Arsenio 2044 is a total conversion mod for Half-Life 2: Episode 2. The project restarted development after the cancellation of Arsenio 3044. Arsenio 2044 takes place in an alternate Half-Life universe where the combine never invaded, and even by the year 2044, the world has never fully recovered from the Black mesa incident.
You play as Arsenio, a man escaping his past life from the Eastern United States, now known as the Reformed United States Of America. Arsenio is on his journey to find a better life in the fictional city of Midinus, California. In Midinus, you will encounter various people and foes.
GAMEPLAY
Arsenio 2044 features a new parkour mechanic, with wall running and air jumping. And new mechanics like Kicking, Flipping off (yes no joke), and a hacking system (not coded yet).
GRAPHICS
Arsenio 2044 has new lighting effects such as CSM (broken at the moment), PBR, and more. In the future Texture Streaming will be added.
Arsenio 2044 is a continuation of the previously mentioned Arsenio 3044 mod, The Arsenio 2044 team is largely made up of people who were involved with Arsenio 3044, and we still use the same codebase and most of the assets from Arsenio 3044.
The mod is still open source as well, you can find the code here. You can also join the discord here.
Currently we need a concept artist and possibly a shader programmer as I am terrible at it.
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Introduction
Well it's been a long while hasn't it? Don't fear, the project isn't dead! We've just not shared anything in a LONG while. Our team has been hard at work with developing Arsenio 2044 into a much more playable state than what it was in months ago.
Codebase & Mechanics
Our Programmers (me included) have been hard at work with patching up the codebase from Arsenio 3044 that was broken and adding new stuff. Arsenio 2044 now exclusively uses GamePadUI instead of both GamepadUI and our own custom GameUI module.
As you can see, it's very WIP and we've not completely moved over yet, still more things to add and the background video was removed.
As always, the code is open source and you can view it here.
Music
Our composer, Teggy has produced a few new tracks for Arsenio 2044, have a listen.
Models & Animations
Our animator/modeler Wildchee has finished the Glock animations, have a look!
He modeled and animated it all, there are no textures yet and no custom sounds have been added to it yet.
Also, the HEV arms are temporary, as Arsenio doesn't wear an HEV suit.
Level Design
Level design is mainly being worked on by me at the moment, and only 3 maps for the campaign exist at the moment.
Here are some screenshots of the second map in Hammer.
Needed Team Positions
We need more people who are experienced or newbies at Source modding for Arsenio 2044, especially Mappers and concept artists. Here are the open team positions:
- Additional Modelers/animators for either Weapons, NPCs, or props.
- Level Designers.
- Texture Artists.
- Concept Artists - we really need you.
- Coders, to fix bugs and optimization issues.
- Storywriters.
- Voice Actors.
If you would like to join the team, please message me on Discord (my username is tuxxego) or join the discord server.
That's all for now!
Thank you for reading this! If you would like to get more consistent news about Arsenio 2044, join the Discord server mentioned below.
Discord Server: Discord.gg
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