Reviews - the_vm

A cornucopia of incredible modding resources and knowledge. Not exactly suitable for playing, but if you're a modder or just tinkering? A godsend.

Best weapon pack at the moment imo, easily tweakable if you know your way around pk4 and def files.
Makes pistol actually usable, has best brrt gun out there. Some gameplay tweaks, while making the game more tense, aren't balanced for some map packs with how scarce ammo and armor become, so pay attention.

This mod turns the game into quite the quickload fest on the intended Veteran difficulty. You die from two hits on full health + armor, and unless you have memorized every single spawn from the OG, you're going to have a very bad time. The healthkits are now completely worthless, the real healing comes only from health stations, some enemies have increased HP out of nowhere, and the lack of crosshairs with no way to properly aim is rather questionable. It's ironic that the difficulty defaults to Nightmare, too. I appreciate the version without the move bob, it was way too distracting.
All in all, if you want balanced challenge that doesn't resemble OHKO mode while focusing on the survival aspect, you should play Overthinked instead.

At first this seems like a fun way to replay the game, but the issues become all too apparent the more you play, especially on repeat playthroughs.
I've been playing this on and off for years, but bullet sponge enemy encounters, many very useless alt attacks for weapons, absurd unbalanced enemy attacks (like maggot's overbuffed charge, which is a coinflip whether he'll do it or not, leaving you half-dead with no armor from full health), terrible extra hell levels that you'd better skip with a console command all make this a chore. But it's one of those mods that turn the game into Brutal Doom-esque carnage, so it does well to scratch that itch.
Overall, author made some very good decisions and some very questionable ones. Trimming the fat would be very welcome.