Fake Factory v9.5 Is it Worth a Download?

Half-Life Series
#21

You will have to just stick to filefront for info. Fakefactory is actually just one person, and HTML is not his best shot (or so he says in some readme’s ).

For those people not liking the new models shown in the screenshots… The mod comes with a so called Character Pimper that allows you to select the character models. AFAIK, the original models, or hd versions of the original models, or both, are included (they were in V4, the only version I played since I don’t meet the system requirements for the newer versions).

#22

only 1 dude ? Thats crazy.

#23

It is actually pretty impressive that it’s only one person working on the FF project (though I still find that hard to believe).

Appreciate the information, Wolf, thanks for posting.

#24

actually its easier to belivewhen you cant find any site of the project or any real way to help, join ;]

#25

ITT blue gets drunk and goes internetting.

#26

i was pretty drunk when i wrote that, got back from a party, how did you know ?;D
but still it holds true todfa, hl2 got old ;f

#27

fix’d before crucifixion.

#28

IT IS one person. He’s a german, a 43 years old man called Jürgen.

He said in many interviews he’d been making this mod for himself before anything else. He’d gotten “some” negative criticism about the new Models and how they don’t fit too well into the HL2 world.
It’s his project though and he can do what ever he wants with it and while not being too fond of the changes he made to the game myself, I still have to say that’s an amazing job he did there.

What’s great is that you can play HL2 and Ep1 on the Orange Box engine, some scenes are screwed up though :frowning: And you don’t need to use the HD models. It’s in a seperate package anyway, so you would have to download some Gigs more. And there’s a character pimper, in order to select an available Model you would like to use instead of the stock one.

#29

ya they have to make the models like the original ones.

#30

he has, there is a HD version of Alyx in CM4, and I can’t think of any reason why there is not a similar version in CM9.5

#31

It does have an option to use the original models with just higher resolution textures.

V9.5 seems decent enough, though I very much hate how his textures are so stupidly made that you need a 64 bit system to even play without crashing (at least on highest settings).

10 looks pretty interesting, I may get it if I have a 64-bit system by the time it comes out.

#32

The point of 64 bit is that it needs more RAM, so if you only have 32 bit now, chances are you don’t have enough RAM either.

#33

Does this completely replace HL2, or is it a stand-alone mod?

#34

No, it doesn’t. It’s stand-alone. Heck, it doesn’t even show in Steam you’ve to start it via a launcher.

#35

I liked it better when it was just reskins of original models, and even then, the textures were too realistic for Valve’s cartoony style.

I’m surprised he hasn’t managed to do anything cool with the zombies. They’re still clones of one another.

#36

The character models look like shit compared to the old ones- not in terms of of graphics, i.e. polys, but they look totally uneccessary. Is it possible to install only the environment retextures?

#37

^ Of Course it is possible :slight_smile:

#38

Ive got Cinematic Mod 9.5, and I have to say its worth a try! Coincidently I really liked the soundtrack used in Batman Begins & Dark Knight, and hearing those tracks in FF Cinematic Mod is kinda cool! (Im not dissing the original soundtrack, which is awesome).

So for that reason, I say yes. Give it a shot!

#39

VALVe’s cartoony style? They have no such style. The only cartoon game released by them was TF2, and that was merely to be different and to improve framerates on lower end computers.

#40

What about a geeky white dude in a flourescent orange HAZMAT suit running around clubbing aliens with crowbars and capping Special Forces soldiers with an M4, careening wildly through Top Secret Science Labs and Alien Robot Towers, absorbing thousands of bullets and shooting cars with gravity-manipulating guns is not cartoony.

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