mod reccomendations

Half-Life Series
#41

Okay, you may be confusing the super definition pack for something it’s not. The diamondD super definition pack is for Half Life, not Azure Sheep. Azure Sheep has it’s own Super Definition pack which is why I specifically provided the links for them.

First of all, you should install the Azure Sheep mod to your “steam/steamapps//half-life/” folder, when you finish, you should be able to open up your “half-life” folder and see a folder called “asheep” which contains the azure sheep mod and all necessary files. When you go to install the Superdef Pack, it will ask you for where you want to install it to. For this, you will want to find that “asheep” folder that is located in your “half-life” folder and select that as the location to install to.
If you try using the DiamondD superdef pack on Azure Sheep, you’ll wind up with a lot of models not getting updated, as Azure Sheep includes custom models that were never IN Half Life. If you try using the azure sheep superdef pack on half life itself, you aren’t going to get much out of it. A lot of the stuff that gets changed is the custom models like Kate and the female security guards.
One thing that DOESN’T get changed when you install the Azure Sheep Superdef Pack on Azure Sheep is the main menu background image of Barney, Kate and the chumtoad, which will still look like the NON-Superdef models, but that’s only the background image, the actual in game models should look updated when you actually go to play the game, provided that you don’t have Vista blocking your installation process for some reason.

#42

Synergy is supposed to be amazing (makes HL2 coop)

And Dystopia is also fantastic

Both are available through Steam! :smiley:

#43

These are some i recently downloaded and enjoyed.

Half-Life: Residual Point

Half-Life: Visitors

Operation: Nova

Point of View and Azure Sheep Super Definition (interconecting story line, Point of view is very impressive)

Ravenholm and its follow up Eye of the Storm

Absolute Redemption

Research and Development(very fucking well made)

and am currently playing The Citizen but havent completed it

Edit: These are all set in the half life universe.

#44

I used DiamonD on HL, and the asheep one for Azure Sheep. I know where to extract, and I put the files in the right place. They just don’t work. This happens a lot on HL2 and CSS for me also, where only certain skins work. The few parts of DiamonD that DID work for HL carried over to Asheep, but none of the weapons from the HiDef pack did for some reason, even though most NPC’s were still in Hi Def. I’m starting to confuse myself, and I have no idea what it is that I am doing wrong. I figure if it was because I have Vista that it’s not working, NONE of my skins would work, but that is not the case.

#45

what rendering method do you use? Software, D3D, OpenGL? I used open gl and it had worked fine for me.

hrmm, i think I might know what your problem COULD be if you are running Vista. I occasionally had the problem that Vista would protect folders that required admin access to modify or something, so if a program installed something, it would occasionally NOT make the changes and all the new files that you added would instead end up in some sort of weird backup folder that you could only access by going to the folder where things were SUPPOSED to be and then clicking on a button that shows up in the menu bar of the folder.

Yes it’s very annoying. you MIGHT be able to get around this by making sure to run the installation.exe as an administrator.

#46

I would like some source mod reccomendations also i want to have a good library of mods before i really get into them

#47

If you want a scary mod then get Mistake-1.

#48

One of my favorites mods is Combine Destiny. It’s not much, but it has some really cool stuff going for it. It has original music, a custom HUD (not just a straight up recolor), and, in my opinion, really cool level design. There’s really a sense that there were some epic standoffs between the combine and the zombies, esp. in the first few levels. It can get really REALLY dark (lighting-wise) at times, but I think that adds something to it. Also, there is (I think) more than one path to the end. (Pretty sure there’s two.) In conclusion, there’s a lot packed into a relatively little mod. Make sure if you get it that you download the patch too.

