For all you asking for a Half-Life: Echoes video, I just released one! Here ya go: th-cam.com/video/IL_T19D-Djk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pxyiZuOhfdM7ahjh EDIT: Also at 0:04 I obviously mean century not decade, damn it lol.
In the last video you asked about games that you could try and here my list 1stalker series it has a great vibe and a big community with many mods or classic games like doom or blood or serious Sam or deus ex and even maybe postal 2 extra
@@mohamedrayanetobbal9334 on that note lucia, a friend of mine is working on a deus ex coop mod, so if you look into deus ex you should look into that (once it's finished ofc)
One of the only mods to make me feel like I was a tired survivor fighting for his life rather than a supersoldier. Field Intensity is something I plan to replay in a while because of how good it is, but the sad thing is that it'll never feel like the first time
6:39 the team that made Field Intensity is actually making a full mod based on this encounter, where Otis becomes friends with a vortigaunt and they team up to fight their way out of Black Mesa together. there's a demo released already and it was genuinely an enjoyable experience when I played it. the mod is called "The Big Boned and The Curious"
I agree that it's the best HL1 mod of all time to be honest, which was why when I saw they were looking for new voice acting I immediately hit them up haha. It's so awesome to be a part of the project and I'm really glad someone else enjoyed it as much as I did, and I'm glad you thought my performance was good too; I hadn't really done anything like that before.
8:32 this was at the bottom of one of the starting levels of opposing force i think 11:35 as far as i remember this maybe one of the levels in opposing force where we first encounter the pit drone
6:38 these two souls are more connected than you'll think, and have a great history. their encounter here by luck will be the start and the beginning of one of the greatest companionships, perhaps the first alliance ever done by man with an different field of being. There is a little mod goes by the name big boned and curious. though still in development, it promises a great deal, a playable beta is evidence. check it out if you will.
If I had to guess, the holographic Kevin was likely supposed to be some kind of ghost or vision that Stefan hallucinated, as at least some part of him likely knew Kevin was dead once he heard the gunshots but he was still in denial over it
6:55 this is actually one of the concepts gabe wanted to be added in hl1,if the player stayed too long in a place it will be slowly infested by xen flora
Richter's voicework here actually carries that 2000s VA vibe pretty well. Played plenty of shooters with a guy who sounds like that (over a radio, too)
Awesome a HECU based mod! Mod’s got some nice looking QoL stuff and features. Neat VA by Richter too. Kino/Ludo twist with the Kevin character. Seeing that clip of HDTF though…Wonder if you’ll be covering it in the future? 👀 Awesome video and editing as always! Keep up the great work 🫡
Fun fact:Creators also made half life induction about freeman getting hired in black mesa and then seeing how barney owned him a beer, and creators are Russian, as russian myself, I'm happy to see that we also make something for half life community
I was surprised how much this mod's map design is on par with Valve's and Gearbox's. Not better, not worse, but exactly on par. It feels like playing an official Half-Life expansion and I loved it for that.
The level where you get to recruit like 15 grunts at once is so much fun. Just having your army slowly grow as you progress through the level and after some point it becomes so large that you just destroy anything that appears. And all the instances where you lose your squad didn't feel cheap or stupid like they did in opposing force (losing your squad because the NPCs can't climb a ladder or shit like that).
yea exactly. I would love to see another hl1 mod replicate that feeling. maybe make the squad grow throughout the entire mod, not just sections (even if that section in FI was really long)
What fascinates me about this mod is not only the storytelling but the desperation of the main character. He came through the ENTIRE RESONANCE CASCADE. Longer than Gordon, longer than Shephard. He survived that all and was desperate to get away. Sadly, he was a bit late, and the nuke probably killed him. Or not? Maybe G-man took him. Maybe Stefan is alive and will be used by G-man in the future? Regardless, this mod is incredible. Definitely one of the best Half-Life mods ever.
6:41 Otis talking to vortigaunt is probably reference to The Big Boned and The Curious mod currently demo we played as Otis side along with free vort companion In this mod HECU soldier (probably Stefan Oldfield) can be spotted behind the door
I love that not only are people still playing Half-Life mods more than 20 years later, but people are still making them too! Thanks for the video, I'll definitely be checking this one out!
