Release in September news - Eternal Silence mod for Half-Life 2

Hello community!

Five of the core dev team have just gotten back from an exciting trip to VALVe in Bellevue, Washington.

We had tons of great feedback on our mod, all of which we are working to apply right now. We did a "VALVe style" ? playtest where we watched new players play the game without saying a word. Fifteen pages of notes later, we held a large round-table discussion to talk about the mod and where it's going. Many thanks go out to VALVe for making this a truly enjoyable and constructive experience. Everything you hear is true; they really are supportive of their modding community.

After VALVe, the team here sat down (usually until midnight) brainstorming what we can do to fix the gameplay flaws, and what we can add. We have a very clear sense of direction now.

This brings me to my next point, the inevitable topic of release.

Using all of the feedback from VALVe, we will be releasing very soon (shooting for Mid/Late September, so about 3 weeks). This gives us time to put in what we consider necessary changes and to further ensure that our recent dearth of crashes isn't just a coincidence ;)

We are very commited to the above timeframe, thanks mostly to encouragement and support from VALVe.

Many thanks to valve, we will be releasing an exact date for release next week, aswell as an exact log of everything that will be in. A public trailer is also in the works.

Stay tuned as we creep closer to our first (of many!) releases.

Cheers!

From left to right: Brian "Iced_Eagle" Hughes, Rex "X-Ray" Riepe, Dan "MadMechWarrior" Menard, Marc "QDog" Moehrlin, and then John Sheu visiting the valve offices and presenting ES.