Promise Barney - Half-Life 2

I’ve played this already, but the experience is about the same. However, I played this again and found some nice secrets including a hidden jeep, a crossbow, and a combine helicopter part.

And also, this level can be beaten without cheats, but I don’t think the strider can (I only found 5 rpg rounds in the map and it wasn’t enough to kill it)

All in all, I think the mapper should learn a bit more about map optimization and about certain bad textures to use (one room was like a friggin strobe light as I walked through it)

2/5 or 5/10
Yours truly, Anonymous

He is so asleep that you can throw a bottle, hit him in the head or one of those big boxes & he never wakes up. Hey, can someone tell me what the Vort slash Dog’s purpose is? I swear I played through this map a first time & he never appeared.

It’s a cross between a Vort/Dog/Something. I think a Vort with armour. This map is kinda quirky though. Alyx is in the very last room. First time I played it, she was standing alive & the 2 combines were dead. Just finished it again, and she was dead in the floor with the two combines alive. Also, there were many times that when faced with enemies, ther were just standing around or had their backs to me until I used force & then they would engage in combat.

Promise Barney,

First off this is a hard mod, each set is very challenging and going gun-ho leads to a short life. All goodies are very sparse throughout the game so you need to think through each set. Make sure you get to the first piece of action with crow bar and gravity gun, use the two explosive barrels to good effect, don’t leave the first Combin shoot-up in the yard without finding hidden buggy car with goodies. Once you reach the room with the rocket launcher you face the problem of how to kill or get round the Strider, this I could not do without cheat, it takes 7 rockets to bring down the Strider and I can only find 5 in total. You can get 2 rockets by using the Gravity gun from the window; you can also make it across the yard to the garage with truck and grenade box if you set off with 60 plus health. Maybe the grenade supply is the secret to bring down the Strider, you can position by the garage door and throw grenades’ without getting hit. I did wonder if the paint tins could be used to blind the Strider some way, however all my attempts failed to bring the Strider down.

The game has some problems but none stopping progress, it’s very easy to get physically struck and you will need to use noclip a few times, also there are a few minor stability problems even with a good video card, most of the sets are dimly light which is no help when wonder around looking for goodies. Apart from these points the set design is not bad with plenty of content and detail, however most are bounded with invisible barriers which are frustrating if like me you like to explore.

Overall the mod has a lot to offer but with a little more attention by the author and some alternative route around the Strider this would pass as a very good mod, no doubt from this example the author has talent to produce some very good work in the future.

Thanks, will try Easy.