Once again, thank you for covering MMod, this time it was Half-Life 1: MMod and I'm very glad that you've enjoyed it! I'm trying to catch every single review out there and collecting feedback for future updates, so this kind of review and feedback is very valuable to me. Thanks again!
No, thank YOU for creating something hella special. This is probably gonna be my go-to method for replaying HL1 in the future. Two questions, though. 1) Any plans to add subtitles? 2) Half-Life 2: MMod on Steam when?
@@protostar5946 Maybe, not sure yet, as for HL2MMod on Steam - putting HL1MMod on Steam was a gigantic pain and a problem, you have to get super lucky and get it touch with someone at Valve for them to setup your app on Steam properly, otherwise their app checking department has no idea what you're trying to do with adding a mod on Steam.
Omg...I still remember when I got the demo for HL before release and you crawl through a vent and the soldiers hear you and shoot up the vent and light penetrates through the bullet holes. My little mind was blown, I thought nothing will ever look better in games. It's been more than 25 years since that, but it's still a fresh memory in my mind.
My favorite part of Half-Life mods is how they take what was already a pretty industry defining game and either improve it or just add absurdity to it, and either way, the results are almost always entertaining.
@@BlueZirnitra Yes, but it's the aspect of it being done for a game such as Half-Life, where the game had such a profound effect on the industry as a whole. Whether it's the updated mechanics of something like MMod or the absurdity of something like Crack-Life, or even just something like Half-Payne or Half-Nuked which brings in other veteran protagonists.
8:58 the silencer has one purpose, and it is to silently take out enemies without alerting anyone around them. It’s actually comedic because they won’t react to getting shot.
glad you covered this mod and I say supporting the developer on their Patron would be nice way to help someone out. I did that when the Gaming Dragon covered this mod
They also added the tertiary launcher that is really effective at killing things. Lobbing one of those bee grenades kills grunts on directs. I used it for much of the xen enemies as it can kill vorts and controllers pretty easily.
This was my first experience playing through Half-Life in it's full actually. I played the original a little bit, but I never could get myself to play more. This mod was my first time playing through the original Half-Life, and it was genuinely a great experience. This is a proper remaster
@@BA-oy9uo I was not implying field intensity is bad. But Echoes is on another level. Just try it. Its kinda like Entropy zero 2, its so good its canon.
The VR mods for Alyx are crazy good too. Even Half life 2 in VR was like playing it for the first time again, even though I just played it 6 months prior.
What I also love about this mod is just that one of the main developers is an Ukrainian guy who was stuck in the middle of a war, he survive by miracle in some cases and he manage to still deliver this mod, that guy is a beast
Wow, after watching the video I wondered if you and I played the same original Half-Life 1. I LOVED the shotgun, its alt-fire shot two shells and destroyed anything point blank. And the crossbow was definitaly overpowered, the only balancing factor was the relatively low amount of ammunition you could find for it. Finally, the hive gun was awesome, because you could fire around the corners with it, and in the latter levels when you had ammo issues, it was clutch to save on ammo.
I remember hating the mmod for HL2. Not only performance was tanking on my end, but movement was like on ice, and overall was making the game more frustrating than necessary. But this one seems really good. Not as over the top like brutal mod, but tastefully chaotic. Could you imagine combining this and the raytracing, its pretty much the best remake of HL1, in case Black Mesa doesn't suit you.
I don't know, man... Even Valve themselves loved Black Mesa. The remake is insanely impressive. If there was a list of Best Steam Exclusives, BM would definitely be on it. With that said, 2023 MMod does look pretty great, but I really don't know if it can compare. It's got huge boots to fill.
8:55 The silencers do actually make it harder for enemies to hear you. For example, one time (in questionable ethics I think) there were two marines with their backs turned and they were right next to each other. I tried shooting one with mp5 without the silencer, and the other guy noticed and attacked me, but with the silencer, the other guy just kept standing there. I tried with the Glock too and it had the same results. But you’re never really gonna notice this unless you’re intentionally being stealthy, and I don’t think that’s something most people do in this game.
Man what can I say. Mods have done a whole a lot of awesome work that these guys have done to improve upon older games, and added newer features to increase the gaming experience even further.
