The mod thread

Where we discuss cool little mods and mappacks for different games. I'm really digging on Research and Development for Half Life 2. It takes the physics and uses them to make a puzzle game, but you can still cause tons of destruction and mayhem as you work your way through the game.

edited 16th Dec '10 4:03:02 PM by arks

ATTN: Deus Ex Fans

Play The Nameless Mod.

More open-ended gameplay. More balance. More options. More laughs. And bigger fucking guns.

Thank me later.

This is a good place to start.

C&C Fallout, a mod I'm excited for.

Zombie Panic! Source is also good.

And lastly, Obsidian Conflict, my favorite Co-op mod.

Portal: Prelude is a fun but tough mod for Portal which takes place before the original game, back when actual researchers ran Aperture Science. Being that the creator is French, the English (and assuming other languages as well) voice acting is done by Microsoft Sam.

Magna Mundi is a great Europa Universalis III mod, soon to be its own game!

MEIOU is also a good mod for said game.

Mods for Half Life 2 or the Source engine in general that are good and that will work on platforms other than Windows would be appreciated.

I'm looking forward to the re-release of Dear Esther, and found the recent patch of the Minerva mod won't let me actually play the game on this computer. I'm sure there are plenty of others that similarly won't work on a Mac or Linux machine for whatever reason.

edited 16th Dec '10 5:31:28 PM by GoggleFox

A lot of old mods for Half Life 2 take a little bit of work to function. There was an update that changed things. I think Minerva was one of the mods affected.

Yes. The recent patch is supposed to have made it work better under Windows. However, under Mac it fails, citing the lack of support for the 2006 Source SDK under Mac.

Uh, when you said Linux machine, you meant WINE or something, right?

And yeah, MINERVA was pretty stellar, Someplace Else too.

I need to try both of those. By the same person and quite good.

I never got past the second map in Minerva before swapping to the Mac version of Steam... and even then, I was using my VM for that play-through, with all its glitchy goodness. It was like seeing all the glitches he fixed in the recent patch, before they sprouted for normal Windows users in the May update.

And yeah, I forgot that Linux doesn't have a native version of Steam yet.

edited 16th Dec '10 5:34:31 PM by GoggleFox

Do ROM hacks count?

Sven Coop. Best co-op experience you'll have... next to Left 4 Dead, of course.

SMOD: Tactical for HL2. That's the last stable release after some morons decided they'd hack into the new creator's computer and steal his still-in-progress beta, then whine about how they can do so much better [never mind it was still being developed and thus suffered from bad AI and unrealistic weapons]. Someone else is fixing up bugs and shuffling weapons around, but he's having a time of doing it.

Or, if you're not a realism whore, SMOD: REDUX, which ass a shitton of crazy weapons. There's also an SMOD 2.0 for EP 1 and EP 2, but I have no fucking clue due to the original mod creator speaking moonspeak. Here's a youtube vidya with a link.

STALKER Supermod. It makes Shadow of Chernobyl awesome. Bow down to its awesomeness.

edited 16th Dec '10 6:41:14 PM by JackMackerel

@Jack: Nice of you to link to Project Life. Too bad the same isn't being done for Redux.

Honestly, I'd take a hack at it, but OMS said the custom characters he had in Redux Remastered v5 were buggy to shit, I don't know how to code/script AI (SMOD Redux is awesome, but it would be more so if the AI wasn't stupid as they were in HL 2), and it definitely needs more SWE Ps, but I don't know how much weapons can fit into SMOD Redux - OMS said he couldn't fit more weapons in SMOD Tactical due to SMOD's original limit.

I like to ramble.

I haven't gotten completely through either, but I have to say that Portal Pro is better than Portal Prelude in terms of game play. I think that one is the best Portal mod out there, personally.

Baldurs Gate Trilogy, especially combined with Unfinished Business. Takes two epic games, and makes them one even more epic game.

I guess you know by now that Half Life and Portal mods are all I play, but has anyone here tried "Too Many Crates"? You spend the entire game breaking crates.

^That one was awesome.

Command & Conquer 3: The Forgotten. Get it for C&C3. Now.

Just thought I'd bring this back up.

Downloaded a bunch of mods for Fallout: New Vegas for future use, including the J. Sawyer mod which I fully intend to use in my next playthrough there. Also gave the Fellout mod for Fallout 3 a try. Although New Vegas still did spoil my experience there, I tend to prefer the mod over the misty green sky the vanilla game has.

edited 30th Aug '12 5:10:57 AM by EarlOfSandvich