Be sure to watch until the end and let me know what you think of these mods! :) (also I just noticed I fully forgot to add the 3 great mods intro to this one lol, sorry!)
I think that MMod looks good and balanced with their weapons and also is having compatibility which is great. Other mods just don't focus at or they suck at this aspect.
@Ultimis yes, the MMod folders that you put in the sourcemods folder each already have a custom folder, so just dump your HL2 mods there and they will work with MMod
@@ultimis3658yes that's how i made my HD overhaul pack with a lot of selection from gamebanana. But at least now i have a next gen vanilla experience 🗿
@@ultimis3658 are even many of them are including MMod implementation by default (EZ:2 per example have by default the projectile based balistics instead of hitscan of HL2)
Personally, I played Half Life 2 Overcharge and I can honestly say that it is not balanced, but I had a lot of fun playing it more than once, I went through it even on the hardest difficulty level available in advanced options, it was an interesting experience.
SMOD Redux is nostalgia as it was one of the first mods I played for Half-Life 2. Also, don't forget Half-Life 2 Substance. It adds classes from Tom Clancy and Splinter Cell to the game I think and delivers quite well as you can change your loadouts/class at any time during the campaign.
It seems like it will support any compatibility you want. I think it will make it easy for any modder to do anything they want which I love the sound of!
speaking about bowl of soy from smod:redux... you use it to heal yourself. You can come to a corner, throw some, and eat each piece of it, which will give you 1 hp. It's basically an infinite health station, and you can go above 100 hp with it.
Man you're quick! I have just finished watching the previous video about hl2 and already you're droppin a new one! Ya answered my question about other remasters :D
Actually i am playing cinematic mod after your video and it's great - environments look great, models look great (i use updated vanilla style Alyx), installed Entropy Zero 2 animations too which makes this combination a perfect remaster (i already sense the hate tornado of cinematic mod heading this way)
Possibly spicy take, but I thought the overhauled maps of Half-Life 2: Cinematic, for all the flak that mod received, go really well with MMOD, if you can be bothered to work out the compatibility
That's actually a major reason why people combined MMod and Cinematic Mod. People liked the maps from Cinematic mod but wanted to combine it with the extremely high quality updates of MMod.
While I don't mind SMod and Overcharged,They are a bit too over stimulating for me EVEN if you mess around with the settings. Some things,weapons and enemy placements are just added just for the sake of it and they all feel like "More = Good" or "Quantity over Quality" and most are just left it as it is without properly tweaking,balancing and putting much thought and care into it. They feel like let's say for example, Cursed Halo but poorly done ya know ? Plus i've kinda lost all respect for the Creator behind Overcharged mod,Dude got all kinds of red flags,got a bad history of making mods and come as an absolute prick in his discord server where he only listens to delusional people who are nice to him while blacklisting,banning/kicking people out for simply making criticism and only wanted what's best for the mod.NoClip and Radiation Hazard made a good analysis on it. I'd just personally stick with MMod tbh,That mod is pure quality AND the creator is a legit mod creator who worked his arse out during a fricking war and didn't ask for anything in return.
MMod is easily the best remaster mod, and pairing it with CMM (it automatically removes *that* content) Its a nice change of pace for those who've played half life 2 for days on end!!
I kinda wish most mods took the Fallout 3 and New Vegas approach to remasters for those kinds of mods. In other words, sound effect updates without altering icon ones if they don't sound too jarring next to the audio, upscaling textures and models by hand or using AI to help but correcting mistakes made by it, and providing unofficial patches. In addition, providing alternative options. That is the best mod remaster to me for a game. Forced ambient occlusion, exaggerated bloom, and GPU-intense detailed shadows and reflections should be 100% optional. Lastly, performance optimizations are king to all more people to experience what you enjoy. Although, most modern laptops should be able to run Half-Life 2 (as well as Half-Life 2 Update, which is a light remaster and fixes some nasty glitches and bugs).
i recently played all the Half-Life games for the first time (did Black Mesa instead of the original) and all of Half-Life 2 (i.e. both episodes in addition to the base game) still holds up damn good to this day. i don't even think i had to change the resolution, it just set it to my monitor's by default. i guess if you're *really* bothered by graphics it might be better to use one of these remasters, but i grew up with indie games so i'm used to "bad graphics".
Smod Redux feels like some teenager wanted to play Postal 2, but could only get as graphic as HL2 before his parents wouldn't buy them, so he learned to mod and went ham 🤣
7:35 “mmod cinematic mod 2013” version for half life 2 had parts in the game where you’re stuck and can’t move. It happens when you first meet alyx and during the end of the game when you’re free from breen ,, don’t know how to fix it
I'd personally rather play Cinematic Mod over Overcharged because Cinematic Mod is can actually be completed without consistent crashes on almost half of the level transitions. MMOD is definitely the best "vanilla-style" experience, imo.
