Fake Factory Remaster -- Half-Life 2... But HD?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- BBL Drizzy
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MAJOR UPDATE:
THE MOD IS STILL ALIVE. ITS ON GAMEBANANA. ONLY MODDB PAGE PROBABLY GOT SHUT DOWN.
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Some things to note:
1 - ZMA is a very epic dude.
2 - I don't know why my mic recording has so much crackle in it.
3 - BBL Drizzy.
Dark and Drizzy
Hasn't he said in the comments that he will update it but only on GameBanana? (for some reason, I didn't understood it)
Just wanted to let you know ZMA has not stopped developing the mod he just moved to Gamebanana the mod is still being updated.
@radiationhasar i really hope he puts this in the pinned comment. This is great news
Dang thanks for letting me know. Ill update the pin comment.
"post nut clarity rad here" is a wild thing to hear lmfao
when did he say that
@@jamess.7811 at the start of the video
yeah hes quirky like that. I remember having the same reaction when I started watching one of his livestreams and heard him talking about gooning and mewing
Average coomer moment.
@@Dacstunes his livestreams are fucking bonkers, like they cant be more different than his videos
The BBL Drizzy intro caught me so off guard, holy shit!
dark and drizzy
Kung Fu Kenny the goat
I thought I had another tab open ngl lmao
this is probably the first time i've heard Radiation Hazard say fuck
It's rare these days because youtubers are terrified of losing ad profit on their videos, so its some how refreshing when they just fucking swear in their videos.
Clearly you have never heard his _Incredible_ song Face F'er from the end of the HDTF video.
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Alyx got a bit more polygons than usual...
Fully modeled BBL (drizzy)
but what if, it wasn't fully modelled and only HALF modeled?
@@thisisnotfunny69half modelled 2 episode one
@@BreadTeleporter1968 half-modeled 2: post nut
For minor correction, The APC from the Plaza is actually a Combine Prisoner Truck from Half-Life: Alyx
Also, lots of Alyx prop models used in this remaster but eh I don't mind it.
The zombies are also from Half-Life Alyx.
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Hey Rad, from what I know he didn't stop working on the project, is probably some problem with the site or something. And he also released a 2.0 patch, wich proves that the mod isn't dead :)
Edit: I forgot to mention that he is much more active on gamebana
10:29 yeah twilight just hits different. For me it's like: I've been through serious shit, i don't need flashlight, birds are singing and i have a moment to breathe...but i'm sure i won't survive to see the sunrise. Just like in Cry of Fear. Simon left psychiatric hospital during twilight.
As a non-modder/mapper, I am really happy with all my effort to the Half-Life 2 community. I worked all alone and I just want to say thank you.I will continue pathcing and updating the mod. Please, remember that my main focus is my graduation in medical degree in Brazil. I dont have much time left with my hobbies.
To my fellow Hazard, I removed the ferns for you. Love you all!
Please remove the added bit to Ravenholm, It messes up the pacing of the chapter!
That"s awesome man. Great work on this mod. Best of luck on the studies too!!
@@RadiationHazardYT thanks my friend!
@@ZMABR Opa, o novo mod ficou muito melhor que a versão anterior, a estação de trem está muito detalhada, mas acho que a luz solar chegando em um ângulo de quase 90° acabou ficando artificial demais, fora isso, ótimo trabalho!
Hey I just wanna say I'm sorry whatever you had to go with some unconstructive criticism! I do think there's a lot to learn from and to improve, but it's unfortunate with how these words end up a bit muddled and too mean. Do hope you keep up! ❤
"The fucking ferns"
Wiltah, we need to make ferns Wiltah
Fake and gritty
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get out of my head
I'm seeing a lot of HL:A assets in there, like the APC and some of these wallpapers.
I was very disappointed with this mod, Ravenholm was a perfect example of good level design, but he changed stuff that didn't need to be changed, so it went from good level design to very bad level design. Also the mines looked like it just entered minecraft's nether.
This mod is also very dark for no reason at all, like there are areas that are way too dark, and having the hl2 flashlight version doesn't help. I think it just shows that this mod wasn't playtested.
Also, in my opinion saying that only one person was working on it doesn't justify, he could always delay it and polish it up. He released from pressure of the community which brings another point.
