From the Author: “Basically the idea of Wivenhoe (which is the name of the dam that now houses some nasty cannister-launching Combine hardware) is that the player is part of a civilian uprising trying to stop the bombardment of Ravenholm. They don’t succeed, as seen in Half-Life 2. Wivenhoe is set upriver from City 17, so the gameplay doesn’t actually take place anywhere near Ravenholm.”
“The mod uses three genres: stealth, action and horror. Playtests show that the horror part actually is scary (it’s not a “blood over every wall and ragdolls everywhere” kinda scary), the stealth part requires actual thought and patience by the player (they have zero weaponry in that part) and the action is actually exciting. So I guess the gameplay part should be fine. But that’s really up to the community to decide, no?”
- Title: Wivenhoe: The Fall of Ravenhom
- File Name: wivenhoe-for-v1.rar
- Size : 24Mb
- Author: Travis Draper
- Date Released: 20 February 2006
- Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server
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6th December 2005
Wow. Great screenshots. Looking forward to this one.
6th December 2005
I know this guy. He’s an UnrealED guru whose work made the finals in the Make Something Unreal contest. Looks like he’s got himself a mastery of Hammer now. Can’t wait to play this mod!
9th December 2005
good!
9th December 2005
I have a feeling this is going to be a good one!
24th December 2005
Exellent plot!
13th February 2006
I sent the author an email today asking for an update. Hopefully we will have some good news soon.
UPDATE:
It should be released in about a week, give or take a day or two.
19th February 2006
It’s about time! Just too bad that my HL2 has been a bit rude lately:( I’ll see if I can play this one for five minutes without any crashes.
20th February 2006
Great news. Hope your server can handle it, Phillip
20th February 2006
Me Too!
20th February 2006
Congs…!!!…planetphillip = Nš1-ONE,… 1st person games resources in the Web…Hasta La Vista…!!!
20th February 2006
Thanks for this mod, Phillip :]
Here’s a link to the Vossey post
20th February 2006
Your news is linked into another
French HalfLife website
HalfLifeFusion
20th February 2006
The mod crashes right after loading the second level. :/
21st February 2006
Thank you for this ultra fast server, Phillip. I’ll try tio post a review of sorts as soon as I play through
this artistic achievement. Well, at least I hope
it will be playable, since I have yet to find an
HL2 sp mod that pulled me inside its unique world.
21st February 2006
Wow only available on this site?
With all the restrictions this
shit better be good.
21st February 2006
Methinks that “w00t” is what one says at such a juncture…
21st February 2006
just downloading wivenhoe will let you know what i think
21st February 2006
I’ve beaten it in about 20min or so. It was actually better than i expected. I wonder if its possible to post pics on this site when discussing a mod or sp mission, or else.
21st February 2006
I’ll make a official confirmation post and apology when I can but it seems that the file contains elements that can best be described as “Unneeded”, as such the new version would be 24Mb as a .rar file. The moment I am sure I will post the details.
21st February 2006
Is that you, pizza man?
21st February 2006
first off, damn it’s small
123mb and this small…
after playing dayhard, ravenholm and a few others i don’t see how such a large file size warrants such a small game
was ok while it lasted, nice and foggy inside but much hate for zombies.. i’m so tired of them
21st February 2006
oh and btw, everything should use rar not zip
i got it down to 102mb
21st February 2006
It looks really good and plays great, but storywise it could have been far better.
The premise is good, but other than the scrambled audio message, you don’t find any of it back in the game. And you just begin with barely any health left, but no idea what your doing there.
Also I’m pretty sick of zombies, though I found the atmosphere scary.
Really liked the sthealth in the beginning and
part where a rocket damages a building.
21st February 2006
damn thing keeps crashing on the second map when you enter the damn dam.
21st February 2006
the game crashes on the 2nd map for me, too. what the hell.
21st February 2006
I found the screenshots impressive, this looked like it was going to be a good experience. However I was greatly disappointed…
Starting with 1hp? I had no idea how to get past the combine at the start, and actually had to cheat to get past it. Though a little frustrated, I kept playing.
The indoor areas were terrible, both in gameplay and visually. The final area was disappointing, also, and I had to noclip to get to the tunnel. A very short game, but I’m quite glad it ended so soon.
22nd February 2006
lol
My “Justice” single-player is only 3MB zipped, and it plays for an hour.
22nd February 2006
meh this was merely average.
Whoever thought the stealth portion would be fun
was sorely mistaken. The “action” part was pretty unfair.
You get your first gun with ~50 health and 10-15
bad guys bearing down on you. The horror part was
predictable and not very scary. The ending was decent.
Probably the best part of the entire mod.
All in all, this might be a 5 out of 10 at best. There
are simply way too many better mods out there.
22nd February 2006
Why does it show for levels in the new game menu when you can never pick the last three?
22nd February 2006
Meh.
The beginning section is terrible. Would’ve been better if you had more than 1 health so you wouldn’t die the instant you’re seen.
The other two sections were decent but it was over way too fast and there were no puzzle elements at all. There’s an awesome physics engine here, it sucks to see it not used at all.
There are also some little sloppy things which make it seem like it needed more work. I’m crawling through a vent system but it’s textured with a metal floor texture? There’s a vent texture, man! At one point it looked like the author got tired of making stairs and just decided to put ramps instead.
