Unforeseen Consequences: A Half-Life Documentary

[ekske1]

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Noclip is great.

 

[Belieber<3]

Awesome documentary.

That's it, I'm replaying Half Life. Anyone ever play it on hard? It's not a game where the higher difficulty levels just turn enemies into bullet sponges right?

 

[Pegasus]

I must have finished that Half-life uplink demo, from the old PC Format disk a hundred times before I actually had enough money to buy the game.

 

[ekske1]

Note sure how good but just saw this over at pc gamer:

A wide-ranging Half-Life 2 mod called MMod, which has been in the works for nine years, is out now, and it reworks Valve shooter's visuals, gunplay and enemy AI.

Combat is the focus, and the mod adds new weapons, changes weapon handling, and introduces new animations. I'm a big fan of the new idle weapon animations that you can see in the trailer above: when stood still, Gordon Freeman will wipe the scope of his crossbow to clean smudges, or lovingly stroke his trusty rocket launcher.

As for new weapons, the video above shows that you can grab a turret and haul it around, spraying down enemies. You'll also be able to aim down sights on some weapons, such as the basic pistol.

The mod redesigns both the audio and visual effects, and tweaks the graphics in general. It certainly looks prettier than what I remember of the original—I like the new glowy eyes for the Combine soldiers—and particle effects are far flashier.

MMod also "hardens" the AI and gives the Combine new actions to perform, such as firing underslung grenade launchers.

It's already garnering praise over on its ModDB page, where you can download it. Make sure you have a clean install of Half-Life 2 and both Episodes 1 and 2, as well as the free community-made Half-Life 2: update, which the mod runs off.

Thanks, Dark Side of Gaming.

https://www.pcgamer.com/this-half-life-2-combat-rework-mod-was-9-years-in-the-making/

 

[justplain]

Yeah, the first time I played (all those years ago) HL1 and HL2 + expansion packs I set the difficulty to hard.
I figured I wasnt going to play the game all over again on a different difficulty setting any time soon.
Set it to hard, go forth and gravity gun the **** out of those enemies!

 

[ekske1]

I am almost done with my half life 1 retro replay. I had one game breaking bug, few other issues but overall its been interesting with some frustration going back to my first steam title. Of course when BlackMesa does come out this year its yet another play through.

After this I'm going to hop into quake 2 using this.