Awakening - Half-Life 2

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1. planetphillip 18th May 2007 at 15:00 1

   This looks like a cool mod and hopefully I’ll get time to play it this weekend.

   FYI, the file size is smaller than the other mirrors because I use maximum compression. I also checked the MD5 checksum against my local copy and it matched.

   That’s to CubeDude and Mert for emailing me about this mod.
2. Memobot 18th May 2007 at 20:18 2

   !!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

   I’ve played this mod up to where to have to stop at a Combine roadblock.
   The level design so far is very impressive, along with the reskins of the arms and the humans in camo gear.
   There are only a couple of thing bothering me so far:
   -Why can’t you pick up a shotgun?
   -The voice acting acting at the beginning between Barney and Kleiner was awful, but Mossman was quite good.
   -Where did G-man come from?
   Hopefully the final question will be answered when I continue playing further.
   Overall so far 4/5.
3. andyb 18th May 2007 at 20:32 3

   You get the shotgun later on.No real storyline to answer any questions.I had one crash early on in the game,other than that it was a very good mod with great detail.It is very hard at times as there is nothing to really point out what your supposed to do and lots of enemies.The citadel I found hard because I couldn’t find the ladder.Mabye my gamma is to low I’ll have to check.3.5/5
4. Matt Glanville 19th May 2007 at 18:57 4

   I’ll just copy and paste what I wrote on ModDB:

   I found this mod pretty darn good with regards to level design, use of triggers and combat situation, etc. However there were some fundamental flaws which really prevented it from being excellent.

   - Some areas were poorly designed for combat, particularly the one early on where you have to escape the base. As soon as you exit into the snow field you have no cover and its easy to get mown down before you can open the gate.
   - Several times I found myself completely stuck without a clue what to do next. For example, waiting for the teleporter to blow a hole in the wall in the Citadel. I’m still not sure what I was doing. Did I have to kill all the soldiers? Was it on a timer?
   - What was the point of obtaining the Super Gravity Gun if the game ended pretty much immediately afterwards?
   - There was a problem with the dropships after defeating the gunship. One of them just hovered there and kept shooting me which made things pretty tough, the other one didn’t unload its troops properly.
   - The game crashed in the last room, but that might just be my computer…?
   - As Tiparow said, the story was a bit redundant. Why did Mossman still tell you to deliver the gravity gun if you had already rendered this objective pointless with a single line of dialogue at the start? Also I know the G-man is meant to be enigmatic but that was just downright non-sensical. He told me nothing about the plot at all, not even hints. Finally, I felt that Breen’s presence was illogical too. He’s not the sort of man to go running into the battle (he’d probably just stay in his office and speak over the monitors) and shouting “No no no!!” just made him seem like a spoilt little girl.

   I don’t mean to destroy all your hard work because a lot of the mod was very well done. I particularly liked the snowy areas, especially the area with the gunship and the bridge after it. It got the atmosphere of the area excellently. Perhaps a few bug fixes and modifications wouldn’t go amiss?

   I’d rate this 7/10.

   —

   Oh I forgot to say…
   I did really like the effects of the portals, particularly the one that opens in the zombie base. Nice touch!
5. Memobot 20th May 2007 at 11:55 5

   There’s an easter egg in te zombie base.
   In the underground area, in the room where you first see one of the hanging missiles, smash apart the wall past the elevator (a zombie should be on the floor there).
6. Senator33 20th May 2007 at 18:46 6

   Usually play all HL2 levels in -dxlevel 70, because of weak graphics card crashes. Have never had a problem doing that until now.

   Even though I use the -dxlevel 70 instruction in the HL2 game parameters, this mod defaults to Directx 9 and I get frequent crashes.

   How do I remove the default?
7. Dr J 21st May 2007 at 08:30 7

   Crazy hard, not enough ammo, grenades or power-ups. No access to console? Why?

   I started at Normal and dropped down to Easy when I saw what I was in for, but it didn’t help a whole lot. The player needs more ammo, a LOT more health & batteries, and a few less enemies. you might want to spread out the encounters some, and add some COVER as well! I went thru the gates withteh buggy and battled, no power-ups afterwards. I battled at the road block at the tunnel, no power-ups afterwards. Drop shop dumps troops on me, I dunno if there were power-ups, ‘cuz I died and quit.