I don't think the creator was very prepared to deal with people, he left moddb because people were being mean, and that he prefers gamebanana because people don't heavily criticism him there. I also complained that the mod didn't want to extract, and he responded it wasn't their fault I didn't watch the tutorial, like? I can't even extract? how am I going to install it.
Days later I figured out that the mod is so huge that I was running out of space on my temp folder trying to export it. So I had to manually extract the mod by parts and yet some textures still got corrupted in the process. Which brings another issue.
This mod is a zip bomb, sorry if it sounds mean, but its true. 29gb in a single zip is very problematic, and the fact that I have to overwrite my hl2 install with 29gb doesn't help, this should've been a standalone mod, which I think it comes from the modder being inexperienced with source modding.
There are also my custom creations in my hl2 folder, and I don't want to make a fresh install just to remove the mod.
My suggestions to the creator is to convert this mod to a sourcemod and to separate the mod in various zips to avoid having issues in the extraction. Also fix the level issues.
Original was around 54-5 GB.
I didn't like the removal of the grass. There has to be grass.
Instead, he left a texture of grass.
Dark and gritty
OMG.
Judging from what I just saw, I'm gonna LOVE this mod.
As for me, pitch black Ravenholm is such a great idea. Not only it has more horror factor to it now, but it is also understandable, since there is no way Father Grigori could keep the whole town lit up like in original.
I understand, that it's gonna be frustrating for most of the people, but I think it's really cool change.
Instead of it always being dim, having hyro power from the river/lake or something could be a way of justifying the electricity being on lol. Or else just add more Xen fauna with those glowey plants.
If you had the Episode 2 flashlight, it'd be fine.
@SuperFranzs there must be a mod for that somewhere.
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@@masterbuilder0018 mmod
i love how this guy says "god damn" it fits perfectly and has a real whack to it. i love it
Someone paired this mod with 50 other addons alongside HL2VR, and I gotta say it almost feels like an official Valve game
The whole time I was thinking damn I really want to play this in VR but it's probably not possible or very buggy, so I'm very curious that someone managed to do it.
Fr, it's just sad the crowbar still doesn't function that well
Who?
too many "HD" are just crazy saturation the colors and make everything look wet
Man, that lightning in Ravenholm doesn't look good at all, I have no idea what you see in it. Flashing the entire area for a solid second is less a cool effect but more so shows the limitations of the lighting engine. It reminds me of the randomly flickering lights in Doom 1 lol
Also, the part before the actual, original parts of the level didn't look very good either. I didn't play the mod, but it just seemed completely tacked-on and didn't add anything of substance. I say this without any ill intent, but I think it's fascinating how every single mod that just wants to slightly touch up a game still ends up adding something big which 100% does NOT fit. Like they just want to decorate a cake but decide to drop a rotisserie chicken on top because they actually got bored of the cake 3 hours ago.
The rest of the mod looked incredible, though. Highway 17 especially is very detailed.
Now somebody needs to make "BRUTAL HL2" mod and combine (*pun intended) it with this mod and we will have a perfect HL 2 HD Remastered Mod.
Glad you reviewed this mod! I honestly feel like the Ravenholm Chapter might be slightly more bearable if you play with MMOD on top of this, that way you can use your flashlight more efficiently. Still doesn't excuse the pitch black lighting tho,
i had blast playing this mod, it really feel like am playing a modern version of half life 2 . I really love how ZMA manged to mix the hl2 style while also adding the hla style on top of it. (Also for everyone who worried about the mod bening dead, dont worry ZMA is still working on the mod patching things, the just moved to gamebanana since zma doesnt like using moddb pages.)
You are right about the start of Ravenholm… I as a level designer/environment artist/lighting artist was playing and got disappointed at how it was created, it was dragged out for a bit too long, too dark and it was just walking around in darkness for the most part. Also highway 17 has some problems, it has for some reason roads on the bottom of the sea 🤔
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This mod is everything I've wanted from Cinematic Mod, even on it's own, CM is graphically amazing but aesthetically kinda ugly even if you choose not to have the custom character models and graffiti. Shit like ferns, giant freight cranes and ships for docks that aren't big enough to support them, a bridge to nowhere, THE FUCKING FERNS. This mod removes a lot of the stupid non-sensical details while keeping things CM actually did well.
