Best HL2 SP mods

Half-Life Series
#81

RHYS4190, I had trouble, but I figured it out. In order to get it to work I did two things.

First, I went here, and followed the instructions to change my gameinfo.txt. I think I followed the instructions at the bottom: “UPDATE - optional HL2 and EP2 FIX”. This got my game to run, but crash during the intro.

The other thing you have to do is force the game to run on DirectX 8, instead of 9 or 10. To do this (it’s not naturally in the options menu), you change the “Launch Options” under “Properties” in your steam library so that it reads:

-dxlevel 8

That’s what did the trick for me!

#82

yeah gave it a go edited the game info file and now I can’t get steam to register the game I think im going to give up on this one, don’t really feel like putting the time into fixing a mod

#83

About Underhell, my review:

  • weapons sound and behave quite well, they have done a good job, definitely much better than those CoD recoilless guns with a single slightly modified sound shared between them all.
  • gunplay is simply fun
  • the AI is either dumb or acts superb at times ._.
  • the whole House thing is an interesting idea, but…
  • I don’t like such psychological horror anymore, my heart is too weak for that shi* … dead Asian wife, seriously?
  • the story is hard to follow and to comprehend, but I may be just too lazy to read all the diaries and shi* … ghosts, hallucinations and a mutant-turning red gas? Couldn’t shake off the F.E.A.R. rip-off feeling.
  • the enemies deal too much damage, while it feels kinda more realistic and requires tactical approach, which is good, it can be frustrating at times, even on Easy, grenades are especially deadly
  • level design… it simply sucks, no offense to the devs, but it’s very amateurish, the early street parts are done well (except repetitive floors with many inaccessible generic texture-doors, feels so 2000)
  • graphics aren’t the best, you know

That’s it I guess.

#84

How about SMOD?

#85

For Dotard’s Underhell review,
+the devs are improving graphics for the next release, but at the moment they are at least BM quality
+I don’t see how you think the level design is amateurish, it flows together extremely well and is very realistic.
+the game helps make you feel a sense of fear, that you have next to no idea what is going on and that you will learn just what’s going on as time and events occur
+if you go back and listen to the npc’s, read a few PDA’s, and pay attention to the small details you will understand just what’s going on. It’s not all meant to be understood at once, sometimes you have to go back and find information that you didn’t catch your first time around
+this is in no way a rip off of FEAR, there are no ghosts in the game as the wife isn’t quite dead, as you may think she is, the hallucinations are due to the fact that you were shot in the head and the whole first chapter is you retelling the events that happened in the jail. The reason you are having hallucinations is that you are still groggy from being shot and your memory is a little fu**ed up when you are retelling the events. The red gas would cause the people whom Ito wished to kill to suffocate, but you had a strange reaction to it, it is not “mutant-turning”
+the enemies dealing lots of damage makes the player take a very tactical approach and it puts a strong emphasis on survival, which was the enitire point of the mod

I’d give Underhell a 10/10 and it’s my favorite mod, no, game, ever

Also, the three most important things when trying to find a game, the rest is just details-

  1. The Story-Telling Element
  2. The Gameplay Element
  3. The Immersion Element
#86

Yeah, I rank it higher now, taking back some of the stuff I said, it has lots of potential, I just wonder how long is it gonna take to release whole.

#87

In that case, will you add Underhell to the list?

Also, what about Missing Information and Operation Lambda?


There are also a ton of other beta-based mods that you should check out, for example Dark Interval, even though Missing Info is most promising

#88

The “graphics” are nowhere near BM quality. They’re more like hl2 quality, seeing how they use 90% of the stock textures. They should really get a texture artist. Though that’s pretty much the only thing I didn’t like about the mod. Everything else was awesome.

Missing information team shows one or two new pictures per year so if they keep it up, we’re gonna see the next version around 2050. Operation Lambda hasn’t shown anything new since I left the team in 2011. Though they might still be working on something.

#89

9 out of 10 HL2 Beta recreation mods die out, I think people should just let old things be old. Lots of them looked promising, but it’s too great of a task, having to recreate the story from bits etc.

#90

Sorry to bump an old threat, but do any of you have a copy of the gameinfo.txt for Silent Escape that fixes it for SteamPipe? I’m trying to find a copy, but everywhere I’ve looked so far has lead me to a dead dropbox link… :confused:

Copy-pasting it’s contents into a code box would be sufficient.

Thanks!

#91

Looks like it’s still going, just slowly

#92

One of the devs replied to someone in June, not much to go on, but shows something’s happening

#93

Would looking here help you at all?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/420/discussions/0/864971765497379056/

Silent Escape is listed, with suggestions on how to fix it for SteamPipe.

Good luck.

#94

Mesa-Fallback
https://www.moddb.com/mods/mesa-fallback
This mod takes place during the Black Mesa incident. You take on the role of a HECU Marine as you fight your way through different sections of the facility and carry out varied missions. *This is not a rebuild of any game, but features areas from Half-life, Blue Shift & Opposing force in the Half-Life fashion.

Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.