Cant you remake this video but changing the Smod redux 8 to Smod redux 10? Also known as final Is far better and the final version than the Smod you showed
Overcharged is horrible. Whoever created it just decided to put a massive amount of enemies on the maps as if he was playing gm9d sandbox and called it a day
Any reason why my Mmod doesn't have the same ironsights as yours? If I ironsight with the USP it just zooms in my view instead of actually moving to the ironsights like your version.
I might be wrong but isn't HL2 Update more out of date than base HL2? The only thing it has now is the developer commentary and mildly crisper lighting
Overcharged gets rightfully hated a lot but I also think with some work it can be interesting and fun! Having 10000 settings really wasn‘t a good choice, but I think with the settings like I configured them in the video it can be enjoyed! :P
SMOD - is not a Remaster, but it is made by that JAPANESE HL2 dev, which now famous for MMOD. And yes - MMOD - is a proper remaster, not a SMOD. SMOD - just his attempt in fun mod. Anyway actually, proper real TOP 3 famous Remaster of HL2, is: 1)MMOD. (By creator of SMOD. He even wrote - "MMOD - is a remaster") 2)Overcharged. (Russian attempt into HL2 Remaster) 3)Fake Factory's Cinematic MOD. Yea, that one. And also - Valve did kinda remaster too, which was a "HL2: Update" - which is somewhat a official HL2 Remaster. Same goes for Original HL1: 1)HL1 MMOD (By same japanese dev) 2)HL1 HD Texture Pack (Somewhat a Remaster) And some other - not properly know remaster. There also a HL1 Source - which is indeed a remaster... but actually more of a port, badly placed into Valve Steam system (yes, HL Source - have many bugs and issues, bcs of porting original game, on new Valve Service and other stuff).
Be sure to watch until the end and let me know what you think of these mods! :)
(also I just noticed I fully forgot to add the 3 great mods intro to this one lol, sorry!)
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What's the name of the 2 mod
@@mitkodimtrov3914 Half-Life 2: Overcharged
@@1lucia ok thank you
I think that MMod looks good and balanced with their weapons and also is having compatibility which is great. Other mods just don't focus at or they suck at this aspect.
you can add mods to the mmod? like having alyx gman added?
@Ultimis yes, the MMod folders that you put in the sourcemods folder each already have a custom folder, so just dump your HL2 mods there and they will work with MMod
@@ultimis3658yes that's how i made my HD overhaul pack with a lot of selection from gamebanana. But at least now i have a next gen vanilla experience 🗿
@@ultimis3658 are even many of them are including MMod implementation by default (EZ:2 per example have by default the projectile based balistics instead of hitscan of HL2)
i dont rate half life mods for what content they have i rate them for how stable they are and how many times id crash playing it
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Yeah in that regard half life overcharged gets a 0/10
Personally, I played Half Life 2 Overcharge and I can honestly say that it is not balanced, but I had a lot of fun playing it more than once, I went through it even on the hardest difficulty level available in advanced options, it was an interesting experience.
Well made video, interesting to see these different HL2 remasters!
SMOD Redux is nostalgia as it was one of the first mods I played for Half-Life 2. Also, don't forget Half-Life 2 Substance. It adds classes from Tom Clancy and Splinter Cell to the game I think and delivers quite well as you can change your loadouts/class at any time during the campaign.
Man, I can't wait for when the actual hl2 remastered collection releases, it was like a year since I saw the last news about it
HL2: Update was neat, I wonder what it'll be like with Valves blessing and whatnot. maybe more console ports?
It seems like it will support any compatibility you want. I think it will make it easy for any modder to do anything they want which I love the sound of!
i love the old smods back in the days. i mostly played css sci fi, and smod tactical
3:49 Smooth cutaway from that feature there Lucia xD
speaking about bowl of soy from smod:redux... you use it to heal yourself. You can come to a corner, throw some, and eat each piece of it, which will give you 1 hp. It's basically an infinite health station, and you can go above 100 hp with it.
Man you're quick! I have just finished watching the previous video about hl2 and already you're droppin a new one! Ya answered my question about other remasters :D
Actually i am playing cinematic mod after your video and it's great - environments look great, models look great (i use updated vanilla style Alyx), installed Entropy Zero 2 animations too which makes this combination a perfect remaster (i already sense the hate tornado of cinematic mod heading this way)
how do you add mods to mmod?
Oh, hey, that's lovely! Good job on not being a moron and setting up a game to your liking!
