After 20 years of enjoying everything that the Half-Life community has had to offer, I am incredibly happy to finally release my own contribution to you all.

Posted by MrGnang on Aug 10th, 2018

Hello again everyone!

After 20 years of enjoying everything that the Half-Life community has had to offer, I am incredibly happy to finally release my own contribution to you all.

This Half-Life mod will let you experience the Black Mesa incident from a different perspective, with some insights into mysterious events which Gordon Freeman was not present for.

This is my first real modding effort, which I began around 5 years ago.

I initially had just hoped to make a short and simple campaign that I myself would enjoy, working on it sporadically over the years in my spare time.

I never expected it to be as large an undertaking as it turned out to be, and I also could have never anticipated that I would get married and become a father in the time I worked on this project! It has been a long journey, but very much worth it.

This mod has been created and tested for the Windows version of Half-Life on Steam, and it is not compatible with Half-Life Source or the old WON version of Half-Life.

Music is integral to this mod, and the soundtrack may not work if this is played any other way.

Lastly, due to the detail in some areas, I would recommend running this on a more modern computer than what Half-Life was designed for originally.

There are two ways to get the mod below, either a Windows installer which will find your Steam Half-Life directory automatically, or a zip file.

Please run this using the shortcut created for Half-Life: Echoes in your Steam game library, this avoids the "ED_Alloc: no free edicts" crash by increasing the entity limit. If you change games from within Half-Life this command will not be run.

Select your format below - setup instructions are included with each download.

I have put a lot of time, energy and care into this, and I hope that you enjoy playing this as much as I did making it!

Thank you to all who supported me while I created this.

Cheers,

James Cockburn

TROUBLESHOOTING

This mod is designed for the current Steam version of Half-Life on Windows.

I cannot guarantee it will fully function any other way.

Ensure that you run the game using the "Half-Life: Echoes" game library shortcut in Steam.

This increases the entity limit and avoids the crash "ED_ALLOC: NO FREE EDICTS"

Do not load Half-Life and change to Echoes from within the game.

This will skip the command to allocate extra memory.

You can set this manually if you wish, by adding

-num_edicts 2048

To the Steam launch options for Half-Life: Echoes.

To do this, right click on the game title, and select properties.

Then go to the "General" tab, then "Set launch options".

Or alternatively, add this to the Half-Life launch options:

-game echoes -num_edicts 2048

Remember to remove this if you wish to play Half-Life normally.

If this fails, try to load a saved game from a previous map and try to continue from there.

Report any issues that cannot be fixed by the above to the moddb page.

Moddb.com