I’m fine with the sounds, I simply think they’re a waste of time to dl. Also, yes you could go and join a server running the regular maps and game modes, but there’d be no one else playing it because for some bizarre reason all the people playing HL2Dm are drawn to the shitty modified servers.
@Daedalus193 Thanks for the tip, that’s really useful, but, unfortunately, it only solves one of the problems. And I still have to take forever dling shitty maps and textures. And I can’t simply disable the shitty textures as that’d make everything purple and black.