Comments on: Corridors – Half-Life 2

By: denizen50

denizen50 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:59:11 +0000

I like this difficult map quite a bit, and it loads and plays fine, but as soon as I load a previously saved game(and only then) it says ‘ai disabled’, until I relaunch the game.
I’ve tried every single impotent ‘ai_fix’ and ‘ai_norebuildgraph’ and ‘ai_fix.cfg’ trick a trillion times, and IT DOESN’T WORK.
I have 200 mods and custom maps on this computer for HL2 vanilla, EP1 and EP2 and they don’t have this bug so the issue is not my installation. I have the original HL2 from 2007 installed plus the orange box (all legal).
I wish valve finally put an end to this infamous ‘ai_disabled…’ error, especially in 2011.

In a nutshell: ai does work upon loading the map, but ceases working after loading a saved game.

By: rumrunner

rumrunner — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:37:46 +0000

Kind of enjoyed this map but didn’t like when you backtrack to find a progress point you get punished e.g. the headcrabs spawning or the steam that never turns off.Could have have a little more health and ammo
but to offset that that is one of the easiest antlion guardians I ever took out.Thanks to Phillip for posting this on his direct server(nige)

By: jjawinte

jjawinte — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:17:34 +0000

No head-crabs in my very recent download either. ( FileFront )

By: jjawinte

jjawinte — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:14:59 +0000

I had a great time playing this map ! Far more challenging and lengthy than you’d expect. Nice job on making us work for the initial alternate route Flynn ! I like close quarter indoor areas and while the graphics were a bit dull, it was laid out well enough to keep me backtracking, exploring and interested. ( Oh, bug report. The ceiling turret seized up in the ceiling while continuing to fire endlessly. )

Combat level was good,( with plenty of crowbar practice ) with a fair level of problem solving. I also liked that the head-humpers spawned from the hole in the floor each time you crossed it. All around, I really enjoyed it! Nice work Flynn !

By: nige

nige — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:21:48 +0000

Thanks for the help.The local download worked.
Must be my slow connection not file front.

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:24:50 +0000

I think it must be related to your connection or location, as the download works okay for me. I’ve added a local download though. Let me know if you still have trouble.

By: nige

nige — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:47:20 +0000

Download seems to be not working properly.
It downloads in about 10 seconds which should take 15 minutes
at my connection.
Any help would be appreciated thanks nige

By: eeVee

eeVee — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:40:24 +0000

I liked this map.

I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to turn off the first steam “trap”. At first I just ran through it, and then I found the alternate route.

Not a lot of excess ammo, health, or batteries, but I made it out alive.

My only complaint is that the sound for some of the doors made it seem like they should open. But I soon learned that doors either open or they don’t, they don’t open later (except near the end).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:05:10 +0000

Very nice litttle map. Enough challenge to engage, and the fights were nicely balanced where placement and timing were very good indeed. Took longer to play than belied by the map size.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:33:33 +0000

Some interesting scenarios here, but I have issues I never could turn off that poison cloud at the beginning, even though I found the broken valve, and another unmoving valve. From there, the death traps just kept coming. Too many mechanized ways to die, and precious little real combat. I want a stand up fight, not another bug hunt!

By: andyb

andyb — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:46:10 +0000

Finally had some time to play this.So once I packaged it up so it was in my steam menu I started out.I figured being such a small size it would be very short.Wrong!It took me about 30 minutes or so to play it.A bit of thinking required and some quick moving so you don’t get blasted away by turrets.Took me forever to get boxed piled up to get to a grate when all I needed was a grenade lol.Oh well,live and learn.

One thing I did find strange was the stairs.They seemed very steep to me but could be my setup I suppose.Any way it was very entertaining.

By: Flynn

Flynn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:58:17 +0000

Yeah, I can see what you mean, perhaps you could have located it more to the side and put a small barrier around one side? Anyway, too late now.

The map I played didn’t have headcrabs near the steam.

Maybe you got it a couple of weeks ago, before I updated the downloads. If it’s not the case then you’ll have to tell me where you got it from so that I can update the download. Good suggestion about the barriers as well. I wish I could of thought of that!

Sirocco, the blue wheel behind the explosive barrel turns off the poisonous steam in the room that you go into down the ladder. I am surprised you got an hour out of it! The two playtests I got reported 20 minutes.

Len, thanks for telling me that, it might mystify some people. I didn’t think to put that in the readme.

By: Sirocco

Sirocco — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:18:00 +0000

I liked this Mod. I played it on normal and there was just enough ammo and health around to get through each section. The traps and way forward needed some thinking about and while I died a few times that did not detract from the experience as there was plenty of auto saves along the way.
I was a bit mystified by the blue wheel handle in the space behind the exploding drum, I don’t know what it stopped or started. What did I miss?
Good fun for about an hour. It could easily be expanded either way so it would fit well as part of a longer story.
Have a go, you won’t regret it.

By: Len

Len — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:50:03 +0000

A short, fun map that can be challenging if played on Hard. The author should make a sequel that continues from Phillip’s last screenshot.

P.S. Just thought I’d mention: my hl2 folder didn’t have a Materials folder, so I had to create one.

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:43:42 +0000

I found it hard to think of an alternative, apart from putting a trap door, but that slowed the player down coming out from the ladder into the room with the turret on the ceiling. So I left it how it was.

Yeah, I can see what you mean, perhaps you could have located it more to the side and put a small barrier around one side? Anyway, too late now.

The map I played didn’t have headcrabs near the steam.

By: Flynn

Flynn — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:22:56 +0000

Hello people. I am glad you enjoyed my map! Phillip, the part which you mentioned that seemed weird were pointed out to me in the playtesting stage as well. I found it hard to think of an alternative, apart from putting a trap door, but that slowed the player down coming out from the ladder into the room with the turret on the ceiling. So I left it how it was.

Some people were having trouble figuring out that the steam was very hot so I added some headcrabs which try to run at the player and die upon crossing the steam, although I can’t see that in your screenshots so I am not sure whether you have the map where I made those changes or not.

By: jigron

jigron — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:38:16 +0000

I actually enjoyed this mod more that I thought I would. If you want a good mod play this!

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:17:31 +0000

I really enjoyed this one. Partly because the setting is limited, but I’ll talk about that tomorrow, and partly becasue I got stuck a few times.

As the name suggests it’s set in corridors, so don’t expect anything more. Generally the gameplay is balanced, with just the right amount of exploring and fighting. The enemies are varied enough to keep you wondering what is around the next corner.

I feel the overall design is let down by the strange mix of settings; for example a ladder exiting almost in front of a set of stairs. Since this map isn’t really part of anything greater it doesn’t really detract from the experience but it’s little things like that that other mappers and some players, me included, tend to notice.

I have a feeling most players will give it a Play It Layer recommendation but I enjoyed it. But then again I have a tendency to enjoy shorter, more focus maps and mods than most.