I'd like to thank everyone again for all the suggestions / feedback. Just to let you know I made (yet another) Discord server for the channel / Hardcore HL where we can discuss stuff and I'll give some updates. If you feel like my channel or Hardcore HL is something you'd be interested in the future it might be worth joining (no pressure lol). I already compiled most of Your feedback so will have a new version of the mod at some point in the near future. Have a good one. ✌Join link: discord.gg/DhguGc5fEC
I’d love to see a mod less extreme. Like bonfires like Dark Souls. Restarting the whole game is too punishing imo. But Half Life with 10-20 minute stretches without checkpoints would be great.
The mod Hard Life has a checkpoint system with new wall chargers that use armor points for each save. Might be worth looking at what they did for ideas.
Add 3 second delay between death and returning to level 1, so you can see yourself die and THEN restart the game. I feel like having any checkpoints at all defeats the purpose. But if that's too hard, I suppose that could be displaced into its own difficulty level, above hardcore.
Yeah I know it looks a bit cringe that you immediately restart without seeing yourself die but that was due to the code limitations unfortunately. I'm working a solution to that so stay tuned in the future! As for the checkpoints, I want to make that configurable so everyone can decide what kind of challenge they are looking for. :) Thanks for the feedback! ❤
- Fixed med stations as bonfires like DS - weak player, relatively weak enemies - scarce ammo Honestly the idea of Half Life works better if it's a harrowing ordeal and less of a power fantasy. Good work!
Woah, great editing and great mod! I'm not a huge fan of restarting the whole game (i'm more into rougelikes), but this is still awesome! Keep up that quality, and your youtube channel will surely grow fast!
random mob numbers (0-x in each area, with tied ammo drops to compensate), a hades-like level up system (each time you level you get to pick from 3 upgrades...i wouldnt make them as powerful as hades' bonuses though), randomized gun placement, randomly have health machines be broken, booby trapped grenades where after you pick it up you hear a ticking or beeping and if you dont throw it in time you blow up....idk a bunch of stuff
having to play the whole 6 hour experience over and over after you die is painful, you'd want it to be a little different each time, anybody playing half-life mods has played the base game, probably to death, so something new wouldn't hurt it. just don't turn it into a brand new game with new level design, just tweak some things
@@jesselynds5411 Thanks, I really love your ideas! "randomly have health machines be broken" -- I think this could change the pace of the game as well, you couldn't rely on your existing knowledge. Appreciate the feedback, noted them! :)
one thing that definitely doesn't help the insanity, is the fact that the playthroughs are the same every playthrough dying to that one stupid thing further in the game, and having to replay the exact same thing you've already played hundreds of times just to potentially die to some other stupid thing, ad infinitum definitely becomes unfun fairly quickly if there was any amount of variation in maps or enemies per playthrough to spice things up and keep you on your toes, it would certainly be more engaging- or even if there were just more different ways to play through the same maps (like those powerups you mentioned, could bring that sort of much-needed variety if executed correctly) obviously, all much easier said than done, this is all from a game designer perspective rather than a coding one - i've dabbled in modding and worked on a few games before so i know how ball-smackingly hard all of it is to pull off
Yeah that’s how I felt. It was fun playing in small chunks but it gets really frustrating after a while. As you said some randomness would help with that I think. I’m trying to implement the power-ups at the moment but not much luck so far haha but I won’t give up! Thanks for your thoughts btw! ❤️
ARGHH I just played the mod and got to power up. was playing for maybe 30 minutes at this point and man the HECU soldiers are WAY more menacing on hardcore. Normally i just blow through them with no care in the world but now I have to actually work against them, I need to actually strategize when fighting them instead of "ok ill just run in like normal with the shotgun smg combo." That 30 minutes was really fun though and I will definitely play more of this mod! Really fun idea! Thanks for making this!
