Half-Life 2's Best Mod is... Broken. 

Man wish Deus Ex 1 community had channels like yours. We have so many mods for Deus Ex 1 and I wish someone could swim through them and give us short reviews of em 😅

How do we get this working, without watching the whole video worth of spoilers?

This was actually the first of the campaign mods that I got to work in Garry's mod with my long running custom project for playing Half-Life 2.. It was also one of the easiest, with a minor learning curve of understanding that the Garry's mod community has no comprehension of anything not workshop related anymore.. lol.. sigh.. But that being said, all I had to do to get it to work was the traditional mounting OCD for Garry's mod, as well as append the particles and sound manifest in the core game files.. like it was genuinely fully functional in a way that most are not. I'm not really sure what's broken about it, as they released a patch a long time ago from what I understand? Like it's one of the very few campaign sets that actually got modern love.. also helping that in its final iteration it was one of the more up-to-date map sets put together, hitting the post orange box brutality for mods, and only having to work around the 2013 pipeline update? Honestly, the very first pipeline update completely changed my entire gaming trajectory, having broken every single one of the mod projects I have been crafting and messing with, right as the episodes were coming out.. and there was no way I was going to play vanilla Half-Life 2 gameplay after what I had gotten going lol.. 17 years later I started the Garry's mod project for myself to finally play those episodes, and it's just been kind of a thing up and messing with.. it's.. I wish there was a better way to get campaigns into Garry's mod smoothly... Or a better way to modify custom packaged Half-Life 2 campaign mods, if my understanding is correct, a lot of those updates are are the reasons why that process is so incredibly difficult.. and it's incredibly frustrating how steam handles its updates... One day in 2006, I connected my steam online for a brief minute, I don't know why I had it in offline mode... But I did... Making it even more of a brutal nightmare that would ensue as I only was going to connect it for a second to do something, and immediately half-life 2 started updating.. and would not let me play it without the update or roll it back.. They would take years for for any of the things to make any recovery, and by the time I stopped checking, they weren't.. although I'm happy to know that many of them did in their own way, or expand further, although a lot of them just ended up a standalones, like the s mod and it's various attempts.. taking advantage of older builds and whatnot. But back then I was young, a year was like 5 years nowadays.. and by 2009 I had just stopped looking all together, having spent a few weeks rabbit hole every so often.. It wasn't until overcharged came out, and I thought I had a one stop shop, and then realized everything in overcharged was the most unfunctional version of a thing of all of the old gameplay mods of past, put together in a way that almost neutralized its own capabilities on a one-to-one level lol.. So I figured it would be easy with the Garry's mod work that had been done and the LUA plug and play.. I think it took me about a year.. and by the time I played Half-Life 2 for the first time again I had played it about 20 times trying to get it to work all the way through lol. And then there was the episodes lol with.. some unique and incredibly stupid conundrums that our entirely because of the pipeline update systems, I'll be it fixable ones thankfully.. I agree about the very bespoke design of mission improbable, it was a really good test ground for getting a campaign to work, with the exception that it worked, which would not always be the case sadly. That being said, I would maybe hold less to the rigid best practices of valve as your guiding star for game design as if it were ideology lol.. it's not a bad guiding star but, it's not the only one... There should never be a never.. and sometimes you get a break a few refrigerators in order to not break some eggs, so you can then throw them kids that won't get off your lawn.. It's, it's a thing that eurojank is is often accredited to in the best of its ways when it is in the best of its ways.. Just as a core wellspring for interesting ideas in game design.. not every game has to be a half-life game or, or a valve game.. and Valve would probably have more games if that didn't have to be the case, along with all the other nonsense that goes on there lol. Just keep an open mind it's all.

MI in EZ are pain in the ass cuz player character are more fragile and combine npc has been tweaked Vanilla AR2 soldier are already have accurate aim And in EZ2 they can 5 hit and you died

@@HappyLifeTurtle Sounds like Skill Issue man

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@@HappyLifeTurtle Sounds like Skill Issue man

@@HappyLifeTurtle Sounds like Skill Issue man

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Which maps?

