Alright, so, my buddy is having a lan party at his house on tuesday. While we all have at least a few games in common, mainly CS:S, I was looking to try some new stuff. So, I realized both me and him have HL1, and a few of our other friends do also. I remember some of the HL1 mods being really fun, though not having many players when I started playing them.
So basically, I'm looking to get some good HL1 mod action. We probably will have 4-6 people there, all with computers good enough to run HL1 and mods. So, any suggestions for mods? They hopefully shouldn't have a big learning curve(as we'll be learning together for the most part), nor be reliant on larger numbers(Natural selection, looking at you).
Games I already have in mind:
Firearms
Hostile Intent
Day of Defeat
The Ship
That DBZ mod
Team Fortress Classic
And while I realize there are some really good HL2 mods, most of our computers don't run, say, CS:S that well(like, lowest settings, between my laptop, my buddied desktop, etc).
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Natural Selection is great fun if you can get a good game going. The learning curve is a little bit steep but you should be able to figure out how to command well in a few games, and alien-wise it isn't as hard.
Firearms is tons of fun if you want to play a more arcadey FPS.
Check out Front Line Force and Global Warfare, also. They are so old but those were good days.
Edit: I keep remembering mods!
Science and Industry is INCREDIBLE. You gotta play that, it is a classic.
Pirates, Vikings & Knights
Sven Coop. There are TONS and TONS of map packs you can download for this so the playability is huge. It's all co-op, too.
So many more, I can't remember all of them.
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I came to this thread just to recommend it.
Also, Sven Coop is good fun.
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Edit: also S&I but if NS won't work then S&I won't work.
It's like a deeper Team Fortress.
Deathmatch Classic is awesome in an old-school way.
Yeah! Yeah!!
S&I is probably one of if not the best hl1 mod.
I never asked for this!
I'll second S&I
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Science & Industry: Source, please. It would be nice if Valve picked it up and released a Source version. I wish they did that with more classic, great mods.
Edit: Looks like there's some mod team making SI2 for Half-Life 2, but their last update was in November of last year.
Speaking of Firearms though, what ever happened to that? I remember it being popular and still played up until around their big Beta->1.0 push that a lot of mods strive for, then it just sort of dropped off the face of the Earth. I seem to recall around then that something happened with their website, it was either hacked or the team broke up or something, and I just don't really remember the mod going anywhere after that.
S&I + Sven Coop. Awesome. Of course, sven coop might have aged... I can imagine that gmod has probably filled the void that SC left, but I think it's still worth a go.
As for sven-coop maps, you will want*:
-sc_wrongworld ( http://files.filefront.com/wrongworldzip/;3870632;/fileinfo.html ) (I always found it incredibly entertaining, though I never figured out how to get past one room...)
-sc_wrongworld2 ( http://files.filefront.com/wrongworld2zip/;3870634;/fileinfo.html )
-question (one of my fav maps - http://files.filefront.com/questionzip/;3870355;/fileinfo.html . I *think* that's the right file, it's incredibly difficult to find the map nowadays.)
-breakfree/breakfree2 was enjoyable (http://files.filefront.com/breakfreefinalzip/;3870701;/fileinfo.html, http://files.filefront.com/breakfree2zip/;3870338;/fileinfo.html)
And of course you can play through HL1 co-op.
*Note that I may have terrible taste.
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Why is that?
Yeah, S&I is team-based, but not so much so that it won't be as fun with so few people. 4-8 people can have fun with it, it's just going to be a bit more odd. It's like a constant game of CTF, only with assault and kidnapping.
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Some other old school mods are Action Half-Life and The Opera, which I believe Tycho or Gabe may have done some art for IIRC. I could be wrong though, so don't quote me on it. The Opera is really old and kind of buggy. Some people recommended The Specialists, it is a lot of fun.
One of the funnest mods I have ever played is Half-Life 2: Jaykin' Bacon Source. Some of the most fun I have EVER had in a mod. It is an HL1 mod, just google it and check it out. May not be your cup of tea but I know I had tons of fun playing it.
PS07 is a pretty insane mod, too.
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Half the people involved went to making a new mod. The other half started FA:Source. FA:Source was bad. Ok, maybe not bad, but not anywhere near good enough. The other one just vanished. Alos yeah there ws some drama about leaked code, taking down of websites, backstabbing etc etc.
Too bad really. At one point FA was a huge mod that was getting all kinds of mainstream attention.
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Its been recommended ten times already but...
Sven Co-op.
And Science and Industry is also very good, It can be good fun even with so few people on each team.
how was FA:S bad? It hasn't come out yet. . .
There was huge drama that happened. You can read about it at firearmsmod.com if you wish. Some people went to start FA 2 against a lot of peoples' wishes (which is still being developed) and other people went to start Firearms: Source (with wishes!) and neither are released yet so I don't know what you are talking about FA:Source being bad :P Some other people went to make a mod called "World at War" (incidentally, CoD5 uses this name, and some other game before it used it) but it has died.
FA never really got to a 1.0 like Day of Defeat and CS, it kept doing release candidates until 3.1 when it pretty much died after tons of drama and other stuff.
Oh god I can't believe I still remember that. Immense, immense trauma. I must have died like a dozen times zerg rushing that thing.
We REALLY need to get a new Sven game on going.
Which RE map did you guys play? I think there are 2. There's one that has a little mini-game area where you can get the chaingun and unload on zombies.
If you guys really want to play a fun mod I would seriously suggest Jaykin' Bacon. I suggested it above already but seriously, it is so much fun.
Sorry I was vague. Also I'm not trying to start some stupid argument about it, just tossing in my two cents. That's all it is.
Oh and hi neko. I remember you from the OTF I believe.
Also FA 2.5 was glorious, even if it did have a few problems.
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