   Cue the E-thugs telling me I suck. . .frankly, it doesn’t matter if I suck. A lot of people DO suck, and there should be a ’suck’ setting. FTR, I cruised thru HL2 in normal, and I have a top-100 weapon rank and a top-1000 class rank as a footsoldier in BF2. I’m not new to FPS’s. The weapons given early on are inaccurate, and inadequate for the number of enemies you face. I gotta use near half a clip per enemy with the machine gun at close range. If you have to face ten or more enemies in a row like that, everything gets to be in short supply: health, battery power, bullets.

   It looked good visually. The voice acting for the men in the beginning was weak, but without access to the actual voice-actors, that’s always going to suffer to some degree.

   I wish it wasn’t designed as such a gauntlet for the L33t. You put in a lot of hard work, a lot of thought and effort, but as it is, I’ll never get to see more of it. Dude, I wanted to play it and explore the levels, but it’s designed like you didn’t want me to.
8. Goddess Alyria 21st May 2007 at 08:40 8
   

   I really enjoyed this overall so I’ll just post my cons & pros & yes, they have spoilers. I’m going to reverse it because too many people read the cons last & they usually stick in the mind more than the pros. Also, I thought this mod was challenging AND fun so I don’t want my last words to take away from anybody wanting to play it. I don’t think it right or fair to state that a mod or map just simply shouldn’t be played unless it’s known to cause serious errors or crashes. Every person is unique and will take away something different from their experience regardless; whether it’s a texture or a model, maybe a directorial view, layout, etc.

   Cons:
   -A few game crashes
   -The story was weak
   -The voice acting was completely terrible.
   -The crane was very tempting & I was a bit disheartened that it was of no use at all.
   -In one area, you’re being sniped at from various places that make absolutely no sense. It just looks like the blue lasers would randomly appear from nowhere all around.
   -I was even more disheartened at the end with the energized gravity gun and not being able to use it.
   -I felt it just ended quite abruptly which was disappointing.

   Pros:
   -I thought it had great level design - the design inside the citadel right until the end was great.
   -I never felt as if I didn’t know what to do & thought it was pretty straight forward.
   -I also enjoyed the snow bits but found I missed the way in Half Life when you had snow bits, it was actually slippery in some places.
   -As for there not being enough cover in the first areas outside, I disagree. There was enough to make it challenging but not easy. I always try to remember that your vehicle is a weapon too (with or without a mounted gun), so try mowing them down before they do it to you then take cover quickly & pick off the rest.
   -Enemy action was very good, I thought & challenging.
   -The portal looked good & I wish there would have been more of them.
   -There’s a bit of everything covered except for a boat ride, vorts, Alyx & a gang to tend to (thank goodness!).
9. planetphillip 21st May 2007 at 09:12 9

   planetphillip Said:

   Cue the E-thugs telling me I suck.

   There are no e-thugs on PP. If there are their comments are quickly edited.

   planetphillip Said:

   and there should be a ’suck’ setting

   I suck too. I also agree that there should be a suck setting!

   Goddess, I like the addition of the Pros and Cons.
10. Manual_Monaro 21st May 2007 at 10:14 10

    Hey, this looks really great!

    I remember seeing a tiny website promoting this ages ago. Never thought it went anywhere. Guess I was wrong!

    Try, I shall! (Though I’m afraid of what everyone’s saying about a weak storyline and bad voice acting… I guess I’ll have to find out for myself!)
11. SPY 21st May 2007 at 14:01 11

    i totaly agree with Goddess comment, i loved it, and haven’t played it through yet, am playing the last level now. i was surrpiced to see that the sniper laser came through a wall, you couldn’t see the sniper. i gess you placed him like this so you can’t kill him. because as you know you only can kill the sniper through a grenate or explosion. and i was very surpriced to see right at the start (where gman speaks) aconosle model with wires on it, who wheren’t atached to nothing. they hang in mid air. i know it’s a original HL2 model, but you should have turned it around or placed it somewhere else, so the wries would look as if they where atached to the wall or something. about no having enough ammo, or hiding places, that’s simply not ture. ok, when you drive outside like crazy without first looking, yep, then your in trouble. first look, then fight, and when you get hurt, pull back. but i gess that because so many people play mp so much, that they are used to just running around while they shoot like crazy. that works in mp, but not in sp mode. a much heart mistake, i think.

