(M3SA Team, correct me if anything incorrect is stated here) Note to everyone: Do NOT buy the game on Steam. The money still goes to Berkan Kojimbo and that's not very gucci. If you do wish to support the team that's fixing this mess, you can support them on their patreon www.patreon.com/HDTF
Bit unrelated to the video, but I had the idea last night that Mitchell's hatred of Freeman would make more sense if he was in a position like Adrian - did not get the orders to kill the science team. Then if it showed Freeman killing the group of marines we see in the first level, he would be from the point of view that he was dropped in with no orders and a mad scientist was brutally murdering the rescue team. Could have kept Freeman as the one who nearly killed Big Mitch, not Adam randomly finding an HEV suit.
That would mean, among other things, completely changing the first level to one of HL1's locations. I mean, the room where Big Mitch's getting his face fucked up is unlike anything we've seen in HL1. On the second thought, it can be the same level, but with the last room changed into, let's say, rocket launch center from On A Rail.
@@MaximG. It was more a route they could have taken from the start, especially fitting for a supposed OpFor sequel. Not expecting the modders to pull that off because that would require too much work and change to the story, but was a nice idea.
it would also kill the final twist which I think was important to the writer? like if sniper boy wasn't involved in some sort of deception how would his whole thing make sense
@@Graknorke the final twist could then be that Freeman only attacked him because his orders were to kill him and his colleagues on sight. Think we can get away with major changes to the end twist because the story is a bit of a joke
Redemption arc for the devs (not Berkan.) If your name was tied to suck a horrible broken thing, I respect the desire to at least redeem your own name with making the piece of crap playable.
when you make a mistake, you can do two things 1- act like a coward and disassociate yourself from all responsibility 2-get to work to try to amend the disaster you made. It's good that there are people within the project who are still working to deliver what we had been promised, even knowing that perhaps it is already a lost cause. unlike other members who just pointed the finger pointing guilty.
3-Own up to your mistake and move on. Sometimes its better to just cut your losses and learn from your mistakes rather than dump more time and effort into something that'll probably never be worth it.
@@Razumen Yes, you are right about that. but in this case, many people were affected. great part of an entire community, such as that of Half-Life. perhaps this is not entirely lost. seeing comments on other videos, this work is receiving many compliments.
Damn, seeing the state of game and the story behind it and all the people who got used made me abit sad but this is actually some good news, I didn't know about that! You're doing a great service to the guys who work hard to make this an actual game
@@ambreiaju or pulling a hdtf :D thank u)) I will promise that at least i will try to make it happen- because if it becomes finished i feel like it will be really cool to play. Also watching streamers play it would be pretty pog
man, seeing that people are actually working their asses off, to repair this giant missed opportunity of a game, it fills me with hope, and maybe this game will be what it could have been after their involvement, well the gameplay at least. And thats already more than i have ever achieved, fixing a game like that... also i wonder how it is possible for that ship they stayed on for 3 years and more to go unnoticed by the combine for so long, arent they like super advanced ultimate form race? They should have some sort of way to find them, just a little plothole i guess
I mean I'm fully content with them fixing the levels. That alone is more than anyone should be asked to do and I admire their efforts to fix this broken mess. But if they want to I would be absolutely thrilled if they fixed the story as well. As I said it is already more than admireable that anyone would take it upon themselves to fix anything of this cashgrab but seeing how well they're doing already "just" fixing the levels I can't help but dream to see HDTF reach at least a fraction of it's promissed potential storywise as well.
my main worry is people are going to be giving money to the pos who sold this mess to everyone to begin with, no? I don't really wanna pay for something if the people putting effort in aren't going to get the money and instead someone who has completely abandoned the game.
the sea is big and the combine doesn't control the entire wasteland. you can see it through HL2 and the Ep2 they have some outposts here and there on strategic locations but they still lack the force to control the wasteland.
In Half-Life 2 it's implied that the actual Combine forces mostly don't care and what the player fights are more along the lines of a skeleton crew. That's why Combine installations (including the Citadel itself) have a lot of rust. Obviously they care about the biggest thorns in their side like Freeman (because they know exactly what he's accomplished and who he's a pawn of) and Eli but some random group of humans like Mitchell's likely mean nothing to them. They probably think Freeman's the one who freed those kids.
Oh nice, a way to actually unironically play HTDF. Also, the fact that the subtitles *working outside of the tutorial* is able to be considered a positive is fucking hilarious.
2:48 Those recruits were once prop_dynamic entities instead of using any NPC entities, which likely contributed to their pupils going up or down into their skulls. NPCs can have facial and vertex animation, props need npc_furniture. 3:10 env_hudhint is the way to do it, yah! 7:35 "Equip parkour" makes it sound like equipping a parkour weapon when it should be "holster weapon to enable parkour". 11:42 If they were gonna have that narration of Big Mitch, it should be at the start of Act 2 instead of inside the video file. When do you suppose they'll get around to having cutscenes actually be choreographed and rendered in-game instead of FMVs, though? To me, those FMVs should be used sparingly like how Valve did with HL2 EP2 ("Our story thus far...") and Portal 2's endings in singleplayer and co-op.
While in-game cutscenes would be much faithful to the source material (Half-Life), I think the FMV cutscenes have become a staple of this game. At this point I'd rather just see them make new FMVs and carry on the weird and wacky vibe they always carried.
@@RadiationHazardYT hey remember me? It's me, ninja. I've been too busy with other stuff to watch ur content but... Coming back to so much to watch from a great creator is great. Keep up the good work my man. Ur doin great!
Was there a need to have "unequip weapon to enable parkour" in the first place? This isn't Mirror's Edge, where you spend the entire game, in combat and parkour at the same time.
to think that HDTF, one of, if not the worst game on the market is getting its redemption arc, makes me hopeful for the future of games. i hope the devs of the m3sa builds aren't overworking themselves, but i'm still super happy that we're slowly getting the game that we deserved all those years ago
@@darkdwarf007 the developer ruined the game, not the other way around, and pretty much left it like that, that's why the game gets a redemption arc and not the dev
@@Cappuccino_Rabbit But unlike No Man's Sky, HDTF didn't earn millions when it released and instead was actually around an estimated hundred thousand dollars or more in debt to the investors and the investors weren't happy. If Berkan got the kind of money no man sky made, not only would HDTF probably be polished to perfection but we would likely also have HDTF 2 by now.
