Very good short map that a ton of combines to battle. I like the helicoper isnt hostile at the end for exfil.
https://youtu.be/WEPwvMgzPhY...
Short, just a few combines added in this map so theres kinda a fight in there eh its alright
https://youtu.be/J0--7ac2hiE...
You're welcome, pal! Hope you like the LB Builds Competition, is great and it has plenty of maps to try and enjoy! Hope you like them!...
which is why almost every AAA release nowadays is on PC?...
Hello. My name is Sowee, I am a big fan of the Half-Life game series. I have always been amazed by its atmosphere, gameplay, and community. Also, by the expanses it offers to players. I feel a childlike delight when I think about the initiative of the community and developers of this wonderful universe. However, as I was once again reflecting on Half-Life and wandering through the desolate ruins of City 17, an intrusive idea came to me about a game that took place in the Half-Life universe but w...
Let’s be honest — PC games are the best, but developers shy away from releasing on PC since consoles can showcase their work almost as well, without the piracy risks....
This platform embodies the core idea of a real theme, focusing on the practical use of floating instruments in scientific exploration....
I downloaded the mod from a different place and got instructions to extract the files to the valve directory.
Installed it to HL 1.1.1.0 / 46 Protocol and what is interesting is when I started the intro.bsp map, I was dying in the first scene and then instantly I was in the last map.
So I thought that this is the scenario lol
I didn't understand what happened, then I installed the same mod to my HL 1.0.15 / 39 Protocol version and everything worked well.
Make sure to use older versions ...
Took me 2 days to make playthough this cuz my pc kept freezing when recording too long.
Very nice and interesting maps.
Players should try this to challenge themselves
https://youtu.be/c7oOHE5vMTk...
Nice mod, but Im sorry those controls are the dumbest in the history of HL, why cant just have default HL controls?...
FYI anyone having trouble with changing subtitles to English, simply copy paste text in game folder from Titles_GB.txt to Titles.txt and Texts_GB.txt to Texts.txt....
Very nice map packs. Very good
https://youtu.be/aHQTKcIEaZ8...
Still here and I Check the on this date page with my morning coffee and there are still quite a few servers running HL....
Glad you posted, and you are in the right place. I'm sure you will find a ton of mods to download and play that you have never seen before :)...
awesome...
Hello all, new here, don't know if I'm supposed to do this or not. I've just always been interested in half-life mods, happy to be here....
Pretty great one, most of the maps are fun to play, with the exception of a few. Despite basing the whole challenge on a single HL1 layout map, you'll find a lot of unique entries and highly crafted maps that are really enjoyable and some are marvelous enough to just look at. It's worth your time, don't miss it....
Very good map. Did get me confused of the processing but completed it. I used a new weapon called Jak Caraclysm (AK-50). Very nice
https://youtu.be/zA0NMB44BTs...
Great map. It was a bit short but still nice. I would love to play the second map on Gmod, lemme know on my YT if the map files is not just the bsp map (you know what I mean)
https://youtu.be/ZnVJJqZFAxE...
Just only 2 maps to play. I liked them. Im know they are short but I liked it. The map called War Room is just like a small sandbox map.
As myself a Gmod Artist, I could do a poster of that with my oc in that.
https://youtu.be/aXp8sSwSQa4...
This map was too short and its just killing zombies. Doors can be off putting cuz zombies kept going behind it that it was annoying to get through.
Im not gonna make a video cuz I slightly didn't enjoy it...
I have to mention a Black Mesa mod I just finished which is incredible. Hours of gameplay. It starts out kind of slow, but stay with it.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa-military/downloads/black-mesa-military-full-version-hotfix/#9012712...
Very short but nice. I played this before
https://youtu.be/0cESLVZzb1Y...
Thanks so much for pointing these out to us! As a result, it looks like there is a lot of gameplay ahead that I would have otherwise missed. :)...
Did anyone realize this map was the 3rd place entry on the "Back To The Roots: Lambda Builds" LG competition??
I know it wasn't an RTSL.com initiative, but a Mod DB/Lambda Generation mapping competition.
