Not the full release of the game!
Today we bring you this small tech demo, so you can see first hand a glimpse of what AM would contain.
Idea for this release is to find bugs and issues with different PCs before the final version. Bugs will be expected!
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update Notice
Running the 2013 tech demo (and probably older) version on the newly released Half-Life 25th anniversary update will crash Arrangement when starting a map.
This was "expected" due to all the technical changes Arrangement made. For curious people that want to run Arrangement, please switch your Half-Life installation to the "steam_legacy" beta branch.
/!\ WARNING /!\
We CANNOT guarantee this tech demo will work under WON (and community made variants) and the Xash 3D engine. The same warning goes to people using pirated/cracked/modified/LAN Steam versions of Half-Life. In other words, if you want the best experience of this tech demo, consider using Steam Half-Life 1.
/!\ WARNING /!\
It's been a while.
Before you go super excited, this is not, by any means, the full release of the game.
While that might sound like a boomer, you would have the chance to check out what we've been doing the last couple of years.
This is not the first or the last release, but perhaps the most important one in over a decade. An incredible amount of hours, effort and passion put together by over 50 people to make this mod possible, and today we bring you this small tech demo, so you can see first hand a glimpse of what AM would contain.
INSTALLATION
Using your favorite archive software, extract the "AM" folder to "$SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Half-Life" ($SteamLibrary represent the path of your Steam library where Half-Life is installed, unless you changed your Steam settings, it should be by default : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam")
Restart Steam.
HOW TO RUN AM
AM needs Frame Buffer Objects disabled (otherwise expect graphical glitches)
You can launch the mod via "$SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Half-Life\AM\Launch.bat"
Or in your Steam game library, right-click on "ARRANGEMENT" -> "Properties" -> "Set launch parameters" and just type -nofbo
HOW TO PLAY
Just select 'Go to HUB' in game menu.
MULTIPLAYER
Multiplayer sort of... works, however it's not fully supported. If you are an advanced user, you can host and let other players connect to you. There are a few glitches but it's playable. In the future, the multiplayer version will be tweaked up to a stable point so you can play some random maps in COOP mode, but don't expect new complex game modes.
ISSUES
While I tried my best to polish this release, there are still a few issues that will be addressed in the future.
Prop lighting can get weird sometimes.
Some high definition textures are missing. This could cause some visual quality discrepancy between weapon models, for example.
Couldn't enable RainbowOS and the keypad for this version. Will be present on next one.
FURTHER MODDING AND YOU
My idea is to have content that can be easily changed outside the code, to speed up development. That means, the end user can also tweak that content. There are a few things you can quickly add or edit in order to further customize your game. Those things are:
High definition textures
Music
Particles
Shaders
Weapon settings
A few last personal words.
While AM might not be the best mod out there, it is, of course, a life changing project that shaped my last decade, set my present and will be, forever, the foundation of a successful game dev carreer that gave me amazing things I'd never have imagined. I found my passion, countless friends across the globe and the will to partake other projects, where I found my fiancee.
But any of that would have been possible without you. Whoever you are, you beatiful shapeless human, you did choose to write a few encouraging words to a kid, a decade ago and you continued doing so. These words were the oil necessary to burn for years. And now this kid is a man and couldn't be more grateful because this wasn't supposed to happen. But it did, and just can't be more happy than he is today. So, thank you.
Great ! I'll try it soon :)
Cool, thanks for trying it out. Just let us know if you experience any bugs!
We tried our best to make it run on common configurations (amd-intel-nvidia). There could be issues, hopefully not!
Oh boy. Now I know what I will be doing when I get back home.
This has been in development so long, I'm glad we're finally getting a taste of it!
Admirable!
Oh, wow. An actual playable demo. I can't wait to play this! I've waited for like 3 years for something to come out. Nice job, SysOp and whoever worked on this mod!