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Half Life was a game I just felt like picking up when it was super cheap on Steam. Knew nothing about it, but it's now one of my all time games, and got me in to other classics such as System Shock, Thief, Deus Ex, and more. The fact that there is still an active community surround the game is a true testament to how phenomenal it is.
The pistol has always been useful since it does 8 damage as opposed to 5 from SMG, which counts for something especially on a hard skill, not to mention its great accuracy at any range. The increased firerate turns it into a real beast now, for sure. The non-hitscan projectile option ruins the revolver somewhat though, so you won't be able to snipe people with it like before, which hurts especially in Xen. I agree about the shotgun, but it has its charm as this ugly duckling that still gets the job done unlike its certain uglier younger brother (cough-cough Doom3). However, MMod seemed to have made the cocking/reload even slower somehow, probably because it's made to be 2-stage'd. Tripmines activate much faster now which means you can use them during combat on an enemy who is rushing you, which is great. Bug Bomb from the Hivehand is indeed amazing (and dare I say OP), and is hands down the best way to make the weapon useful. It also counts as a grenade making enemies panic, which gives you an extra edge in avoiding the damage. Also you can toss the hand grenade down on alt fire like in HL2, though it's not that relevant but is nice. Agreed on other points.
I'm pretty sure the silenced weapons in MMOD actually makes it so enemies can't aggro on you when you shoot at them. Try it on the marines in On a Rail.
Amazing mod, this is like a definitive edition coming in 2000. Which would have been called "Millenium" or "eXtreme" or "2K" at that time. However, I've always enjoyed the vanilla shotgun and I'm willing to fight topless over it
8:10 the crowbars also got the ultra-heavy attack you just press the middle mouse button just like when equipping the suppressor for the pistol and SMG
I feel like a lot of people add little "found the weapon" animations, but it always looks more like flair than the protagonist actually checking to make sure the weapon they just found on the ground is functional and wont hurt them lol. I know field stripping is out of the question, but it'd be cool to see something that looks a bit more realistic than "ooooo, pretty" lol
Did anyone else play that OEM version of Half-Life that leaked online before the full game came out? Back then you had to find an ftp server with like hundreds of files, if one was corrupt or a file got deleted then the whole thing was for nothing and internet speeds were so slow it took weeks to download a game. Eventually I got it and it really changed how I looked at games. It was the most immersed I'd ever felt playing a game. I remember it faded to black in the part where you're reaching the surface and the marines start sliding down ropes into the vent or whatever you were in at the time.
i believe this mod also adds in new g-man sightings, for example you can find him in Unforeseen Consequences after crossing the broken catwalk on the sewers
I have to agree on the "Half-Life is one of the most important FPS games ever made" I played both Half-Life 1 and 2 last year for the first time and i couldn't believe how well 1 holds up. I even liked it a little more than 2.
HL1 is a lot more cohesive than HL2. The sequel had some groundbreaking tech but overall felt a lot more sporadic and disconnected than the original game.
It is, but i hope people stop sucking on HL dick too much, before HL System Shock existed and after HL Deus Ex, Thief, SS2, are forgotten because ppl keep worshipping HL as this important monument.
More than just what you describe, half-life also singlehandedly brought about literally everything we take for granted in gaming today. In-game server browsers, explicit in-game mod support, SDKs for modding, even network coop and parkour (Sven and Action Half-Life respectively). I do disagree with you on hitscan vs projectiles though. Bullets travel faster than the speed of sound, unless you're more than a mile away they basically ARE hitscan weapons. The issue with them in most FPS games is that the AI doesn't have adequate programming to react to player movement with simulated inaccuracy by simulating response times and mis-aiming.
The mod is truly a blessing, it made the Hivehand not only blink, like as it is, a living creature, but also one of the best and most fun guns in the game.
@@Ryan3d yeah, but the HL: Deathmatch still has their own tournaments to this day, I believe. At least back in 2018 there was one when I was still following this stuff.
Natural Selection 1 was the best half life 1 mod so ahead of its time, dumped so many hours into it. I still play its sequel NS2 regularly. NS2 is the best multiplayer game Ive ever played.
