OK granted HL2 is only a year or so old but where's all the mods that were talked about that were going to be all the rave after HL2 came out. I was checking MODDB.COM and there just isn't all that many mods for HL2. I know EA is involved with HL2 now also so are they screwing with things? I mean at a time there were 100's of mods being talked about at places like PlanetHalflife. Has anyone tried any of the mods that are out there? Anything worth the download? yes I finally got HL2 recently as why I'm curious...

go the Halflife2.net they or hlfallout.net they have mod news and stuff. It takes people a while to make these total conversion mods, ya know? Some of the ones Im looking forward to are Insurgency (www.insurgencymod.net) and Hostile Intent Source.

 

but yeah, Insurgency is in the Beta testing stage, they have been for a few months now, and they plan on having another, 200 or so person beta, and then an open public beta. It shouldnt be too long now

Wheat, Underspy, and i have been barking up that tree for a while D:

 

i need a good HL2 multiplayer mod NOW D:! ive said it a million times.

Yea, there arent many mods out now. Almost are all of them are "still in development". Unforunately they have been like this for awhile, hopefully some come out soon.

As far as I know Eskimo, EA is only responsible for the packaging and distribution and are doing nothing with the game itself.

EA is only involved in distribution, nothing else

OK granted HL2 is only a year or so old but where's all the mods that were talked about that were going to be all the rave after HL2 came out. I was checking MODDB.COM and there just isn't all that many mods for HL2. I know EA is involved with HL2 now also so are they screwing with things? I mean at a time there were 100's of mods being talked about at places like PlanetHalflife. Has anyone tried any of the mods that are out there? Anything worth the download? yes I finally got HL2 recently as why I'm curious... :thumbsup:

http://www.hl2mods.co.uk/

 

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=HL2+mods&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

I was looking at the SP released list some are okay some are still being worked on.

FA2 coming out soon! Woot!

 

And if EA had anything to do witht he development with HL2 I woul dhave been very angry. They tend to take great franchises and ruin them (007 games are the biggest one, Golden (Rare) and TWINE (EA) were good, but after that they went to hell). Whatever EA touches turns bad except for BF games, because EA has very little to do with the game aside from funding it.

I'm a big fan of Empires and Sourceforts (and, of course, CS:S and DoD:S), but sourceforts seems to have become stagnant.

 

The problem, I'd say, is that there are so many semi-similar mods out there competing with each other that no mod-team is complete. You need coders and modelers, artists and engineers, testers and tweakers. You need a solid team to build a game. But with so many mods -- well, the teams are incomplete! They'll still get there, but it will take more time.

 

On top of that, players generally want to be where other players are. It takes a flock -- nay, a gaggle of flocks -- of early-adopters to bring the rest of the players to a mod. None of the current mods are as widely-appealing as they need to be to bring in people to them.

 

I suggest you download every mod out there and test them well. Switch it up a little -- start with a popular mod, and then try one nobody knows. Find one or four that, although maybe incomplete as a game, has that hook to it. That oomph. That hooZAW! that makes you want to come back to it over and over. I can't tell you which will do that -- it's all about taste.

 

And then get involved in the community! Find the forums, make yourself known, offer to volunteer your talents, whatever they may be. If you believe in the mod, and if the mod-team believes in the mod, then help the community grow! And then the rest of the world will follow.

 

(hooZAW!)

On top of that' date=' players generally want to be where other players are. It takes a flock -- nay, a [i']gaggle[/i] of flocks -- of early-adopters to bring the rest of the players to a mod. None of the current mods are as widely-appealing as they need to be to bring in people to them.

 

And then get involved in the community! Find the forums, make yourself known, offer to volunteer your talents, whatever they may be. If you believe in the mod, and if the mod-team believes in the mod, then help the community grow! And then the rest of the world will follow.

 

(hooZAW!)

You hit the proverbial nail on the head there Klif.

Yeah...I thought maybe Silent Dark would be good

Silent Dark? Maybe I must've missed that one. Which was it?

seriously only waiting on fa2. The only game I ever had any real interest in was FA, soooo...... I wait for FA2. Other then that, um ... i guess ill just beat a dead horse til it is ressurrected (fa)