Hidden: Source Created 15 years ago2008-08-06 16:26:16 UTC by satchmo

Has anyone played this HL2 mod?

It is the one game that has provided the most engrossing and terrifying PLAYER CREATED atmosphere I have ever seen.

Single player games can be creepy and tense with all their scripted events and monster closets, but this game allows for some truly insane mind games and psychological terrorising completely controlled by a player.

Imagine you are slowly making your way through a deserted office building with several squadmates, when suddenly a computer monitor just shatters. One of your squad mates freaks out and starts firing blindly in that direction, injuring you and some other teammates slightly. You proceed, then suddenly hear a scream from behind you and turn around just in time to see a teammate explode into pieces all over the floor.

This time you and your other teammate freak out and start shooting like crazy, but you're shooting at nothing.

You proceed a bit further, only to have the skull of another teammate come flying through the doorway at you. Once you breach the next room, you are greeted with the sight of the bodies of several more teammates hanging from the ceiling, swaying slightly.

Suddenly, the bodies start swaying more violently, first the one furthest from you, then one closer to you, then the one right in front of you, and then you're dead.

All of this can happen in a game of Hidden: Source, but NONE OF IT is scripted, and every detail of that is controlled by a (competent) Hidden player.

I have never had a more tense gaming experience than playing against a good hidden.

The first time you start playing on a large military team, you'll feel nice and safe and cozy in your big mob of burly men with guns, which makes the terror even more real when you slowly realise you're the last one left on your team (there's no kill icons like most source games, so the only way to know someone is dead is to see it happen/hear their scream/find their body).

Watch video.

Nice writeup

Is it finally released as the final release? I played through beta.

And since when is there singleplayer? I think it's time I recheck it out.

Here's the link.

I love hidden

don't play it often though. I love being the Hidden, I pwn at fear tactics.

I don't think they've updated that game in a very long time though...

I've been playing this for a couple hours now and its awesome. Downloaded it when i first saw the thread.

Steam account bishop_basher anyone that wants to play add me.

I'm playing it now too.

Steamid: youngsatchmo

I played it tonight.

I managed to kill the Hidden once, and I got to become the Hidden. And as the Hidden, I was able to kill a bunch of people before I got killed myself.

It's pretty intense, and fun.

Hey guys....I'm playing hidden alot....

and I can probably say I'm not that bad

so if you wan't to play with a good hidden and live in europe (for good pings)
or have a REALLY good connection add me as a steamfriend or mail me

http://steamcommunity.com/id/seker1

oh and by the way...you forgot to mention that a good hidden is able to kill
someone by physic

I just played a good two hours of this and enjoyed myself thoroughly.

Indeed, awesome fun. It looks kinda cheap, but the gameplay is insanely fun as either team. I'm cruel, I enjoy watching my teammates get picked off. :<

Spent a while playing it, quite fun.
Too bad I couldn't find any low-ping servers (all above 100).

PLAY IT? I play every day this mod its amazing hearing the little people scream on horror

b5 is definitely worth the wait

As the Hidden, I have trouble climbing walls. I can stick to the wall or ceiling, but I cannot keep climbing up like Spider-Man. Is that possible?

you can't "crawl" like spider-man...but as soon as you are sticking to the wall, you can jump from the wall again with.

Pounce to a wall, while facing it press pounce again. (now you'r sticking to the wall.
and then look away from the wall and pounce again

I used to play hidden a lot, but I can't remember a single player campaign, so I guess I played a quite early version.
I LANed this quite a lot.

I'll try the latest version and see if I get stuck again, as soon as I get a new Power supply for my computer.

Yes in the newer versions....there is a TUTORIAL.
To learn "how to play", or atleast the basics.

I pounced, but I only get to stick once or twice to the wall. I can't do it repeatedly. I just end up falling off.

Satchmo and blitz i added you just a FYI

Well I have played the tutorial... I thought when he said SP he ment SP, and not training

You have to pounce away from the wall to another spot and then pounce again.(to stick to it)

But maybe your "action bar" is just empty at that point ?

Lol blitzkrieg is such a pigstick whore! D:

I'm working on not using it as much. It just makes killing easier, and the game is more fun for both teams when people are dying.

