Installing Mods and They Hunger.

[Danpez890]

Hey, I'm trying to get the They Hunger mod to work. I've been trying to search all day for an answer but no luck. I've done everything correctly , i'm sure. When i click to play They Hunger off the steam library , HL1 just starts up. Any ideas please?

[Tunac]

There is a Steam fix for They Hunger.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/they-hunger/downloads/they-hunger-steam-fix

[Danpez890]

Just installed it (Spanish?) . still doesn't work :-(

[DrDoSoLittle]

I'm with Danpez890, the fix doesn't work for me.

[IronCore]

make sure you put the fully extracted they hunger folder here...
....\Steam\SteamApps\common\Half-Life

add a command line for the game launch option...
(how to ....right click your HL game via game library...click - properties...click - set launch option..).
now add this line...
-game nameoftheyhungerfoldlerhere
more example...
-game cstrike
the folder and it's name must not have any spaces for it to work.

Hope that works.

Btw.... poke646 ...is also one awesome hl mod you guys should check.

[mowriter]

I can't get the EXE to work, either. I am running on Linux Mint. Is there a Linux workaround or solution that doesn't require WINE?

[jeremy.nimmo]

@mowriter The 'steamfix' is just a 7zip self-extracting file, you can probably open it with most GUI archivers on most Linux desktops, or with the various 7zip command line archivers available in any Linux distribution. Whether it will work without Proton/Wine, I don't know.

Alternatively, there is an 'all in one' archive that includes the base mod files and the steamfix here. 7zip, but this time a regular archive not a self-extracting exe.
https://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/they-hunger/

Otherwise, the following MIGHT work- there is a port of the mod to the Xash3d engine*. You'll need to get Xash3d and go through its somewhat convoluted process for extracting steam files and replacing certain base files, as well as installing the X3d variant of the mod.
https://www.moddb.com/engines/xash3d-fwgs-engine/downloads/they-hunger-trilogy-crossplatform
* broadly, a mostly-Half-Life-compatible engine primarily based on id's open source release of the Quake code