Outside Area 2 image - Rain Recon mod for Half-Life 2

The idea behind Rain Recon is Stealth. Instead of having two equal size teams, like you would in any other online FPS, Recon has one team with only two players versus the rest of the server. To make up for what they lack in numbers, they are able to use the darkness to their advantage. To achieve this, they must stick to the shadows, use silenced weapons and heat vision to gain a tactical advantage. The opposing team must use flash lights and loud weaponary in order to stop the Stealth team. However, they are armed with a heart beat sensor, which reveals the positions of the Stealth team every few seconds. This gives the Defending team an objective, and an incentive to do something instead of getting picked off. The Stealth team's objective vary, however currently planned is an escape mode, and a Intel retrieval mission type.