Dopusk 31 by Knazev I. S. AKA Knazev33 Prehistory: Once a simple and frostbitten Moscow digger, wanted to find a special place, is an old shelter to number 31, TK he climbed all the available underground location. After a long search and the Internet, the location of the object 31, in the end, he Founded Path Transportation go through the rails in the subway, through the ventilation in the subway. As soon as he got into unknown lab in his eyes happened to PE, as later proved scientists have tried to reveal the material of an unknown object, discovered recently and brought here from Antarctica.
Its an exploration mod with an horror twist, athmosphere is great and strange. some models are oversized like doors are at least twice the size of the player model but the maps are really big and texture work and ilumination is good.
There may be some internal joke about rusian military hardware with the posters, the 3d model of the rpg was cool though, i dont get it but its amusing.
There's an 'old adage' -- which is that "Ruskys makes some of the best Half-life mods."
Actually, this is a 'young adage' - it's MY adage.
I have played Dopusk 31 all the way through twice: The first time was about 7 years ago and once again very recently. This is a very, very, long 'exploratory' mod. If exploring very large spaces and corridors doesn't excite the 'be-jabbers' out of you, then perhaps this isn't your 'cup of termites,' -or however they say it.
From the very beginning of this mod, you are placed in some kind of a "Rusky" facility with hallways and doors in all directions. You have to explore every hallway and ventilating shaft, from the very, very beginning.....very 'thoroughly' and judiciously......and then backtrack.....just to figure out how to get through the beginning to the train station. Getting lost is very easy and requires a lot of patience and memorization.
There is no combat with 'militants' in this mod.....but you do face a variety of zombies -some are unique and are about 14 feet tall and run very fast- as well as other monsters.
The textures of Dopusk 31 are custom and are generally high-quality as are also some of the weaon models. Scientists that you encounter, ironically, speak in English -though this mod takes place in Russia; the security guards speak both Russian and English.
Some signs are in Russian....others are in Russian and English. Posters of Putin on walls....and military vehicles (space shuttles, tanks, helicopters, etc.) are spread throughout this entire mod. There are some script errors here and there; hence, 'no-clip' cheats are required to get through some doors that fail to open.
Dopusk 31 has been in the past, and still is, by far, one of my favorite Half-life user-made mods. In my opinion it is very underrated. I rate "Dopusk 31" 8.5 stars.
It is worth playing this modification for the sake of the frightening atmosphere, the weapon from Half-life 2 and pleasure to kill monsters from a Half-life version beta
DOPUST 31 and BLACK STAR 7 are the best conversion of half life.. texture, weapons and athmosphere are such refreshment! Wonderfull! So many new ideas, so many new models, and i played both mods, there was no bug in any of them! Ultimatly tense, there are also puzzlesolving parts, but interesting, the athmosphere of soviet coloured rooms, this communist style of building! crazy colours, awesome details, and many, many surprises - including bonus maps!! Greate!
It is worth playing this modification for the sake of the frightening atmosphere, the weapon from Half-life 2 and pleasure to kill monsters from a Half-life version beta
The whole mod is unbalanced, both in terms of gameplay and design.
Many models are blocky while others are higher resolution (The same same goes for the textures) and the whole mod itself is rather unstable, having succumbed to a couple of crashes amongst a difficulty scale that goes up and down like a roller-coaster, especially on medium.
Which is a shame, the spooky first minutes of this mod were very effective at keeping me on edge and the level design isn't that bad either.
Give it a go if you need a half-life fix, otherwise, it's not worth the effort. :(
Without being able to grasp more from the story, almost entirely in russian, you're playing as Gordon Freeman whoose goal is to explore shelter 31. The mod managed to catch me off guard with the longest, eerie first twenty minutes in any game I've played in recent memory.
Then I died for the first time and the mod crashed.
I restarted the mod, played some more, and it crashed again. I quickly found out that there's always a chance of the mod crashing upon loading a map. I played the whole thing for a hour and couldn't have made progress without save scumming right in front of every narrow hallway, just in case the mod would attempt to load a new map and fail. Eventually the mod grinded to a complete halt and refused to load a map at all. Without any warnings or even a error box detailing what exactly went wrong. So I gave up on the thing.
So the contents of the mod. The weapons are all of the stock arsenal we're familiar with, but a few of them have more alterations than just a re-skin. For instance; the crowbar is now useless besides destroying boxes. The pistol is bloody awful, with 8-bullet clips that are barely enough to take down a zombie at medium difficulty. On the other hand there is the MP5's replacement, a ak47 thingy I assume, which actually is so strong that it's the best weapon in the entire game! Until you get the rifle the combat is a chore. I suspect imbalance.
Throughout the course of the mod I feel the Escort mission gets overused. You see models and textures from half-life 2 along with other custom models, which at times only look strange. Gordon switches gloves along with the weapons.
The most fun I had playing this mod was when I laughed when I saw a picture of Vladimir Putin in the labs. For the first time. The picture popped up through the rest of the mod, along with some poster of a naked model.
It is a mess, and a non-functioning mess.