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Opposing Force Redux is a enhancement package for Opposing Force. It is designed to work with the new Steam Client provided by Valve. Opposing Force Redux enhances your Opposing Force installation beyond what was thought to be possible with the High Definition pack that shipped with Blue Shift.
Redux is a community project. It is non-profit and contains work from members of many communities. Such communities include Half Life Improvement Team, which provide invaluable support and a great source of custom Half Life content. However most of the work is done by the Team. The work in the pack may be edited and re-released so long as proper credit is given.
Redux is a complete visual and audio overhaul for Opposing Force. Containing new models, sounds, sprites and miscellaneous additions to immerse you into a new level of gameplay. Even the smallest of details have been reworked to give your now fancy ass gaming computer something to chew on. This is not a Source project/port. Nor is the gameplay altered in any way.
Currently in development, they have replaced near over 400 sounds, and 50 models and showing progress towards more. Redux takes advantage of every feature in the Half Life engine. From transparencies, chrome effects and additive textures used in ways thought to be outdated. Along with crisp new sound effects, high quality models which polygon counts are hardly never below 1,000 keep the always proud Opposing Force looking its best.
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16 Comments
Very disappointing. Download it and take the good parts of it. It’s mostly trash.
I don’t agree with Panther above about it being trash…
It needs a bit of work, but it has a lot of original content
I’m not sure why I approved Panther’s comment because I don’t normally allow that kind of comment. However since it’s been visible for over a month I’ll leave it. Perhaps you can explain why you think it’s “trash”?
I say that is good , needs work on some models and sounds but its very good the guys vrealy put good work on it but i dont like some things like when you zoom with sniper (looks great b the way)there is no pointer and shotgun wrealy looks bad the rest is ok i guess…..
I cant figure out how to download it. I have WinRar and I opened everything but i dont know where to put it. The readme doesnt really make sense. Can anyone help me?
I suggest you try their homepage. I haven’t tested it but if I get some time next week I’ll try it out.
I think this is pretty good. It needs work though, and the new rpg sound is a blatant rip-off of unreal 2’s assault rifle. Still, I look forward to any improvements in the future.
(Message to heyzors) Open my computer, and go to the c drive and locate your half-life folder. If you have non-steam half-life, dump the files in the gearbox folder. The readme is written for steam half-life.
Most of the weapons are good, some weapons needs to be improved like the shotgun.
I have a PIII 930 Mhz 512 MB Ram WinXP Pro SP2 computer, and when I loaded this pack, it worked really slowly. (I had the non-steam version, by the way). Try it out, if it works well, I think it’s worth it. If not, delete it off every square inch on your computer and make an oath that not one memory of the redux will come to your empty head.
Enjoy!
I still can’t get this to work on my Steam version of Op4. I thought it was what it was made for.
Still, I really liked this pack when I played it on WON, so it only just scraped this rating from me:
[quote comment="90939"] I have a PIII 930 Mhz 512 MB Ram WinXP Pro SP2 computer, and when I loaded this pack, it worked really slowly. (I had the non-steam version, by the way). Try it out, if it works well, I think it’s worth it. If not, delete it off every square inch on your computer and make an oath that not one memory of the redux will come to your empty head.
Enjoy![/quote]
I have the same version. i don’t have nor steam nor won. i don’t have OP4, but it IS also one enhancement package for Nuclear Winter too
I thought the models were very impressive but the new sounds for the monsters were unneccessary. The gargantua sounded like a bear. I like how you tried to make the zombies sound like half-life 2 zombies but you could have used there sounds because the ones you put on there were stupid, I esp hated the slaves and alien grunts, die human, how stupid is that. The models are impressive though, it’s just the sounds I don’t like.
Opposing Force Redux is brilliant. If you feel like playing Opposing Force again, or fancy trying some of the Opposing Force mods listed on this website, or you are simply new to original Half-Life and its expansions and you are put off by the ancient graphics, then this pack does a great job of hiding the game’s age. Of course it can’t improve the detail of the levels themselves, but all the friends, enemies and weapons are given a good kick into the 21st century. (Remember to also install the update patch to fix a few problems though.)
If the modders had simply done “Half-Life Redux” it would have been a bit pointless as there are already loads of great custom replacement models for Half-Life, as well as the official High Definition pack. But it is great to have an enhancement pack geared towards Opposing Force as althogh the official high definition pack updates the standard Half-Life models it does not include replacements for the extra weapons and monsters that are in Opposing Force, and there is a lack of Opfor custom models as well.
Some people don’t like the new sounds, but the new sounds are fun for those that have played Half-Life a million times; new enemy and weapon sounds spice up the experience. It is debatable whether the new sounds are as good as the originals, but they do make an interesting change. Some people are bothered by the fact that some sounds are from other games, but since the modders are unlikely to own rocket launchers and machine guns and they do not have their own professional sound studio, they did the best they could and used the coolest sounds that they could get their hands on. If you do not enjoy the sounds you can simply go into your Opposing Force sound folder, find the ones you don’t like and delete them.
There are a couple of little problems – the sound file for using a health machine is the sound of the HEV suit talking about defensive weapon selection or something, which I presume is a mistake as it makes no sense. Secondly, one of the ambient sounds (with a filename like “industrial”) is a short looping segment of music! Industrial music perhaps, a little joke by one of the team members? Anyway, these things are easy to fix – the weird health machine sound is in the “items” sound folder, and the industrial music sound file is in the ambient folder. Simply delete.
By the way, I did the design for the computer screen mounted on the Displacer gun. I figured “what use is a teleporter with no control panel!”, and based it on computer screen designs from System Shock 2 and a black hole diagram I found on the internet. I also mixed the sound effects for the Displacer gun, and did the sprite for the new alien teleportation effect. I think I’m credited for one of those in the readme but not the others. I’m not bothered though, as I’m just glad to have helped this great enhancement pack!
Hey people, I just downloaded this and started played, seemed alright up to the point with the sounds. When I go to reload a weapon such as the m4, the desert eagle or the m9 it doesn’t make the sound, the reloading sound, and it’s driving me outta my mind, anyway I was wondering if anyone can help me with this issue?
I didn’t like this model pack at all. Shotgun is really fugly and gearbox hands are better.
It was a good models, but the 9mmhandgun and the shotgun, i think it needs improvements, but i like the rest, pretty nice works.