    well done, i give this mod a 8,5 from 10!!

    leon (SPY-maps)
12. dufferx 21st May 2007 at 16:20 12

    I crashed several times in the last level and just gave up. I agree its a good mod, but the action was not well thought out. I ended up in god mode and just concentrated on getting on moving on.
13. Bluestrike 21st May 2007 at 19:11 13

    Looks like I misjudged the difficulty alot.
    (and the testers must all have played on easy :P)

    I’m considering releasing a tuned version with less enemies and the magnum added, as well as other fixes and tweaks where possible.

    I see the sniper got mentioned here and looks like its not working like its suposed to,
    It should only shoot at you when you are near the roadblock that forces you to go trough that base and not try to climb over the roadblock.

    Its shooting you guys when inside the base?
14. Goddess Alyria 21st May 2007 at 21:19 14

    I don’t think you can climb over the roadblock & the sniper shoots at you at the roadblock & along the perimeter of the base (fence) until you get cover from the building.
15. SPY 21st May 2007 at 22:06 15

    i don’t have any troubles with the amount of enemies like i said before, but i like good action, and it’s well balanced in this mod!
    to be honnist, i think it’s even to easy in the citadel at the end, on every platform you find one or more station of health and suit chargers. most of the times i didn’t need them at all, and was even surpriced to find them again so soon.
    this just shows you how much different oppinions you can get. it’s nearly impossible to make a mod that will please everyone. so please don’t start changing things, unless nearly everyone says the same. but just because some say things, don’t rebuild on that, (is my humbel opinion).

    there was one problem with it, that i had. let me start saying that i don’t like puzzels in games, and i am bad in solving them. i couldn’t find a solution to how to open that gate, so i could drive on. i mean the gate near that wooden building and the bridge. you see a wire going from the gate to that wooden building, and inside you find a button that is placed behind a combine (blue light)fence. all over the floor there where laying around wooden planks, so i tried to place them on the concrete wall pices that are stacked there. maybe that would give me access over the combine fence to the button. but i couldn’t get to it, so i just walked on. because you can go a bit back and then climb the mountain. it’s clear that you only clipped around the gate. or was this all ment to be like this, so you can’t take the jeep with you any firther?

    leon
16. Matt Glanville 21st May 2007 at 22:42 16

    Yeah I had difficulty figuring that out too. In the end I noclipped through the barrier and turned off the gate.
17. Goddess Alyria 21st May 2007 at 23:59 17

    Hmmm, okay. This is what I did. I jumped into the bed of the truck, then onto the ‘top’ of the concrete slabs, and then hop over the barrier. Try that!
18. MikeS 22nd May 2007 at 02:36 18

    I was able to turn off the forcefield mentioned in comments 15-18, but when I came out, my jeep had disappeared. Is this a bug?

    And can I continue without the jeep?

    Note to self: next time, check you the handbrake before you leave it.
19. geekofalltrades 22nd May 2007 at 04:13 19

    I thought this was a very enjoyable mod overall. The only real trouble I had was in the citadel, where that teleporter blew a hole in the wall. From what I gather, that explosion is triggered by climbing up the front of the teleporter, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I ended up turning on god mode and wandering around in that area for several minutes before figuring out where to go to proceed.

    Contrary to what many have said, I didn’t find the combat all that difficult, but nor was it too easy. I will probably play the mod through again this next weekend and try out some different things. The quarry looks to me like it has the potential to be a very exciting combat area; in my first playthrough, I just hunkered down in the building and picked off the troops as they packed through the door.

    My favorite section of the game was probably the Kilo Base. I’ve always been a hall-crawling fan, and the base was done exceptionally well. I especially appreciate that it wasn’t too dark; this is a problem that I tend to see in fan-made hall crawling levels. The way the different parts of the level tied together (seeing through the room in the very beginning, ending up on the other side of the burning truck) was also very gratifying.

