this review is written from the perspective of: wanting to play half-life 2 in two-player co-op, one of which never played a half-life game

i strongly dislike how much this mod changes the hl2 story maps. it adds a ridiculous amount of NPCs and your weapons definitely do not do enough damage. the amount of enemies the game adds to the game is definitely optimized for 4+ players and if you are simply playing in co-op with two players the game will be impossible to beat without cheats. and i'm not talking about difficult, i'm talking literally impossible, sections that had maybe 10-15 enemies has upwards of like 50.

"vintage mode" which apparently disables this is broken entirely and the only way to progress through the game without headache is to adjust the skill config file to make weapons more powerful, but the amount of enemies will still make sections such as needing to keep an npc safe really hard, like the parts with barney or alyx.

mod adds a lot of stupid immersion-breaking logos and texture changes i.e. the photo of alyx's parents and her as an infant was replaced with a photo of a cat??? and Eli talked about it and it made no sense

i saw a lot of others complain about needing to noclip a lot, i don't think this is the case, needed to maybe noclip once or twice here or there.

there are sections where the scripted sequences refuse to play and you have to do "ent_fire lcs_whatever start" in console to progress, an example of this is when you meet up with Eli in the prisoner pod in nova prospekt and alyx will just sit there and not press anything on the computer to unlock him

the respawning system is really obnoxious and inconsistent. sometimes you will respawn within like five seconds and other times the game refuses to respawn you with no timer and no explanation if you can get back into the game and help your partner.

all things considered, obsidian conflict is not on steam and the newest version doesn't work, gmod co-op mods are broken worse, and on the whole there is really just no better way to play hl2, which really sucks

this review is written from the perspective of: wanting to play half-life 2 in two-player co-op, one of which never played a half-life game i strongly dislike how much this mod changes the hl2 story maps. it adds a ridiculous amount of NPCs and your weapons definitely do not do enough damage. the amount of enemies the game adds to the game is definitely optimized for 4+ players and if you are simply playing in co-op with two players the game will be impossible to beat without cheats. and i'm not talking about difficult, i'm talking literally impossible, sections that had maybe 10-15 enemies has upwards of like 50. "vintage mode" which apparently disables this is broken entirely and the only way to progress through the game without headache is to adjust the skill config file to make weapons more powerful, but the amount of enemies will still make sections such as needing to keep an npc safe really hard, like the parts with barney or alyx. mod adds a lot of stupid immersion-breaking logos and texture changes i.e. [spoiler]the photo of alyx's parents and her as an infant was replaced with a photo of a cat??? and Eli talked about it and it made no sense[/spoiler] i saw a lot of others complain about needing to noclip a lot, i don't think this is the case, needed to maybe noclip once or twice here or there. there are sections where the scripted sequences refuse to play and you have to do "ent_fire lcs_whatever start" in console to progress, an example of this is [spoiler]when you meet up with Eli in the prisoner pod in nova prospekt and alyx will just sit there and not press anything on the computer to unlock him[/spoiler] the respawning system is really obnoxious and inconsistent. sometimes you will respawn within like five seconds and other times the game refuses to respawn you with no timer and no explanation if you can get back into the game and help your partner. all things considered, obsidian conflict is not on steam and the newest version doesn't work, gmod co-op mods are broken worse, and on the whole there is really just no better way to play hl2, which really sucks