Hello. I am the person who made a remake of some of the cutscenes of the game, and also made new ones. I also changed the New Alaska and work on some little changes for the levels. I would like to make a couple of comments. 8:30. Strange. You need to defence your team because they try to break train door to move in. 10:33 We working on changing port level. We want to make it's more interesting and logic. Also transition after the factory level wasn't done because our mapper didn't did it in the time. 16:34 There's two maps thats game picked up randomly. Thanks for video. And sorry for my bad english. I use translator.
Hello sir, may i suggest You people add some more of xen fauna on some levels (according to Laidlaw, bullsquids and houndeyes are still there on earth) You guys keep forward! You're doing a great job
The game actually has two endings that you have a 50/50 chance of getting from the forest map. You picked the new new ending, the other is the house ending that was originally going to be in the game, but was cut because it was a bought level from the csgo workshop.
I appreciate the work you and your team are trying to put in to fix this mess. I still remember you flat out lying and doing damage control PR before the game's release, but you're clearly trying to redeem yourself for that.
this is actually hideo kojima cut of hunt down the freeman, that was hidden from the public. this version got streamlined into retail hdtf, but the ideas and concepts remained and were eventually turned into death stranding ! what a story !
They shouldn't fix the story, it's a perfect trainwreck and is the real reason I want the gameplay to be enjoyable. They could definitely improve audio mixing in cutscenes tho.
It's really nice to see that some people actually care and want to fix or improve it. Heh... i never thought this game would make me say this, but i can't wait to see more!
@@deadruins I’d call it Half Life 2.5 because Alyx just serves to rewrite the ending for HL2 Episode 2, Valve figured they’d need Eli alive for the next game.
2018: Desecration of valves intellectual property and a war crime of a computer game, how can they allow this? 2022: Some things are getting fixed; we'll see how this turns out. 2025: My goodness, what a computer game, daring and bold! 2028: All of valves existing canon is but a footnote to hunt down the freeman.
You forgot to mention that the ms3sa-beta branch was implemented to the default branch. Updates are actually now being delivered to the main branch with the m3sa-beta being used to test updates to be added to the main branch.
An announcement was made for this on April 1st. The original retail build was moved to a separate branch labelled 2018-retail. It would also be cool to see you dive into the leaked beta build of HDTF from October 2017.
In-game "cutscenes" would benefit the game a lot, as it's one of the key factors for immersion in the Half-Life series. Letting the player move around while everyone's talking seriously can be fun, too.
They went from not having any level design at all to actually having one, but it still doesn't change the cringe worthy story, and while the levels are more evenly paced now, I still can't shake the feeling that I'm playing a shit game
With these improvements though, it's turning into playing "The Room" instead of being completely shit though, from the sound of it. I for one am quite curious on what they're going to be improving upon later down the line, when they have spent what they needed to overhaul the gameplay itself, and are now working on visuals and the story itself
Funfact: I did the ACT 2 and 3 subtitle text but it had some mistakes so one of the devs had to correct my script multiple times for the subtitles 💀 anyways some "corrections" 5:45 you can see it already in retail but it's hard to see it 6:35 if I'm not wrong, they were suppose to come out but didn't because of a bug in retail or Berkan wanted to get the game released as soon as he could? not sure 8:35 (not sure about this one since I haven't played it but) if I'm not wrong, you gotta defend the train while one one of the soldiers is "opening" the train and then you get into it and level ends 16:37 not a correction but there are actually 2 endings, the house one that was originally cut from retail (if I'm not wrong) and this new one 17:25 they also could in retail build
There is an axe in original, it lays on the ground or in one of the garages after you exit power plant during motocycle/auto escort thing. No one sane would actually find it I guess, except some folk like me who just happen to get vehicle stuck during that stuff or smth like that.
I still think one of the most important things is to put back in a PCV. The HECU has the HEV suit equivalent in the PCV, which is why the Marines were so tough in the first place. And it's also confirmed that regular Combine Soldiers and Metrocops wear them. Plus... there's no reason Mitchell shouldn't have one. It'd make the gameplay more like actual Half-life instead of CoD.
Two things that I think could be done for more improvement on this mod is to try and reimplement the train section in a way that actually makes it *good* and not just a random gunship shooting gallery, perhaps by maybe having it like some kind of chase by the combine with them deploying enemies onto the train with drop ships, and to make the section at the end where Mitch has to hold out have the helicopter actually show up and have the player get inside it as the combine make one last big wave, sorta like the finales in Left 4 Dead. But yea, I’m actually impressed people want to fix this game. It gives me a lot more confidence in the modding community than I already had.
To be honest, while watching this video, my eyes literally shone with happiness, and a smile appeared on my face, and did not disappear until the very end. I was one of those people who bought HDTF almost on the day of its release, was the one who played this broken piece of code. I've seen M3SA's attempts to fix the game before, but these changes didn't seem like much to me. Now, I realize how wrong I was. I sincerely appreciate this person, and all members of his team for trying to fix this game, because at the time of purchase, I was so excited that I literally hoped that this would be the best mod for HALF LIFE 2. I am overcome with pride for this community, and I just hope that M3SA and his team manage to change history so that HDTF inherits the fate of NO MAN'S SKY. I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, believe in you guys! And of course, many thanks to the author of the video for talking about it. You have no idea how important this video was to me. Thank you so much!
The "slightly out of place light that indicates your path" thing is also used in Shadow Warrior 1. Specifically, it's spotlights! It's a really neat thing.
I have this weird interest in HDTF. Even though the game is bad, I actually enjoy the story in a bizarre way. I'm interested to see how this improves more and more. I heard there were some redone voice lines, so maybe they could find a way to edit those in? I think some of the maps look better, but maybe could have some extra details added here and there. Right now it feels like they're trying to get the general gameplay fixed first before doing major visual overhauls, but the ones they did do are leagues better.
@OctoOOZ There’s nothing funny about Sonic and Elise’s awkward relationship. Also there’s a section of the story that is… actually good, unlike with HDTF.
