Major development update news - Diffusion mod for Half-Life

Hello guys, long time no see after the last article. I'm happy to say that not so long ago I've completed three chapters in full, and now only two chapters left (which are already mapped out but missing npcs, scripts, and some brushwork - hopefully that won't be very long to complete).

There weren't many changes in general and the first chapter haven't seen anything major except some retexturing (trying to get rid of hl textures) and bugfixes from previous private tests.

Some notable changes at this point of development:
- added a few new weapons, like 2 sniper weapons (laser sniper and Barrett) and a silenced rifle with ACOG scope.
- added graphic effects - lens flare and SSAO
- added healthbars on enemies - optional thing and can be turned off through the menu
- added vehicles - cars, boats, helicopters, including APC with a gun on multiplayer deathmatch map. Because of this the second map of chapter 2 was heavily reworked to include some buggy gameplay in the desert. The helicopter likely won't be used in the single player, but I'll add some multiplayer map with it, I'm sure.
- achievement system is not bounded to the save game anymore, it is saved externally and you can see all your stats through the menu. Which also gave me freedom to include some multiplayer achievements as well
- multiplayer has seen the addition of bots, I used HPB bot as a base, wrote a simple waypoint system for them (as I wasn't able to transfer the waypoint system from the newer version...and I also wasn't able to implement it in my mod... anyway it was really fun to code, so that's what counts, right?). The bots also utilize mod's weapons, as well as the features like dash, blast and shield.
About the dash, blast and shield, btw.
Dash is something you probably saw in the games like Doom (2016). So it's plain and simple, nothing needed to be explained here.
Blast is a feature activated by button, you will be able to get it in Chapter 2. Once pressed, your suit will emit a powerful blast which is likely to kill nearby soldiers or players, but if they are lucky they might still survive with very low hp. Charge regenerates once in 30 seconds to prevent overuse and it will also deplete the stamina, so dashing/running away after the blast won't be an option.
Shield is also a feature activated by button. It will enable a (you guessed it) shield (active state can be observed by blue glow around the screen) which will be eating half of the incoming damage in exchange of your stamina. And also when turned on it eats stamina with time. So by running or jumping, you will deplete stamina very fast. As example - when you receive 20 damage, 10 damage will be subtracted from your hp, and 10 from stamina. The reason for this feature is because when I was playing, I always felt that the "armor" is missing from the game, and regenerating health is not enough. Shield brings some variety and fun, I think. You will be able to get it in the end of Chapter 3 if you do everything right.

Now, let me show some screenshots, taken from the supposed "final" build of the mod with 3 completed chapters. This means that basically except some minor fixes gathered from the testings, this will look same way at the release.

This map was simply called dm_test as it was intended for testing out bots, weapons and features, basically it has everything the mod has to offer, graphically and gameplay-wise. It has dynamic weather, rain every 7 minutes, the transition time between weather states is one minute, not instant (only the lighting changes instanlty to darker one, that's an engine limitation). The rain drop count, rain sound volume and the fog are increasing and decreasing slowly over time.