puzzle maps really made me tired, but other maps were also good, especially memory...
This review contains spoilers.
Sebastian has excellent scenery and ambience, with intense moments, though it isn't that different from Half-life 2: episode 1, it at least felt different enough.
The Strider felt terrifying, stumping through the ancient city, destroying anything in its path.
The flooded parking lot was relaxing yet frightening, and you could still hear the Strider moaning.
The hospital was fun with the Gravity Gun, punting CRT monitors at zombies and searching lookers,...
Trying to download the rar from the link above and get:
can't connect to server files.runthinkshootlive.comfilefront.com...
Again I was deeply disappointed by most of the maps and I believe that these short delevopment time challenges are little more than a lot of wasted potential for both mappers and players! The mayority of levels were just bad, either because they were stupid, unfinished or the mappers still believe that players like to do millimeter exact jumping puzzles all the time. There were some exceptions to the rule showing off that you can do great things with the Source engine, like space battles, space ...
just perfect...
I don't know why I finished it so late but I can say I found it quite good...
nice little map...
[recimage id=4] I found this mod very good, ideal for those who haven't played half life decay, it's very successful...
[recimage id=2] 2/5 I've been playing half life mods for a long time and this is the first time I've come across such long corridors and unnecessary rooms, but the puzzle was fine, but if it weren't for so many unnecessary rooms and wars, my score would be higher....
3/5 v...
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Much appreciated...
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Glad you liked it....
A better quality job than I expected when installing the mod, congratulations...
it's just perfect...
I played all the maps and I found them all good but especially the last map is really long, I gave the others 3 hours likewise but it was productive thx...
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a really perfectly designed map models and I love the map good job...
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a really perfectly designed map models and I love the map...
You did a good job man, I like the gun models very much, I think you will have a success by starting this mod, thank you v...
It's an old mod but perfect for spending time...
Awesome...
[recimage id=4]I'm writing this review very late, but it's better than not writing in guinea. It's a pretty cool mod for this year's halloween. I can say that I like the Mapla designs very much and I did not encounter any problems.
If you're going to download it, this might be the best horror mod you'll ever download.TEXT HERE...
[recimage id=3]I've Finished All of the Maps, I found them all very well, but the ones given the time bothered me, I passed them after a few tries, it's a good compilation, I'm waiting for more.
If you are going to download it, you will have to give this mode at least 3 hours because some maps are very long, it is a good time killing mode, I found it good, but I know you can be challenging.[...
Well, as a whole the concept of this mod was a nice idea, that's for sure. Nevertheless, for me, this is a big Maybe because both puzzles in my opinion are terribly implemented. I had to use noclip twice in this mod and well you know, that just breaks the gameplay immersion, for me that was a big turn down as it ruined the whole gameplay experience, as I got very confused on what to do. You know the 1st puzzle where the explosion blocks up the hall and then the most logical option is to jump ove...
Happy New year everyone, just found this site and i hope to play many mods so here's to hoping....
I'm excited about 2022 as well. I hurt by shoulder bad but thinking I'll be able to fire up the computer and get back to playing....
Spoiler alert: Look for some goodies on the roof tops on the final battle...
Yeah, this was an incredibly frustrating first "jump" that you have to make - apparently when you duck you gain a little bit of height, and that's really the trick you have to use here.
I spent 20 minutes on it and could not make the first jump. Oh well....
At the end battle? I only played this once before and don't specifically remember having a problem there although I vaguely remember it being challenging. I guess I'll see in a couple days!...
I'd just finished playing this for the third time when this post appeared (coincidentally) but my, without posting a spoiler, how you are supposed to finish it when the ammo you obviously need to do that is so sparse. Yes, I cheated or I'd still be playing it now. Be interesting to watch you do that without..(maybe I missed a stash)...
Lots to digest here. I must admit I have no idea what to do in Concrete Mini-lith. I figured out how to move in Rite of Heaven but where to go still has me stumped. I guess I didn't do enough puzzles as a kid!...
I somehow got into a 4 colored corridors in a form of a cross and can't get out of there! Seems like noone making youtube with this map ever got there :-] Any idea what's that?...
Thanks for that! Yes a nice enjoyable one, perhaps too easy when fighting enemies, but quite a long map....
gameplay was a little more on the boring side, but i had a good enough time. the visuals were pretty underwhelming too. overall the map isnt too bad, it could just be improved a bit. i hope to see more from this guy...
I have a fix !
Play HL2 in 4K (3840x2160) without settings menu's & subtitles being too smal
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2713903842...
Here's one worth checking out if you haven't already... Xen Forces-Breath of Xen...it's on MDB...quite enjoyed it...it has subtitles but that doesn't affect anything....