I can't believe you forgot to mention how they put the multiplayer stalkyard map into the game! /s The voice acting on this mod wasn't always that great though. It came out with TTS+RVC (text to speech fed into real voice cloning AI) voices for the scientist, and slavic-accented actors for the rest. But because it's such a great mod and the community is more connected than ever, people like Richter are willing to step in to improve those voices. Lastly, you can talk to a Marc Laidlaw character through the phones.
Reference to spoilers ahead: I really liked this one! It's a nice little mod, there's a lot to be enjoyed here. However I did want to note something: I don't recall exactly where (I believe it's at the point where you're teleported to the Black Ops in that short sequence) but it's mentioned that Stefan receives a concussion, which is referenced further in the thoughts tab as he mentions hallucinations (such as the "hologram" of Kevin, which I'm guessing was supposed to be a ghostly apparition, which is a neat touch) and losing touch with reality (which I believe is stated right after the Xen research lab sequence, or during it, I can't recall which) Just a little note i thought I'd mention, lol, it's a surprising thing to see and I can't say I've seen in any other Half-Life mod. Can't wait to see your next video!
8:32 , I know people say that this place is like a Start of 'Opposing Force' but to me. It kinda looks like those outside place in Azure Sheep, Idk it's me who notice it Or it could be something else. EDIT: also, there is another game (Mod i mean) and it's made by the same Mod team as this Mod (Field Intensity) and the Mod team who ported Decay to PC, called 'Half-Life: Induction 1.3' Which the maps and stuff are from Field Intensity, Decay and Half-Life.
I am old enough to have played original Half-life, when it was new. This mod is impressive, and it was fun to play, most of the time - however, I really wish they would've cut Kevin's blabbering entirely - it's a one way stream, he feels intrusive, and monologues can work, but Kevin is no Andrew Ryan. Kevin feels like some influencer whining in your ear, you can smell the "twist" right away, and there is no payoff, because you have no connection to him. I have no problems being harsh here, because stuff like this is quite challenging and the mod developers really bit more than they could chew with the writing and voice acting. The mod would've been better without him, or reduced to a simple objective giver at times, fitting more into the environmental storytelling. That's my problem with the voice acting here in general, some is OK, but some sounds really young and it's quite off putting - made me wonder if the creators were really young and how did they got introduced to HL1, or if they just sound very youthful. In the current year, modders can employ the AI and hopefully this is something we will see more and more - at this point, it still sound slightly artificial, but the voices the AI can do would be much more fitting to hardened soldiers etc. But overall, it was a good, pleasant experience for someone who hasn't launched Half-life for probably over 10 years.
10:04 "Now we begin a bigger and bigger squad" *Shows the next cut, with at least 8 members* My reaction was a "HOLY FUCK" cus well the mod being able to do that and the squad being a realistic number in most military's (5-8 soldiers)
When you see the 2 protagonist of Decay for there first time there you are also a specific soldier like the other times that you see Barney or Adrian. Also at the video there are a zone that you said that is decay but it is oposing force jeje I really want to play this mod again!
this mod got me through an emotional rollercoaster. From getting attached to Kevin to losing contact with him and then talking back to him but it was not the same as before to the cruel ending of finding him dead and finally the end where i will meet with him again...
When the mod first launched, they didnt had the "TH-camr", voices but by someone Else. So Kevin had a different VA with a really strong slavic accent, It was funny.
Fun fact: The final part of field intensity when your going to get in the truck and the area that looks kinda like the entrance is the same area from the starting point of a half life mod called half life induction and that mod is showing what happened a week or so before the renaissance cascade
I like how he said he was a cheap Pyrocynical clone and then made the title really close to Pyrocynical titles, especially "The Best [_________] You Never Played"
Try the mod that is on modb, called Report:Upgrade Edition. this is a collection of two mods Report One and the supplement Report Operation Alive. both are mods for half life 1.
I really like how this mod take any canon/oficial thing and put it here like the Black Mesa news paper of Blue Shift! that king of thing are incredibles details to consider!