Anyway, I am currently playing their 4 mapping challenges, and they are pretty cool entries. I recommend that everyone play them; they are available on Mod DB and LG sites....
When I see the update on quake 1 through https://www.slipseer.com/index.php this community is really active for the last years
I'm also a little sad to not see a lot of update on this site but I think the main objective is to keep the site alive and not to add a lot of content (new or older).
I could help a little like a did at the starting of planetphillip but this would be limited to 1-2h a week
I don't know if help is needed or simply wanted and if an internal team could ...
I missed a few maps (like 2 or 3) when my GPU crashed lol but the rest of the maps was amazing.
Great work:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3XeSBHbuM...
Dear Tibor,
I am fun of HL2 for 20 years but found this mode just now. This is one of the best mode I have played! Great new physical ideas, Great job!
Nagyszerű játék, köszönet a munkáért! Üdv!
GordonPym...
Yes I'm concerned because there used to be periodic activity but nothing in awhile. The fact that 20 new people have posted in this Introduce Yourself area since that 2024 date you mentioned proves that HL remains alive and active, because odds are maybe 5-10% at most of new people to the site would actually post.
I don't know of any other FPS games like HL that have add-on maps and mods representing new additional games to play. Perhaps the original FarCry and the original Crysis games, but ...
Honestly, I have to say I have been a Lurker since shortly after Phillip started the original site. Well before RTSL. All I want to say is: I have loved and viewed this site almost weekly till Phillip (Retired) I guess. Today is May 25, 2025 and last official site manager post or update (or reference to a general post) ,that I see is from Jan 27, 2024.
Clearly 16 MONTHS since last note from a site manager.
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Is this site DEAD???
Could some one take over and make it Great again? ( sorry I ...
I loved this map. Had 20 maps tho. I had to used a new weapon that came out and the new difficulty that was released on a new update in Gmod which is called Human Eradication (which means I take 900%+) increase damage. I challenged myself with a DMR but didn't die:)
Worth this map
https://youtu.be/9_X09Z0IK74...
I recommend...
I previously played DefendVille and was great but this one was amazing too. More maps, longer and fun to beat combines.
I only have to miss out 3 maps cuz it crash for me. But still:)
https://youtu.be/dVTUeyUMy9E...
Cute little cozy room. Makes me want to create something like this myself. Thank you for sharing!...
I'm honestly impressed this came out just a year after Half-Life released. It is crude in many ways, and some of the level design is a bit kludgy, but it has some memorable moments. There's some nice interactivity spread throughout the levels, there are some good fights, and the short play time means it doesn't really overstay its welcome. I think it's worth looking at as an example of the very early days of Half-Life modding....
It's alright. Just finding 5 levers and killing combine and zombies.
I just used a shotgun ngl. Its ok
https://studio.youtube.com/video/wrK0uWhofMA/edit...
Played it in co-op with my brother:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9fKdW16fk...
nice post...
A very long campaign which I really enjoyed playing.
https://youtu.be/niOTb2OFPdQ...
I couldn't get this to start. I even went to Moddb and got the source SDK 2013 version, same thing - in that case it started up but there was no menu showing....
Another mitigate experience for me with this map labs, not any great stuff here most of the time short and well balance gameplay arround fightings experience Nothing was really bad but neighter really great
Firegirl and Waterboy by BernieBean
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Playtime: 20 minutes
The gaming idea was cool in a 2D side view make progress in alternative choice between a boy and a girl that both have their ability to resist to fire or water the ...
A very short map that I managed to used only a shotgun. I play this a lot before.
https://youtu.be/9dtwJbhBkS8...
It's a nice mod I played. I like how it long to play cuz it best for content. Very good:)
https://youtu.be/p7TXt2HSVFw...
I'm trying to run the mods hosted on this site on my Steam Deck, but getting them to show up in my Deck's Library (and subsequently running them as intended) seems to be more random and\or finicky then it should be.
Would appreciate being directed to a (hopefully up-to-date) guide. Or just a tip or two....
well, here we are, getting on for almost half-way (see what I did there) through '25...wondering if general chat will get updated to reflect that....
