You are a HECU soldier tasked with infiltrating the White Gate Research Center and eliminating everyone associated with illegal Xen research. Spare no one, not a single living being. In this mod you'll be: Murdering scientists and security officers blowing up stuff with c4 shooting people with the autocannon of an APC in a road rage Enough said.
Quarter Life is a peculiar mod to play through. It certainly contains some nice and unique ideas, but suffers from a lack of customisation in other areas.
There is very little in the way of narrative, and the only enemies you really "fight" are security guards. The grunts on the other hand are on your side and will assist during cutscenes.
However, using the standard Half-Life assets results in some very odd consistency issues. Guards and scientists offer their usual friendly greetings before running in fear or drawing their weapons respectively.
This really could have done with some reskins to models and some new voice lines to drive home the fact that the roles have been reversed.
As for the maps themselves, there are a lot of beginner style errors and inconsistencies between the maps. You can get trapped and destroy items key to progess without getting any feedback from the game, so you will run in circles a few times only to find that you need to reload a save or use console commands to restart the level. There are also transparent railings and vent covers which look terrible, and I can tell this is simply because the wrong render settings were applied in Hammer.
Not bad for a first map, but not really entertaining to play as an experienced developer or player.
Unlike most of Half-Life half-assed mod. THis mod has about a quarter of the effort and care compare to those. It truly live off it name thanks to it Quarter-assed effort.
-Bland and boring level design.
-You supposed to be one of the HECU marine attack the facility yet you still use the HEV models for hands and UI. Oddly enough the knife has a custom skin like it Counter-strike
-Nonsensical level design . Door phasing in and out of floor.
- Plenty of bugged scripted sequences that will softlock your game.
- If the one of the blast door try to shut you in, you better stay in there and don't walk back otherwise you will get locked out.
-The turret sequences is ********. WHy give control of the turret if you can't destroy enemy vehicle ? The poorly placed ladder and tank hatch make it impossible to escape.
- the Barney tried to execute you sequences is also bugged because of bad pathing. It worked the first time but I died to the impossible tank escape so no choice but to reload and cheat my way out. I could straight up tell you the mapper don't even play test this mod. He even sorry about the bugs mean he know the bugs exist but it still there because he just don't care enough.
- THere is no challenge. The security guard barely put up a fight. Best you could fight is the shark but that could be easily bypass by pressing a button.
-Why give crossbow ammo when there is no crowbow ?
-If you backtrack , it will give you restricted texture on previous map.
FINAL RECOMMENDATION : QUARTER-ASSED : 0.25 /10 .AVoid like the plague
bugs and cheats
A very buggy mod that I'm pretty sure is unbeatable without cheats, please test your mod next time.
So starting off, it's a pretty bad look when your feckin tutorial level is unbeatable, it's impossible to get out of humvee's in this mod, forcing you to use noclip to continue, the humvee's themselves don't work properly 100% of the time.
You play as marines invading a scientist facility killing everyone inside. Mod is about 10ish minutes long if you rush through, took me about 20ish minutes.
Alright, let's start with the game itself, map design is pretty solid actually, and I was enjoying myself for quite some time, a bit of cleverness required to progress in some areas.
Now after a few maps, is where I started having problems. So there's this one section where you enter a turret room and have to wait, however a cutscene plays where a buddy of yours comes to breach the door and the turrets end up killing you while it plays, forcing you to use god mode.
Also you enter a humvee here, and the ladder bug is present.
Not long after you reach this level, where you're required to use an explosive barrel by a generator to use said generator. This is absolutely retarded design and completely unescessary. Also autosaves would've been nice. After this you reach the surface and the game ends after you hit a random trigger placed in the air by the car.
Conclusion:
An extremely buggy and unplayable mod that isn't worth your time, a cool concept, and there's some neat new mechanics (the ability to C4 doors two times, and the humvee) but they definitely don't do the game any better, especially since the humvee's are broken and awkward to control. This mod should've been tested before release and it would've been good, avoid.
Pretty average.
A empty world vacant of life and furniture.
The enemies you battle are mostly scientists and guards, who still greet you as Gordon and show keen admiration towards you before you blow them away.
The most interesting part was the armored car chase.
As Half-Life modders began to learn more about the Goldsource engine, They began to make better and better mods. Quarter-Life, Despite a few serious flaws is one of them.
You play as a H.E.C.U. soldier sent to kill everyone at a scientist hideout called the White Gates Research Complex. You have the old Counter-Strike knife as a melee weapon and either the LD or HD weapons.
The mapping is OK, but there are some bleeding textures and in one area saving the game can cause a crash. The tank escape scene was extremely exciting because it was the first time I saw a scripted chase in a Half-Life mod.
The mod does have two fatal flaws that might not go over with some:There isn't a flowing story to compel (the hard to please players) to continue, The story is what I thought of above after playing. The other is that the Tank scene can crash if one presses any Movement keys.
Despite the flaws, This is one that some may find themselfs playing again and again.
Scientist Slaughterhouse: The Single Player Campaign.
A very unusual mod, in the sense that your enemies encompass Barneys, scientists and a itchysaur only. The mapping is very flawed, with remarkable things such as a spiral staircase you have to crouch-jump in.
I really liked the idea of going in and killing the scientists, like the HECU in original Half-life. I was all giddy as I clawed onto a window in which I saw a whole room of them evil scientists panicking. The best part of the mod is definitly that it isn't all just run & gun; the scientists barricaded themselfe and took to hiding, making the whole experience a puzzle game in which you have to find out how to reach every single one of them.
It is unfortunetly very flawed. Worth a go though for the unique experience.
It's an original mod! Not very detailed and a bit buggy, but cool.
Like a lot of people have already said, too short with not enough substance :(