I downloaded this mod and have a big technical complain to make: there is a terrible forced mouse acceleration that cannot be disabled, hud is quite large and fov is something I can't really explain, but seems to be zoomed in uncomfortably. Tried swapping config files but that didn't really change a thing. If you enable net_graph, you will see that it's font is also abnormally large. That is painful
8:42 this reminds me of Gearbox thought of characters for the expansion, they see someone in an area that we don't know the fate of and then they just decide to make them the main character
This was a great one indeed. The post-opposing force sections blew me away. I still say EZ2 is the best mod of while franchise, but this one earned "best hl2 mod"
Finale finished this one, ngl chief, it DRAGGED ON AND ON 😢. At first it started amazing, got a bit disappointed that squad size was small and rarely used but whatever. But man it started to drag on, too big of a levels, especially after Kevin dissapears for a while and then re appears sounding monotonous. Echoes on the other hand almost never dragged and felt like not just Half Life add on, but a better version of Half life 😮. So yeah, idk this mod is a B at best, while Half Life 1 is A and Echoes is easy S
I enjoyed HL: Echoes a lot more. Felt like this one drags out a bit too long. There’s several segments I’d cut entirely, mainly the bits where it just throws headcrabs at you pointlessly and annoyingly. In the original, headcrabs mostly stop appearing once you get geared up, for that reason. Still, solid 8/10
FI is certainly a very well done long campaign mod. But Half-Life is the game with probably the highest count of high quality longplayers and the rule for quality was set high pretty early on by Manke`s "Dark Star" mod. Over the years and decades many more were added by talented and skilled fans and personaly i simply cant say which one is the best. I just hope that HL1 modding continues. I never get bored playing these.
The ending of this mod is just as dark and f#@&g sad as Team Fortress x Hotline Miami mod and HM itself. It leaves me with empty soul and silence. I actually wanna cry. Funny enough original HL n add-ons are my "comfort zone" I feel very happy playing, chill and whatnot. This tho... It makes me feel depressed for the entire day
Tbf now that i think about it, Richter Overtime kinda sounds like Private James T. "Joker" Davis, / Sergeant Joker from Full Metal Jacket (the movie) so its kinda fitting for the late 80s aesthetic, especially bcuz of age factor too.
I appreciate the mod developer team not making you too much a badass, but still completely capable. You get to kill a gargantua all by your lonesome, but at the same time you get dunked on by Barney's satchel charge. Really good work!
The story was good, but i kinda felt the gameplay was sluggish and filled with gimmicks. I found myself opening sv_cheats a lot because I would always find myself soft-locked, idk if it was the difficulty, because i picked medium and assumed it was normal difficulty, but it wasn't. Other than gameplay, the mod was fine and loved to see the details of the half life universe shown in it.
Nice Tyler Speculation. Echoes has always been at the top for HL1 mods but Field Intensity is way up there in top 3-5. I would honestly say its more of an OP4 mod though given the arsenal and features. I really hope we get more mods like this aswell. Def gonna be recording a playthrough of this and do a review.
8:56 I don’t know if anyone else commented this but the team behind FI has a google sheet on their moddb files page that shows how they lined up the mod with HL and its expansions
Just finished it on hard difficulty. Along with HL: Echoes, this is really the best HL mod ever - feels like official HL expansion, great maps, great gameplay, not easy, decently long a fun to play. In my opinion, this is actually what Blue Shift should have been - it feels like Opposing Force 2. I really like this mod, it can be easily canon.
God that evac scene fucking broke me. I managed to get 16 or 18 guys and kept them alive all the way to the landing zone, and even the two xen attacks after you get there and make your way to the top of the walls around the area... and then i went down to the sewers... Hearing the teleportation noises just as the ladder breaks and watching my squad go from 18 to 0 fucking broke me. I basically just sat there for a good 5 minutes processing what happened, and that moment has always stuck with me ever since the first time I played this mod.
id say Cry of Fear is the best HL1 mod, not only it started up as a mod, but it then became a full blown total conversion/free game you can play even without owning hl
8:24 i think this is the room where you saw Gordon in blue shift, so this may imply that the reason they didn't shoot Gordon before throwing him in the trash compactor is because gman intervined
It's strange how underrated this one is, its miles better than echoes, yet everyone only knows about echoes. Like i know echoes tried to transform the game into a more survival horror esque game, but still.
This mod looks amazing and a good number of references too great! You know for a second I thought since the player wears a black beret and escapes via a truck it made me think it's the same soldier you see in opposing force who tells adrian to get out of there before dying in front of a crashed truck
If I'm not mistaken at the start of the truck cutscene where we are leaving after the fight, I think that first area of the cutscene is the end of HL Blue:Shift where Barney and the other scientics leave by using the teleporter.