Buena... ¿No hay archivo torrent?
no llega a ser 1 gb, no se para que necesitarias un torrent
This is truly a wonderful mod, can't wait for the full release!
Crashes as soon as the loading screen finishes.
Sad to hear but thanks for the report.
It was the hub map? Please tell us your system specs and any additional info you wish so we can fix it!
I'm not sure of my specs, how do I check it?
Use this: Piriform.com
imgur.com/a/uC1GX
Specs looks good to me, have you tried to disable all effects ?
Which effects are they, I removed the bullet effects, post processing effects and weather effects and it still crashes.
Still waiting for a reply on this issue.
Those are all effects in the "Advanced" options tab, if it doesn't work, try setting "gl_renderer" to 0
Going to try this one out to see if it works on my laptop.
crash bug for me at first demo at hub :/
i7 6800K, 32gb ram, RX480 Crossfire, windows 10.
Sorry to hear that, have you tried disabling all effects ?
yes, crash bug wasnt there anymore after that, but instead i got another crash bug later :/ when going back to hub.
I saw the video of this mod, I was really impressed!
I have an odd problem, when playing certain levels the brightness of areas in extremely dark, almost to the point where I cant see enemys because they're dark, even after adjusting the brightness and gamma there is no change. Any ideas on how to fix?
This one is weird, can you please tell us your system specs and if you have enabled/disabled all effects ?
oh god downloading
I am soo hiped
Had some fun with it, but it seems like the game... "degrades(?)" itself over time/amount of times you die. Guns will disappear from hands, won't be able to change weapon, some enemies can't kill you or you can't kill them, etc. But still, it was beautiful and the attachment system is pretty cool, well, what works with it so far, but I only see greatness in your future with this game devs! GJ!
Thanks, we still have a lot of do for the final version but we are glad you enjoyed this tech demo in the meantime ^^
Un gran trabajo de todos!!! Felicitaciones!!!
I can't seem to get this game to even show up in my Steam apps. I copied the AM into the Half-Life directory and restarted Steam.
If you have extracted the CONTENTS of the "AM" folder INSIDE your Half-Life folder, then you've done it WRONG.
The "AM" folder goes INSIDE your "Half-Life", your "Half-Life" directory structure should look something like this :
Half-Life\AM\*
Half-Life\valve\*
Half-Life\hl.exe
Half-Life\[Others files and folders]
Ok tested it a little and the first thing I did was test the ADS...ooohhh no toggle option...tst tsk tsk not good...so plz add an option to toggle the ads....really really important.
Aside that, the mod is very promising. Some buggy ADS on the hand guns but I'm sure you'll soon fix that issue with better maps. Anyway keep the modding passion up so we can soon play the full version.
This looks really interesting, I really want to try it out, but when I start a new game (or go to hub) there's just a white screen.
I can see the HUD, shoot and reload etc. but I can't see anything except a white screen :/
Try disabling all effects, if that don't work, disable the renderer with "gl_renderer 0"
Nope, sadly didn't help :( But I can say that I really dig the rain sounds with the music, it made the hopeless option tweaking very pleasant :D
Congrats on you tech release!
Thank you ^^
Can i install this mod in Half Life Source?
Increible chicos!! Estas son maneras de revivir el motor gráfico de goldsrc con ideas, proyectos, mods de esta calidad. Los apoyo totalmente.
Looks nice but, when where there be an full release. <3 ;3
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Crashes on startup.
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Anyone able to run this mod in 2018? It just crashes for me after loading a map. Doesn't matter if all effects are on or off
Im downloading it right now and test it on xash3d i hope the mod worked even its a demo but great job. And the in game screenshot looks promising
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update Notice
Running the 2013 tech demo (and probably older) version on the newly released Half-Life 25th anniversary update will crash Arrangement when starting a map.
This was "expected" due to all the technical changes Arrangement made. For curious people that want to run Arrangement, please switch your Half-Life installation to the "steam_legacy" beta branch.