Playable SCP-173 Mod for SCP - Containment Breach

where did old versions go?

POV: Still waiting for an update

cool

Reposting on an apparently new account, because my old one just doesn't exist anymore? Very cool, thank you, Mod DB.

Given it's been a year since the last apparent release of any form of update I'll offer criticism under the umbrella of a 'finished' project, as opposed to one still in development. With that said? I am frankly baffled by the seemingly universally positive feedback. It's a vaguely interesting idea, sure, but the idea is the only thing I can claim is any good with this unfortunate flop.

- 106's pocket dimension is a soft lock if you don't get lucky.
- 049's containment floor is a soft lock.
- /Sometimes/ the maintenance floor for 939 can be a soft lock with elevators simply deciding not to exist? I only had it happen once, but it was a new experience.
- The famous gas room has some potential to be a soft lock.
- The vague attempt at 'AI' seems to be no more than a script to walk from A to B, IF THAT. More often than not I just find NPCs standing in place, staring at walls.
- Line-of-sight mechanics... work? When they want to. Which is almost never. You can deliver hugs freely, for as unsatisfying as it is to do so.
- Vents function only in displaying a prompt to use them and a confusingly constant 'map' which stays the same regardless of seeds or game connection.
- Navigation is a nightmare when 70% of your screen space is dominated by a god damn danger peanut.
- Somehow there is even less sound to fill the depressing atmosphere SCP:CB offers than in the base game. No footsteps, no breath, no gasps of shock, not even 173's expected concrete grinding.
- 093 likes to phase out of existence when you try to comfort him. :( He may walk through a wall, or he may just disappear into thin air while still producing his typical wail.
- I could have beaten the base game multiple times in the time it took me to reinstall this mod several times and test varying configurations to see if /I/ was the problem.

As already mentioned above, I tried multiple times and for far too long to try and make this mod function as anything more than a headache. Two different PCs, multiple installs, different installs of SCP:CB, attempting to run the game standalone and extracted into CB's base file with and without file overwrites, different settings and resolutions, different framerate limits, the whole 9 yards. I sincerely cannot see why people sing this mod's praise, because god help me, I tried to see it. The idea is novel and fun, but the execution is heavily flawed in that development looks to have died before it ever seemingly begun. I'd offer props to the creator for keeping in contact, but words alone don't really facilitate progress. Over a year (nearly) of nothingness on this front makes me suspect nothing is going to come of this despite frequent replies to new comments.

This is actually very well made. only problem I had so far is that 173 can fall into 106's world