Kevin is basically like Reznov in Black Ops 1. Always with us when no one is looking, yet perhaps real enough to have an impact on events. As for the title of best mod - I am sure Echoes is overall better, if a lot shorter.
11:35 correction: this is actually an area from opposing force, not decay. this is the Storage Area 2 from the chapter Missing In Action. you do actually get to a location from decay, at the dampening locks from the chapter Resonance, but this is later on.
A mod like this, a half life 1 mod that is 5 - 10 hours long but still can connect blue shift, opposing force, decay and Half Life 1 in the GoldSource Engine ?????? Like WTF i haven't seen any GoldSource Half life 1 mod or another GoldSource Engine Game Have cutscenes WTF but its so cool and the biggest plot twist is kevin's death it was pretty sad I got to check this out This mod is amazing !!!!!!
I found the King Pin fight to be unbearable because of the unavoidable orb attack. Until I finally realized that I can abuse it getting stunned on attacks by whacking it with a melee weapon. I kept telling myself "unavoidable attacks aren't fair" and that it was so unlike a half life fight when the answer was happening right in front of me. Maybe that could have been made a bit more clear, or maybe I'm just stupid.
For all you asking for a Half-Life: Echoes video, I just released one! Here ya go: th-cam.com/video/IL_T19D-Djk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pxyiZuOhfdM7ahjh
EDIT: Also at 0:04 I obviously mean century not decade, damn it lol.
In the last video you asked about games that you could try and here my list 1stalker series it has a great vibe and a big community with many mods or classic games like doom or blood or serious Sam or deus ex and even maybe postal 2 extra
@@mohamedrayanetobbal9334
on that note lucia, a friend of mine is working on a deus ex coop mod, so if you look into deus ex you should look into that (once it's finished ofc)
@@RoshiGamingdoes it have modb page or something ? and in that note can you sand me a link
What editing software do you use?
Have you played half life choes? It was the first mod to use the Construction worker NPC and Zombie
It's rare to see mods that include Opposing Force as actual pure canon.
And rarer to see TH-camrs being voiced in those mods.
Well I don't like opposing force to be taken as canon but it's cool
@@dinguzzy "It is what it is." Also, if Valve made and it's approved by them it's canon. Like blue shift.
@@dinguzzybut why?
@@officialwyattthesans12345 i like to think that OP4 is canon. however, it is not valve-made.
Fun fact: that Otis that manage to talk with the vort is protagonist of a mod called "the big boned and the curious" where both makes a duo.
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oh my god I checked it, it's an actual mod
Shut up @@chibisayori20
It's made by the same team
fun fact: this mod came from a joke i did and oh boy am i happy that it is a real thing now xD
One of the only mods to make me feel like I was a tired survivor fighting for his life rather than a supersoldier. Field Intensity is something I plan to replay in a while because of how good it is, but the sad thing is that it'll never feel like the first time
6:39 the team that made Field Intensity is actually making a full mod based on this encounter, where Otis becomes friends with a vortigaunt and they team up to fight their way out of Black Mesa together. there's a demo released already and it was genuinely an enjoyable experience when I played it. the mod is called "The Big Boned and The Curious"
Interesting
This is on mod DB I’m guessing? I’m only asking because my computer always struggles to load stuff from that site and it bums me out
@@pasta1549 i think it is on mod db but idk. i have seen a video of some one play that mod
I agree that it's the best HL1 mod of all time to be honest, which was why when I saw they were looking for new voice acting I immediately hit them up haha. It's so awesome to be a part of the project and I'm really glad someone else enjoyed it as much as I did, and I'm glad you thought my performance was good too; I hadn't really done anything like that before.
Hey airboat
You did a great job as a voice actor honestly. Even though it's still weird hearing the half life and sex guy somewhere that isn't a youtube video.
I also want to mention that the chapter "Deathmatch" is build around all of the original HLDM maps.
Not to mention awesome locker easter eggs
8:32 this was at the bottom of one of the starting levels of opposing force i think
11:35 as far as i remember this maybe one of the levels in opposing force where we first encounter the pit drone
I totally switched up that second one. And I think you are right on the first one as well!
@@1lucia For me, it looks like that outside zone you escape in after you get out of the trash compactor and before residue processing
@@1lucia ITS WHERE YOU START IN CRACK-LIFE
6:38 these two souls are more connected than you'll think, and have a great history. their encounter here by luck will be the start and the beginning of one of the greatest companionships, perhaps the first alliance ever done by man with an different field of being. There is a little mod goes by the name big boned and curious. though still in development, it promises a great deal, a playable beta is evidence. check it out if you will.