I was the guy in NS1 hiding in the vents, building offensive and defensive towers to prolong the game after our team lost because I was screwing around in said vents. Sorry. Too bad they patched out a lot of shenanigans you could do in later versions.
Funnily enough when I was a kid, I always thought that unsilenced weapons were cooler because the silenced weapons typically have much lamer sound design.
MMOD changing all bullets to projectiles has always been my favorite feature of these mods and I would play it for that alone. It brings movement back into the equation, it makes the game feel more like Unreal or something skill wise.
From what I've played the suppressor isn't super useful but it does do is make it so enemies just don't react when you shoot them ,but must be unalerted. Just have the two marines in On The Rail talking bout how freeman will nine-mils are casually going through the first ones spine as the other is still talking to himself like nothing happened. It's unintentionally hilarious.
They Hunger Trilogy by Neil Manke. Used to be on PC Format magazine cover CDs in the Shareware/freeware sections. Amazing back in the day. Was being remade in Source by Manke but I think he went through a bad illness and it just seemed to stop?
YESSS great vid! I love it when you cover mods and more niche things like this G. Would love a follow up on the VR video, or a 3rd person mods for fps games.
You should have used this opportunity to label this video as part of your long since abandoned Mod Corner series. Only us old school GGGmanLives fans will remember
The crowbar has both the alternate heavy attack, and if you press the button that puts suppressors on the pistol and smg, you can do a charge up attack as well.
Went and tried it after watching this. Only up to Office Complex so far, but definitely enjoying it. The default graphics setting of allowing pixellated textures makes quite the difference, and in a very good way, too.
Pressing M3 with the crowbar lets you do a charge attack which does more damage than heavy attack but its even slower (however if u hold M3 u will keep it charged)
Two things you missed but I doubt need saying; the Crowbar also has a third swing which is far stronger, but also far slower. I use it to one-tap zombies. The 'single fire' alt for the Gluon Gun is actually just a stronger fire mode- you can hold it to keep it firing, but the cost is it needs to charge and drains energy about twice as fast.
Suppressors worked great when staying crouched and hidden. I could pick off marines without their buddies noticing and coming for me. Almost too good in fact, they didn't even hear the ricochet of missed bullets.
8:16 *TWO* heavy alternate attacks. Middle mouse button performs a powerful (but slow) swing attack. Also... 8:57 Sound DOES have a play in Half Life, if a small one. Some NPCs react to sound and will investigate. Assassins will walk towards noise (crowbar hitting a wall or crate, gunshots, explosions) and investigate. I think Houndeyes and Vortigaunts investigate as well, but given the player shoots them on sight you barely see this mechanic lol An obvious example of this are scientists. If they see you shoot a gun they will always react, but if you fire with a silencer while hidden they will not akcnowledge your presence (cower, make a sissy comment).
1:41 TF, TF2, CS, CS2. L4D, L4D2. The whole Half Life Saga and the Portal games. And Gmod. These games also have loads of mods. And tons of fan made media online utilizing or referencing gldsource and source engine games, or making original content with it. And Source Film Maker and everything people have made in SFM and Gmod. Half Life is one of the MVPs in gaming culture like Doom, which had incredible wide-reaching effect on gaming culture. A big part of the wide-spread effect and long-lasting popularity is definitely in giving the gamers the development tools to make mods.
Given that the mod maker is currently in what must be hell, any issues with this mod are more then forgivable. But if I’m allowed to be greedy, I would hope future updates add more OP4 weapons, and to give them all alt-fires. We don’t need all of them, just more than the one, especially since there’s ammo for the lawn mower all over the place, that I’m just not allowed to pick up.
Actually, the silencer on pistol and smg works! If enemies didnt saw you yet, you can shoot them and they wont react. Even when they walk side by side they wont notice that their mate just fell dead. Another thing is, with crowbar, holding mouse3 you can charge the hit like you can in opposing force with Wrench! 3 different attack types!
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Where can you get a BFG 9000 with a silencer?
No
Nah. I have no problem with you earning money, but I won't spend money to get scammed just so that you earn a few dollars.
