Gunman Chronicles

[sonk]

What's like the best and most stable way to play Gunman Chronicles these days? Given that there's a Mod and a Retail version and patches/fixes for both I'm not really sure which is like the "go-to". Which one would you recommend?

[pikakirby11]

I haven't bothered playing the retail version myself but I've heard the only downside to the moddb is that the startup cut-scene is missing so you could just watch it on YouTube and then play the game normally. the moddb version has a lot of enhancements over the retail version mainly that it integrates the demo levels into the main game as part of the campaign. From here though I have 2 recommendations on how to actually run the game previously I would have just suggested playing the game using the HD texture pack also available on moddb with Xash3d which is required for it to run properly if you ever used an HD texture pack in an emulator like dolphin expect something like that. the mod page for the texture pack says you need the retail version however I found it runs just fine using just the moddb version. The other option which I think I might actually prefer now is to just run it using the half-life anniversary update valve just released the game works fine now and the update as a whole seems to work well with all mods outside of half-life rally and some mods have slightly messed up menus or display an fps counter in the corner which aren't too big of a deal in my opinion. gunman chronicles through does not have any of these problems.

[Ikagura]

I played it both as a standalone game and as a mod, it's the same.

[sonk]

Aight, thanks for the info. I've tested this mod since it seems to contain most fixes and patches all in one already and apart from some missing UI labels in the main menu it seems to work fine so far, even with the 25th anniversary version. It also comes with the intro cutscene but you have to open and watch it manually in the folder.