Thanks to everyone for the kind words about Half-Life: Absolute Zero. We’ve been working hard for the last eight years to get this project done and in a playable, stable, and feature-complete state, and seeing the positive reaction to the progress we’ve made has been a huge morale boost.
Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, AZ will not make the release date of February 12th, 2019.
First and foremost, we need to apologize for setting the release date sooner than we could deliver. There are several different reasons why we have to announce this delay, and we’ll share some of them here in the hopes that you’ll understand.
The main reason is that a developer responsible for an important part of the project has gone silent, and we haven’t been able to reach them. He has a lot of files critical to the mod’s development, and his sudden disappearance has left us with only two active mappers on the project.
Multiple aspects of the mod still need finished or refining as well, and with this delay we can make sure that everyone gets a complete fun package once it’s released. We’re also still looking for experienced mappers to join us! You can read more about it at the listing below.
Please keep in mind that the release date on Steam is nothing more than a placeholder and does not reflect the date we plan on releasing!
At the moment, AZ is playable from Anomalous Materials to Questionable Ethics. Some areas still need further polishing and are WIP as hell, however. The maps from the demo have been greatly improved since its release and are closer to the source material than ever.
Power Up has also been finished, polished, and tested, Apprehension has been completed and gained a new ending sequence, Questionable Ethics is nearly done, and multiple chapters have gone through major optimization overhauls and considerable re-balancing.
On A Rail, however, has been a very interesting experience. Half of the chapter is missing in action, so we’ve decided to fill in the blanks with our own interpretation based on the little information we have now, as well as the beta/retail aesthetics of the chapter. In retail, it was essentially backwards!
What this means is that the chapter will start at the rocket labs, instead of ending there. We’ll also be including other cut areas of the alpha in the beta/retail style of On A Rail to fill in any other blanks as needed.
Once again, we’re all sorry to hold it up even longer, but we promise you won’t be disappointed. We’ve made incredible progress on the mod, and we really want to share it with everyone as soon as possible. We’d like to thank everyone for the support that you’ve shown for Half-Life: Absolute Zero up to this point.
Don’t worry, delaying the release is quite common in modding. Looks great, keep it up!
A delayed release is infinitely more welcome news than a bad release.
Don't worry about it, you're doing great work.
=) lovely, i can wait
Sure! i dont mind a delay, I hate a bad rushed mod. Looks great! keep it up!
No worries, look at the benefits of the delay, you can polish up some maps, fix bugs, add some features and do some more tweaking with the mod so it can be better than ever. Keep up
well thats a shame, but as long as you dont give us a full duke nukem forever its fine
I don't mind a delayed release, matter-of-fact with this delayed release you guys in the AZ dev team will have more time to improve the mod.
Don't worry.
You folks take the time to put as much love and care into it.
Besides, the community knows that the work on this mod is stupendous. Also, thank you for not keeping this news quiet, and going off the map until further notice.
So, with out further adue, I wish you and the team the best of luck, and that things change for the better in the near future.
Hey take your time we will be here.
The progress is significant, so why do not polish some things a bit more? ;) Blade has to be sharp!
I dont really care about delay, i just need hl1 beta hud (e3 hud)
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