My idea for a mod.

[Alix Mcdean]

Hi guys,

I'm not sure if this has been thought up yet but I figured I'd throw it out into the open anyway-

After playing through HL2 I really liked the concept of blocking up doors/hallways with stuff in an attempt to gain more time or stop the enemy. Though I have to say, I don't think I really had much chance to fully exploit this idea.

So, I thought it would be awesome if there was a single player/multi player mod where it was mainly focused around this idea: A 2 story house with a surrounding yard. The house is fairly normal, has alot of furniture, windows and such. But the goal of the mod is to board the house up, barricade any openings and block passage ways with the inside objects in a attempt to keep the attacking NPCS/Players from getting in.
Though at the moment it may not be the best mod idea, but I thought it would be awesome after some more thinking such as it being COOP on multi player, upgrading defenses and such.

The attacking NPC's or Players would be in swarms, a bit like a crapload of Ant lions or an army of Combine.
You would also be able to board up windows with planks from broken wooden furniture.
The enemies(lets say Antlions.) would have some pretty badass breaking claws or ramming possibilities.

It could also not just be about trying to keep the enemy out, I was thinking it could also work a bit like 'Keep the Vip alive' kinda thing where you gotta keep someone alive or keep an object out of the enemy hands, so thus you could attempt to hide the person in a closet, board/barricade it up to hell.

Oh well, may never go anywhere but I think it would be awesome to be able to sit in a house for a 4 minute round attempting to hold off hordes of enemies franticly with anything and everything you've got.

Just think of it, you're crouched behind a stove on its side, looking towards a door being pounded on for the last 20 seconds, you have 5 buddies around you all aiming at the same place, at times looking around at other bangs and crashes, suddenly the door breaks open and 20 Antlions come swarming in, bullets flying everywhere, your buddies dieing. You run back in a attempt to get away, knocking over things to block their path just so you can gain a few seconds in advantage. You quickly run into a small room, closing the door behind you and blocking it up with a table and other objects, the door being pounded on hard.
Woo, thats my idea of fun

Just my 2cents.

 

[Bad_Llama123]

I have no idea what to do when it comes to modding, but I think this is an AMAZING idea! :cheers:

Hopefully, somebody with more modding experience will pick up on this idea.

 

[Alix Mcdean]

Thanks!
I'd possibly start this mod if I could, but unfortunatly I have little to no modding experience. However I can texture! I'm a digital artist in real life.

-Alix

 

[Maskirovka]

why wouldn't be a good idea? the whole "swarms" thing works really well for warcraft 3 custom games...so why not hl2? obviously they're different games, but the concept is still the same...and it's a fun one.

i'm sure sven co-op 2 will have stuff like that...it's a good idea.

 

[Alix Mcdean]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too.
I'll probably wait for Sven Coop2, if they dont impliment something like this then i'll probably band a few coders together with me and create it, unless we can get it going sooner than Sven Coop2.

-Alix

 

[Wraith]

why not make it multiplayer? 4/5ths of us could spawn as antlions, and the humans spawn in the house and get a 15 second headstart, then we break out of the ground and have at least 30 seconds of running until we get to the house, then we just attack with all we've got, you could make it mouse1 to attack with claws, mouse2 to fly (they sorta just hover?) and spaceto jump. sounds like a kickass idea, though you would need a way for them topick crap up and nail it to the wall.

 

[Alix Mcdean]

why not make it multiplayer? 4/5ths of us could spawn as antlions, and the humans spawn in the house and get a 15 second headstart, then we break out of the ground and have at least 30 seconds of running until we get to the house, then we just attack with all we've got, you could make it mouse1 to attack with claws, mouse2 to fly (they sorta just hover?) and spaceto jump. sounds like a kickass idea, though you would need a way for them topick crap up and nail it to the wall.

That was the main idea, it would be pure awesome to mix NPC with players.
Primary: Normal attack(Good for breaking smaller things like boards. Think crowbar attack.)
Secondary: Ram(Good for knocking larger things over/back)
Jump: Well, its jump! But its a little higher than what a normal human can jump.
Dubble jump: This is like jumping, then at full potential of the jump you can then hover up with the wings.

I'm thinking the way the planks and such could be nailed would be fairly the same from the glue gun which was removed from the original game only it would be slightly different.

Instead of globs of glue from a small gun you would replace the model with a nail gun, somehow we could make it so that Player 2 would hold the board in place while Player 1 nails it into the wall.
That or it would be a dual wield like system, left hand holds the board, right hand nails 1 corner in.

I think this mod could be easily made, hell, a month or two worth of work and it could basicly be finished.
I dont think it would need THAT much coding either.

-Alix

 

[Garric]

i got it! Hold the plank up with the grav gun while another player pelts it with the crossbow, nails it to the wall.

 

[schematic]

Thats how I beat the section in the prison where all the combine attack like mad. I boarded up the one side of the part with the ammo box, setup the turrets and hid like a little bitch girl behind them. They took care of all the combine and never broke down the barrier.

 

[Vesh]

Some of the best fun I've ever had gaming was Tower Defense in War3 with some buds on a LAN. If this HL2 'House Defense' could get any of that same spark and insanity, I'm all for it.

 

[smithgdwg]

Actually I was thinking about this too..

The idea came to me after watching Night of the Living Dead, and how it would be an interesting concept to have a bunch of zombies outside and your best defense is to board up the whole house.

Maybe even a Dawn of the Dead type map where you are stuck inside a mall. Ohh the possibilities!!!!