Favourite Half-Life Mods (or, HL Life Extension Therapy)

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2003-09-26 10:22pm

HL has a great mod scene, with seemingly more flexible mods than UT. These two games have been around for years, and only recently have the better mods stopped development or started to move to HL2 or UT2k4. What are your favourite HL mods? I'm currently playing The Specialists 2.0 and Natural Selection 2.0, and alot of the other mods I've played haven't matched them for quality.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-09-26 10:24pm

I'm a big fan of Neil Manke's mods. They're done with a quality that almost rivals Valve's development teams. I also enjoyed playing Heart of Evil, although it had a number of bizarre level bugs.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-09-26 10:40pm

TFC and Natural Selection

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-09-26 11:18pm

The Specialists, Counterstrike, and Natural Selection.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2003-09-26 11:28pm

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-09-26 11:35pm

The Specialists looks cool, but when I got on... there weren't any servers.

I'll stick with CS 1.6 for right now.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2003-09-26 11:42pm

Firearms, DoD, Pirates, Vikings, Knights, and hopefully Conflict in 'Nam

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-09-26 11:50pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:The Specialists looks cool, but when I got on... there weren't any servers.

Looks like you either got on at the wrong time or didn't set your filter right cause I had at least 30 servers and plenty of people to play against every day.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-09-27 12:19am

OSP, InstaGib, CorkScrew, Rocket Arena, Alternate Fire, Generations, Excessive, QPong, Freeze Tag, Ultra Freeze, and vanilla Quake...

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-09-27 05:35am

Day of Defeat.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-09-27 06:43am

Natural selection. Oh, and Sven Co-op can be fun if you can find a server with a decent number of players.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-09-27 02:29pm

Day of Defeat
Firearms
And to a lesser extent, Natural Selection

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-09-27 09:36pm

Natural Selection 2.0

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2003-09-27 10:46pm

Day of Defeat.

I find it a great blend of realism, atmosphere and fun (although my biggest niggles are with the balancing of the guns).

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-09-27 11:00pm

TFC
CS (Occasionally... Gets repetivive in long stretches)
DoD (I can only play dod_flash, since its the only map that doesn't lag my comp)
Desert Crisis - Great mod, if a bit obscure. Small community, but very very fun.

I played the Specialists before, didn't like it. I kept getting spawn killed, it was too chaotic for my tastes.

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-09-27 11:26pm

I might as well ask in here:
Has anyone played both DoD and BF1942? Is DoD worth playing if you game BF1942 online already? Everyone tells me it's a lot like MoH. I didn't like MoH that much because I played BF first and loved the option the fly planes, drive jeeps, etc.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-09-27 11:26pm

Firearms
DoD

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2003-09-27 11:47pm

TheFeniX wrote:I might as well ask in here:
Has anyone played both DoD and BF1942? Is DoD worth playing if you game BF1942 online already? Everyone tells me it's a lot like MoH. I didn't like MoH that much because I played BF first and loved the option the fly planes, drive jeeps, etc.

I find it a lot like MoH, but a lot more intimate. Of course, you can't fly planes and drive tanks, but then you do get more, I guess, atmospheric infantry combat. You can always just download the mod and give it a try if you have Half Life.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-09-28 04:45am

TheFeniX wrote:I might as well ask in here:
Has anyone played both DoD and BF1942? Is DoD worth playing if you game BF1942 online already? Everyone tells me it's a lot like MoH. I didn't like MoH that much because I played BF first and loved the option the fly planes, drive jeeps, etc.

DoD has far smoother infantry CQB, as that's what it concentrates solely upon. Its much more realisitc than 1942, both technically and historically. I like both games. DoD tends to be smaller, most of the maps are small urban environments and there are fewer players per game. The controls and feel are quite a bit different, if I've been playing one for a while and not the other, it takes me some time to readjust to the other.