Dark-Life 2 Is A Simple Yet Perfect Mod

Taking a look at the Dark-Life 2 demo. It aims to change up the time of day for Half-Life 2 chapters. Meaning chapters that take place at day are now at night, and vice-versa.
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[@kabob0077]

2:56 Hell yeah, Ravenholm looking like Silent Hill is an AMAZING change imo.

[@heph9322]

Silent hill is my favorite game

[@Dinofly4]

Fog is basically the light equivalent of darkness in terms of visibility reduction

[@repkins]

Silent Ravenholm

[@hl2betafan]

Silentholm

[@elitemaxtheman2217]

Alright let me get my Silent Hill games music to better fit the environment Silent Hill Rising Sun fits day foggy ravenholm pretty well

[@mfaizsyahmi]

If you've actually gone outside, at night, under a full moon, there is enough moonlight to light up the entire place, and even cast shadow. If that's the setting for the majority of the levels I really hope they take that into account. A still fog for Ravenholm is fine and all, but imagine if there's rolling fog on the town, and your sight distance changes as you progress. That would be super cool.

[@nos9784]

I hope they add werewolves. :D /joke. I love how much you can see at night when there aren't any streetlights around. Sure, sometimes you can't, but thats what flashlights, torches, cellphones were invented for.

[@AbandonedVoid]

I've never experienced that. I went out to camp near a telescope in the middle of the desert, and it was placed there due to the lack of light pollution in the area. Without light pollution, the stars and galaxy look bright as day, but everything on the actual ground is pitch-black. You can't even see three feet in front of you without a torch.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

@@AbandonedVoid did you read my comment correctly? > outside, at night, under a full moon, there is enough moonlight It's all about the phases of the moon. Full moon = bright moonlight. New moon = very dark night. This happens everywhere, whether there are light pollution or not. In fact I'm seeing shadow-casting moonlight by just walking out to my front porch, in the 'burbs, with streetlights right in front of the house. Check the date of your camping trip agaist the phases of the moon. It's probably not full moon, or it's not out while you're up.

[@nos9784]

@@AbandonedVoid how much moon did you have? I think it's really hard when the moon is dark. Where I live, there are many large light sources arround... even when the streetlights are kilometers away. I only ever notice real darkness under trees or roofs. I guess that means my experience is limited to that. Then again, I often don't switch on the lights, even when others would.

[@AbandonedVoid]

@@mfaizsyahmi It was a gibbous. What's actually lighting your area in the 'burbs is what's called "light pollution" caused by streetlights and such reflecting off the sky.

[@Freezorgium]

Some of these comments about the city being "too bright" at night are quite puzzling. What the hell made people think the Combine give a single shit about the Citizen's electricity usage when they have thousands of reactors and they don't care if Eli nabs one and Kleiner steals power from the grid to power a teleport? When the citizens have their CRT TVs on all day listening to Breen and 80% of lightbulbs you see, even in Ravenholm, are on? What gave you the idea that the Combine don't maintain C17 infrastructure when we see that's exactly what they use Combine Workers and Vortigaunts for, keeping in mind that they USE the infrastructure. The combine USE the roads and the trains and the electrical grid. City 17 has a ton of people, I'd go as far as to say it's overpopulated (as seen in every bit where you enter one of the housing blocks), which is what allowed a successful rebellion in the first place. The combine don't care if people are using electricity. There's no reason that City 17 at night should look like a DayZ server.

[@vinceontheweb]

Great points, thank you!

[@n0m4r22]

just turn down the brightness lmao. like I would do.

[@Nalrats]

Plus, remember at the end of Our Benefactors when Gordon is riding too Breens office and you see the city all lit up from above with what appears to be electrical lights. combineoverwiki.net/wiki/File:Citadel_View.jpg

[@Gwestytears]

I always assumed the reason why city 17s streets were so bare was because people were afraid to leave their homes

[@scienceteam5984]

@@n0m4r22 bruh why

[@dsg4500]

This, now this feels like a mixture of old half life, and current half life. Mix of both world, looks amazing.

[@hl2betafan]

betail

[@CRT_YT]

no it doesn't

[@Lethal_Spoon]

because both worlds look amazing

[@INFILTR8US]

@@CRT_YT please share with us your portfolio of popular half-life mods

[@CRT_YT]

@@INFILTR8US ???

