Cry of Fear Released (Half-life 1 Horror Mod)

[Hectic Glenn]

The Half-life 1 mod scene isn't finished yet and Cry of Fear is probably the most anticipated HL1 mod of recent times. It's a horror mod with a single player and co-op component but beware, this is seriously scary stuff. You have been warned!

The mod is a total conversion so you won't see anything from Half-life 1 you will recognise but the team have gone beyond that adding technologies you wouldn't expect the ageing engine to support. You will find cut-scenes, high quality sounds, models and textures which will almost make you forget the engine's age.

I would seriously recommend you check this mod out, you won't be disappointed. Download from the Cry of Fear website via their Moddb page.

 

[ríomhaire]

A bit second hand and possibly untrue but I saw a guy on SPUF saying he heard that Cry of Fear installs custom dlls that can get you VAC banned if you try to play GoldSrc online after installing it. I have no idea if this is true or not.

 

[Barnz]

I've been playing the coop mode with my buddy. It's very difficult and frustrating. You should set the auto respawn time to 10 seconds before starting a server. You can perform a CPR on your friend to save him from the dead.

 

[MultiVaC]

Holy shit, I had no idea this was coming out already. Afraid of Monsters was amazing, high hopes for this one.

 

[Mellish]

Just downloaded it, anyone here up for doing coop with me?

 

[ríomhaire]

Holy shit, I had no idea this was coming out already. Afraid of Monsters was amazing, high hopes for this one.

I heard this a bit. I tried to play it but it I just found it annoying as hell. Some time after I shut off the hospital generator and got through the electrocuted wires I found some kind of conference room IIRC with some sort of puzzle. I can't really remember it very well but I could not figure out what I had to do and just run around wasting my battery in the dark. The enemies stopped being scary after five minutes of randomly wandering around. Their speed was a shock at first but after that they just became tiresome and pestering. I guess the Half-Life 1 movespeed made it too easy to just avoid and dance around monsters so they had to make them faster to compensate, but doing a little pistol dance with the zombies isn't frightening. They should have made the player slower instead.

 

[Edeslash]

From what I've heard, the level design is pretty bad, it doesn't build a strong atmosphere and relies on jump scares. Haven't tried it myself. And I won't. Not my type of stuff, Dead Esther is too scary for me.

 

[Barnz]

It's not that bad. What ruins the game for me is the poor gameplay mechanics. You can just skip the singleplayer and play the coop with your friends.