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- Title: Timeline 3: Heart Of Darkness
- File Name: timeline-3.exe
- Size : 40.6Mb
- Author: Ross Smith
- Date Released: 03 February 2002
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6 recommendations, average score: 4.67 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.56
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27 Comments
31st August 2005
found it a great map – typical of halflife – but am stuck on the bit where u r in the control room and many soldiers come through a teleport – which u obviously kill – but nothing else happens
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26th January 2006
WoW!
I played the Timeline II and III levels and I’ve noticced they got better as the game progressed. The locations in Timeline III were probably the best I’ve ever been to in a half life mod.
Without giving away too much there is this one part where you can go to four timelines (really five, but i’ll leave that a surprise). set in a future Lambda complex. Your first choice takes you to HG Wells and the story that the Time Machine has brought to us over the past century. There is one bug here though i encountered where your weapon will have no ammo. Simply quick load the game and that bug should be fixed.
Then there’s the year 2019 which is basically modern and nothing too fancy about it. But the other two locations just capture the mind and your imagination so much it could be a movie or a book. You go to the year 5 billion AD with the sun a super massive red giant and 20 billion years AD. And once you beat all that you’re still only half way through the mod!
The mod’s cut scenes were nicely done but there were a few times that I wish they had had a cut scene or two that it was kind of confusing. Especially with the chose your time zone part. I didn’t know if I had completed that mission or not. Though lava rushing after you is a good hint that that mission is accomplished.
14th October 2006
anyone else have a problem with the game crashing on map change from dark11e to f ? thats the spot where after breaking a case open getting the goods and the floor gives away you have to crawl through a pipe.when dropping down the pipe it crashes to desktop.does it in steam also.i tried just manually loading the map but it crashes then too.
15th October 2006
I have enjoyed Timeline 1&2 so far with not much problems, only getting stuck on elevators sometimes! but I’m in Timeline 3 part 2: The cry of Mankind and now the comments are in some different language!! Is the rest of the mod like this??? or is there another version in English?? I printed your walkthru, just in case! I don’t like using them, makes it to easy, cause I like to challange my old Grey Gamer Mind!! Since I don’t eat oranges, I use a large wooden mallet on the back of my head when I get stuck!!
16th October 2006
no idea what you mean. part 2? darkness is in another language for text.
16th October 2006
I went by the listing in the Timeline 3 walkthru it says what I described above, BUT when I looked at my save map list it says darkness, take a look at the walkthru. But my same question, Is the language different in the rest of this mod??? I’ll get thru it but it’s annoying when you can’t understand the message! Hmmmmmm maybe the old dog needs to learn some new tricks??
17th October 2006
well i extracted the maps from the pak file and tried to run a viewer on map dark11f but no go.seems to be errors in the .bsp.worked fine on other files.couldnt export to a .map and rebuild because of the errors either.what a pain.
19th October 2006
Whoops, just posted on the walkthrough instead of here. Sorry!
I crash in exactly the same place, just as you drop down the tube after the floor has fallen away. I tried skipping onto the next map, but that didn’t really help in any way whatsoever….
Pity, I was really enjoying this one, just as the previous two.
Any suggestions please?
20th October 2006
if you find an answer let me know.short of finding someone with an original pak not corrupted I have no idea.
20th October 2006
http://editingarchive.com/view.php?ID=393
The download at “the Archive” isn’t corrupted,at least not at the same place that the one I got from here is. The zip has a different name though, as does the folder in it.
But on the plus side the text referred to above is in English!
20th October 2006
I’m 99% certain that I also have that file:
http://www.filecloud.com/files/file.php?user_file_id=145975
It’s the same name and size. I’ve added it to the main post.
20th October 2006
The original download was 38Mb and the one you’ve just linked to is 40.6Mb…I wonder if there was something missing?
At least its working now!
And once again, thank you for an excellent site!
21st October 2006
cool stuff.thanx
21st October 2006
I must say I dont think I could of finished this mod without the walkthrough.I really enjoyed it and the length of it was great.Almost like a whole new game.
26th October 2006
Having the same crash when the floor drops out going inside the pipe to the drop off and game quits
26th October 2006
do the same thing you did with the one you have installed now.just over write the files with the new ones.
26th October 2006
Thanks again!!
