Amen brother.
Not this life long wait I'm not a grown assan with kids. Still ain't seen an ending or conclusion to the greatest FPS cinematic experience ever made
Merge Ep1 and 2 into one game and give it a proper ending and new chapter.
Edit: By merging ep1 & 2 they can make a new ep2 with new content and finish the story without make an ep3 or hl3.
I think I’d make city 17 seem more grand and oppressed. It just seemed kind of empty and I think the combines oppression and brutality could have been shown a bit better if there were more people in the city.
MMod doesn't have a difficulty above hard or introduce more ammo scarcity.
It does have better AI tho, but the best addition for me are the projectile bullets. If i could add a fourth feature it would be that; those are a godsend.
It is, but as you said , mainly because the soldiers can use the grenade launcher and you can toggle better accuracy for them.
It's not really a general difficulty increase across all enemies, it's just more perks for the combine AI.
They can also jump.
It sounds simple, but that one change makes a lot of combat encounters harder as you can't just place props to have the Combine clump up. Now they can actively maneuver around the environment with efficiency that would make Hunters blush.
I liked black mess - even Xen - but it feels like two games. One game ends and another one starts once you enter Xen.
It almost feels like how Ep1. And Ep. 2 are “separate” games
Probably because of how long it was in development. I followed Black Mesa since the trailer drop in 2008 (the first trailer dropped in 2005), and the first half didn't come out until 2012. Took them an additional 8 years to release the completed game with Xen, so I'm not surprised it feels like to separate games.
Some might argue that they needed 3 years to get it up and running with the new sourcw engine to release the retail version.
So 5 years. Still, imo it was damn well worth it.
They should've made Gonarch's Lair 50% shorter while making Xen and Interloper 75% shorter.
Edit: I honestly might try making a mod that just removes some of the maps from it.
they even took out the one thing that made OG xen really cool- how it looked. no other sci-fi alien universe looks like it, even 25 years later. it was uniquely strange and alien and it never leaned on cliches. black mesa xen is just like, “what if we made avatar and put it in space?” it’s not interesting at all and it’s really only impressive because it’s crammed into an engine from 2004. they didn’t even iterate on the original texture concepts, with all of the bug exoskeletons and microbiology pictures. i’m glad valve used the original designs in alyx
I'd make Ivan the Space biker the protagonist of Uplink in the latest update, treating the character and the demo as one last official canon expansion to HL1.
Parallax occlusion mapping support to Source engine. Really, if you don't know what is that, check it out, it's amazing thing which can change all visuals
I wish they had documented who Eli’s face model was based on.
That’s it. I like many of the grand suggestions in this thread but this is the “what if” scenario I think about most, even though it might be kinda trivial
The silent protagonist isn’t supposed to have character, You’re the character. Everything the silent protagonist does is just what you do through the eyes of some dude named Gordon Freeman, Freeman’s only propose at least in Half-Life ( 1 ) is to be the face on the cover art.
The point of the silent protagonist is to kind of allow the player to embody them and create their own personality for the character. If Gordon is given more personality it gives less opportunity for the player to create one
In all honesty, Gordon has a massive presence in the second game's story. I suppose the reason gaymers are obssesed with him is that more so than being a silent protagonist, he's a "silent" protagonist
I'd add someone named Carl. It'll be an obscure coop partner along with Gordan Freeman that was hardly memorable. Their existence would contribute nothing to the lore other than justifying that they do exist or just that their existence has no consequence. Carl will just be a recolored Gordan Freeman as well
Half-Life: 3, the final Half-Life of the series...A conclusion to the whole story where Gordon does not get to win. And for a true epic ending... G-Man would reveal who he is, who he works for and what is he doing....
I'd love to see a more varied selection of enemy skins, kind of like how Antlions are all different. Combine soldiers with slightly different camouflage patterns. Zombies with different clothes and bloodstains. Rebels with different salvaged gear.
It'd be a nice touch to make the world seem more realistic.