Once again, thank you for covering MMod, this time it was Half-Life 1: MMod and I'm very glad that you've enjoyed it! I'm trying to catch every single review out there and collecting feedback for future updates, so this kind of review and feedback is very valuable to me.
Thanks again!
No, thank YOU for creating something hella special. This is probably gonna be my go-to method for replaying HL1 in the future.
Two questions, though. 1) Any plans to add subtitles? 2) Half-Life 2: MMod on Steam when?
@@protostar5946 Maybe, not sure yet, as for HL2MMod on Steam - putting HL1MMod on Steam was a gigantic pain and a problem, you have to get super lucky and get it touch with someone at Valve for them to setup your app on Steam properly, otherwise their app checking department has no idea what you're trying to do with adding a mod on Steam.
The legend is here.
You sir, do great work
You are an absolute unit my guy you deliver a beast of a mod and I am happy that after all you went through you still deliver a masterpiece
Gman has the voice of that one drinking bud that you just cant help but side hug because of how good of a time he brings to a party.
Are you talking about the omnipotent space god or the Australian
@@cyanthegojifan Yeah I was really confused at first lol
Side hug?? Bro I'd full frontal gman
@@cyanthegojifan I see no difference
Why just side hug give him a proper hug bro please
14:20 "fifteen odd years old now"
It's 25 years old gman. Not 15. In case you wanted to feel older.
Omg...I still remember when I got the demo for HL before release and you crawl through a vent and the soldiers hear you and shoot up the vent and light penetrates through the bullet holes. My little mind was blown, I thought nothing will ever look better in games. It's been more than 25 years since that, but it's still a fresh memory in my mind.
@@invisuu6280 That's actually in a later part of the game. The demo was HL: Uplink.
No. it's 15.
@@seaharrierfrs1 No. It came out in 1998.
@@seaharrierfrs1 as far as i know, 1998 was 25 years ago, not 15.
My favorite part of Half-Life mods is how they take what was already a pretty industry defining game and either improve it or just add absurdity to it, and either way, the results are almost always entertaining.
Isn't that everyone's favourite part of mods and their whole point?
@@BlueZirnitra Yes, but it's the aspect of it being done for a game such as Half-Life, where the game had such a profound effect on the industry as a whole. Whether it's the updated mechanics of something like MMod or the absurdity of something like Crack-Life, or even just something like Half-Payne or Half-Nuked which brings in other veteran protagonists.
What part of Half-Life defined the gaming industry? Everything Half-Life did the gaming industry did before.
@@DrundeFPS Do you mean games like System Shock, Wolfenstein, or Ultima Underworld already did that before Half-Life?
There are actually noobs here trying to downplay Half-Life's contribution to gaming? Weird
8:58 the silencer has one purpose, and it is to silently take out enemies without alerting anyone around them. It’s actually comedic because they won’t react to getting shot.
glad you covered this mod and I say supporting the developer on their Patron would be nice way to help someone out. I did that when the Gaming Dragon covered this mod
The Hivehand was already effective. You could shoot from cover while the other guys were using their scan-to-hit weapons.
Exactly. I used it a lot when playing vanilla HL thanks to the hornets homing in on enemies.
They also added the tertiary launcher that is really effective at killing things. Lobbing one of those bee grenades kills grunts on directs. I used it for much of the xen enemies as it can kill vorts and controllers pretty easily.
hitscan
@@spas1229let the ancients keep their harmless vocabulary
@@quantumblauthor7300Its always been called hitscan since the 90’s
9:35 That's a strange take. The shotgun was always one of the better weapons in HL's arsenal, especially given the nearly endless ammo.
"Barney, how did you get out of Black Mesa??"
"shotgun + right click"
100%
On easy and medium yes, But on hard mode its pretty weak, Hecu soldiers can tank 2 headshots.
Just when I think GmanLives has reviewed every shooter under the sun, he blesses us with hidden gems like this
This was my first experience playing through Half-Life in it's full actually. I played the original a little bit, but I never could get myself to play more. This mod was my first time playing through the original Half-Life, and it was genuinely a great experience. This is a proper remaster
play through the expansions if you are up to it (blue shift opposing force), also highly recommend field intensity as a fan made expansion
@@BA-oy9uo HL echoes is much better than field intensity.
