Thank you for the awesome mod, I really loved the level-design and the creativity how you see Gordon from the HECU perspective and how you re-visit HL-1 maps. Not to mention combined with new maps too!

It was really cool seeing how the story played out from a more "involved" perspective. Like where you had to work more closely with the military and silence the BM personnel. Half Life Opposing Force had you work together with the Black Mesa personnel. This did not feel like very HECU like to me and the grunts were mostly just used as back up to fight the Xen. I did not like how the developers in OPFOR pulled BS excuses to separate you from your squad. Most of OPFOR storyline was you roaming alone, stumbling across a few grunts here and there and leaving them behind - to go on your own. There were a few slight elements that could be seen in this mod where you regrouped with a squad of HECU soldiers down at a train track. The HECU soldiers said something along the lines of "Have you lost your squad already? Come with us then, we are going to stop freeman" or something and they just ended up standing there. It felt a bit odd just leaving them behind, since you are a HECU corporal soldier and you are kind of supposed to be close with your unit. But at the same time I get that, since this is a mod made for free and there are limited resources that can be used. Still, this is a passion-project that satisfies a lot of the HECU lovers - especially me growing up playing half life as a kid and I thought how cool the HECU were and how it sucked that you couldn't "play" as the bad guys. What this mod succeeds in is that for a lot of the times, it actually DOES make you feel involved with the HECU like how you have like THREE SQUADS of HECU to fight Freeman. For the first time I finally felt that "thing" that OPFOR lacked. To feel included in the Black Mesa chaos and not just some outsider that tries to move around it.

It was so satisfying going around with your team to fight off Xen, seeing them kill the scientists and having the Security Guards shoot at you! Plus they were really strong with magnums and shotguns! I was playing on Hard and as the HECU assaulted the LAMBDA complex, the Security Guards were going hard at it and almost wiped multiple squads of HECU. I died like twelve times trying to take down the fort.

Another really cool instance that I also loved how you had tanks and other vehicles that was on your side and helped you out take down the Xen. It was a blood bath, and full with chaos. I felt like a real HECU soldier stuck in the mess and as the story progressed - the realization when over the radio they were talking about how they were abandoning the base and were pulling out - really hit me. It felt like all this death and struggle was for nothing and NOW at the end it started to feel like it was pure survival - like in OPFOR. Which is a good thing. For you see at the beginning, you want the whole idea of inclusion and how the operation is going great. Then the plot twist hits and you see how everyone around you is dying and failing the mission. Like the part when you woke up after your entire squad getting obliterated - you see everyone around you dead.

You are not immortal, you get wounded and hurt multiple times. Soldiers have to carry you back, it is only by mere luck that you survive (or unknown forces pulling strings perhaps? Heheh) and that you get back into action. I love how fragile the mod makes you feel and how you are just trying to get by, in a situation where everyone is confused to what the hell is going on???

A downside is though how limited the interactions between the HECU seem, although there are cases you can catch them conversing with you in a proper way - what I think is a cool addition would be if you could make people follow or stay by pressing E on them. (Like in that instance when the HECU were just standing there after telling you to go with them).

If this project needs any voice actors then I am down to help out - I got a good microphone and a studio for making good vocals. I'd love to help out with adding more life to the game and see where it can go further :)

Otherwise this is an amazing job, if you love BM and want to play as the HECU I would say this even beats OPFOR. This mod gives a better look on the chaos around you than the original Opposing Force does! Love it.