I'm honestly really excited to see what they can do with HDTF, and turn it into the Half-Life fan game we've all been waiting for. Good luck, M3sa team! We're rooting for you.
Hi there. Very well made video. If I may point out some things about the game, that weren't said in the video and/or you probably didn't know: - G-man pronounces "Mesa" correctly now in the cutscenes, thanks to a small fix (I did that btw :D ) - You can spot G-man in many maps - there are plans on redoing or fixing some maps (though idk if I'm allowed to speak about it) - parkour mechanic has sound effects now - there's a co-op mod, though buggy - Mitchell's room at the beginning of Act 3's still wip, but it will contain some details that migh help the story a little bit (f.e. photos with crewmembers or bits of his diary)
@@marianpetrik2313 Nice work! Good luck with making President Keemstar's speech feel less than three hours long. He's dyslexic, which is probably why it sounds like he's reading a Dutch translation on a doctor's eye chart. "Mai... fallow Ehmarrikenss. It is with. A hyevvie haart..."
@@futonrevolution7671 yyyeah, about the speech....there are currently no plans on redoing president Keemstar or his speech....or Boston Joe or Larry....not atm
I really liked your thoughts on the game, it made me happy to see that there have been significant changes ! And even happier to hope that one day, the game might be considered "good" I wish the best to those devoted devs and really hope they achieve their goal !
To the M3SA team: You're trying to jumpstart a Hot Wheels car. You're never going to get it up to freeway speed, but what you ended up with after all that effort is still pretty impressive
Hey Rad, I just found your channel, just passing by on th comments to let you know that I appreciate your videos and try not to get sucked into the cancer that is 80% of the..."people"... using youtube's comments. Most of us enjoy and apreciate content creators like you, if were not for people like you we would not have this great time we have in our days so thanks a lot man, wish you the best, always :)
You get so many points from me for not being a pretentious TH-camr that does a hunt down the freeman X years later video and essentially regurgitate the same opinion each time, seeing the m3sa build finally having attention brought to it is so refreshing
I legit wanna try this build out. Just by looking at the gameplay footage here I can tell it looks so much better. Obviously some things still need to be worked out but it’s already looking at least ten times better than the retail version
I love how they manages to make the worst part of the game into a somewhat enjoyable experience and making it more than just a mish mash of trial and error within the deepest circle of hell
At the train station, you have to wait near the train car which has some loose parts where you can peak into the interior. Then a soldier comes and starts to open it. You wait some more and defend him while he opens it and get in to proceed. It took a while in my run for colonel to notice it and give the order but it definitely is there.
This is really cool. I always thought HDTF had tons of potential, and this project seems to be achieving it. If they do change the story, I'll be seriously impressed.
Goddamn this is unrealistically cool of the team to do this. No one would have blamed anyone for just trying to obfuscate as much of there involvement in this games as possible. The team went back and said, "No, fuck this, they paid for a game, there gonna GET a damn game!" And I fucking applaud them for that.
I 💕💕 love M3SA Build 😋 it makes the game 🎮 so much better ☺️ the levels are actually fun to play through, 😏 and the finished cutscenes are an awesome addition 😎 glad to see the original work being utilized 😼 not only that but the discord community is so sweet ☺️ God bless you and God bless Hunt Down the freeman.
8:48 The room here that you skipped actually has a new scene where someone breaks open a panel so you can get inside one of the trains. Then you open the doors from the inside to let everyone else in. And yes, they removed the train level.
I'm not gonna lie, I was one of those people who left a comment about you not playing the updated build but in my defense I had no idea what you meant by "M3SA" build hahahaha. Thank you for making this!
These guns just don't look like they belong in the universe, I think it's just the art style, not the guns themselves. They feel lifted from another game.
Wow I have heard in one of the first reviews of hunt down the freeman that some of the Devs wanted to fix the game but didn't think anything would come of it. Glad it has, heck once its finished I might even buy it and flick some $$$ to the team that fixed it.
This is just the perfect display of what happens when you have people that care in charge of a project. Sure they didn't change the story and all but they pretty much made every level prettier and better game design wise, actually had careful thought put into the parkour mechanics to make them not just be a novelty thing and with the resources they had they added that one cutscene near the Joe level
Ight, putting this out here for the train station section. Literally just wait by the back of the train, took like 10 minutes but Col. Q will just pop up and have one of the soldiers start cutting their way into the train
I wonder if they'll be able to get Deremix to redo some of the cutscenes made for the game. Unless, of course, if Deremix has already moved on from HDtF altogether and is mainly working on both Activision projects and the Exile Vilify series.
If there's one thing i learned from HDTF, it's that you should always keep track of what your readers know. What you've told them. What you haven't. That way, you won't slip up and have to make some weird changes later to fit the illogical narrative. Oh also that you shouldn't mistreat your crew and you should let them do their jobs.
Make HDTF great again! P.S. If You remember the HDTF Demo, it's most likely to add that chapter to main story. Yup, with another models, dialogues, but add. And thanx for the hard work.
I never actually knew that M3SA were modifying hunt down the freeman, I'm glad I was recommended this video as it looks really sick. I don't even know much about the original hunt down the freeman but all I knew was that it was bad.
Something like this reminds me of something like Project 06 (The Sonic 2006 fan remake headed by ChaosX). While something like the story is something that will unfortunately have zero to no difference compared to the original, at least cleaning up the gameplay to something that isn't a confusing and/or frustrating mess of disappointments at every corner is already a massive win. Always great when an otherwise heavily panned game at least gets some time to shine as a game many can unironically like playing. Hats off to the devs for their hard work already on this project, I look forward to the final release.
I can't believe it took all those years to have a true fix for a game like this. I never got to play it so after that build I may end up buying HDTF this time.
Wait, there's parkour in the claymore field? I just got lucky to abuse some bits where they lacked existence, making it more of "Don't walk where there's more piled up".
The axe is in the original game, it's in the map when you get out of the factory before the piers. It's in a dark garage in a corner of the map. It doesn't even stay with the player with the level transition, so it was just junk wasted code.
Radiation Hazard, they did another update on June 1st, they added the sasha level AND made the last level not a big huge tower but a house with multiple manned turrets.
