>Cheerful Half-Life thread was deleted
The fuck mods?
>>315825792
People were actually talking about half life too
>half life
>>>/trash/
>>315825792
Mods are toxic mawmen confirmed.
>>315825792
It might be time to replay it. I wanted to wait for Black Mesa, but it's not worth it without Xen.
>>315826463
fuggin mawmen
http://strawpoll.me/5949656
>>315826545
Was hoping to learn about pathologic but I would fuck that headcrab
>>315826654
Open the image in a new tab and change the .jpg into .png
>>315825792
It actually makes sense, though. The mod is G-Man and he was putting us in a stasis.
Didn't the thread die naturally?
>>315826545
>>315826654
Odd... But I have that picture as well. Guess someone wants it up.Moot, is that you?
YORE DEAD FREEMOD
>>315826892
No, 404
>>315826892
nope
What happened to Australia during the events of HL2?
thread got deleted because that game sucks lmfao
>>315827068
All the cool fun aliens went there
>>315827068
They already drove off the Combine.
>>315827068
They lost the war and the emus took over.
>tfw we could have had blops assassins 2.0
>>315827397
Their titties ain't big enough
hl2.exe has stopped working
>>315827397
Valve has their reasons for cutting stuff. She may seem cool on paper but she might have been lame in practice. Like all those cut weapons that were either redundant or impractical.
>>315827921
Or the Hydra shown at the end of the E3 "Tunnels" video-- or, pretty much an entire game's worth of content. Just like with Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2 was rebuilt almost from the ground up halfway through development and became radically different from what was originally envisioned. The book "Raising the Bar" really puts this into perspective for both games.
>>315827921
Also, here's a video showing all the cut weapons (warning: the commentator yells a lot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0yKIoPiaZk
>>315828453
>tfw this mod will never get finished
>>315828453
>yells a lot
He sure does.
Will they come back?
>>315829050
http://www.moddb.com/mods/missing-information/news/missing-information-greenlit-on-steam
>3 weeks ago
>We are pleased to say that Missing Information has been approved through Steam's Greenlight program! In just two short weeks after submitting the mod, we reached 14th place on Greenlight's top 100 and got final approval on October 1. This will allow us to fix bugs and push out updates sooner than before rather than having our fans worry about downloading patches in archives. Thank-you to everyone who voted for us.
>So obviously this means that despite what some people on the internet would have you believe, the project is not dead. Real life took priority for many of us after 1.6, but the hiatus from the mod has done us some good. Most of the old gang is back together along with some new faces and we are working hard on porting everything over to our new Steam version. The first release will be a fixed version of Missing Information 1.6 ported to the Source 2013 engine which will resolve all the missing texture issues caused by the SteamPipe update. We will also have some new maps included in this version. The first of these is "Streetwar" which is a combat map based on an old City 17 map with architecture that never found its way into the final game. The next is "Terminal" which is an adaptation of Team GabeN's elusive fix that features the gloomy City 17 atmosphere that everyone loves so much.
>As well, for those who were worried about us selling out like Black Mesa did, this mod will remain a free download on Steam.
>>315829258
well color me surprised
i thought it was dead
>>315829201
Can Xen aliens survive the arctic?
>>315829640
Bullsquids and headcrabs can
>>315828453
>fire extinguisher cut because it was only used in one area
I don't know, I kind of like that sort of thing. Items, or even mechanics, unique to a specific area can make said area feel more special. RE4 is full of stuff like that. The castle's cannon is only fired once, the thermal scope is only used for like 6-7 enemies in the entire game, pretty sure there's only one area where you encounter basses, you only get to play as Ashley for a short segment, and so on. But because of it, those areas stand out and is something I still remember.
I started Opposing Force for the first time since 2003. Holy shit nigga, it is better than any other half life, maybe Episode 2 might be on the level of this one, but I'm having a blast.
I'm doing a marathon of half life and finished vanilla. Xen isn't as bad as I remember
>HL 2 doesn't have an organic gun
>>315830223I like Xen.I appreciated how different it felt, both in terms of visuals and gameplay. Sure, the first-person platforming can get annoying, but I never felt like they overdid it.Half-Life 2 suffered, in my eyes, from not having any alien environments.
