Comments - ScifiSpirit

Bots haven't been talked about much yet at this point, but i would also definitely want to see them in the game in some form. I may make an attempt to create them if i have a chance. And i wouldn't discount the possibility that they would be an official feature.

Great single player adventure. I highly recommend playing this.

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The hallucinating part was really weird though, but i guess it was supposed to be and I really liked the part where the whole station was blowing up :) I always like destructible environments.

+ Great mapping and scripting
+ Really long for a mod
+ Challenging, survival is not obvious. Sometimes it's just a bit too much ;)

- Crash bugs with the first combine cars shooting missiles, game crashes when you destroy it/them. (Workaround is to just start the game up after crash without restarting steam or computer, can then destroy the cars without crash. If i restarted, the crash bug occurred again.)

- Some graphical glitches, seeing through walls or some things visible through walls. Distorted skybox when looking at certain direction in a certain map in a certain place :P All of these however might not be the mod's fault.

- Lack of suit in the last map, lot of fighting without any info on health or ability to change weapons is very awkward. But nothing the player can't fix with one console command ;) However the sneaking part without suit was quite ok. Maybe a bit too much fighting there without the suit but it was tolerable.

- In the station ending part where you kill Breen and G-man, it's not obvious at all that you should kill those two before they walk through the door. I shot them from the control room with the console, through the glass. And the door didn't function if you shot them from the control room. Didn't make sense why the door stopped operating after they went through or why you couldn't jump down through the glass from control room.

Well, thats all i can think of, despite these small things that weren't so nice the mod gets 9/10. One of the best mods i've played.

The mod was alright, but had some problems and bugs. You can fall off from the map in the narrow corridor early in the game when driving with airboat, just before map change. There were some flickering textures in the mod also, rotating colors to black, yellowish and normal depending on which way you look. I had this problem with hl2 when it updated (except worse, with rainbow colors) , when i had geforce 3, no driver updates helped, but now i have a new computer with geforce 7800 gt, and didn't have this with hl2 or episode 1. Also some levels looked really simple, especially the early ones. Later they were even good, best looking scene was the outside place where you fight the combine gunship. With some polishing the levels could have been much better. But this is still beta right?

Minerva: Metastasis 2, goes for both episodes: Levels excellent, gameplay excellent, music exellent, story mysterious plus it's bug-free :) You're definitely improving. Really good work for 3rd released map, how many un-released have you made?

Oh, and after digging info about what the countdown meant, i only now found the April jokes, they were all funny but 3rd was funniest complete with the midi music. Sounded really familiar, first i though Doom, but it's Metallica: Ride the lightning, right? :)

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Some bugs:
I had the vortigaunt crash problem too, however it went away after i downloaded HL2DM. I'm not sure if that solved it but after that i could kill them and get past the room. Or you can use "map cd12" (if i remember correcly) console command to skip to the next map, it will change right after the corner anyway, but then you will miss the reason why you're there where you will be. Or use noclip or notarget console command, at least in my game the vortigaunt and rebels could deal with the manhacks without dying (and crashing).

Also it crashed in another room nearby with the red light where there were a zombie and a headcrab. Head right when you enter the red light room and its the first room on the left. I didn't test it after HL2DM download.