I really, REALLY enjoyed this collection you made, FMPONE. In some ways, your artistic style and attention to detail shone even more in certain areas than what Valve achieved with the base game. I especially liked that the first part focused on exploring your surroundings, a great way to introduce this to friends. I also liked that it was more combine focused.

I also appreciated the innovation in some areas, like the train and the floating building.

Unfortunately, I reached the ending, and the enemies couldn't be killed for some reason. I confirmed through a walkthrough that it was clearly bugged. This happened during the final confrontation, so I couldn't finish it, but overall, great work!

08-burningquestions i cant find a way.

Amazing, but it's really needs to optimise some parts of gameplay.

Great

That ending was so meh, she just shotgun the advisor... Pretty anticlimactic

Very well done mod! I enjoyed several hours of game play and only got really stumped a little bit. The flow was also much like the original game, which made it feel so well polished. 10/10

some textures are pink with error, and for some reason every time my right hand interacts with my left arm in any way, the game crashes.

Thank you FMPone, I love every part of the mod you made. It's very fun with a very clever puzzle. It has been a blast!

Im unnable to continue in sector X because the entire upper floor is... unloaded? and i cant see anythning

I am unable to cover my mouth on my Q3 over VD. Is this right?

It runs like shit. I shut down my computer and started it back up and tried again. Then it crashed on me in about 5 minutes again.

Garbage.

This series was an absolute treat. Great level design and even better voice acting - I am reading now that Joey Bracken voiced Russel and he did a great job.
Minimal bugs, mostly relating to crashing on reloading a save after dying, that's fine.
Unfortunately I had to stop at the green orb section because I have a problem throwing the orbs, my wrists aren't built for it.

The best map collection I have played so far. Some original puzzles, lot's of variation in decors and enemies. Thank you for giving me a few evenings of fun

Very good mod! I enjoyed it lots, my only take is that my fps dropped like crazy during the strider fight

Just carried my gnome friend through the entire mod from start to Sector X, only to have him trapped behind an invisible force field and unable to progress with me any further. He got through the teleportation section and gman speech, and an invisible wall stops him in Sector X! Sadly, without my gnome companion, I feel I cannot continue playing this mod any further. I thoroughly enjoyed what I played so far though, very well done.

One hour on the mod, no commentary, spoiler >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN_tqh3PGw0&ab_channel=Edwinfuored

Hi there.
First of all I want to say that this add is amazing. Unfortunately I can't pass it through because of one problem. I'm talking about the train. I finished all roof cases and I'm in a cart with hand break. When I pull the lever I see grey landscape, the same you see when next level should upload, but nothing happend. Game stoped in this very moment. Does anyone has the similar problem?

Green orb levels are horrible and ruin an otherwise great mod

perfect its just perfect it even feels like a exspantion to half life alyx

I also just beat this on 'Normal' - It's not the best chapter but it's certainly doable (Manhacks section).

i beat this game on normal. you all just suck

This felt like a Valve made Add-on. Absolutely amazing. The best item in the workshop so far.

This is garbage, I'm sorry.

The last few maps clearly didn't understand how the the green orb mechanic in the original game even worked and how putting enemies in direct line with the recharge walls means the lock on gets fucked.

Considering the rest of the campaign this seems like it was made by other people, I don't understand.

Super sauf cette fin merdique ... impossible a finir !
Great except for that shitty ending... impossible to finish!

best

I can't really get past the final energy draining bit, the Advisor and Manhacks were easy enough but dang is that room after it with all the combine soldiers absolutely hell

I really hope it could be toned down just a tad, I already swapped to easy during the Advisor bit

Absolutely amazing mod! Only had a couple of issues, firstly the Strider section got bugged and I couldn't kill it, but after a reload it worked. Secondly is the green orb Manhack/Advisor area (which it seems a lot of people disliked), it's not too bad once you figure out not to bother with the Manhacks and just DRAIN THE ENERGY itself.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkRFi32fkikO-5g1c6Pc_W7kQf0TNWvvp - full playlist for my playthrough, releasing videos on Sat/Sun.

The ending energy level with the advisor is totally shit. The manhacks are not vulnerable to the energy lasers and so it becomes a game of trying to center yourself to attack those pesky flies. This may just be if you have index controllers, but they're just not reliable for grabbing the energy balls. This was a known issue in the original game, and it's why Valve never put any manhacks in levels with energy balls. You've got to fix the ending. IDK how, maybe combine troops instead of manhacks, but manhacks are a fatal design flaw for the ending. I ended up just using cheats to get it done.