    I agree with what others have said on the super gravity gun: that thing is fun to use, and it was dissapointing to get it at the very end of the game, with nary an enemy to unleash it on. Overall, however, a very enjoyable mod, and well worth the download.
20. Goddess Alyria 22nd May 2007 at 06:18 20

    MikeS Said:

    I was able to turn off the forcefield mentioned in comments 15-18, but when I came out, my jeep had disappeared. Is this a bug?

    I don’t know if I would call it a bug. Laws of gravity become in affect & if you don’t use the handbrake or park it on something remotely flat, the buggy will roll backwards down the slope into the water. Once in the water, it won’t budge when you get in it plus you risk drowning. You could try your masterful arts with the gravity gun but again, risk drowning. Anyway, the same thing happened to me first time, so don’t feel bad.

    You can continue without the buggy.
21. andyb 22nd May 2007 at 07:59 21

    That raises an interesting point that could be a poll(do you want it to stop or roll like real life).In most mods the buggy stops and locks as soon as you leave it.But I do remember in HL2 expansion 1 I think it would roll away from ya.I could be wrong on the dates etc but I do recall that.
22. SPY 22nd May 2007 at 09:44 22

    about that laser that shoots that hole in the wall, in the citadel. many of you seem to have it triggered without knowing how. there is beside this laser a combine console, with on it a button, press that and the laser shoots the hole in the wall.
    think you guys just walked by it, pressing ” use’ at the same time.

    leon

    (seems the maker of this mod doesn’t look at these comments, i don’t see any comment of himself. so i will tell him about these comments.)
23. SPY 22nd May 2007 at 09:44 23

    forget what i last said, see Bluestrike does comment also.

    leon
24. Matt Glanville 22nd May 2007 at 13:02 24

    Actually my post on ModDB mentioned triggering the portal machine. Apparently it blows the hole in the wall when you’ve killed the troops (including 3 out of 4 of the elite soldiers on the top level). I found these guys pretty difficult to kill. You basically NEED to use the pistol because it’s the only weapon accurate enough to hit them at that distance with that much cover.

    I can’t believe I didn’t figure out the jeep/gate thing. It didn’t even occur to me to try and get OVER the barrier. I just assumed it had to be deactivated but couldn’t figure out how. Perhaps because HL2 already established the pattern of deactivating Combine force fields?
25. MikeS 22nd May 2007 at 17:41 25

    Goddess Alyria Said:

    MikeS Said:

    I was able to turn off the forcefield mentioned in comments 15-18, but when I came out, my jeep had disappeared. Is this a bug?

    I don’t know if I would call it a bug. Laws of gravity become in affect & if you don’t use the handbrake or park it on something remotely flat, the buggy will roll backwards down the slope into the water. Once in the water, it won’t budge when you get in it plus you risk drowning. You could try your masterful arts with the gravity gun but again, risk drowning. Anyway, the same thing happened to me first time, so don’t feel bad.

    You can continue without the buggy.

    So my buggy really did roll away into the water!? I’d swear I left it facing the fence but…I’ve searched all over the place so I guess it’s in the drink.

    Hmm, I’ll go forward without it then, and hope there’s plenty of ammo lying around. I’ve been relying on the buggy’s unlimited supply of machine gun ammo to get me this far.
26. andyb 22nd May 2007 at 17:59 26

    To turn off the force field use the gravgun and pick up a plank from the floor and make a ramp.climb up the ramp and jump over.
27. Goddess Alyria 22nd May 2007 at 18:16 27

    Good solution andyb. That would work too (although I have trouble stacking or propping anything with the gravity gun!).
28. Bluestrike 22nd May 2007 at 20:57 28

    I think the buggy gets blown away by the dropship, thats the only explanation I can about right now, even tough I tested what would hapen if people took the front gate and left the buggy in the dropship’s dropzone.

    The buggy should stop moving a bit after you exit it or at least I saw that behavior on my end.

    The wood planks is a pretty anoying way to get on top of the granite stacks inside the barn, the physics engine seems to like to push it forward, the easyest way is to use a barrel thats standing upright.
    I didn’t even know you could use the truck and jump from stack to stack lol
29. Goddess Alyria 22nd May 2007 at 21:11 29

    Hey, we’re a crafty lot Bluestrike. Never underestimate our powers! The buggy probably would stop if it’s on a more level ground, but if you get out of it going uphill & don’t use the handbrake, it will roll down into the water.
30. planetphillip 22nd May 2007 at 21:15 30

    planetphillip Said:

    I didn’t even know you could use the truck and jump from stack to stack lol

    planetphillip Said:

    Hey, we’re a crafty lot Bluestrike. Never underestimate our powers!