Granted, I do still have some problems with the mod. While I like the dark Ravenholm for the most part I wish some of the lights were kept on so the player still had guidance as it's one of those things you really only notice when the game is lacking it. Now granted, I don't want literal FUCKING YELLOW PAINT on everything but some more subtle changes like leaving some lights by important areas would be nice.
Highway 17 is probably the best part of the OG cinematic mod. The added buuldings and destroyed highway bridges gives it this American-Portland vibe I loved.
YOU UNDERSTAND MEEEEEE
Now this is how a cinematic remaster mod shouldve been done. Not the horny gta4 shader shit that was called "cinematic" before
To be honest I thought this was going to be that HL2 remaster we heard about like a year ago and then never again.
I'm not sure making City 17 livelier and busier is a good thing, I think HL2 was aiming for to show more of a dead city that reflected how barren life for citizens there was.
That start of Ravenholm is quite like the 1000 yard stare meme. Also that lightning effect is weak as hell not gonna lie.
That post-Ravenholm area gives me vibes like a photo of the sky a breakcore track would use or something. Strangely calming which is not that fitting for the setting.
I do like that Highway 17 look, I think nighttime could make it look cooler but I get the fact that cannot be.
Rad also Divison 3 Demo came out for Raising The Bar Redux
That'll be the topic of the next video
Idk, original looks better to me.
No mommy Gothman? 0/10
Your voice changed
Honestly, I would like to see some new gameplay mods instead of another visual mod. Yes, I know about MMod, I played the hell out of it for both HL1 and 2, but maybe something different would be nice too. Like, some different style of gameplay mod. And I remember that there were tactical version of MMod in development but it looks like it is no longer active. And it would be cool to try to play Half-Life 2 with tactical style gameplay. I also wonder, how come nobody made a brutal mod for Half-Life 2 lol. I mean, Doom got one for decades, Duke Nukem 3D got one, Wolfenstein 3D got one too, including Half-Life 1 that was also brutalized, but not Half-Life 2.
I saw videos of this in VR and if I ever get a headset this is definitely the way I play half-life 2 on it.
Wow. You made it look less atmospheric. And somehow even cheaper.
My only gripe with remaster mods is that I prolly wont have the Episodes to match, also true with RTX. Man I hope remastered collection drops soon.
A pathetic parody of the legendary Russian channel about radiation disasters... 😒
I mean, he is Danish
rad failed to edge this time
can someone explain to me what the hell is going on with this mod?
The Ravenholm chapter definitely needs more work, the lack of light, the crappy gmod horror map lightning, I understand Ravenholm is the spooky zombie town but removing all the lights and adding the haunted house ride lightning doesn't make it scarier
My main nitpick with just about ALL of these fan-remakes and remasters is that they too often clutter the world with so many props, that it becomes pointlessly difficult to "read" the game. With thousands of fake doors, gates, vents, all those extra hanging wires and pipes, etc, the actual intended path and things you're meant to interact with become needlessly difficult to spot from all the rubbish. There's also an argument to be made that the "oldschool" minimalistic map design was on purpose, with most of the mankind's materials being harvested and confiscated to weaken them. Also, it is very bizarre for me to hear HL2 be called an "early 00s game" and then call the mod "a PS3 era lookalike", when HL2 came out in 2004, and PS3 literally dropped a mere year later.
No clanks in a ratchet... WHAT WAS HE THINKING?!
Yeah, this looks fantastic. It nails that perfect balance of being true to the original artstyle while being much more visually interesting, but without becoming cluttered.
Shame it's dead now. Valve ought to get this guy on board to release this to HL2 as an official update.
It's un-dead. Going forward the mod is being published to its previously unused GameBanana page.
Video editing at its lowest point. Write mod when you are showing the mod. Also show original then show the mod. WTF was this. This was painful to watch.
Man radhaz has become more and more unhinged every video...... And I like it.
"Post-nut clarity Rad" 😭
Honestly I'd love an even more stripped back version that gets rid of the HD textures and drastic time of day changes (I do want the rainy somber vibe back from the late beta back though, major S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Dark Interval vibes) so it's only more detailed in the "amount of geometry on screen" way. Like Half-Life 2 if Valve weren't knee-capped by 2004 PC restrictions. It would feel much more cohesive visually since there isn't a disparity between texture resolutions and individual model poly counts.
