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lol, yeah, it does get just a bit annoying how many end with a stupid “to be continued?” and never do. There are a few that buck the trend though.
I find it pretty strange that Dangerous World was released on my birthday. Other than that, I think it was a good mod overall, once you get past the bugs and other strange things - I wasn’t really bothered by its attempts to mimic F.E.A.R.
In the end, it didn’t piss me off even a quarter as much as Rock 24 did. With that mod, I finished it feeling bittersweet, after all the bugs, crappy voiceacting, confusing layout in general, and did I mention more bugs?
To me, Dangerous World ironically felt more integrated into the Half-Life universe than Rock 24 (I’ll simply pass off the horror moments as simple mental instability on Frank Harrison’s part. It’s not that far-fetched, considering what the Combine does to citizens on a daily basis.), and left me with that feeling of wanting to see it continued, much like MINERVA.
my thoughts exatcly i just thought he was mentally unstable since its halflife universe which isnt supernatural in a ghosts way
Oddly, I never noticed any major bugs when i played Rock 24. Unless you’re talking about when you play it through Synergy. That was horrible. I felt the voice acting was adequate, if nothing special. I’ve certainly heard worse (awakening anyone?)
I never really considered Rock 24 to be really be intended to be integrated into HL2. It didn’t use any of the scenes, locales, or even reference any event from the official games, so I didn’t mind if it deviated from any particular standard that HL2 set. Despite that, I felt it actually did a great job of the catching the proper feel of HL2 (except possibly for the gman and vort sequence, and the one cutscene that breaks you out of your character)
I could have gone along with that as well if there was some consistency to it. Have more of those events at the beginning of the game. Like instead of having the skeletons just pop up at you, have them turn into flicker into zombies or even combine soldiers and attack you, but then flicker back to being just skeletons. Get rid of the doofy guy in the black clothes.
I suppose part of my problem might be that I played the original Dangerous World Demo. I really enjoyed the open ended exploration feel that it had. You started out in the middle of the map, and there were about 7 different directions you could go off in, and only about 3 of them were actually required. It set my expectations that the game would/should/could have been like that the whole way through, but then it just fell into an incredibly linear path with the occasional mental breakdown in the middle.
Eh, I’m pissed off at Rock 24 because I went back to it recently, and it became extremely buggy, which pretty much frustrated me to the point of getting annoyed at anything and everything. Must’ve been because of Valve’s fuck-up they decided to call an update.
that sounds about right. not really rock24’s fault for that. Heck, Citizen was a pretty damn good mod and it’s all but unplayable now.
The sad thing is that their so-called ‘update’ even fucked up Half Life 2 for me. Random crashes, a weird skybox glitch on the airboat levels, and the coast levels were all in fullbright, as well as having the skyboxes screwed up.
Did Valve even test the update before making it a damn mandatory download?
Not sure man but ive had no problems and ive been running through the whole game again, even useing the new setting multiple cores or w/e
Oddly, my father recently purchased a new computer, and I set him up with a game of HL2 on it, and provided I had it running on direct X 9.0 and HDR on and not 8.1 everything looked pretty decent. I still have the fullbright problems when I’m running it in 8.1 with HDR off.
It just occurred to me that this should probably be merged into the general “Mods” thread that is running around somewhere.
Can anyone help me? I dl’ed, and installed the steam fix, but the same rror keeps occuring when i try and start the game (that one, null 0 error) D:
Edit: I made a thread. If you can help me, go here