I really like the idea of this but I think you could change it up a bit. Like maybe have it save at the beginning of each level, or at just some arbitrary point, like every quarter of the way through the story you get a save, but having it so everytime you die theres some punishment: start with half or 25% health, or maybe half your ammo. Something like that, but playing the entire game over everytime you die is a bit tedious. Also maybe making a single difficulty that is more extreme than hard mode. This is a really cool idea though, good video
Hey! Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. "everytime you die theres some punishment: start with half or 25% health, or maybe half your ammo" -- This is actually pretty cool. I made a note of it, thanks! I completely agree with it being tedious! I mostly wanted this video to be like a "0.1" version where I had an idea but it's still quite rudimentary. It's nice to see what you all think and listen to all these great ideas, thanks again. :)
To be honest, the only thing I'd fix in it is that when you die, you don't instantly teleport back to the before the incident part, but at least the death screen (before you click to load last safe) should be still there lel
So as to not break the immersion of the game, I would add a little difficulty increase quirk into most enemies. 1. Make a variation of the soldiers which are more accurate/have better weapons but not as deadly as the assassins OR 2. Spawn in assassins along the squads sometimes (not sure if its worth to do this through code instead of manually looking through all spawnpoints on all maps) 3. Headcrabs have the variations from Half Life 2 4. Certain Vortigaunts have chain lighting (bounces off from NPCs and maybe certain objects as well that are maybe metallic?) 5. Bullsquid has another variation that has poisoned attacks and makes your shots less accurate 6. Ichthyosaur can pull you in like a barnacle from a relatively short distance in case you are swimming away from it 7. A new variation of Houndeyes that can cannibalize their fallen kin to restore its HP. It has more hp and is faster too 8. Leeches can follow you on land but relatively slowly and sticking to the ground 9. Gargantuan can shoot a slowing beam from its eye to catch up with you, unless you shoot it in the eye when its being charged (its limited how often as this would make it too hardcore imo) 10. Certain barnacles have spikes(? ) on their tongues which damages the player to a certain degree, even if not fully reeled in 11. Alien controller variation, that spawns in alient grunts until killed and has higher hp (the teleport is not necessarily instant) 12. Alien grunts with heavy armor that have weakspots OR simply take a lot more punishment AND/OR more resistant to small arms fire and more vulnerable to revolvers and such
Holy cow, these are all sick ideas, thanks dude! I feel like some of these might exceed my modding knowledge atm but some of them I could implement straight away I think: "Headcrabs have the variations from Half Life 2" -- This'd be awesome! "Bullsquid has another variation that has poisoned attacks and makes your shots less accurate" -- I love this straight away, it sounds like something I could implement. " A new variation of Houndeyes that can cannibalize their fallen kin to restore its HP. It has more hp and is faster too" -- I like this too, they are quite weak enemies so it'd be nice to tweak them. "Certain barnacles have spikes(? ) on their tongues which damages the player to a certain degree, even if not fully reeled in" -- This would be sick, players would need to pay more attention to barnacles! "Certain Vortigaunts have chain lighting (bounces off from NPCs and maybe certain objects as well that are maybe metallic?)" -- I'd love this but feel like this might be freaking hard to code haha. Really appreciate your feedback! ❤️
Nah I just did some experiments before uploading the mod and forgot to change it back lol. Stellar programming skills. Just give me 30 mins and will update the link. Thanks for letting me know btw! Really appreciate it.
I'm definitely gonna give this a try! (I'm going to go insane) An idea would be putting more enemies in empty rooms? Or deleting the HEV and Health stations, so you can use only the things on the ground.
I think you might be onto something here haha! I like the extra enemies idea but we might have to tweak the HPs or add some extra ammo pickups because some enemies have a shitload of HP on Hard (Bullsquid)
The HP/Armor station is a nice one, true hardcore experience lol I might add some settings to the mod and turning the stations off would be a possibility for people wanting to go extra insane
If you wanted to add difficulty and fear into the play through what about if you die you start over on half-life 1 source, now there's a punishment that would make you quit
It would be even more fun if there was a Stalker-level of difficulty. Enemies dies in 2-3 hits, but you also die in 2-3 hits. That would make the game even more hardcore. No headcrab should withstand 3 9mm shots.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve been thinking about this too! I’m working on this mod in the background but don’t have as much time for it as I want honestly. I made a note of this and will implement it when I get the chance. :) keep an eye out for the channel there’ll be an update on the mod soon-ish!
@@Szonik haha, koszi kedves toled! Jaja, kint elek most is UK-ben. :) Egyebkent tervezek majd magyar vidiket is csinalni egy masik channelen, eleg sok otletem van arra is. Csak eloszor ezt kene kicsit beinditani. :D
Even that you have to restart everytime you die? You are probably a much better player than I am then haha I haven’t managed to beat it like this so far.
