In Split Screen, two players on the same console take control over two Survivors, and the screen is split vertically, although it can be changed to horizontal in the options menu. Its former description didn't carry over to the current Campaign description. Prior to the The Last Stand Community Update, the gameplay mode used to appear in Left 4 Dead 2 as a separate mode, however it has since became demoted into a drop-down menu option for all co-operative modes. The only time Campaign can be completed with the player dying as a result is Port Finale of The Sacrifice Campaign, as bots won't go and restart the generator and therefore the player's death won't fail the campaign for balancing reasons. Also, if you complete the campaign with everyone surviving, it will say 'The Survivors have escaped!' or 'In memory of ' if the player escapes but the bots failed. In singleplayer, if you get killed in the Campaign, the chapter will restart since bots don't use Defibrillators (unless mods has been used to allow bots continue on their own). Fun fact: the image and the weapon do/did not exist in the international version at the same time (and Left 4 Dead has no images for game modes). The (now) cut or former gameplay mode's image is Ellis holding the Krieg 552, a weapon from the German censored version of the game, which became available for everyone in The Last Stand Community Update. In other modes, this can only be done when playing as host on local server with command 'sv_pausable 1'. This is also the only mode that allows you to fully pause the game (by bringing up the menu).

Since Single Player is considered as local server, modifications that work only on local server will also work in this mode. Single Player is the only mode which can be played with Steam set to offline. Other than that, the same rules as Campaign apply here, except for in Dead Center, or The Passing where you only have to get 8 Gas cans in Solo Dead Center (13 in standard Campaign mode) and 10 in Solo The Passing (16 in standard Campaign mode). No other player can join a Single Player game, unless locally (LAN), via the connect 'host local ip' console command. The player assumes control of one of the Survivors, and all the other characters are AI controlled. Single Player is a gameplay mode with only one player controlled character. Available in Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 (Pre- The Last Stand Community Update) Play a single player offline game with computer-controlled teammates.

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