Seems like the Left 4 Dead 2 free weekend is back again for the "Steam Spring Cleaning" event, which may be an annual event now, making the achievement more accessible. As far as I know it's the only Left 4 Dead 2 free weekend event and so the only time you can get this achievement legitimately. Be aware that it is fairly difficult to find free weekend players.


Original Message from 2018:

This is the first time since 4 year that you can get this achievement, it requires you to finish a campaign with a free weekend player (who has to survive the campaign). Free weekends haven't happened for 4 years, until now with the "Steam Spring Cleaning" event you can finally unlock it in the next 2 days. I highly recommend you get this achievement now if you own the game since it's unlikely you'll get another opportunity soon (if ever). The achievement doesn't unlocks for the free weekend player unless there's another free weekend player in your group.

Completing one of the shorter campaigns takes around 15 to 30 minutes on easy difficulty. "Crash Course" is the quickest campaign to complete, though some might prefer "The Sacrifice". The game is actually kind of fun, though it gets repetitive after a while. The main gameplay is moving from point A to B while killing (First Person Shooter style) endless re-spawning zombies, and sometimes defending a point for a while.

Edit: I got the achievement, but if anyone needs help just let me know. I'm not a free weekend player myself though since I own the game.

Wercasius

It's possible to obtain the achievement alone if you play with your main account (it has to own the game) and an alt account (it must not own the game) at the same time (2 PCs side by side). Playing like this is harder but you can get it.'

FilthySouls

I suggest anyone who really wants it checks the discussions frequently, lots of Good Guy Nick helpers around there, but ofc there's also a lot of people in queue wanting to get it.

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The main gameplay is moving from point A to B while killing (Third Person Shooter)

Incorrect - I think you meant first-person.

5 years ago
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Haven't played it in forever you may be are right :D Fixed!

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Wow, they really have such a crappy achievement >_>

5 years ago
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Valve is the absolute worse when it comes to achievements honestly.

5 years ago
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Unfair generalization. Portal 2 achievement design is among the best I know :P

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+1

5 years ago
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You haven't played Team Fortress 2 yet. And even Portal 2 has these annoying achievements like:
Calibration Course; «Professor Portal» - After completing co-op, complete Calibration Course online with a friend who hasn’t played before.

They always include those crappy achievements to promote the game or get you to get a friend to play. Should have known back then how evil Valve was.

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how is Valve evil by encouraging you to play a co-op game with a friend? :)

5 years ago
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By trolling the new player and killing him.

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The problem is your friend can't have played it before, so someone ends up holding the bag. To add insult to injury if you start off playing with your friend neither of you can get the achievement from the other. Each person can only give the achievement to one other player and even then only if that player doesn't have it and meets the requirement of having already completed co-op once, otherwise it's wasted.

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As stated by dead0ne: you friend must never have played co-op before. So basically they want you to convince a friend to buy Portal 2 and then they want that friend to convince another friend and so on and so on. Which is a pretty scummy tactic to try and boost sales. It's not just play co-op with a friend.

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Wow, I didn't know about this one...
Ok, I guess it's could be right that Valve doesn't have a game where all achievements are well designed, but still I really love how they've done most of the achievements in the game (especially things like Pit Boss) ;)

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They have some funny achievements which are inline with the game's humor, but I can't say there are any games I've played that had truly well thought out achievements honestly. Though I get what you're trying to say, some of their achievements are more original than most. Sadly they'll also include pesky achievements where they want the player to promote their game or one time only event achievements to draw in more sales. Valve would sell their own mothers if it would give them 5 cents.

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Though I get what you're trying to say, some of their achievements are more original than most.

Maybe I should word that differently but that's exactly what I meant :)

Possibly I'm looking too superficially at the achievement lists (as a whole) in Valve games since I haven't played any of them myself. I'll get to these some day, but until then I'll try revise my "top achievement lists in games" ranking to make place for other games I played and I know for sure that their achievement lists don't have any stinkers ;)

5 years ago
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Well, Portal 2 do have one stupid achievement IMO.

Professor Portal
After completing co-op, complete Calibration Course online with a friend who hasn’t played before

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Have you seen Garry's mod? Play on the same server as Garry -- Garry never plays the game. Play for 5000 hours. Get 1000 upvotes on a single workshop item.

5 years ago
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I've heard about it, which is why I stayed away from that game. Achievements should be attainable for everyone or simply be removed. Achievements that require the player to promote a game should be banned honestly.

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Im going to trow into this discussion some other games with unattainable achievements.

