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I forgot that I posted this on a forum a while back. I've since lost all of the commands that work and which ones don't work, but here is a nice radial menu that has a lot of L4D vocalize commands (for those of you that still play L4D).

      
"RadialMenu"
{
	//--------------------------------------------------------------
	"Orders,Survivor,Alive"
	{
		"Center"
		{
			"command"	"vocalize smartlook"
			"text"		"#L4D_rosetta_look"
		}
		"North"
		{
			"command"	"vocalize PlayerMoveOn"
			"text"		"#L4D_rosetta_letsgo"
		}
		"NorthEast"
		{
			"command"	"vocalize PlayerLeadOn"
			"text"		"#L4D_rosetta_youtakelead"
		}	
		"East"
		{
			"command"	"vocalize PlayerHurryUp"
			"text"		"#L4D_rosetta_hurry"
		}	
		"SouthEast"

Recently my computer had run into a problem where it would just freeze or stutter. It didn't seem to matter what I was doing, could be playing a video game or browsing the web, it didn't really matter. To keep the story somewhat short, I ended up reinstalling windows 7, going back to windows vista, and then going back to windows 7 without the problem being fixed. I was very certain the problem was NOT my hardware, but I couldn't figure out what would be causing this, especially after numerous fresh OS installs.

NOTICE: The vocalize command no longer works after the Feb. 19 update, so this will no longer work.

I figure that other people will probably enjoy this as much as I do, so if you add this to your autoexec file, it will make your character taunt every time you melee.

      
alias tauntMelee "+attack2; vocalize PlayerTaunt"
alias +melee tauntMelee
alias -melee -attack2
bind mouse2 +melee
      
   

This assumes you are using mouse2 as the melee button. Otherwise you will need to change that to your melee button.

According to a very informative post (I have not verified this), the custom vpk and autoexec files I provide here do NOT work. The method however DOES work. So if I could get a few more people to try this, I would like people to follow the steps I provide WITHOUT using my stuff. If I get some time later I'll try and update the vpk files and see if that makes them work again.

Backed by popular demand (well, one guy requested it :P), here is my personal autoexec.cfg file. It works well with my custom radial menu, so if you are using that, I recommend using this as well.

You might find this stuff useful while creating radial menus. All you need to do is add these lines to your radial menus. These are just here to make things easier for you, because copying and pasting this is a lot easier than the alternatives. It should be pretty self explanatory as to how you use these if you have read the Radial menu tutorial.

Commands that work for ALL PLAYERS:

      
                        "command"        "vocalize PlayerNiceShot"
                        "text"                "Well, Nice."

                        "command"        "vocalize c1m1_enter_elevator"
                        "text"                "This elevator's still workin!"

An autoexec file is a file that runs every time you launch Left 4 Dead 2. Usually, it is not a "standard" file, so you must create it yourself. So, lets start by doing that. Open up your favorite text editor and save an autoexec.cfg file to this location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\cfg. NOTE: The file MUST be named autoexec.cfg, it cannot be autoexec.txt or autoexec.cfg.txt or it will NOT work.

The contents of this file is up to you. Basically, on each load of L4D2, each line of the autoexec.cfg file is executed one at a time as a console command. I'm assuming most of you are coming here from the radial menu tutorial, so I will tailor this more towards you.

According to a very informative post (I have not verified this), the custom vpk and autoexec files I provide here do NOT work. The method however DOES work. So if I could get a few more people to try this, I would like people to follow the steps I provide WITHOUT using my stuff. If I get some time later I'll try and update the vpk files and see if that makes them work again.

After a recent update, users now need to pack this radialmenu.txt into a vpk file. This is my personal vpk file.

NOTICE: This tutorial is outdated as of the February 19th update. Please use the following tutorial instead: New Tutorial

Now that you have a long list of vocalize commands for Left 4 Dead 2, you probably want to create your own custom radial menus, like this one:

Well, this is a bit more complicated than the binds tutorial, but you can 'bind' up to 9 commands to one key, so it's worth it.

You will need two programs to do this:

• GCFScape

NOTICE: The vocalize command no longer works after the Feb. 19 update so you cannot use this tutorial to create binds for vocalizations.

Now that you've read the long list of vocalize commands for Left 4 Dead 2, you probably want to know how to use them. It's actually quite easy..

Steps:

• Enable Developer Console in the options
• Open developer console by pressing ~
• Type this in the console: bind "[KEY]" "vocalize [COMMAND]" (remember to replace [KEY] with a key (such as x), and [COMMAND] with one of the vocalize commands)
• Close developer console

According to a very informative post (I have not verified this), the custom vpk and autoexec files I provide here do NOT work. The method however DOES work. So if I could get a few more people to try this, I would like people to follow the steps I provide WITHOUT using my stuff. If I get some time later I'll try and update the vpk files and see if that makes them work again.

It's finally ready, the list of all the Left 4 Dead 2 vocalize commands!

Here they are:
The master list, tells you what commands work with what characters.

Here are lists with more detail, including what the character says by using the command. Here are the lists for: