These things happened to me that made it necessary to restart game:
The stalker lift sandwiched me to the first door which only opened halfway before getting stuck. The mapper should have waited for the door to fully open before letting the stalker lift start moving.
There was a sequence with a burning car that suddenly move towards the squad. However the game autosaves here, and in my case the squad was trying to lob a manhack at the car, causing multiple game overs since they got ran over.

Finally, the game itself was too easy, which is fine, because the combine is obviously overpowered against puny resistance. Very good mod, well deserving of the honors.

By far the best thing about it was the Manhacks. Being able to pilot a Manhack and use it to solve puzzles was a great idea. While it’s fundamentally similar to a number of other games (the old Cam Bot in Perfect Dark comes to mind), it still leads to clever mechanics. If I remember correctly, this wasn’t the first HL2 mod to have these, but it’s probably the first to integrate them so nicely.

I also enjoyed the cast of supporting characters. Yeah, maybe this isn’t how a group of Metrocops would behave. But there’s something amusingly silly about this ragtag group of baddies. They remind me of the Turks from Final Fantasy VII. Absolutely ruthless when they need to be, completely dysfunctional otherwise. Their banter was great and even though their personalities didn’t really develop much over the course of the mod, it was refreshing to have a mod that didn’t take itself too seriously and smack you over the head with melodrama.

The new Xen enemies worked well. It was weird to see them fighting alongside humans, but whatever. The return of the Alien Controllers, in particular, made me wonder why Half-Life 2 didn’t have more hovering enemies. Ragdolls are so nice when they fall 20 feet through the air.

There were a few issues I found that kept this from getting a PF:

- The opening parts of the mod were way too dark. I couldn’t see where I was driving. In Ravenholm, you can clearly see a fair amount of ambient moonlight. That should have been present here was well instead of pitch black darkness.

- I didn’t like how “G” was rigged to Grenade. I instinctually press that button to switch to the Gravity Gun to break objects. You don’t have the Gravity Gun in this mod, so let’s just say I wound up grenading a lot of things early on.

- Loading times were awful. I’m not really sure why. The maps are quite large, but they aren’t overflowing with detail. Still, I noticed it on my powerful rig, so I can only imagine what it’s like for the average user. I’m glad I played on Easy, because having to endure that load every time I died would have been awful.

- The campus made a great first impression, but it got very, very repetitive in terms of visuals. I felt that, more often than not, I’d just stumble into where I was supposed to go instead of being intelligent about it. Having your squadmate on the radio clarify your objectives, and coupling that with more signage throughout the campus, would have helped a lot. As well as varying the textures every now and then. There are numerous tiles to choose from, after all.

- Two puzzles that were very confusing: the “Don’t break it” thing and the kicking of the door. For don’t break it, I had assumed that because my character was a trickster that I had to break something. Thing was, it wasn’t clear what that something was supposed to be. The door kicking actually had me coming back to PP to see if anyone had mentioned a solution. While the mod teaches you “When in doubt, it’s probably a Manhack,” here the solution wasn’t clear at all. Mostly because I didn’t realize there were windows. Maybe my friends should have stopped kicking the door and asked me to see if there was something on the other side. The endless kicking looked really silly.

Still, it’s definitely worth playing. It’s a lot of fun and has good character interaction.

We all want to see the sequel of the story.

So finally i loved human error, but i’d like to see this mod now on the rebel prespective, maybe using those sweet molotov coktails, ahh the last battle was sweet!, and also was great as nostalgic to see some xen buddys again this time on the source world.

finally just one statement, this modder has talent maybe as good or better than Adam Foster creator of “Minerva”, well that’s in my humble opinion…..

Perhaps one of the best mods ever created, it has however some problems, like the rush sequences of the Resistance, sometimes too hard, and the final battle, with, for this time, too many weapons and it is overall too easy, whereas some previous battles, where more difficult…

I can’t wait for the next episode, however, and every fan of HL2 should play it!! With Combine Combat, it is the best Combine mod, AMHA.

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The puzzles were good but more fighting would be good. Also didn’t like the bad words and sex talk. It keeps young players from playing it and that’s a shame as it’s really a good mod with alot of hard work done. Why mess it up and cheapen the soldiers by lowering the bar on their professionalism? It’s understandable to cuss when your real mad or just got hurt, but to drop f bombs for no real reason is dumb. This mod is better then that and maybe in part 2 the authors will lose it. Add more fighting and better directions around the areas and it would be retail quality game.

The voice acting was like most mods-not real good, lack of passion and not real clear at times. Someone in the game needed to really step up and clearly explain where we are, why we are here and who the hell is the girl? I couldn’t tell if she was a good guy or bad. Other then that this was alot of hard work for the author and is to be thanked for this one. Looking forward to part 2.
O–and Phillip, don’t give up your day job. You were out of key and, well, if it was fun to do, that’s the main thing.

At first, I couldn’t figure out how to get into the APC. When I finally did, I felt like I took too much damage. I’m supposed to be in an armored personnel carrier, why am I taking so much damage? But whatever. (Figuring out how to get in was more frustrating than the fact that I took damage.)

At the first generator battle it crashed on me several times, until I ventured outside to do the battle there. (Hey, I’m supposed to protect the generator, why wouldn’t I stay near it?)

The manhacks were fun, but for some reason I was slow to learn the controls. I think just time and use took care of that.

The voices were hard for me to hear unless I cranked my speakers up (which made combat way too loud). So I just got to the point where I ignored them.

The second generator battle was sort of too easy as someone said, but I was confused for much of it so I think that compensated.

There were some neat things about this mod, though. I really liked the stalker helper. Overall, a very good mod that I would recommend, in spite of my issues.