[@bouribou4073]

lead dev here, thanks so much for the vid ! it's almost been a year since we've had the idea on your old discord server, and i never imagined it would come all this way !

[@ahealthkit2745]

Great work, it's really stunning to see so many of these familiar scenes have their entire tone and atmosphere shifted by the lightning. It looks amazing!

[@samsegalloldude]

I gotta say, the mod looks great. Instantly downloaded and tried it. Great job! The Half-Life Community could use more ambitious people like you! I wish there was something more than my share of enthusiasm to contribute to the development of the mod. BTW - I really hope you'll keep with this minimal approach to cover as many levels of the game as possible. Adding extra features like others suggested would be welcome, but perhaps after the entire game was done? Keep up the good work!

[@bouribou4073]

@@samsegalloldude thanks alot for the comment ! we are definetly keeping a relatively minimal approach, we will only change stuff that creates an atmosphere we find fitting to the mod.

[@Freezorgium]

@@bouribou4073 Also, don't listen to the people saying there's "too many lights on". It's not a zombie apocalypse, city 17 is a city full of people and every light bulb, even in Ravenholm, works fine, and the combine produce enough power that they don't give a shit if Kleiner is stealing a bunch from the grid to power a teleporter.

[@Crow_Rising]

@@bouribou4073 If you're open to suggestions, I feel like it would be a nice touch to give Gordon a light as a secondary fire for one of his guns that doesn't use secondary fire. I know he has the suit flashlight, but there's just something more immersive about physically holding the light rather than it coming from the chest.

[@commanderpeanut8029]

I like how The Citadel has those search lights now, kinda reminiscent of the Beta Citadel designs

[@GermanPeter]

The only thing that doesn't really make much sense about this mod is the fact that like 90% of all the windows are lit up. I think one of the first things the Combine would do is restrict everyone's access to electricity, meaning each apartment has at most a single light bulb. So you'd see a small shimmer here and there, but not a full-on light show like here. It does however look really freaking cool, and I suppose it fits the skybox you see at the end of the original game, where the entire city looks like a metropolis from the US for some reason.

[@chocofrolik834]

The skybox at the end of HL1 probably looks like a US metropolis because HL2 was originally set in America (revealed by HL2:RTB)

[@VicerimusMortem]

Oh hey you're not dead what a surprise

[@VCSoldier_]

It's also literally just an image of New York

[@bigmoneyben08]

germanpeter is alive?

[@Zhabishe]

From what we've seen every apartments has a TV and other electrical appliances. If there was no electricity, why would they need all that stuff? Plus, electricity shouldn't be a problem knowing that most of the population is dead and those remaining won't need much.

[@EllieCollie]

I feel like ravenholm should have less mist because the experiment of making a daytime area scary is amazing,

[@kabob0077]

Actually in my opinion it shouldn't. Where I'm from, even as far inland as I am, areas can get so thick with fog early in the morning that you can't see more than a few yards in front of you in places. It's realistically and believably foggy.

[@jess648]

if you look at concept art Ravenholm was originally going to take place in a desert town in the morning/evening it always was meant to be a mining town infested with zombies but it changed drastically visually throughout development

[@navarroguard7911]

@@jess648 yes the morning would be wayy better.

[@luckmaster.exe_3493]

Honestly i like it the way they did it, it really reminds me of silent hill.

[@bensarchminion]

Ravenholm should nice and sunny, actually dangerous monsters don't care about the weather.

[@donutthebrick]

in my opinion this feels more sci-fi compared to retail one it really fits deus ex ravenholm does feel like a liminal space and a old indie horror game and i agree that it looks like silent hill and some chapters fit half-life 2 beta

[@eros2652]

This mod looks incredible so far! Can’t wait to see what they do with a nighttime highway 17 (especially the bridge section). I’m also curious how they’re going to pull off a daytime nova prospekt infiltration; a misty coastline lit up by the prison’s guard towers would be pretty cool!

[@satrethuel_productions]

Imagine combining this mod with the mirrored mod, it would be like playing a completely new game.

[@c0ded-plasmayt432]

ikr

[@nuggie5522]

Hello I'm a one of the devs on dark life, if it weren't for your channel bringing me to juko, and bour in your discord I doubt I would have been working on it today without it, so thank you for that, my name might be somewhat familiar since I've been in a few of your previous mapping competitions the map you might remember me from was called outskirts in the anomalous transports comp. overall I just wanted to thank you for bringing us the broken light studios team together.

