Yes, sir! When Pulse comes out, it will be accessible to be launched from your Steam Games List, which makes the graphics a whole lot better and doesn't make entities disappear when the player is short some surfaces (short surfaces can be viewed in console on Half-Life 1 disk launcher). So, Pulse will not be compatible with the Half-Life 1 disk launcher. You won't be able to play Pulse by going into the Half-Life 1 disk and click "Custom Game" and play it that way. You can just play it by downloading the Pulse folder and saving it to your Half-Life 1 Steam folder. For example, C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\[account_name]\half-life\Pulse is where you would install Pulse so that you can play it on Steam because that's the only way you can play it.
I am sorry to say that there may not be any new weapons in Pulse! However, I'm trying to code some Counterstrike weapons or make some of my own weapons and insert then into Valve Hammer Editor as entities and I'm going to see if that proves to be effective. Most likely, it won't. But don't worry - I care about the wants of you gamers and I'll do my best to include at least 1 new weapon in the game.
I'm also planning on adding a vehical part to the game other than the two times that you are going to ride the Black Mesa Transit System tram cars. I am planning on having the player ride in one of those Black Mesa minivans. It's not going to be like Half-Life 2's vehical rides, of course, but it'll still be fun! There will be a lot of miliraty fighting you in this chapter, just to let you know, so that way you can overuse the machine gun when battling enemies out the windows. The car will have a set path that it will take so you can't control that, but you can control the speed of the minivan and the minivan is going to have a maximum speed of probably twice the speed of the train in the chapted On a Rail in Half-Life 1. The length of the chapter in Pulse that you drive the minivan will be half as long as the length of the chapter On a Rail so you'll have a lot of fun with it.
I'm proud to announce that I have completed my fourth map for Pulse! I'd say that this map is the hardest because there is this one part where you climb up to the surface and have to fight about 15-20 fast assassins on the surface. However, there are three hidden health and suit machines around the map and there is way more than enough magnum ammunition around the surface for you to survive. I used the surface area of the multiplayer map Gasworks as the surface area for this part of Pulse - a perfect haven for fast assassins. The goal of that area is to find the button to open the gate at the other end of the map so that you can continue on to the Lambda Complex. Worst part is the button to open the gate is at the top of one of the highest towers of the Gasworks map, which gives the fast assassins full line of fire at you, so your best bet is to kill all the fast assassins first before trying to open the gate, unless you're on easy mode and you are sure of yourself :). I must say, however, that part of the game is unbeatable on hard mode unless you are the most experienced gamer in the world. The magnum, however, has always proved to be an effective weapon against fast assassins for me so it should serve you guys well.
That's all the updates for today, my fellow gaming friends!