>no opposing force 2
>no game starring the best protagonist of the half life series
I'll never forget you Adrian
>>315830807
I'd stick my dick in this gun, that's for sure. Best gun, any category, period.
>>315825792
Only shitposting allowed.
>>315827397
>Playing onHL2RP
>One of those pops up
>Kills any fun anyone could possibly be havingHL2RPis usually shit but I'll atleast try most servers. If I see any "special" combine units like that on the scoreboard, it's an instant disconnect.
Daily reminder that Half-Life 2 is amazing and the only real issues with it are the vehicle chapters being poorly paced and the slight lack of enemy variety
Half-Life MMO when?
>>315831665
>>315831802
god no
Why doesn't Valve make HL3 but add really amazing multiplayer on the side so they can consistently make money off it?
>>315832142
They already have 2 multiplayer FPS games printing them money constantly with no effort required
>>315832318
>They already have 2 multiplayer FPS games
But they could have THREE
>>315832142
According to some leaks that may very well be what's happening.
>>315832318
They've also got Dota 2 to go along with those two. There isn't really a need for multiplayer in HL3, but I wouldn't mind if they made co-op official (think Synergy but intergrated into the game.)
>>315832424
Oh, you.
>>315832424
But making a third one would require effort and work, something that they haven't been very good at for the past 4 years
I think the reason I like HL more than HL2 is that the latter is so overly polished. It's like they went through it with a nail file, removing any and all bumps and imperfections, until nothing but a smooth surface remained. It made the game feel less human; less living. It's more like you're just watching events unfold, from your designated seat, than you actually taking part in any of them. Even with all the physics of HL2, I was never impressed in the same way I was during the air duct segment in 1, when the soldiers shoot holes through it in front of you and you end up falling out of it. Or when you test fired the rocket engine, or launch the rocket, or just stepping out through the pipe into the canyon. A game needs to have a few ups and downs. If there's no traction, there's nothing for you to overcome.
>>315832652
>>315832519
>>315832318
I highly doubt Valve spent five years making a new engine just to have Dota 2 and CSGO ported through it, even they don't require it at all
Source 2 is going to be completely free to use as well, so it's not like they're going for royalties from people making their games with Source 2
>>315832451
What leaks? Haven't heard of this yet.
>>315833014
Well we do know that they're working on L4D3because they saw it as another potential cosmetic item cash shop platform
>>315833014
Now that you mentioned it, Source 2 might be able to revive some old mods.
What mods do you want to be revived via a Source 2 remake, /v/? I personally want Zombie Master and that one mod that had ridiculous space combat and fighting inside the ships. There was also another one with some sort of cyber-space gimmick that I vaguely remember playing.
>>315833441
They'll want something else to act as a flagship, though. Something more substantial. Remember how they whored out Half-Life 2, in order to showcase Source?
>>315833523
>There was also another one with some sort of cyber-space gimmick that I vaguely remember playing.
Dystopia?
>>315825792
/v/ mods are literally shit
I dont know what it is about this board that attracts so many shitty people.
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/F-STOP#Fifth_experiment:_F-STOP
Reminder that we STILL don't know what F-STOP is
>>315833690
That's the one. Thanks for helping me remember that, I had some fun with that mod.
>>315833860
A pizza AND Fallout 4!? Geewiz! Thanks Todd!
>>315833860Man I could go for a pizza right now
>>315833523
> ridiculous space combat and fighting inside the ships
Eternal silence?
>>315834414
Yeah. Been a while since I've played ES and Dystopia.
>>315833889
We never will thanks to valve's mongoloid playtesters who cried WHERE'S MUH GLADOS MUH CAKE MUH PORTALS and just wanted the same thing again
Daily reminder that Portal was originally supposed to be a Half-Life spin-off/Episode 3 tech demo before it ended up becoming stupidly popular
>>315833523
Rocket Crowbar. I never got to experience that in all its glory against human opponents, but against bots it was absolutely hilarious. A modern remake would be phenomenal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT0uR5wB76M
>mfw a gargantua shows up
Why didn't HL 2 have these scary fucks
>>315832687
This plus not a single one of HL2s weapons are satisfying to use. (except perhaps the rocket launcher.)