Do sit have modb babe or something ?
Please mention that it's a spinoff of this mod, not a reference to an existing mod.
@@mfaizsyahmi so it was mad by the same developer
So this singular mod connects blue shift, opposing force, decay and Half Life 1 together in a neatly wrapped bow
What about Echoes mod?
Does it connect it as well? 😅
If I had to guess, the holographic Kevin was likely supposed to be some kind of ghost or vision that Stefan hallucinated, as at least some part of him likely knew Kevin was dead once he heard the gunshots but he was still in denial over it
6:55 this is actually one of the concepts gabe wanted to be added in hl1,if the player stayed too long in a place it will be slowly infested by xen flora
Richter's voicework here actually carries that 2000s VA vibe pretty well. Played plenty of shooters with a guy who sounds like that (over a radio, too)
that literally doesnt sound like him without context lmao
Awesome a HECU based mod! Mod’s got some nice looking QoL stuff and features. Neat VA by Richter too. Kino/Ludo twist with the Kevin character.
Seeing that clip of HDTF though…Wonder if you’ll be covering it in the future? 👀
Awesome video and editing as always! Keep up the great work 🫡
I LOVE the HL modding community. They make some amazing stuff!
Fun fact:Creators also made half life induction about freeman getting hired in black mesa and then seeing how barney owned him a beer, and creators are Russian, as russian myself, I'm happy to see that we also make something for half life community
Кстати в этом моде можно побывать в месте из Induction
@@uhsir9852 Я мод 3 раза пошёл, знаю я, я кстати ещё способ спасти всех солдат которых ты собираешь нашёл
The printing press in the facility for the Mesa Times - the newspaper seen in Blue Shift.
I was surprised how much this mod's map design is on par with Valve's and Gearbox's. Not better, not worse, but exactly on par. It feels like playing an official Half-Life expansion and I loved it for that.
The level where you get to recruit like 15 grunts at once is so much fun. Just having your army slowly grow as you progress through the level and after some point it becomes so large that you just destroy anything that appears. And all the instances where you lose your squad didn't feel cheap or stupid like they did in opposing force (losing your squad because the NPCs can't climb a ladder or shit like that).
yea exactly. I would love to see another hl1 mod replicate that feeling. maybe make the squad grow throughout the entire mod, not just sections (even if that section in FI was really long)
What fascinates me about this mod is not only the storytelling but the desperation of the main character. He came through the ENTIRE RESONANCE CASCADE. Longer than Gordon, longer than Shephard. He survived that all and was desperate to get away. Sadly, he was a bit late, and the nuke probably killed him. Or not? Maybe G-man took him. Maybe Stefan is alive and will be used by G-man in the future? Regardless, this mod is incredible. Definitely one of the best Half-Life mods ever.
Stephen "How did I get here?"
Corporal Shepherd "First time?"
6:41 Otis talking to vortigaunt is probably reference to The Big Boned and The Curious mod currently demo
we played as Otis side along with free vort companion
In this mod HECU soldier (probably Stefan Oldfield) can be spotted behind the door
Crack life?
Mate, it literally says what the mod is called in the thumbnail.🙄
uhh,read the thumbnail
You guys don't udnerstand what he meant
pal you're malding. crack life got nothing on uplinked
@@Ayranenjoyer I don't think he literally meant to ask if it's Crack Life the best HL1 mod
I love that not only are people still playing Half-Life mods more than 20 years later, but people are still making them too!
Thanks for the video, I'll definitely be checking this one out!
It's crazy cool how they balanced out the gameplay and world building
I can't believe you forgot to mention how they put the multiplayer stalkyard map into the game! /s
The voice acting on this mod wasn't always that great though. It came out with TTS+RVC (text to speech fed into real voice cloning AI) voices for the scientist, and slavic-accented actors for the rest. But because it's such a great mod and the community is more connected than ever, people like Richter are willing to step in to improve those voices.
Lastly, you can talk to a Marc Laidlaw character through the phones.