The Levitation map pack is well designed and fun to play until you get to the final part with the manhacks and the green orbs. I couldn't finish that part of the map, it was just too complicated. I've tried it about 50 times until deciding that I just can't play this anymore. I really hope the devs plan on scrapping that entire area in favor of something less tedious and complicated to end off the mappack.

Also, kudos to FMPONE and his team, the level design is brilliant =)

I see a lot of comments here complaining about the difficulty of the advisor encounter, aka "throwing green orbs at man hacks". But I have not seen any helpful advice, so I share my experience, hoping it will help some frustrated players.

I struggled when I got there, too. I assumed it takes precision and the right timing to take down the drones as the pop up - but boy, did I suck at this! After an impressive number of hilarious deaths, I gave up and said "fine, let's go full retarded".

*SPOILER ALERT*

I started to pull out the orbs as fast as I could, only to throw them right back at the walls I was facing. Turns out the AoE took down some drones in proximity, which gave me enough room to finish the encounter on the first attempt, as a cut-scene triggers when all orbs are drained.

Oh my lord the final energy throwing bit towards the end is atrocious. I've tried it at least ten times and I keep dying, dying, dying. Guess I'll never finish the game, ey? Wish this final part could be toned down or something. Not a good way to end an otherwise stellar mod.

(I didn't mention that I simply gave up and un installed rather than try the end a fourth time)

Awful end - possibly in part due to the game repeatedly losing focus (I noticed the console showed some NPC Vortigant sound error). Overall the Mod was pretty good (great design, script and voice acting) but let down by some poor difficulty settings. Sadly I'd not bother to replay this, though a Mod like 'Return to Rapture' I would.

I hated the end.

Great mod until you completely ruined the experience with that atrocious final fight. That unreliable lightning bolt BS was already annoying in the main game, so how on earth did you think that it would be a good idea to pitch the players against unending waves of manhacks using only that and even take away all the health syringes?

Fully agree with Ovniland in that I loved this mod right up to sector x. At first, I thought the problem lay entirely with me (I'm 77 years old and don't have the quickest reflexes), but there are a LOT of folks having exactly the same problem(s) I encountered. Well, it was fun up to that point. I had to throw in the towel and move on to other games/mods. Thanks for the parts that were fun!

Agreed with comments saying the part with green orbs vs manhacks is too hard. Even in story mode I can't manage to finish it. Such a shame because the mod is by far the best i've ever played. You can easily ask for money for it, as it is very close to a valve quality design.

That last orb throwing stuff just made me not finish this mod, great.

Thanks for this great mod. Sadly in the final battle, the soldiers can not be destroyed by green lightning. They only glow green when being hit by it. I tried loading older savegames. didn't work either. Any help? Best regards

Just finished the mod. Was a lot of fun as stated the end is a bit hard and I didn't immediatly understand how to approach the advisor. Had to get into the groove of using the lighning thingies and I dont like the controls of them on the quest 2. Are the credits supposed to end at and thank you for playing? I was there for a couple of minutes but it didn't end.

Loved the mod until the green energy throwing part. That mechanic is just too awkward and unreliable. It's bad in the main game too but used very sparingly. Also, the game bugged out right after that section and I had no hands so couldn't finish.

Great mod would have been 9.9/10 why was this not made my valve. Then got to the f@ck b@llSh1# sector x lightning bolt section why would you put that in what was a mod so good would have been happy paying for it. WTF went through you mind

Think ive finished it but im in sector x with no hands or guns?

Great mod right up to the lightning bolts bit which is too frustrating so didnt finish it, apart from that its very good thanks.

THis was absolutely epic! Half Life ALyx 2, bascially. Thank you so much 🙏

This mod was just updated. As a result. any old save files will be broken. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Crashes at a specific point. When I reloaded a previous save, it crashed earlier. Now, it crashes my entire steamVR when I try to run it at all.

Stuck in area where you have to throw energy balls with all those drones attaching me. Set clear down to story but cant finish it. I did the get through first time through but seems the bug update changed it so I cant win. Please any tips, tricks etc so I can finish. Or is this something that need fixed. I am not the best but I cant imagine many that are capable of winning here.

Pretty impressive to see FMPONE seamlessly transition to HLA mapping from CSGO. As far as I know this is his first singeplayer map pack. Can't wait for the bug fixes and general optimization. My game keeps crashing in He Hungers.