Possibly spicy take, but I thought the overhauled maps of Half-Life 2: Cinematic, for all the flak that mod received, go really well with MMOD, if you can be bothered to work out the compatibility
That's actually a major reason why people combined MMod and Cinematic Mod.
People liked the maps from Cinematic mod but wanted to combine it with the extremely high quality updates of MMod.
Thumbnail looks like Smosh Ian lmao
I have indeed considered subscribing :). Love your work man!
MMod is so hot
But tbh exploding bodies merely by kicking them is pretty badass
unused texture of the barnacle❤
I just want a mod that combines the Half-Life 2 day/night swap mod with the Half-Life 2 mirrored mod.
Great video, I definitely think you'll blow up soon!
While I don't mind SMod and Overcharged,They are a bit too over stimulating for me EVEN if you mess around with the settings. Some things,weapons and enemy placements are just added just for the sake of it and they all feel like "More = Good" or "Quantity over Quality" and most are just left it as it is without properly tweaking,balancing and putting much thought and care into it.
They feel like let's say for example, Cursed Halo but poorly done ya know ?
Plus i've kinda lost all respect for the Creator behind Overcharged mod,Dude got all kinds of red flags,got a bad history of making mods and come as an absolute prick in his discord server where he only listens to delusional people who are nice to him while blacklisting,banning/kicking people out for simply making criticism and only wanted what's best for the mod.NoClip and Radiation Hazard made a good analysis on it.
I'd just personally stick with MMod tbh,That mod is pure quality AND the creator is a legit mod creator who worked his arse out during a fricking war and didn't ask for anything in return.
comically realistic gordon freeman will always terrify me
MMod is easily the best remaster mod, and pairing it with CMM (it automatically removes *that* content) Its a nice change of pace for those who've played half life 2 for days on end!!
"The Combine assassins have been added."
90% of all the males that are watching:
"GIVE ME THAT SHIT!"
show that cm mod guy some love, he doesn't deserve that much hate and the graphics don't look too bad tho
just found you today. its fun watching your videos keep it up :D
I kinda wish most mods took the Fallout 3 and New Vegas approach to remasters for those kinds of mods. In other words, sound effect updates without altering icon ones if they don't sound too jarring next to the audio, upscaling textures and models by hand or using AI to help but correcting mistakes made by it, and providing unofficial patches. In addition, providing alternative options. That is the best mod remaster to me for a game. Forced ambient occlusion, exaggerated bloom, and GPU-intense detailed shadows and reflections should be 100% optional.
Lastly, performance optimizations are king to all more people to experience what you enjoy. Although, most modern laptops should be able to run Half-Life 2 (as well as Half-Life 2 Update, which is a light remaster and fixes some nasty glitches and bugs).
Im back at my hl2 era again because of you lmao
i love it when people spread the word of smod
..and here I was thinking you had a great voice
cool video, though!
edit: been catching up with older ones too!
Now that i think about it, SMod Redux is almost like Overcharged, except its actually fun rather a clusterfuck of stuff crammed into one thing.
smod looks like a content overload
MMod + Update and soon to release Remastered Collection will be the ultimate way to play. Overcharged is too over the top imo
Fun fact, the scissors from SMOD are ported from the game Postal 2 I just thought that was an interesting fact
Oh that why they look similar
i recently played all the Half-Life games for the first time (did Black Mesa instead of the original) and all of Half-Life 2 (i.e. both episodes in addition to the base game) still holds up damn good to this day.
i don't even think i had to change the resolution, it just set it to my monitor's by default.
i guess if you're *really* bothered by graphics it might be better to use one of these remasters, but i grew up with indie games so i'm used to "bad graphics".
i swear i saw 828k subscribers :(. you deseerve way more.
Keep up the content!
I always wanted to see metrocops change teams due to them not being fully modificated
They do also try to raid the escape train, presumably to escape as well.
7:16
You can detach the Tau Canon in the original Half Life 2
Unfortunately you can’t
@@1lucia Oh sorry my bad. I think I played a mod I forgot :v
i didnt expect an m1 garand in half life 2
Smod Redux feels like some teenager wanted to play Postal 2, but could only get as graphic as HL2 before his parents wouldn't buy them, so he learned to mod and went ham 🤣
fun fact or not so fun fact: in overcharged theres a gas grenade and flashbang which is useless because it only works for the player
7:35 “mmod cinematic mod 2013” version for half life 2 had parts in the game where you’re stuck and can’t move. It happens when you first meet alyx and during the end of the game when you’re free from breen ,, don’t know how to fix it
It's weird, because for me, eveything works fine.
I'd personally rather play Cinematic Mod over Overcharged because Cinematic Mod is can actually be completed without consistent crashes on almost half of the level transitions.