They all have obvious over-designed flaws.
Picking one for a specific situation feels like picking the lesser evil.
>>315834937
>tfw Combine Destiny 2 will never be finished
>>315835601
>tfw Synergy used to have them but they were removed along with practically all other custom content when it got Steamworks
>>315835702
It's funny, the only thing that doesn't feel over-designed is the damn gravity gun. It has such limited use outside of very specific situations (like the manhacks). And, for some stupid reason, pressing G (or whatever key it was) to switch to it still puts it in your history, so you end up switching to it using Q. I ended up just shooting most boxes instead of using the gravity gun or crowbar, just because I couldn't be arsed re-selecting the two weapons I wanted active afterwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ZhbKNZdgQ
>>315836072
I dunno, I felt the Gravity Gun was pretty good as long as you had a prop that wouldn't break upon hitting an enemy once. It was a fantastic ammo-saver and I personally love going through Ravenholme using nothing but the Gravity Gun since it's full of sawblades and shit that causes fire.
>>315825792
This was discussed a few days ago in the meta threads, the mods and janitors are awful and are completely random about what they delete.
Sometimes they delete off topic garbage, some times they don't. Sometimes they delete on topic stuff too.
>>315836680
The more shitposting the better it seems.
Also, it has more merit if it's a recent game, or recent news SLIGHTLY related to games.
>>315836072
I feel like they made the guns so unsatisfactory precisely to get people to use the gravity gun and PhysicsTM to solve every situation.
Hell, they even force you to do it eventually.
>>315836610
I'd say Ravenholme is pretty specific, since it was clearly built for use with the gravity gun (there's even an achievement to beat that section without shooting), and doesn't really play like any other part of the game. Oh, and I do the same; it's a lot of fun to saw blade your way through zombies. But against Combines? It's easier to just shoot them. Or headcrabs? Not worth the effort as they die too quickly. Moving explosive barrels is too risky during fights. It's really just against manhacks, during puzzles and in Ravenholme I use it.
>>315836935
I think it was an issue of streamlining. They didn't want two weapons that might overlap, so every individual weapon had to fill a larger scope by itself. This means they can't be hyper specific, and just feels of generic as a result.
[Farting elephant noises intensifies]
>>315837302
It's actually pretty decent against Combine provided you're in close distance and have a good prop (file cabinet, toilet, etc.) since it one-shots them. More often than not I'd swap to the Gravity Gun indoors if I found anything that I could punt at people and it'd work very well.
I can agree that it's shit against headcrabs, though.
FACT: HL1 (1998) > HL2
debate me
>>315827921
just like that right tunnel path in the caves :^)
>>315837508
>"Why don't we put a giant testicle on a 20-foot-tall armored spider?"
>They actually did it
The absolute mad menFun fact, Ted Backman the artist who designed and came up with all those iconic enemies left Valve earlier this year
>>315837950
HL2 felt more engaging to me.
>>315837994
There was no real point in having that curve, though. It wouldn't really add much to the overall experience of the game.
>>315837994
Why are valve playtesters so fucking stupid oh my god
>>315837994
Every time
>>315838198
>valve playtesters
Valve doesn't have a dedicated playtesting team. They only take in playtesters for short bursts.
>According to the book Raising the Bar, Valve's Ken Birdwell had a friend whose 12-year-old brother, Ted Backman, used to draw. Ken had always liked his work, so while searching for a concept artist several years later, he asked Backman to provide a couple of sketches for possible monsters. He presented sketches of several very sexual-oriented monsters to him and Gabe Newell, managing director, the kind of material Birdwell did not expect. Among them was "Mr. Friendly" displaying an obvious penis. When questioned about it, Backman described that the creature would use its tentacled arms to pull the player towards itself until the point of fatal copulation. Birdwell was worried that Newell wouldn't approve of this material, but it turned out that was exactly what he was looking for. Newell and Backman then began a discussion about possible psycho-sexual alien behaviors and clinical descriptions of disturbed adolescent sexual fantasies. The sexual themes of some of these enemies were intended to elicit a response from the innate homophobia of 14-year-old boys, a significant portion of the targeted audience for the game
>>315826817
Fucking magic.
