In "The Hidden", players choose the role of either a near invisible killer, Subject 617, or one member of an Intercept squad who have to capture him, I.R.I.S. In the simple but challenging gameplay of an 'one against all'? mode, Subject 617 creeps/sneaks through the maps armed only with a knife and three pipe bombs. The IRIS team carry a selection of weaponry, fully customisable at round start, from F2000 assault rifles through to shotguns or sub machine guns as well as a pistol as a secondary weapon.

However, they can hardly see Subject 617 as, just like the 'Predator', only the outline of his silhouette is visible. On top of that the Hidden also moves a little faster and has many abilites such as pouncing, wall grabbing, corpse pinning and the fatal pigsticker attack. Therefore co-operation is necessary for I.R.I.S. if they wish to prevail (if they dont want to become the prey/victim themselves).

This leads to an outstanding gaming experience on public servers: The I.R.I.S team creep/sneak through the corridors, back to back & covering each other whilst Subject 617 lurks in dark corners choosing his time to attack. The player who finally kills the Hidden takes over the role & from then on he can roam like a ghost through the corridors.

Background

In the early 1950's human genetics experimentation was taking its first, tentative, steps. Amongst many other black projects, a team of British scientists working at a Infinitum Research experimental station stumbled across some remarkable phenomenon involving DNA manipulation. This led to deeper research with dangerously unpredictable results, often leading to human patients losing their lives in irresponsible and immoral experiments.

Time passed on, and by the mid 1990's the failure rate of the experiments had been reduced from 75% to a mere 15%, enough for Infinitum to move onto the next stage, Biological Light Refraction. The British team were hoping to unravel the possibilities of light manipulation to create the perfect covert military agent. Early into the new millennium, due to a gross miscalculation, a series of tests on Subject 617 led to a massive synaptic trauma leaving the patient with multiple genetic anomalies.

The subject was left in constant pain and with unstable DNA. The subject escaped captivity, killing anyone that got in its way, the I.R.I.S (Infinitum Research Intercept Squad) team have been deployed to return the subject to a maximum security Infinitum Research facility for further study and dissection. The entire project was considered a failure, all funding ceased and development was discontinued. All records and traces of the experiments were destroyed. Infinitum Research denies all knowledge of any form of human DNA manipulation but are more than happy to comment on the possibilities of cloning human organs inside suitable animal donors. It is believed that these organ cloning experiments form the main cover for their human genetic manipulation experimentation.

As the I.R.I.S team close their net around it, subject 617, known as The Hidden must turn the tables becoming the hunter instead of the hunted!

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While it's not Beta 5, we felt that enough's enough and that we had to get something out the door. So while this update does nothing on the code side of things (we didn't want to go back and try and jury-rig the old code base into a releaseable state - the additional problems that would create would be endless!) it does update the mods steamappid to 215 (we appreciate that a number of players and servers have already done this, but with this update everyone should be on the same playing field and we should have no more problems with one group being unable to play on certain servers!)

We've scrapped Manor (if you've been following the forum, you'll be aware of this) but rather than leave you with one less map, we've fixed up hdn_origin by removing the lag inducing shakes and replaced manor with the much more atmospheric and decidely sexy Decay.

Aside from those major changes, this update includes a number of alterations to materials and models and includes a whole new look and feel to the menus and front end! Though keep in mind, we have held back some art updates for Beta 5, just so we've got some new shinies to go along with the new gameplay mode and feature set.

NOTE: This update breaks compatibility between 4A clients and 4B servers (and vice versa) due to material alterations.

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Hidden : Source Beta 4b Server

Hidden : Source Beta 4b Server

Sep 08, 2007 Full Version 3 comments

This is the complete installer for Hidden Source beta 4b dedicated servers - if you are already running a beta 4a server, you may wish to only download...

Hidden Source Beta 4b Server update

Hidden Source Beta 4b Server update

Sep 08, 2007 Patch 0 comments

This is the update file for existing beta 4b dedicated servers, it does include new binary files as they remained unchanged. Please note, you should remove...

Hidden Source beta 4b Client Update

Hidden Source beta 4b Client Update

Sep 08, 2007 Patch 5 comments

This is the client update for the Beta 4b release of Hidden Source, please only use this if you have an existing Beta 4a install you wish to update ...

Hidden Source Beta 4b

Hidden Source Beta 4b

Sep 08, 2007 Full Version 39 comments

This is a full installer for Beta 4b of Hidden Source - it introduces a new map, hdn_decay and a number of graphical alterations. If you do not have an...

Hidden : Source Beta 4a Client Update

Hidden : Source Beta 4a Client Update

Jun 14, 2006 Patch 3 comments

This is a Client only update to the recently released Beta 4 of , it fixes a number of small issues and make some gameplay tweaks for balancing. For more...

Hidden : Source Beta 4a Server Update

Hidden : Source Beta 4a Server Update

Jun 14, 2006 Patch 0 comments

This is a Server only update to the recently released Beta 4 of , it fixes a number of small issues and make some gameplay tweaks for balancing. For more...

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tontsa91
tontsa91 Nov 12 2009, 5:16pm says:

One of the best HL2 mods and probably the best multiplayer mod among CS:S. Funny thing is there is no commercial version of this on any platform! This is just so damn addicting.

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Spenzerr
Spenzerr Nov 9 2009, 2:31am says: Online

love this mod!

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hiddencommander
hiddencommander Oct 30 2009, 4:42pm says:

this mod is not dead there are not much people playing it but there a few dozen people who play it lol fun when a great player is hidden good mod download it is worth it it is awsome they are still makeing maps and updates for it

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GeneralTrivium
GeneralTrivium Oct 20 2009, 3:44pm says:

It's a shame they stopped working on this, they had 1/2 of it done.

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Eylam
Eylam Oct 18 2009, 4:16pm says:

Good mod... Having lot's of fun... :) Some players like to ruin the game thou' ... TK, Suicide etc. ...

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Knyght
Knyght Oct 14 2009, 1:08pm says:

Downloading now hope there are a few servers.And a nice amount of players.

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Yuri69
Yuri69 Oct 9 2009, 6:33am says:

An update on the way? Guess not.

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reconman
reconman Oct 8 2009, 9:45am says:

the best mod for HL2 EVER!!

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sir.stealing.monkeys
sir.stealing.monkeys Sep 27 2009, 2:06pm says:

i played it myself and got about 13 pl to play and they got ppl lol its 1 of the best probally 3 ill vote for best mod of the year

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BcForCe
BcForCe Sep 19 2009, 12:08pm says:

Probly one of the best mods for hl2 right here

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