Great map I played. Some maps I already played like weeks or months ago but all good. Like playing them. Very good tho
https://youtu.be/nKx-2-UxIyw...
So the theme looks really relevant and could provide some interesting experience, under other with the visual of snow and ice. I was waiting for something really interesting but it wasn't really, some maps are defenitly worth to play through but you can count them on one hand despite the amount of 19 maps
Memory by Gravity Cat
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Playtime: 5 minutes
more a cutscene that something you need to play trough it was really well...
A very good map played so far. Little puzzle related, so much zombies combat and a little combines. But a little long map which I liked a lot.
High voted
https://youtu.be/R3_WnI9cjUk...
bro wtf was up with the default keybinds? Buddy playing with the arrow keys?
This is a pretty chill hangout spot. The grill, the waterfront, the drunk zombie, just great.
Gets intense real fast. What even is this mod?
Over before you know it. Pretty quick and pretty weird. Though textures and environments were blocky and lazy at times, they created intense combat arenas that were satisfying to complete with a wide array of weapons. I love that there was an opportunity to snipe individua...
Haunting atmosphere. Getting strong shadow temple vibes.
Loved the cathedral-esque architecture. Great lighting, very detailed. Great balance and contrast between the indoor and outdoor sections, along with some in between.
Genuinely difficult headcrab combat!
Combat in general grinds you down. Lots of enemies, lots of overwhelming chaos. Sometimes the best move is to run!
The headcrab mortar scene was incredible. Never really saw the launchers in action in the main games. Just alway...
Very impressive campaign map played that I used my first BO6 weapon for this playthrough.
https://youtu.be/FyO6FcgfoN0...
How much time is required to beat all Half-Life 2 Mods, including Episode I and Episode II in total as an estimation on the difficulty of Easy? So many games are released today I can't believe my eyes. They release too many goddam indie games, too many of them created by bots or even Chat GPT, can you believe it? People are using bots to crate over 10.000 games every year. There's no even time to play them! Videogame indystry is SATURATED like HELL, they are copying and imitating AAA's games to ...
I just got hooked on some BM maps recently, as I just played the fantastic BM Blueshift chapter 5.
And I downloaded some more BM Singleplayer content, and noticed the lack of clear setup instructions for setting up and launching these kinds of maps and mods.
Well, here I'd like to provide some of the basic logic to install and play the Workshop maps.
1) You need to "subscribe" to the workshop content you want to use, or the maps you like to play.
2) The content will download auto...
Love this short campaign that takes place in the oil rig which I havent played for a long time. I did this as a coop with my brother as a playthrough and turns out well. Very great small map.
https://youtu.be/TT0O6KOryH8...
I liked this campaign that I played it in Gmod. So playing it in Gmod may not be recommended cuz the ally becomes a citizen unarmed. So play from the HL2 engine.
Most of the time it's just me fighting them but still good one:)
https://youtu.be/mgxZN5mc3RE...
Pretty fun mappack, most of them are good. I only skipped one which is photosensitive because i didn't know what to do tbh and didn't have the patience to find it. Maybe will check it later again....
It's eh. Average I say. Map is too short. Basically killing Kleiner and just escape. It's too easy to complete tho.
I didn't enjoy it but I just want to play it to use different guns as a playthrough ngl
https://youtu.be/0yO9l3e4Fic
I did complete different maps too tho which took me 14 minutes tho...
This was my longest map that I play this month and was a blast. Dude that last map that you are surrounded by tonnes of Hunters that they could die from it but I lived with a MWII shotgun with a drum mag.
Very well made and was really fun to make a video on
https://youtu.be/0sAS270BQ5o...
Teaming up with the combine is one of the best gameplays I played. I played this before like more than 3 years ago and made into a video. Really enjoyed this short map:)
https://youtu.be/HNlT9_M5wHo...
I love this map more than MiddleVille I played eariler. Really well made. Love it.
https://youtu.be/NUK1QVZR9eU...
Map is not bad. It may be difficult to playthrough and some part can be a bit confusing that I did struggle to get through but managed to for a long period of time.
Decent map but hard to play through
https://youtu.be/fkVniby_TbA...
