What do you think this mod should feature? news - Spectate Mod for Half-Life 2

I don't know whether the levels have sound effects or not, but sounds really enhance the game experience so I hope you have them in game ;)

I WANNA SEE REFUGEE'S HAVING SEX IN A BUSH!

lol i'm not kidding!

Headcrab companion. :3

needs more cowbell

gordon freeman/gman/alyx/barney sightings!!!!

I want to be able to talk to the other civies.

-Some metrocops brutalizing ppl and combine brutalizing stalkers or other combine.
-People talking about the sense of life, and why they deserved all this.
-Maybe Combine and CPs talking about their earlier lives, although combine have lost their memories and CPs have to obey everytime.
-Rebels planning strikes, planting bombs, etc.

A really good idea would also be, to see other cities under combine-management and not just the eastern-europe style C17.
Maybe you could showcast Washington D.C., Tokyo or other great cities, which will also look awesome with Combine Tech.

BTW: What about a male citizen, who locked himself in a room and
who shouts at you: "Get away!" or "Leave me alone!"

a camera (to appear in the "weapon" inventory), take photos of specific scenes (with on screen hint to tell you), so you can show the photos to an NPC to unlock the next part of the mission (bonus for shooting in-jokes/secret areas?)

This requires fairly little additional coding or assets.

Binoculars (to appear in the "weapon" inventory). Since you're just a regular citizen you won't have a hazard suit, so no Zoom. Binoculars for zooming.

Opening scene has the protagonist drinking from a can of "Dr Breens Private Reserve". Which explains why the protagonist has amnesia (they put something in the water!)

...maybe we could get to see what it is they are putting in the water?

Maybe our protagonist could witness to other combine atrocities only mentioned off-screen in the HL2 episodes so far?

Barrel roll?

When you get close to a body. Heavy breathing, Bluury screen begins going black and white and everything blurs out except for the body, BAm pass out and die of shock. Hope you get a coder soon. Also go for atmosphere make it feel like a war is going on around of Rebels vs Combine.

I suggest that you do something other than make the player character a "nothing". Taking all power away from a player means that the game in most regards will be entirely unenjoyable. Even average people can be bad ***. You can scale things like damage and health; either giving the player less health and dmg, or enforcers more health and damage. Making head crabs actually fearsome, little things can be turned into very big ones with a little effort.

That's just my two cents. Unless of course you're making this a cinematic adventure; but if you're just a mapper, that is FAR more difficult then giving players some power.

This however is not to say that you aren't a terrified "no body" in the world. Adding these features; making a simple citizen a combine murderer strictly out of circumstance allows you to build up suspense and create a truly terrifying experience. The game can then become something ever more scary, where you feel you have to watch your back 24/7. Running from refuge to refuge, staying hidden. With this you can actually do things like have the character captured, make a scene of suspense where they feel they'll be killed only to be rescued, or escape by pure luck and extraordinary chance.

You just have to give the player character some POWER.

I think you should personalize the you are "nothing" person a bit.
It can help make the player feel more sympathy and "feel" for the person you are playing.
The gorden Freeman that says nothing works in HL because there are other strong personalities around you with which you can interact and give "emotion" to the game.
Since I think that will be much less here I think it would be nice if the person you are playing can comment a bit on the environment or current situation.
Not the big "hey im gonna beat ya combine" but more in the sense of heavy breathing when trying to outrun the combine or when you enter a area that is filled with corpses and you see for example crows eating from a corpse the character would respone with something like: "oh god that's disgusting"
A bit cliché perhaps but I hope you get my point :)

Since the reply button seems to be disabled, i will reply all comments like normal comments.

@Stubby
lolo

@lt. SnoWolf
Yes, i really hope someday i found a coder. And yes, war atmosphere will be heavily present all the time.

@FangZandith and Selvator
You're missunderstanding my point. The whole point of the mod is being just a normal guy! If i were in the HL2's world, i wouldn't be a triggerhappy rebel, i'd be an afraid citizen with the only wish of SURVIVE!
The player will use weapons, in VERY RARE situations, with only one or two magazines, you'll be someone but not the protagonist, got my point?
I mean, im tired of playing as the badass brave and inmortal hero, for god's sake!
FangZandith, you said it just well:

The player will have some power, but the point of the mod isnt planting a bomb, or a murder mission, your only objetive is to SURVIVE.
You'll see how **** happens, but you wont be part of the facts :3