1187 mod released (Episode 2)

Half-Life Series
#41

Wrong. If you listen to the news in-game, it takes place after the BM Incident, portal storms everywhere. While this could still mean that it takes place before Freeman finishes in Xen, it also says Dr. Breen is touring the country, giving speeches about what happen. That implies it’s been a bit since the BM incident. Listening to the Vortigaunt when you go to the slow-motion bit, it seems like this is the time the Vorts are trying to contact the human race, while the humans are still seeing them as enemies. Since they are being fired on, they are fighting back. This is why the first vort said you were ‘misguided’.

It also seems that this takes place just before the 7 Hour war. You have a few mercenaries that look similar to the combine uniform, while apparently having their own mysterious agenda. Also, while listening in on their radio channel, you hear a weird sound, which to me sounds like the sound advisors make. And also, while everyone is sort of used to portal storms, there are now much larger portals than before, something which happened in the 7 hour war.

#42

That douche that follows you around, that male version of alyx, is what ruined this game for me.

#43

what? yea the dude is a retard sometimes like alyx. but he was something unique for a hl2 mod.

#44

Being unique doesn’t mean being useful. His voice actor sounds like one of those kids that eats teacher-balls in order to get accepted into the college of his choice.

#45

what exactly did he do to ruin it for you?

#46

I think that the guy following you around isn’t that bad, I mean he saved my life 2 times that I was a 15 hp and trying to get rid of an ambush

#47

No, it does not. In the beginning you can watch a news report saying “It’s been 10 years since the Black Mesa incident” :stuck_out_tongue:

It looked promising, but after playing it for a couple of hours I realized it’s just a waste of time.

#48

All I needed to do was try the tutorial level to know it was going to suck. A tutorial should never be that hard, boring, or strange.

#49

Strange tutorial indeed.

The headbob and being stuck at the beginning killed the mod for me. Maybe I gonna try again in a few weeks to see if I’m wrong.

#50

Spoke with the voice of a 15 year old boy reading lousy monologues poorly disguised as cool dialogues.

Few FPS games can successfully pull off the sidekick character. This just isn’t one of those games.

I would have totally ignored this if the rest of the game wasn’t garbage.

#51

…Right

After BM Incident =/= After defeat of Ninalith

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#52

So after the RC, it took over 10 years to defeat the Nihilanth?

#53

It’s not 10 years after the RC. The one newscast mentions the RC taking place ‘earlier this week.’

#54

maybe you teleported to xen very slowly :stuck_out_tongue:

It can’t be. They say breen is on a tour. How freaking quick? and the places around you look like they have been empty for at least few months.

#55

Are you sure? I could have sworn she said “ten years ago” oO

Edit: 5:28 - “It’s been almost a decade[…]” :stuck_out_tongue:

#56

I like how you ignored the bit where I say just that.

#57

I find this retarted. If its 10 years after Resonance Cascade, why vorts are still enemies? And where the fuck is combine?

#58

I just beat 1187. The Combine are at the end (spoiler in the black text at the end of this post). The vorts are still enemies because they are still wearing the slave shackles. I suspect an in-game explanation is that after the destruction of the Nihilanth, many vorts remained slaves to their Nihilanthian programming whilst others rebelled against it. This latter group is who you see in HL2.

Spoilers in the black below:
[COLOR=‘Black’]After clearing the restaurant, you overhear a group from the Omega Squad speaking with…well, my opinion is that it’s an Advisor. Bennett suggests you take the car to a small town called “Outercurve” (I think that’s what it’s called). Once you get to the town, you have to deal with hordes of Omega Squad and a couple of helicopter gunships. Once those are eliminated, John and Bennett meet up with you for battles with vortigaunts. Once those are eliminated, you witness a gigantic portal opening up in the sky and a ginormous number of Combine coming through it. John shouts out that they can take them --that we didn’t come all this way to die now – and a Combine gunship comes at you. My opinion is that it’s the start of the Seven Hours War. The screen fades to black and…cue the Gman.

#59

I liked the godamned mod! Fuck fast-paced shit. I thought it was very well thought out and entertaining, a lot better than many of the mods out there. Also, the bobbing and iron sighting are for realism, you try running sideways and keeping your head striaght, as for the iron sights, it makes sense, when you use a gun a magical crosshiar doesn’t appear to help you aim, you use the sights, that’s what they’re for.

#60

downloading it now. It better be worth the space that it takes up (not that it is much anyways :stuck_out_tongue: )

Looked pretty decent.

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