Love this map that takes place in the prison full of combines. I recommend this. I thought it took place in the original HL2 prison but its way different:)
https://youtu.be/spTxnQczBP4...
Howdy all!
I've lurked on this site for a few years now, and thought I'd finally get around to making an account. I've been enjoying Half-Life since my older siblings introduced me to it as a small child (I might have been as young as 6 or so?). I'm afraid I don't have too much else to say, other than that I'm very happy to join you all here :)
Have a good one!...
yo these random, chaotic corridors kinda break the immersion. As if any sane architect would ideate these claustrophobic concrete mazes.
Tram ride was kinda boring. Valve gave you stuff to look at, not a bunch of long, empty tunnels.
Pretty solid level design. Far more interesting than the tram ride. The zig-zagging corridor maze doesn't make much sense, but it's fun to play through.
Challenging combat that often had me feeling like I didn't have the right weapons for the job. Eventuall...
pretty decent joke mod, short and not that clever...
A lot of combat that I have been experiancing. In like a Nova Proskpect against a ton of combines which I love going against. I challenged myself with an assault rifle with a sniper and a weak pistol. The sniper im using takes long to cycle and reload.
Love the map when saving Alyx:)
https://youtu.be/VQd59Rs3tR8...
Whoops, got cut off a bit there. Here's that last sentence:
"Felt like a highlight reel of the author's best stuff. No filler here, just non-stop intense action. Highly recommended."...
Loved the intro. Fast-paced and intense, puts pressure on the player to M O V E without feeling unfair.
Intuitive mapping and combat. Battles felt high-stakes, but the ambushes were fair and the game gives you plenty of cover to turn back the tables.
That bright office felt liminal and familiar. A silent reprieve from the blaring sirens.
Clever Houndeye use to trap the player. These enemies are often too easy and feel more like killing pets than dangerous aliens, so I can applaud a mod ...
I used to play this map in Gmod before but couldn't find a way to proceed until now. Very nice campaign and I challenged myself to used a Sniper and it was difficult due to lots of combines but lived.
Play this map guys
My playthough here: https://youtu.be/NKYO3YuRr7s...
The Ropes (I never actually knew it was called that until now) is a series of very large and open maps set in the bowels of Black Mesa. In fact, these maps are large to a fault. A lot of the time the NPCs are at such a distance that they won't even notice you. Then, whenever they do spot you and engage, they need to move a considerable distance to enter their attack range. This often means that enemies can be picked off at long range with the glock before they become a concern.
Also, the scal...
This is a large cuboid room, with Xen textures, some enemies and weapons dotted around. It hasn't even been compiled with lighting. I will waste no more time writing about it....
Aggregate Pain is yet another short mod that I remember from back in the day. This one definitely came on a PCGamer CD here in the UK.
This is a short but sweet map pack, not particularly impressive but mostly just a gruntfest in an industrial setting. The opening is pretty cool, where you can wait for the grunt to pass you by and then have a minute or so to get some weapons before he comes back. The rest of the maps are just run and gun against more grunts, as is standard for these kinds of ...
Xen Again very much plays like a map made by somebody just learning the ropes of Half-Life mapping. It features buttons to open doors, NPCs walking to a single computer and pushing a button and a teleporter to "Xen."
As a playable map however, you start with the crowbar and no HEV and have to make your way to a lab area. This is where you can get your suit. Supposedly you can also find a gauss gun, but I managed to miss it and I am considering that a mark against the map.
I then ran throug...
Two Smoking Barrels is one of the older maps I specifically remember NOT finishing as a kid. This is likely because of the level change issue between maps one and two, which sadly still exists here. There are also a couple of other issues I have with TSB which make it JUST fall short of a Personal Favourite rating.
The map starts off well, with a crowbar required to progress from the starting area and an HEV suit available to you before any combat starts. Whi...
Dude that was a long playthrough I did this year currently. Many maps, combine killing, cool levels and more.
(Behind this, took me all evening to play this map, even all of it).
https://youtu.be/BSdlLbYJUT0 (Enjoy the playthrough in Gmod)...
