Half-Life Cry Of Fear (Release thread)

Fuck yes. Afraid of Monsters is the best mod for a videogame I've ever played, and I can't wait to play this today. I'm actually considering cancelling plans I had with my gf for it, which is a first for me. That's how much I want to play this.

wait this is half life 1 ? what about that water in the last shot ?

not bad

I've been following it for a long time, I'm really looking forward to it.

Warby, they've added a bunch of more modern shaders such as normal mapping and refraction from what I've gathered

http://www.moddb.com/mods/cry-of-fear/i ... 1#imagebox

HL : Arrangement has also done something similar

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/10 ... tled.1.jpg

And not to mention the Paranoia mod (which was amazing), it also used self shadow bump maps.

sweet ive been waiting for this mod for awhile now!

color me mind blown i think i must play this

Been following this for a while. It looks like really nice mod. I didn't like AoM, because it had those zombies so weirdly ultra speed and twitching, it was just weird and not cool in my opinion. Can't wait for the release!

Yes, been waiting for this!

Why don't they just use a more modern engine? I find these mods really visually jarring, when you have super high res, normal mapped textures on low poly geometry. It's kinda like using a high-res texture pack for Minecraft.

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Why don't they just use a more modern engine? I find these mods really visually jarring, when you have super high res, normal mapped textures on low poly geometry. It's kinda like using a high-res texture pack for Minecraft.

Yep, I kind of agree here even though I think they are doing great work. Perhaps someone can enlighten us what's the main driving force behind sticking to the HL1 engine?

Because half-life 1 mods rock?

Half-life 1's physical design really helped Afraid of Monsters be better, and more scary. You move faster than in HL2 and modern games, and it feels expected and natural, and that speed really amps up the fear. Plus HL1's low bar of entry for new art made it possible for one super fucked up 15 year old swede (with programming help from Minuit who I know nothing about) make the best mod ever.

So is it out yet? How much longer?

I think they might be running into hiccups with their launch. Their website is down and the url now redirects to the moddb page.

Just checked their moddb comments. Amid a huge clusterfuck of children who are too young to be playing violent horror mods posting, I found info that apparently they released the mod early to donators with a direct link on their personal server, which was then leaked on 4chan and facepunch, causing a crush of people trying to download from their server, which flooded it out. They were planning on using that server to upload to Moddb, but they can't now, so they're uploading the mod from their home connection now instead, which is pretty slow (12% in 30 minutes apparently). So the mod's coming, eventually, it'll just be three more hours or so.

Ah that sucks pretty hard. But I guess a little naive on their part to think it wouldn't get leaked like this.