Balancing 0/10
Pretty fine short custom story, that has a funny voice acting I liked :D ( Especially the note that includes *Sorry Gerald* part that made me laugh my *** off cuz the tone was funny ). But whatever, I give a 7 rating cuz mapping and detailing could be way better, monster appearances was very expected and classic. Lore is good. You actually have a potentional in making custom stories and I wish you the best in that.
The second Serpentholm map is literally impossible to do, I tried even with some cheats like unlimited rice and water and yang. Still IMPOSSIBLE TO DO.
Serpent for some reason has the number of units like I'm playing vs 3 serpents not one. Constantly attacking you from all directions with massive troops.
Don't try to attack back once you survive, 30 more is always waiting for you in the West village.
All in all mod was fun for a couple of levels.
It is bug ridden, purely developed, with pure story and pure voice acting which doesn't make hard missions worth it at all...
If you just wanted to get a vibe for it and play a couple of levels. Fine, but don't invest to much in this as it's not worth it at all...
Very nice! Well done author.
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Possibly the best STALKER game out there.
this mod is the concept of fun
Supposed the closest comparison for this mod in terms of gameplay would be "Gekokujo" (Warlord era).
It takes place in the second worst period in all of Chinese Historia (10th century).
Fall of the "Great Tang Dynasty", was as miserable affair as the "Byzantine Dark Ages".
Certainly a most unique setting being made by an self proven modder.
Would say that this one is in late Alpha stage, the base game is however there.
Not much variety yet namely in terms of weapons, presently the armour show colour swaps of each other.
Another thing I would like to see reworked is the weather, lack of snow in the North or rain in the South can feel quiet jarring. Restructuring the aimless Geography like Sichuan province should be on the list.
Haven't encounter much of any campaign breaking bugs, although the giant reinforcement wave (forced glitch) was a great pain with no cure in sight, had to set "battle size" to 70 to mediate any 400+ unit lag.
In its current form for with constant updates from the creator,
I'll want to give it a score of 7 with an extra 1 point in keeping-up effort.
This review was written after a complete playthrough of version 1.3,
looking forward to this ambitious project as his previous done work.
good
This is the best beta mod out there.
epic
Mod is cool, I enjoy beta hl2
thanks
Really great game! But needs continuation and something like aliens!:)
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I gotta say, RTBR is very consistent at being hit or miss.
Levels can go from really pretty to Timmy's 20th GMod map with ok lighting, certain levels can look incredibly flat due to textures and models used within them. Overall level design is either very good in one map or just ok in another which makes the AI be incredibly dumb most of the time.
The mod suffers from difficulty spikes aswell which are ******* horrible.
Voice acting is mostly ok to bad, depending on the lines written and the delivery of them, doesn't help when NPCs do not match the lines spoken when it comes to body language and overall emotions, lot of issues where they are talking to another but are looking at you because??? or they won't face you despite talking to you, instead just trying to look at you with their backs turned.
Barney is whatever, it's alright.
Consul sounds like a generic villain, no charisma at all.
Eli can't stop talking about how old he is but otherwise most of the lines and delivery is fine.
Alyx can be fine but become incredibly annoying depending on the situation/map.
Grigori is peak, no faults there as far as I can tell, very good impression and line delivery.
Gunplay feels good, nice punchy animations, vfx and sfx. Alternate fire modes are thought out decently well but that's really it. However the inclusion of NPC weapons like the Annabelle and the Alyx Gun is good on paper but execution ******* sucks, "here is my weapon Gordon, use it while I leave myself completely defenseless and call out to you 20 times because there are too many enemies to manage as they just keep spawning." Gee thanks Grigori.
The assets do not mesh well at all, everything looks either stupidly cartoony and rubbery or dipped in oil, sometimes very crude looking aswell. There's a few that look fine but the majority suffers alot. (Not to mention the fact that the mod uses vanilla and other source game assets that just contribute to it since they did not finish making and swapping everything out.)
Overall the mod feels like it's just going through a checklist and staying as close as possible to the events of HL2 but under the skin of the "beta."
The rating I'm leaving is very generous as there is some good in this but otherwise is very overshadowed by the bad. I'll probably update the review as the Divisions release but I'm not holding my breath.
se siente prometedor el mods
Incredible gameplay, atmosphere, level design, with a great story and tons of environmental storytelling, not to mention the amazing soundtrack that complements it all.
This is a masterpiece of a game, just go play it NOW!
Mod has much bugs and it's really bowed.
Still best Third Age submod. Refines without all the extra warhammer-esque non lore faction bloat. Only possible improvement would be integrating some of the new settlements/unit upgrades, but this is minor in the face of the superior gameplay elements.