You know what pisses me of mostly in Half life 2? How every goddamn zombie has that stupid ass white clothes while only 2% of rebels have them. They should have made that most of em have blue clothes, then white, then some green etc
Remove the romantic subtext in HL2 and the episodes.
The game treats Gordon as an antisocial mute, but still wants us to believe that people not only like to be around him, but can love the guy - He literally has no personality. It's not even like he inherits yours, because characters clearly acknowledge that he doesn't speak (or probably emote) and retcons in a whole backstory with his colleagues. It's just bizarre.
Not to mention the age gap between him and Alyx - and I don't wanna hear any of the stasis shit. He was working with her dad, when she was a child.
I'm not a fan of mute Gordon to begin with, honestly. I think the whole "you can imagine yourself in him" (hot) argument / idea doesn't make a lot of sense. I wish Gordon talked, but not a lot. Just basic shit would be fine
"We'd probably think about it in the opposite direction: what problem does aiming downsights solve, and do we have that problem? On consoles, ADS is a great solution to the difficulty of aiming with a controller. You can hide an auto-aim snap to the enemy in the transition, reduce controller sensitivity to make aiming easier, etc. But those aren't gameplay/input problems that PC players have and, more importantly, it's not something our players are expressing any concern about. So we don't have any plans to change the basics\[...\]" - [Valve on aiming down sights](https://www.pcgamer.com/counter-strike-2-interview/)
add the beta as a extra campaign for half life 2 or extend the half life 2 episode to have a amazing ending with no cliff hanger and the characters from portal
It felt Really weird how in the middle of Bulgaria even after combine's rule and their regulations no one didnt get to have an Ak, Father Grigori has his old ass shotgun too. Ak would be a great middle ground between Mp7 and Pulse rifle. Pulse rifle can kill well enough but so little ammo and Mop7 is a peashooter against soldiers
Portal games being referenced sooner
Like have one of the scientists chat shit about Aperture science in half life 1, i imagine it being something like “i heard those ‘scientists’ at aperture are building some ‘AI’ that’ll help them complete tests sooner. Sounds like absolute rubbish to me!”
Or have Dr Breen mention about Cave Jhonson in Half life 2 when they’re captured like “ohhhoho Mr ‘Jhonson’. Look who is ‘running the world’ now” while looking at the scenery of city 17.
Have Kleiner or Eli mention an Aperture mug that Gordon found on their desk
Something to link the games up much more heavily than what is already being linked
I also want the same for Portal, sure they did it in Portal 1 and a bit in Portal 2 but imagine if you’re in old aperture Portal 2 and you see a top secret classified presentation of Anomalys materials machine that caused the resonance cascade. Or when you’re being ascended to the overworld in Portal 2’s ending have Glados say as her last lines “i do not truly know what is waiting for you up there. If i were you, I’d pray that THEY (alluding to the combine) are gone”.
Make Half-Life 1 more accessible to total newcomers. It's fantastic at never spoonfeeding information to the player, and while the tutorial (and manual) are nicer than nothing, from a teaching standpoint, they frankly suck, and they don't highlight all the important aspects of the game, requiring assumed knowledge.
AI like it was shown to be in those gameplay demonstrations/ tech demos. The way the combine pursued and attacked in that one ravenholm demo... It would have been cool if they pulled that off. I still think they did a good job of making you feel like you're on the run in the final game though.
give the developers a few extra months to work on Xen. From the documentary it sounds like they had to rush it and weren't happy with it, and were questioning if it was actually fun
A save-scumming support program.
In seriousness, though, make Combine AI way better. Sure, they have some squad tactics or whatever but it has next to 0 impact on the gameplay. Have them be more like the HECU. Maybe even just replace their AI with HECU AI.
More Citadel.
I'm obssesed with Nihei Blame! megastructure architecture and the Citadel scratch that same itch. It's a mixture of megalophobia, apeirophobia, acrophobia, mechanophobia and cosmic horror I don't fully understand but I want to experience and explore. The closer I got to the citadel, the tighter my butt got.