@@guncanny yeah I have hundreds of hours on the Sven Coop mod which is often much harder. When doing a vanilla playthrough i don't feel like I'm at risk of dying at all, I don't bother to save. Don't get me wrong this is definitely a punishing mod to someone with a more normal playtime but should you feel like challenging veterans as well, I would suggest bumping up things like enemy reaction time, speed, attack rate and/or damage (but not health, that tends to be tedious). Oh and congrats on getting a mod out
@@HamidKarzai Thanks for that, I really appreciate it. It's nice to see how a more "veteran" player sees this whole thing. I'm more of a "casual player" in this sense. "enemy reaction time, speed, attack rate" -- I love this idea actually! I certainly didn't want to increase HP, I think that would just be more boring.
Can this be made to work with the Half-Life: They Hunger horror mod; and in VR, too, where you can still read the death count without it being unintentionally out of view?
This sounds like a nice recipe haha. I think it should be possible yeah, I don't have a VR set to test it though unfortunately. But I'll give the They Hunger mod a look over the weekend and see if I can implement it!
Cool but so punishing, considered hard is forced. Making it a lil more oldschool by having checkpoints at each "level," or chapter would be pretty good and not so maddening. Or some kind of save mod akin to Resident Evil's ink cartridges where you only have a set amount of times to save.
Oh, I like the limited amount of save idea, thanks! I'm not sure if this is something I can implement with my curent knowledge but will have a look into it for sure. Really appreciate your feedback!
This is definitely interesting however I gotta ask what if I can only play for an hour or so? Wouldn't that mean I have to restart everytime I quit ? Some people won't just blast through black mesa like flash , I think a system like minecraft hardcore could work at the start of each chapter you get a checkpoint in case you will continue later if you die pre ambush in apprehension you restart from unforeseen consequences , if you die after ambush you respawn in residue processing and that check point in start of xen these 3 checkpoints should do I think the game would be much harder if certain enemies are harder to fight such as human grunts with +20 HP and mp5 with 11 dmg or alien slaves with 80 health instead of 60 personally I play with these changed settings wonder how hard its gonna be if we mix that with this it will definitely be very hard in chapters with HECU present but I think its better to just polish the mod enough like fix any bugs have the player with proper equipment if he dies etc so far a promising and interesting idea.
Yes you make a valid point and thanks for your feedback! I'm already working a new version where you could configure the amount of checkpoints to your liking. :) I'm not yet sure if just increasing HP/damage is enough, it might just become more "tedious" so I'm thinking about making it more challenging somehow without increasing HP for now. I really appreciate your feedback, thank you!
Oh I just realised you wrote more, sorry! "have the player with proper equipment if he dies" -- This one I'm still working on, because saving the game is actually quite painful in a mod as far as I understand. So maybe loading a checkpoint with a pre-defined set of equipment is a way to go... not sure. Let me know if you have any other ideas! I really appreciate your feedback my dude.
Yeah that's what I did initially but this seemed like a more sophistaced approach. Also, this is more like a "0.1" version of this whole mod thing, I'm planning to improve it going forward. I received some brilliant suggestions from the comments that I'm going to implement (at some point). :)
@@guncanny yeah I got you, this is way more sophisticated indeed! Good job. I challenge myself with no damage playthroughs ( basically 1 hp playthrough ) because I have no idea how to mod the game. Good for you that you learned 👍
Oh that's awesome dude! Sounds like an even tougher challenge than this one haha. This sounds like something I could implement in this mod in the future as an "extreme" setting. :) 1HP, no pickups.
@@guncanny right on buddy, sounds like it could work but combined with the game reset settings that’s gonna be an insane challenge and I expect many MANY keyboards to get smashed 😀😀😀
haha 😂 sounds like a brand new challenge for you mate! On a more serious note tho I want to make the amount of checkpoints configurable as well, so everyone can tailor it to their needs. :)
You make a fair point, I think it was somewhat on purpose to make a more “slow paced” shooter since you play as a scientist who’s not necessarily a killing machine (lol). But yeah nostalgia adds a lot to Half-Life for me so if you missed it as a kid it might be a different experience. Thanks for your thoughts!