Kevin was all in le head
Me when the protagonist's journey is all in le head:
6:40 THATS A MOD a mod which is very cool
You get to team up with a Vortigaunt
Reference to spoilers ahead:
I really liked this one! It's a nice little mod, there's a lot to be enjoyed here. However I did want to note something: I don't recall exactly where (I believe it's at the point where you're teleported to the Black Ops in that short sequence) but it's mentioned that Stefan receives a concussion, which is referenced further in the thoughts tab as he mentions hallucinations (such as the "hologram" of Kevin, which I'm guessing was supposed to be a ghostly apparition, which is a neat touch) and losing touch with reality (which I believe is stated right after the Xen research lab sequence, or during it, I can't recall which)
Just a little note i thought I'd mention, lol, it's a surprising thing to see and I can't say I've seen in any other Half-Life mod. Can't wait to see your next video!
8:32 , I know people say that this place is like a Start of 'Opposing Force' but to me. It kinda looks like those outside place in Azure Sheep, Idk it's me who notice it Or it could be something else.
EDIT: also, there is another game (Mod i mean) and it's made by the same Mod team as this Mod (Field Intensity) and the Mod team who ported Decay to PC, called 'Half-Life: Induction 1.3' Which the maps and stuff are from Field Intensity, Decay and Half-Life.
I am old enough to have played original Half-life, when it was new. This mod is impressive, and it was fun to play, most of the time - however, I really wish they would've cut Kevin's blabbering entirely - it's a one way stream, he feels intrusive, and monologues can work, but Kevin is no Andrew Ryan. Kevin feels like some influencer whining in your ear, you can smell the "twist" right away, and there is no payoff, because you have no connection to him. I have no problems being harsh here, because stuff like this is quite challenging and the mod developers really bit more than they could chew with the writing and voice acting. The mod would've been better without him, or reduced to a simple objective giver at times, fitting more into the environmental storytelling.
That's my problem with the voice acting here in general, some is OK, but some sounds really young and it's quite off putting - made me wonder if the creators were really young and how did they got introduced to HL1, or if they just sound very youthful. In the current year, modders can employ the AI and hopefully this is something we will see more and more - at this point, it still sound slightly artificial, but the voices the AI can do would be much more fitting to hardened soldiers etc. But overall, it was a good, pleasant experience for someone who hasn't launched Half-life for probably over 10 years.
10:04 "Now we begin a bigger and bigger squad" *Shows the next cut, with at least 8 members*
My reaction was a "HOLY FUCK" cus well the mod being able to do that and the squad being a realistic number in most military's (5-8 soldiers)
When you see the 2 protagonist of Decay for there first time there you are also a specific soldier like the other times that you see Barney or Adrian.
Also at the video there are a zone that you said that is decay but it is oposing force jeje
I really want to play this mod again!
this mod got me through an emotional rollercoaster. From getting attached to Kevin to losing contact with him and then talking back to him but it was not the same as before to the cruel ending of finding him dead and finally the end where i will meet with him again...
When the mod first launched, they didnt had the "TH-camr", voices but by someone Else. So Kevin had a different VA with a really strong slavic accent, It was funny.
Fun fact: The final part of field intensity when your going to get in the truck and the area that looks kinda like the entrance is the same area from the starting point of a half life mod called half life induction and that mod is showing what happened a week or so before the renaissance cascade
I like how he said he was a cheap Pyrocynical clone and then made the title really close to Pyrocynical titles, especially "The Best [_________] You Never Played"
Try the mod that is on modb, called Report:Upgrade Edition. this is a collection of two mods Report One and the supplement Report Operation Alive. both are mods for half life 1.
I really like how this mod take any canon/oficial thing and put it here like the Black Mesa news paper of Blue Shift! that king of thing are incredibles details to consider!
I downloaded this mod and have a big technical complain to make: there is a terrible forced mouse acceleration that cannot be disabled, hud is quite large and fov is something I can't really explain, but seems to be zoomed in uncomfortably. Tried swapping config files but that didn't really change a thing. If you enable net_graph, you will see that it's font is also abnormally large. That is painful
It was pretty damn great, was a bit weird hearing Richter voice act but he had a pretty good performance. Can't wait to see what else the team makes
Never knew such a mod exist! earned a sub! looking forward for your next mod recommendations!!
You should totally check out a half life mod called "paranoia". Its really good.
12:13 Mmm flex air refernce.
Cool! Probably best Half Life mod I’ve seen I’ll definitely get it thank you for showing us!