All my projects are currently on hold as I fight a particularly persistent case of COVID, but I've got a bunch of stuff I hope to get (back) into this year. My fingers keep itching to do some mapping again, so I hope to make at least one map this year....
nice...
When will the next part of this map come out? Can't wait to play that too. ^^....
Here's the open issue for this so it seems Valve intend to fix this - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/2510...
Does anyone know how to fix mods ? I can use my Steam Controller with rumble in Half Life 2: Update OK (as long as I update the SDL dll). But Source SDK 2013 mods have no rumble even if the Source SDK sdl dll is updated. Some mods like The Citizen and Dark Interval appear to be missing gamepad support completely (no "exec 360controller"). Also the Steam Overlay does not work with Source SDK mods (it does with some mods that use Half Life 2 not the SDK) - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-s...
Glad you enjoy them!...
Years ago, it used to be that keeping up with playing new add-on games or new games for the PC involved a lot of (enjoyable) time. The dearth of SP FPS maps, mods and even new games sometimes feels like hunting for water in the desert, and my 'search engine' has been pretty useless too! Makes me think if there was a resource that could point specifically to these, or where to get more information, it would be most helpful.
I came across this 10 year old thread here that was a link within 'A...
Thanks so much for your fabulous bm maps that I've been replaying for the x'th time :)...
Looking forward to Operation Black Mesa and there's also Peer Review, the Decay remake, though I'm not sure how far along that is. Would be nice if that little known vapourware The Core materialised and TWHL Source should be interesting though sadly I didn't have the energy/time to contribute as I'd burned out finishing bm_meltdown for Black Mesa.
Am hoping Cyberpunk 2077 gets a lot more updates and fixes as I've been holding off giving it a try until it's in good shape....
For the one looking for a (very) good HL2 mod : have you ever tried Southernmost Combine or What Remains ? ;-)...
hello, im phil. i like to play half life mods, i dont really make any myself, but i screwed around in hammer for some time. i mostly play map labs competitions since they are my favorite. thats about it really :p...
Happy New Year all. I'm hopeful that more chapters in the "Black Mesa: Blue Shift" Workshop mod are released in 2022. So far it is really good!...
There aren't any yet. I've managed to upscale a single font successfully but the rest is not easy. if you scale the fonts then you have to alter their x/y metrics as well for their on screen placement. So if I uniformly upscale them all and start HL2 then there's the menu screen but no text anywhere, lol ! So it's a bigger job than I thought. It means going through hundreds of controls and text and redoing their x/y coordinates. It could be done but I decided that I'd send in a bug report to Val...
Actually can you post here the installations instructions? I could not find them...
On the header, the dark "General Chat" shot is also from Levitation, and the pipes "General Chat" shot is from Operation: Black Mesa....
Starts off quite conservatively so don't let the first coastal section put you off. Then once you start going down those levels into the belly of the beast ... oh s**t ! Maybe I've just not played HL2 for a long time but the difficulty gets quite high. But this is as it should be and if you pay attention then it is forgiving. It's a relief to find no enemy silhouettes here, or tagging, or a million other "assists" that spoil the actual raw business of shooting and fighting ... but this is Half L...
Right. Thanks for that. Maybe Valve will snap out of it and avoid VR. I don't mind VR. If people are into that then that's fine. But when it's forced upon me, "VR only". Especially games I've been loyal to like Medal of Honor and Half Life....
It can be played but not (yet) quite properly. I googled "alyx novr" and there are some results BUT if you go deeply you'll realize that it's complicated and at some point frustrating (e.g. you have to load the maps one by one, when you load a new map you have no more weapons...).
The minimum specs - well... that's another story......
Can Alyx be played properly without VR ?...
"Thanks Michael for mentioning Sniper Contracts, I’d never heard of it. So I bought #1 today and will give it a try."
No problem.
Talking of thin on the ground I've been working on setting up HL2 for full 4K. It's looks great at this resolution. The in game HUD even scales and I think there's been some updates from Valve for their new Steam Deck (I have the HL2 beta set to install). Yet the actual settings GUI is still not scaling and almost unreadable in 4k apart from the game title on ...
This is a work-in-progress shot from Levitation, an upcoming mod for Alyx....
Hi. Anyones knows the Half Life 2 mod name of the screenshot on the tittle?...
I come here almost every day (for many years), hoping for something new for any of the games we cover. I only play single player, never online. Also like Crysis and FarCry maps, but there's almost no action there either for the past few years, and unlike our site, there's no decent place(s) to go to find them. I don't like the latest FarCry games. I liked Chaser, and F.E.A.R 1, 2 & 3 were OK. With the chip shortage and video card prices/lack of availability, some new games may not work well....
