Half-Life 2: Inhuman mod

These last few months I’ve let myself work a bit more aimlessly on the project to make it fun for myself again. This has helped build up the motivation to keep juggling it with my professional work and I think we’re at a stage where we can comfortably start targeting a new ship date soon. Before I get into that though, let’s go over some of the mod’s latest achievements.

Some great work from one of our level designers and env artists.

Progress

Old cover animations from the beta have been reimplemented to lean into the pace and style of the game’s combat.

Soldiers prioritize being near cover so getting these working has been a long running temptation. It was a lot of work but I think it was worth it in the end. It really breathes some new life into them!

Chapter 2 is nearly complete, featuring basically no assets from Half-Life 2 at this point. We’ve been focusing on finding ways to better pace the level out and lean into the game’s unique setting, hopefully getting away from some of the generic industrial vibes of the past.

Another benefit to having more time to mess around is improving the game’s core arenas. This single room has probably had the most amount of attention given to it in the project recently, going from good to great in my opinion.

Cleaning up our HUD has also been a big boon for the game’s presentation. The alt ammo placement has always been really awkward so I started with getting that closer to where it is in Half-Life 2. It's still a bit WIP but overall it's looking a lot cleaner.

We also have new pick up prompts. These are a bit WIP but probably close to what we’ll ship with.

The Road Ahead

So I mentioned earlier we want to start targeting a new ship date soon. We will not be publicly stating what this is til the game is basically done, to avoid any more public confusion (and silly dated bits at the end of a trailer.) However what I would like to announce is we will be targeting a full release now, instead of trying to ship the game in 2 or 3 releases. We’ve begun planning the game’s final chapter out and I can’t wait to share more of it with you.

Beyond this, I’m keeping to the promise to make the game open source. After we’re done I’m going to go through and make sure elements of the game not used in the mod (antlions for instance) play nicely with the new AI systems and then put the whole game up on github for anyone to mess with.

For now though, we're fully focused on making the game the best it can be. To hold yourself over, enjoy this video of my current favorite part of the game.

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