I was checking out the source mods on Mod DB and found this:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/opposing-force-2
I know that past mods that tried to expand on the story of Adrian Shepard and have completely failed in all aspects (namely “Awakening”), but this looks kick ass.
Everyone already knows about that mod pretty much I think theres already a thread about it, but yeah I’m so getting it as soon as it’s released.
I wrote a large sum of OF2’s chapters, including Awakening (AKA Urban Chaos) and I can assure you I made it as memorable as possible. Sadly I am no longer on the project, and there is a new writer. I don’t know what’s been changed, but from the latest trailer it looks pretty close to my vision.
I like the gun with dicks on top of it.
Awakening was actually very good gameplay-wise, it just didn’t make a lot of sense story-wise. (and the voice acting sucked, but that’s easily taken care of if you have the patience to edit character sound files and replace the mod’s)
This official, non-official ,mod shows more promise however.
Sorry about that, if I knew there was already a thread about I would not have have posted this thread.
100% get it and do a “let’s play”
Fong making a Let’s play series with commentary?
It is more likely than you may think.
I tried the demo, and it was awful to shoot with the machine guns,it’s hard to aim because it kicks too big, otherwise I like it
There are good intentions, and it’s cool that they’re using lots of old cut creatures…
But I wish they were all executed a bit better. From the high res-but-fuzzy textures, to the lumpy and under detailed high res models resulting in underwhelming normal maps, I can’t say the mod is a ping on my radar atm. Large textures are wasted on simple two color textures with a noise filter on them, and the normals look like they were extracted from an incomplete first pass of a high res model.
The mapping and gameplay is on point, but their presentation (and the behavior of the devs towards criticism) keeps me from being able to take it seriously.
They don’t mind criticism. They are just annoyed by the handful of people who repeatedly talk down on them. You’ll see it on the mod db images. Otherwise they’re open to suggestions and critique (the forums are always a good place, too).
I’ve always thought the 7 hour war would be more like War of the Worlds rather than them having actual foot soldiers on the ground.
The combine don’t really seem to be the type to waste resources when they can simply role over everything in their path.
What we see in Hl2 is the occupying force, not an invasion force.
Regardless though, the work does look superb. I’m just not particularly keen on the general view of the war the devs have taken.
Makes me wonder what would happen if we had the Autobots for the 7 Hour War.
Epic movie idea? Transformer x Half-Life 2?
I vote Bumblebee as a D0G replacement.
Second.
there’s a picture in the mod’s images page which shows rebels fighting combine humanoid soldiers , didnt the combine start ‘‘producing’’ such soldiers only after they occupied earth ?
Humanoid aliens.
Yeah, it’s even said in the show ‘Civil Protection’, where a CP named Mike starts talking about how dumb the name COM-bine sounded, but then he goes into other stuff about them saying, “It’s not like they showed up themselves to conquer the Earth. No. They were kickin’ it back in their homeworld, sippin’ alien martinis, while they sent another alien race, that they had already conquered, to come conquer US…FOR THEM. Now that’s just slick.”
Hence,
https://www.moddb.com/mods/opposing-force-2/images/of2-synth-soldier-protosoldier#imagebox
I’ve been watching that mod for quite awhile now and it’s probably one of my most looked forward to mods.
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