HL2 difficulty mod
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Funky Munky
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Substance is pretty hard.
Anyway I doubt its that hard to increase the enemies health by 100% or whatever. Someone will make this.
Anyway I doubt its that hard to increase the enemies health by 100% or whatever. Someone will make this.
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not to intrude, but if i may, turning up all those stats such as health and accuracy would in fact make it harder, but it would only take a quicker trigger finger and more patience to succeed. What would really make it a challenge, and increasingly more fun to play, is making the enemies smarter and more clever.
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Yeah but that would require more recoding and what not. I'd be happy with just having the enemies with more health and more accuracy.
I mean, Das Roboss was really really good, mainly because all the enemies were the Combine Elites.
I mean, Das Roboss was really really good, mainly because all the enemies were the Combine Elites.
After Route Kanal it seems that there is never any shortage of ammo & health - It's everywhere! Even removing a few choice health packs & ammo cases along the way would make the game tougher & force the player into a more defensive mode of play i.e. making use of cover & conserving ammo. Also making the Combine shot accuracy a little better & increasing the damage each hit does would make things tougher & I also think it would improve the gameplay. Again because it forces the player to be more strategic as opposed to Rambo-ing in which even on HARD you can get away with most of the time!
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Yeah I agree this is what we need. The game is too easy. I noticed the hardest parts were those parts where there was no health and ammo, and it was too far back to go get. So you were forced to play (like someone said) in a more cautious, defensive mode. When I had full health and it was lying all over the place, the game was a breeze.... regardless of how many Combine they had around.
dogboy73 said:
Half-Life 2 Balistics Mini-Mod: http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;37359
Half-Life 2 Difficulty Mod V2.3: http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;35646
Half-Life 2 Real Weapons Mod V4.0: http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;36451
... Take your pick.
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Nice post, I posted it to a local HL2 forum, if you don't mind.azzkiker said:Half-Life 2 Balistics Mini-Mod: http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;37359
Half-Life 2 Difficulty Mod V2.3: http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;35646
Half-Life 2 Real Weapons Mod V4.0: http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;36451
... Take your pick.
it's youSam2k said:
It's a piece of piss whatever way you look at it. Second time round i was able to use the physics to render certain opposition practically useless! The Nova Prospekt turret battle being a good example - Blocking one end completely with obstacles meant that hardly any Combine came through! They just stood on the opposite side of my clumsy barricade looking stupid! I promptly blew them all away & after lots of radio chatter but very few combine Alyx showed up!! Making my second time through the game on Hard even less interesting & challenging than the first run!I've just downloaded the difficulty mod V2.3. In the read me file I read this;
To load a game in the mod, write maps d in the console to get a list of the avalible maps. Choose one (map d1_trainstation_01 is the start of the game) and start playing. After thet you can load from you savegames.
I'm a tad confused. So I can't start the game from the beginning I have to use the maps d command in the console? But once I've saved I can just load from these save files? (I just wanted to get this straight before I embark! I don't want to get into the game & then realise I'm still playing on the normal HARD setting!!
To load a game in the mod, write maps d in the console to get a list of the avalible maps. Choose one (map d1_trainstation_01 is the start of the game) and start playing. After thet you can load from you savegames.
I'm a tad confused. So I can't start the game from the beginning I have to use the maps d command in the console? But once I've saved I can just load from these save files? (I just wanted to get this straight before I embark! I don't want to get into the game & then realise I'm still playing on the normal HARD setting!!
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the first thing as far as making the game harder is to beef up the weapons and making sure the enemy weapons are just as strong.
currently the damage that the combine pulse rifles do to you is 3 per shot. you however get to do 8 damage per shot. I decided to beef the gun up for everyone up to 10.
the sniper sequences in the game are a whole lot more dramatic when the snipes do 150 damage instead of 20 or whatever the default is.
shotguns become the bane of your existance as they will usually waste you in 1 or 2 shots.
most everything that you can change concerning npcs and weapons is in the sv_ or sk_ category in the console.
currently the damage that the combine pulse rifles do to you is 3 per shot. you however get to do 8 damage per shot. I decided to beef the gun up for everyone up to 10.
the sniper sequences in the game are a whole lot more dramatic when the snipes do 150 damage instead of 20 or whatever the default is.
shotguns become the bane of your existance as they will usually waste you in 1 or 2 shots.
most everything that you can change concerning npcs and weapons is in the sv_ or sk_ category in the console.
