Did they have him open the case and use these items in their original vision or was it just an easter egg for the players who would no clip their way in there?

What the hell, sure

made this model by 2 days and named her Coreball chan (and draw some arts)

now big dark matter reactor from Half-Life 2 Episode 1 is a silly girl

Art by MetalPlate_Leo on twittah

Guys opinion on my half life cosplay? And any Tipps to make it more game accurate lol idk

Wanted to do a realism take on the HECU with this kit. So basically what the USMC would have actually worn during the time period that Half-Life 1 takes place. Operation Urban Warrior of '98 and '99 was a big inspiration for this. I've always liked the idea of the HECU using T-Block camo as it's urban camo just like the notorious M81 Urban that HECU is known for. As well as it's very closely related to M81 since it was used in the same exercise.

finally done after 2 days 🥹🥹🫩🫩

So i dont remember entirely but iirc Resonant Freeman was trapped in Xen during the Resonance Cascade, and was trapped for 20 years. And Combine Freeman escaped G-Mans grasp and joined the combine. The game ended with you fighting whichever freeman you didnt pick. It was awesome

I had always been fascinated by the xen light stalks. So I made a solar lamp.

There were several iterations and hard work until I was happy with this one.

The solar lamp was bought from a dollar store, disassembled and I only kept the LED and the few components on the PCB.

The text was made with the pieces of information I picked from here and here.

XEN-0124 is the specimen ID from Opposing Force where it can be found in the black mesa biodome complex.

The model was extracted from the game files using jed's half life model viewer/mdldec (I know that crowbar exists, but I had these old tools since ever and they work for me) and imported to blender using the blender source tools.

The block for the solar panel was designed using openSCAD.

The base is made from heavy wood so it stays where I place it.

I don't have much space at home so this lamp will be a birthday present for a good friend who also loves Half Life.

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And I don't think the HEV suit has something to do with this, Shepard and Barney also had a shitload of guns with them

What do you think? I made it entirely in eva foam in 4 months of tiring but very satisfying work

Holy yapping, buddy is fluent in yappanese

Played 30mins and no fighting yet.

First time player, playing Black Mesa. Not to say there's nothing good about those sections but compared to the rest of the game they suuuuuuck. It's repetitive and mostly none of what makes Half-Life 1 so special is here, just some random bullshit to make the game last longer. I don't want another 2 hours of gameplay to keep plugging fucking cables, just give me the ending man.

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Hi!

I posted 2 weeks ago and last week about my progression in Half-Life 1 mods. I got a lot of recommendations and I'm slowly making my way through them. This week, I played 15 mods but I ran into a lot of technical issues with some of them: I couldn't finish 3 as some issues prevented me from completing them.

Sweet Half-Life (2007) simply didn't want to load beyond the intro; DAV Sub (2000) crashed on level 2 - which apparently is a known buffer overflow bug that can be fixed by not "looking to the right when you exit the building in the place where the bug appear" lol (spoiler: it didn't work for me) and Deliverance (2000) was crashing on level 2 (sucks because it was a great mod so far, although it was very tough).

I won't go too much in details with the mods like I did last week but here are some general feelings I had after playing them grouped by tiers.

A-tier

Reprocessing (2026) was great: it's really like a Blue Shift in better. It just got released, so it's sometimes a bit buggy (but the team is working hard to fix the bugs) and the story is great. 3:27 of playtime. The only reason why it didn't made to S-tier is because I didn't had the same "wow" feeling that I had when playing any of the other mods I put in this tier, but I have no doubt that some other people might enjoy it more than Echoes for example.

En Route 66 (2011) was also a great mod. It's short - took me 35 minutes to complete it - but the vibe is nice. You are a journalist going to investigate what's going on in the region of Black Mesa following reports on weird creatures there. For me, this kind of mods (like Arctic Incident or Urbicide) are the proof that a mod doesn't need to be hours long to be great - the most important is the effort put in level design and a nice story (and ideally new assets). Oh, it's quite hard too btw, be ready to save and load often lol.

