Forgotten hl1 mods? Created 9 years ago2015-11-17 20:11:20 UTC by 23-down

Hey folks I'm currently in a nostalgic phase and am looking for old ancient and long forgotten Half-Life mods no matter if they were released or not but the info material alone would be worth while it.

There used to be a list once of all former mods which were cancelled but that list either doesn't to exist anymore.

In any case just for the old nostalgic what mods do you remember of back then that you were desperately waiting for only to discover that these were cancelled in the process.

I remember 1 mod explicitly.

I don't recall the name but you were supposed to play a Black Op and the special thing about that mod was that you had fellow black ops acting like the op4 grunts and in their demonstration vid you saw how they planted satchel charges in order to get through walls and doors. Do you remember that mod it looked kinda cool back in the old days.

Then there used to be some project called "restoration project" which tried to recover lost mods with the permission of the original authors but to my knowledge they never finished anything till they also disappeared again. But the idea at least was good pity that their attempts failed.

So far I managed to find few mods that nobody seem to know much about but they're all unfinished and not even worth a download (guess that's why they were forgotten. :P) But there were these other mods which never seen daylight just like this Black Ops mod several years prior the next Black Ops mod which thankfully was released for our pleasure.

So go ahead tell me what you remember perhaps there are even pictures, downloads or videos still around...

Here you go: http://goldsourcegold.tumblr.com/tagged/unreleased

The major one for me was of course Nightwatch. I don't recall the Black Ops mod you're describing.

The one I always hoped to see was called A.L.I.E.N. and was by Kevin Lockitt (Deliverance) and Tim Johnston (Gut Reaction). I can't find any info or screenshots, but their individual mods were great so I had big hopes for the teaming, oh well.

Edit: also Dark Truths. Sigh.

theres plenty of mods where you are a black op along side fellow black ops, like Half life ultimate attack, black death, and black operations.

Also since you know how to make maps it'd be pretty easy to make a scripted sequence where they do that, right

Sounds like you misunderstood me there @2muchvideogames..

My point was what mods did exist the ones that you do remember from back then perhaps even prior to your own mapping days..

I'm just little nostalgic as of recent and also curious of how many mods out there actually didn't make it but that were publicly announced and known.

We've got a good idea of how many mods got released in numerous lists on numerous websites. But how many didn't make it to release or those that just released some minor demos.

For example:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/nuclear-target (Dead)
http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-panic-at-black-mesa (Dead)
http://www.moddb.com/mods/hl-oifh (Dead)

It's my hope that I might be able to dig up some of those lost treasures if they ever existed. Or at least find some info material of their former existence. Videos - Screenshots etc..

So far I've managed to find quite a few lost mods which either nobody knew or nobody could even remember or that were thought to be lost in the vastness of the Internet. In some ways by tracking down the authors almost a decade later. In some other cases I found people which hoarded them on dvd. And yet in other situations I kept back-ups myself and re-uploaded them once their moddb pages or any other pages vanished. In 1 case on youtube. ^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f47U-IqPP_s

Here are some of the mods I managed to recover (that are hosted yet) either by direct action or by setting people into motion which also led to mod recoveries:

http://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/escape-by-leo-ring/
http://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/the-xen-campaigns/
http://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/return-to-black-mesa/
http://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/snowy-rock/
http://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/without-doubts/
http://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/back-in-future/
http://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/2009-eb/ [only hosted on Russian sites in Russian. :(]

Escape for example had a weird name on filefront where no one would've even guessed this to be a hl1 mod. Thankfully it was still listed within the hl series otherwise I might have never found it.

@Unq: Thanks a nice link. Nightwatch was indeed a big loss for the hl community. It would've rocked. Well at least Arrangement finally seems to be getting released in 10 days. While I'm unsure of how much Half-Life will remain in this (looks more like a Call of Duty title) it's still fantastic that it will finally see daylight.

As for this Black Ops mod that one I meant came long before Ultimate Attack, Black Operations etc.. It was the first I wish I would remember the name. I just remember that they had their own homepage with a black background and that they showed many screenshots and even promotional videos in Gearbox/Valve quality.

If you remember any more good mods of the old days that vanished and never made it to a full release let me know. Perhaps I can find material or even old demos etc..