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Hey nuggie I remember you. You're a great mapper! Keep up the great work :)

[@gunswinger3110]

A cool twist for the daytime Ravenholm section would be making it rainy for small section in the beginning before letting up the rain, then clearing up the sky after Gordon leaves the mines

[@numericalman]

having followed the entire development from day one, to being able to play the first private demo. I am truly proud of everyone in the Broken Light Studios team and what they have been able to make, I truly can't wait till it's in completion. also, c'mon Rad, did you really have to do him so dirty? right in the ass? (3:47)

[@RadiationHazardYT]

just had to do it to em

[@bouribou4073]

thank you, person that i totally do not know and hate for their suspicious use of hammer editor brushes ! but fr, thank you man !

[@numericalman]

@@bouribou4073THAT'S IT, FULL BRIGHT IS GOING ON.

[@bouribou4073]

@@numericalman 😔

[@idioticed4379]

@@bouribou4073 context?

[@mistermorphescarnoe2898]

Brilliant! The earlier stages actually remind me quite a bit of Cry of Fear and how the city sections had similar lighting those seen in Dark-Life 2

[@HQ_Default]

This mod perfectly encapsulates everything I wish they kept from the HL2 beta. All the story details and extra weapons and whatnot I can live without (tbh I actually prefer the story we got in the final game anyway). But the shift in aesthetic from nighttime environments to daytime ones is the one thing I plainly feel was a poor decision. These dark city maps just look absolutely beautiful and have such a rich atmosphere that I rarely see replicated in other games. EDIT: BTW, does anyone know how I'd play this with HL2 MMod?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

I think the Devs behind this are gonna work on implementing MMod compatability once they're complete building the mod itself.

[@quadnod4605]

@@RadiationHazardYT awesome

[@victobe]

1:52 it's quite ironic the fact that you're calling a map with night skyboxes a day

[@funx24X7]

I always appreciated how valve incorporated the passage of time into the story of HL2, it felt very natural and realistic the way it takes place over the course of several days. This mod looks like a love letter to that concept and I’m extremely excited for the finished product.

[@KamiJoJo]

The ominous ambience created by this mod during the graveyard section reminds me a lot of that crypt entrance from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, that combined with the dynamic lighting surely adds a whole other layer of nostalgia to me, truly impressive stuff.

[@Plasmatic5150]

Dang dude, you’ve been uploading almost daily! And I’m loving it! You may work fast, but you sure as heck keep the quality of these videos super high!

[@sora7098]

Glad to see you're back at it radhaz! i'm loving these new videos

[@fish3443]

Three Radhaz videos in just a couple days? I must be dreaming! I've been waiting for this mod for quite a while. The previews have been looking amazing

[@captain_crazeh]

Every video you make is so satisfying to watch. Thank you!

[@matijajovic8125]

Rad Chad killing it with videos lately! It made me nostalgic I have to say.

[@Ferenc.]

I literally feel the same with Ravenholm Altough not literally. It reminds me more of those autumn/winter mornings with fog and semi-cold temperatures

[@arbiter1er]

I'd love to see an edit of this mod that makes every map take place at night permanently, an eternal night of sorts. Unrealistic but why not

[@FollowTheFreeman]

Excellent video bro, thanks for posting

[@x0rZ15t]

Kick ass content! Subscribed!

[@hubertjurek2047]

Very happy to see that you are back rad

[@Simsonlover222]

this is phenomenal and needs more attention.... its changing so much in a very pleasant way i would not have thought about that.... while looking like it was intended by the developers like this.... crazy crazy i subscribed and liked lul

[@thebestnoob7873]

Dude I absolutely love how the night levels look.

[@ThatRandomGamer_Main]

Some changes I would like (for me) Route Kanal: Make the skybox a bit darker. Ravenholm: Make it less foggy. Anticitizen: Nothing. It looks great.

[@Redbr34]

Wait until you zoom into Anticitizen skybox lol

[@zerodollarbird]

I'd personally add rain for Ravenholm.

[@AJ-po6up]

Funny, we're in winter here in the south and is super foggy right now outside, I'm talking about some really thick fog here, you can't see even 1 meter ahead, it's just the perfect time to play through this demo and some Silent Hill too why not. Anyways I hope this mod gets improved and finished because this demo was very promising and the devs are very active.