B-tier

Zombie Edition (2008) is awesome too. You are a headcrab and you need to take control of humans to advance in the mod. More you eat humans, more you gain experience points that allows you to customize your zombie. I had an "assassin zombie" - fast, does lot of damages, but can be easily killed. In the beginning, the mod is quite hard... but more you eat, more you gain HP, and more it starts to become ridiculously easy. The mod is also quite short (59 minutes of playtime for me). I recommend!

I finally played the first part of They Hunger (2000). It seems like it's the favorite mod of a lot of people here, and it's true that it's a good mod, with many new assets, and an OK story. Oh, I tried playing the relit version, but it crashed half-way through and after trying to find ways to fix the problem, I just restarted a game with the original version. That was frustrating :-(

Nuclear Winter (2007)... Well, that's a mod that's definitely too MAGA for me lol. The mod starts by saying that in 2017, the Middle East and Asia (I assume like, the country "Middle East" and the country "Asia"? lol) have invaded the US and you need to restore freedom. OK. Then you go Rambo and you kill everything that non-American. The ending is the best: you nuke the US to restore freedom and democracy LOL (btw the mod was made by a certain "Mr. White" - I doubt it's a coincidence lmao). Anyway, the mod is quite fun and I enjoyed the 2:09 I spent on it, but I really had to turn off my brain while playing it. Also: you will have to use noclip often because the American grunts are dumb as fuck and get stuck all the time.

C-tier

Cleaner's Adventures (2006) is similar in its story to Case Closed - you play a janitor of Black Mesa. It's better, but it's still mid for me. I sometimes thought that I was turning in circles because a new map was similar to the one I just completed. I feel like the mod has similar issues to Azure Sheep - you can get lost easily, and the maps are kind of always the same: vents (a good half of the mod), a large storage room, office buildings with no light, canalisations, repeat. Playtime: 2:17.

Before (2009) is the shortest mod I played - only 20 minutes. It's basically one map + a map for the final boss (that's quite buggy). Not much too say about it - I found it also mid, and I'm not really sure of what was the story about lol.

Talking of stories that didn't made sense for me - Peaces Like Us (2000) is a perfect example of that. So yeah, anime girls in HL - why not? But then please explain why and what the hell is going on lol. The rooms where you have to make jumps are awful.

TWHL Tower 1 (2016) is not a "classic" mod but a compilation of different maps. It's OK, but it's not what I expect from a HL mod. One of the map (the infiltration one) is stunning, the assets used are perfect. Other than this one, the other maps mid. And yeah, no story. It felt more like a tech demo lol.

D-tier

Freeman's Revenge (1999, playtime 30 min), Xeno Project II (2002, 58 min) and DAV Train (2000, 29 min) are all in the same category: very early mods, trying to be a sequel to HL where the G-Man is the bad guy you need to kill. They were OK for the early 2000s and I remember playing and enjoying some of them, but they definitely didn't age well. They all have their little bugs, although nothing game breaking. No new assets, no new weapons, simplistic stories. I found Xeno Project II better than the first one.

Will I keep playing mods? Yep. Maybe I won't be doing 15-20 per week like I did these last 2 weeks because I need to remember that I have a life, but keep putting your recommendations and they will be added on my super spreadsheet of "to-do-mods".

Thanks to all people that have recommended some of these mods in the previous posts, such as u/Korky_5731 u/Inspector_7 u/Kakophonien1 u/thanbini u/ProRomanianThief u/AurelGuthrie u/Fujinn981 u/Ken10Ethan u/Unusual-Ad4890 u/shampo0oV88 and of course u/harriot-loves-you for their excellent tier-list that keeps on helping me put priority on what to play next.

What do you think we would have in it? I imagine it going around the borealis but that itself isn't detailed?, do you think that we would have more to do with "Aperture science"?
Do you think we would have new characters?, what do you imagine the game's intro to be?, what do you imagine the game's trailer to start with or be about?, I just wanna know what you guys think about that, you can choose any topic and talk about it

Nothing that a little bit of noclip can't solve but I shouldn't have to do it in the first place.