A brand new Half-Life overhaul is right here, aiming to be spiritually consistent with Valve’s 1998 FPS game, whereas enhancing and altering some core mechanics to really feel nearer to a contemporary, 2023 shooter. Known as Half-Life Mmod, it would look awfully comparable at a look, however delicate tweaks to the visuals, gunplay, AI, and SFX make this arguably the definitive method to play.
The Half-Life overhaul mod has been within the works for a while, and all you want is the 1998 unique to obtain this new model and add it to your Steam library. Developer Gunship Mark II additionally has comparable tasks for the likes of Half-Life 2 as properly, if you wish to give one other Valve traditional a brand new coat of paint.
Try the latest footage of the Half-Life Mmod launch beneath.
Half-Life Mmod built-in options
There are numerous further options in Half-Life Mmod, and whereas they’re consistent with Valve’s unique FPS sport, they will make your expertise really feel as new as ever.
- Digicam changes
- Bounce/Land Jolt
- Digicam view roll
- In-game FOV
- Element textures
- Weapon inertia
- Efficiency-intensive mild results
- First-person legs
- Mission Bullets
- Demise impact
- Fancy crossbow scope
- Additional HEV voice traces
- Additional HEV messages
- Chapter choose
- Firing vary
- AI tweaks
- New animations
- Visible, atmospheric, and pacing-related map tweaks and additions (work in progress)
- New arsenal, particular weapon features (silencers, addons, hearth modes)
- Loads of bug fixes
- VFX redesign (explosions, bullet impacts, muzzle flashes, monster results, and so forth)
I missed the boat on the unique Half-Life by fairly a distance and have tried going again to it for years, and whereas the Black Mesa fan-remake continues to be a superb choice for the Valve sport, Half-Life Mmod had me hooked immediately with these small adjustments.
Whereas it’s clearly right down to loads of Valve’s work, all of those additions work properly collectively to age-up Half-Life a good bit, sufficient, in my view, to make it nonetheless really feel like a traditional, however one which hasn’t aged as unhealthy as you may suppose. It’s tough to inform too, with the enhancements solely turning into obvious with a side-by-side comparability, however Half-Life Mmod is a marvel.
We’ve additionally received an inventory of the perfect old games you’ll be able to play simply proper now if Half-Life Mmod isn’t sufficient, alongside the solutions to whatever happened to Half-Life 3, in case you had been questioning.
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