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Not a bad little map this one. It starts with you meeting Barney in a side room and then you have to lead him through the labs. You'll find yourself navigating vents and leaping over lasers in order to help him get through. The map even reloads if you get him killed and ends when you reach your goal. Something I'm used to not seeing in early mapping attempts.

If I had to criticise anything I would say the looks are a little bland and the layout makes little sense in-universe. The player starts in a dead end hallway with no form of entrance behind them. A tank busts through a wall, having been seemingly parked in an otherwise inaccessible room. Also, there are some spots like Barney's room where there is no node graph, so you have to carefully guide him through the doorway.

Appearance wise, I'd put more effort into giving the rooms an in-universe purpose, as well as experimenting with some height variation for combat/exploration, and some different lighting in places. Definite improvement here though. Nice work.

Nobody can take away your free will. People are always who they want to be

我想我不能完全同意@Stojke您的观点，时势造人，在世界和社会这两所“大学”里，我很想看看未来会发生什么。

I think the whole idea of "loving" a job is not right in the first place. How can you love a dead thing? You can love people, and people can love you back.

It depends on how you define a job. To some people, a job is merely a contract. To me, a job is some paid activity + people relevant to that activity. So indeed if I love that job, I love the people, and I love performing the activity partly because of passion and partly because of the people.

I guess the only thing 100% certain , and unchangeable , is death. Everything else can, will and must change regarding of the situation it is in. I studied , and finished schooling, for a computer programmer, yet my expertise is servicing electronical components , most of the time Hi-Fi , for a living. - It matters not what one does, but the way one does things.

I had to accept and change regarding my situation, and as life will show so must everyone else, unless one wants to needlessly suffer for all the wrong reasons. Harsh truth is - It is always your fault if you cant find a job that matches your academic direction. Either you are not expert enough, or not determined enough. No matter where the expert is, the employer will come to them.

您说的应该是更高层面的东西，我没在说那个。我说的是找一份与学业方向对口的工作。

I think the whole idea of "loving" a job is not right in the first place. How can you love a dead thing? You can love people, and people can love you back.
A job is a job, only one way to do it if you want to do it right. Nobody likes responsibility especially if it has to cover someone else, and that can cause a lot of stress, so the best thing to do it is to simply take it for what it is - a timely process that has to be done precisely in order to get payed - or in short - a job

您是对的，我也是这个意思。

Translation: "It's hard to find a job..."

It is kind of easy, I'd say. The hard thing is to find a job that you love.

Pretty good. I liked scripted sequence at the beginning. Nicely detailed crates, but put some clue that there is a path behind that one crate stack. Also they have too much life, somone might think that there is no point in bashing them.

In overall solid start, you can always try to tinker with rooms so they look less squere - "props" won't do the whole job

Short but fun, gargantua escape at the end was nice touch

I would prefer a community that is nice to talk to.

I would prefer a community where nobody says thanks over a community where anyone is forced to say thanks.

I see Bruce would prefer a community where nobody says thanks

Funny ending! I had to noclip around the scientist in the vent because I get an "ed_aloc: no free" error when he gibs.

The transparent texture for the holes on the shotgun looks a bit bad, I would rather see some low poly holes but I think there should not be a problem with more polygons. Half-Life originally doesn't have models with transparent textures too, since transparent textures for models were added to the engine with a certain patch.

The field of view trick was probably more useful back in the day when monitors were very small, since if you used a natural field of view on a small monitor, as in the game looking like the real world, you would end up with a tiny field of view and see very little of the world. Nowadays when many people have big monitors, setting the field of view to a realistic one should get rid of things looking small. Not for me though, I'm stuck with a 17 inch one right now.

@Bruce I changed it of my own free will. It's a creative decision.

A lot of these are great but the glock and the MP5 look a little off in game. They're missing the trick Valve used to counter the fisheye lens effect in Half-Life, making the barrel end of the model larger. As it stands the barrel of the MP5 and Glock in this pack look a little small in game. The 357 and Shotgun are perfect examples of what I mean. They look great.

This was not a request from TWHL staff. The user reposted their link on the Discord server stating:

I made it sfw. It is now milk.

Wow, what's with this renaming? The old name was witty and funny, now it's disgusting. The old name by the way was "Hunt Down the Semen". And there's nothing wrong with it, first graders should be taught what semen is.

I really hope this was not a request from the staff.

that spas is absolutely adorable, nice work!

