Half life and its mods

So i saw peppers answer a day or two ago on the poll on "how big is your half life folder?"
pepper replied that his has 20-30 mods installed on his, and it got me wondering which mods people actually prefer...which lead to me making this poll.

Natural Selection, though recently it's become very unbalanced. Let's hope Beta 4 will squash these problems.

Partial to a bit of Frontline Force myself :wink: But then I have to say that really...

Used to play Firearms and DoD but they lost their appeal really quickly.

OP4, the only mod worth buying.

DoD/NS - but I havent enjoyed ns since its early versions

Counter strike! I used to play it a lot at this really kewl internet cafe my mate owned coz they had a server and every one always had a huge lan gam on friday and saturday, but i dont play it ny more coz its closed :sad:

The Specialists, a great great mod. Simply fantastic gameplay.

$loth said:
Counter strike! I used to play it a lot at this really kewl internet cafe my mate owned coz they had a server and every one always had a huge lan gam on friday and saturday, but i dont play it ny more coz its closed :sad:

"really kewl internet cafe"? You do sound like a cs player. I don't play at all online, only at LANs. Even so, I'm pretty much over CS. I'd have to agree with Bruce, TS is a very nice mod. The gameplay is far more fun than CS, the weapon and player models are purtier than most others I've seen, and the levels are incredible.

At the moment, DoD, though I used to be into CS quite a lot. Really I'm more of a DM player than anything at heart, its my HL roots :smile:

counterstrike (not now, b4, b5.2), day of defeat (older versions again), OP4CTF, HLDM and last but definately not least, TFC.

After all these years, Action Half-Life still holds my attention over pretty much every other MP game. The only other one that really diverted me for a while was Enemy Territory.

I played the DoD betas quite a bit, and pre-3.0 ns. I played TS and I still love it. Never took much of a shine to DM though, so I guess for me its CS + TS :smile:

Bruce said:
The Specialists, a great great mod. Simply fantastic gameplay.

apart from the weapons.....i dont like the accuracy goes off target too fast

I'd be happy playing any of those mods, as they are all kickass. But since I have to choose one I chose NS, as it is the most original one and pretty fun. The quality of HL mods really are impressive, as they all are better than most games coming out now. I played MoH for the first time yesterday, and it's a joke compared to DoD. BF1942 can't hold a candle to DoD either. Sad that a bunch of amateurs working on a five year old game can make more impressive and fun stuff than most developers.

My favorite mod is the one that doesn't call itself a MOD - it's not a freakin' acronym! head explodes

KungFuSquirrel said:
My favorite mod is the one that doesn't call itself a MOD - it's not a freakin' acronym! head explodes

Been mentioned before, some stupidity is just too ingrained in memory and action to remove.. :razz:

$loth said:

Bruce said:
The Specialists, a great great mod. Simply fantastic gameplay.

apart from the weapons.....i dont like the accuracy goes off target too fast

I agree with Bruce, not so much with $loth... generally, firing a fully-automatic assault rifle creates a wee bit of recoil. Besides, it just takes practice.

I gotta say dod, since it's one of the only mods that I don't get board of. However, I haven't played NS, ever. I should probably give it a go ... when I hear that it is balanced game play again ...

I originaly heard of it form a friend (long before the beta 3 version) and he said that it was majorly unbalanced then, so I didn't bother playing it. Oh well.

I gotta say dod, since it's one of the only mods that I don't get board of. However, I haven't played NS, ever. I should probably give it a go ... when I hear that it is balanced game play again ...

I originaly heard of it form a friend (long before the beta 3 version) and he said that it was majorly unbalanced then, so I didn't bother playing it. Oh well.

People will call NS unbalanced until the two teams are identical and they battle back and forth with identical weapons and abilities on symmetrical maps. Actually, they still will then, too. :razz: There are perfectly valid concerns, yes, but even if it is perfectly balanced the complaints will never go away. So yeah, you'll never hear that it's balanced. :smile:

Online Gaming Dictionary:

"unbalanced" = "I'm not so great at this, therefore i'll criticise it's logistics!"

:biggrin:

NS is unbalanced only if you have a team that knows what they are doing versus a clueless one, and that's not the fault of the mod.

Seeing as I've played DoD since 1.3b I'd have to say DoD. Don't play as often as I used to, but still crank it out once in a while.

People will call NS unbalanced until the two teams are identical and they battle back and forth with identical weapons and abilities on symmetrical maps. Actually, they still will then, too. :razz: There are perfectly valid concerns, yes, but even if it is perfectly balanced the complaints will never go away. So yeah, you'll never hear that it's balanced. :smile:

Actually it was one person of whom I trust in opinions (unless it envolves movies, bleh.)

He basically said it's drawbacks were the other people playing.

and it felt like he was playing counter-strike 'gamers'.

Taking that he's also big on dod and both him and I are well aware of the not so skilled people in dod ... they become nice targets and let you crank up your kill count :smile:

But, maybe I'll give NS a shot sometime.

But, until I experience otherwise, dod will be my mod of choice ... until I ... wait you can't know about that yet ...

It's not the balance of NS that I don't like, it's simply that I really just don't like the gameplay. It's gotten better, but I really can't enjoy it, it's mainly the atmosphere and style of the maps, I'm not one for dark small corridors.

People will call NS unbalanced until the two teams are identical and they battle back and forth with identical weapons and abilities on symmetrical maps. Actually, they still will then, too. :razz: There are perfectly valid concerns, yes, but even if it is perfectly balanced the complaints will never go away. So yeah, you'll never hear that it's balanced. :smile:

Still, you have to admit, it's in a sorry state at the moment. :smile:

I chose HLdm although its not a mod, but I still prefer death match, cs is cool but it doesnt have the same fast action as HLDM does.

Natural-Selection... I love that mod.