The production values of this mod are stunning. It’s a huge body of work, it looks great, it’s put together so well but…

but…

There’s nothing really original going on here unfortunately.
All these wonderfully talented guys have done is rebuild Episode 1 unfortunately. It’s a fantastic achievement but as I played through the mod I encountered familiar environment and familiar puzzle over and over again.

Other elements that pushed this down to a play it later for me are the constantly dark or flickering light areas that made me quit the mod a few times I found them so frustrating. To add to this frustration the flashlight is bugged so that if you get right up against a wall you can’t see anything. Cue lots of fumbling around in the dark.

The puzzles in some case are less than well implemented and in some cases just plain annoying.

The one area that for me really stands out is the section where the front of the building collapses.

It’s a fantastic use of space and it really stands out.

“GameInfo”
{
game “DangerousWorld”
title “DangerousWorld”
title2 “DangerousWorld”
“manual” “http://dwmod.half-life2.sk/home.php?show=manual”
“icon” “dw”
type singleplayer_only
“developer_url” “http://www.dwmod.half-life2.sk”
developer “Studio TiiM”
icon “icon”

FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 420
ToolsAppId 211

SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game sourcetest
Game ep2
Game episodic
Game hl2
}
}
}

-Auto Play
-Language
-Source SDK

And then I have an autorun.exe, an autorun.inf, a dangerous world.exe, and a Dangerous World.ain (I think). This is nuts! I haven no idea where to place these folders.

A shame, for a Hall-of-Fame mod!

Earlier, I

Have I missed an important trigger somewhere?

Thanks

IMO it did need to be play tested by “players” . after finishing this mod i read thru the reviews and found that I along with others had the same problems/frustrations in most of the same areas.

without sounding contradictory the work that was put into making this was suburb for sure and very well done as a whole but the glitches and missed trigger spots and bad outcomes for the player by choosing a wrong route or area was a little harsh, I don’t like to be “punished” by thinking differently than the author may have intended.

Ill put this next to human error on my “Mods that could pass for official Valve expansions” list. Only problem is now I have to wait for the sequel.

It begins directly after DW’s ending, and as the first part, it is a “re-imagination” of Ep2 events, with Antlions, Antlions Workers, and in fact the same setting as Ep2.

However, the action is rythmed by inventive and brillant puzzles, and also you have Dog, the Jalopy, and also some well-done cut-scenes (as in the first).

I think DW2 will be one of the MOTY of 2011. We’re going to have many over-ambitious/over-the-top mods by fall 2010 or 2011 (OpFor2, OBM, BMS, MissionImprob3, The Citizen 2…), but this will surely be one of the bests…

The fact that Tiim, the developer, has a sense of building a mysterious and original story with, as an example, the ghostly apparitions of a “man in black”, will surely push the balance in its favor.

Stay Tuned!

As has been said before, TiiM should be designing for Valve, as this the thought, design, and detail that has gone into this mod has made it look and feel as though Valve had released this mod themselves, with the possible exception of the inclusion of some creepy goings-on underground.

I can’t wait until next year when the follow-up is released.

Other than that, GREATEST MOD! Can’t wait for 2, when it gets fully released!

Still I found a few points worth criticism. First of all the mod is not suited to be played in the hard difficulty setting. It can be done, but some places turn frustrating this way. On the other hand it is too easy when played at normal difficulty… Also the locations are too stuffed or even cramped and I felt confined most the time – confined as in getting stuck and tripping over decoration stuff. A bit more space would have been nice in this case! Lastly some of the puzzles were a bit “outside the usual HL2 scope” and therefore not so easy to figure out.

All in all, I have to say this mod is incredible, but not a personal favorite of mine just yet…

http://www.moddb.com/mods/dangerous-world/news/DangerousWorld-SteamUpdate

Just overwrite the gameinfo.txt file in the main Dangerous World folder. You will then need to restart Steam to get the fix to work. Good luck.

The levels in the “underground” were really scary, wow… This scripted sequence, with long howlings, one-second apparitions… Wow wow wow…

And then, perhaps THE BEST FIGHTING SEQUENCE in a Mod, with the siege of city 17, fast, full of action/explosions, and this wonderful musics used… The “battle of City 17″ post-HL2 was really well-rendered, a piece of madness like I’ve nearly never played before in a mod…

And then, the ending, wonderful sequence… I can’t wait for the sequel of the story of Franck Harrison. The developer was also smart enough NOT to make encounters with Alyx and Freeman, so, in my mind, I will consider this mod as “canon”.

Really great, really…