#49

Combine Destiny is a TERRiBLE mod. Avoid it!

i will be honest; i never finished it. i know it’s short, but the game can’t keep my attention past the introduction. Even the intro is boring! All of the game’s interiors are boring concrete rooms with NO detail. No pipes, no clutter, no nothing. The level design reminded me of Wolf3D. Traverse the big square room to…ANOTHER large square room. i felt like i was playing a work-in-progress. There were far too many enemies without very much ammo. i fought through half of it with the stun baton because i kept running out of ammo.

i even found two game-breaking goofs in one room: After fighting a hoard of poison crab zombies with only a stun baton, you’re left to jump out a window about 30 feet in the air. With less than 25 health, you are killed on impact. There’s nowhere else to go and NO HEALTH pickups. in the same room -provided you survive your freefall- is a dumpster you can jump into for health items and ammo…but you can’t get OUT of said dumpster without using the crates inside as stairs. But that defeats the purpose of climbing in there in the first place! You have to BREAK the boxes to get the health! if you’re dumb enough to save after picking up health like i did, you’re stuck with no way out.

The soundtrack was “composed” in MiDi, there’s no detail to any of its boring map “designs”, there’s too many enemies randomly placed with too little ammo and combine follower Ai hardly works at all. The whole game felt like it was slapped together by a 8 year old in one week. The only think the mod has going for it is the plot. i was hoping for a good story that would put me in Combine shoes.

…and was sorely disappointed.

-Kawai Tei-

#50

Like I told you, Source mods are pretty easy. Anything from THESE THREE LINKS will be worth at LEAST checking out. Phillip is currently working on getting an “avoid/play it” bar under each mod he posts up, which will make it much easier to scroll through the mod lists and see which ones are actually worth checking out. I’d link you to the site mockup that he has already, but he apparently doesn’t have permission to make that public.

I still have about 5 more mods that I’m playing through before I’ll be ready to put out my personally recommended source mods, but when I do, I’ll break them up into category (HL2, Ep1, Ep2, Portal) and also a basic review like what I did for my gold source mod list.

You MIGHT like Combine Combat. Which has you playing as a combine soldier. You can even get a sniper rifle and manhacks. It definitely has some interesting level design (once you get out of the citadel, of course).
My only issue were certain elements that kept me from feeling fully immersed in the combine “experience” such as; the sniper rifle not getting that cool blue laser, not being able to open combine locked doors or walk through combine forcefields, getting the gravity gun halfway through the game, the rebels attacking you from a helicopter of their own, rebels armed with pulse rifles, being able to kill a few (but not all) of your fellow combine, and occasional issues where the weather changed drastically from map to map.
Most of the issues I brought up actually make for fun gameplay, but at the expense of feeling very shoehorned, so instead of feeling like I was the combine, I felt like the combine were the rebels and the rebels were the combine.

#51

what do I do about the so much for freeman mod being a rar file?

#52

Download WinRAR. It’s free and it extracts RAR, ZIP, and a couple other kinds of those type of folders.

#53

I always had issues with winrar asking me to register and buy the full version every time I opened a file. Not sure if that was because it was an old version, but i ended up switching to 7-zip which seems to work pretty well.

#54

It also always tells me to buy the full version but I always just click close on the little window. All it does is tell you to buy the new one, you can still use it perfectly well.
Here’s a picture:

Even though it says it’s not free, it is.

#55

I know, that’s all I was saying was that it kept asking. I did the same thing, but eventually just decided to switch to 7zip, which doesn’t nag me.

#56

I prefer to repeatedly click “close” on a program I know how to use, then to download and start anew with a completely different one.

#57

Except that 7-zip isn’t any harder to use than WinRAR. Open an archive, drag stuff out of it, close it. Not much more to it.

#58

Yeah but I’m too lazy to bother getting a nw one just because the one I have wants me to buy the same exact thing I’ve been using. Seriously, clicking “close” isn’t that hard to do.

#59

coughneitherisdownloadingandinstallingacompletelyfreeprogramthatdoesntbugyoutopayatallcough

Nah, I’m just messing with you, dude. I don’t care which program you use. I probably would have kept using winrar too if I hadn’t cleaned my laptop off and done a full reinstall after I sent it into the shop to fix an issue with the monitor.
I’m just not going to recommend he use a program that’s going to bug him constantly when there are other options that work just as well without the hassle. It’s not like it’s going to be easier to download winrar than it is for 7zip, so all else equal, you might as well go with the one that doesn’t bug you.

#60

Well I guess you do have a point. Oh well, it is gordonfreemantshepard’s choice on which one to use, afterall. And without having either of them to start with, he would obviously choose the one that doesn’t bother him about buying stuff everytime he wants to extract something.

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