Feels a bit weird seeing a bunch of HL:Alyx stuff there (it still has an obvious "half life vibe", but it's a different one that's slightly more dark or less gritty or something) but otherwise that looks like a solid 8/10 remaster, much better than most.
Would this actually work with MMod? I imagine dropping extra changes on an already unstable bugged mod could be... hurty. Though also sounds like a perfect pairing with both gameplay and level design getting a refresh.
Fake factory
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Real factory
(Who will win)
Fake Factory when Real Machine walks in:
Fear factory
Myth factory
10:48 wow… this part is just amazing
twilight was also in original game when u ere aproaching nova prospect
BBL Drizzy 🗣🗣🔥
on launch im getting a white screen and shortly after the error message "Can't find background image materials/console/startup_loading .vtf"
Reinstall Half-life 2, watch the installation
I heard like a lot of people complaining that it was broken as hell on launch so much to the point that the triggers were visible on all of the maps
I played on launch and didn't run into bugs where triggers were visible but it was very buggy, still was cool to play through. Probably the worst offender from what I experienced was Ravenholm because a lot of traps were outright nonfunctional and the thunderstorm effects looked unfinished.
The "visible triggers" bug happens when the mod isn't installed properly.
the intro caught me off guard so bad LMAO
So this is only the maps... Right? Without the fully modeled bs and the character pimper shite?
Has some half life alyx props, and an optional pack of hla styled characters
Fake Factory feels like a parody of itself.
are you taking about cinematic mod? in that it is a parody of itself
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YES!!! ANOTHER FAKE FACTORY VIDEO
greatest description of all time
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Cinematic Mod is an oddity of a mod I used to be quite fascinated with as a kid. At the time, I imagined that if HL2 were to be ported to Source 2, that's how it would look like for the most part.
But the many creative liberties it took stirred a lot of controversy within the community, due to the new models which were often far removed from their original counterpart, as well as dramatic changes within the maps (notably Ravenholm, which, if I recall, became purple), and its overuse of vegetation in places it didn't belong to, considering HL2's world was meant to be slowly dying, not flourishing.
The violent critique and outright hate eventually overwhelmed FF to the point that he gave up on the project altogether. Say what you want about the mod, but this kind of attitude is what prompts people to turn hostile to their own community or cancel their projects after achieving numerous milestones, but this attitude has also become almost normalized. Nowadays we see the same thing happening, but to a lesser extent, with RTBR's models, which also tend to have very different designs from retail for some existing monsters.
As for the remaster, it now actually looks quite good and much more faithful than the original. The atmosphere is awesome, and the increased detail is welcome, all of that without going overboard. I wonder how it will fare against the Remastered Collection, whenever it drops, as the successor to the Update mod (you mentioned that it hasn't been updated in a while, but that's because Update itself is dead, as Filip has been working on a remastered trilogy for HL2 and the episodes, running on the CSGO branch for some time now, but a public reveal is still pending).
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the one thing i dislike about this mod, is a thing that ironicly, you loved the most
this mods brings a lot more life into City 17, but the thing is, City 17 is supposed to feel dead
hey rad have you gotten to try out RTBR division 3 ?
Will do soon
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" *Source* material" lol
Drizzy slizzy
Gonna be honest, the "Pick up your can" area being changed so much doesn't look nice. I like the sunlight from the windows, not the combine light. I also don't like the time of day changes, it's not true to the original.
Ravenholm looks like garbage.
I give you the other things, but the time of day changes were already in the original cinematic mod, nothing to do, and also has more sense, in the original game you enter the ravenholm mines at night, go through them some minutes an when you leave the sun's already high enough to the sky be blue and yellow
@@nekolare I wish that we had the longer game without the cut sections of the story, it would explain the jumps in time.
Rad's drake diss when?
HE DID IT!!!
Yeah, imagine If TF2 being Shut Down Permanently, And Valve give Update A Remaster For Half-Life 2. Thats Nice.
another banger video rad
I mean, it's great, but I still prefer the Update's skyboxes and HDR over the Fakefactory Remaster. If this had Update's skyboxes, lighting and it kept the the vanilla-ish aesthetic with just the upgraded level layout... then I'd love the mod. For now, I disagree with many of the changes done here. The only parts of Cinematic Mod (after modding it myself) that I never really liked much (mostly due to lighting) were the canals, citadel and the coast. The rest was quite fine.