@@Atrahasis7 I'll give it a go! I'm really digging field intensity, how come?
@@BA-oy9uo I was not implying field intensity is bad. But Echoes is on another level. Just try it. Its kinda like Entropy zero 2, its so good its canon.
I personally played a good chunk of the original, but never got around to finishing it. This mod should give me the motivation
The VR mods for Alyx are crazy good too. Even Half life 2 in VR was like playing it for the first time again, even though I just played it 6 months prior.
What I also love about this mod is just that one of the main developers is an Ukrainian guy who was stuck in the middle of a war, he survive by miracle in some cases and he manage to still deliver this mod, that guy is a beast
He's a real chad. I'm a Ukrainian too but I never was in a warzone.
We've managed to avoid drowning
The eastern European drive to mod games from 20 years ago overpowers their love of war
Did my first mmod hl2 playthrough and man I enjoyed it so much more.
Yeah gotta like mods that take a great aging game and give it a fresh coat of polish, or brings up the intensity
Wow, after watching the video I wondered if you and I played the same original Half-Life 1. I LOVED the shotgun, its alt-fire shot two shells and destroyed anything point blank. And the crossbow was definitaly overpowered, the only balancing factor was the relatively low amount of ammunition you could find for it. Finally, the hive gun was awesome, because you could fire around the corners with it, and in the latter levels when you had ammo issues, it was clutch to save on ammo.
I remember hating the mmod for HL2. Not only performance was tanking on my end, but movement was like on ice, and overall was making the game more frustrating than necessary. But this one seems really good. Not as over the top like brutal mod, but tastefully chaotic. Could you imagine combining this and the raytracing, its pretty much the best remake of HL1, in case Black Mesa doesn't suit you.
you'd need something pretty terrible for hl2 mmod to tank on performance
@@smailchali5102 the original MMod came out in Pentium 4 era
@@pratikpramanik7782 not hl2mmod that's for certain
Bruh hl2 mmod ran fine on my 2007 Thinkpad on medium settings like 2 years ago wdym bad performance
I don't know, man... Even Valve themselves loved Black Mesa. The remake is insanely impressive. If there was a list of Best Steam Exclusives, BM would definitely be on it. With that said, 2023 MMod does look pretty great, but I really don't know if it can compare. It's got huge boots to fill.
Now now Gordon doesn't need to hear all this he's a highly trained professional
The crowbar actually has the third attack at your disposal. Just click and hold a wheel on a mouse
Your point about hit scan vs actual projectiles is spot on.
love your content gman! always puts a smile on my face to see you’ve uploaded.
8:55 The silencers do actually make it harder for enemies to hear you. For example, one time (in questionable ethics I think) there were two marines with their backs turned and they were right next to each other. I tried shooting one with mp5 without the silencer, and the other guy noticed and attacked me, but with the silencer, the other guy just kept standing there. I tried with the Glock too and it had the same results. But you’re never really gonna notice this unless you’re intentionally being stealthy, and I don’t think that’s something most people do in this game.
It also makes me feel cooler
My favorite mod for HL1 is still the one that lets you play it in VR.
wait like the original goldsource version? or like gmod or something.
@@Gatosiamese Yes, the original version.
wait really? What's the name?
@@Fogolol Lambda1VR
Yeah that's an awesome mod. And it works natively on the Oculus Quest 2, so need for a PC.
Man what can I say. Mods have done a whole a lot of awesome work that these guys have done to improve upon older games, and added newer features to increase the gaming experience even further.
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0:06 Three months for free, on my next daughter? Hmmm, I dunno ExpressVPN, I doubt I'd have time to sit on the computer then anyway.
Honestly this mod is gonna be my go to method to replay HL1.
Awesome vid Gman, as always. I was just replaying the Half-Life games for this last week and you release a video of MMod, good stuff!
Nice, this mod deserves all the recognition it can get, the dev went through a lot.
a nice alternative to brutal half life and a more stable one too
Half Life was a game I just felt like picking up when it was super cheap on Steam. Knew nothing about it, but it's now one of my all time games, and got me in to other classics such as System Shock, Thief, Deus Ex, and more. The fact that there is still an active community surround the game is a true testament to how phenomenal it is.