Happy New Year ! Somehow found my way back to this site while scratching around for something decent to play. The commercial market is lacking at the moment although there are better signs now Sniper Contracts 1 and 2 have been successful. They're basically hybrid FPS's in competition with Hitman and Snipe Elite. The developer have done a really good job with the Cryengine level design. But apart from that I found myself trawling through possible old FPS games I'd never played only to find I've ...
Well, daily I skip through this site, Discord and MDB in the hope of something decent HL2 being released and daily I'm disappointed, oh well, but you'd have thought somebody would have released something for the festive period.
Sure there's the usual though occaisional tweaks and updates, but nothing new. I'm still amazed that people are working on Doom maps as it happens but not a lot in the source world happening right now, or at least nothing I know about or am able to play. Still, live in ...
Hi there, my name is George and i'm crazy about half-life mods! I loved this series of games since childhood, and when i went through all the official games and addons, i got hooked on mods. I like the mods based on the original trilogy the most, but I also love various mapping challenges like map labs. Also, the ost and the half-life atmosphere prompted me to write my own soundtracks, as well as to mapping....
Marathon - the game that started the first-person shooter gaming revolution on the Apple Macintosh platform. I miss the days when everything was not developed for Windoze...
Game has unique map design, all tho it needs more polishing....
Some of this is really excellent half-life, enjoyed any section that preceded unlocking shortcuts.
But man it does feel a bit unplaytested at parts, and I encountered bugs often that required me to console around them....
Ok, so there are some things to say about this classic one.
Maybe the most important thing to say is that is indeed a classic. I remember I played this one around 2006 or 2007, and maybe it was one of those I played back then when I didn't use to review any mod. So in fact playing this again was like a total fresh restart because I didn't remember many parts of the mod.
The whole concept of the mod is well applied in general as basically, you face a Halloween survival-horror adventure o...
Absolutely nails the Episode 2 feeling in ways that other mods very rarely manage. Believable setpieces, multiple ways to approach certain elements, and overall just pretty.
For the short length of the mod I really liked the pacing. The rather slow exploration at the beginning, looking for supplies in every nook and cranny, then consistently turning up the pace by introducing Antlions and Combine and ending on a rather nice three way assault between you and them.
My only "complaint" is tha...
This is a fun and challenging mod but There is one game braking bug I found that ruined the Experience.
I was playing through this mod when Kate randomly disappeared without a trace, I backtracked all the way to the area with the Scientists in Test tubes and she was nowhere to be found. And because she is necessary to open certain doors, that means that I was softlocked and because Half life 1 has no Chapter select feature I would either have to start the mod from the beginning or noclip thro...
Driving, which was the most excited thing in Half-life 2. This map using a lot of driving sence and pretty much works as a charms, you never felt boring riding with Alyx and a lot of combine let you crash them with the car.
It is also fun to find a new way for you to drive, to avoiding spolier I won't say what was in the map to let you find a new way, but it was creative and easy to understand, a combine of puzzle and driving, with a lot of shooting and bangs....
Dropping by to inform anyone out there wanting to give this a go that this does not work with the Steam version of Blue Shift as of 2021 (even after applying the BS 1.0.0.1 update, be it through the original installer or manually replacing the .dll with the one updated one). It simply gives out an error about a 'funny lump' as loading the first map and results in a CtD. To get it running under Steam, I installed the disc version of Blue Shift, applied the BS 1.0.0.1 update and finally used 'Blue...
awesom...
Hi, I am Jake I like Video Games, and enjoy the Half-Life Series, decided to give this site a go again when I heard about Gauge....
at least include like 10 boxes with health and not 3?
why do you spawn almost in front of a grunt with only a crowbar?
i had to play with cheats because of no health packs!
would probably be better than what i would do because i dont know how to map....
I really liked this map.
At first, you might think that it would be an unremarkable map with puzzles, but in the end it just started chaos and I really liked it.
I recommend this card to everyone, it is not very long....
Smart Decoy is a mod with a good concept and not boring gameplay.
I definitely advise you, it will not be a pity to lose an extra hour....
Finally managed to play (and finish) this one, and for what it's worth, thought I'd throw my thoughts into the ring.
If I could give it a rating, I'd say 'Avoid It!' based solely around the difficulty, because if you thought the opening sections were tough... trust me, you don't want to get to the final part of the mod.
The levels here aren't all that well made, but they are playable once you know what you're doing. The lack of an understandable plot is also forgivable - it's not super imp...
This is a very interesting mappack! And the reason I liked it is because it proved that an interesting concept and some smart design decisions are sometimes better than an insanely good-looking map.
The idea of destroying the gonarch and having the whole mappack being around is handled really well, as that's not the only thing you'll be doing to destroy it. The maps are fun to explore and the enemies are finely placed. My only issue was that I was really confused at the beginning, since every...