    Two perfect reasons for developers to submit their mods to the PlanetPhillip Beta Testing Team for thorough scrutiny!
31. NoBob 22nd May 2007 at 22:27 31

    Am playing through it now. I also wanted to mention the disappearing buggy. Happened to me twice. The first time it disappeared from where I left it near the entrance to the concrete underpass by the water, where you take on the drop ship, and I had to replay through. The second time I searched around for it, and found it had rolled backed into the sea inlet. Couldn’t get the damn thing out. Next time I came to that part I parked it better.

    So, my preference is for it to stay where I leave it. I reckon the game designer should assume we’re all good drivers, ie we put the handbrake on, and not bad ones

    But overall, am enjoying playing the mod. Although there’s not always enough ammo around, there’re always loading palettes, drums, bricks, circular saw blades and other stuff lying around that you can grab with the grav gun. IMO, not having enough health and ammo makes you think more carefully about how to plan your fights. When you exit the first tunnel in the buggy, knock down the sentry and all the combine in the buggy, then jump out to take out the two on the gate platforms.
32. AI 22nd May 2007 at 23:33 32

    Everything has been going rather well, I think I died only 50 or 60 times so far, but when I got to the map “Antlion Infestation” and met up with my little buddies in the tunnel the game “crashed” not once but 3 times, maybe I got the graphics set to high? Anyone else had the problem at this spot?? I would like to finish this one.
33. andyb 23rd May 2007 at 01:09 33

    It gets pretty intense at times that will make a vid card crash the game.I only had one crash early on but I did think it came close a few times.

    Bluestrike: I have no problem using the planks.I hate jumping on stuff like boxes and barrels but I did try the barrels and ended up knocking them both on thier sides and thats a pain to get them upright again.
34. Chianti 23rd May 2007 at 06:50 34

    The first time I tried playing this mod after installing it, Steam automatically began downloading/installing Source SDK Base. I’m 100% sure I didn’t specifically request that component (nor do I really know what it is or what it’s for).

    Is this normal?
35. Goddess Alyria 23rd May 2007 at 07:39 35

    You may not have specified it, but there’s a tag from the author that states:

    “Extract the zip file to your steam/steamapps/sourcemods folder. Restart steam. Sourcesdk-base is required to play and only availeble to Half-Life2 owners. Sourcesdk-base will autoinstall from steam if you don’t have it yet when trying to play the mod.”

    I use winrar to unpack my files so this shows up in a side “pane” and it’s the first time I’ve ever seen any text there. There’s no readme included that states this and I don’t know if winzip displays that text. Ah, if you right click on the zip file, select “Properties”, then you should see a tab that says “Comment” which has that text in it.

    As for what is Source SDK, wikipedia says:

    “The Source SDK (or Source software development kit) is a collection of tools compiled by Valve Software that is used to create levels or full-on Half-Life 2 modifications (or mods). It can also be used by developers to create a new game using the Source game engine.”

    Now, if you’re like me and challenged in such areas, then that explanation makes it as clear as mud.
36. Senator33 23rd May 2007 at 15:52 36

    Senator33 Said:

    Usually play all HL2 levels in -dxlevel 70, because of weak graphics card crashes. Have never had a problem doing that until now.

    Even though I use the -dxlevel 70 instruction in the HL2 game parameters, this mod defaults to Directx 9 and I get frequent crashes.

    How do I remove the default?

