Day Hard Complete - Half-life 2

I played and enjoyed the individual maps, but when I tried this mod several months ago, I exerienced a lot of problems - namely crashing when loading from a saved game. I might give it another try though.

As for the size, it says this mod contains 6 maps, whereas the DayHard maps numbered 3. So unless the individual maps were actually dual map-packs, it looks like this mod has double the playing area and probably a few more cut scenes. But I’m only guessing.

Was a great mod perhaps sometimes confusing but worth to play, the only think i make some critics about is that is seems like the authors wanted to make and more when they arrive at the end…to much things destroy good things.

Texture and models were great, sound and music too also the cooding was excellent only the mapping could disapoint a little

I just downloaded and tested useing winrar and it extracted fine.No errors

Phillip I think I know why the file size is different.I looked through my collection and found a Dayhard.exe file that was 137mb and also a patch for it.In the patch it lists fixes for dayhard part 4 that I didnt know existed.

“This patch FIX:

KEYBINDINGS
-Changing the default keys in-game, no more results in a reset next time DayHard is loaded.

DAYHARD PART1
-Improved graphic in the map (specially the lights in the rooms).
-Deleted the gasoline tank to avert scripts problems in the map.
-Corrected minor problems in part4.

DAYHARD PART3
-Improved graphic and perfomance in several zones.
-Energy field bug should now be okay…(I hope!).

VOYAGE
-If your pc doesn’t load the map, I’ve added a client-side command to load part4.
Note: The map will load but you’ll not see “Loading…” on the screen.
-Improved skybox detail.
-Corrected a zoom problem with the camera.

DAYHARD PART4
-Jack now will follow you in the tram.
-Corrected minor problems in part4.”

dufferx there is a walkthrough if you get stuck

Yes its a ***** on pc/vid card but only for first map.Its ok after that for me.

I’ve made it thru to Map 4. Now I am doing the the stealth walk around a small compound with Jack. Can’t figure out what to do next. Any clues? The walkthru stops at Map 3.

I was actually surprised to find that this mod was even listed in 3 seperate parts instead of a whole. It’s been nearly a year since I played the whole thing. I had read on a comment posted for Day Hard 1, that this is from Russia. Far from it. Carlo Piscelli & his team are from Italy. I had SO much fun playing this mod that I started a rapport with Carlo & still talk to him. Brilliant guy who is also a director & cartoonist (which is why there are a lot of cut scenes). Too bad I can’t post anything of his work here.

The game is simply insane really. The very first of it had me stumbling around until I figured out what to do but, after that, it pretty much all fell into place. Only problem/bug I had was during a next map load (after the robot), I was loading into a tree & stuck there. I had to just reload the map & start from there. By the way, all that lurking about the camp not trying to get caught … if you don’t want to go through that hassle, just walk all the way to your right & straight ahead (around the camp) & there will come a point that Jack eventually jumps over the wall to join you.

Father Gregorio is made out to be an insane little bugger which was funny. The arms dealer & what you have to do for him was hilarious. Being able to switch sides & play combine undercover during gameplay was BRILLIANT. There’s some *** stuff in there with a Vortignaut (yikes). Voice overs were great.

Anybody or anything that can make me laugh that much is worth a 5/5 rating (which isn’t high enough).

My comment was cut off accidentally because (apparently) the interpreter didn’t like something I typed. To continue:

I’m at the point right after the “big green thing” (spoiler avoidance) was taken out, and I’m not sure if I’ll bother to continue playing it. I can’t stand having to hit F9 500 times a session.

Please don’t bother saying “It’s not that hard for me”. I know, I’m not the best player in the world; no need to remind me.

Goddess Alyria Said:

I would play on the Easy setting.

I am!

I guess I have a low frustration level. I also find it very ironic that this mod–which is very off-beat and humor-driven–is also by quite a measure the hardest I’ve come across. If anything, I’d expect the opposite.