Cool premise and some nice setpieces but lacking in general.
22nd February 2006
Great game. Not much carrying the storyline besides the scrambled audio message playing in your right ear, but this is one of the most complete and well-made half-life 2 single player mods out there.
I especially enjoyed the stealth part in the beginning… it took a bit of trial and error to figure out where to go but once figured out, it’s actually quite easy.
The mood is nice and scary for the part within the dam with the smoke and zombies and suchm, though I think more random creepy sounds could have greatly enhanced the freak-factor.
Overall, well-made mod, but I was unable to finish it because my computer starts to get temperamental and keeps crashing in the fourth map.
A must-download, though.
22nd February 2006
I know i am gonna sound like a right noob, but how do you load the game up to begin with? becuase i have no idea
22nd February 2006
Does the rar version have any missing files, or is just as consistent as the zip?
I mean that the zip is 123 MB and the rar is 24MB
22nd February 2006
i have to agree to all the other comments that are made here, for instance the one health point in the beginning, is this a error, (that you placed the player start to high?) because i realy wouldn’t know why you otherwise would like to make it like this, or it should be the difficult factor, but than you should think of something else. it was hard to hear the message that is told in the right speaker at the beginning, also are the patrolling combines to hard to pass, this is because it’s way to dark there, even with flashlight you can’t see where you’re going. it was that some patroling guys sometimes didn’t react, even when i stood in front of them, so that’s why i could go on, but i was thinking of leaving the game to be honnist. map2, when i came out in the open, that i liked very much, very impressive, realy. 10 out of 10, nothing less!!!! but as soon when i did go inside again in map3 i didn’t liked it anymore. again much to dark, you had to stop every time to upload the flashlight, (i hate those kind of effects, a dark part is nice. 98% of a dark level is just annoing! didn’t play map 4 because my pc keeps crashing in map2 and 3, or the sound goes death and i had to start my pc manualy, when those things happen i stop, even when i realy would like to play the rest, i prefer to keep my computer safe. and i have enough power, 3 GHZ, radeon 9700 pro, etc. so that’s not it. can’t explane it otherwise as that you did make an error that causes this. it’s not that the maps are to big because i have maps in my sp-mappacks that are from the same size or even bigger and they play well. the maps are good optimazed, that i have to say, didn’t had fps problems. so i’m sorry, but like i said, i have to agree with all other comments, it’s realya shame because the maps have so much potential!!
i give it still a 7,5 out of 10!!
leon(SPY)
22nd February 2006
so cool
22nd February 2006
Man the mod was good but its way too damn short man! I mean seriously once I started getting into the groove it ended! At first when the credits started coming up I thought that was the intro and I was thikning “wow thats a badass intro” but then… it ended. Back to title screen. I was really dissapointed although the mod, I admit, was fun.
22nd February 2006
deannn unpack the mod folder in …Steam/steamapps/sourcemods folder with winrar(http://www.rarlabs.com/)
and restart steam and the game should appear in the games list. =)
22nd February 2006
In reply to comment 33 I removed the soundcache folder from the maps folder. This was over 100Mb, I read on another forum that this folder is created by HL2 when the game starts and is not needed. That’s why there is such a big difference in the file size.
22nd February 2006
I’ve extracted the .rar file using Winrar to the proper place but it will not show up in my game even when I restart steam.
22nd February 2006
You need to put the TheFallOfRavenholm folder under SteamMods.
22nd February 2006
I have done that but it wont work
22nd February 2006
Are other mods shown in the games list?
22nd February 2006
Yes, I extracted the .rar file to J:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods
I did get a couple errors when “testing” it on WinRar one of the errors said.
CRC failed in winven-for1\TheFallOfRavenholm\maps\Wivenhoe_3.bsp. The file is corrupt
22nd February 2006
rar downloads or whatever dont work for me do i need to download something to be able 2
23rd February 2006
It keeps crashing after the first load time. Multiple people
have this problem.
23rd February 2006
ROFL!!!!wivenhoe dam???? thats the damn that is the main water source for brisbane, australia…trust me i live there…lol im downloading it as we speak i hope its good and not as dry as that dam is.
23rd February 2006
OK, I don’t want to sound rude ot unhelpful but to all the people who have crashes, you are going to have to contact the author because he might be able to help you. I’m just helping with the distribution.
Kricon, can you be more specific when you say “rar downloads or whatever dont work for me”. What happens when you download and/or uncompress the file?
Jake: You live in the Damn?!
23rd February 2006
well when i click the download its says wivenhoe-v1-.rar any download that is an rar dont work when i finish downloading it says windows cannot open this file
to open this file,windows needs to know the program that created it,windows can go online to look it up automatically,or u can manually select from a list of programs on your computer.
23rd February 2006
I really liked this mod, and I was disappointed as it ended to quick. Hopefully there are sequals coming up (I wish). You’ve done a superb job in creating the mod. I can only hope to achieve something like this. Thumbs up for the game.
23rd February 2006
Kricon, as you may have realised you need an application to open it. I use .rar because it has a better compression ratio than normal .zip files.
Try:
http://www.rarlab.com/
and
http://www.7-zip.org/
They both make applications that open .rar files.
Brian, Just to clarify, I’m just helping promote and distribute the mod. I have had NO involvement with the creation.