So they're making a remake, or an update To celebrate, I will offer this HDTF M16 blueprint for CODM Weapon: M16 Attachments Scope:3X tactical scope 2 Rear grip: granulated grip tape Laser: MIP laser 5mW Perk: long shot Bonus attachment if you want imagine a grenade launcher: strike foregrip
I can't believe the dev team is pulling a No Man's Sky on this trainwreck of a game and honestly it makes me feel really happy to see a version of this game that's closer to what I originally expected when I first heard of it. Props to them. Also may Berkan have the worst luck imaginable.
Of course if someone did fixed everything (including the story), they couldn't, in any circumstance, remove the best dialogue ever: "you fucked up my face".
They didn't redeem themselves. The game is still mediocre. Sean lied like a pathological liar because he didn't have a backbone. More content doesn't make a game good. Fixing your game five years after its release is not the way to go.
This will not ever be a true Half-Life game by any standard. But what it just might be once all is said and done, is a good game. A game you'd want to buy and play through maybe more than once.
@@Feasco The people working on fixing this LIDL ass game probably saw the potential this game had. If I knew how to animate in SFM, I’d definitely help in remaking the entire story. For instance, make it clear that Mitchell and Adrian are brothers instead of making it a death screen…
it is very clear that act 3 is still getting a major overhaul but act 1 and 2 are really good now. we actually have a decent set of playable levels set in the 7 hours war now.
It may be a bold move to make, but they could actually just cut out all the cutscenes and instead implement ingame scenes like we know from Half-Life in general. And soundfiles could also come in handy.
(M3SA Team, correct me if anything incorrect is stated here)
Note to everyone: Do NOT buy the game on Steam. The money still goes to Berkan Kojimbo and that's not very gucci. If you do wish to support the team that's fixing this mess, you can support them on their patreon www.patreon.com/HDTF
I have a problem, in your page of trello, when a putt the password "Password2Short" steam isn't accept.
@@felipemolinari8045 You don’t need the password anymore. It’s always available for you to choose
Big Mitchell, Big Boss
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The right changes in the wrong game...can make all the difference...in the world.
So wake up,
Wake up and browse the patches
@@butterlerpunch 11/10
@@butterlerpunch Citizen/User: I didn’t see this level get updated.
Paranoid citizen: Don't get the game. They put something in it.
@@beegdawg I don't even remember when I downloaded It
Bit unrelated to the video, but I had the idea last night that Mitchell's hatred of Freeman would make more sense if he was in a position like Adrian - did not get the orders to kill the science team. Then if it showed Freeman killing the group of marines we see in the first level, he would be from the point of view that he was dropped in with no orders and a mad scientist was brutally murdering the rescue team. Could have kept Freeman as the one who nearly killed Big Mitch, not Adam randomly finding an HEV suit.
That would mean, among other things, completely changing the first level to one of HL1's locations. I mean, the room where Big Mitch's getting his face fucked up is unlike anything we've seen in HL1.
On the second thought, it can be the same level, but with the last room changed into, let's say, rocket launch center from On A Rail.
@@MaximG. It was more a route they could have taken from the start, especially fitting for a supposed OpFor sequel. Not expecting the modders to pull that off because that would require too much work and change to the story, but was a nice idea.
it would also kill the final twist which I think was important to the writer? like if sniper boy wasn't involved in some sort of deception how would his whole thing make sense
@@Graknorke the final twist could then be that Freeman only attacked him because his orders were to kill him and his colleagues on sight. Think we can get away with major changes to the end twist because the story is a bit of a joke
Freeman beating up Mitchell was completely out of character, that's obviously not Freeman, he kills to survive then moves on, he's not a psychopath.
The community cares about fixing this game? Wow, props to the M3SA devs.
Redemption arc for the devs (not Berkan.) If your name was tied to suck a horrible broken thing, I respect the desire to at least redeem your own name with making the piece of crap playable.
@@larsthedude1984 or atleast tolerable or decent
when you make a mistake, you can do two things
1- act like a coward and disassociate yourself from all responsibility
2-get to work to try to amend the disaster you made.
It's good that there are people within the project who are still working to deliver what we had been promised, even knowing that perhaps it is already a lost cause. unlike other members who just pointed the finger pointing guilty.
3-Own up to your mistake and move on. Sometimes its better to just cut your losses and learn from your mistakes rather than dump more time and effort into something that'll probably never be worth it.
@@Razumen Yes, you are right about that. but in this case, many people were affected. great part of an entire community, such as that of Half-Life.
perhaps this is not entirely lost. seeing comments on other videos, this work is receiving many compliments.
@@SoapMcTavish06 Yeah, if they can salvage it into something worth it, I hope they can.
@@Razumen it's still nice they're trying though
@@polocatfan Probably wasting their time. I watched a play through of the game, the whole thing is a mess.
Damn, seeing the state of game and the story behind it and all the people who got used made me abit sad but this is actually some good news, I didn't know about that! You're doing a great service to the guys who work hard to make this an actual game
Hunt down the Freeman 21 century edition when?
@@ambreiaju ooh there will be some hdtf stuff in the mod for sure :D
@@NoVIcE_Source 👀 Genuinely excited for the mod, but please take your time so you don't pull a Cyberpunk on us lmao...
@@ambreiaju or pulling a hdtf :D
thank u)) I will promise that at least i will try to make it happen- because if it becomes finished i feel like it will be really cool to play. Also watching streamers play it would be pretty pog
@@NoVIcE_Source yeah, also question: Will it have mmod support? (or a way to use the stuff in mmod?)
man, seeing that people are actually working their asses off, to repair this giant missed opportunity of a game, it fills me with hope, and maybe this game will be what it could have been after their involvement, well the gameplay at least.
And thats already more than i have ever achieved, fixing a game like that...
also i wonder how it is possible for that ship they stayed on for 3 years and more to go unnoticed by the combine for so long, arent they like super advanced ultimate form race? They should have some sort of way to find them, just a little plothole i guess
I mean I'm fully content with them fixing the levels. That alone is more than anyone should be asked to do and I admire their efforts to fix this broken mess. But if they want to I would be absolutely thrilled if they fixed the story as well. As I said it is already more than admireable that anyone would take it upon themselves to fix anything of this cashgrab but seeing how well they're doing already "just" fixing the levels I can't help but dream to see HDTF reach at least a fraction of it's promissed potential storywise as well.
