The Abyss is an ambitious source mod recreating the old (late 1999-2002) concepts of Half-Life 2.
Hey there! I’m Bluey [Rusty, on discord and steam.], The Abyss’ team leader. I would like to announce that the mod is now on it’s feet, once more. Though there is one particular change to note: The Abyss is now on a new engine: pragma. I’ll delve into the details later, but the just of it is a faster to use engine with much more flexibility than source without being too alienating for many people.
We also have a new team name: Red Gradient. For people who are wondering, the original mod has fallen apart due to unforeseen consequences. Many of our old team members have gone inactive, usually due to problems in their lives that had come up. A domino effect ensued and The Abyss was put on hiatus, with many leaving.
However, Roach came to me with news of a new engine, as mentioned: Pragma. With it’s promises, there was a new chance to bring the mod back. Though sadly that means it can’t be considered a mod anymore, but a game by the fans, for the fans. As such we will be finding a new region to set up our public pages at. regarding Pragma's features, though..
[Pragma Details]
Pragma is an engine designed to be as similar to source as possible, intuitiveness and user accessibility wise. Though it also incorporates industry standard features which have been invented and established since source’s debut in 2004. Features such as improved physics and lighting, using the vulkan rendering engine.
[New Discord!]
Also of note, we now have a new discord! Here we will post updates frequently, or host events for the sake of fun!
Discord.gg
[Roles Wanted!]
Due to my uncertainty regarding the mod now, i will be posting our currently wanted roles on Red Gradient’s public discord.
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I would like to thank you all, those who have stayed with the mod despite it’s humbleness and troubles. It has been quite a long ride! i do have to apologize for all the waiting you people have done. But, I wish you all a good week, and best of luck! The Abyss is far from dead.
The Abyss is changing quite a bit now, and we're also hiring still.
We are looking for modelers, riggers/animators, and programmers to further our progress on the mod.
Join us at our public Discord server and talk with developers of The Abyss!
Hello, i'm Alex_Kazuma, leader of the Abyss team, i'm going to talk about what's been happening since our last update.
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kazuma ,man...come bakc...bring us the real half lief 2 alpha experienc like OLR team brought real stalker alfa experienc...change the world, my final message...make bestest first half life 2 alpha mod...
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Is this dead fully now?
prolly
Is this the Pragma Engine in use?
Youtube.com
Of course! it's very much nifty.
I see, I can't wait to see the engine in its fullest.
Heya, I Just discovered this project and so far, I am so down with it, this looks great, greater than great this is awesome, I hope more people notice this mod because like I said I just found it today, Hope you guys succeed at what others have failed at, Before I end my message, I hope I am Entitled to ask hows development going?
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again...well this was unnecessary
Stay tuned people! hopefully in a few weeks we'll have a big update to show you with how things are going.
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So the mod is back on track?
Great to hear!