It is kinda cheap in the right hands though.

When I get back from my vacation in like a week, I'm going to make a map for this. There's not enough maps that lend themselves to the horror theme.

Yeah, it could definately use some nice, quality horror maps. The pigstick is part of the game, so as far as I'm concerned, why not use it? ;P

I hear it's getting balance in the next beta anyway, something about not being able to use it above 30 HP or thereabouts.

20 health and under = pigstick in next version

aswell....no more instant kill with PHYS or Shotgun

Ah, well there you go. I'll miss pigsticking people frequently, but i'll live!

This mod rules as for using the pigsticker its really ur only attack ths useful but i like that u can use it to stick ppl to the walls and ceiling as for the pouncing thing u need to look at the wall after pouncing up or ull just fall of it if u havent figured that out lol or for future ppl who dont know it or missed it in the manual on their website. i cant wait for another release if there is one. And nice wirte up lol

oh and btw pigstick is for noobs

phys-kill them or slice them to death , but mass ps is just plain nooby and i hate it ! and i hate shotgun too !

I never use pigstick. I like to slash, pounce away, and slash, and pounce away, etc.

It takes a great deal of skill to use phys objects to kill. I've only done it once.

I have never used the pipe bombs either. Maybe it's because the IRIS guys I play with don't stay together in a group. So it's easier to slit their throats one by one.

Phys killing isn't that hard to learn...just to hit...and to master it

i like this mod but find it impossible to enjoy because of the unbelievable amount of team killers and immature pricks. i think i've only had one game where there isn't a fucktard teamkilling all the time.

I have never been team killed. In fact, I don't think anyone even injured me from friendly fires.

I had hit someone by accident twice, but I didn't kill the guy. I hit the Hidden at the same time, so I guess it was justified.

That guy would've died anyway if the Hidden was behind him. So in a way, I saved his life by shooting him.

I found this article, which holds the possibility of a real "Hidden" in the future.

Just tried the mod with a friend (along with public players) - incredibly fun, I must say, if a bit challenging for the Hidden. It was a server of 8 Iris vs 1 Hidden - I'd wager the optimal amount of Iris is around 4-6. Depends on the skill of the Hidden, of course, but still.

Regarding PB's complaints, I didn't notice any griefing by teamplayers, it was all jolly good.

Sometimes the IRIS all hide together and its really hard to kill them.

You have your pipebombs but meh

well there's a few players in australia that ruin it for the rest of us. there's only 3 australian servers and these guys are almost always in the populated one(s). and since the admins are slack, and the game does nothing to punish teamkilling (besides -1 point), there's usually a serial teamkiller on all the time :/

There's too many douches in this game.

I can't join a server without someone shooting me or telling me to go such a cock.

I was playing on a server with a really good Hidden. That Hidden was a girl (by the sound of her voice).

I think she killed all of the IRIS members (all eight of us) repeatedly for seven or eight rounds in a row before someone was able to nail her.

I think the game is already well balanced, but the learning curve for playing the Hidden is more steep. Playing the IRIS team isn't any different from all othe shooting games, but it takes practice to become an agile Hidden.

The hidden might almost be played better in 3rd person. Behind back though, none of that 50 feet away bullshit.

Not the IRIS though, that kinda shit has to stay first.

I pwn with hidden man

I was totally running about the rafters of Docks and shit

yee ha

Here is a pretty good Hidden in action.

A skilled Hidden can dominate the IRIS team and create psychological havoc.

That Hidden was a girl (by the sound of her voice).

...someone was able to nail her.

hot.

lawl.

I can't join a server without someone shooting me or telling me to go such a cock.

NICE

LOl what server are you playing on?!

Here is a pretty good Hidden in action.

HEH thats daed the one who makes the how to play tf2 videos

for me theres no problem...i got enough servers to play on

and the most of them have TK-punishment and on 1 server I am admin

edit: deadalus is NOT GOOD...he is using bunny hopping as hidden

an absolutely no go!

I've played this mod when they first released a beta, back then I didn't enjoy myself at all... might give it a go now after hearing so much positive comments.