Dark Interval is a campaign mod created as an alternate take on Half-Life 2, incorporating selected early story drafts and cut content. We're creating new maps, assets, characters and story beats to fill in the blanks, and to build a coherent story of its own. The mod is released in episodes, the most recent being Dark Interval: Part I - an intro chapter to the bigger picture.
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Bad news: despite our earlier promises to release DI Part 2 as 17 maps going from Kleiner's Lab escape to the Depot, the first release will only contain the first 12 maps. It's either this, or never living to see Part 2 release at all.
This also means that Haven and Beach maps from the Wasteland Demo (available on our Discord) won't be included in the first release. Why? Because there are three more maps between them that are not completed.
Good news: we have a release window. And the trailer.
The mod is out of alpha, and in the next few weeks it will enter the final closed beta test, where we'll find and fix bugs, make final adjustments to gameplay and item balance, finalize all the story scenes. How long it will last depends on how many problems we find and how fast we can fix them.
Additionally, Part 2 will include all maps from Part 1, but they won't receive drastic changes on release.
Feel free to join our Discord server: Discord.gg
April 2023 Media Update
News 19 commentsWhat we've been up to - gameplay changes, HUD elements, new props, new citizen model.
March 2022 Short Media Update
News 7 commentsNew creature animations and QoL things. Short media update to keep up update stats.
End of 2021 Status Update
News 14 commentsEverything is going well. Simple update with new media and talking about how things are going.
April 2021 Progress Recap
News 15 commentsRecapping the progress made since the last official bit of news about the mod.
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Dark Interval 1.2 (Standalone)
Full Version 149 commentsIMPORTANT: This is STANDALONE. You don't need 1.1 version of the mod and you SHOULD install this as a separate mod. We're releasing a revamp update for...
Dark Interval 1.2 Ukrainian Translation
Language Pack 10 commentsUkrainian localization for Dark Interval 1.2 Thanks to this localization, you can enjoy the mod in your native language!
Dark Interval 1.1 (OBSOLETE - DON'T USE)
Full Version 86 commentsDark Interval: Part I contains 4 new chapters - Prologue, Welcome to City 17, Manhack Arcade and Kleiner's Lab.
Dark Interval Demo Update (OBSOLETE - DON'T USE)
PatchUnpack into \sourcemods\, overwrite existing files. This patch is cumulative - in includes changes from DI Hotfix #00. Patch info: - Added autosave triggers...
Dark Interval Demo Hotfix (OBSOLETE - DON'T USE)
PatchAn extra quick hotfix for the English version. Fixes missing chapter title in the bonus chapter and missing dialogue captions in the Terminal.
Dark Interval Demo (OBSOLETE - DON'T USE)
Demo 28 commentsZIP archive contaning Dark Interval: Chapter I. Unpack in Steam\Steamapps\Sourcemods, download/install Source SDK Base 2013 Singpleplayer in Steam>My...
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Will there be any little update for the end of 2022?
Bit late for that now.
Uh, that is, there won't be any updates at all?
You're still not getting it chief.
You asked whether there will be an update at the end of 2022 in 2023.
So yeah, a bit late for that now.
There's nothing to talk about that could be turned into a media update or an article. We would have to either squeeze really hard to produce a few droplets of information useful to non-developers, or go into spoiler territory whcih we want even less. So, nothing.
is this modification dead?
Far from it. We've accomplished less in 2022 than we wanted, but there's no giving up for us.
Got a rough timeline for release? Like +/- a year? Need to know which mod pages I should be frantically F5ing.
hey, since it seems like the citizens wont need to wear their air protection gear, will this mod have the air exchange?
Yes, and that will be explained within the mod.
How is development coming along?
We started a closed test of three more maps and our testers didn't hate the experience. Things overall are starting to look and play like the final result, if you squint and don't listen to all the incomplete audio.
Здравствуйте, авторы. Совсем недавно скачал этот мод, но с самых первых секунд он... прекрасен. Сейчас парралельно перепрохожу саму вторую Халфу, и уровень проработки это просто небо и земля. Спасибо вам за такой уникальный проэкт, надеюсь, рано или поздно вы воссоздадите ту самую искомую бетку до конца!
Но всё же у меня есть пару вопросов и просто придирок, на которые надеюсь услышать ответ.
Первое: я хоть и далеко не гуру бетки, и даже претендовать на такое звание не могу. Может быть, чего-то не понимаю, но почему игра начинается с Гиперборея? Вроде по сюжету бетки Фриман пробуждался в поезде до Сити 17. Извиняюсь, если затупил, но всё же.
Второе: очевидная придирка - большинства ассетов из бетки или просто переработанных моделек здесь нет, то есть у консула тут моделька Брина (как и его незаменённые речи), метрокопы и некоторые ситизены имеют стандартную модель из HL2, ну и прочие мелочи. Надеюсь, в будущем вы это исправите.
Ну и третье, самое незначительное: большинство пропов на карте пропами не являются, как бы глупо это не звучало. Большая часть предметов просто лежит без возможности какого-либо взаимодействия, зато вот все стулья, которые я толкал и трогал, толкались и трогались. Особенно странно, когда одни и те же пропы в разных местах то можно, то нельзя поднять. Хоть это и мелочь, всё же немного портит впечатление, и убирает ту самую изюминку, на которую Valve хотели акцентировать внимание в Half-Life 2.
Ну а так, не учитывая низкокачественную озвучку, это вроде всё. Ещё раз спасибо авторам за мод и за то, что дочитали аж до сюда (если и дочитали). Удачи в разработке!
Насколько я знаю, у беты долго не было определенного сюжета, на разных стадиях разработки игра то начиналась на Борее (1999-2001), то на поезде в Сити 17 (с 2002). Авторы мода говорили, что вроде как не сильно ориентируются на "канонические" сюжеты беты и будут делать как хотят.