Definitely must play this one, i could’nt go deeper on this review because i played this quite long a go, but i remember well thanks to the screen shoots, i don’t really know why i didn’t review this at the time, but must be the time when i just play and i didn’t make reviews at all, shame on me!, now i review everything it moves and u can play

There were a few memorable scenes. One that stood out was where you had to swim through a submerged tenement, floating furniture and all. I liked the scenes with the overgrown ivy and the final combat arena was also cool. Using Headcrabs as a swarming enemy in great numbers is a neat idea.

I also liked the unusual weapon loadout here emphasizing the Magnum instead of the normal Pistol. The Magnum definitely has more oomph to it, but naturally ammo is more scarce. This forces you to play resourcefully. In particular, exploiting the grenades the Zombines use to clear out dangerous rooms for you.

As others have pointed out, the mod has two main faults. One, the lack of a real ending (or title graphic and level, for that matter) is disappointing. Two, there are way too many locked doors. The author chose to give almost every door a handle, even if the door is permanently locked, so you wind up trying every door until you find the one that actually opens. Without the telltale visual clue of a missing door handle, this ends up being tedious in some of the larger rooms.

The “bonus map,” apparently disconnected from the mod itself, is a run-and-gun map through a Combine train platform. It was a lot of fun and had great momentum, but like the other map, it just “ends” without any fanfare.

Definitely worth playing.

Thanks Jasper. From a distance it was not obvious this screen was down.

1. See screenshot #9. You get to this room down a corridor protected by a turret (automated machine gun). ‘Use’ the bright red light (switch) and a forcefield will drop.
or
2. See Screenshot #16 with the red lasers. You can

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If it’s neither of these, find a screenshot at or near where you are and post back here.

All I want to know is when’s the mod going to be completed and released!

There will be no release. This is it. As I said in my review, the author has decided to move onto a new mod idea. As you noticed, it’s not finished, but there won’t be any updates.

All I want to know is when’s the mod going to be completed and released!

To just fade to black is new but rude. I prefer an ending that lets me know I’m done.

Don’t forget this is an unfinished piece of work and should be judged as such.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO HORROR.

God that was creepy. ;.;

Yet epic.

Of course, as the intelligent tactician that I am, I managed to find a huge exploit that I… thoroughly exploited:

There also aren’t nearly enough mods that make effective use of Father Grigori. This was one that managed to pull it off.

I hope the author’s next release opens-up both the gameplay and the settings, would be nice to get above ground.

Sure there were times you might not have been sure where to go next, but not so many that it spoiled things, and what’s the game without some exploration after all? The whole experience was one of a very polished quality, and I’m sure that the author has enormous potential.

More please!

Fade to black is OK, but add some simple credits.

Don’t forget this is an unfinished mod. He would have added stuff like that if he had finished it.

I was extremely confused by the ending. Grigori said to follow him, so I just thought that my flashlight had died and I was supposed to follow the sound of his voice through the darkness. I spent about 20 minutes wandering around waiting about 30 seconds between short bits dialogue from Grigori and eventually ran into a large group of headcrabs. I thought, “Ok, maybe he will find the light switch once I kill all of them,” so I randomly thrashed the crowbar around for a while until they were all dead. At that point I couldn’t find where to go, so I looked here at the reviews only to find that I had apparently reached the end. It ended up being a very anticlimactic and frustrating ending to an otherwise fun map.

Apart from that, I really liked the dark atmosphere, and the level design was great. I never got stuck trying to figure out where to go next. Keep up the good work, and please give the player some sort of indication next time when the game ends.

But i couldn’t finish it for a few reasons, one was being away for a very long time before i actually could do a proper ending or polish it even more, the second was after i began working on it again much changed in the levels that the best were to renew the whole thing.
So working now on a better “release” i thought, before this goes into trash forever i will let Phillip just release the old one.

Well it was more an experiment and my first try at hammer as well to do “leveldesign” or even building a whole SP experience, so i were more interested in the comments especially what people like and what not which gave me a bit of an idea. Ill say Thanks for that !

That said, hoping to have a new mappack by end of this year, of course with an proper ending and maps that not have to be activated through the
console.

I’ll maybe post a few screens the next weeks here on PP.

Very well done. I guess the antlion guard didn’t really fit, but I’m less picky about such things. I didn’t get lost or have to backtrack at all, except when I saw the pistol…

The only thing I didn’t like was the end. If I wanted to listen to everything Grigori has to say, I’d open up GCFScape. Instead I listened, and listened, and finally came here to see that it was, indeed, the end.

The bonus map was very nice, as well. A couple of “aaah!” moments that I could replay and deal with differently.

There were a couple very difficult moments, but on the whole it was pretty easily navigated. The maps themselves were beautiful, very well done. Though I do have to wonder: is EVERY place a prison?

More Grigori would have been nice, though given his very limited speeches that may have been a bit hard to pull off.

Good stuff. Keep modding!