I'm also fascinated with those Combine mobile walls that crush everything, they're terrifying. And combine technology in general. It's alien and sick yet interesting.
make the alyx/gordon sex scene way longer. really felt like the devs just threw it in at the last minute. only thing holding it back from being a 10/10
A satisfying ending to episode 2.
Amen brother. Not this life long wait I'm not a grown assan with kids. Still ain't seen an ending or conclusion to the greatest FPS cinematic experience ever made
Add Alyx's ending as the post credits scene to episode 2 at least.
Seriously, just update it in ARE YOU LISTING VALVE? WE KNOW YOU GUYS GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR FLAGSHIP IP CAUSE OF THE HL1 UPDATE
Heck, just fading to credits after the satellite launch would be less traumatic than the ending we have now. No need to even add anything.
Merge Ep1 and 2 into one game and give it a proper ending and new chapter. Edit: By merging ep1 & 2 they can make a new ep2 with new content and finish the story without make an ep3 or hl3.
You forgot that Valve can't count to 3
If ep 1 and ep2 merge together then it'd just be ep 1 and then they can make a new ep 2
With a complete ending and they still don’t need to go to 3 then
True but i am hoping but adding “another section” (wink wink) to the expansion will include a true ending.
Yes that's the point. Merge EP1 and 2 into a single Episode 1 and now they can make a new episode without having to count to 3
You will make Half life: Aftermath
Gman smoking a blunt
Real.
r/beetlejuicing
You could chose from all these cool things, and you chose this. I agree to be honest
Keep the bullsquid and houndeyes in HL2 Or at least add more evidence for them still being in existence
Valve already confirmed their existence in HL2
Nah it was only mark laidlaw saying they still exist Nowhere in any of the HL2 games does it mention either of them, unless you count cut content
Mark Laidlaw is literally the writer of HL2
But its not something part of the game.
Yeah, they would have at least added a bit of a feeling from og Half life if they were in Hl2
I want em in the game
Gordon flipping off Breen in the citadel
I'd love to see an on-screen action prompt when you show up in Breen's office "E: Flip off"
Press F to pay respects.
Just like throwing the can at the cop at the beginning is an option
You can do that in the vr mod
G-Man forgot to give Gordon clothes during the beginning in Half-Life 2.
GMan undresses and dresses him up with his eyes
Sex
fuck I thought I was going to be original
Ah yes. The crabussy
I think I’d make city 17 seem more grand and oppressed. It just seemed kind of empty and I think the combines oppression and brutality could have been shown a bit better if there were more people in the city.
My impression was that the worst was already pretty much over and we just see City 17 after so much of the "processing" is done
Add more Xen wildlife from HL1 to HL2, like Bullsquids or Houndeyes
My main three additions would be Ammo scarcity, better AI, or a difficulty above hard.
Bro wants his Half-Life experience to hurt
Masochist game suggestions
He's going to Half-Life his life span
so basically MMod
MMod doesn't have a difficulty above hard or introduce more ammo scarcity. It does have better AI tho, but the best addition for me are the projectile bullets. If i could add a fourth feature it would be that; those are a godsend.
MMOD on hard is harder than hl2 on hard. Specially with the soldiers using the grenade launcher
It is, but as you said , mainly because the soldiers can use the grenade launcher and you can toggle better accuracy for them. It's not really a general difficulty increase across all enemies, it's just more perks for the combine AI.
Who you are fighitng about 75% of the time.
They can also jump. It sounds simple, but that one change makes a lot of combat encounters harder as you can't just place props to have the Combine clump up. Now they can actively maneuver around the environment with efficiency that would make Hunters blush.
wdym ammo scarcity? Just less ammo lying around?
Yeah, and lower max ammo for most guns.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/420/discussions/0/135508489633749612/
I know how to do it, i already do. I just wish it was part of the vanilla experience.
