Lovac Update 2023! news

Good Evening From Haven City!

6 months ago I uploaded the "Final Lovac Update" and it wasn't really meant to be a misleading title. The mod was very much approaching THE FINAL TERMINUS. However, as we were closing in on our last few levels the Voice Actor for our main character quit leaving us with a character who had about 85% of his required voice lines. This was a little annoying but it gave me a second to step back and look at the story. I would have to get a new VA to do all the lines again and I wanted to make sure this was the story I wanted to tell. And I found it wasn't. 2022 was a very bad year for me for reasons I will not talk about here but I was very depressed and the only thing that I felt gave me some worth was my good work on this mod.

But during this time, I was also rewriting the story a lot to be darker and darker I think it might have been a reflection of my mental state. Reading through it was an absolute depressing slog about themes of regret, guilt and a yearning for freedom.

I was close to releasing THIS version of the mod but after Christmas I had some time to clear my head and I decided No. This was not what I wanted the world to see Lovac as and this was not what Lovac was to me. So digging back to the oldest roots the mod had I took my favorite elements from my late 2019 Lovac script and mixed them in with a new tale. One that used a lot of assets and locations from the old script but with new context as to not waste previous work done.

Anyway I am glad to announce today that I am very happy with the current script. It's a serious story about revenge and love but It's still fun. Not afraid to indulge the campiness of typical Cyberpunk Corporation or Hardboiled Cop tropes.

Right now, I'm sitting in a comfortable spot with the mod. I have more done than not done. Alot of what needs to happen is just Voice Work, but I usually work around my actors' schedules so It's kind of at their pace.

So yeah, I just need to give this thing some more time in the oven. Looking to release this before the year is out and It's looking pretty likely so be sure to look out for a trailer.

Oh and PS. Please do not expect a traditional Half Life mod with LOVAC I am very much treating it as Its own thing and haven't been a part of the Half Life modding zeitgeist for a long time. This is a thing I'm doing which just happens to use Half Lifes engine a some of Its game elements.

So expect Cutscenes, Different Gameplay Mechanics and some stuff you've never seen before. Cool? Cool. Let's take a look at some screenshots!

I've been playing with Blender lately and plan to release the mod with a city full of custom-made skyscrapers. Here are a few of the ones I've already made.

Introducing a new weapon: The KA-74. This will be the main rifle in Lovac.

A screenshot from an underground section in one of the new maps.

City streets that were built over after the war.

Work In Progress Mech Enemy Type Model. Chester Young for scale.

And that's It. Please keep in mind that everything shown here is subject to change so it will probably all look a little different on release. Anyway that's all from Haven city for tonight!