16:06 Excellent HLVR:AI reference
why did I have to scroll so much to see this comment? I thought more people would have known about HLVR:AI
8:42 this reminds me of Gearbox thought of characters for the expansion, they see someone in an area that we don't know the fate of and then they just decide to make them the main character
Besides Barney, what NPCS from HL1 did Gearbox use for opposing force and decay?
@@danielsurvivor1372 Decay is the hologram lady from the training room
This was a great one indeed. The post-opposing force sections blew me away. I still say EZ2 is the best mod of while franchise, but this one earned "best hl2 mod"
Finale finished this one, ngl chief, it DRAGGED ON AND ON 😢.
At first it started amazing, got a bit disappointed that squad size was small and rarely used but whatever. But man it started to drag on, too big of a levels, especially after Kevin dissapears for a while and then re appears sounding monotonous.
Echoes on the other hand almost never dragged and felt like not just Half Life add on, but a better version of Half life 😮.
So yeah, idk this mod is a B at best, while Half Life 1 is A and Echoes is easy S
I enjoyed HL: Echoes a lot more. Felt like this one drags out a bit too long. There’s several segments I’d cut entirely, mainly the bits where it just throws headcrabs at you pointlessly and annoyingly. In the original, headcrabs mostly stop appearing once you get geared up, for that reason. Still, solid 8/10
FI is certainly a very well done long campaign mod.
But Half-Life is the game with probably the highest count
of high quality longplayers and the rule for quality was set
high pretty early on by Manke`s "Dark Star" mod.
Over the years and decades many more were added by
talented and skilled fans and personaly i simply cant say
which one is the best. I just hope that HL1 modding continues.
I never get bored playing these.
The ending of this mod is just as dark and f#@&g sad as Team Fortress x Hotline Miami mod and HM itself. It leaves me with empty soul and silence. I actually wanna cry. Funny enough original HL n add-ons are my "comfort zone" I feel very happy playing, chill and whatnot. This tho... It makes me feel depressed for the entire day
Tbf now that i think about it, Richter Overtime kinda sounds like Private James T. "Joker" Davis, / Sergeant Joker from Full Metal Jacket (the movie) so its kinda fitting for the late 80s aesthetic, especially bcuz of age factor too.
I appreciate the mod developer team not making you too much a badass, but still completely capable. You get to kill a gargantua all by your lonesome, but at the same time you get dunked on by Barney's satchel charge. Really good work!
The story was good, but i kinda felt the gameplay was sluggish and filled with gimmicks. I found myself opening sv_cheats a lot because I would always find myself soft-locked, idk if it was the difficulty, because i picked medium and assumed it was normal difficulty, but it wasn't. Other than gameplay, the mod was fine and loved to see the details of the half life universe shown in it.
00:03 It‘s a quarter of a century, not of a decade! Half-Life is 25 years old 🎂
Nice Tyler Speculation. Echoes has always been at the top for HL1 mods but Field Intensity is way up there in top 3-5. I would honestly say its more of an OP4 mod though given the arsenal and features. I really hope we get more mods like this aswell. Def gonna be recording a playthrough of this and do a review.
8:08 Funfact: You can actually kill Barney, only to cost you a mission fail with a description saying that you attempted to create a temporal paradox.
Quarter of a century, not decade
Quarter of a century = 25 years
Quarter of a decade = 2.5 years
Oh damn it you’re right lol
@@1lucia Happens to me too :P
I recorded field intensity on my channel and its definitely my favorite HL mod!
8:56 I don’t know if anyone else commented this but the team behind FI has a google sheet on their moddb files page that shows how they lined up the mod with HL and its expansions
Just finished it on hard difficulty. Along with HL: Echoes, this is really the best HL mod ever - feels like official HL expansion, great maps, great gameplay, not easy, decently long a fun to play. In my opinion, this is actually what Blue Shift should have been - it feels like Opposing Force 2.
I really like this mod, it can be easily canon.
Have you played poke 646? where do you rank it amongst mods?
Bro thinks hes having a 5-6 hour mental horror experience in stockholm
kannte ich noch nicht ... vielen Dank dafür ;) wird sofort ausprobiert^^ btw. sub
8:40 it seems to be from a Deathmatch map, but I don’t remember the name
God that evac scene fucking broke me. I managed to get 16 or 18 guys and kept them alive all the way to the landing zone, and even the two xen attacks after you get there and make your way to the top of the walls around the area... and then i went down to the sewers...
