I suspect, as I mentioned, that this won’t work because – well, it’s an error object. It doesn’t help that there are tons of grunts coming at you while this is attempted either.

So is this “known good” file to be found at one of the two links posted up top here?

Anyway, any help appreciated.

Philip mentioned the difficulty in killing the metrocops in the initial barricade melee. That’s quite true – you have to use Turbo boost or you just grind to a halt and it’s killing floor time, because the initial fire is fierce, and the damage on Medium intense. I don’t know if this mod is possible on Difficult – I would like to see someone try.

There are many, many places where most obvious strategies fail and only one or two succeed. It would take too long to write these all down, but it sure is fun (for someone like myself) to figure them out.

Unfortunately, I used the FileFront file and as such some objects do not render but are replaced by large ERROR letters in red; this occurs chiefly at the beginning (outside the train station) and at the end (the central object).

For this reason I had to come here to find a way to finish off the mod. I suppose I have to stand on the topmost landing and lob a grenade into an error message. LOL. What an anticlimax.

Anyway, this site’s as usual paid off in spades. Thanks Philip mate, you have a good thing going here.

I don’t particularly like just endless indoor hallways and feeling claustrophobic, so it was good in some parts in the sense that it was nice and big and you got a fair bit of outdoor stuff. The combat was a bit overwhelming at points and I offer my congo-rats to the person that beat this mod without using one cheat.
I had to quit after I climbed up a tube and froze in place at the top of the ladder after loading.
Too bad really. I don’t just like to give up on a mod. But truthfully, I was actually glad just to get out of there after that.

Props for all the work that went into building it though.

********** SPOILERS *******************

– As far as the combine destroying the boxes in Post #1; you can take a crate from the warehouse, put it on the tank, and get over the baricade
– Post #14; the switch opens the top of the tube you drop the grenade into

I played in on ‘difficult’ and found it impossible to complete without cheating which really took the fun out of the mod. Up until map #10 it was fairly enjoyable although very difficult.

Who was the original author on this?

I don’t know. Can anybody tell me?

I had a look at the Hammer editor the other day and realising how much work goes into creating even the simplest maps makes me realise that this mod has involved a great deal of effort. The section where you have to swim past a Strider and fight off manhacks is really nice and atmospheric. However, some of the other sections are rather bland and featureless, which doesn’t help with immersion. Overall I’d give it three stars.

The most annoying thing for me was the armoured car garage, you kill ‘em at one end of the garage, then kill ‘em at t’other end, then the first lot re-appear and you kill ‘em again. Then the second lot re-appear and you’ve to kill them again. Just a bit daft — I switched “notarget” on and killed ‘em all that way.

And I never would have figured the end out , but for a post on here.

Still, if you like half-life you’ll probably like this, a little.

Phil