I'd like to thank everyone again for all the suggestions / feedback. Just to let you know I made (yet another) Discord server for the channel / Hardcore HL where we can discuss stuff and I'll give some updates. If you feel like my channel or Hardcore HL is something you'd be interested in the future it might be worth joining (no pressure lol). I already compiled most of Your feedback so will have a new version of the mod at some point in the near future. Have a good one. ✌Join link: discord.gg/DhguGc5fEC
Oh wow, youtube just recommended the video. Didn‘t even realise how small your channel is. Great work my dude!
Haha thanks dude I really appreciate it. ❤️
I did Half-Life permadeath today and I died to a door that the barney opened after I saved him from a zombie.
Noooo way 😭
I’d love to see a mod less extreme. Like bonfires like Dark Souls. Restarting the whole game is too punishing imo. But Half Life with 10-20 minute stretches without checkpoints would be great.
this aint even close to extreme, og half-life. my advice - just don't die lmao
I’m planning to add some settings to it and if you tweak it you could have checkpoints or something like that.
Really appreciate the suggestion btw!
Hard-life mod
@@guncanny nice, looking forward to it!
This is like Ultra Nightmare in Doom Eternal
2:41 Im glad that my favorite Metal Gear game is still alive
About that beer I owed ya!
The mod Hard Life has a checkpoint system with new wall chargers that use armor points for each save. Might be worth looking at what they did for ideas.
Thanks for that! I didn't know this mod, will look into it for sure. :)
Put a 50 ft hostile Barney on Xen. That'll shake things up
Barney wouldn't buy me that goddamn beer even if he was 50ft tall.
@@guncanny #thebeerisalie
Add 3 second delay between death and returning to level 1, so you can see yourself die and THEN restart the game.
I feel like having any checkpoints at all defeats the purpose. But if that's too hard, I suppose that could be displaced into its own difficulty level, above hardcore.
Yeah I know it looks a bit cringe that you immediately restart without seeing yourself die but that was due to the code limitations unfortunately. I'm working a solution to that so stay tuned in the future!
As for the checkpoints, I want to make that configurable so everyone can decide what kind of challenge they are looking for. :)
Thanks for the feedback! ❤
2:41 it's rare that a video genuinely makes me jump, that was hilarious
- Fixed med stations as bonfires like DS
- weak player, relatively weak enemies
- scarce ammo
Honestly the idea of Half Life works better if it's a harrowing ordeal and less of a power fantasy. Good work!
"weak player, relatively weak enemies" -- I thought about this too! Thanks so much for your ideas and the feedback! :)
@@guncanny I'm a STALKER fan boy, a lot of those features translate to a "hardcore" experience for me
@@SevenTrine A fellow STALKER enjoyer ✌love it.
will be good idea that you add multiple options in the start menu, like "skip the intro" or "add more checkpoints"
good job my dude, what a cool video, i was hooked watching it lol
Thanks mate really appreciate it!
Woah, great editing and great mod! I'm not a huge fan of restarting the whole game (i'm more into rougelikes), but this is still awesome!
Keep up that quality, and your youtube channel will surely grow fast!
Thanks for the kind words! Really appreciate it. :)
Oh, I,ve been doing that hardcore idea long before this video.
random mob numbers (0-x in each area, with tied ammo drops to compensate), a hades-like level up system (each time you level you get to pick from 3 upgrades...i wouldnt make them as powerful as hades' bonuses though), randomized gun placement, randomly have health machines be broken, booby trapped grenades where after you pick it up you hear a ticking or beeping and if you dont throw it in time you blow up....idk a bunch of stuff
having to play the whole 6 hour experience over and over after you die is painful, you'd want it to be a little different each time, anybody playing half-life mods has played the base game, probably to death, so something new wouldn't hurt it. just don't turn it into a brand new game with new level design, just tweak some things
@@jesselynds5411 Thanks, I really love your ideas!
"randomly have health machines be broken" -- I think this could change the pace of the game as well, you couldn't rely on your existing knowledge.