    Bluestrike kindly gave me a solution to this problem. Thanks!!!
37. AI 23rd May 2007 at 18:46 37

    As I mentioned in #32, the crashes in the last level was an easy fix. I restarted the last level (new game) cut my AF & AA down a bit in the graphics and no crashes! I didn’t care for G-Man’s voice at the end tho. Thanks BlueStrike for a nice mod!
38. NoBob 24th May 2007 at 03:17 38

    Would someone mind letting me know where I go after pressing the button to start up the machines in the first cave in Antlion Infestations, please? Have killed the antlions and am running around playing catch with those rolling mines, and knocking out the occasional manhack, but can’t figure out where the exit is.
39. andyb 24th May 2007 at 04:43 39

    follow your way back to where the bridge is broke.go down to the bottom then climb up the pipe thats on a angle
40. Anonymous 24th May 2007 at 04:54 40

    and walk up and along it towards the yellow-tinted glassed-in walkway running along the far wall? I went up to it, tried to break the glass, climbed around under it…I know I must be missing something, but what?
41. Goddess Alyria 24th May 2007 at 05:25 41

    There’s a metal walkway on top of the pipes. Go to the very end of the walkway to the last panel of glass. Either it’s already broken or you can break it and enter.
42. slappy 24th May 2007 at 21:18 42

    I’m loving this mod, phantom sniper and all ;). Bravo Bluestrike!

    **possible spoilers!**

    But I’m truly stumped, and need help. In the Citadel level, where Striders are being lifted via elevator to the upper levels.

    I’m in a hallway (look at the photo “med-awakening-10″ above) with a health and armor charger on the railing and a barrier in front of me. I see a switch on the railing beyond the barrier but I’ll be darned if I can get past the barrier.

    Can anyone help? Thanks!
43. NoBob 24th May 2007 at 21:58 43

    Thanks Goddess Alyria and andyb. Mmm, that’s strange. I went to that same window before and tried breaking it with the crowbar. Just went back in and there’s no window there at all!

    Hi slappy, if the blue energy field barrier is still up, you press the button just to your right to deactivate it (after grabbing and throwing the sentries with the grav gun to knock them out). Then move on through and into the corridor beyond.
44. slappy 25th May 2007 at 22:44 44

    Hiya NoBob,

    I think what happened was when I entered the hallway, the first force field stayed up, preventing me from getting to the switch.

    I restarted the level and it went fine.

    Thanks for the assist!
45. Bent Bobb 26th May 2007 at 01:42 45

    Comments from an old ****….
    I loved this mod. It has to be one of the best (and most enjoyable) mods I’ve played in months. I ALWAYS play on ‘difficult’ and found the balance to be challenging without being frustratingly difficult.
    I really enjoyed the atmosphere created by the snowy hills and mountains. It even felt cold…brrrr! Things worked as they should have, and I had no problem progressing through the game. I would have liked more ammo; I found myself running back to the crate of rockets quite often (I REALLY like blasting combine with the rocket launcher!)
    I was quite impressed with the rock slab quarry. Someone put a lot of thought and research into that. It’s refreshing to see originality.
    I hope this team does more. They’ll have fans waiting for their work.
46. Chianti 26th May 2007 at 05:29 46

    Things worked as they should have? Your luck must be better than mine. I got as far as the part with the crane and the red barn-looking building that has a “Z” on it.

    At that spot, I killed all the Combine (no small feat, given that my best weapon was that pathetic machine gun), then came out to find…no buggy! I found it at the bottom of the icy river. Getting it out with the gravity gun was…interesting. Good thing there are serious clipping issues with that big boat that would have otherwise been in the way, or I’d have never been able to get it out.

    I’m also stuck at this point. I can’t find a way to get past that force field in the “barn” to unblock the road.

    I’m glad third-party mods aren’t representative of how games are shipped. If they were, I’d have stopped playing them a long time ago. It’s just too problematic and frustrating.
47. NoBob 26th May 2007 at 12:57 47

    You did well to get the buggy out of the icy water!

    Getting over the force field in the red barn, Chianti, is mentioned earlier on this thread:

    Either use the gravity gun to pick up the wooden plank lying on the floor and make a ramp out it to climb over the force field, or, do it the way I did it, and jump onto the back of the old truck and from there jump from one concrete partition wall to the other and then hop over the force field.
48. Chianti 26th May 2007 at 17:08 48

    Thank you very much, NoBob. It wasn’t until after I had posted that I took the time to review some of the other comments here. I now see that all of my issues had already been encountered by other users.

    It seems every map/mod I try requires me to hunt down explanations, walkthroughs, and verifications for “Is this supposed to happen?” types of things. Frustrating.