>>315838364
>14-year-old boys, a significant portion of the targeted audience for the game
At least they were honest back then
>>315838142
thought that there was a small antlion ambush if you went down the right path, but I'm not sure.
![latest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BHlknRb.jpg "latest[1].jpg")
What would you do to make the crowbar more interesting?
>all this talk about HL2 weapons being generic
Strangely enough I felt like HL2 gave me more options during combat than HL1
>>315839013
Maybe add the ability to throw it or buff its damage?
>>315839013
The Crowbar is good as is, I think. I want some alternative melee weapons though, the civil protection stunstick being the first on my list.
>>315839013
make it gold tape a dildo to it and whenever you kill someone with it, it goes into a 2 minute animation of gordon shoving it up their ass and fucks them with it until they cum, then gordon cuddles with them for a bit and then does it again.
or maybe instead we should just use something different. I liked the ice axe in the leak.
/v/ has been trigger happy about deleting threads for a long time now. The average lifespan is like fucking 10 minutes. They don't just drop off either. It's goddamned annoying.
>>315839314
Animated in garrys mod, obviously.
>>315839013
give it a more satisfying animation instead of just what seems to be a poke
>>315826817
WHAT IS THIS!!?!
>>315836680
They tend to just delete shit they personally don't like. i.e. platform wars and Dead or Alive feet threads will routinely get to 500+ posts, but legit threads will often get deleted because 2 or 3 posters end up having a conversation about their job in the background.
>>315839013
Make it work like L4D melee weapons
Much slower but a much stronger punch, like a crowbar should be
>>315838318
Well then whoever they took at that time should never sign up for playtesting because they're genuinely retarded.
>>315839013
Give it the HL1 speed and rhythem.
>>315839013
I actually remember drawing some shitty thing with gordon hanging off one of those big blind tentacle monster things from hl1.
Maybe a way to climb certain enemies, or rip of pieces of carapace on things like the antlion queens to make weak spots or some shit?
Or just tear the heads of regular antlions by hooking it around their head plate or whatever.
>>315839868
Pretty sure the HL1 and HL2 crowbars work almost the exact same way
>>315839868
Leatting you crouch down on a corpse to make them go DHRRRRRRRRRTH until they splatter?
>>315840005
the HL2 crowbar doesn't gib corpses at 1000 mph
>>315826545
HIROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>315839013
Make the animations and sounds convey the weight of bludgeoning someone with a crowbar.
>>315826929
who is this moot guy? is he a tripfag?
>>315825792
You don't understand, we have to make room for BO3 and F4 shill threads.
>tfw no more gonomes
>>315840078
thats only because the steam version of hl1 has fastgib1 on as default
>>315841046
Don't those fuckers throw their guts at you?
>>315826929
>plot driven survival open world adventure game
>>315829640
>Xen
>>315841448
Are those not Xen aliens?
>>315839013
Give it its own physics effects to show off technology that no other weapons use. Have it crack bones and tear chunks of meat out of enemies rather than inexplicably leaving a bullet hole.
If an enemy like, say, a bipedal robot were introduced, you could climb onto its back, pry off its paneling and tear the wires loose. Make it the most viable weapon against certain enemies, and make it more specialized than just a last resort. Give it its own job other than saving bullets.
SVEN COOP 5.0 FUCKING WHEEEEEEN?!??!?!?
>>315841629
IIRC Race X were non-Xen aliens using the chaos of the invasion to kidnap humans and teleport in the gene worm (which I think they said was a capable of terraforming planets to suit their needs)
Just finished half-life 1 for the first time today
>>315843276
did you rike it
We need Crack Life 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSF4T9mhhs
>>315839013
It's fine as is in Brutal Half Life
Those charge attacks are great fun.