The Evil World is the first Half-Life map from Martin Schultz who according to the readme has released other maps for Quake 2. I would assume based on this map that they may have also dabbled in Quake 1 because that appears to be the DNA that spirals through this entire map pack.
First of all, I know full well what it's like not having access to texture creation tools, especially in the late 90s. The Evil World has an entirely custom texture set and it has to be said that it's a little bizarr...
Exodus 2 has a lot of the same problems as the original and a few new ones. Once again it's clearly an early attempt at Half-Life mapping as things feel a little unbalanced to start with. Right from the get go, you're fighting everything from headcrabs to alien grunts and even the occasional controller. The issue is that all of these enemies have just been crammed into narrow corridors and small rooms, meaning the combat devolves into lobbing grenades blindly around corners or standing in place ...
Urgh, another one I remember and I suspect I only ever beat this using godmode when I was younger. Optimum Fear is an action packed map pack set in incredibly cramped tunnels. Seriously, almost ever room is an exercise in frustration as you get stuck on everything. Perhaps the author wasn't terribly comfortable with scales yet, but every room feels like it would benefit from being two times bigger.
This pack is also prone to several of what I call level design sins. Constantly ambushes the pl...
Now this one is iconic in my eyes. As with many others of these early releases, I played this one when it came on a PCGamer disk. The starting area is burned into my brain and the whole area totally holds up. There is a bit of an issue finding the crowbar at first, but eventually I just kinda tripped over it. The map loses out on being a personal favourite because of my gripe with getting weapons before the HEV suit, but at least there's no significant combat encounters before then. You can actu...
Standard mod, HL classic themed. Short and with basic maps...
Used to play this before that I havent got HL2 EP1 and EP2 mounted but now I finally get to complete this. A very good campaign. Combine battles was one of my favourite tings when killing them:)
https://youtu.be/2Q3svTjnBgk...
Average map. The second map was just nothing when reaching to the top.
it was ok
https://youtu.be/9hyhILdbJyQ...
This map is really really short with small maps. I played it a lot years ago in Gmod so could say players will like this map as a warm up
https://youtu.be/u5TU_K314aQ...
Here's a hot tip for the budding mappers out there in 2025 on-wards. If your player has just done something that is going to lock them into a room and veeerrry slooowwwly kill them? Maybe don't autosave at that point. Just saying.
Exodus is of course, another classic that I recall playing as a youngun. I don't believe I've ever finished it without cheating until today, because as is typical of the time, you start the map in a three way battle with no HEV suit! GAAARGH! I don't know what promp...
The first thing I experienced with "bow" was... an error message. Missing texpack3.wad. I have no such .wad file so I made a dummy file.
The second thing I experienced with "bow" was... another error message. Missing texpack2.wad... One more dummy file later...
The third thing I experience with "bow" was... the level design tutorial level? Sure it's been extended a little and includes an "outdoor" section and some stairs but... this is the map you could make following the guide that came w...
This is very clearly one of the author's early attempts at mapping as it contains almost every beginner mistake that there is. Walls with equal thickness to the walls so you see tons of z-fighting whenever one opens. Buttons on the other side of rooms, or in some cases in totally different rooms leaving you to guess what you actually achieved by pushing them. Breakable and unbreakable crates that are identical in appearance. Putting the player in combat with no HEV suit. It's all here. There is ...
The Silo Station is another relatively simple map with some uninspiring combat against the HECU and some Xen creatures. Once again this is a map pack that does not give you an HEV suit, so you will need to use the give item_suit command if you want to easily switch weapons and keep track of your health and ammo. I don't know why this was so common in these earlier maps. Was it supposed to be part of the challenge because I have to say, you can keep your challenge to yourself.
The fact that th...
So far, this is the first HL1 map ever recorded/released,
7 days after HL1’s official release.
I guess whoever did that, just messed around a bit with Valve editor/hammer to see what happen if you put NPC x versus NPC y.
So « maybe » play it for historical purpose…...
Sooo, Soft Boiled. I don't know how I came to have a copy of this map in my youth, but I can guarantee you two things. First, I had no idea it was called Soft Boiled, running the command "map sb3," I figured it was just called sb3. Second, had I known it was called Soft Boiled, I wouldn't have made the connection to John Woo's Hard Boiled because I'd never heard of it and to this day I've never seen it. Perhaps if I HAD seen it then some of the stuff this map expects me to just know would have b...
