I just love the idea of Fabreen giving the Combines outfits corresponding to the time perioud, like imagine the reaction of the combines when they we're told to wear white tuxedos with palm shirts
This mod gives off the vibes of old classic like Hour-Glass and Timeline series. Ah, the times of old HL1 mods, when half the mods had creative stories like this!
It's an alright mod in my opinion. My only real complaint about the game is that it's mostly all just combat with story bits in between each map and that's about it. If there was a bit more stuff to do in between combat like maybe some small puzzles or something then I'd say that it's a great mod but as is, it's a pretty decent mod. Just wish some of the maps weren't so confusing and there was more stuff in the game to break up the combat.
That's not an oversight though, it's deliberate, the mod is meant to feel like an old-school shooter, like the first Doom games, Quake, Wolfenstein. Think Doom for example, you go through the level at a fast pace killing everything you see, reach a room, press a button, you do that four or five more times and then you get a bit of story in form of a wall of text. It says it right in the store page "Various Combine enemies will be stationed in each period to bar your way, in tight, close-quarters combat intended to channel the retro shooter vibe." It's like complaining about there not being too much plot in a Madden game.
@@EduardoProa I hear ya, people are calling this mod bad for being repetitive all for nothing. While it is repetitive, it's anything BUT a terrible mod.
The Burton Equation is fun but i don't agree calling this one the best Half-Life 2 mod of the year. Personally, i found the level design VERY repetitive with no exploration sadly. I had fun with it but not the best i played. Still a very good job !
@@cloacky4409 Personally, i LOVE Entropy Zero 2, one of the best Half-Life 2 mods to me. But this one, it's fun but not amazing. But i'm glad The Burton Equation seems to have good reviews, nice work from the creators !
Indeed. I just think the video title doesn't help in my opinion. It's just his opinion, not a general state but the title is very general. I don't know if i'm clear ahah
The one thing that disappointed me only a little, was the fact that when we went back to each period, we didn't get all the weapons from each of them. Its in no way anything major, just wouldve loved to see it.
a fair warning to potential players: i havent finished the game yet, but somtimes during the first fabreen boss i would respawn in the middle of the fight, not the begining, do be warned that this can softlock the game if your on especially low hp.
Q: "Did the best HL2 mod of the year just release?" A: It depends on what you consider as the "best". It is a mod though, and its been out for a little while.
i had this open on one of my tabs while internet was out. i was playing EZ:2 and the video started playing and i thought i ran into a easter egg in chamber catacomb lmfao
Ok, I watched for 2 min before I decided to stop spoiling myself. This mod has my full attention and will be played soon. Very soon. What about… now ?!
I do feel like the 1920/Noire segment would have benefited from letting certains thing have color, albeit slightly desaturated. Such as blood and pickups. Maybe the muzzle flare, as well.
@@PiMoNFeeD well i am from eu,all i had of gameplay was a bit of boredoom i literally spotted the murderer before picking up clues and my team mate killed me instead of getting him. TTT experience
Thats fair, common complaints is that despite strong presentation but gets really repetitive. Which seems to be common with alot of total conversion mods
Yeah having played the first two chapters, the mod strikes me as more of a shooting gallery then anything else. Nothing wrong with that! but it does get repetitive and there are better mods out there for Half-Life 2. Still, low low price of free and what not, so I can excuse its shortcomings.
Its a pretty boring, repetive, amateur mod with a single music track that repeats and starts over with every-single-level. Its mostly just an edited mappack with recycled SWEPs and animations from various other mods over the last 20yrs.
I can't download mood because for some reason when I try to download it says An error occurred while trying to start: no license. Can someone help me please?
I seriously need to go back and play HL mods like I used to, this one is so interesting and I intend to play it NOT in the way it was intended, and by that I mean I will add npcs here and there.
@@NotMrDanny I don't know why you'd think using a custom map for npc battles is a stupid idea, I mean I get the mod itself might be not what I'd expect
@greenth-mac2550 ohhh npc battles right mb I didn't read trought the lines I thought you said add more npc or smt wich would've been useless since the maps already have too much of them
Oh hey man I know your voice You're the Freeman Guy lookalike Radio guy who got shot in Entropy Zero 2 😂😂 Just wanted to say this while I could. Amazing video tho!
Personally I felt this mod would have greatly improved had it been a mod for Max Payne 1/2 or implemented mechanics from those games as the combat in the mod is really just more Half-Life 2 which I won't be the first to say, is mostly held up by the level design and the Gravity Gun
This mod just feels like the average shitty moddb map pack with endless repetitive loop and Goofy ass story and trust me the music gets annoying very fast since every chapter plays the same tune over and over and over again for straight 10-15 minutes
It's honestly pretty alright. I was hoping it would be way better because the idea for the game is awesome, but it's just pretty average. Also since the areas are so small and claustrophobic half the time the combine just stand there and shoot at you and never move and kind of makes it pretty boring.