Hearing the teleportation noises just as the ladder breaks and watching my squad go from 18 to 0 fucking broke me. I basically just sat there for a good 5 minutes processing what happened, and that moment has always stuck with me ever since the first time I played this mod.
you spoiled way too much imo, but it's nice to know the mod exists, will check it out
No no you got it all wrong man, your better than Pyro. Your not British for one
11:35 Opposing force, not decay.
No, you're wrong. I've played cry of fear. Bye
I would love to see this mod & half-life echoes ported to steam
I finished it 3 times in one week after I found it
I would love a mod where you play as a Black ops agent
i just beat this mod JESUS ITS SO GOOD
are you focusing on your haunted maps in gmod? can you make a haunted version of gm_russia plz
no. I've retired from making them. there is a tutorial on my channel incase you want to learn how to make haunted maps yourself
the whole kevin being dead was really cool to me cause it felt like finding out reznov was actually dead the whole time in the bo1 campaign
id say Cry of Fear is the best HL1 mod, not only it started up as a mod, but it then became a full blown total conversion/free game you can play even without owning hl
I agree.
Afraid of monsters is also one of the best
8:33 this is the bottom pit that you first see in opposing force
Is Kevin richter overtime?
Just downloaded it and played half hour, fantastic mod. Will be playing it all this week.
The legend who made it even put Benry and Coolatta on those lockers
16:05 hlvrai fans know this
8:24 i think this is the room where you saw Gordon in blue shift, so this may imply that the reason they didn't shoot Gordon before throwing him in the trash compactor is because gman intervined
no it's not
0:04 Quarter of a century my guy.
yet another all in le head
It's strange how underrated this one is, its miles better than echoes, yet everyone only knows about echoes. Like i know echoes tried to transform the game into a more survival horror esque game, but still.
At some clips you are on 1 hp yet a hit from the alien grunt from its hivehand does not kill you, do you use godmode?
yes. when I replay a mod to record footage I use god mode, or "buddha" mode to be exact.
This mod looks amazing and a good number of references too great! You know for a second I thought since the player wears a black beret and escapes via a truck it made me think it's the same soldier you see in opposing force who tells adrian to get out of there before dying in front of a crashed truck
i do not think this is it but the part at 8:34 kinda looks like the first room from the Crack-Life Campaign Mod
I swear to god I thought that as well lol. After comparing those aren't the same though. People have figured out it's from op4 :P
The references actually do a good job to glue all of the games together
If I'm not mistaken at the start of the truck cutscene where we are leaving after the fight, I think that first area of the cutscene is the end of HL Blue:Shift where Barney and the other scientics leave by using the teleporter.
Kevin is basically like Reznov in Black Ops 1. Always with us when no one is looking, yet perhaps real enough to have an impact on events.
As for the title of best mod - I am sure Echoes is overall better, if a lot shorter.
How do I download this mod?
11:35 correction: this is actually an area from opposing force, not decay. this is the Storage Area 2 from the chapter Missing In Action. you do actually get to a location from decay, at the dampening locks from the chapter Resonance, but this is later on.
The person next to the first sighting of Dr. Keller is Dr. Rosenberg I believe. Also we support our german pyro
Broski baited me into playing this reference-filled Half-Life-verse circle-jerk....
A mod like this, a half life 1 mod that is 5 - 10 hours long but still can connect blue shift, opposing force, decay and Half Life 1 in the GoldSource Engine ?????? Like WTF i haven't seen any GoldSource Half life 1 mod or another GoldSource Engine Game Have cutscenes WTF but its so cool and the biggest plot twist is kevin's death it was pretty sad I got to check this out This mod is amazing !!!!!!
I found the King Pin fight to be unbearable because of the unavoidable orb attack. Until I finally realized that I can abuse it getting stunned on attacks by whacking it with a melee weapon. I kept telling myself "unavoidable attacks aren't fair" and that it was so unlike a half life fight when the answer was happening right in front of me. Maybe that could have been made a bit more clear, or maybe I'm just stupid.
95%?! From 26k it's-s-s... 1,3k. And your subscribers 15,8k. Where's your another 14,5k subscribers??? m??! M?!! M-M-M!!?
You forgot to mention that some of the areas are taken from half life dearhmatch, its cool that this mod sorta works them into the black mesa facility