Appreciate the feedback, noted them! :)
one thing that definitely doesn't help the insanity, is the fact that the playthroughs are the same every playthrough
dying to that one stupid thing further in the game, and having to replay the exact same thing you've already played hundreds of times just to potentially die to some other stupid thing, ad infinitum definitely becomes unfun fairly quickly
if there was any amount of variation in maps or enemies per playthrough to spice things up and keep you on your toes, it would certainly be more engaging-
or even if there were just more different ways to play through the same maps (like those powerups you mentioned, could bring that sort of much-needed variety if executed correctly)
obviously, all much easier said than done, this is all from a game designer perspective rather than a coding one - i've dabbled in modding and worked on a few games before so i know how ball-smackingly hard all of it is to pull off
Yeah that’s how I felt. It was fun playing in small chunks but it gets really frustrating after a while. As you said some randomness would help with that I think. I’m trying to implement the power-ups at the moment but not much luck so far haha but I won’t give up!
Thanks for your thoughts btw! ❤️
ARGHH I just played the mod and got to power up. was playing for maybe 30 minutes at this point and man the HECU soldiers are WAY more menacing on hardcore. Normally i just blow through them with no care in the world but now I have to actually work against them, I need to actually strategize when fighting them instead of "ok ill just run in like normal with the shotgun smg combo."
That 30 minutes was really fun though and I will definitely play more of this mod! Really fun idea! Thanks for making this!
hah thanks for playing dude! I made a lot of changes to it since and will make a video about those at some point so stay tuned!
I really like the idea of this but I think you could change it up a bit. Like maybe have it save at the beginning of each level, or at just some arbitrary point, like every quarter of the way through the story you get a save, but having it so everytime you die theres some punishment: start with half or 25% health, or maybe half your ammo. Something like that, but playing the entire game over everytime you die is a bit tedious. Also maybe making a single difficulty that is more extreme than hard mode. This is a really cool idea though, good video
Hey! Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
"everytime you die theres some punishment: start with half or 25% health, or maybe half your ammo" -- This is actually pretty cool. I made a note of it, thanks!
I completely agree with it being tedious! I mostly wanted this video to be like a "0.1" version where I had an idea but it's still quite rudimentary.
It's nice to see what you all think and listen to all these great ideas, thanks again. :)
To be honest, the only thing I'd fix in it is that when you die, you don't instantly teleport back to the before the incident part, but at least the death screen (before you click to load last safe) should be still there lel
@@gergom.8310 that part is already done matey, will upload a new video soon :)
@@guncanny oh hell yeah, I knew I'm too late for this lmao
@@gergom.8310 haha not at all dude! I really appreciate your feedback. ❤️
So as to not break the immersion of the game, I would add a little difficulty increase quirk into most enemies.
1. Make a variation of the soldiers which are more accurate/have better weapons but not as deadly as the assassins
OR
2. Spawn in assassins along the squads sometimes (not sure if its worth to do this through code instead of manually looking through all spawnpoints on all maps)
3. Headcrabs have the variations from Half Life 2
4. Certain Vortigaunts have chain lighting (bounces off from NPCs and maybe certain objects as well that are maybe metallic?)
5. Bullsquid has another variation that has poisoned attacks and makes your shots less accurate
6. Ichthyosaur can pull you in like a barnacle from a relatively short distance in case you are swimming away from it
7. A new variation of Houndeyes that can cannibalize their fallen kin to restore its HP. It has more hp and is faster too
8. Leeches can follow you on land but relatively slowly and sticking to the ground
9. Gargantuan can shoot a slowing beam from its eye to catch up with you, unless you shoot it in the eye when its being charged (its limited how often as this would make it too hardcore imo)
10. Certain barnacles have spikes(? ) on their tongues which damages the player to a certain degree, even if not fully reeled in
11. Alien controller variation, that spawns in alient grunts until killed and has higher hp (the teleport is not necessarily instant)
12. Alien grunts with heavy armor that have weakspots OR simply take a lot more punishment AND/OR more resistant to small arms fire and more vulnerable to revolvers and such
Holy cow, these are all sick ideas, thanks dude! I feel like some of these might exceed my modding knowledge atm but some of them I could implement straight away I think:
"Headcrabs have the variations from Half Life 2" -- This'd be awesome!
"Bullsquid has another variation that has poisoned attacks and makes your shots less accurate" -- I love this straight away, it sounds like something I could implement.
" A new variation of Houndeyes that can cannibalize their fallen kin to restore its HP. It has more hp and is faster too" -- I like this too, they are quite weak enemies so it'd be nice to tweak them.
"Certain barnacles have spikes(? ) on their tongues which damages the player to a certain degree, even if not fully reeled in" -- This would be sick, players would need to pay more attention to barnacles!