Hello everyone, I’m Gongnad
I have played half life for awhile and wanted to mess around with map making and level design for me and my friends was hoping to learn that.
from the east coast USA...
Where can I get Half-life 2: Home for free?...
Sure, 100% disc, 100% paintings too....
Will this be a 100% disc playthrough?...
I just finished playing Visitors a month or so ago. I also posted an updated review. It's worth playing. Many of the jump and crouch puzzles are very hard but do able....
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This is mini review on "HOME." map by CW3K. I've seen how many streamers and youtubers have played this map and they all ended it completely wrong! I recorded a video with the true ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vs7RfBfX-M...
So i just wanted to write a quick comment on this mod. It was a very very, well made mode. One of the best i've played recently. The atmosphere and the models and just everything about it was great. It gave me really HL2 Beta vibes and i loved that. If you've been in search for a mod recently, then i highly suggest this one! i'm excited for anything you have planned in the future!...
Can anybody upload the very very latest version 2.05? And if possible the previous version 2.01?...
So,that is cool)))).I enjoy playing mods and maps on hl2.Abdulhamid Cayirli AKA Crowbar your map
"Fog of far" is good.So,fog atmosphere attracted me.Continue do maps.And i have the question:
where did you learn how do levels and how do levels in VHE.I live in Russia and,unfotunately a lot of resources are in USA and the Western countries.I am 15 years old and i would learn do levels.Yes,i know that i am crasy but hl2,episides and maps,mods have mesmerised me)))))0...
Overall a decent pack, I’m not generally a huge fan of horror maps but I managed to get through this one. Giving it the Play It Now rating pretty much purely for What Remains, with HOME. and DIVE182 runners up in my book.
I feel like a recurring criticism of these maps (as you’ll see) is that they missed the mark on “horror”. Some of these would have been fantastic for other themes, but a zombie and a blood splatter does not a horror map make.
I do like that most of the maps sent y...
Looks really good. But like a lot of the others I felt it could have used a little more combat. The end seemed anti-climactic. I was waiting and looking around for the combine or some sort of boss but it never came. Little tweaking and it could be great. Still will be a part of my regular rotation. Give it a go....
The Gravity Gun is a tribute to the Half-Life franchise and thus not canon to be in Aperture Laboratories. However, I do like to note something about what may be in the Borealis. In Portal 1, there is a section where we can see the ship itself. However, we also see something being carried to it, which is a rack full of Aperture Science Explosive Spheres (which are the core-looking objects with that ominous glowing red "eye" that can be seen in the ending of Portal 1 when we see the cake). So wha...
Certainly hit and miss (still more hits than misses). One thing that I found remarkable was its ability to emulate Valve's design philosophies at times. Not that feeling legit or official adds value to a work -after all that's not why one would play mods- but for whoever just beat Episode 2 for the 20th time and needs something else this is here. Was fatigued with it by the end but that last bit was rad...
HL1 mods are no longer playable on Linux. Any suggestions???...
There is actually a full version of Solo Mission currently being developed. This is just a short demo...
Ack, i meant that he had mod for Source engine too... Pumpkin Night Redux. I gotta find Swiss again....
Hec - Beast - 2 months ago
Great little map pack.
Reminded me a lot of the very awesome entries of The Project Quantum Leap 1&2.
Here the whole puzzle dynamic is greatly achieved. And the goal of killing Big Momma is just neat.
The escape has some intense combat, beware to hit the fuses if you don't want a swarm of Vorties striking on You!!!
A solid Play it Now....
Well, this was wow! Just wow!!
I mean, I am not a quite Doom fan, and to be honest, I've never played such an FPS gaming classic, but after playing this I would definitely try it!
But well what can I say on this one, the map and the mixed styles were awesome and perfectly balanced, like Half-Doom or Doom-Half IDK, it's a shame this cool and well-polished project just had to stay as a little bit sweet demo.
I hope the author gets the courage to make a full mod out of it. That would be...
Up there with the best of the best. Definitely my favorite Black Mesa mod so far. Really creative level layouts that break out of the classic philosophies that tend to govern shooters. The final boss fight is one of the best I've seen in any game in general. Scientists in HEV suits are great, classical music is great, waifus are great. A must play....
The level design is borderline industry-tier. One of the coolest things this mod does is a parkour section where you sort of see the pattern from the ground but aren't sure if it's possible to pull it off. Once you're up there you figure things out as you go. Also, the trap at the end is some godly trolling (it doesn't matter if I spoil it here, you'll fall for it anyways). Loved it, hard recommend....
I really loved the openness and ambiguity of the first area. The shootout is rad but I would've liked for there to be more mobility than just cowering behind a door. Really fun 30-minute experience....