Dudes be like "AYO IM PLAYING HL1 MMOD"
*MY BROTHER IN CHRIST*
we need you to review Entropy Zero 2!
Love that the guy that gets cut in half via the Laser is actually cut instead the old gorexplosion
The pistol has always been useful since it does 8 damage as opposed to 5 from SMG, which counts for something especially on a hard skill, not to mention its great accuracy at any range. The increased firerate turns it into a real beast now, for sure.
The non-hitscan projectile option ruins the revolver somewhat though, so you won't be able to snipe people with it like before, which hurts especially in Xen.
I agree about the shotgun, but it has its charm as this ugly duckling that still gets the job done unlike its certain uglier younger brother (cough-cough Doom3). However, MMod seemed to have made the cocking/reload even slower somehow, probably because it's made to be 2-stage'd.
Tripmines activate much faster now which means you can use them during combat on an enemy who is rushing you, which is great.
Bug Bomb from the Hivehand is indeed amazing (and dare I say OP), and is hands down the best way to make the weapon useful. It also counts as a grenade making enemies panic, which gives you an extra edge in avoiding the damage.
Also you can toss the hand grenade down on alt fire like in HL2, though it's not that relevant but is nice.
Agreed on other points.
Mmod is now my defacto way to replay through HL1 from now on.
Is just /K/ino
@@Ye-Hu the fuck did you just call me?
Man HL1 was such a great arena shooter.
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Dude we all know it's a MOBA, get your facts right!
Not here too lol
It's not really an arena shooter though.
I'm pretty sure the silenced weapons in MMOD actually makes it so enemies can't aggro on you when you shoot at them. Try it on the marines in On a Rail.
I can confirm this. Ive used it to sneak up on enemies in we've got hostiles.
Amazing mod, this is like a definitive edition coming in 2000. Which would have been called "Millenium" or "eXtreme" or "2K" at that time. However, I've always enjoyed the vanilla shotgun and I'm willing to fight topless over it
8:10 the crowbars also got the ultra-heavy attack you just press the middle mouse button just like when equipping the suppressor for the pistol and SMG
I feel like a lot of people add little "found the weapon" animations, but it always looks more like flair than the protagonist actually checking to make sure the weapon they just found on the ground is functional and wont hurt them lol. I know field stripping is out of the question, but it'd be cool to see something that looks a bit more realistic than "ooooo, pretty" lol
Did anyone else play that OEM version of Half-Life that leaked online before the full game came out? Back then you had to find an ftp server with like hundreds of files, if one was corrupt or a file got deleted then the whole thing was for nothing and internet speeds were so slow it took weeks to download a game. Eventually I got it and it really changed how I looked at games. It was the most immersed I'd ever felt playing a game. I remember it faded to black in the part where you're reaching the surface and the marines start sliding down ropes into the vent or whatever you were in at the time.
It is an amazing mod, I am glad this is getting attention
this is the last place i expected to see you
I've been desperately waiting for this! So stoked its out. I still remember the very first summer I played this game as a kid on PC back in 2001.
i believe this mod also adds in new g-man sightings, for example you can find him in Unforeseen Consequences after crossing the broken catwalk on the sewers
I have to agree on the "Half-Life is one of the most important FPS games ever made"
I played both Half-Life 1 and 2 last year for the first time and i couldn't believe how well 1 holds up. I even liked it a little more than 2.
HL1 is a lot more cohesive than HL2. The sequel had some groundbreaking tech but overall felt a lot more sporadic and disconnected than the original game.
It's pretty much an objective fact, even if it didn't hold up it is one of the most influential games ever made.
It is, but i hope people stop sucking on HL dick too much, before HL System Shock existed and after HL Deus Ex, Thief, SS2, are forgotten because ppl keep worshipping HL as this important monument.
>Game by default have an MP5SD, Wich means it has an integral suppressor
>You are able to put a supressor on it
You know, for extra suppression
MMOD uses a different MP5 model
@@slickcalf985 i didn't notice
Tho i think it's sacrilegious
You either use the MP5sd or the M16
Come for reviews, stay for the Simpson references.