I agree with you. This game could’ve been so good, it’s awesome to see somebody’s fixing the levels, at the very least.
my main worry is people are going to be giving money to the pos who sold this mess to everyone to begin with, no? I don't really wanna pay for something if the people putting effort in aren't going to get the money and instead someone who has completely abandoned the game.
the sea is big and the combine doesn't control the entire wasteland.
you can see it through HL2 and the Ep2 they have some outposts here and there on strategic locations but they still lack the force to control the wasteland.
In Half-Life 2 it's implied that the actual Combine forces mostly don't care and what the player fights are more along the lines of a skeleton crew. That's why Combine installations (including the Citadel itself) have a lot of rust. Obviously they care about the biggest thorns in their side like Freeman (because they know exactly what he's accomplished and who he's a pawn of) and Eli but some random group of humans like Mitchell's likely mean nothing to them. They probably think Freeman's the one who freed those kids.
Oh nice, a way to actually unironically play HTDF.
Also, the fact that the subtitles *working outside of the tutorial* is able to be considered a positive is fucking hilarious.
Hunt The Down Freeman, my favorite failure
@@lambda-m1676 i was just about to reply the same thing.
@@lambda-m1676I was just about to reply the same thing
2:48 Those recruits were once prop_dynamic entities instead of using any NPC entities, which likely contributed to their pupils going up or down into their skulls. NPCs can have facial and vertex animation, props need npc_furniture.
3:10 env_hudhint is the way to do it, yah!
7:35 "Equip parkour" makes it sound like equipping a parkour weapon when it should be "holster weapon to enable parkour".
11:42 If they were gonna have that narration of Big Mitch, it should be at the start of Act 2 instead of inside the video file.
When do you suppose they'll get around to having cutscenes actually be choreographed and rendered in-game instead of FMVs, though? To me, those FMVs should be used sparingly like how Valve did with HL2 EP2 ("Our story thus far...") and Portal 2's endings in singleplayer and co-op.
While in-game cutscenes would be much faithful to the source material (Half-Life), I think the FMV cutscenes have become a staple of this game. At this point I'd rather just see them make new FMVs and carry on the weird and wacky vibe they always carried.
Originally env_hudhint didn't work because Berkan didn't want to display hints. He ordered the programmer to disable it in the source code.
@@RadiationHazardYT hey remember me? It's me, ninja. I've been too busy with other stuff to watch ur content but... Coming back to so much to watch from a great creator is great. Keep up the good work my man. Ur doin great!
@@ashleyvonpodiebrad8292 You can't be kidding!
Was there a need to have "unequip weapon to enable parkour" in the first place? This isn't Mirror's Edge, where you spend the entire game, in combat and parkour at the same time.
to think that HDTF, one of, if not the worst game on the market is getting its redemption arc, makes me hopeful for the future of games. i hope the devs of the m3sa builds aren't overworking themselves, but i'm still super happy that we're slowly getting the game that we deserved all those years ago
it feels kinda weird that the game gets redemption, but not its developer
@@darkdwarf007 the developer ruined the game, not the other way around, and pretty much left it like that, that's why the game gets a redemption arc and not the dev
@@darkdwarf007 Berkan is working at Playstation, thats a pretty good turn of events after Hunt Down the Freeman.
HDTF has potential of joining no man's sky club of "being a horrible game at launch but slowly saved by good updates/patches"
@@Cappuccino_Rabbit But unlike No Man's Sky, HDTF didn't earn millions when it released and instead was actually around an estimated hundred thousand dollars or more in debt to the investors and the investors weren't happy. If Berkan got the kind of money no man sky made, not only would HDTF probably be polished to perfection but we would likely also have HDTF 2 by now.
Hello. I am the person who made a remake of some of the cutscenes of the game, and also made new ones. I also changed the New Alaska and work on some little changes for the levels.
I would like to make a couple of comments.
8:30. Strange. You need to defence your team because they try to break train door to move in.
10:33 We working on changing port level. We want to make it's more interesting and logic. Also transition after the factory level wasn't done because our mapper didn't did it in the time.
16:34 There's two maps thats game picked up randomly.
Thanks for video. And sorry for my bad english. I use translator.
I encountered the same issue as 8:30 once OwO
honestly don't know why you'd even bother but hey, kudos for making an actual effort
Hello sir, may i suggest You people add some more of xen fauna on some levels (according to Laidlaw, bullsquids and houndeyes are still there on earth)
You guys keep forward! You're doing a great job
Крутой. (Серьёзно)
@@alwexandria спасибо
Now this is definitely a game.
Sudoku is also a game
Hunt Down The Freeman is one of the games
@@reisu_3708 one of the games of all times, in fact.
It’s one of the games of all time indeed
The game actually has two endings that you have a 50/50 chance of getting from the forest map. You picked the new new ending, the other is the house ending that was originally going to be in the game, but was cut because it was a bought level from the csgo workshop.
I appreciate the work you and your team are trying to put in to fix this mess.
I still remember you flat out lying and doing damage control PR before the game's release, but you're clearly trying to redeem yourself for that.
Real moment
this is actually hideo kojima cut of hunt down the freeman, that was hidden from the public.
this version got streamlined into retail hdtf, but the ideas and concepts remained and were eventually turned into death stranding ! what a story !
Hideo, you've done it again!
@UnrealCreator th-cam.com/video/4laJBv6aL0s/w-d-xo.html
@UnrealCreator What video?
@UnrealCreator bro... the comment is a joke 💀
They shouldn't fix the story, it's a perfect trainwreck and is the real reason I want the gameplay to be enjoyable. They could definitely improve audio mixing in cutscenes tho.
Don't forget that the vids were originally WIP versions shipped by accident, likely because Berkan didn't let anyone test the HDTF builds.
@@TheBreakingBenny homie managed this game like a 3rd world dictator
(And the voice acting)
@@Whispurer Nah, the bad voice acting enchances the experience.