@@wondershaha haunted gm_construct and stuff like that, thumbnails similar to the RU-vid style

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Yeah that was my introduction to the color correction UI, definitely the byproduct of the consulitis at war on contrast principle which was really frustrating.. I didn't realize how much blur and fog was being done with actual fog for color.. Getting rid of the raw files altogether, just deleting them straight up helps a bit.. But then you got to go in and fine-tune the fog to not exist while also not really ruining everything in the background, which is a balance that is incredibly difficult from the compiled end... I can't remember if I got satisfaction on that but I made it better for sure.. Episode 2 was pretty bad that way as well.. It was such a weird transition going from the hyperClear game of Half-Life 2, and then episode 1 even, even with the bloom which looked good in my opinion, It was a very clear and crisp game.. once episode 2 rolls around, you look like you got Vaseline smeared on the screen and it's entirely based around color correction fog and these Lutz trying to make the game.. I don't get it lol.. like it don't look good lol.. and Half-Life 2 is fine with fog when it's being fog. I think the worst offender so far though was swelter, where I just gave up, I was able to fix a bunch of course just by ripping it out, but there was always this brutal fuzziness to everything. They also did the thing in Half-Life 2 when they added the HDR stuff, where you look up at the sky and the eclipse happens, but if you look into a dark place the world gets gamma-blasted.. I don't understand where the parameters are tolerances were for this but it's almost like they were trying to emulate poor camera controls, or bad transition glasses.. first time I saw it was in crisis.. and it was absolutely ridiculous. The balance for this is usually atrocious when it's noticeable, when it's not noticeable it's fine.. But it's usually noticeable in one way or another.. fortunately, half life 2 is from the era that treated its audience as adults, and you can set to mapping values to a hard value.. I usually have three bound, and that gets me through most things.. Just basically as soon as it looks like I'm having a stroke, I hit the button and suddenly I get my vision back lol.. Just recently started having to deal with that a lot in control, a game that basically took the gamma blast fog and the war on contrast to the most utmost extreme of which was just staggering how bad it was.. thank God for reshade I guess.. But even then lol there's only so much you can do and it's it's a process lol cuz you're basically having to.. it's like untangling braided line from a fishing snarl, that was snarled intentionally in an overcomplicated way lol.

So that's what those stupid circles that I couldn't read said, I knew the doctors were fucking with me.

You know. He's gonna read this, and think we're messing with him. But it actually is what it says..

Yea your right.

Yeah there's a few memes like that. It really does say this, btw, not being mean or shitposting.

Way to go! Thank you! :D

bold of you to assume i use my brain period

Even using my brain I first arrived to an idea that some wiring outside must be cut and I need to leave the building and check to remove it, not that electricity upstairs is somehow connected to a flooded basement.

Jump faster! Jump crouch harder! Event trigger better gooder? I agree 100% about the way he talks about the backtracking though.. every backtrack moment in this game in that first section, is a better feature as the first time you went through the area.. I don't agree with how rigid he seems to look at design elements, and that's that's certainly his preference but there are definitely other ways lol and that kind of thinking kind of leads to some really boring design principles in a very very potential medium that hasn't scratched the surface in its decades of stagnation. There's definitely some irony to the run think shoot live statement for a game as curated and on rails as both Half-Life and half-life 2, You're actually not supposed to think.. you supposed to think that you're thinking lol.. which is always been one of the issues I've had, not because it's not a way to go so much as it's a really limiting design principle for what could be in a virtual world and virtual interaction that has kind of put them in some interesting spots.. although one of them ironically was to go to VR, it also let that version of vr stop short of it's potential and immersion at the behest of that.. But it also led to a full overview of thinking on a different level in game design on a count of the automatic recognition of a human using real world muscle memory and cognition I would argue that you didn't need to go to VR to see a large amount of that in games and many games had these things and we're progressing in that direction before the domination of the consoles for game design and the 20-year Time Warp we've been in with the dual analog controller.. But given how much games have to play themselves to deal with that limitation in it of itself.. I could see how they thought this was the only way to actually get outside of that.. because they're 2D gameplays at its most basic in its most basic basics... And they thought that was necessary.. which is sad.

Unless ofc you're playing overcharged and took it off the airboat

Thank you! :D

This is most likely correct

@@lost_persona oh…. sorry you found out this way lol Nah but in all seriousness, you most likely also just have a slight red green colorblindness, it’s actually incredibly common, and it mostly just involves having a hard time differentiating certain red and green tones when they‘re right next to eachother :P

He broke Who else is also broke that I might want to know

It will be announced on the discord :P

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