I played and it´s woefully average. I would even say that it´s unfinished as most of the gameplay consist of shooting reskins of metrocops in various periods of time with occasional sprinkling of other combine units untill the last chapter.
@MazdoTheWolf none of it has custom code it's just plain old normal maps with changed models maybe a few weapon scripts but that can be also changed in the txt.file
NGL the video is more of a passion project then the mod itself appears to be Is there genuinely this little music in it? Couple themic songs that almost fit the vibe, but variety is close to zilch
i think that the last panel you talked about with the soldier was Ai generated, I think that maybe a few of these panels were either ai generated or photos with heavy filters. I dont know i just cant see that image being anything other than ai because of the design discrepancies and look of it
It’s not AI! There is a disclaimer on the Steam page that says that no AI was used in the mod. I have talked to Kralich as well after the videos release and he confirmed with me that it was the artists interpretation of the combine. There was an idea to create a model for the combine enemies in that chapter based upon that art, but that idea was dropped.
The mod is neat, action is noice, love the noir and miami chapters, tho the comics parts are my least favorite part, they seem to be inconsistent and look weird in all chapters. Also 20:56 thats the woman from the beghining in the back and the final chapter seems to take place during the uprising.
Real mods and fan games will always be made with Sorse. Any team of dev who tries to use Unreal or any other engine is an idiot and is just killing their project in advance.
@@gyanprakash7445 youre a random dude who never had anything to do with videogame developement while theyre bigass studios who have been in the business for ages. i wonder whos in the right here
I think he's also worked on Entropy Zero 2...
we're in for some real fun then.
As soon as I saw that kick animation, I just KNEW it had to involve an Entropy Zero dev
I just love the idea of Fabreen giving the Combines outfits corresponding to the time perioud, like imagine the reaction of the combines when they we're told to wear white tuxedos with palm shirts
"Rattle 'em boys!!" ahh mod
boss why arent you in afghanistan
Oh boy I hope I don’t see absolute cinema mod in my feed
Lambdageneration:
HELL YEAHH
This mod gives off the vibes of old classic like Hour-Glass and Timeline series. Ah, the times of old HL1 mods, when half the mods had creative stories like this!
It's an alright mod in my opinion. My only real complaint about the game is that it's mostly all just combat with story bits in between each map and that's about it. If there was a bit more stuff to do in between combat like maybe some small puzzles or something then I'd say that it's a great mod but as is, it's a pretty decent mod. Just wish some of the maps weren't so confusing and there was more stuff in the game to break up the combat.
That's not an oversight though, it's deliberate, the mod is meant to feel like an old-school shooter, like the first Doom games, Quake, Wolfenstein.
Think Doom for example, you go through the level at a fast pace killing everything you see, reach a room, press a button, you do that four or five more times and then you get a bit of story in form of a wall of text.
It says it right in the store page "Various Combine enemies will be stationed in each period to bar your way, in tight, close-quarters combat intended to channel the retro shooter vibe."
It's like complaining about there not being too much plot in a Madden game.
@@EduardoProa I hear ya, people are calling this mod bad for being repetitive all for nothing.
While it is repetitive, it's anything BUT a terrible mod.
They should have added a moment where you go to the 90s and fight in Black Mesa
Hopefully not! In no disrespect to Burton Equation of course but I certainly hope for many, many more peak mods to release thereafter.
The Burton Equation is fun but i don't agree calling this one the best Half-Life 2 mod of the year.
Personally, i found the level design VERY repetitive with no exploration sadly.
I had fun with it but not the best i played. Still a very good job !
half life community does tend to overreact (positively) when it comes to mods like entropy zero, this or rtbr
@@cloacky4409 Personally, i LOVE Entropy Zero 2, one of the best Half-Life 2 mods to me.
But this one, it's fun but not amazing. But i'm glad The Burton Equation seems to have good reviews, nice work from the creators !
@@jasonmalkovitch289 everyone has their tastes i guess
Indeed. I just think the video title doesn't help in my opinion. It's just his opinion, not a general state but the title is very general.
I don't know if i'm clear ahah
The video length made me Burton Equated.
