Cry Of Fear SDK Created 12 years ago2012-07-09 16:27:20 UTC by Darkydude

Hi guys!

It's been a while since I was last on here.

But I know you guys are mad into Gold Source and all that, so I decided to post a thread regarding this new mod that has been released for Half-Life 1.
(I'm guessing you've already heard about it.)

The modification is called Cry Of Fear, a horror mod which has alot of new fancy code added to the engine.

So I was wondering, why not map for this mod?
It's free, and your map will look just that bit better.

Here's the ModDB page; http://www.moddb.com/mods/cry-of-fear

The developers were even kind enough to supply it with an SDK; http://www.moddb.com/mods/cry-of-fear/downloads/cry-of-fear-sdk-v11

There's competitions held too.
If you have created any maps for Cry Of Fear, be sure to post it on their Forum!

Good luck.

Cry of fear could indeed use some mappers. No offence to the Cof community, but the first two custom campaigns so far were none too spectacular. 'Random' would be a good word to describe it. I'm guessing the community mappers didn't have too much experience in mapping, but that's ok. Anyway I have said this before but look at this thread: CLICK

Cry of Fear has a big problem that I suspect could not be solved. That is the memory issue that most computers will run into which will crash the game. However, if anyone is interested, I would love to try out your maps and give u feedback as well. I remember the SDK including a bunch of sample maps from the actual game so that can help ppl get started quickly. Lookin' forward to a campaign that:

• Doesn't put an obvious pile of ammo before a boss that is the same one in every campaign
• Has something other than rectangular rooms occasionally decorated with props
• Has an actual storyline
• Is actually scary

etc, etc.

Yeah, I agree.
I don't want to be harsh, but the truth hurts.
A mapper that I've seen pull of some decent mapping is a user called, 'Volcomator' and some other guy who is also doing well.
It's just inexperience, many from the CoF Community are new to mapping for Gold Src, I guess.

Yes, I don't think that bug can be fixed, it's Gold Src reaching to its extent.
But, however, I do know that problem varies between other computers.
Graphics Card, perhaps?
I played through the entire CoF Campaign on one computer with 4GB RAM without any crashes.
And on a laptop which also had 4GB but not an amazing video card, like you said, crashed within 2 hours of gameplay.
Strange indeed.