine 😁
i doubt they reused model it was too similar to not be the same guy
the fact that he looks more alive as a zombie versus him being not infected is wild
As others have said, reused model.
It wouldn't even possible be for him to be in The Passing because the survivors get there with Jimmy's car, it makes no sense for him to get there before a racing car.
Funnily enough we have another design on how Whittaker looks thanks to a cross promotion with TF2
Cool little theory: he made a loud noise that attracted a horde to the gunshop he was at, then after the gang left, and another tank pulls up and breaches his impenetrable fortress thus the missing arm, he was about to get torn limb from limb until he got infected.
But that’s just a theory, A GAME THEIRY
W theory
Been playing since 2011 and didn’t know that he had a model. Thank you lol
Fun fact
The fallen survivor's running away script was actually came from cut special infected called the Screamer. It's a special infected that scream after running away from the player. While the Screamer was removed, it is canon that, the screamer exist in L4d and it's the one who responsible for the Horde we heard when there's a event.
It's the remodel since we're not supposed to see him up close so yeah
Yes and no, its actually a reused model of a beta character that was brought back for the passing. But it was originally just a easter egg for a cut character.
If I vaguely recall correctly the main characters are carriers, which is why their escapes never seem to pan out. It would make sense if they hand delivered sodas that he just popped the top to and drank
He’s such a good infected he actually comes out multiple times after killing him!
There's a picture of Whitaker somewhere, he has a long moustache. The model used in the campaign is more of a reused asset to spawn the rocket or something like that
He didn't end up as a zombie, it's just the same model being reused, not a secret hint to him dying
I feel as though maybe it was some kind of apocalypse survivor group and all the members dressed alike but ofc I know it could sound dumb
L4D 1 and 2 are my absolute all time favorites! Got the 2 when first release and still play them over a decade later!
Fallen survivor is an unusual infected, they 100% appear in the passing although I am almost certain the game's "director" has a random chance of spawning them in the Parish and/or Dead Center, uncertain wether they spawn in the other campaigns.
Im pretty sure the reason they used that model for the fallen survivor was because nobody would have seen Whitaker under normal circumstances so they used it as the fallen survivor zombie so people can see the detail they put into that model
The fallen survivor was actually scrapped before l4d2 launched (you can see him in the game's intro when rochelle is shooting a horde with the 50 cal machinegun) then valve decided to use the model for the withaker since you weren't really meant to see him anyway, but in the end valve decided to add the fallen survivor back with the passing dlc.
Whitaker is basically a cloned version of the Fallen Survivor Zombie. But instead, his model has Human Eyeballs so he would look like a survivor on Dead Center
I still believe to this day that the guy was trying to use the cola as a way to make a cure lol. Why else would he be so insistent on it
Omg. I never realized that was him!
Maybe they just reused the model though and it doesn’t mean that
This is just a dead body model that has been put onto a z entity. You can find this model being used in various custom campaigns such as Napalm Death which attaches nut files to the prop_dynamic in order to turn the model into soldiers who shoot at the player.
He didn't leave or turn, it's just a repurposed fallen survivor model. He's only visible for a few seconds, a quick glimpse of a man you'll never see up close instead of an empty room or a black void.
I always worried that if I bashed any zombies with the cola I'd end up infecting him. I kept trying to do runs where I'd try to protect the cola.
Yo i literally killed that zombie earlier with a katana, he dropped a molotov and pain pills.
Not him. Just a reused model. We were never meant to actually see Whitaker but they gave him a model anyways and then modified it for the fallen survivors
They just reused a similar model, there's multiple "fallen survivors" in the campaigns
Whitaker is a unique character in Left 4 Dead 2's DLC "The Passing." He is not a fallen survivor zombie or a copy of himself, but rather a character who has become infected and needs to be killed by the player.
Even if it's a reused model, I think in the lore anyone that gets close to the 4 survivors from l4d1 and l4d2 suddenly becomes zombies when they get rescued by choppers or planes. So Whitaker was one of the unfortunate ones. However there's a hole on that theory where the boat guy wasn't infected when the 4 survivors got in his boat. So maybe he's immune like them.
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Issue being that Whitaker would've had to do multiple things to reach The Passing, including crossing a large body of water with a radio located at an overrun plantation. Whitaker might have access to 100s of weapons and an armory's worth of bullets for said weapons, but he's still only one guy. An errant smoker, hunter, jockey, or charger and his story is over. It's far more likely that they just reused his model.
My theory is that Whitaker is a part of a group that split in other areas. The passing is just one of the locations they are exploring.
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There is also an image of whittaker who doesnt looks anything like his model
Like a guy in a suiy with a mustach and a messy hair
OR, they reused a model that people playing the game normally would never have seen.
Wow!
For 6 years wondering who was that guy who shot a RPG in this stage
Thankfully this reel video just passed through my video feed while scrolling
i think his model is just a placeholder and thats why it looks like the fallen survivor cus you wouldnt see him normally anyways
His model and the fallen survivors model are the same, so it's just reused assets, he in fact did not become a zombie
Poor poor guy RIP gun shop owner. “ damn his guns helped” coach
When a million zombies run over the hill, you'll be really pissed you ran out of bullets
I think he probably did get sick and turn. Been abit since I read the lore but if I can remember correctly both left 4 dead crews were immune but carriers to the disease and they were getting people sick unintentionally by being around them.
I remember someone saying that zombies broke in a while after the survivors left.
It’s just a reused asset as you aren’t meant to see Whitaker but valve went the extra mile and modeled a character into the top in case people with no clip are curious, also in the passing campaign the town their in refused CEDA intervention and declared Marshall law, that’s why you see the lack of CEDA Tents workers etc… and all of the random M60s laying around and stashes strewn about buildings
This is backwards actually. The fallen survivor was an uncommon infected cut from L4D2 at launch. He was still in the game but never cued to spawn, you could force spawn him with the console commands. Valve needed a model to use for him so they just reused the fallen survivor model for him since it was already made and working in game. The fallen survivor returning in the passing was as a result of people asking valve to reimplement them.
Basically, whittaker only looks like this because they had no other model for him, the fallen survivors in the passing are unrelated
Huh, I never noticed this before- nice attention to detail Valve! 👏👏🔥🐐
I love how no one realized this was the same situation from Dawn of the dead 2004
I think the cola must’ve turned him into a zombie.
Moral of left 4 dead:
"Don’t drink the Cola"
Uh no that’s incorrect because what you are telling me is that in the time span of a few days someone got to the passing died got infected and somehow got there faster than a race car sure.
It’s a reused model. Whitaker never left his roof
The cola had blood of infected, and he was desperate enough to drink it, knowing well he will turn anyway even if he dies of hunger and thirst. There are even grafittis around where he says he will turn and the symptoms of his paranoia going wilder and wilder, that instead of seeing survivors on the same light, he is scared of them instead of then infecteds
i have installed so many mods that the scene of a player delivering the soda to the gun shop owner turned into minos prime delivering lego yoda while wielding a suspicious chainsaw made to kill astolfo zombies
Whitaker was a direct reference to Andy from the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
I feel this was Valve making a reference to the 2004 movie Dawn of the Dead. Andy was the gun shop owner who barricaded himself in, gets food delivered to him and later becomes a zombie
Another fun fact, the title of the store save 4 less is based off L4D2 logo
"He says he wants some good old fashion cola. He gonna blow up the truck and clear the way"
Better times.
You're gonna carry that weight