14th November 2007
hey i’ve downloaded the 3 timeline episodes yesterday, and i’ve won 1 & 2 i found the improvements in each episode very nice you learn as you go on into making this i like the detail level for some things and others..
im playing timeline 3 im at the begining of the second episode, and i wanted to share the fact that i have actually (this is for the ppl who played this) i still have barney with me, (yes the one from the begining) it’s a loler and well i wanted to say thanks to this page that has prove to be valuavle one more time to make me enjoy some good games, with all that sayd i think this is a mod that no hl-gamer should miss.
14th November 2007
sorry fot the double post.
you need to get a keycard from the room were there are two elevators, the panels on the walls are actually doors check the guide it has pictures, with that keycard you activate the satelite or something and then you can press the buttons in the control room.
6th March 2008
Finally finished all tree Timeline mods and all of them are great in places hard but playable.
Great gameplay and story I can only say
5th April 2008
quality mop/design great/good balance/hard jumps/lots of going tracking/confusing at times.
From the design side this is properly the best of the 3 in the series, however, I find it contained too much back tracking making the mod very confusing at time, such that I did not enjoy 3 as much as 1 & 2. But it’s still a quality mod with design great, good balance gameplay if on the hard side with some very difficult jumps.
Overall the Timeline trilogy ranks among the best all time HL1 custom games and if you have not played them you are missing out. I am ranking the whole series here.
9th June 2008
SDRAWKCAB:
wow siht dom si rebu emosewa ):
ENGLISH: Wow this mod is awesome
3rd July 2008
It’s astonishing that the Timeline series isn’t better known – I have played over 100 HL1 mods and this one has only just hit my radar! It is a towering achievement – one of the very best mods around. It is well worth playing Timelines 1, 2 and 3 in sequence as the very ingenious story unfolds throughout all three. The gameplay is really tough in places, both in terms of firefights and puzzles. I usually play on “Hard” but did the three Timelines on “Easy” – it’s that tricky – and had frequent recourse to the excellent walkthroughs. This mod is engrossing, enjoyable, clever and has plenty of humour. 5/5 from me.
13th June 2009
Updated the post to include a working link.
3rd August 2010
i have a bug, when i get to the map dark13c and i press quick save (F6) the game crashes. also when want to come back to the loading zone, it crashes too.
can someone tell me how to fix this?
8th January 2011
Wow boy it’s been a long since i completed the “timeline” series, and i must tell you the concept of this mod is great, but i feel like the developer didn’t make his best, with the concept, ok i know!, you probably think: and where the bloody are you to say so???
Ok i’m saying that because even tough the concept is great the classy HL1 npc’s models just dont fit into it!, i mean the natzi soildiers were just US marines with swasticas in their arms!!!, come on!!, it’s been like 2 years since i played this mod and i still remember that, sorry mr developer i’m not trying to be rude but that’s a lack of quality related to the detail…
I mean if the GATE1 reached it’s classic state in HL1 mods it’s because that mod created an unique atmosphere, i mean you see real natzi soildiers on it and also their propper WEAPONS, here on TIMELINE you feel like a Black-Natzi-Mesa atmosphere and the soildier enemys just crap the play-action momentum with those ultra modern MP5 guns shooting at me, i mean i’d love to saw on that mod real models of natzi soildiers and models of their propper historic period weapons. I mean, i maybe sound like a yelling mother, but i think this mod could be a classic, if those details are corrected in a propper way, i mean put some reallistic models that create a propper atmosphere that make us belive we are in a timeline adventure!!
I don’t know what is doing the author of this series, but he surelly has the “historic” opportunity to make this mod right and convert it into a classic and a must play into the HL1 world, i’d love to see this mod also into an integrated Whole mod, i mean with parts 1,2&3 integrated into a big one and with the propper steam fix, and you bet with no doubts, i’ll sure i download it and play it with excitment and joy again that’s for sure, even though i think that’s unlikely going to happen, but anyway, i’d love to see this mod with those minimum but very important changes, and we most likely would have a master piece in the HL1 mod universe.
4th November 2011
Finished replaying this tonight. The mapping, textures and style of Timeline 3 are the best in the series and always makes me sad that Ross Smith doesn’t seem to have done any projects after it.
Timeline 3 takes you on an incredible adventure through time that you’ll likely not forget. This mod is almost 10 years old now and I still enjoy and remember it. Highly recommended.