Honestly, I agree. It's one of those "So bad it's good" things that I just can't help but want to preserve it, the way it is.
It's really nice to see that some people actually care and want to fix or improve it.
Heh... i never thought this game would make me say this, but i can't wait to see more!
Jesus christ I just had a dream where people were making this game good, then this popped up in my notifications right after I woke up lmao
Lmao
"dreams come true"
Now dream about Half Life 3
@@LordRambo Half-Life: Alyx is already Half-Life 3💀💀
just buy 100 dollars Oculus Rift S. that's enough
@@deadruins I’d call it Half Life 2.5 because Alyx just serves to rewrite the ending for HL2 Episode 2, Valve figured they’d need Eli alive for the next game.
2018: Desecration of valves intellectual property and a war crime of a computer game, how can they allow this?
2022: Some things are getting fixed; we'll see how this turns out.
2025: My goodness, what a computer game, daring and bold!
2028: All of valves existing canon is but a footnote to hunt down the freeman.
2039: *Hunt down the Freeman is widely considered the Space Odyssey: 2001 of videogames.*
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Sweet Half Life already have Space Odyssey 2001 reference.
2049 : Hunt Down The Freeman is now considered as a meaning in life, new politics view, a golden era...
2101: the Mitchell party declares HDTF the state religion.
You forgot to mention that the ms3sa-beta branch was implemented to the default branch. Updates are actually now being delivered to the main branch with the m3sa-beta being used to test updates to be added to the main branch.
An announcement was made for this on April 1st. The original retail build was moved to a separate branch labelled 2018-retail.
It would also be cool to see you dive into the leaked beta build of HDTF from October 2017.
It crashes on the earlier maps due to the rain effect being broken, but rain can be disabled using commands.
In-game "cutscenes" would benefit the game a lot, as it's one of the key factors for immersion in the Half-Life series.
Letting the player move around while everyone's talking seriously can be fun, too.
They went from not having any level design at all to actually having one, but it still doesn't change the cringe worthy story, and while the levels are more evenly paced now, I still can't shake the feeling that I'm playing a shit game
With these improvements though, it's turning into playing "The Room" instead of being completely shit though, from the sound of it. I for one am quite curious on what they're going to be improving upon later down the line, when they have spent what they needed to overhaul the gameplay itself, and are now working on visuals and the story itself
Funfact: I did the ACT 2 and 3 subtitle text but it had some mistakes so one of the devs had to correct my script multiple times for the subtitles 💀
anyways some "corrections"
5:45 you can see it already in retail but it's hard to see it
6:35 if I'm not wrong, they were suppose to come out but didn't because of a bug in retail or Berkan wanted to get the game released as soon as he could? not sure
8:35 (not sure about this one since I haven't played it but) if I'm not wrong, you gotta defend the train while one one of the soldiers is "opening" the train and then you get into it and level ends
16:37 not a correction but there are actually 2 endings, the house one that was originally cut from retail (if I'm not wrong) and this new one
17:25 they also could in retail build
You guys have a Discord?
@@GuyOnAChair gg/hdtf (you know how it works)
@@ashleyvonpodiebrad8292 Thanks man. Was genuinely curious as I recall the old Discord was raided.
@@GuyOnAChair yeah
There is an axe in original, it lays on the ground or in one of the garages after you exit power plant during motocycle/auto escort thing. No one sane would actually find it I guess, except some folk like me who just happen to get vehicle stuck during that stuff or smth like that.
I still think one of the most important things is to put back in a PCV. The HECU has the HEV suit equivalent in the PCV, which is why the Marines were so tough in the first place. And it's also confirmed that regular Combine Soldiers and Metrocops wear them. Plus... there's no reason Mitchell shouldn't have one. It'd make the gameplay more like actual Half-life instead of CoD.
@LOAN NGUYEN Well, then you have a problem: Kevlar can't stop energy weapons, which most Combine armaments are..
Two things that I think could be done for more improvement on this mod is to try and reimplement the train section in a way that actually makes it *good* and not just a random gunship shooting gallery, perhaps by maybe having it like some kind of chase by the combine with them deploying enemies onto the train with drop ships, and to make the section at the end where Mitch has to hold out have the helicopter actually show up and have the player get inside it as the combine make one last big wave, sorta like the finales in Left 4 Dead.
But yea, I’m actually impressed people want to fix this game. It gives me a lot more confidence in the modding community than I already had.
May we see the light of a day ... with an actual good Hunt Down The Freeman
To be honest, while watching this video, my eyes literally shone with happiness, and a smile appeared on my face, and did not disappear until the very end. I was one of those people who bought HDTF almost on the day of its release, was the one who played this broken piece of code. I've seen M3SA's attempts to fix the game before, but these changes didn't seem like much to me. Now, I realize how wrong I was. I sincerely appreciate this person, and all members of his team for trying to fix this game, because at the time of purchase, I was so excited that I literally hoped that this would be the best mod for HALF LIFE 2. I am overcome with pride for this community, and I just hope that M3SA and his team manage to change history so that HDTF inherits the fate of NO MAN'S SKY. I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, believe in you guys!
And of course, many thanks to the author of the video for talking about it. You have no idea how important this video was to me. Thank you so much!
The "slightly out of place light that indicates your path" thing is also used in Shadow Warrior 1. Specifically, it's spotlights! It's a really neat thing.
A lot of games do that
yeah, and Mirror's Edge highlights the beaten path with color
telling the player where to go using map elements isn't new
I have this weird interest in HDTF. Even though the game is bad, I actually enjoy the story in a bizarre way. I'm interested to see how this improves more and more. I heard there were some redone voice lines, so maybe they could find a way to edit those in?
I think some of the maps look better, but maybe could have some extra details added here and there. Right now it feels like they're trying to get the general gameplay fixed first before doing major visual overhauls, but the ones they did do are leagues better.
I’m with you, the story is so awful that it actually becomes enjoyable.
@OctoOOZ There’s nothing funny about Sonic and Elise’s awkward relationship. Also there’s a section of the story that is… actually good, unlike with HDTF.
You're not the only one here
Even i sort of like the game, yeah it's bad, but with the M3SA build it makes it better
oh wow the game got its redemption arc? that's pretty cool. Too bad guy who started all this didn't have one
And will never will be.
