Pick up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people, people he cares about, are counting on him.
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Mod is not large, it consists of 4-map (3 small map and 1 large). To pass it you will not be easy, I think up to 30 minutes of playing time, or even less. A little about the story you certainly are Gordon Freeman in a new laboratory...
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So is this based off the Jhon Carpenter movie?
Doesn't seem to be, as it follows some kind of a completely different story with different soundtrack as well.
Looks like the first "mod" that was made in the hl2 beta
It is.
This is a mod. Not an addon.
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This was made at a time when people had no idea how the new source engine worked.
through all the confusion, somehow donald figured this out and made a working rendered mod of half life 2.
It goes in the sourcemods folder right??
Should be semi-obvious...
You need to download Half-Life 2 Beta, some kind of fixes for it (which can be found at the website at hl2beta.ru,) then layer over the mod itself (on Half-Life 2 Beta) and run it through the console, like with "map 1".
The mod appears to be Russian, though with English words. I guess "Donald" is someone Russian, actually, the download is also hosted at hl2beta ru website so also should be clear as well, I think.
Well, the folder is called "The Thing" but I already place it in the source mods folder and it didn't even appear on my steam list... So I must be ding something wrong I guess.
Yes because this isn't the mod, it's like a mappack for Half-Life 2 Beta released at its early days. There used to be a short period of time when "HL2world.com" existed, and community there produced content for Half-Life 2 Beta through 2003 on the leaked Half-Life 2 - like Add-ons with maps and stuff. Most of this is on Hl2 beta ru now.
Update: OK, yes, open "The Thing" in the RAR and extract everything to Half-Life 2 Beta, and then run Half-Life 2 Beta through its "hl2.exe" and in the developer console go "map 1", but to choose "skill" (difficulty) before running go "skill 1-3".
Update 2: Yeah this mappack was released about 2 months prior to the release of Half-Life 2 from Vivendi. But I dunno rather if on HL2World.com.
Update 3: I checked the website via Archive Org (as it is completely different now.) I can only assume the actual content that it produced for Half-Life 2 was reposited when the user is online in the website, but I don't know, because I wasn't able to find that content, but it is somewhere now though.
Update 4 (most likely final): The link is like this at Hl2-beta.ru not hl2beta.ru - my mistake.
Actual info about "The Thing" is on HL2 Beta RU at Hl2-beta.ru. There you can also download Half-Life 2 Beta, which runs this "mod" (where it is a mappack, but there it was listed as a mod anyway.)
Great pal. Now I get!! I do not have Hl2 Beta so im going to search for it on beta.ru many thanks. I hope i can find and install the beta version.
How can I install it in 2022??