[@Woeden]

Very impressive stuff, loved it

[@denifnaf5874]

Imagine this: it is midnight in highway 17, and if you go too far into the shriveled up sea, instead of churning infernal leaches, the ichthyosaur stops you from going out of bounds.

[@unitedstateofirk7476]

2:53 Ravenholm in Silent Hill mood is looking wonderful. can't wait to play!

[@youbaouahdi4358]

Something that I would like in ravenholm is to have it feel colder, idk something like some post processing effect to make the colors seem cooler

[@ge2719]

It needs a wind effect, blowing the fog around, making it change to more dense, blowing sleet in the air, along with howling wind sound. Would add even more to the sense of feeling closed off and unaware of whats happening around you.

[@husseingamingshorts5397]

Can wait for this to come out! Looks great. also my grammar makes me sound like a bot lol

[@raulins100]

I have commited heresy and missed over 5 uploads, I shall atone, also love the music :)

[@NoVIcE_Source]

damn dude your commentary sounds like a sick rap at times also Oh shit this makes the game feel like the Beta, while it being the retail. its like the best of both versions, at least for those chapters

[@mdm5216]

To what you said. "Change the skybox and call it a day". I actually did that and it kinda worked, except on highway 17. This would be great if it could be seamlessly added to the regular campaign.

[@TakahashiRyosuke13137]

Dude that is beatiful, driving on the shore at night would be so awesome

[@MajimaEnterprises]

Looks so good. Playing through the highway section of the game at night will be interesting.

[@Kris-ox5pm]

I've been waiting for a mod like this for so many years now. A simple change, but a profound difference.

[@aSkyclad]

Ravenholm looking like Silent Hill is the best shit I've ever seen and haters can cope and mald >:) Good job BLS

[@k4rn31ro8]

I absolutely love Anticitizen One in this setting, seeing the sunset after a rainy day while in the middle of a literal war makes it extremely atmospheric and apocalyptic... gives off a vibe I can't describe precisely

[@springytaco7587]

i saw this mod idea develop from a simple concept into a fully fledged mod,this is proof that simplicity can be executed properly kudos to the dev team !!💪

[@fiddlekon]

lovely video, keep it up!!

[@echelon2k8]

Lookin' good. I love games that are set at night, Deus Ex still being my favorite.

[@leon217]

It may be heresy but I think this would look really good in VR

[@panqueque445]

This is such a simple yet amazing idea.

[@templarkid.]

AMAZING. I will wait for them to complete the project, but it's really good already

[@HeyKyle]

This is awesome def gonna try it

[@bluespy377]

I love that feeling that these mods give me just by changing the weather and time

[@FiskenIsFishy]

Loving the amount of uploads recently but don't get yourself burnt out from making them

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Thanks! Yeah, I'll slow down a little. These were some videos I had in my to-do list for so long.

[@sampsalol]

Looks very good. Fantastic that people are still modding this game.

[@alyx3154]

Oh hey I'm early, i might download this mod, I'm a minute into the video and it already looks quite cool

[@wolfchan.8513]

Amazing video as always a couple a suggestions for videos: an evolution of the citizen models the evolutuion of the g-man opening

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Thank you! And great suggestions! I'll look into it.

[@Blurns]

That one piece of Civil Protection promo art with blue lenses will never stop getting on my nerves. Everybody depicts them with blue lenses because of it.

[@wolfcl0ck]

incredibly clever of them giving ravenholm fog like that, it really does keep the horror aesthetic in the chapter.

[@SirKolass]

I suggested them to make the sky orange during the uprising because of all the fires, it'll make it a lot more immersive. They liked the idea. I gave them some examples and it does look very dope.

[@coenisgreat]

Looks amazing, now I want not only for this to be completed, but to be able to use it in the ol' Half Life 2 SMOD as well~

[@EricScheid]

One “night time” error is that clouds of dust are usually not visible, they don’t light up like during the daytime. You can see this happen in movie making too, where they shoot a scene in daylight and then put a dark filter on .. but the characters still kick up little white dust clouds, and sky clouds are still light and fluffy.

[@west4869]

The right change in the wrong place, can make all the difference in a game.

[@DavidJDiehl]

God, HL2 is such a masterpiece. I remember playing it as a kid in total amazement at the physics engine. It still holds up to this day.

