Fight as a Xen alien grunt through the great levels of Half-Life: Chronicles: Episode One plus a Xen training course...

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A very nice mod that puts you in the shoes of an Alien grunt as he and his friends assault black mesa!
You use the hornet gun and a melee attack throughout and you regain health and armor by consuming fallen enemies, bot parasitic aliens and humans such as grunts or security guards. It's very different and it works surprisingly well, forcing the player to be very aggressive when assaulting the enemy instead of falling back for supplies.

It's quite short, and many of the levels have been ripped from the Half-life Chronicles, however, this mod should not be overlooked for it's main character, combat and game-play. :)



It was good :D mod of hl-chronicles mod xD

not bad shortmode connected with half-life storyline
i like scene of "COUNTER-ATTACK" chapter, when we with other agrunt get fight againts humans. will be nice if we are playing in cooperate with another agrunts at more time, not just in first scene. its look like one man army of xen start counter-attack against bm. eat dead humans for regaing health and armor is good. nice sound and other effects for get filling us in agrunt role. like predator style there is glowing on npcs. green for human life form and red for xens.

hmm it is not bad

too short but playing as a alien grunt was another thing i wanted to do

i just love the alien

very nice

5

the_vm says

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Extremely short, feels more like a proof of concept than anything. It only showcases a few interesting setpieces connected with some tunnels and that's it.

Almost unplayable on hard skill due to the hornet gun sucking bad as it was unchanged, the elevator sequence requires an insane stroke of luck because not only you explode, you're also greeted by the shotgun guy who will two-tap you 99% of the time. If you save in that elevator, that save becomes corrupted.
Auras can't be disabled and are annoying. Vorties start attacking you during the combat sequence against HECU for some reason.
Lore inconsistencies - HECU and guard/scientists are apparently working together??? You're captured and put into the Questionable Ethics after the Resonance Cascade??? Ridiculous.

And just when it begins, it's already over. At least it doesn't waste your time. Don't get me wrong, I like the concept, but it needs some serious work to be done in terms of lore, writing, mapping and mechanics to keep this perspective interesting past the initial cool factor of having a (default) hornet gun and being able to eat people for healing.

10

Broadus says

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Pretty cool. I liked the "Xen Course" and the way the existing levels were repurposed for a different perspective.
It was definitely too short. I was hoping for more battles alongside Xen allies. The rooms with the bullsquid and houndeyes feel pointless since those enemies were made friendly in an update. Although two of the houndeyes would stand still and attack me when I got near. They wouldn't give chase so I don't know if it's an intended feature. It's realistic so it could be a good idea if explained better, since other houndeyes don't attack at all.
I actually played this first on Android. The ending was so sudden, going from a tram to a prison cell with only a fadeout for the transition, that I played it on Steam to see if it was broken on Android (it wasn't). It was cool how you could send the enemy tram into acid, although it's pointless since if you don't you never see them again either way.
The glow on everything was bad. I appreciate the idea but it's not necessary. It wasn't as bad on Android, and the weapons didn't glow at all, but on Steam, the weapons glow and cover a bunch of the screen. You can say r_shellglowfreq 0 to make it less distracting, but I liked it better on Android.
I liked having to do fights with the hornet gun, which I think most people don't use otherwise. I think the only problem with this mod (besides the glow) is that it's too short. Since you recycled existing levels, it would have been nice if you recycled some more. I would definitely have liked for it to keep going.

i like the idea, the new maps and etc but it was too short, i would've given it 7 or 6 if it was longer but it was sadly too short, and also there is a weird bug where the alien slaves attack you when you aren't killing them, even when you just use the melee atack on the floor they will randomly attack you, this bug doesn't apply to other alien's tho

7

Too short and maps from HL Chronicles , but from the perspective of an Alien Grunt which is great.