    My opinion is that you shouldn’t have to worry about things like the buggy rolling away. Some people claim it’s good because it adds realism, but that makes no sense to me. Not much about the game itself is realistic to begin with–the way you can somehow carry all those weapons and supplies, the way you magically return yourself to health by touching some sort of first-aid kit, and especially the way you can take a barrage of bullets without dying (especially with an exposed head!).
49. AI 26th May 2007 at 17:24 49

    That’s why it’s called a GAME!

    It seems every map/mod I try requires me to hunt down explanations, walkthroughs, and verifications for “Is this supposed to happen?” types of things. Frustrating.

    Yes! Almost like real life, frustrating, at times. In these games, you can get away with these things, in real life “you got to be quick on the trigger, and one step ahead”
50. SPY 27th May 2007 at 12:02 50

    i’m sorry to say this Chianti, but i think it’s unfair to comapir mods/mappacks to orginal games. those are made with a team of 50 man or more in severel years, (ok, they have invent and make all the things that a modder simply can use). but i think you understand what i’m trying to say. we modders make these mods without getting payed for it, it’s all free and just for fun. and again, original levels are made sometimes in months.

    leon
51. Stef 29th May 2007 at 22:40 51

    I like it so far even if in most of the 3 first map it run quite slow on my machine (processor 3,4 Ghz, GeF660Le 128 Mb and 1532 ko Ram,certainly due to my setting that are standard and never changed)

    It’s my time to come for help…I’m stuck were the submarine are I have turn arround went to the one in the hall without no water there is a room i cannot access with 3 zombies and when i come out the next way seems to be blocked by some burning truck and building…

    And looking to the site I fell kind of happy to find that the author is from Belgium…He is certainly from the same quality in mapping As EraserX known for some great DM map and also Cased closed for HL1

    BTW Phillip you can notice that there is a official site for this mod (the one you author info link to) and a more general one from the same author at http://www.bluestrike.be
52. NoBob 29th May 2007 at 23:37 52

    Stef, I got stuck there, too. You need to walk up to the door to the room with the three zombies in it and push it. It didn’t work for me when I first tried, but on the second attempt it opened. Keep pushing and Ctrl E-ing.
53. Stef 31st May 2007 at 11:58 53
    

    thank you NoBob, I retryt and it worked.

    I have finish this really interesting mod in arround 2 hours I like it defenetly even if the ending look a little abrupt but the preview part in an alien style design really was great, like most of this release, it was already mentioned before but we can complain a little about voice acting that wasn’t always perfectly audible texture design and gameplay (even if hard in some spot) was enjoyable.

    this is certainly the LOTM…recommanded
54. andyb 31st May 2007 at 22:32 54

    Version 1.1 fixes:

    Ok this is the final version of this mod.
    Maybe I make something better for HL3, who knows.

    Anyway bugfixes in this release:
    - Fixed frequent crashes in the last level.
    - Fixed people getting stuck in the teleport room because they shot
    the scanner.
    - Adjusted ending a littlebit so there is a visual cause for the collapse.
    - Adjusted difficulty:
    * Added the magnum weapon.
    * Hard is no longer impossible.
    * Easy is now a walk in the park.
    * Moved around enemy placement in some locations and reduced
    the number of enemy’s.
    * Moved some supplies around, added extra supplies as well.
    - Fixed some stuck issues in the last level.
    - Added prop models to level 4. (citadell basement)
    - Varioes small tweaks.
55. SPY 1st June 2007 at 00:40 55

    a real shame you made it less hard, but that’s just my personal opinion.

    leon
56. grimjoe 1st June 2007 at 00:45 56

    will there be a patch for this? It’s a shame to have to download such a huge file again
57. planetphillip 1st June 2007 at 01:06 57

    planetphillip Said:

    will there be a patch for this?

    Good Question.
58. planetphillip 1st June 2007 at 13:50 58

    The .rar 1.1 version is now available from Filecloud, please see the Basic Details for the link.
59. Senator33 2nd June 2007 at 16:35 59

    Outstanding. The intro movie and the citadel are a visual feast.

    Action feels balanced on normal play…and can’t wait to play it again today on “hard”.

    Had a previous DX7 problem with 1.0. Not a problem now with 1.1 and no crashes!

    You’re my man, Bluestrike!
60. cubedude89 3rd June 2007 at 02:07 60
    

    I have 3 words for this mod!

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