Comments on: Reissues – Half-Life

By: wayfare

wayfare — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:57:05 +0000

It’s a shame that this mod was so buggy, I’ve had problems with both the Steam and WON version. I managed to complete all of the levels and Echo Transit stood out for me, everything about it was great, it even has voice actors!
I did enjoy Second Wind, but there were bugs here too.. the last part was ridiculously difficult as well because you are pretty much stuck standing in one area.
Scepterofra was charming, the Gargantua was hilarious..
With all of the problems I still think that this mod is definitely worth checking out, maybe you won’t have as many problems as I did..

By: andyb

andyb — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:04:27 +0000

If I have time this week I’ll load the won version.I found the cabinet you are talking about thou.Took a very,very long time to move it.I didn’t think it was even moving.

By: Salmoneye

Salmoneye — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:18:46 +0000

No go, Darth…

Have not been able to move the cabinet in the big Palace Hall with the shiny floor…

By: andyb

andyb — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:55:05 +0000

Guess I’ll move forward to that spot later tonight lol.Sorry

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:34:07 +0000

I’m stuck in the episode where you need to recharge the big teleporter thingie, I just disabled the bomb surrounded with tripwires, then I got on the train and drive the teleporter back inside, and pressed the button to go back down. Then grunts appear from everywhere and start shooting, I don’t even last 3 seconds…..how the HECK to you beat this part ??

This episode is really killing the fun I was having with this mod…

By: Salmoneye

Salmoneye — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:26:26 +0000

I’ll Try that Darth, and many thanks…

I will also report back if I find issues with anything else,
specifically the ‘Tall Tower’…

By: Salmoneye

Salmoneye — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:23:26 +0000

Wrong place…

After the Gargantua, and the gates that go up and down with the one lever, there is a large Palace Hall with yet another cabinet…

This one does not move, and it is just before map ’secondwind2′…

It seems I am either missing something, or the cabinet does not move at all…

So far I can not even noclip by it, though there is a video online (in French) where the kid does indeed noclip past this spot…

If you web search this, you can see what I mean:

walkthrough-hlreissues-23

By: andyb

andyb — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:05:06 +0000

I just loaded the steam version and you need to push the cabinet through the doorway.You need it for the next part.It moves slowly but it does move.

By: Darth Marsden

Darth Marsden — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:46:54 +0000

Salmoneye, I had the same problem with the Steam version. It’s in the big hall where the grunt are fighting aliens, right?

I struggled with it for a foe minutes before I got lucky. You need to push the cabinet from a specific angle, though I couldn’t tell you what that angle is. You do have top be on the left side of the cabinet, and when need to keep your eyes on the floor, since it moves very slowly. Keep trying and you’ll get it.

There’s also a section in a very tall tower that, for me, had a problem with quicksaves – I couldn’t load any, for some reason. I’m curious to know if you have the same problem wtih the WON version – would you mind letting me know?

By: Salmoneye

Salmoneye — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:10:29 +0000

Playing WON version…I am stuck in Second Wind in the ‘palace’ with the shiny floor…The cabinet looks like it should move, but it does not…Is this a known bug?…Other than this glitch, it is an amazing pak…

By: wreade1872

wreade1872 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:42:13 +0000

Nearly finished playing this, couple of maps to go, definitely worth the download very good overall. Hated the map EchoTransit, nice idea but i’m a pretty good player and still had to play that about 40 times, half of which were after switching to God mode. By the way to disable the bomb keep hitting the Use key eventually it’ll disappear but the tripwire bombs will remain as they should.
Sky graphic bug in map ItsSaferHere and bug that freezes game at start of map SecondWind can both be solved by switching to OpenGL video mode, at least that fixed them for me. Had problem with screensize later in SecondWind and switched back to Direct3D to solve that. Despite bugs thats my favourite map really fantastic, could have had a few more enemies in it towards the end but still great.
As i said overall definitely worth it, i’m keeping PQL, Issues and Reissues around.

By: [Kona]

[Kona] — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:48:05 +0000

Reissues has come a long way since it’s beginnings. I think PQL was a good example of amateur mappage, the type of stuff that shouldn’t even be released. There was the odd good one in there (Adam Foster), but the majority was rubbish. Issues was an improvement, but again nothing I’d really want to play a second time, not the type of stuff you’d show off in your portfolio. Fortunately, someone decided to show some quality control with Reissues, because almost everything in it is good quality. Many of the levels are well built, with a variety of styles. Second Wind is obviously the highlight – one of the best, if not THE best looking Half-Life level I’ve seen. It really is about time someone made something of quality that isn’t Lambda corridors and air vents. Or Xen.

I did have some progression problems with some of them, a couple of sequences in Starlabs didn’t appear to initiate, so I had to noclip. Reloads would often crash on Second Wind 2 (I think gman or the sounds had something to do with it). Also I never figured out how to stop the bomb in ra_level2, so I just skipped to the next level.

But anyway, definitely a top-notch set of levels. Congrats guys! Next time I’d like to see no hub, a more consistent theme and proper progression through each level, so each one starts the way the last ended. In other words a seamless episode or 2. And the quality control is a must.

The good thing about this sort of thing is that you don’t have to dedicate five years to making something to release, only 2-3 levels is fine when you’ve got several other mappers contributing as well. If the levels were all released solo then just about every comment would be “too short”, because Half-Life players are so demanding and expect every release to be hours of playtime.

