Comments - Alien_Grunt

Reminds me of the end of the civil protection episode 'the tunnel'

Because it looks good.

When is this mod set?

looking good!

This is good

Does this include the crosshair?

You should ask if you could work with the devs of this Indiedb.com

Have the devs of this thought of working with the devs of raising the bar mod?

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Amazing, this is the type of quality you should be aiming for all the time.

Great job!

Yeah the whole building needs to look older.

Great improvement with the sky textures, but maybe a little more combine buildings please?
I think having the citadel visible at all times outside would be great.

Good, but you need more levels underneath. Try to make it more like this Vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net piece of concept art. Besides that a bit more propaganda posters would be nice, but good job.

Yeah, but they weren't so obvious, like: go look at the dropship crash, you had to figure these things out for yourself, thats what separated Half-Life and Half-Life 2 from all the other games out there, it didn't treat you like a child who couldn't do things for himself, It let you take control and play the story as you would do it yourself, it made you feel rewarded when you figured out how to pass the level rather than any other game that just showed you the way and all it had to offer through a few enemies to fight.

What you need to do is have the dropship come close to the player and look at it, but you can see smoke coming out of the engine (maybe from a previous battle that you can see in the distance) and try to fire the gun (yes dropships do actually have guns even if they don't use them in HL2), but it malfunctions and sends it smashing into the rockwall nearby. This can also trigger rocks to fall down around it and expose the entrance to the antlion caves.

Oh and I almost forgot, more ambient music.

Nice start, but whats with all the wierd sound effects? Most of them are fine, just that one when you start sprinting sounds kind of bad.

Also I don't really like the whole objective display thing.

Lastly, I know you are going to make the sky orange like the concept art, so do that. And it would look good if you had lots of combine structures around the outside of the beach, but just so you can see them, not go in. And have a few more combine ships fly past in the distance, this is all for the overall atmosphere. But good job so far!

Have you seen this

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Guys, the uncorrected proof copy of raising the bar has been released!

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On last thing, you are right but are forgetting one thing. You are getting the Consul and Breen mixed up, Breen was introduced to make it seem more realistic, and for more story, rather than just having a 'bad guy' like Big Brother who wants power for no reason. However, as you know, the original storyline of Half-Life 2 was much darker and grittier, The Combine and the Consul reflected The Party's views much more, they shared the view of, the object of power is power, the object of torture is torture and the object of persecution is persecution, the combine is a massive empire, an empire that wants to expand and conquer as much as possible and even more, for the point of power is to have power. and the Consul? The Consul wants to take advantage of the e of the opportunity as much as possible, to become a dictator like Big Brother, the consul represents the combine because it would not make as much sense to have an alien , so his role is essentially an ambassador because he is a leader who shares the same morals as the Combine leaders and can control the people and provide the combine with what they need.

The Combine in the Half-Life 2 that we got are shown as though they don't care about the resistance because they know that they could never go up and win against them, in 1984 Big Brother does not even allow anyone to have a second thought as to wether or not Goldstein is evil, the citizens are constantly watched and if they show any signs of defiance then they taken away. In half-Life 2 however, the Combine do not care, they believe that if someone were to try anything, then they would be crushed. I think what this mod needs to do is emphasise a lot more on the actual power the Combine holds over the fate of earth, as in showing Combine soldiers beating citizens and the citizens and resistance fleeing when the metro cops arrive. I think that this mod needs to show the Combine as being as aggressive and physically violent as 1984 shows Big Brother as threatening, this will go with the whole fighting back thing, if the Combine are shown to have so much power and that none of the resistance can stand up against them, then the player will feel much more inclined to fight back in all ways possible.

Also I think that loads of posters like the Big Brother ones from 1984, but with the Consul, would look cool plastered all over the walls of city 17.

You guys should consider putting stuff like this in the game

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How much of the game is done now though, like how many chapters, or parts of chapters? This has been happening since 2012 so you must have made some progress.