The mod started ok but in a personal opinion just ends in a horrible complicated way and besides kind of awful i hate the thing of seeing the last scene sequence and credits and just after be into another battle… but i mean this is leon, he likes to put us as players into his head and just follow it!

Anyway, if u like to understand some glimpses of how leon started his moding “carrer” this mod is just ESSENTIAL, also very in a clasic moding style of Cmb and HL schemes, leon still didn’t have his kind of canon modding style back then, about new textures and skin weapons.

So this is a basic mod but not a classic, so if u haven’t played it u could do it anytime

I can get to where you steal the jeep, get through the gate, but when the next level change comes it just stops responding. Any ideas? I’ve loved this mod and played since it was released. Seems many mods no longer work at all or run poorly, crash and now have a plethora of problems. FRUSTRATED! ANY help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
LONG term Leon fan
Dusty

1) TOO LONG!!!! My god, it was almost longer than HL2 itself!!!
Sure, it could be good for a mod to have a great lifetime but :

a) The whole buggy level was just having a great weight chained to the feet… I mean, for near 100 times, we just advance 10 meters, then have a rush of Combine, then after their death, open a door for the buggy, and doing that again and again!!! I would have gained nearly an hour going through the road at feet…

b) What the hell with this system to go through??? I mean, I’m blocked at point A, and the only way to open it is to go back for Combine to open a door at point A…!!!

But still, there a numerous points of action, and despite the overall boringness of fighting hundreds, perhaps thousands, rush of manhacks, the overall apocalyptic tone of the final, and the pleasure to kill 2 of the “important persons” of Half-life, was fun…
There is also the genius sequence of the “dreams”, Max Payne-like, really crazy and entertaining…

Soooo many defaults, but also soooo unique qualities… But, overall, too long… A fan should play it while having many nights free… Cuz’, it’s long, but addicting…

The “coastline” portions were thoroughly wonderful. I LOVED them. The maps were beautifully constructed and a pleasure to wander around. Good puzzles, good fights, very balanced.

The “Hallucinogen” portions were worthy of a side trip mention, but weren’t really in keeping with anything in the rest of the mod. They were fun, entertaining diversions, but not what I’d want to include in a ‘pro’ mod. One thing that really harmed this was that I had fallen off one portion of the ‘floor’ at one point, and was unable to return to the proper location. I had to start over since there was no ‘oops’ correction anywhere. Also, losing your health / hud was very, very unnerving particularly when you did have a weapon later, I guess there was a reason but it didn’t appear anywhere in the game that I could tell.

The “Atmosphere“… here is where it unfortunately falls apart for me. SOME of it was good – again the map making itself was good, but there were things that bothered me:

Why does a space station have concrete walls and cells? The efforts on the ground portions didn’t seem to carry through on the ‘space’ areas with the same thoughtfulness. Where are all these guys coming from? And again, there were areas where if you wound up landing somewhere you shouldn’t have been there was NO way to correct it, having to start from a save again.

I enjoyed some of the puzzle-type areas in the Atmosphere section, but both times I’ve played, I’ve had to noclip around and try to beat the ending. I’ve read that yes, its theoretically possible to do what’s needed in time to finish properly, but… seriously? I can’t see myself being able to do so, pretty much ever. That kind of steals the wind from my sails and gives me a bad taste in my mouth about the whole mod. I wish that the ending portion wasn’t so very, very very hard just for timing, since it would otherwise be a terrific end to the mod.

So definitely PLAY IT, but be aware that it’s got its share of difficult flaws, though that won’t stop me from playing again.

However I seem to be stuck on the 14th map where you kill G-man and Breen. I’ve killed both of them, and I found the walkthrough that tells you to go back to the terminal in the office and use it to open the door, but the terminal doesn’t seem to work. When I try and use it I get the little locked console beep, and when I run down the stairs again the door is never open. So what am I doing wrong that I can’t get the door to open?

It’s only at the last level, 15, that you permanently lose the HEV.

I don’t know what Leon had in mind when he first compiled these levels, and I guess from his reaction from subsequent criticism his not too sure either. I still think he was right to experiment and include them, any author only has so much time to give, and as we see Leon is close to finishing with Half Life.

the author was right to include them even if he has since said, that he now has doubts about their inclusion due to the mixed feedback.
My view is that if authors with the talent of Leon do not try different and new ideas then gaming will not progress, and in any case he was right to include them

I think Leon was right to do them but not to include them with this mod.
I would have preferred the mod to end at the end of the power plant map (more spawning but there’s no time to bother with them as you need to get your bum in gear).
After that the maps detracted from the mod for me and I was left deflated and disappointed.
The following maps would have been better as a separate mod which we could have judged for what they are.

Gameplay: Unorthodox Content
In some ways the author pushes the boundaries of normal game play and includes what may be termed by some, as experimental, levels that advance the playing experience and player’s willpower to greater limits. Without giving too much away, you will experience some unorthodox scenarios in the later stages. So if you lose something like suit power don’t think it’s a bug, this and other scenarios are meant to vary the gameplay. Reading the posted comments here on PlanetPhillip, many players have been confused with these levels and expressed a dislike for the step away from the norm. Having played through these sections of the game I believe that they add to the experience, and the author was right to include them even if he has since said, that he now has doubts about their inclusion due to the mixed feedback.

My view is that if authors with the talent of Leon do not try different and new ideas then gaming will not progress, and in any case he was right to include them.