By: mcrip

mcrip — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:49:46 +0000

Half of the maps are well desingned, not too much cheating needed. There is no story and some of the maps are buggy. There are new areas to explore.

By: philbolton

philbolton — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:06:53 +0000

Thanks -Gilfrarry — must be more patient in future, and maybe not look for complicated solutions-

Phil

By: Gilfrarry

Gilfrarry — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:12:05 +0000

The lift takes a long, long time. You can see its progress by the row of lights above it.

By: philbolton

philbolton — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:16:57 +0000

Thanks to Stef and Gilfrarry. I did look everywhere for the launcher, but never did find it.
I did kill the tank with grenades though and so managed to continue.

Another question if I may:- I am now in the portal “CYAN” and am stuck again…………….
In a big hall with huge glass windows that look out to desert, there’s a lift in the centre that doesn’t come when called. There’s three floors but I can’t get to the top one (need the lift?) I keep killing all the aliens but they just respawn ’till eventually they kill me. It seems obvious I’m supposed to carry out some predetermined action, (maybe get outside to kill the guy out there that seems to be regenerating the guys inside) but for the life of me I can’t find what it is!
Anybody help?

Phil

By: Gilfrarry

Gilfrarry — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:54:01 +0000

The rocket launcher is in an area where you probably already were, among those big square buildings with the catwalks towards the beginning of the map. It’s in a box under a tent that wasn’t open earlier.

By: Stef

Stef — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:29:28 +0000

I did look for a red and green building but it didn’t shine at my eyes…I don’t remenber exactly… was it just in the area behind the wall? (recharge are there for sure) or the first building on your right if you let the broken wall behing you or perhaps in the far right corner where there was a tent, explosive box and marine waiting for you when you start…perhaps I had chance but find it without too much searching thats why i don’t remimber right but for shure it’s somewhere in this area

BTW Phillip if you need more screen let me know

By: philbolton

philbolton — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:43:01 +0000

I am playing in the portal where I have to recharge the teleporter power supply, when the tank bursts through the wall and I have to find the Rocket Launcher in the “red and green buildings” :-
Well, I can’t even find a red & green building, never mind a rocket launcher.
Anybody help?

Phil

By: mel

mel — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:13:49 +0000

Thanks for checking AI. I just loaded the level again, no change the Osprey is about 20 feet off the ground but the undercarriage wheels are on the ground, crazy. Anyway I have loaded the next map from the console and making progress. Thanks for confirming that the level change was how I expected, i.e. once you get in the Osprey, at least I have not missed anything

By: AI

AI — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:46:55 +0000

I manualy loaded the map “Scepterofra1″ (WoN version) it loaded fine, got my info, went out to the “Osprey” and had no problem getting in! After I got in the next map loaded with no problem! I’ll try the “Steam” version tomarrow, if you think you missed a trigger point, I don’t know where it is!! Sorry for not being much help to ya!!

By: andyb

andyb — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:24:10 +0000

I’ll check it out in the morning if I have time.Been up since 4am and been working on closing the trailer for the year.Tired now lol.

By: mel

mel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:50:55 +0000

Ok AI and andyb this is what happens now; I can now load maps from the console but still have the same issue that stop me progressing before, but now I can skip round it by loading the next map.

I maybe missing a trigger; at the beginning of map ’scepterofra1′ you get your mission info which tells you to get kitted-up and make for the Osprey, but the Osprey is hovering above the ground and you can’t get in it, I have noclip onto the Osprey but still nothing triggers. So have now loaded the next map ’scepterofra2′, this I am thinking should load if you can get on the Osprey. Any chance in checking this out for me? Either way I am up and progressing again so thanks for all the help.

By: mel

mel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:55:15 +0000

Yes it is. I have just downloaded the game again from the above Filefront link and both this level and the other level I had both have the sw.dll. I have not cross checked all the content. However, the new downloaded file is better structured with all the elements in their respective folders, which is not the case with the old download. So something is different. Thanks again andyb.

By: andyb

andyb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:24:57 +0000

is the sweet half life dll in the half life folder?I believe its sw.dll

By: mel

mel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:22:22 +0000

OK AI and thanks, I not saying I need a patch just that if there was one I would take advantage of it, one of the above post quoted a pitch. However, I will download the won version from FileFront unless you suggest otherwise, thanks again.

By: AI

AI — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:41:10 +0000

Mel, I tried 2 ramdom maps from the console in Reissues (WON and Steam versions) both ran fine! I don’t know what you need a patch for? My WON version is at 1.1.1.0 and the “Steam” version is whatever “Steam” is!!

By: mel

mel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:57:10 +0000

Question for AI and andyb; have you tried loading a map from the game via the console?

By: andyb

andyb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:54:15 +0000

I downloaded the won version from filefront to check and this is from the liblist

game “Reissues”
url_info “http://reissues.home.att.net/”
version “0.5″
size “232144896″
hlversion “1110″

I dunno if he forgot to change the version number or this is an old file.File planet and file front all have the same file listed as 1.1 but I think they are 1.0 as that file is the same size also.I’m gonna try using the steam file in won tonight and see what happens

By: AI

AI — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:52:02 +0000

mel, I think this is newer (1.1) I loaded the WON version and it seems to run very nice as far as I have gone! I don’t think there is a patch for the WON version! This version DL’s at 99.5 mb.