The one thing that disappointed me only a little, was the fact that when we went back to each period, we didn't get all the weapons from each of them. Its in no way anything major, just wouldve loved to see it.
the way he pronounced luger is funny, it's looger not lugger lol
the year BARELY started
a fair warning to potential players: i havent finished the game yet, but somtimes during the first fabreen boss i would respawn in the middle of the fight, not the begining, do be warned that this can softlock the game if your on especially low hp.
Q: "Did the best HL2 mod of the year just release?"
A: It depends on what you consider as the "best". It is a mod though, and its been out for a little while.
@@guestc142 this is not a q&a 😭
No
The Cutscenes Is Perhaps Inspired By Max Payne Graphic Novel
You know, about Miami's music sounding like Turbo Killer, it also sounds like Maniac was mixed into it, which I fw heavily
The Timesplitters influence is blatant, I will give it a try just for that. Future perfect is still one of my top three favorite games.
i had this open on one of my tabs while internet was out. i was playing EZ:2 and the video started playing and i thought i ran into a easter egg in chamber catacomb lmfao
Ok, I watched for 2 min before I decided to stop spoiling myself. This mod has my full attention and will be played soon. Very soon. What about… now ?!
RATTLE EM BOYS
I do feel like the 1920/Noire segment would have benefited from letting certains thing have color, albeit slightly desaturated. Such as blood and pickups. Maybe the muzzle flare, as well.
Whenever I get the golden gun I go full on rip and tear on the combine
treason is also a great mafia based terrorist town gmod mod. (its forgotten sadly)
treason is not a gmod mod, and what do you mean by "forgotten"? its constantly being updated
@@PiMoNFeeD being updated but no players that much its like tf2 source mods only exceptionwise is tf2c,sven coop(that is half life 1 but multiplayer)
@@bait3019 there are constant players in the evening eu time
@@PiMoNFeeD well i am from eu,all i had of gameplay was a bit of boredoom i literally spotted the murderer before picking up clues and my team mate killed me instead of getting him. TTT experience
BOYTON
I played this a couple weeks ago and I hate to say it, but I've got a good amount of complaints about the game and level design.
@@WhimsicalVR watch the ppl who haven't played it get mad at you lol
Well, what did you not like? Is it a flawed gem or a general slog?
Thats fair, common complaints is that despite strong presentation but gets really repetitive.
Which seems to be common with alot of total conversion mods
Yeah having played the first two chapters, the mod strikes me as more of a shooting gallery then anything else. Nothing wrong with that! but it does get repetitive and there are better mods out there for Half-Life 2. Still, low low price of free and what not, so I can excuse its shortcomings.
Thats great but are you gonna tell us what they are
Rattle em boys!!! *Aggressive submaschine gun sounds*
Nah the best mod is gonna be crack strike anniversary campaign mode
Too bad the mod doesn't offer workshop
Its a pretty boring, repetive, amateur mod with a single music track that repeats and starts over with every-single-level. Its mostly just an edited mappack with recycled SWEPs and animations from various other mods over the last 20yrs.
I can't download mood because for some reason when I try to download it says An error occurred while trying to start: no license. Can someone help me please?
Black and White Nostalgia, but it's still looks futuristic. Nice job, Kralich!
Yea I just played through it and is was alright for a 20 min mod I went in expecting to to be a rival to zero entropy 2 but it falls way short of that
So it's Half life 2 but its guns gore & cannoli
Having played the entire mod this smells clickbait and borderline ragebait
I seriously need to go back and play HL mods like I used to, this one is so interesting and I intend to play it NOT in the way it was intended, and by that I mean I will add npcs here and there.
@@greenth-mac2550 play better ones than this trust me
@@NotMrDanny Is it this bad? Worse case scenario I can take the maps, place them in Ep2 and use them to create npc battles as I always do.
@greenth-mac2550 no that's stupid cuz the WHOLE mod is just endless enemy spam without any pacing
@@NotMrDanny I don't know why you'd think using a custom map for npc battles is a stupid idea, I mean I get the mod itself might be not what I'd expect
@greenth-mac2550 ohhh npc battles right mb I didn't read trought the lines I thought you said add more npc or smt wich would've been useless since the maps already have too much of them
This mod is *"The sun is leaking"*
leaking is sun the
half life fans when they find a new joke to milk for the end of times
Oh hey man
I know your voice
You're the Freeman Guy lookalike Radio guy who got shot in Entropy Zero 2 😂😂
Just wanted to say this while I could. Amazing video tho!
When I tried to play this it kept repetitively crashing, has that been mostly fixed?