"Certain Vortigaunts have chain lighting (bounces off from NPCs and maybe certain objects as well that are maybe metallic?)" -- I'd love this but feel like this might be freaking hard to code haha.
Really appreciate your feedback! ❤️
I HAVE HALF LIFE
ME TOO BRO 🔥🔥🔥
ME THREE 🗣📢🔥🔥🔥
ME FOUR 🗣️🗣️
ME FIVE
upon dying i spawn in zen with no long jump or weapons.
Oops sorry about that, I’ll update the download link.
@@guncanny thank you
@@guncanny btw its where i started right off the bat, probably have something to do with steam cloud saves
Nah I just did some experiments before uploading the mod and forgot to change it back lol. Stellar programming skills. Just give me 30 mins and will update the link. Thanks for letting me know btw! Really appreciate it.
@@guncanny thnaks man, appreciate it
I'm definitely gonna give this a try! (I'm going to go insane) An idea would be putting more enemies in empty rooms? Or deleting the HEV and Health stations, so you can use only the things on the ground.
I think you might be onto something here haha!
I like the extra enemies idea but we might have to tweak the HPs or add some extra ammo pickups because some enemies have a shitload of HP on Hard (Bullsquid)
The HP/Armor station is a nice one, true hardcore experience lol
I might add some settings to the mod and turning the stations off would be a possibility for people wanting to go extra insane
@@guncanny Yeah, it's going to be literally impossible
@@guncanny Thanks! :D
@@guncanny Also, you should add some Black Mesa turrets here and there, since we only see 3 in the normal game, It would make more sense idk
yup we needed this
A1ba actually providing even a spec of help??? Crazy.
damn u got a new sub man ur so underrated
Ahw, thanks man! Really appreciate it. ❤️
@@guncanny ur welcome but really u got me hooked to hl again ur awesome
Quitting Half-Life is just an illusion dude... you'll always get back to it at some point. 😂
@@guncanny haha well thats true
If you wanted to add difficulty and fear into the play through what about if you die you start over on half-life 1 source, now there's a punishment that would make you quit
@@x_hibernia 😨 you scare me. This is too cruel… even for me.
It would be even more fun if there was a Stalker-level of difficulty. Enemies dies in 2-3 hits, but you also die in 2-3 hits. That would make the game even more hardcore. No headcrab should withstand 3 9mm shots.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve been thinking about this too! I’m working on this mod in the background but don’t have as much time for it as I want honestly. I made a note of this and will implement it when I get the chance. :) keep an eye out for the channel there’ll be an update on the mod soon-ish!
4:24 EZEK A MIEINK!!!4!
lol nem gondoltam volna, hogy valaki spotolni fogja 😂
@@guncanny Ha csak az akcentusodra kellett volna hagyatkoznom, sose jövök rá. Esetleg kint éltél? Nagyon jó hallgatni ahogy beszélsz :D
@@Szonik haha, koszi kedves toled! Jaja, kint elek most is UK-ben. :)
Egyebkent tervezek majd magyar vidiket is csinalni egy masik channelen, eleg sok otletem van arra is. Csak eloszor ezt kene kicsit beinditani. :D
I don't play for difficulty only tentacles
interesting idea but i feel the vanilla half life gameplay is too easy for the "hardcore" adjective, even on hard.
Even that you have to restart everytime you die?
You are probably a much better player than I am then haha
I haven’t managed to beat it like this so far.
@@guncanny yeah I have hundreds of hours on the Sven Coop mod which is often much harder. When doing a vanilla playthrough i don't feel like I'm at risk of dying at all, I don't bother to save.
Don't get me wrong this is definitely a punishing mod to someone with a more normal playtime but should you feel like challenging veterans as well, I would suggest bumping up things like enemy reaction time, speed, attack rate and/or damage (but not health, that tends to be tedious). Oh and congrats on getting a mod out
@@HamidKarzai Thanks for that, I really appreciate it. It's nice to see how a more "veteran" player sees this whole thing. I'm more of a "casual player" in this sense.
"enemy reaction time, speed, attack rate" -- I love this idea actually! I certainly didn't want to increase HP, I think that would just be more boring.
Commenting for the algorithm!
