Ageing FPS Half-Life gets free overhaul, but not from Valve

A revolutionary product of its time, the primary Half-Life recreation from Valve doesn’t want a touch-up, however what if it received one which was extremely in step with the FPS recreation’s unique launch on Steam, and what if it was popping out very quickly? Properly, fortunate for you I can reply each these questions, as Half-Life does have an overhaul mod coming to Steam totally free and, would you take a look at that, it’s coming very quickly too.

Known as ‘Half-Life: MMod’, this free Steam modification for Valve’s shooter goals to utterly overhaul the unique expertise whereas nonetheless preserving inside the bounds of the preliminary 1998 launch. There are AI, VFX, SFX, and fight tweaks, all of that are optionally available alongside a plethora of bug fixes. The mod is described as an “overhaul in [the] spirit of [the] unique.”

You possibly can try an in-progress take a look at Half-Life: MMod under, with the discharge proper across the nook.

Half-Life:MMod adjustments from Steam unique

There are many adjustments coming to Half-Life with this free mod, all of which you’ll be able to see under.

• Revised gunplay, dynamic weapon bullet unfold, easy recoil, optionally available non-hitscan bullets
• Enhanced participant and visible suggestions
• Minor AI tweaks, extra reactive and responsive AI, practically each character blinks
• New and further weapon animations
• Constructed-in fundamental chapter choice system
• Touched-up weapon fashions, animated weapon screens and creature eyes
• New arsenal, particular weapon features (silencers, addons, hearth modes)
• Loads of bug fixes
• VFX redesign (explosions, bullet impacts, muzzle flashes, monster results, and so forth)
• Minor sound redesign, extra weapon, and monster sounds
• Weapon foley sounds for each single weapon
• Restored HEV voice traces
• Barely enhanced visuals, detailed textures
• Visible, atmospheric, and pacing-related map tweaks and additions (work in progress)

All of those adjustments to the unique Half-Life on Steam are additionally utterly optionally available, because the MMod developer says the discharge will include a particular choices menu the place you may toggle which of the adjustments you need on or off.

Developer Gunship Mark II has truly already launched a Half-Life 2: Mmod replace as effectively, which introduces comparable enhancements to the Valve sequel together with higher gunplay, new animations, improved textures, modified NPCs and lighting, and far more.

Half-Life 1: Mmod releases March 14, 2023 on Steam, and you may wishlist it from the official web page.

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