I considered god mode, and my use it. I like how, if you enable the console option (which they have disabled by default, which is unusual), you find they’ve named it “If you cheat, you suck!”. Gee, thanks! (I want to say, “If you make me have to cheat just to finish, you suck! )

Goddess Alyria Said:

“If you cheat, you suck!”. Gee, thanks! (I want to say, “If you make me have to cheat just to finish, you suck! )

I hear ya & couldn’t agree more.

Just a note to all who may have started this mod and given up. With the help of the walkthrough give it another try, it’s well worth the effort.

I guess you have reached the end boss scene, after going through the cave-maze.

If so, it’s a matter of firing rockets into the mouth of the machine until it explodes.

But it’s difficult to stay alive long enough, I cheated.

Are you no easy mode? It take a few rockets for the whole thing to blow-up.

Dont worry, go on with out him, Jack that is, he will meet up with you later.

Detailed Review of Mod – Level by Level.

The following is a more detailed coverage of the content and gameplay within each part of the mod. With the expanded gameplay coverage in the following text I may have boarded on the line of spoilers in some areas. This is not deliberate but can occur inevitably when trying to cover in more depth; therefore if you are highly sensitive to spoilers I suggest you do not read on.
After the introduction with George Bush introducing Mr. Breen as his new campaign manager, yes, you read that right, the scene changes to Morgan’s bedroom.

Part 1: Wake Up

Map Name: dayhardpart1
You wake up to the sound of gun fire and your first thought is, where’s Jack?

The opening level takes place within an apartment building consisting of apartment layout containing a bedroom, lounge, kitchen and bathroom. Floor levels are connected by stairways with access to the roof and windows overlooking the city below, with a window balcony ledge to each apartment.

With the help of Jack you need to fight your way through each flat room by room as well as floor by floor, whilst encroaching Combine move in with support from traitor rebel factions. Progress is further hampered by snipers, turret guns and scanners making this a tough opening level that requires both the help of Jack and the need to search each room for supplies.

The level design with its floors, connecting rooms, stairways, rooftop and adjoining balconies is excellently crafted with great attentions to detail. The detailed content, textures and light effects are top quality, with all the sets looking realistic, being furnished with the appropriate furniture, fittings and fixtures. The textures are all superbly defined giving a crisp and warm feel and appearance to all the sets.

The combat is hard hitting with some tough placement of the Combine and traitor rebels making progress through the apartment complex an intense affair. It may take a few attempts to figure out your route and then fight your way with the help of Jack to get to street level and out of the apartment complex. In doing so, you will also need to work through some puzzles including finding first a few key weapons, getting around a few impassible points and turning on power in places. In some ways the whole level is a puzzle, one of finding a route to street level and the Urban Mess below.

It will not be the first time having completed a level within this game that you feel as if you have just finished a complete mod; such is the degree of content and involvement packed into most of the parts and levels of this mod.

Part 2: Urban Mess

Map Name: dayhardpart2
Having reached ground level Morgan is engaged in a series of street battles against the Combine, supported by Striders, scanners and traitor rebels in parts. The street level layout is designed around a wide road forming a square with residential buildings, shops, a church and a storage depot amongst other structures, not sure why the road is so wide!

Jack appears to be still making his way through the first level so for the time being you get help from Gregory and friendly rebels. There is a lot of content to this level with a very rich mixture of gameplay. Apart from the combat you also need to figure out your progress with alternative routes and loads of opportunities to wander and search. It’s not always clear what direction to take, however, rest assured, all directions lead somewhere and there is not a strict order of events. You will meet up with the first of the unique characters the mod has to offer, that is other than Jack and Morgan, with some wonderfully scripted sequences, including the twins. They will be of great help to you, even though their behavior is similar to a pair of twits out of ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. Elsewhere in the level the humor comes to the fore, even if some of it is toilet humor in parts.

You will need to find an alternative route around a patrolling Strider to meet up with the twins who give great support in fighting off another intense engagement. Here too, you have to perform a task in exchange for supplies, a task that requires you to retrieve an item from a very strange and weird hotel, logic will disappear once you step inside.

