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Running.

It feels like it's the only thing you've ever done. Run. Ran. Fled.

But who could blame you?

It started with the flu, or some sort of strange cold. That shit doesn't matter now. What matters is the fact that zombies, and strange monsters, and god knows WHAT else are out there. Better yet, they're right behind you.

Kill them? Fat chance. The only gun you've seen in a good amount of time ran out of ammo hours ago, and that rusty old pipe in your hands doesn't look like any zombie killer you've ever seen.

Finally, you see something that looks safe. Its an old Inn, the kind you'd see on the side of the road while driving down an interstate. You seem to have traveled from the city a bit, and the door to the main building is open. As you draw closer, and closer, it shuts!

Suddenly, the entire situation seems ten times worse. From all around, zombies are swarming over you.

You bring the pipe up, and hope for the best. WHAM, one rotting bag of flesh falls to the ground as its skull is cracked, but the rest of them are on you in a heartbeat.

Better luck next time.

Welcome to Resident Evil: Cold Blood

Cold Blood is an online story driven coop mod based in the Resident Evil universe. You'll come across many areas from the games, plus a few original areas you'll have never seen before. Using weapons you thought you'd never use, you'll dispatch dozens of different kinds of monsters from Hunters to Giant Spiders to our favorite deadites, zombies.

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It's been a while, huh?

Resident Evil : Cold Blood has laid dormant for years, following turbulent internal times in the wake of beta 2 and a series of hardware failures leading to a presumed complete loss of development assets and the whole codebase. Folks went their separate ways, with key members of the team going on to release the acclaimed Afraid of Monsters DC and award-winning Cry of Fear

Half-Life turned 20. The Resident Evil series itself changed and evolved with the industry, culminating in some divisive titles and, as of recently, a return to horror form with Resident Evil 7 and the stellar Resident Evil 2: Remake.

Time has not been kind to RECB. As early as Vista the mod started running into troubles running, further compounded by the Steampipe release of Half-Life. Still, dedicated fans have kept the torch lit for over a decade, hosting scheduled events that help populate servers and keep the spirit of the mod going.

Cut to December, 2018. While on holiday break, members of the team met together under the Half-Life Creations discord. Recently, an old backup drive had been discovered holding a wealth of old development assets - including the Beta 2 codebase and work-in-progress versions of the maps in their source format. Immediately an effort was mode to move the mod onto the latest Half-Life SDK - allowing it to run without the need for compatibility tweaks and other workarounds.

With a stable base, years of tweaks and modifications were rolled into the mod. A new user interface was implemented with support for more health states and easier visibility on HD displays. Ironsights, glitchy and prone to latency issues in their implementation have been removed completely, opting instead for a world-based, customizable laser dot. AI tweaks and enhancements, complete spawn rebalanced for enemies and items - the scope of work needed became apparent quick - and with assistance from our amazing community we have made steady progress.

The main hurdle to clear before a public release is updating the existing maps - going back to work in progress maps over ten years old is a good challenge, with a big focus on making sure every level can be completed by a single player. The aforementioned re-balancing of enemy and item spawns has generally equaled out to 'less respawning monsters, more ammo' - with these changes being well received among the testing crew.

In the progress of testing, curiosity led us to running the mod under Sven Coop. Originally this was thought of as a nice alternative in case someone didn't have base Half-Life - but the advantages have grown apparent the further along development has proceeded. The engine level entity count boosts have proven helpful in running stubborn maps like the community scenario, thethirteenthbullet and has lead to a generally more stable mod. As always, we'd love to hear community input on this matter.

Now, the big question: When? I don't have a good answer - but for those who want to get back into Resident Evil: Cold Blood Right This Very Second, we've got you covered. Beta access can be found on our Discord hosted by Half-Life Creations. You can find more information here on our new forums.

This is a huge shoutout and thank you to our dedicated fans, I hope we're able to surprise you all more in the future. In the meantime, please enjoy this selection of media from our various playtest sessions:




No Free Edicts - Fixed!

No Free Edicts - Fixed!

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Are you a server operator tired of the game crashing, due to that damn "No Free Edicts" error? Well, you don't need to worry anymore! It's been fixed...

RE:CB Site back online - RE:CB coming to Source?

RE:CB Site back online - RE:CB coming to Source?

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Morning, folks. We're pleased to inform you that after an unpleasant administrative error by somebody, the site is now back online with a cleaner redesign...

RE:CB Linux Binary For Server Operators

RE:CB Linux Binary For Server Operators

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On-and-off Team Member and friend "Rayne" has recently been kind enough to make the Linux .so server file for the current version of RE:CB! This means...

Resident Evil: Cold Blood - Beta 2 - FGD released!

Resident Evil: Cold Blood - Beta 2 - FGD released!

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We're pleased to announce the release of our .fgd for custom level creation in Resident Evil: Cold Blood - Beta 2.

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RE:CB Beta 2 - FGD

RE:CB Beta 2 - FGD

Mapping Tool 8 comments

This is the mapping .fgd file for creating custom maps for Resident Evil: Cold Blood Beta 2. A description of the new entities is contained inside the...

Resident Evil : Cold Blood Beta 2

Resident Evil : Cold Blood Beta 2

Full Version 69 comments

After a long damn time, RE:CB Beta 2 is released - Enjoy the mod!

Type 68 Pistol Animations

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Christopher McCaleb's personal handgun, passed down to him by his father from his time in 'Nam. A trophy from a fallen North Korean fighter...

New Combat Knife animations

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A new set of animations for the Combat Knife in RE:CB - Beta 2. Some of you will notice that there's a new type of animation in there.

RE:CB Beta 2 - Showcase Video 2 - Vomit

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This is another quick showcase video showing off the zombies....err...vomitting. It also shows off a new monster as well as a new weapon, so enjoy!

RECB Beta 2 Showcase Video

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This is a quick video demonstrating just one of many new features in Beta 2 of our mod. Resident Evil veterans should know what this is. =P Stay tuned...

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PsyWarVeteran
PsyWarVeteran

So, is it still happening?

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eduxmercer
eduxmercer

I need help regarding the mod, when I download it I put it in my steam copy of half life 1 and it starts everything normal but when I try to play the screen stays black and won't let me play, does anyone know how to fix this?

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bud389
bud389

Amazing. I just had an after-thought about this mod only a few minutes ago after playing sven coop and jumping onto a Resident Evil map, and am greeted to the welcoming sight of the game actually having a stability and enhancement update.

But, why wasn't the Beta3 uploaded to the moddb page? The HLC website is down so there's virtually no way of gaining access to the discord.

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Hellektronic
Hellektronic

A fix for the lack of crosshair or iron sights on shotguns in beta 2 would be nice.

Or Beta 3. That'd be nice too.

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tubeo5055
tubeo5055

can somebody help please , i run the game but there is no map there ? and how can i download the map , where i need to put it on

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stalkerforever
stalkerforever

IS there a way to play this without Steam? why do I need Half Life the Steam version?

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Us_25
Us_25

cuz no piracy

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SHiNiCHi337
SHiNiCHi337

There are quite a few pirated steam versions actually, most are deleted but as soon as I remember, I saw like 5 of em last year, in YT etc.

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nova3333
nova3333

The fix for for beta 2 is to launch in compatibility mode for windows 98

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stalkerforever
stalkerforever

What do i set as compatibility mode, hl.exe? I'm using Half Life Source.

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Lychy
Lychy

You cant use half life source

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