Research and Development is a puzzle-centric mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two featuring an unarmed player but plenty of violent mayhem.
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PC gaming super-blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun loves R&D! In a new review Alec Meer praises the mod as "a seismic shift" away from the norm, telling readers that it is "as must-play as an HL2 mod gets":
R&D’s hook is that it’s essentially non-combative. Yep – you go without guns throughout (bar the ol’ Gravity jobbie, but hey, that’s more about construction than destruction here). Sure, you can tell an Antlion to claw someone to death or arrange to squash men with falling girders, but you’re definitely not Edward Pistolhands. It’s an environmental adventure game, taking the irregular physics and logic puzzles seen in HL2 itself and turning them into the game itself. Mazes, gravity, exploding microwaves and fire-retardant antlion carapaces all make an appearance – it’s very much a point’n’click adventure in an FPS engine.
If you still haven't played Research and Development, which requires Episode Two, download it now!
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Research and Development Patch - Source SDK 2013
Patch 57 commentsThis patch fixes most issues related to engine branch incompatibility and is designed to run using the latest "Beta" of Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer...
Research and Development (installer)
Full Version 47 commentsUpdated 17 July 2009, fixed several issues & added a dynamic crosshair when using the keypads & lab buttons. Requires Episode Two.
Research and Development
Full Version 47 commentsUpdated 17 July 2009, fixed several issues & added a dynamic crosshair when using the keypads & lab buttons. Requires Episode Two.
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Rating: 5/5 Classic, Fun, and Creative.
I NEED SOME HELP
I was playing it, and I have some BUGs with "Mr. Whirly the CAR", that I CAN'T leave the vehicle properly, which means, I left it, but my control was stuck on the vehicle
Awesome mod! The puzzles were fun to solve without being to tediously difficult to solve! Here's a COMPLETE WALKTHROUGH I recorded of it!
I have Half-Life 2: Episode 2 installed. But it still has texture errors and no chapter selection.
Maybe because it is using textures from "SDK Singleplayer 2013", install that and then right-click on it, go to properties and type in launch option
" -upcoming"
This will install the missing textures from SDK Singleplayer
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When i launch the game it has missing textures and models anyone know how to fix this?
...You need half life 2 episode 2 for the mod. Or else it will have missing textures and models.