The Last Stand (Left 4 Dead 2)

"The Last Stand" is a two-map campaign remake of the Left 4 Dead survival mission of the same name, made by the Left 4 Dead 2 community. It was released as part of The Last Stand Update—the fourth DLC for Left 4 Dead 2—on September 24, 2020.

This campaign as well as content update of the same name is PC exclusive and will not be coming to Xbox 360.

Setting
According to the developers, the campaign takes place as an alternative what-if ending to "Death Toll" in the case that the survivors took a different path leading to the Death Toll Finale.

As revealed at the start of "The Junkyard", the Left 4 Dead survivors eventually reach an unnamed village by way of a pickup truck. However, their truck breaks down, forcing the survivors to continue their journey on foot. Barricades and blockades from chaos at the village cause them to take a detour that leads them to the lighthouse instead of to the village evacuation sites (which are no longer manned by the time the Survivors arrive). Concluding that their only hope for rescue is by lighting the long-disused lighthouse and hoping that a boat sees them, the Survivors light the beacon and must then fight on their own against massive onslaughts of the Infected while awaiting rescue.

Graffiti
Like other maps in Left 4 Dead series, scattered graffiti serves as a story telling mechanic. Similar to its predecessor, graffiti in this version of The Last Stand is strongly pessimistic, depressing, distressing, and hopeless, despite this version providing rescue and salvation to the survivors, although it does not come easily.

The graffiti in the village reveals that although all evacuation sites are empty, it is suggested that there was an evacuation attempt within the village. It is unknown if the evacuation was successful or not. However, it seems that one of the evacuation sites used by villagers was the lighthouse, which was manned by a small unit of military servicemen at that time.

The graffiti in the watchtower outpost near the lighthouse reveals that in the end, the military unit was eventually overrun by the infected. One graffiti warns future passing survivors not to go to the lighthouse, as death awaits them there. It can be discovered that a distraught survivor possibly committed suicide here after realizing that rescue was hopeless. Other survivors holding out here also eventually gave up hope, and either fleed from the area, or perished.