Maps and Gamemodes

Maps are the areas in Left 4 survival that you can fight the zombies or survivors in. Each round, players can choose between two different maps, which both have a randomly chosen gamemode.

 Gamemode's: 

Rescue
Rescue is one of the first and most commonly played modes in the game. In it, survivors need to wait 5 minutes and then board a vehicle that will rescue them, and zombies must kill the survivors before they escape. It is often played on most rounds, and it is very occasional that the survivors will win due to how the zombies are somewhat  overpowered .

Campaign
Campaign is a bit different from rescue. In campaign, survivors will have to bring 12 or more canisters of gasoline to a generator in order to turn the power on, while the zombies have to kill and infect all of them. There is a time limit, and when it reaches 0, the survivors will lose. It is quite difficult to play this, as most of the time players have to work with people who think killing zombies is more important than completing the objective. The most challenging game mode yet.

Survival
Survival is almost the same thing as rescue, except survivors immediately win once the timer hits 0.

Elimination
Elimination is like Survival, but with a twist. The survivors have to get kills depending how many players are survivors all together before the timer hits 0. If they fail to complete their goal, or die, the zombies win.

Deathmatch
Deathmatch is much more different than the other modes. It is the first mode in which survivors can respawn. In deathmatch, the survivors need to kill the zombies 50 times, while the zombies only need to kill them 25 times for balancing purposes.

Capture Points
As of 5/25/2021, this game mode has been shut down for an unknown period of time, making it the second game mode to be shut down. Capture points is the only mode in which both teams can infinitely respawn. In this mode, both the zombies and the survivors need to hold down three areas to get points and fight over each area in the map. The game ends when one side has a total of 500 points. Usually the sides that wins is the one that captures an area first.

Juggernaut
Juggernaut is a gamemode in which the survivors need to defeat the Juggernaut within the time limit. The Juggernaut's goal is to defeat all the survivors before the survivors kill it. As of 2018 the gamemode has been shutdown and is no longer playable in any map. Making it the first gamemode to be shutdown.

Arena
Arena is very different from Elimination, is that there are waves which are 3 of them each round, the survivors must kill 25 zombies (50 on Wave 2 and 75 on Wave 3). If they fail or die, the zombies win. This is the newest gamemode in the game, and is very difficult to win as a survivor. The most challenging gamemode yet, along with Campaign.

Boss
The Event gamemode that is only available in event maps and has bosses instead of zombies, the survivors must defeat the bosses in order to win and get more rewards. If the timer hits zero and all survivors were killed, it's game over. It was introduced during Winter Holiday 2021.

Union Cave
A map which is mainly made up of a cave. On one side outside there is an empty road, a few ammo tables, and sometimes a medkit. On the other side, there is a forest, a crashed car, and an ammo table. Inside the cave there is a large rock formation that leaves a tight space for players to pass throguh. There are many secrets in this map, like multiple hidden rooms, one of which contain an ammo table.

Flooded
This map takes place in a destroyed city. There are five buildings that are surrounded by lots of water somehow. One of the buildings are an office. There is also a gas station, a few houses and an apartment. Not really much to say about this one except the office can be entered.

The map is surrounded by water that you can walk in. this makes the map unique as all the other maps have invisible walls.

Death Canyon
This map takes place near an abandoned motel. There is a motel, a restaurant, and a radiology center. The restaurant has chairs and tables that can be flipped over and around. The motel mostly cannot be entered except for a room on the side and a stairwell leading to the rooftop. The room on the side will have the generator in the campaign mode. There is a secret bunker behind the radiology center. It contains a health kit. Inside, there is overturned furniture and three capsules. Two contain zombies, and one has been shattered. This is one of the only maps with the campaign game mode, along with Sodden Swamp.

Forbidden Valley
This map takes place in the woods. There is a big house that has a ladder on the side of it. There is also a helipad, a water tower, and a lake with some sand near the edge. Not much else to say about this map.

