This half-life TC is called Half-life Assault. It allows you to play not as Gordon Freeman but Adrian Shepherd, the Protagonist of Half-Life : Opposing Force. This takes place between Half-life 1 and 2 and Gman awakens Shepherd to ask him to help the rebels, who are losing the seven hours war... Sounds familiar? It should be. There was a HL2 Mod made with a very similar story line called Opposing Force 2. But that was cancelled. I really, and I mean REALLY wanted to play that. But it got canned, so I decided to use part of their story. However, the similarities end there....
In This Shepherd is tasked with infiltrating the Ruins of Black Mesa to find Eli Vance, by his Daughter, Alyx, who escaped Black mesa without him, at least that's what Shepherd thinks... However, he is being fooled. In reality, it's not Alyx who is talking to him, but Doctor Breen, and his is disguising himself as alyx... Shepherd fights his way through City 14, which is infested with Xen Aliens, Combine, and Race-X Aliens... He makes it to the ruins of Black Mesa and fights through the surface tension inspired outdoor areas till he reaches the enterance to the one remaining area of he black mesa labs that is still fully operational. Once he gets far enough into Black Mesa he discovers Eli, who warns him not to trust the communications coming from the Fake Alyx/breen... Once he gets to the secret weapons testing facility, Breen Commands him to Blow up Black Mesa, Killing Eli in the Process... He acknowledges Breen as his Superior and proceeds to try to do that, but Eli tries to stop him. He aims a gun at Eli's Head, but Eli Jumps in the air, and the bullet hits his leg, causing his injury you see in HL2. He tries to nuke the Lab but this time the Real Alyx Vance knocks him unconscious. He wakes up a few minutes later and has to make it to the communications center to tell Breen about his failure. That's where the mod ends...
This mod takes half-life in a daring new directions, Slaughtermap infested Twitch shooter mechanics replace the puzzle solving of the half-life games... Since it's levels are made with my tweaked oblige called Randoom, there was no way to add puzzles. So I added in hordes of enemies to compensate. You fight Huge hordes of tough enemies in this. Expect 10-15 Alien Grunts/Shocktroopers/Voltigores/etc per fight at times. It really Makes Half-life a completely different game.
Randoom's new features shine here quite nicely. I used the dynamic lighting and ambient sounds features to really enhance the game. Slopes added in really show off the zdoom features. This makes Doom engine's graphics look just as good as the source engine at times, especially with Gzdoom's Bloom feature turned on. The architecture is a lot worse, but the graphic quality is just as good, provided you are in a room with a lot of dynamic lighting.....
Enemies from HL1 and Hl2 are in this, minus Hunters and a few others... Some of the enemies had to be rescaled to make them fit in the maps. Gunships are now way smaller, so are striders. Every other enemy is mostly the same, but a few attacks were changed...
One difference this has over half-life games is that it has a new palette of guns to use, with secondary fires added to them by me. Old guns like the crowbar are gone in this, replaced by a combat knife in this case. People expecting guns from HL or Opfor will be disappointed. Very few of them return. Instead you get tons of new guns to play around with including:
Combat Knife
Glock 18 (Full Auto Secondary fire)
Revolver (Full Auto secondary fire)
Assault Rifle (Armor piercing round secondary fire)
Light Machinegun (Armor Piercing round secondary fire)
Automatic Shotgun (Quad shotgun secondary fire)
Cryo Crossbow (Triple Round Burst Secondary Fire)
Gas Grenade Launcher (Triple round burst secondary fire)
Spas-12 Shotgun (Tripe round burst Secondary Fire)
Sniper Rifle (Zoom Secondary Fire)
Grenade Launcher (Triple round burst secondary fire)
Ammo Satchels...
Hand Grenades
Channeler (A gun that shoots a powerful energy Beam)
I don't know if I will release this. Don't want valve or Gearbox getting pissed at me. But here are some screenshots of what it's like....
More info on this project soon....
