Lighthouse Finale

"Lighthouse Finale" is the second and final chapter of "The Last Stand" Left 4 Dead 2 campaign.

The Survivors start off in a safehouse adjacent to a military outpost settled in a firetower near the lighthouse.

Outside the safehouse, the survivors must pass an overrun military outpost. From here, they must fight their way to the lighthouse. They find that the lighthouse, despite in a dilapidated state and without means to contact help, is still working. Upon the survivors deciding to turn on the lighthouse generator, the combination of bright light and the lighthouse's alarm glare will summon large hordes of infected. The survivors must defend themselves against the infected whilst they wait for rescue.

Halfway through the finale, the generator runs out of fuel. The survivors must hastily collect fuel cans (the amount changes between difficulties) to turn the generator back on. Once they do, depending of the difficulty, either one or more Tanks will arrive shortly after. After the said Tanks have been killed, a small fishing boat catches the lighthouse signal and the survivors must go down to the seaside from the lighthouse, where it waits to pickup the survivors. Multiple tanks may spawn during this stage. After all survivors board the boat, the boat will drift away from the shoreline to the misty island far away from the mainland, as the camera pans to the lighthouse.

Trivia

 * It is unknown if the lighthouse depicted in both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 is based on a lighthouse in real life in the USA. The lighthouse building itself might be modeled after the Presque Isle Light on the shore of Lake Erie in North Western Pennsylvania. It is one of three lighthouses in Erie, along with the Erie Land Light and the North Pier Light. The lighthouse is situated on the northern shoreline of Presque Isle State Park overlooking the beach.
 * This map is largely based on the original "Lighthouse" map from Left 4 Dead's "The Last Stand", but extended to cover the military outpost building outside and the seaside under the lighthouse.
 * In the safehouse bathroom, you can find an axe stuck into wall. This is a reference to 1980 psychological horror film based from 1977 Stephen King novel with the same name. In one memorable "Here's Johnny" scene, Jack Torrance, the film villain, broke into the bathroom using axe.
 * If you go to the right instead of passing straight to the military outpost from the safehouse, there is a stretch of road blocked by a bus wreck in the end. The bus model is the same bus model that appear in Death Toll's The Church.
 * There is presence of military facility (and infected servicemen). However, the lack of traces of CEDA suggest that the lighthouse and the nearby village were solely under the protection of military before they were finally overrun by The Infected.
 * The maps stored on the outpost tower are actually the same maps used in Blood Harvest's Farmhouse Finale.
 * If you interact with a radio in the military outpost tower, the radio's light will flicker to yellow as static plays. A weak 'Hello?' will sound, and the radio's light then changes to red shortly before it sparks and becomes unusable.
 * At the top room of the military outpost tower is a foot locker. When opened, an AK-47, a Magnum Pistol, and a Silenced Submachine Gun with unique skins can be found.
 * Near the lighthouse, there is a small cabin. Inside the cabin is a body of a deceased survivor with a pitchfork next to him.
 * In the original L4D1 version of this map prior its final version, a video showed that you were supposed to use a radio to call for help instead of turning on the generator. This cut concept was referenced with a darker tone in this map. At the same cabin where you can find a deceased survivor and his pitchfork, there is a non-functional radio located here. It is speculated that the desperate survivor tried to fix the radio to no avail, resulting in him falling into insanity and committing suicide (see the graffiti). This might have influenced the L4D1 survivors' decision to use the lighthouse for help instead of the radio.
 * This campaign, especially this map, also feature new game mechanics of gas cans. Compared to previous gas can game mechanics for usual offensive means, fuelling purposes in Scavenge mode gameplay, or even just decorative item but indestructible like in Hard Rain, gas cans in this map rather hybrid. Before the finale start, the gas cans is just decorative objects and by means of scripting, it will turned into usual fuel cans for fuelling when the generator gas run out. It also scripted as indestructible object, to enable the finale running properly. The gas can object also differently skinned into deep dark green.
 * The last bright red glare seen near the end of this map actually a flare that came from rescue boat. To see it clearly, after you pouring the last fuel can to the generator, go to seaside under the lighthouse and do not fight spawned Tanks on the cliff. Let them follow you to seaside and defeat the tanks (Be careful, Tank(s) may hit and throw you to deep water and you instantly killed). When you defeat the tanks, the rescue boat will appear and a flare will shot from the boat.
 * The red flare is a scripted event. Massive horde onslaught with multiple tanks will spawned when the red flare appear. It is better to run to the rescue boat immediately to finish the map rather dealing with the overwhelming horde.
 * Although the map is placed in the non-canonical timeline, the ending of this map ironically resembles and fulfills Bill's plan to get away from the U.S. mainland to remote island to ensure his and the rest of the L4D1 survivors' safety. In the canonical story, Bill dies before his plan is realized, although Zoey, Francis, and Louis managed to escape to the Florida Keys in aftermath of "The Passing".