The lightning/thunder in Ravenholm just looks like someone grabbed the camera setting of toneMapScale and just made it 100 for a couple seconds then made it normal again. 9:31 In realistic thunder,the tree would have a shadow since the light is coming from the sky. The tree i'm talking about is the tree that the crosshair is on. But here it just looks like mat_fullbright 1 or you turned the light on in a room. The thunders light looks exactly like how it would look like if you turned the lights on and off in a big dark (ceiling low) room.
Thunders light also would not be completly white. Real life thunder light is a tad bit purple-blue ish. But here it's just 255 R 255 B 255 G (a.k.a completely white).
Edit: The lightning really does look like turning on and off a rooms lightbulb. Real life thunder doesn't like...do that. It goes dark and bright dark and bright constantly like a flicker.
Its freaking 2004 source engine. How much accurate light simulation do you want?
@@dynamitestalker4219 Yes.
I would recommend installing HL2 mods into HL2 Update. Haven't tried this one yet though
I won't be playing this mod just because of the dark levels. Why put all that work into fresh textures and then force the player to use a flashlight only to see a three foot wide spotlihjt area of them? It's the same reason I don't play DOOM-III anymore. I got sick of getting lost because I can't landmark my surroundings using s narrow beam of light. Maybe if there was a code to brighten things up I might consider it, but if not I'll stick with the MMod version that leaves the lighting alone sans the updated textures and other updates.
One thing I dont like is how overly cluttered everything looks. Its like black mesa game. Just hurts the eyes
The lack of infinite flashlight is pretty shitty but I think that Ravenholm looks pretty damn good.
Bro, no offence, but you sound like cut out hl1 scientist. Though that's funny, u have a nice voice
I gave it a try in conjunction with MMOD and stoppeed at Ravenholm I really didn't liked how the levels layouts were modified and the fact that lots and lots of areas are drenched in darkness, the sewer portion of Route Kanal and Ravenholm are a real nightmare to navigate through. Same for the Xen flora that is literally everywhere.
I don't remember CM2013 altering player's progression so much, but my memory might be fuzzy, it's been a long time.
With how some people argue about this remaster I feel that what they really want is just another half life source
Don't remasterize literally nothing, just porting the base game to the newer engine and call it a day
imagine playing this with MMOD it would be so freaking epic dude
already played, you're right
I was just going through your videos and you just posted. Best timing in my life!
Edit: It was the BACKGRND videos btw
2:04 no way they used a steam miniprofile background in the mod 💀
It looks like if the snowdrop team and entropy zero team made a half life 2 remaster. Just a lot more details but it all looks just like half life 2 should.
I mean It exactly looks how I remember it when I was a baby
As I understand it, normal lighting and optimization are also a minus of CM, which ZMA “fixed”?
now add mmod and rtx remix and you'll have the "best" half life remaster.
Hey Rad, did you saw that Brutal Doom got a update? It's now on the version 22 (beta test 3) and is looking great
(sorry for any misspell, english is not my first language)
I posted an addon for Brutal Doom platinum three times because it just wasn't getting approved for some fucking reason. I just stopped. Dunno how moddb is the "goto" place for mods.
Hello friend, can u help me find map like city 17 district 47 without content not bigger with enterable flats and something like this, that all for local roleplay (sorry for bad English)
so i'm having this problem after installing: when loading a map, it effectively loads but the screen stays locked on the loading bar. also happens when loading thru the console. anyone knows how to fix this?
hard af but stupid google drive wont let me download it (seriously ZMA just put this on MEGA or something😭)
Does anyone know if Fake Factory Remaster works for HL2 Update???
This is how I remember Half Life 2 looking like when I first played it.
Oh great, I always wanted to play that mod, but without the cringe 3d models.
I like ferns tho. Can I have them as an option?
6:04 It doesn't work like that. If a bug doesn't happen to you it doesn't exist. Forums talking about Bethesda games taught me that.
ZMA is my new friend, RadHaz!
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That mod looks pretty awesome but I have to agree with the Ravenholm part. Seems like the developer wanted to make that chapter very spooky but that was overkill thus the outcome is underwhelming.
I wonder what Half-life 2 Remastered will be like when someone remakes it for half-life 3 or something, like how they remade black mesa on half-life 2