I broke it too by pressing the elevator button before taking the suit.

You wasted a lot of hard drive space by including those .wad files, you should learn to use wadinclude compile option, then unused textures will be stripped.

I found it amusing. It's not that bad. There's voice acting, teleporting monsters, backtracking, scripted sequences.

@UrbaNebula Bold of you to write a real review for a level called "Hunt Down the Semen"

Review
Incredibly basic in every regard. Levels are blocky and lack any detailing, lighting almost appears fullbright in certain spots for some reason. Combat throughout is unchallenging, I took zero damage during my playthrough. The mod essentially boils down to running down empty hallways to push a button, then running all the way back to push another button. I figured it was going to be a comedy themed mod but... there's nothing of any value here, unless words like "fuck" and "semen" make you laugh.

Couple of things to note:
1. Don't include your config.cfg with your mod release. Your control and video settings are not my control and video settings.
2. It is also possible to softlock the entire thing if you pick up the HEV and don't immediately run for the elevator in map1.

You're a Valve's own Nostradamus haha!

Unfortunately, I did have the curiosity to scroll and see if I left a comment. I did. The image is not available anymore but I know exactly the photo which prompted a short expedition through dusty folders on a dusty backup drive where I had an imageshack backup (that service is long gone I think).

The image was this:

[EDIT] Well on a sober 2nd thought, maybe not.

I have no idea....

Necromancy! That's what it is!

OKBuddyHalfLIfe

The mod did looked promising, but its actually dissapointing. First off, this is a joke mod and clearly very little effort was put into this. There are too many enemies in some parts of the map, and while the map gives you a lot of ammo and health it can be very difficult to progress without the help of cheats, even on Easy mode. Some parts were excellent, like the NFT parkour and some miserably sucked, like the maze with all of the ichthyosaurs. Some, if not all of the maps textures were just random HL textures and memes, wich made locating stuff like doors and ladders very frustating. In some other parts, it wasn´t very clear on where to go (at least for me).

But again, this is a joke mod, so its very low effort and poorly done in some parts. Id recommend you to check out Crack-Life, another joke mod that is actually very well done.

I wasn't ready to realise it's already almost 16 years since Ep2, gosh.

As you say, at least we've gotten a new HL game already, even if it wasn't HL3. 😄

Thanks for the feedback! I have a new shotgun reload animation in the works; it'll be much closer to the original view model reload. I'll also provide an optional version without the rack. My intent is to edit the player & world models so that everything matches, but, that's low priority at the moment.

time saver.

You seem to think that merely discussing behaviour means establishing new rules, which it inherently isn't. A proposal for a rule may be brought up during a discussion, but that's not what has happened here. If you're worried a community is going to establish excessive or unnecessary rules, the best thing to do in that case is to discuss it and address the cause for why those rules were proposed in the first place.

The rules already in place on the site (and the discord you keep bringing up for whatever reason) are few and non-intrusive. As the context here is this community, are these the rules you view as "completely useless, dictatorial and rude"?

And no, I'm not here to educate anyone on social behaviour. I'm simply just airing my thoughts about a specific part of how we behave in this community, since I'm a part of it.

I answer mapping questions for decades and I don't mind if they never thank. Someone else might ten or twenty years later. But only if you use the forum, not that disposable abomination. Evil is both. Too many rules are creeping upon people these days. Rules that are completely useless, dictatorial and rude. If you want to educate people on social behavior then become a kid's teacher in the primary school.

I actually played that func_vehicle invade-the-building one! It had some unique gameplay combined with the jankiness of the goldsrc physics which made it a very fun map 😄

Not that bad, it feels like a map someone would make to try to learn how scripted sequences work and such.

Gosh it's a little hard to remember what maps I made that actually saw release. I feel like back in those days a 'release' consisted of a forum post and a link to the map on a file sharing website (I think fileplanet was one?). It was difficult to get people to play new maps. Servers weren't interested in running them because downloads from the game server were excruciatingly slow, especially on 56k with maps having a lot of custom assets, so most people would drop out once a new map started loading. This is before in-game systems for voting on the next map or anything like that.