The end encounter to the level is another tough street pitch battle against heavily armed Combine and traitor rebels that have taken up commanding positions. The level has one more surprise in store before you finally progress beyond the Urban Mess, but you need to both find that out and figure out how to overcome these yourself. Make that two more surprises.

In general this level sets the standard and gameplay for much of the mod to come, humor, well scripted and unique sequences, new characters, hard hitting engagements, superb set design and textures with great attention to detail. The textures and light effects are outstanding with the whole outside set, bathed in an early evening glow rendering all surfaces a warm and reddish tint from a low sun. The layout is somewhat extensive in size with that very wide road having maybe an alternative use!

Part 2a: RedRum

Map Name: redrum
This is the hotel sequence and is an integral part of the Urban Mess chapter. As previously stated it’s weird and nightmarish but you need to complete the task to progress.

Part 3: Down, You Sucker

Map Names: dayhardpart3 and Voyage
This Part follows a similar mixture of street combat and gameplay as the previous ‘Urban Mess’ levels, with similar street set designs and use of warm textures before you progress to more encounters and puzzle solving sequences among the airport facilities and runway.

The cast is increased to include at least 3 new and unique characters both good and bad with one very bad, Mr. Ugly. The new characters are wonderful scripted with all exhibiting their own characteristics, manners and postures, some of which you may recognize.

The humor expands, showing the Combine in a light you could never imagine plus more of that toilet humor, resulting in some of the funniest sequences ever to be depicted in a Half-Life game.

You will face, as before, Combine troops, more traitor rebels, attacking scanners, a gunship and one other big HL2 foe. There is also a major puzzle to work through with the need to lower a force field, I mention this because it would appear to be sequence based and does not always trigger correctly. Without given any spoilers, you need to make sure that all the characters beyond the force field depart before you go off to find the means to turn the force field off. If this does not happen you will need to replay the sequence again until Mr. Ugly has moved off.

There a few more encounters against the Combine and the Big One beyond the force field including solving the means to kill the Big One, not telling you the answer to that. There are also a few more unique sequences to come before the level finishes with our odd couple flying off in a Combine Gunship. However, here again, you will need to experience these sequences for yourself as the hectic pace lessens in a strange way for a spell. As with all the encounters so far experienced by our dynamic duo, flying the Combine gunship does not come easy ending in disaster for the two, but wait!

Part 4: Behind Enemy Lines

Map Name: dayhardpart4
The next level auto loads as Morgan and Jack scramble through a drainage pipe. However, if this level does not load, as it did not for me, then you will need to manually load it through the console, the level starts without any weapons anyway.

The following opening sequence of this level is very vague in terms of objectives, being far from clear as to what is the purpose of the village layout and any task within. It’s clear however, that this is a stealth sequence but to what end is far from obvious. Your progress across the village is measured in terms of trial and error; a force move is met by instant Combine attacks and with no means of defending yourself, loads the last save. The right move will get you part way and by this means you progress across the village.

Without the help of the walkthrough I don’t think I would have completed this first village sequence without a lot of frustration, nor would I have had any idea of the objective of this stealth sequence. As such, I consider this a poor piece of gameplay that leaves the player completely unaware of its purpose and whilst not wanting to be spoon feed, there should have been means of conveying some guide to the player. As it is, I can only recommend you peep at the walkthrough at this point of the mod.

Apart from the gameplay being confusing, the set design of the village and the immediate hilly surround is basic stuff with the buildings being adequate in design but nothing special and a let down from what’s gone before. Also the hilly landscape is not too convincing looking; lumpy and unrealistic. However, the distant backdrop surrounding the village is admirably mapped giving a feeling of endless depth to the design.

Once out of the village by way of the wall, you will find that progress is much smoother by means of the cable car. This is similar to the car used in the Ravonholm chapter of the original HL2 game, could be wrong but can’t remember it being used in a mod before.