Personally I felt this mod would have greatly improved had it been a mod for Max Payne 1/2 or implemented mechanics from those games as the combat in the mod is really just more Half-Life 2 which I won't be the first to say, is mostly held up by the level design and the Gravity Gun
This mod just feels like the average shitty moddb map pack with endless repetitive loop and Goofy ass story and trust me the music gets annoying very fast since every chapter plays the same tune over and over and over again for straight 10-15 minutes
I think is not the case...
☝️ Found the Epic Store shill. 🤡 How much is Tim Sweeny paying you?
@@mattc7420 you obviously haven't tried out the mod
Try it out and you'll see how it becomes repetitive very quickly @asterlofts1565
bait used to beleivable
finished playing just now, amazing, am guessing in the end he has a date with the chick
TimeSplitters vibes
very reminiscent to duke nukem time to kill
It's honestly pretty alright. I was hoping it would be way better because the idea for the game is awesome, but it's just pretty average. Also since the areas are so small and claustrophobic half the time the combine just stand there and shoot at you and never move and kind of makes it pretty boring.
Feels like a good idea executed poorly
hell no it doesn't
Nope, not really.
okay so it looks pretty cool but why didn't they change the hud at all other than the colors
Its the franchi SPAS-12
"mod of the year" i played this thing and it crashed on the intro💀🙏
I played and it´s woefully average. I would even say that it´s unfinished as most of the gameplay consist of shooting reskins of metrocops in various periods of time with occasional sprinkling of other combine units untill the last chapter.
Entropy zero is still superior even tho this mod is also good.
This is real good.
can any free mod even come close to entropy zero 2? this one sure did
No.
NECROS THE THUMBNAIL MAKES IT LOOK LIKE YOUR PEEING YOURSELF!!!!!!!!
14:30 why when laughing he sound like the zombie from haf lif
Radio guy?
yea
art
This dude glazes such an insanely sluggish mod
Would be cool if he'd upload the mod in Steam Workshop
it uses custom code, it can't be on the workshop
I think total conversion mods deserve to have their own store pages with how much they can change or differentiate themselves from the base game.
Why it's already on steam?
@MazdoTheWolf none of it has custom code it's just plain old normal maps with changed models maybe a few weapon scripts but that can be also changed in the txt.file
@ what about the oicw then ?
1:05 replace that idiotic bleep with something else that won't make someone deaf
"Lugger"
its sooo repetitive mod is waste of your time the video is better than mod if you ask me
chees bugrer
NGL the video is more of a passion project then the mod itself appears to be
Is there genuinely this little music in it? Couple themic songs that almost fit the vibe, but variety is close to zilch
i love it, i can made it every time
She burt on my equation til I metro
i think that the last panel you talked about with the soldier was Ai generated, I think that maybe a few of these panels were either ai generated or photos with heavy filters. I dont know i just cant see that image being anything other than ai because of the design discrepancies and look of it
It’s not AI! There is a disclaimer on the Steam page that says that no AI was used in the mod. I have talked to Kralich as well after the videos release and he confirmed with me that it was the artists interpretation of the combine. There was an idea to create a model for the combine enemies in that chapter based upon that art, but that idea was dropped.
Seems like it was cut content and all we got was glimpse of it in a panel.
I've tried this mod, amazing gameplay yet the ending was quite anti-climactic
I found this one pretty decent. Still, they can do better.
probably the best part, is that its a free mod, other than mods like Garry's Mod which is like $14 or so if your not buying it for $7 on a steam sale.
@@Halfstalker_episode2 the game is ten dollars dude idk what kinda gmod you're buying that costs fourteen dollars
so the combine is cannonically the nazis??
I liked it
No
It's not that great tbh.
The mod is neat, action is noice, love the noir and miami chapters,
tho the comics parts are my least favorite part, they seem to be inconsistent and look weird in all chapters.
Also 20:56 thats the woman from the beghining in the back
and the final chapter seems to take place during the uprising.
skbido
all in le head.. AGAIN?
Either that or a whole ass time loop.
@@fenrirsrage4609 its a time loop for this mod
Secondd
Also i shat myself
6th
Have you at least wiped
Take a pic
@@kersenify gross
@@SunDry_Marchy y e s
Liar this isn't the best mod ever you lie
Real mods and fan games will always be made with Sorse. Any team of dev who tries to use Unreal or any other engine is an idiot and is just killing their project in advance.
@@gyanprakash7445 bro can't even spell source
i wonder why modern studios prefer to use a new and supported engine instead of one from like 2003
@@cloacky4409 Because they are too incompetent to learn about game dev properly!
@@gyanprakash7445 youre a random dude who never had anything to do with videogame developement while theyre bigass studios who have been in the business for ages. i wonder whos in the right here
@@cloacky4409hey I wonder why apex still uses source?
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