Play as a disgraced Combine metrocop in this mod for Half-Life 2. Fight your former colleauges and various Xen life as you run for your life through six varied chapters. Meet some unexpected friends and foes along the way and find out what the Combine are hiding from you - believe me, it's big.

Post news Report RSS Delog 23-01-23 - Puzzles, not war

A note about episode 2 and some work-in-progress shots...

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WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

First of all, an apology to those of you who have played through the latest update, specifically chapters 5 and 6. I've been doing a lot of reflecting on these two chapters over the last few days and I'm not entirely happy with some of the gameplay - especially the huge fight in the town square in chapter 5. I am aware that what made the first three chapters fun was the really unique and fun puzzles, whereas the next three have been a bit more combat-driven. Now, as you have probably figured out, I'm quite new to all this stuff and I'm not very good at making fun and rewarding combat situations just yet - so I have made the decision to overhaul chapters 5 and 6 quite significantly.

The fight in the town square will be toned down - we want to make this a lot less frantic and add some more fun puzzle mechanics instead. I don't want to give too much away at this stage but I have something really fun planned for the town square section. The comms hub in chapter 6 also needs some improvement - I understand some of you have had a crashing issue and also it wasn't entirely obvious what to do with the plug puzzle.

All I can say at this stage is please keep an eye on the page as I will be addressing these issues in the next update.

Here's a bit of eye candy from the work-in-progress chapter 7. This one's gonna be awesome!

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