15 odd years? Bro, Half-Life is nearly 25 yearers old now. 1998, Sonny Jim!
imagine if someone goes out of their way to make *H* alf-life after this video comes out
11:27 "rocket lounger!"
It's great whenever you review single player arena shooters
Idea, alt fire is full auto mode or faster semi mode. Since spas is pump and semi. Switching mode by fire would make sense and buff it
More than just what you describe, half-life also singlehandedly brought about literally everything we take for granted in gaming today. In-game server browsers, explicit in-game mod support, SDKs for modding, even network coop and parkour (Sven and Action Half-Life respectively). I do disagree with you on hitscan vs projectiles though. Bullets travel faster than the speed of sound, unless you're more than a mile away they basically ARE hitscan weapons. The issue with them in most FPS games is that the AI doesn't have adequate programming to react to player movement with simulated inaccuracy by simulating response times and mis-aiming.
The mod is truly a blessing, it made the Hivehand not only blink, like as it is, a living creature, but also one of the best and most fun guns in the game.
It always amazes me how Half-Life is still going so strong these days. Even after all these years.
I heard this game is an arena shooter. Lol
it is , i mean have you played the multiplayer??
@@adrianosicilianoI'd bet that 90% of gamers didn't know half-life had multiplayer
He really overextended the term there.... or at least HL deathmatch wans't nearly as influential or big as Quake/UT in the arena shooter genre.
@@Ryan3d yeah, but the HL: Deathmatch still has their own tournaments to this day, I believe. At least back in 2018 there was one when I was still following this stuff.
Check player Rammy or HR|Alex playing Adrenaline Gamer on TH-cam
Fun fact, there’s also a super heavy attack with the crowbar, you can hold down middle mouse to charge it.
yea i remember trying to play Half Life on hard and the marines INSTA know where u are and ur shot ten times before u can react. dang hit scan
14:22 “This thing is 15 odd years old now”
Half Life’s age at the time of this video: 25 years old.
Banger video gman, always love the vids u do on HL mods and old classic pc games. Look forward to the next upload !
3:48 scientist vibin'
a classic machine gun fire dance
Now we can only pray for an Opposing Force MMod
7:40 Dear god, it *Is* beautiful...
Natural Selection 1 was the best half life 1 mod so ahead of its time, dumped so many hours into it. I still play its sequel NS2 regularly. NS2 is the best multiplayer game Ive ever played.
I was the guy in NS1 hiding in the vents, building offensive and defensive towers to prolong the game after our team lost because I was screwing around in said vents. Sorry. Too bad they patched out a lot of shenanigans you could do in later versions.
Funnily enough when I was a kid, I always thought that unsilenced weapons were cooler because the silenced weapons typically have much lamer sound design.
MMOD changing all bullets to projectiles has always been my favorite feature of these mods and I would play it for that alone. It brings movement back into the equation, it makes the game feel more like Unreal or something skill wise.
How about Entropy Zero 2, a half life 2 story mod on steam
+1
From what I've played the suppressor isn't super useful but it does do is make it so enemies just don't react when you shoot them ,but must be unalerted. Just have the two marines in On The Rail talking bout how freeman will nine-mils are casually going through the first ones spine as the other is still talking to himself like nothing happened.
It's unintentionally hilarious.
They Hunger Trilogy by Neil Manke. Used to be on PC Format magazine cover CDs in the Shareware/freeware sections. Amazing back in the day. Was being remade in Source by Manke but I think he went through a bad illness and it just seemed to stop?
I think the silencer on the pistol and mp5 is a homage to the 1997 Half Life Beta.
Fun fact: there is a third option for three crowbar that acts like the wrench from op4 and you use it by holding down the scroll wheel
9:53 I'm sorry this actually made me giggle today. Takes a lot to make me actually giggle without force.
YESSS great vid! I love it when you cover mods and more niche things like this G. Would love a follow up on the VR video, or a 3rd person mods for fps games.
You should have used this opportunity to label this video as part of your long since abandoned Mod Corner series. Only us old school GGGmanLives fans will remember
The crowbar has both the alternate heavy attack, and if you press the button that puts suppressors on the pistol and smg, you can do a charge up attack as well.