>>315844158
>Brutal Half Life
>>315843447
>loved Crack Life
>though I'd love Campaign Mode
>mfw the fucking screamer made me too scared to play the rest of the game
why am I such a pussy?
>>315844713
It's what it sounds like. Adds a bunch of gore features and stuff, in ways you wouldn't expect from the HL1 engine.
Just google it man.
>>315844759
You should try Cry of Fear anon :)
>tfw half-life spawned the best game ever
>Natural Selection
Too bad it was too hard for new players to get into so it slowly died out and NS2 is bad compared to the first one
See ya' when I see ya'!I want to see him again ;_;
>>315845796
Haven't played either, what's so bad about the second one?
>>315831009
I agree with you. I hated Xen back when I played half life for the first time in '99. And while it's not the best part of the game I actually liked this time around, platforming isn't perfect but it has some neat and interesting visuals. Half Life 2 should have had something that expanded this weird alien world.
I'm really in love with Opposing Force now, it feels like a sequel instead of an expansion pack
>>315827397
She made it into the Japanese arcade game. Which is shit btw. I had the pleasure of playing it while studying abroad.
>>315846707
nothing is wrong with it really
it just went the way of Shattered Horizon and the other multiplayer only shooters that came out, were good but not amazing enough to hold an audience.
>>315839758
>>315841665
I love this fucking ideas. Make the crowbar slower but with a pack of damage to deal, better animations and sound and also you can use it to crack enemies wide open
>>315847324
Well there goes my interest in it
Care to explain why its shit?
>>315846707
Removed bunnyhopping which was one of the most fun things about the game for me
Long loading times and bad performance overall didn't help. Also didn't like using darkness as a part of the gameplay
>>315826267
>this is real
what
>>315849217
It's expensive(like any arcade game in Japan). The sensitivity on the controls is bad and you're trying to play an FPS with two joysticks and two pedals. I also saw it crash once and then a guy came by to reboot it. It runs on Windows XP. You also have to play it a lot to level up the class you play and are limited to one per game card. I still have mine somewhere.
>>315850105
>It runs on Windows XP
I wonder if there's a version of it floating around somewhere
>>315834836
It was never supposed to be an Episode 3 tech demo, and it's still a spin-off.
>>315850287
There's a cracked copy of it on a private tracker I'm on
>>315846181
I miss his stubble.
>>315850504
I assume it's cracked so you can make your own servers? Cause otherwise the game will constantly try to stick with ones in Japan and I bet they've been taken offline by now.
>>315850287
There ought to be. A bunch of resources were ripped from the game earlier this year IIRC.
>headcrab zombies in uplink set traps and lay ambushes
Anybody here got that demo disc that unlocks Uplink for PS2? It's a pretty neat extra.
>>315844158
finished up a brutal half life playthrough earlier. it was fucking brutal, man.
>mfw the gluon gun
>tfw all the cool shit got cut
>>315841046
that's a big mawman
>>315832519
>There isn't really a need for multiplayer in HL3
I don't know, if you make campaign game with fun-ass guns and rather fast movement like half-life has, it's almost a waste to not slap on a multiplayer mode while you're already at it. Even though HL2DM was broken it was fun as fuck to play with friends, and now if they add in more gravity-gun type mechanics it would be even more fun.
FREEEEEMAAAAAANNN
I'm nihilanth
>>315853424
literally the worst. Fuck russians man, all those cut enemies make me sad
>>315853424
>tfw no hydra
thought this was an interesting theory
http://pastebin.com/1CNpV3M5
>>315858582
The vorts at the beginning of Episode One are the "kin" of the Vort from Episode 2 during the mine area with Griggs and Sheckley, right? I think G-Man implies it, atleast.
Neat theory, anyway. I can appreciate that you're trying to keep this thread alive, as well.
If headcrab zombies are "mawmen" then what are headcrabs?
>>315858582
But why does the G-Man prize Alyx?
>>315860403
Probably for some reason that'll be explained in the next game.
>>315860403
because alyx is eli's daughter?
because eli is pretty much the leader of the resistance?
because eli and gordon are linked to black mesa?
