The Junkyard

"The Junkyard" is a map featured in The Last Stand Community Update. This map served as the first chapter of "The Last Stand" Left 4 Dead 2 campaign. The map take its name from a junkyard which must be passed by the survivors to make progress.

The Survivors start off on the Riverside Park in unnamed area situated somewhere in USA.

The Survivors must fight through several different areas: the stretch of old countryside road, burned village which the people may abandoned hastily when The Infected hits the place (with many trucks filled with many of villagers belongings scattered), the junkyard, and finally they must go through the onward route involving a short, angled path over a hilltop, following the small river, and finally reaching the Cliff Side, a small area located in a cliff separated with a rope bridge, where the small wood cabin which served as the map's Safehouse stood.

When survivors reach the village junkyard, survivors find their path blocked, unless they dropped a container and make the makeshift way to the hilltop. However, to do it, they must operated a gigantic electromagnetic crane which require fuel pump and 4 generators to make it work. When they turned on the fuel pump, a crescendo event will started and many infected will swarming into the junkyard. Halfway, the crane electric power will went down. The survivors must fight their way to restarting 4 generators scattered over the junkyard to return the power to the crane. If the survivors succeeded, the crane will move to take a container and a survivor needed to push a button to release the container and make their way to the hilltop.

Trivia

 * In the beginning of campaign, Louis is usually seen crouching and healing his leg, this could be a nod to the fact that Louis injures himself in The Sacrifice when the bridge was raised.
 * On this map, if you see a ruined waterwheel house in in the village, enter the house, go to the upstairs, and jump from here. Here you can access the back house. Here, hit a locked room with any melee weapon multiple times until the door breaks and revealing a body of a survivor that starved to death still sitting in front of computer. You can see the names of the map developers written over the walls. Clicking the computer will result on any melee weapon you have switched into golden crowbar. Doing this will make you get "Household Names" achievement. You can see the video to check how to do it.
 * This room is scripted. If you trying to use noclip to access the room, you cannot find the body, the computer sets, and the graffiti listing the map developers. The only thing shown is spray paint of the modding community only.
 * It is possible in some abandoned trucks, you might find a shovel.
 * The safehouse doors on this map feature an unique model which unseen before in other maps. Rather using metallic material, the safehouse doors here using wooden material strengthen with iron scraps and some duck tapes instead. This suggest the builder, even in remote area with limited resources, still able to make mandatory safe house.
 * In one of graffiti in the village, it is written "Jim, thank you for your sacrifice 1920–2017". While it is quite strange, since the game take place in 2009, the graffiti actually is a tribute to Jim French, the original voice actor of Bill, who passed away due to old age at 2017. It also refer the Bill's sacrifice in The Sacrifice.
 * When you passed the village bridge, you may see falling burning single engine plane. The seen plane eventually crashed and can be found at the river after you passing the hilltop slope after passing the junkyard. If you see carefully, the crashed plane model is the same crashed plane model used in The Sacrifice's The Docks which can be found on the main highway between the Army Reserve Center and the demolished bridge.
 * When you followed river stream and jumped off into the creek, you might see a burning house in the left side. When you open the fridge, you may find a body of deceased woman survivor. This is a reference to a controversial scene in Green Lantern #54 (issued in 1994), written by Ron Marz, in which Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern), the title hero, comes home to his apartment to find that his girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, had been killed by the villain Major Force and stuffed into a refrigerator. While it was contributing the development of the story, the scene depiction sparked controversy to the feminist groups as deemed to be sexist. Such controversial the scene depicted leading to coinage of the term "Women in Refrigerators" by writer and feminist activist Gail Simone. The term later used as a name for the website in early 1999 of the same name made by Gail Simone and friends, which listed examples of the superhero comic-book trope whereby female characters are badly maimed in many ways in order to develop the main male characters.