By design or maybe default you reach the Combine HQ. The next set of sequences is admirable scripted with lots of short cut-scenes that, in this case, help the flow of the mod and thicken the plot, not that there is any serious attempt to imply the existence of much of a plot or story. With the now familiar banter and humor between Jack and Morgan back to the fore you begin to feel that you are in the swing of things again.

The gameplay is now rich and varied and I am reminded not to give spoilers. However, you will encounter new characters, change places with the Combine, take on the Antlion and their leader, get to ride the road buggy and finally make good use of the village before returning to HQ.

The new character sequences are again wonderfully scripted, with references to Harry Potter and bloody hell! What was that? The HQ is again a fine piece of design with a similar layout to the airport lobby in the previous chapter - Part 3. The attention to detail and textures inside the HQ keeps the high standard aspired too previously in the mod. The HQ outer design is castle-like and set amidst the same type of lumpy and hilly terrain as the village which gains new meaning with the buggy rides.

After the slow start that needed stealth tactics the level comes to an end with the more familiar action filled Combine encounters. There is more to this level, however you need to go find it for yourself, I am getting carried away and in danger of giving too much away. Once more you will get the feeling that you have just completed an entire mod, such is the depth of the content and fine mixture of the gameplay.

Part 5: Breen Cave and Beyond.

Map Name: breencave
You are on your own again with Jack having taken a liking to the bath in the previous level, not clear yet why. In the next sequence you need to find a way around a new and large adversary to progress to a new environment of caves, which are designed as a maze to test your sense of direction.

Once you find your way out of the maze to the bridge, you have time to collect your thoughts and supplies before entering the Big Boss end sequence. The maze sequence is designed and textured in dungeon type surrounds. Having progressed through the maze Morgan then passes through the metallic Combine structures before entering the final Boss setting. This end Boss setting is a bit like a scene from Quake, being dimly lit with Combine lurking in the shadows and a fire and rocket propelling structure controlled by Breen bent on stopping you dead. Other than adding that it’s a hard final showdown, I am not saying any more about this level.

Part 6: Final.

Map Name: final
You get to find out why Jack stayed behind in another superbly scripted and amusing scene.

Part 7: Dogo.

Map Name: dogo
This is a bonus level which you will need to load from the console. Arena type gameplay with plenty of action and if you liked the new characters seen in the Final level, then this is your chance to get another eye-full.

Final Conclusions

Just go and play and use the walkthrough if you need too. It may be needed in a few parts of the mod although it does not need heavy reliance to progress through most of the game. Also, if, like me, you have started and gave up, then give it another go with the aid of the walkthrough if need be, otherwise you are missing out on one of the best mods available.

Dont bother about Jack, just get in the tram and on your way and Jack will catch you up later.

You should have no problem loading level 4 from the console. Go to options in the game, go keyboard, go advance and tick box enable console.
You should then be able to load level 4 manually from the console.

If you’re having problems with the final boss battle try this (SPOILER):
Make sure you loaded up on ammo on the previous battle.
After the elevator reaches the boss, DON’T MOVE DOWN THE PLATFORM.
Apparently, if you stay where you are, you have a clean shot of the mouth + combines can’t reach you + rockets fly around hitting walls

So just aim and shoot all your ammo at the mouth and presto, you win .

alright, dangit, I need the walkthru, to get through the village in part 4, and all links seem to be totally dead. Anyone?

alright finally finished it… it was fun, overall, despite some of the bugs (drove the car over the bug spawn point and crashed the game totally). Either the content protection is turned on and I don’t realize it, or it really didn’t quite deliver teh funneh like most people say it does. Tho, I did see the nekkid t*ts at the end, so mebbe it’s just not quite as deep as I figured it would be. Still quite enjoyable, tho, so I definitely say

I didn’t get to play the final supar-sekrit map, tho, anyone have an idea how to get to it?

But, given all that, Joe Bob sez, “Chek it out!”

Didn’t care for it. Lack of polish. Teenage-feel all over.