Boreality Part 1 mod for Half-Life

Originally created by the Author: Erin Hopkins (AKA Gibmaker), you can contact him via the readme.

Story: In a last-ditch attempt to escape Black Mesa with their lives, a militia of scientists, among them Gordon Freeman from Sector C, swarmed a small airstrip and hi-jacked the helicopters there, intending to fly them to the nearest major city and safety.

There were many casualties but the plan seemed to be successful - the survivors got the aircraft up and it did not appear that they were being pursued... Things looked optimistic.But then... there was strange interference in the air. Radio signals were garbled. The instruments were measuring high levels of atomic activity. Suddenly, a giant warp rift opened around them and the whole fleet disappeared into it...

Gordon Freeman came to drifting down on a parachute towards a dark feild of snow. His suit was registering extreme cold but the sheild was holding. He hit the ground awkwardly and threw the parachute off of himself.

There was a small cabin in front of him, buried under snow up to the second floor balcony. He crawled in through the balcony doors and... heard the unmistakable squeaking of headcrabs nearby.There's snow everywhere, he thought. So this can't be Black Mesa. So why are there monsters here? Where am I? ... And how do I get back?

Decription:

Boreality is a single-player map pack for Half-Life. (I hope you had that figured out.) This pack, however, is only Boreality part 1, consisting of the first two chapters and eight maps of play. The full completed pack would probably be about seven chapters and twenty maps.Since this is just the first leg of what would have been a much longer map pack, the weapons and enemies available to you stay pretty primitive up the end... You only ever see the crowbar, 357 and shotgun, and never fight anything more threatening than a slave monster.

Although the enemies are easy and relatively few, ammo is really tight, so don't be afraid to go back to the crowbar to take care of those headcrabs. (Crowbarring headcrabs is easy, just strafe a lot.) Or you can bitch and whine when you run out of ammo. Well, you suck.Also, the snow-covered boreal theme isn't explored very much (you spend most of the early chapters in the sewers), but it will be if I ever get around to making more of this. Which I won't.

And a note about weapons - some people get annoyed if a pack is built so that you can 'miss' weapons. Fuck you. It shouldn't be up to me to throw weapons at you from every direction. You want them, eh, jackass? WELL GO AND FIND THEM!!

There's one 'bonus' map with this pack - the old two tanks puzzle which I redid from scratch. Once you get to the end of the pack you'll be confronted by gman, who confides in you most of the things explained in Part 6 of this readme. You'll be given the option of playing the bonus map or ending the game there - just follow his instructions to make your choice.

Or, if you select 'Hazard Course' from the main menu instead of 'New Game', you'll be taken straight to the bonus map. I could have changed the btns_main.bmp file to reflect this, but I didn't see the sense in slapping you with another 737KB bitmap just for this one thing.

see readme for hints & known bugs.