Mod Storyline Created 20 years ago2003-11-22 15:54:57 UTC by Seventh-Monkey

Not xen, just "alien". does all alien stuff have to be xen?

Yes we did it was awful

i hav an idea! we can set up complex triggers so that we have a sort of arena. what we do is have an arena with a base at either end. 1 human 1 alien. we have the aliens set up to move forward taking different locations till they reach the human base and destroy it IF you do nothing. if you attack you can push them back to thier base where they spawn and destroy them! it would add a real strategic thingy to the mod.

A Government plot invovling an assination and corrupt leaders?

An assasination attempt by YOU? Mission: Kill the F*cking GMAN!

An alien invasion of a city?

A stealth spy mission were you must infiltrate and steal files without getting your ass wasted?

YOU'VE GONE POSTAL!!!?

A space station under attack by aliens?

A search and rescue operation in the ______ ?

I dunno, i gave you a few ideas
i'll post more

i like youve gon postal most.

Logged out??? Again??? :

I quote myself!

what about two dimensions earth and another what are merging becuase of a kafuffle with a machine?, that way you can make it like having human villages or cities, in an alien surrounding and vice versa

this way you who hate xen like me, don't have much of it to hate, there would only be a few bits of xen!"

good idea that too.
too much ideas, too little time.

we really need 2 decide on this.

a few bits of xen!

Any Xen is too much I think - we really need a poll or something :/

thats what ive been saying! grr! nobody EVER listens to me...

How about you are a lone character with no clues as to your past, and you arrive on and island, and you end up saving the whole world from something thats been plagueing it etc.

Sums up almost every RPG ever.

Yes, we need a poll.
now
someone do it.

in the background:
if anyone has any small ideas for little bits or things that would be cool, spread the word!

a tip 4 when we make this. try and make it a game where u really know what u hav 2 do. not 1 where u run around killing and forget what ur actually doin.

Making objectives with game_text's?

In original half-life, i had no idea what i was doing...
Scientists saying something like YOU HAVE TO GET TO THE SURFACE ARGH, isnt really "informative"

Pql type games, like the original idea for all of this allowes people to make any environment, any gameplay type etc...
It makes no difference,

but.. if we decide to stick to a perticular story, and assign people chapters or maps to make then i think that freedom will go out the window, we'll need a poll then.

I?m doing this text thing... And works, isn?t it true Zombie??.

In original half-life, i had no idea what i was doing...
Scientists saying something like YOU HAVE TO GET TO THE SURFACE ARGH, isnt really "informative"

You obviously have trouble grasping something that is linear in nature

too many hard words for my brain to comprehend but, yeah sure to everything.

yeah like in operation marlboro. that was quite good. but i mean a plot that draws you in. like cornation street with guns, blood, aliens and lots of hey-nonny-nonny and screaming scis.

Play "someplace else" - that's what xen in the original half life should have been like

If we go for the gman has a mission for gordon thing, we could include objectives! Make it like timesplitters 2, perfect dark, goldeneye, TWINE, or nightfire.

never played any of these..
But, yes , direct objectives make it better.

CORO?!?!? CORO!!!!!!!

You want plot? You watch hollyoaks my man

Although I've actually abandoned that now, I got fed up with 0 storyline development and 3 hours of my week wasted watching crap on the telly.

"Like in operation Marlboro" XDDD!!!!... That name... Sucks!!!...
Anyway, the dragging plot is cool... I love it. That?s what I tried to do, something easy (steal something) and then it gets more and more complicated as things evolve.
The objective things is also good, but it requires skills to make it part of a plot and not just a "Do this and do that" with no sense thing.
We need a poll.

We need a proffesional movie scriptwriter...
Anyone good at that?

everyone except the washoutski brothers is good at that

wah! Shout! skiing!

I?m with Jobabob... I know some guys writing stuff for amateur films that are good. But we can also do it ourselves.
We need a poll :P.

have u guys realised that the half-life engine aint much on outdoor environments. the poor draw distance etc would mean large, spaceous deserts/icelands etc would be almost impossible to map effectively. what bout trees aswell. i dont think a forest would be possible.

everyone except the washoutski brothers is good at that

Hear hear!

And yeah, we know, armadillo

I shouldn't think a movie scriptwriter is necessary.......
....if you lot feel creatively underdeveloped, I'll have a go.
It seems to me that the critical elements are in order:
1) Setting(s)
2) Objectives
3) Characters
4) set pieces/information sections

And then the mapping itself

And what if we start with something small???...

i could write up a basic stoy if sum ppl gave me sumwhere 2 start. just say.

i says an abandoned space station - do it

you already made it

can i help - really wanna help, cus i wanna learn and i think im pretty good, look at my map in the vault "space"

we could model futuristic guns and such

model (shudder), i suck at that, its not ver many whos good at it

(throws victim to the wolves)vassy can model ^_^.

no he cant.
reskin maybe

I think we need a little order... Let?s say... Everybody wants to have his part in the mod and it?s sure EVERYONE who takes part will :). The thing is to set ourselves an objective, let?s say, a 20 map mod.
And then we talk about how is it going to be, set up a story for it, think and discuss if it needs new models or such and finally we map.
We?re talking about a plot but, how is our mod going to be?. Wasn?t the original idea of it to make a bunch of maps?. Well, let?s discuss if we want an action mod, an adventure mod, some sort of Half Life mod... You know.

when you say mod, what exactly are you going to MODify, or are we just gunna make a load of maps and stick them together?

I still reckon the space station is a good idea.

Ok for the plot, im beginning to like the space station/deep space setting more and more, go for that.
The mod(i think) will be that everyone that wants to get his map into it, then some1 just makes the necassary intros/endings, according to the plot-plan(make one!)

Gordon is on a mission for g-man , he has to find and a secret ____ ?
it is in a spacestation populated by the xen alien thingys, there are human grunts as well, they come on ships and are trying to stop you from getting it, cus they want it too. at the end you must get out of the space station with it before it blows up.

ZL is right, I can't model. I can and would love to reskin though!

I think we would have to add more than just a space setting, despite how awesome it will be , because people may get bored looking at the same scenery for 20 levels. ( Case closed anyone?? )
But, I have thoughts: you know when gordon launched the satellite in half-life? Maybe something went wrong with it or associated space station, whilst he was gone, that he's gotta fix. Also, the bit in the end sequence where you see all the destroyed tanks and F-16s in Xen? Didn't the g-man mention something about humans having taken control of the border world? This gets me thinking, it could emerge that there has been a huge attempted invasion of Xen that has gone deeply pear shaped, and now the world has become the battleground. New York looking like stalingrad and all that. The g-man could have a secretive role as perhaps being the mastermind of all this, or maybe playing off the aliens and humans against each other, for some sort of personal gain...
Also lets not forget the other aliens from opfor who, correct me if I'm wrong, are also enemies of the Xen aliens. They could play a part.

maybe something goes wrong as gordon goes through the teleport at the end. there is a "time shift" and he ends up back in 1940. we could do a kind of timesplitters game, if you have played timesplitters you will know what i am talking about. ie space, wild west, black mesa, WWII, etc.

if we need any models for the weapons we could nick them from other mods, ie the bow from wanted in a medievil level, for a minigun we could nick the one from tfc, and WWII weapons from DoD.

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um, we would just nick the models, not actually nick the weapons,
e.g. the wanted bow on the crossbow,

maybe we should base it on opfor as there is a wider selection of weapons and stuff.