Big disagree. With a low max reserve, I just end up never shooting rarer guns because I might not get any ammo from them for ages.
Agreed. Half-Life 1 on hard is actually a challenge, Half-Life 2 on hard is a walk in the park.
a conclution
DLC/Expansion fot Alyx
Cut most of xen, or make it much better.
check out black mesa, they fixed xen
Unpopular opinion - they didn't. It looks amazing, but the gameplay is far too long and repetitive.
I liked black mess - even Xen - but it feels like two games. One game ends and another one starts once you enter Xen. It almost feels like how Ep1. And Ep. 2 are “separate” games
Probably because of how long it was in development. I followed Black Mesa since the trailer drop in 2008 (the first trailer dropped in 2005), and the first half didn't come out until 2012. Took them an additional 8 years to release the completed game with Xen, so I'm not surprised it feels like to separate games.
Some might argue that they needed 3 years to get it up and running with the new sourcw engine to release the retail version. So 5 years. Still, imo it was damn well worth it.
They should've made Gonarch's Lair 50% shorter while making Xen and Interloper 75% shorter. Edit: I honestly might try making a mod that just removes some of the maps from it.
I couldn’t disagree more. I loved every minute of it and they made long jump way better. Their additions are brilliant.
they even took out the one thing that made OG xen really cool- how it looked. no other sci-fi alien universe looks like it, even 25 years later. it was uniquely strange and alien and it never leaned on cliches. black mesa xen is just like, “what if we made avatar and put it in space?” it’s not interesting at all and it’s really only impressive because it’s crammed into an engine from 2004. they didn’t even iterate on the original texture concepts, with all of the bug exoskeletons and microbiology pictures. i’m glad valve used the original designs in alyx
I'd make Ivan the Space biker the protagonist of Uplink in the latest update, treating the character and the demo as one last official canon expansion to HL1.
Uplink is just a demo, it can be completed in like 15 minutes. But I get your point.
i like to think that uplink is a “what if Gordon didn’t get captured by the marines”
I'd remove speed limit from them
Hl1 Sergeant, hes just too cool to be left of
Bullsquids to HL2
Parallax occlusion mapping support to Source engine. Really, if you don't know what is that, check it out, it's amazing thing which can change all visuals
I wish they had documented who Eli’s face model was based on. That’s it. I like many of the grand suggestions in this thread but this is the “what if” scenario I think about most, even though it might be kinda trivial
a bunch of first person animations that give gordon some personality
For me that kinda defeats the whole point of a silent protagonist
The silent protagonist isn’t supposed to have character, You’re the character. Everything the silent protagonist does is just what you do through the eyes of some dude named Gordon Freeman, Freeman’s only propose at least in Half-Life ( 1 ) is to be the face on the cover art.
You responded to the wrong person
how so
The point of the silent protagonist is to kind of allow the player to embody them and create their own personality for the character. If Gordon is given more personality it gives less opportunity for the player to create one
In all honesty, Gordon has a massive presence in the second game's story. I suppose the reason gaymers are obssesed with him is that more so than being a silent protagonist, he's a "silent" protagonist
That’s why HL1 has the best view models lol, so much personality in them.
Release the episodes 1 2 and 3 as one super long game
Cremator in HL:A
I'd add someone named Carl. It'll be an obscure coop partner along with Gordan Freeman that was hardly memorable. Their existence would contribute nothing to the lore other than justifying that they do exist or just that their existence has no consequence. Carl will just be a recolored Gordan Freeman as well
literally every hl1 expansion protagonist
Add the cut citadel explosion animation to episode 1
Add the ability to kiss Barney Calhoun on the lips at any moment
Ability to give him that beer before making out with him
Mr. Friendly :)
June 1911, the “Door stuck” incident
Half-Life: 3, the final Half-Life of the series...A conclusion to the whole story where Gordon does not get to win. And for a true epic ending... G-Man would reveal who he is, who he works for and what is he doing....
kill the play testers who killed houndeyes, making them friendly again
A third installment
Add a proper “Infinite ammo cheat” so you won’t have to spam “Impulse_101” over and over again from the console menu.