If I were to describe Dark Force in a single word, it would be "inconsistent." The environments look great, except when they don't. You can break open crates for weapons and ammo, except when you can't. You are over-equipped and the combat is trivial, until it isn't. It seems that rules which apply in one map do not carry over to the next and this is constant throughout the mod.
It has to be said, that when the environments look good, they really do shine. Some sections have the tell tale sig...
I remember this one, but I never finished it before because it does something I cannot stand. A lot of action and weapon pickups PRIOR to getting the suit. Back in the 90s when I first played this, I didn't know about changing weapons without the HUD, so as soon as I picked up the crowbar, I was doomed.
In spite of that, what we have here is a fairly decent gruntfest through a fairly nonsensical environment. Starting in a prison cell, very cliche in this day and age, you fight through a wareh...
Lounge is, as the name implies, set in a series of corridors that could be considered a lounge. Most of the map consists of a winding series of narrow hallways with the occasional zombie, headcrab and houndeye dotted throughout. At around the midpoint there is something that does look like a lounge, making use of Worldcraft's included prefabs, stretched though they may be. After that are a couple of rooms divided by a destroyed wall and the map ends in a room with a crazy laser beam lightshow. I...
A Brendon Chung classic, who created one of the most interesting Half-Life mods ever.
Bootleg Squadrog tries to give "realistic" experience of a HECU soldier with teamwork and such.
It's short but still worth looking at....
Idk about you but the version that you played seems to be bugged.
In my playthrough, the map had proper skybox and the loadouts worked just fine for me....
This mod really broke me.
It's one of the weirdest, hardest and longest Half-Life mods I've ever played, even surpassing some Half-Life 2 mods in terms of length.
This is a sequel of Assault on Roswell and it had 4 years of development cycle. The result was?
Well, it's better for for the worse.
First off, the mod offers limited saves. Basically, you need something called "save gems" in order to save the game. If you don't have one, you will lose health and if you have health lower than 20, y...
Assault on Roswell is the first ever work of Andy "migandi" Hulatt for Half-Life.
Considering he's a Quake mapper, it reflected to the map work with weird geometry and brushwork.
It also has a rather confusing story, I don't even know what's going on.
Maybe you should play this once and never touch it again.
Also, migandi later released a sequel for this mod, Riot in Progress, and the leap of quality compared to this mod is insane, if you don't mind its flaws....
A very very good campaign that took a long time to play for me cuz I used the weakest Shotgun in Black Op 6 that took for ever to kill the combine lolXD
Still very nice job
https://youtu.be/bt80HFoe9bg...
Virtual Reality: The Real World has managed to pass under my radar all these years. I certainly never played it when it was released, which means it was never featured on any PCGamer CDs back then. This is how I would access most mods and map packs, before we had internet access on all the PCs in the house. I think the primary reason for that is that the whole thing is fairly average.
Now, I'm not saying the mod is bad. On the contrary there are some wonderful ideas in here and every map has ...
Map appears to have vanished from all corners of the internet. Adding this review for the sake of completion on RTSL. :)
Will add a legitimate review should this ever resurface, but we're approaching 20 years now......
While it's definitely a little shorter and benefits a little from custom textures and skyboxes, Conundrum 2 fails to impress much in the same was as the original. Far too often it was necessary to take fall damage, meaning had my health been any lower at certain points within the map pack, I would have been softlocked or forced to cheat.
That being said, I actually WAS forced to cheat when the mod expected me to face off against a gargantua in a tiny space with satchel charges... oh, and 15 h...
Conundrum is certainly the word. I had a feeling I would not like this mod right from the start. It commits every single one of my level design sins. Several times throughout this mod, your means of progression is via a locked door you passed a few minutes ago. However, you might unlock this door by pressing a button on the opposite end of the map, or in some cases, simply walking through a trigger elsewhere in the map. The player guidance is worthless and if you feel you've hit a dead end, you ...
