Description
Dead Vacation name derived from the Left 4 Dead maps Dead Center, Dead Air is a map set in a resort on a river captured by survivors to use as a refuge.
Presumably, the R2D survivors see this as a safe zone and crash into a field near the resort. Inside the main resort building, you can see sleeping bags and boxes, most likely used by the first arriving survivors.
Survivors must refill a generator with five Gasoline Cans which are found all around the map. After the generator is started, survivors must call for help on the Radio which can be found inside of the main resort buildings. After those objectives are complete, survivors must hold off the zombies for 5 minutes until the boat arrives to rescue them.
Background Story
After escaping the hell that was New Bloxcoast, you and your friends decide to celebrate with cheap whiskey in corroded canteens until your chopper experiences heavy turbulence. Spotting a resort from below, the pilot purposely crashes into the ground after failing to make a safe landing. Though the pilot has perished, you and your group have managed to come out on top relatively unscathed.
"Hey, over there!", a red-haired woman shouts as she points to an old resort building. You and your crew are hesitant to approach, but decide to anyway after hunger starts to set in. You expect to discover a group of survivors still alive and kicking, but boy, are you wrong. It seems that whoever was here managed to escape before the oncoming horde arrived. Wait, oncoming horde? Why, of course! From the exposed cave South of the resort arrives an army of undead marines armed to the teeth with vests.
They've found you, and there's no possible way out.
Design
Survivors spawn next to a crashed helicopter, similar to the old Helicopter from New Bloxcoast.
The map itself is a cutaway from any land, with mountains and a body of water separating it. A cave can be spotted if a survivor walks towards the end of the map. A survivor can also find what appears to be a storage hut. Floodlights are dotted around the map. They can only be turned on once the generator is online.
On the lower level of this map, there is another wooden hut, with some fuel tanks, a small outhouse and the main resort house. The main resort house has three levels. The underground level contains a water garage. The next level, which can be accessed through the high ground doors, contains some rooms with sleeping bags. The upper level also contains rooms with sleeping bags. There is a truss next to the generator to access the roof.
Far away, you can see another island, with a house on fire. Using a Cavebat, you can see that the house is partially complete.
Tips
- When the boat comes, you do not need to take a seat. You can easily strife with the boat.
- The boat can sometimes glitch onto the winning platform.
- This is one of the most suitable maps for a Chinalake.
- Using the Hammer and the Turret to barricade yourself inside the Radio room is a good idea.
Trivia
- The crashed Helicopter looks very similar to the old Helicopter that picks up the survivors in New Bloxcoast before the Helicopter changed into a more modern kind.
- During the winter, there was a snow-fort outside the cave.
- Later on, nearing the death of R2D, the generator objective broke, meaning you could not complete the objective.
- The Dead Vacation made a return in R2DA.
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