[@WoWmakerWT]

Silent Ravenholm is fracking awwesome!!! But this way you lost one thing. After Ravenholm's dangeons Gordon rise up to the light on City-17's railway. And you are like "FINALLY!!!! This nightmare is over" But I believe is is unnecessary lost =)

[@toxenzz]

Love your music brother

[@bluesides8323]

It'd be pretty cool if there were flares being fired by artillery in Follow Freemen to give more dynamic lighting. Hopefully this mod is still being developed.

[@ORLY911]

I wonder if they'll do the episodes, not sure how they'd do EP1 since it's mostly smog out, but EP2 would be really interesting at night, making for a much more "covert" feeling moving from place to place evading Combine forces until you get to White Forest.

[@aurorafox1283]

Fighting striders at night? I hope striders gonna have some light so i can see them xD

[@R3TR0--93]

damn, that was amazing!

[@CrimeFighterFrog]

Can't wait to play this.

[@gustavosantos106]

5:41 This is like a rap song. Nice impro, man.

[@ElmeriThePig]

Day Ravenholm also looks my hometown in Finland, except it's never foggy there.

[@jazrivvaz1282]

What would be a great touch in the canal level is, the moment a barrel goes off, every single unlit window becomes lit

[@DarthMcDoomington]

I hope these maps are made into separate maps for Gmod. Yeah there's Stormfox 2, but these maps are made with night time in mind. The street lights are actually on.

[@FormerBunsenBurner]

God, imagine if they remake Episode 2. The ominous glow of the superportal, Hunters at the dead of night, or God-forbid trying to land a Magnusson device on a Strider in the dark

[@chuckyluvsu13]

Oh man this looks awesome, I can't wait to try it. Half-Life series 4life !!

[@derrickhobbs8842]

Night maps, fog effects, snow levels...games need more of this!

[@bloomingpain-flower7074]

Would be cool if we would have a rainy day map, but if there are only a Ravenholm at day, maybe only the second half of the chapter will have rain?, rain and fog, just imagine how melancholic yet dramatic this would be.

[@mooney9690]

such a simple change can make a big difference

[@Speedy636Germany]

Looks promising indeed!

[@nate_sc]

This looks fantastic.

[@cyberdemon9306]

Very nice great success!!!

[@tomhoward4905]

I don’t know if I’m alone but the cadence of your voice with the backing track makes it sound like a rap track Anyway, super cool mod

[@rsho3472]

I want ravenholm to be even foggier, like silent hill one, I don't want to be able to see even a feet away from me, and I want it to scare the shit outta me, I want new spawn points so I can feel what is like to be at my neigborhood at night

[@xylo2812]

Zamn Ravenholm be looking good with that fog.

[@alecpizz]

this + the hl2 vr mod would be such a new experience

[@theoriginalbingchilling]

Damn this is dark and gritty

[@nontologicalbeing]

Route Kanal at night looks EXACTLY like Dishonored. I love Viktor Antonov’s art style so iconic

[@lonew0lfclaw859]

This was amazing man! I heard about something called project inhuman. Would be cool if you could cover that. Keep it up.

[@gordonneverdies]

Wow, what a simple yet amazing idea!! Highway 17 and Sand Traps probably feel cool and lonely at night. And Follow Freeman with the Sun rising will feel so epic and meaningful!! I wanna play this bad.

[@fabianrr]

Looks so good

[@RMJ1984]

This is absolutely genius! really hope the whole game ends up getting this treatment! and heck while they are at it, let me play entirely Half-Life 2 night, it might not make sense!, but it will be dark, it will be glorious!.

[@FragRigez]

YO! Cool project! ☺

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

i absolutely love this

[@lecar3817]

You should make a video on half life expanded when it gets released, nice video btw

[@musaoglu9697]

Bence tek kelimeyle Mükemmel. Ama bence ravenholm üzerinde biraz daha çalışmalarını isterim. Takipteyim.

[@thijsbakker9799]

Since highway 17 starts off in the morning I think (after nighttime in Ravenholm), I think it would be interesting to see a sunset during the new highway 17

[@dkkanofkash8798]

Honestly this makes more sense than the original due to how tame the Combine in the game seem to be. Sneaking through the City-17 canals in the night seems more likely to work rather than doing it during the day when Gorgon is easy to see. Great mod!

[@iratepirate3896]

This is amazing.