Combine Destiny mod for Half-Life 2

Excellent mod, but you'll find yourself hiding in corners while your flashlight recharges a lot.

I just finished the mod. I've gotta say, I quite enjoyed it! One of the best things I found about this mod was how long it was. It was quite long, and that's a good thing. I really loved the music, too, it was great.

I only have 3 complaints.. and I'm only stating these in hopes you improve upon them in the sequel, not to say the mod was bad or anything, because like I said, I enjoyed it.

1. The lighting in alot of the levels was too dark.

2. The story could be improved upon.. Or, more added to it rather.

3. No new weapons or textures. Some new aspects would be nice.

Anyway, like I said, I enjoyed it, can't wait for number two! :D

1 thing thats wrong, the npc's are thick, its hard to get them to follow you, part from that, great mod!

great mod! I love it, looking forward to the second one

This mod suffers from the same problem a lot of mods do...whats' the point, exactly?

Designers need to ask themselves "why will people be interested to play my mod?" Jow is the mod different or more interesting than any other mod, or the original game the mod is based on?

Playing a Combine soldier is a compelling idea. However the mod authors have failed to follow through on that idea - the gameplay is no different from vanilla Half-Life 2.

The authors had a great opportunity to allow players to become Combine. But where are the Combine-only weapons? The sniper rifle? A deployable manhack? Turrets, rollermines and bouncers? Like I say a great, missed opportunity.

The maps themselves also lack a point. They meander, full of dead ends, pointless rooms and switchbacks. It's often hard to tell which way to go. They lack a concrete sense of advancement. While some of the overall design of the architecture is nice, the maps lack a lot of detail. There are far too many square-shaped rooms with wooden boxes and metal shelves.

As a lot of people have already pointed out, the levels have lighting problems. Not only are they often too dark, but the mappers have not used lighting to effectively dramatise their spaces, or to highlight important objects. The lighting is very bland.

The mod has a half-finished feel to it, but even if it had been finished I'm not sure it would have presented anything particularly new or interesting.

this is a very great mod! thank you, you did a very good job! i enjoyed every moment of it.

this game has WAY too many bugs and doesnt feel complete. had to turn my gamma up almost to max to see acceptably, have shadows on and full, and can see self shadows on props and npcs, but wheres the shadows from an object cast on the opposite side of a light source to another object or the ground? game STILL has crash problems with the vortigaunt, has problems w/random objects being "invisible" after the part w/the vortigaunt(shows up in console as not loading models).

its understandable if you guys didnt bother to fix these problems, since the community hasnt provided much support with it. however i will try cd2 to try and see why you guys kinda stopped with this.

try turning up your brightness a bit- it's far too dark in that section. somewhere under the water is a section where you can continue on.

fantastic job free game thanks very much guys
im stuck just after the graveyard i go into a tunnel if i go down the shaft i fall too far and die, if i go into the water its a dead end HELP

A very well-made mod, I enjoyed it.

Pros: New interface, made use of a lot of the combine tools, such as shock-bar. All of the additions making you feel like a combine soldier were very nice touches. Level design was decent and the story was also. I loved the music. The black scenes were nice touches as well.

Cons: I didn't like the placing of the music, it feeled out of place, I found myself hearing music when getting attacked by a couple headcrabs, and none when fighting off a ton of them in a hallway to open a door. The level design, while well done, seemed like it was below the designers' ability. Stairs looked bare, the city had black models while there was clearly enough light to see them. I just felt a lot of things should have, and still should be edited and touched up. It seems as if each map was finished and uploaded and not looked over (though I'm sure this was not the case).

All in all, I enjoyed it, and despite my ravings on it's bad parts, I played the whole thing. Good job guys, and I'm looking forward to the sequel.