He doesn't deserve redemption. He took all the money and hide inside Activision.
Bro he doesn't deserve one
I'm honestly really excited to see what they can do with HDTF, and turn it into the Half-Life fan game we've all been waiting for. Good luck, M3sa team! We're rooting for you.
Story’s still crap, but the thing that matter’s most is being worked on at least…
Hi there. Very well made video. If I may point out some things about the game, that weren't said in the video and/or you probably didn't know:
- G-man pronounces "Mesa" correctly now in the cutscenes, thanks to a small fix (I did that btw :D )
- You can spot G-man in many maps
- there are plans on redoing or fixing some maps (though idk if I'm allowed to speak about it)
- parkour mechanic has sound effects now
- there's a co-op mod, though buggy
- Mitchell's room at the beginning of Act 3's still wip, but it will contain some details that migh help the story a little bit (f.e. photos with crewmembers or bits of his diary)
To be fair, the original game is a mess[a]. Did someone else voice the word, or track down samples of that voice actor saying "may", "sss", and "ah"?
@@futonrevolution7671 nope...I used a syllable from the word "remains" 😁 used program - Davinci Resolve 16
@@marianpetrik2313 Nice work! Good luck with making President Keemstar's speech feel less than three hours long. He's dyslexic, which is probably why it sounds like he's reading a Dutch translation on a doctor's eye chart.
"Mai... fallow Ehmarrikenss. It is with. A hyevvie haart..."
@@futonrevolution7671 yyyeah, about the speech....there are currently no plans on redoing president Keemstar or his speech....or Boston Joe or Larry....not atm
Wow, this M3SA build looks really cool. It makes me want to go back to this game.
I really liked your thoughts on the game, it made me happy to see that there have been significant changes !
And even happier to hope that one day, the game might be considered "good"
I wish the best to those devoted devs and really hope they achieve their goal !
I always said that there was a good game buried in there somewhere...
Just needs a good team and management, and this can be fixed.
I always wanted to see someone try to fix HDTF, and I can proudly say this is the best thing I've seen today.
To the M3SA team: You're trying to jumpstart a Hot Wheels car. You're never going to get it up to freeway speed, but what you ended up with after all that effort is still pretty impressive
Hey Rad, I just found your channel, just passing by on th comments to let you know that I appreciate your videos and try not to get sucked into the cancer that is 80% of the..."people"... using youtube's comments.
Most of us enjoy and apreciate content creators like you, if were not for people like you we would not have this great time we have in our days so thanks a lot man, wish you the best, always :)
Some serious dedication from these guys, mad props to them. What they've done so far actually looks promising!
Idk what are you taking about. I love this HDTF videos
it is real interesting to see the HDTF Wiki brought up in your video (despite it being WIP like HDTF itself, lol), thank you very much
nice video, more people need to know that the game's being fixed
The beginning of act 2 reminds me a lot of the level "Ice Station Norway" from return to castle wolfenstein
You get so many points from me for not being a pretentious TH-camr that does a hunt down the freeman X years later video and essentially regurgitate the same opinion each time, seeing the m3sa build finally having attention brought to it is so refreshing
I legit wanna try this build out. Just by looking at the gameplay footage here I can tell it looks so much better. Obviously some things still need to be worked out but it’s already looking at least ten times better than the retail version
Making HDTF an enjoyable game was a tall order, major props to the team
wanted to say thanks for making this video, because it encouraged me to join the team! We've got a lot of stuff planned ^^
It's really interesting to see how just some small and simple changes can make a huge difference and actually make the game much more enjoyable.
I love how they manages to make the worst part of the game into a somewhat enjoyable experience and making it more than just a mish mash of trial and error within the deepest circle of hell
Lol wouldn’t be surprised Berkan have a fit over this and try to take it down.
Keep the fix alive.
If people can fix half-life source they can fix HDTF!
At the train station, you have to wait near the train car which has some loose parts where you can peak into the interior. Then a soldier comes and starts to open it. You wait some more and defend him while he opens it and get in to proceed. It took a while in my run for colonel to notice it and give the order but it definitely is there.
11:18 I love how you subtly used Pyro’s “Big Mitch” nickname for Mitchell
This is really cool. I always thought HDTF had tons of potential, and this project seems to be achieving it. If they do change the story, I'll be seriously impressed.
Developers behind remakes like this, and Project 06 are the type of people we need but don't deserve.
Goddamn this is unrealistically cool of the team to do this. No one would have blamed anyone for just trying to obfuscate as much of there involvement in this games as possible. The team went back and said, "No, fuck this, they paid for a game, there gonna GET a damn game!" And I fucking applaud them for that.
"I can't believe that somebody's actually been tryin' to fix this shitload of fuck."
-AVGN.
I 💕💕 love M3SA Build 😋 it makes the game 🎮 so much better ☺️ the levels are actually fun to play through, 😏 and the finished cutscenes are an awesome addition 😎 glad to see the original work being utilized 😼 not only that but the discord community is so sweet ☺️
God bless you and God bless Hunt Down the freeman.
Wtf
Dude what
@@PoProstuBoniacz You wouldn't get if you aren't on the HDTF server
@@tehcooler Still its odd
@@PoProstuBoniacz I know lol
Hunt down the refund: a seven hour chore
Oh My God, I Can't Believe Will Have Someone Make This Game Is Better
Maybe one day when they fully overhauled it, the quality will be on top with the best HL2 mods
8:48 The room here that you skipped actually has a new scene where someone breaks open a panel so you can get inside one of the trains. Then you open the doors from the inside to let everyone else in.
And yes, they removed the train level.
I'm not gonna lie, I was one of those people who left a comment about you not playing the updated build but in my defense I had no idea what you meant by "M3SA" build hahahaha. Thank you for making this!
These guns just don't look like they belong in the universe, I think it's just the art style, not the guns themselves. They feel lifted from another game.
Wow I have heard in one of the first reviews of hunt down the freeman that some of the Devs wanted to fix the game but didn't think anything would come of it. Glad it has, heck once its finished I might even buy it and flick some $$$ to the team that fixed it.
