The enviroments here are the same, over and over again with not much in the way of sub-enviroments. Prison facility, dark beach, prison facility, dark beach. rinse, repeat.

The mapping is mazey and even though it is linear like a good HL2 mod should be, it isnt always clear where to go. “Pull a switch, backtrack, remember that locked door?”. A player can spend many moons in the same general area. It gives a feeling of non-advancment. Add to that the drab enviroments, and you have a recipe for bordem.

There isnt much ambience either, Lacking in both wind/background noises, and lack of periodical background music. This only serves to add to the game’s overall dullness. Over and over again I would play a chapter for 10 minutes, then skip ahead to the next chapter hoping for some relief. I got none. Sure the battles are ok, plenty of weapons/ammo and all that. And although bland, the archatecture/construction seems good. But a game is supposed to be much more than just decent battles and dull gameplay and bland enviroments. It is supposed to be about advancment, exploration, and not being bored.

Avoid!

Such a shame there is no website or page for the team who made this, A kickass action mod.

Firstly, try downloading the mod again from here, that way we can eliminate a bad download. Secondly, do all your other Episode Two mods work okay? Thirdly, according to gorpie Offshore doesn’t require any changes to work. I have to admit I haven’t checked myself but I do trust her. If I get some time, and I stress the IF, I will install it again and see what happens.

Hopefully some other PP readers will also try and help.

Let me know about point two.

I know this is a common error since updates and whatnot, but I can’t find any fixes. Not only that, but I find barely ANY mention of this mod anywhere else on the internet! Sure, I can find YouTube and halflife2.net references, but the author’s homepage is dead and it’s not listed on ModDB. I found that to be the strangest thing of all. What gives? I hear this is an incredibly long and involved mod, so what’s the deal here?

I couldn’t find anything relating to this problem after Googling a ton of different things, no patches, and no fixes. The one generic fix was to change the SteamAppId to 218 and add an AdditionalContentId 420, and that allowed me to boot up the game, but there are missing textures and events, rending the mod unplayable.

Has anybody else run into this? Any solutions?

The only word that can describe this mod is FLOW. It has a great flow and lots of combat. Even though some of the indoor areas are a bit repetitive, it is not a chore to play compared to some indoor crawls such as Strider Mountain.

This mod reminds me of the best of the old school HL1 mods, it has quite a different feel and style compared to current HL2 mods.
The art direction and object placement is also well done, making this a visually pleasing mod to look at.

Lots of memorable set pieces in this game. Make sure you play it!!

HINT – I did not pick up the RPG early in the game and got to the part where you needed to destroy the combine flyer near the helicopter. To fix this issue do the following…..

Make sure the console is enabled by going into ‘Options’ ‘ Keyboard’ ‘ Advanced’ and tick ‘Enable Developer Console’

While ingame press the ~ (tide) key to bring up the console window. Type ‘weapon_rpg’ and hit enter to give you the missing RPG !!

I read on the steam forums it didnt need fixing,,,

Lots of explorations and well balanced maps, i also love being in the middle of a combine ambush, and the storyline doesn’t have to have lots of dialogs to explain, because explain itself, simple, just escape of that island of hell! I really felt something hard to feel with other mods: in this mod i felt like i was playing HL2 game again, this mod is pure Gordon in the flesh.

Maybe some troubles in connecting some levels can be found, but they are minimal the action you get every level just worth it, love to torn apart those striders with the magnusson device, love all those tons of explosives in the whole way…..

Just finally, the action, time play and great simple concept of this mod, made it defenetly one of my personal favourites!

GAMEPLAY	MAP DESIGN
Playability:	Detail:
Originality:	Puzzles:
Challenge:	Battles:
Storyline:	Lighting:
Variety:	Audio:

However, after about two hours (the entire mod took me six) the going gets more enjoyable and there’s a considerable visual improvement especially with outdoor areas. The downside is a huge drop in fps. The two Strider beach maps are the kind of moments that’ll remain in your head for a long time despite the crappy fps I got. Too bad the stunning outdoor maps were not matched by equally impressive indoor maps.

I liked the ending, although I’d have changed the sky to something with a hint of a rising sun as you catch the train out of the island.

Starting without weapons or suit
Difficult to know what to do
Confusing
Many areas are exact clones of another part of the map
Many areas (particularly ones with leeches blocking the way) can be easily circumnavigated at the expense of a little leech damage
Sheer failure to comprehend what makes a map play well

So sure, the detail is ok, the shootouts are nice, but the rest of it is utter garbage

It is challenging, but after every big battle there’s plenty of health and ammo around (provided you take out zombies with the grav gun). And there’s no story at all.

For me, it ran great throughout and only one time did I take the ‘wrong way’ and not hit an important trigger. That would be the ledge ‘across from the helicopter’. I climbed up on boxes onto the ledge WITH the helicopter, took out all the enemies below, jumped down, took out a second wave but never triggered the gunship, thus never opening the exit door. Trapped for a do-over. Still, the do-over was not that hard.

One hint; the Hunters go down with one shot from the combine-gun alt-fire, which save a lot of trouble.

For those playing for the 1st time I reccommend the walkthroughs because some of the door switches are very remote to the door.

I keep playing this mod and I’ll keep on playing it.
There are just so many different moves and tactics you can use that make this so replayable.
This is at least as good as the retail games. Simply amazing.
Enough said.

The acme of gaming perfection

Overall, I take great pleasure… A pretty good story.

On the whole it’s ‘good with a taste of terrible’, rather than ‘terrible with a scattering of good’ but I’d still say: reserve play on this mod for when your tolerance for being frustrated is very high. Otherwise you’ll wind up swearing at the computer more often than not.

Five words:
should have play tested more.