Anyhow, I think the most popular map I released in terms of hours played was actually a re-texture and re-model of cs_militia. The author of that map released the .rmf file at some point, so a lot of people made their own versions of it. I made new textures for it, re-did all the rocks, and added some other niceties here and there. It was called cs_militia_qe and I think it made it onto some servers for a while. I also did a de_dust retexture, as was the style at the time. The .wad for de_dust was unbelievably popular in those days. This is because they were some of the best textures available, and aesthetically quite apart from the industrial/lab stuff that most people had access to. As I mentioned, this is also probably because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were very central in the public consciousness. A lot of movies, games, and popular media spoke to this as well, and our maps inevitably reflect the spirit of their times. Anyhow, a good way to get your name out there as a texture artist was to make alternate versions of the de_dust.wad, because mappers who've already made their map using that wad can plug in yours instead, and instantly have a more distinctive product. Another map I remember getting some play was a super rough experiment I made when drivable vehicles were first introduced into Counter-Strike (I think maybe Beta 7?) I made a giant track that was pretty close to the limits of the engine, and a drivable two-storey 'building'. One team had control of the drivable building, the other team only had a little cart to chase them. The object was to invade the building as it was driving. The physics were really bizarre but I remember it somewhat working and being a lot of fun. I think the map was called raceomatic, or something like that. It is out there somewhere but I've lost track of a playable version. Finally, I think I released a dustbowl-style map called snowbowl for TFC. I don't have the source material any more and I can't seem to find it online, so very little information remains. Just going through my files and trying to dredge up memories, it seems like I spent more of my time trying to make maps and textures for Counter-Strike. But I spent more of my gaming time playing TFC. This is probably why there are more CS maps here.

If someone takes the time to help you, the least you can do is express appreciation for their time and effort by thanking them. It makes them happy and shows that you care. If you can't be bothered to do that, the person who helped you will remember and be unwilling to help you again.

Oh, you were actually being serious. Reverse Poe's Law, I guess.

Well then. First of all, I haven't told anyone how to behave in my post (the closest to it is stating that it's rude to not thank someone for the help, because that's what it is). My final paragraph is directly addressing this.

Secondly, when you call "this" evil, are you referring to my post or to the act of telling someone to behave?
Either way, taking into consideration that we as people are social animals, and that this is a community, having discussions about norms, culture and behaviour is the healthy and good thing to do. In other words, it's beneficial to the majority in this context, i.e. it's what's morally good (for the community) here.
Not having this type of discussion will cause harmful and anti-social behaviour to go unaddressed and unchallenged, in turn harming the community and hurting its members. As this leads to a negative outcome for the majority, it can't be anything but morally evil (towards the community) in this context.

Of course, morals are relative. Perhaps your morals are based on what's good and un-impeding to yourself, and screw everyone else?

I'm directly telling you your behaviour is wrong and I don't care the slightest bit if you change.

If there is one thing that is harming TWHL, it's the use of that disposable pile of crap called Discord.

Welcome to TWHL! Always great to see more TFC content and returning veterans 😄 I already took a quick look at the map and it looks great!
(By the way, the Vault has a listing for Team Fortress Classic for the Game category, since I noticed you used HL)
Edit: Just read the description in the vault entry 😅 There are still some people left still playing TFC (myself included!) so please don't feel discouraged from finishing it

Out of curiosity, since you said you released a few maps, which ones? I've played a lot of TFC through the years, perhaps I've already tried some of them?

By using moralist language, you're indirectly telling me my behaviour is wrong and should be changed, doing exactly that which you are condemning 😏

It's bad to tell other people how to behave. This is evil.

Yeah, I was under the same assumption too that thanking people for their help was the normal and expected thing to do.

Feedback is indeed very important, and I see it as the bare minimum someone should do in response to any help/answer.

Huh, I didn't even know this was something that people disagreed on, always seemed like common sense to me...

The point about feedback that something works or not is really important in a public forum, because it's very possible that someone else will have the same issue, and being able to see right away if the advice helped the person with the same issue is extremely useful and a huge time saver.

Another point is that thanking someone means that it encourages them to continue being helpful in the future. And when it's in a public space, it also encourages other people to engage with the community, posting their own questions and answering others. Everybody in an online community benefits when people are helpful and friendly.

很难说，因为这个实体很久以前就被我删除了。
It's hard to say because this entity was deleted by me a long time ago.

Aw shucks, I really appreciate that! Thank you!

Okay then

Saw the map in Discord, this is very cool!

Interesting, could you please elaborate further?

我曾经在ka_airtrain里使用func_conveyor的时候，也出现了光照效果，即使我并未有任何非常规操作。
When I once used the func_conveyor entity in ka_airtrain, it also compiled with a light effect in the map, even though I didn't do anything unconventional with it.