Went and tried it after watching this. Only up to Office Complex so far, but definitely enjoying it. The default graphics setting of allowing pixellated textures makes quite the difference, and in a very good way, too.
Everyone talks about MMOD for half life 1 but they're forgetting that brutal half life 1 exists
Because Brutal Half Life is bloated and crashes all the time.
@@filmsofthedeceased3062 deal with it, at least brutal still does better job at remastering half life 1
@@VitalikZ-yz5qw Remastering the game wasn't the point of Brutal Half Life.
9:04 the space ORKs will have your *ss for this blasphemy!
11:09 Fine, I'll rewatch No Country For Old Men again.
Pressing M3 with the crowbar lets you do a charge attack which does more damage than heavy attack but its even slower (however if u hold M3 u will keep it charged)
Shoutout to Gunship Mark II for getting this done with everything happening there
Two things you missed but I doubt need saying;
the Crowbar also has a third swing which is far stronger, but also far slower. I use it to one-tap zombies.
The 'single fire' alt for the Gluon Gun is actually just a stronger fire mode- you can hold it to keep it firing, but the cost is it needs to charge and drains energy about twice as fast.
Preach brother preach 🙌. Gman yeat again serves up another awesome review, cheers dude!
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A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Anton!
1:48 Even though Team Fortress began as a Quake mod, and later became it's own think in Half Life's engine
Suppressors worked great when staying crouched and hidden. I could pick off marines without their buddies noticing and coming for me. Almost too good in fact, they didn't even hear the ricochet of missed bullets.
I’ve never met G-man, but sounds like what I would imagine my Australian cousin to be like
Nice rundown of the mod. Looks like fun! Next time I get the Half-Life itch, I'll check it out.
*Bonus Fact*- The handle on the tau canon (gauss gun) was actually on the beta model of the gun, but removed before the release version.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention... looks awesome. Acquiring now.
You're wrong about the shotgun, of course...
An ad just popped in at 4:43. thank you TH-cam for the great timing
Middle click with the crowbar does a super heavy attack that can one shot headcrab zombies when hitting the head
Never understood as to why the laser sight attachment for the 357 gave you scope options.
A lot of the HL weapon functionality makes no sense.
8:16 *TWO* heavy alternate attacks. Middle mouse button performs a powerful (but slow) swing attack.
Also... 8:57 Sound DOES have a play in Half Life, if a small one. Some NPCs react to sound and will investigate. Assassins will walk towards noise (crowbar hitting a wall or crate, gunshots, explosions) and investigate. I think Houndeyes and Vortigaunts investigate as well, but given the player shoots them on sight you barely see this mechanic lol An obvious example of this are scientists. If they see you shoot a gun they will always react, but if you fire with a silencer while hidden they will not akcnowledge your presence (cower, make a sissy comment).
1:41 TF, TF2, CS, CS2. L4D, L4D2. The whole Half Life Saga and the Portal games. And Gmod. These games also have loads of mods. And tons of fan made media online utilizing or referencing gldsource and source engine games, or making original content with it. And Source Film Maker and everything people have made in SFM and Gmod.
Half Life is one of the MVPs in gaming culture like Doom, which had incredible wide-reaching effect on gaming culture. A big part of the wide-spread effect and long-lasting popularity is definitely in giving the gamers the development tools to make mods.
So glad you covered this mod for the arena shooter.
Mmod is how i remember Half Life looking.
Given that the mod maker is currently in what must be hell, any issues with this mod are more then forgivable.
But if I’m allowed to be greedy, I would hope future updates add more OP4 weapons, and to give them all alt-fires. We don’t need all of them, just more than the one, especially since there’s ammo for the lawn mower all over the place, that I’m just not allowed to pick up.
Actually, the silencer on pistol and smg works! If enemies didnt saw you yet, you can shoot them and they wont react. Even when they walk side by side they wont notice that their mate just fell dead.
Another thing is, with crowbar, holding mouse3 you can charge the hit like you can in opposing force with Wrench! 3 different attack types!
8:55 Finally, someone who appreciates silencers as I do. 😎
Absolutely wild that people are still modding one of the most iconic arena shooters of all time