I don't know why, but I'm addicted to full breakdowns of this game, I love it solely for this reason alone
It may be a lot of work to fix Hunt Down the Refund, but if they could, they deserve a medal.
This is just the perfect display of what happens when you have people that care in charge of a project.
Sure they didn't change the story and all but they pretty much made every level prettier and better game design wise, actually had careful thought put into the parkour mechanics to make them not just be a novelty thing and with the resources they had they added that one cutscene near the Joe level
Straight up made trash kinda feel like something worth playing which is honestly very respectable
Ight, putting this out here for the train station section. Literally just wait by the back of the train, took like 10 minutes but Col. Q will just pop up and have one of the soldiers start cutting their way into the train
I wonder if they'll be able to get Deremix to redo some of the cutscenes made for the game.
Unless, of course, if Deremix has already moved on from HDtF altogether and is mainly working on both Activision projects and the Exile Vilify series.
Some of the updated cutscenes we already put in game but some still weren't.
Man, genuinely i want to play this version, not just because i want to suffer in a fun way, but because it looks actually fun!
Very interesting! Thats the nice thing about fan works, people love to keep contributing
I might actually give this game a go now. Seems like a quality update. I really hope they manage to finish to a good extent.
If there's one thing i learned from HDTF, it's that you should always keep track of what your readers know. What you've told them. What you haven't. That way, you won't slip up and have to make some weird changes later to fit the illogical narrative.
Oh also that you shouldn't mistreat your crew and you should let them do their jobs.
Make HDTF great again!
P.S. If You remember the HDTF Demo, it's most likely to add that chapter to main story. Yup, with another models, dialogues, but add. And thanx for the hard work.
I never actually knew that M3SA were modifying hunt down the freeman, I'm glad I was recommended this video as it looks really sick. I don't even know much about the original hunt down the freeman but all I knew was that it was bad.
It's crazy how these small changes leverage massive improvements in the game. I see real potential here.
4:41
Rip cheeky medkit boy
Something like this reminds me of something like Project 06 (The Sonic 2006 fan remake headed by ChaosX). While something like the story is something that will unfortunately have zero to no difference compared to the original, at least cleaning up the gameplay to something that isn't a confusing and/or frustrating mess of disappointments at every corner is already a massive win. Always great when an otherwise heavily panned game at least gets some time to shine as a game many can unironically like playing. Hats off to the devs for their hard work already on this project, I look forward to the final release.
If they can’t improve the story, what can be fixed is good enough for me.
Did you mean "what can be fixed"?
they could improve the story by removing it entirely and just have the levels
@@Feasco No the story is good as it is, it’s amazingly terrible and I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Haven't seen this game much after Pyrocynical's video, props to the dev team
Modders like these really make me appreciate the gaming industry community. Too bad we rarely get redemption arcs like this in AAA
I can't believe it took all those years to have a true fix for a game like this. I never got to play it so after that build I may end up buying HDTF this time.
Wait, there's parkour in the claymore field? I just got lucky to abuse some bits where they lacked existence, making it more of "Don't walk where there's more piled up".
I'm honestly amazed that someone want to fix this game but it's cool to see how it could've been gameplay wise
The solution in the train area is for a soldier to break open a part of the train that was barricaded. It's on the right side of the screen at 8:43
The axe is in the original game, it's in the map when you get out of the factory before the piers. It's in a dark garage in a corner of the map. It doesn't even stay with the player with the level transition, so it was just junk wasted code.
Radiation Hazard, they did another update on June 1st, they added the sasha level AND made the last level not a big huge tower but a house with multiple manned turrets.
So they're making a remake, or an update
To celebrate, I will offer this HDTF M16 blueprint for CODM
Weapon: M16
Attachments
Scope:3X tactical scope 2
Rear grip: granulated grip tape
Laser: MIP laser 5mW
Perk: long shot
Bonus attachment if you want imagine a grenade launcher: strike foregrip
Isnt berkan denizyaran working for activision on cod mobile now
@@voodoo2006 I am aware of that
A garbage weapon to commemorate a garbage game, how fitting.
I can't believe the dev team is pulling a No Man's Sky on this trainwreck of a game and honestly it makes me feel really happy to see a version of this game that's closer to what I originally expected when I first heard of it. Props to them. Also may Berkan have the worst luck imaginable.
man i have not seen your channel in awhile i need to catch up your sub count is bigger then before happy to see that your channel is getting bigger
Of course if someone did fixed everything (including the story), they couldn't, in any circumstance, remove the best dialogue ever: "you fucked up my face".
If they added a chapter where Mitchel goes to Ravenholm and meets Father Grigory. That would be so underated but cool at the same time
There are no Voice Actors. If so He will Greeting you and You will torture him to Interogating him.
the less they do to remind you of good games you could be playing instead the better
this is kind of like a hello games redemption story.
They didn't redeem themselves.
The game is still mediocre.
Sean lied like a pathological liar because he didn't have a backbone.
More content doesn't make a game good.
Fixing your game five years after its release is not the way to go.
This will not ever be a true Half-Life game by any standard. But what it just might be once all is said and done, is a good game. A game you'd want to buy and play through maybe more than once.
I get what you're saying, but here's an interesting question:
What makes true half life game?
@@bruhSaintJohn Well not making a Metal Gear fanfic is probably a good start.
This looks legitimately the most amazing thing that's come from hunt down the Freeman, way to go to whoever is slaving away to make this game good
it's kind of baffling that anyone would bother tbqh
@@Feasco FR like when I saw the first level my jaw dropped, it's insane how devotion can fix such dawgshit things
@@Feasco The people working on fixing this LIDL ass game probably saw the potential this game had. If I knew how to animate in SFM, I’d definitely help in remaking the entire story. For instance, make it clear that Mitchell and Adrian are brothers instead of making it a death screen…
It's happening...it's finally happening :D
Since the beginning I always wanted to see the full potential of this game
it is very clear that act 3 is still getting a major overhaul but act 1 and 2 are really good now. we actually have a decent set of playable levels set in the 7 hours war now.
Can't wait for Pyro to voice act in the M3SA build
It may be a bold move to make, but they could actually just cut out all the cutscenes and instead implement ingame scenes like we know from Half-Life in general. And soundfiles could also come in handy.