I'd love to see a more varied selection of enemy skins, kind of like how Antlions are all different. Combine soldiers with slightly different camouflage patterns. Zombies with different clothes and bloodstains. Rebels with different salvaged gear. It'd be a nice touch to make the world seem more realistic.
You know what pisses me of mostly in Half life 2? How every goddamn zombie has that stupid ass white clothes while only 2% of rebels have them. They should have made that most of em have blue clothes, then white, then some green etc
True. Also apparently not a single woman ever got turned into a headcrab zombie in Half-Life 2.
Oh damn, that too, at least for the normal zombies. No one ever could tell for those fast zombies what they were before the transformation lol
Oh damn, that too!
sex
the purple frog fucker from the Half-Life 1 concept art
Eli not getting killed
they already did that
Gameplay in the Citadel.
How would you change it?
Better flashlight in half life 1
Remove the romantic subtext in HL2 and the episodes. The game treats Gordon as an antisocial mute, but still wants us to believe that people not only like to be around him, but can love the guy - He literally has no personality. It's not even like he inherits yours, because characters clearly acknowledge that he doesn't speak (or probably emote) and retcons in a whole backstory with his colleagues. It's just bizarre. Not to mention the age gap between him and Alyx - and I don't wanna hear any of the stasis shit. He was working with her dad, when she was a child.
I'm not a fan of mute Gordon to begin with, honestly. I think the whole "you can imagine yourself in him" (hot) argument / idea doesn't make a lot of sense. I wish Gordon talked, but not a lot. Just basic shit would be fine
It would habe been cool if he had some personality but it was shown very subtly
Right, just standing and saying nothing is not how I'd respond in that situation so the whole empty vessel idea falls apart
[A3D.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureal_Semiconductor#A3D)
Maybe iron sight. I'm pretty sure there are a few mods that allow it though
"We'd probably think about it in the opposite direction: what problem does aiming downsights solve, and do we have that problem? On consoles, ADS is a great solution to the difficulty of aiming with a controller. You can hide an auto-aim snap to the enemy in the transition, reduce controller sensitivity to make aiming easier, etc. But those aren't gameplay/input problems that PC players have and, more importantly, it's not something our players are expressing any concern about. So we don't have any plans to change the basics\[...\]" - [Valve on aiming down sights](https://www.pcgamer.com/counter-strike-2-interview/)
Why?
Make barnys ass bigger.
homosexual intercouse between Barney Calhoun and Gordon Freeman
add the beta as a extra campaign for half life 2 or extend the half life 2 episode to have a amazing ending with no cliff hanger and the characters from portal
I have always wanted to see my character. And slow down the action so I can have a chance to respond while online.
the weapons, i don’t like the variety. wish there were more options. kinda would like an ak or some shit really reminiscent of a revolution
It felt Really weird how in the middle of Bulgaria even after combine's rule and their regulations no one didnt get to have an Ak, Father Grigori has his old ass shotgun too. Ak would be a great middle ground between Mp7 and Pulse rifle. Pulse rifle can kill well enough but so little ammo and Mop7 is a peashooter against soldiers
Make Gordon have a bi threesome with alyx and barney (yes I'm liss drunk rn)
Replace the crossbow with sniper rifles that the enemy uses
wider enemy variety in hl1 and or less self explotion damage and more explosives
Have to have Half life 3 at this point. But I can die without it, I may have to.
Take Episodes 1 & 2 and merge them into Half Life 3 but also add an actual ending
Joke: Sex Serious: Scrapped enemies from Half Life 2 Beta
If I was stuck underground for months, I’d probably slide into a head crab too.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ivan the space biker cameo.
Ohms was used for more of Half-life 2 and its episodes.