MMOD is definitely the best "vanilla-style" experience, imo.
Type half life 2 RTX in your youtube search bar
Why does everyone always recommend 2 playthroughs of games? Just play MMOD first if it's the better way to play
Tf
I never thought i would be this early to a half life 2 video
Ok, smod is for an old perspective and I think overcharged is for a more like little modern one
“You can also eat people”
I recommend project half life 2 weapons for mmod
3:29 i am pretty much sure its inspired by postal 2
Getting to play MMod is of the reasons why I consider getting a more powerful PC.
that thumbnail has "half life 2 on the ps3!" vibes lmao
I dont know if you do half life 1 mods but u should try the half life 2 classic. Its rly cool but theres only demos for it so i dont know if you would
Can you make a video on synergy? Or maybe how to use it for half life 2 mods?
I wish overcharged wasn't broken
Cant you remake this video but changing the Smod redux 8 to Smod redux 10? Also known as final
Is far better and the final version than the Smod you showed
subbed :)
ain't no way in half life 2 smod redux you can eat gibs 🤯
Overcharged is horrible. Whoever created it just decided to put a massive amount of enemies on the maps as if he was playing gm9d sandbox and called it a day
I dont think you are suppose to play it normally, just play it for dumb fun.
Half life 2 fanboys trying not to cope a mod for not being half life 2 challenge (impossible)
@@Vultonized7 I love smod and mmod tho?
@@AB-bg7os so why do you play smod and mmod?
@@NoNameTaken117 uuuh to have fun? Which overcharged isnt
What is the music at 6:39?
It's Garand not Garant
so true so true
Is it just me or do they all look pretty.. whelming? We got stuff like Black Mesa but those are the best remasters?
I guess tbf, Black Mesa is a remake, not a remaster. But we've yet to see a graphical overhaul like Black Mesa.
Smod Redux is overcharged done right
no no no no, im sorry, but i like default/vanilla half-life games (steam versions and old).
good
Any reason why my Mmod doesn't have the same ironsights as yours? If I ironsight with the USP it just zooms in my view instead of actually moving to the ironsights like your version.
You have to put a add on file on the zip file on mmod. I think it's in a text file somewhere.
@@deepapparition2064 Thanks
Overcharged is not that bad now as it use too but is still bad
U shud reviev lambda wars its basicly half life but an rts
I can understand calling the MMod a remaster, but what SMod and Overcharged are doing here?
Insallah brother
Why is Gordin so handsome in the Thumbnail?
I might be wrong but isn't HL2 Update more out of date than base HL2? The only thing it has now is the developer commentary and mildly crisper lighting
You put HL2 overcharged lmaoo, could've put the unreleased hl2 remaster collection by Update's creator instead
Overcharged gets rightfully hated a lot but I also think with some work it can be interesting and fun! Having 10000 settings really wasn‘t a good choice, but I think with the settings like I configured them in the video it can be enjoyed! :P
@@1lucia Nah, anything beyond a 4 or 5 is way too generous.
Japanese dev? What
no
Man i'd actually give cinematic mod a shot if it wasnt such a burden to download
These all look so lame. Wouldn't waste a second to play these
Where
Hooray!
Nothing will beat the original graphics of hl2, the nostalgia is the best part of it
Half life overcharged is ugly as f lol
SMOD - is not a Remaster, but it is made by that JAPANESE HL2 dev, which now famous for MMOD.
And yes - MMOD - is a proper remaster, not a SMOD. SMOD - just his attempt in fun mod.
Anyway actually, proper real TOP 3 famous Remaster of HL2, is:
1)MMOD. (By creator of SMOD. He even wrote - "MMOD - is a remaster")
2)Overcharged. (Russian attempt into HL2 Remaster)
3)Fake Factory's Cinematic MOD. Yea, that one.
And also - Valve did kinda remaster too, which was a "HL2: Update" - which is somewhat a official HL2 Remaster.
Same goes for Original HL1:
1)HL1 MMOD (By same japanese dev)
2)HL1 HD Texture Pack (Somewhat a Remaster)
And some other - not properly know remaster.
There also a HL1 Source - which is indeed a remaster... but actually more of a port, badly placed into Valve Steam system (yes, HL Source - have many bugs and issues, bcs of porting original game, on new Valve Service and other stuff).
Japanese dev? What
@@rawpowerjagg MMOD/SMOD - was done by japanese dev/modder, yes.
Then - the OVERCHARGED mod was been made/done by Russian dev/modder.
@@ДаниилСтепанов-р1иMMOD made by Ukrainian dev. SMOD dev stopped working on his projects since 2011.