Colossal Camp
This map takes place at a campsite. There is a road on the side of the map. Near that road, is a shed. The shed is one of the most useful places you can go to, as it has an ammo table, a medical box, and a few barrels you can jump of to get on top of it and survive. In the middle of the map there is a fire and some tents, and at the edge opposite to that of the edge with the road, there are some hills and a small house.

Construction Site
This map takes place at construction site said by its name. There is a tower crane, 4 under construction buildings with one can be entered by survivors and zombies and one contains a ammo station. On the very top of the 6 story under construction building, the helicopter can land here during Rescue mode.

Forgotten Fields
This map takes place in a farm. The are some crops, a stable, a house, two grain silos (the large things that would be near a barn), and basically everything that belongs on a farm, with the exception of people and animals.

Salty Sea Harbor
This map takes place on a cargo ship. There are three buildings, all of which can be entered. There are also a lot a cargo containers that are empty and can be entered. There is also two fuel tanks. there is a ramp that leads down to the boat you need to enter at the end of the game during rescue mode. This map is unique because not only is it the only map where you need to enter a boat instead of a helicopter, but you can also get out of bounds by jumping in the water. However, the water does not have collisions and you will fall through and die if you jump into it.

Swamp
This map presumably cannot be played anymore as of 5/25/2021, and it has been replaced by Sodden Swamp. There is a house, some fences, and a large hill in this map. Zombies spawn behind the hill. Survivors spawn in the house. The house has a health box and a ammo table. Leaving the house will be risky, as the map and the area outside the house is very small and leaving it can easily make you get targeted by hunters and Tangler's. This is the only map that has been replaced and revamped by another map(Sodden Swamp in this case.)

Sodden Swamp
This is most likely the largest map in the game as of now. Survivors spawn in a house with some trailers outside of it in a hill with rock walls. Some zombies may spawn near the trailers outside. Outside the rock cliffs and downhill is a town. The town has a few buildings, all of which are heavily destroyed. Zombies can sometimes spawn here. This is one of the only maps that have the campaign mode, along with death canyon.

Frozen Peak
This map takes place in a snowy mountain. There are a few snowy hills with a lake. This lake gets water from a small waterfall near the side of one of the hills. Zombies spawn near the hills. There are three houses on the other side. One has a health box, one has an ammo table, and one has nothing special. It is not advised you hide in these houses unless you are nearly about to die/the people playing as the zombies are inexperienced or decide to not search in the houses.

Subway Station
This map takes place in a metro Subway station. Survivors spawn on the left side of rails while zombies spawn on right side of rails. On the left, there is a halls on the which survivors could hide here, on the right, there is a train that got derailed and flipped down covered in concrete debris. There are one of the doors leading to a health box room or the other leading to the waiting room with the exit blocked by debris.

LEC Town
This map takes place in a large town, this makes the map the 2nd largest map so far. There are multiple buildings, most of which can be entered. That being a Hotel, a camp with many houses, a house, Storage building, a hospital and much more. Other locations include a graveyard, a street, hills and much more. In an unknown update around 2021 the map was removed for unknown reasons, making it unplayable in any gamemode.

Troubled Tundra
This map takes place in a winter themed area with walls scattered around it and is under attacked by Yeti. This is the first event map ever added during Winter Holiday 2021.

Trivia

 * LEC Town was the only map that got removed from the game, there are no reasons why it was removed.
 * In 5.8.0, Swamp was replaced with Sodden Swamp, being the only map to be replaced with a new one.
 * Due to more details of Sodden Swamp, lags can occur in high graphics users, meaning they must lower the graphics to reduce it unless they have the poor graphics.
 * In Frozen Peak's earliest versions, It takes place in night with everything look blue. This was changed into day with no blue everything in an unknown update.
 * You can vote 3 Maps and Gamemodes each spawn in the lobby.
 * You used to vote 2 Maps and Gamemodes in the lobby prior to 5.8.1 update.
 * There are 8 gamemodes with 2 gamemodes shutdown and 1 limited gamemode and 11 maps with 2 removed/replaced and 1 limited in Left 4 Survival.
 * The total of number of Gamemodes and Maps are 11 Gamemodes and 14 Maps.
 * More maps and Gamemodes will be added to L4S in the future.