Thanks, I really appreciate it. :)
Can this be made to work with the Half-Life: They Hunger horror mod; and in VR, too, where you can still read the death count without it being unintentionally out of view?
This sounds like a nice recipe haha. I think it should be possible yeah, I don't have a VR set to test it though unfortunately.
But I'll give the They Hunger mod a look over the weekend and see if I can implement it!
The crime to have Light Mode everywhere
I think I only had it in Chrome, no? 🤔
All hail light mode
Cool but so punishing, considered hard is forced. Making it a lil more oldschool by having checkpoints at each "level," or chapter would be pretty good and not so maddening. Or some kind of save mod akin to Resident Evil's ink cartridges where you only have a set amount of times to save.
Oh, I like the limited amount of save idea, thanks! I'm not sure if this is something I can implement with my curent knowledge but will have a look into it for sure.
Really appreciate your feedback!
WHAT. HOW.
HOW DO YOU HAVE 195 SUBSCRIBERS??? I THOUGHT YOU HAD LIKE 12K OR SUM
@@ea_sports1 haha thanks! hopefully one day!
This is definitely interesting however I gotta ask what if I can only play for an hour or so? Wouldn't that mean I have to restart everytime I quit ? Some people won't just blast through black mesa like flash , I think a system like minecraft hardcore could work at the start of each chapter you get a checkpoint in case you will continue later if you die pre ambush in apprehension you restart from unforeseen consequences , if you die after ambush you respawn in residue processing and that check point in start of xen these 3 checkpoints should do I think the game would be much harder if certain enemies are harder to fight such as human grunts with +20 HP and mp5 with 11 dmg or alien slaves with 80 health instead of 60 personally I play with these changed settings wonder how hard its gonna be if we mix that with this it will definitely be very hard in chapters with HECU present but I think its better to just polish the mod enough like fix any bugs have the player with proper equipment if he dies etc so far a promising and interesting idea.
Yes you make a valid point and thanks for your feedback! I'm already working a new version where you could configure the amount of checkpoints to your liking. :)
I'm not yet sure if just increasing HP/damage is enough, it might just become more "tedious" so I'm thinking about making it more challenging somehow without increasing HP for now.
I really appreciate your feedback, thank you!
@@guncanny yeah maybe changing health or damage isn't the best way to go , and oh that configuration is cool.
Oh I just realised you wrote more, sorry! "have the player with proper equipment if he dies" -- This one I'm still working on, because saving the game is actually quite painful in a mod as far as I understand. So maybe loading a checkpoint with a pre-defined set of equipment is a way to go... not sure. Let me know if you have any other ideas! I really appreciate your feedback my dude.
@@guncanny oh for sure bro! Keep us updated with the work on your mod.
all these mods are amateurs. BEHOLD: HALF LIFE SOURCE!
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That's cool. How about quicksaving after the resonance cascade and never again?
Yeah that's what I did initially but this seemed like a more sophistaced approach.
Also, this is more like a "0.1" version of this whole mod thing, I'm planning to improve it going forward.
I received some brilliant suggestions from the comments that I'm going to implement (at some point). :)
@@guncanny yeah I got you, this is way more sophisticated indeed! Good job. I challenge myself with no damage playthroughs ( basically 1 hp playthrough ) because I have no idea how to mod the game. Good for you that you learned 👍
Oh that's awesome dude!
Sounds like an even tougher challenge than this one haha.
This sounds like something I could implement in this mod in the future as an "extreme" setting. :) 1HP, no pickups.
@@guncanny right on buddy, sounds like it could work but combined with the game reset settings that’s gonna be an insane challenge and I expect many MANY keyboards to get smashed 😀😀😀
haha 😂 sounds like a brand new challenge for you mate!
On a more serious note tho I want to make the amount of checkpoints configurable as well, so everyone can tailor it to their needs. :)
1hp >:3
lol speak for yourself. YT keeps recommending me HL videos and I don't know why lol. I thought this game was trash.
I appreciate your opinion my dude! Why do you think it's trash?
@@guncanny pacing. A lot of walking, climbing, and not shooting anything.
You make a fair point, I think it was somewhat on purpose to make a more “slow paced” shooter since you play as a scientist who’s not necessarily a killing machine (lol).
But yeah nostalgia adds a lot to Half-Life for me so if you missed it as a kid it might be a different experience.
Thanks for your thoughts!