  1. Dirt Rally (first one). All the achievements are relatively easy to achieve - win championship with specific car and so on. Some multiplayer achievements that requires luck for others to be online.. But along that there is an achievement thats given to you if you played the game when it was in Early Access. So impossible to get it if you played the game when it was fully released.
  2. Spintires... Checked out the game to see what was the achievement called and looks like they finally removed it, so thats nice. But the story was - devs had falling out with publishers so they abandoned the game, and went to another publisher and released the game under different name and kept that updated. The original game was left as it was. They where planning to release update with new upgrades to map. They added hidden achievements to the game but never got around to updating the game. So for years the game had one achievement that was impossible to get because devs just plain didnt add content to the game that unlocked the ach.
4 years ago
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i can help you

5 years ago
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I'd like to join!

5 years ago
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Sure, I've sent you a friend request.

5 years ago
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I'm playing now if you want?

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I would like to get this achievement as well if you don't mind :P I'm also free holiday (christmass 2014?) player, so one achievement from me as well...
But beware, I haven't played this game for 4 years, I promiss myself to return to it and finish it it 100%, but backlog... well, I will suck in a nutshell.

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There was one guy who helped (nearly anyone that asked) for the christmas achievement. I think you can find him if you google him. That's how I got it.

Game isn't too hard on easy so that's ok. Hadn't played for a long time either.

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well, now I need to go sleep, but if you don't get it till tomorrow... I will make some alternative steam profile and we will get it ANY WAY, but I would expect to get paid back with the same :P

I have already tried to played it with randoms hoping to get lucky...

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I got it, but I'll still try to help out if you want.

Anyway this is the guy (the author) that helped me get the "GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT" achievement. Doesn't look like he's doing it anymore now, but his guide should still be useful if you can find someone that has the DLC.

5 years ago
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You guys have room for 1 more?

5 years ago
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Sure if we can find someone who doesn't own the game yet who's willing to help out.

5 years ago
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Oh, I thought we already had one of those. Well off to bed then, but at least I took the time to already pre-download the game so I'll be ready if an occasion pops up while I'm not away ^^

5 years ago
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Wow, thanks for the heads up! I haven't bothered with L4D2 in Steam but now I might just need to get on it long enough to do that. :p
Bump.

5 years ago
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I'd strongly advise you to get that one since you weren't able to get it for 4 years and you only have until the end of the weekend to get it.

5 years ago
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Yeah, I had left the game untouched on Steam because the unobtainable achievements really annoyed me but now I can fix that issue!

5 years ago
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Wow thanks! I haven't played the game in forever (and never on this account) so I didn't even know about the achievment nor free weekend. If anyone wants to play some just hit me up and I'll try my best to find some time for it :)

5 years ago
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I would like to get this achievment too! Or help others who need this.

5 years ago
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Have a bump as it is really helpful for achievement hunter. Gladly, I got the achievements back then as I had the game installed anyway and used the free weekend to get versus achievements again the less organised new players :P

5 years ago
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I would like help with this achievement too!

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It's possible to obtain the achievement alone if you play with your main account (it has to own the game) and an alt account (it must not own the game) at the same time (2 PCs side by side). Playing like this is harder but you can get it.

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i have a doubt... will the free player get the achievement too?

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If there's another free player, yes.

5 years ago
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The free player sadly will not get it.

Edit: I suppose what thresher said is possible, haven't tried it yet though.

5 years ago
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People mostly get the 2013 one, because people from that event still play the game. But this achievement is one of most poorly designed ones in history of gaming.

5 years ago
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finally YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

5 years ago
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I'm interested as well, might be available to play it saturday morning or tsunday.

5 years ago
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I'm interested too , i have the game and need someone who can help me to get the achievement... added me

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5 years ago
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who can play with me in 20-25 minites? (game's downloading)

5 years ago
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Damn, I just uninstalled the game... (I didn't even know I had it sitting on the Hard Drive until today.)
Well, time to reinstall it again. XD

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Thanks for advice, I have the game bought in launch and I would like try to get the achievement. EDIT: Got it in a random party :)

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Can someone help me for the achievement?

5 years ago
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now that's an achievement.

Free weekends haven't happened for 4 years, until now

...now that's a rare achievement.

5 years ago
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Thanks mate, I got it today :)

5 years ago
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Are "free weekend players" somehow marked as such? Is there a way to confirm that one of the team members are playing under the free weekend, so you know you have a chance of getting the achievement before actually playing through the whole level?

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As far as I can tell you can't distinguish them. Unless they tell you, you don't really have any way of knowing. Though the whole campaign only takes around 15 minutes on easy difficulty. So not much is lost.

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Alright, thanks.

5 years ago
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one way to tell is watch the chat, there are a bunch of easy achievements people tend to get on their first time playing, it's not perfect but it's something :p

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I wanna do it so badly.Had been stuck on 66 achievements for a long time.Will appreciate the help :))

5 years ago
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I guess why not. I'd like to get the achievement on my main acocunt (this) and I can also throw in my bot account to help you people get the cheevo.

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https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198364956241 I likely can't make wonders, but playing 1-2 hours will work. Weekend is busy.

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