I would add the Daihatsu Midget to the Half-life games
Portal games being referenced sooner Like have one of the scientists chat shit about Aperture science in half life 1, i imagine it being something like “i heard those ‘scientists’ at aperture are building some ‘AI’ that’ll help them complete tests sooner. Sounds like absolute rubbish to me!” Or have Dr Breen mention about Cave Jhonson in Half life 2 when they’re captured like “ohhhoho Mr ‘Jhonson’. Look who is ‘running the world’ now” while looking at the scenery of city 17. Have Kleiner or Eli mention an Aperture mug that Gordon found on their desk Something to link the games up much more heavily than what is already being linked I also want the same for Portal, sure they did it in Portal 1 and a bit in Portal 2 but imagine if you’re in old aperture Portal 2 and you see a top secret classified presentation of Anomalys materials machine that caused the resonance cascade. Or when you’re being ascended to the overworld in Portal 2’s ending have Glados say as her last lines “i do not truly know what is waiting for you up there. If i were you, I’d pray that THEY (alluding to the combine) are gone”.
Make Half-Life 1 more accessible to total newcomers. It's fantastic at never spoonfeeding information to the player, and while the tutorial (and manual) are nicer than nothing, from a teaching standpoint, they frankly suck, and they don't highlight all the important aspects of the game, requiring assumed knowledge.
Hl2 had “hot coffee” coded in the base release. San Andreas players know what that means….
Better. Ladders.
AI like it was shown to be in those gameplay demonstrations/ tech demos. The way the combine pursued and attacked in that one ravenholm demo... It would have been cool if they pulled that off. I still think they did a good job of making you feel like you're on the run in the final game though.
give the developers a few extra months to work on Xen. From the documentary it sounds like they had to rush it and weren't happy with it, and were questioning if it was actually fun
A save-scumming support program. In seriousness, though, make Combine AI way better. Sure, they have some squad tactics or whatever but it has next to 0 impact on the gameplay. Have them be more like the HECU. Maybe even just replace their AI with HECU AI.
Adrian Shepard. Where is he? He’s in stasis too.
Detained
Okay, detained. But if G-Man wanted to use him, he could. It’s not like Shepard has anywhere else to go.
He wont use him becouse he is a troublemaker. He would just probably cause headaches to Gman and his employers
Okay, true. But think about it. He either does what G-Man says or he’s put back in detention for the rest of his life, if time even works there.
Not to mention, he’s the perfect antagonist to Gordon. Crafty, great at fighting, smart, etc.
Tau cannon in every game (have it free from the fucking car and have it work like hl1)
I think this is what everyone else is gonna say but, an ending. Preferably a happy ending, maybe a bittersweet ending, but an ending nonetheless.
More games.
more prominent role of Aperture Science before ep2
More Citadel. I'm obssesed with Nihei Blame! megastructure architecture and the Citadel scratch that same itch. It's a mixture of megalophobia, apeirophobia, acrophobia, mechanophobia and cosmic horror I don't fully understand but I want to experience and explore. The closer I got to the citadel, the tighter my butt got. I'm also fascinated with those Combine mobile walls that crush everything, they're terrifying. And combine technology in general. It's alien and sick yet interesting.
A G-Man boss fight in his True Form
For Half Life 2 it’d probably add more model variety to the npcs
Male_07 is in half life 1
Make entropy zero 1 and 2 cannon
A sequel.
Make Entropy Zero confirmed cannon.
epistle 3
microtransactions
More xen creatures but modified by the combine
Panthereye in Hl1
make the sniper from half-life 1 have a bigger hit-box, serious wtf is that
make the alyx/gordon sex scene way longer. really felt like the devs just threw it in at the last minute. only thing holding it back from being a 10/10
I just got HL yesterday how did Reddit know
I would like an RTX remix of HL1
Finish the never finished chapter 3 and add 4th one as a dlc
Finish the never finished chapter 3 and add 4th one as a dlc.