Why is Half-Life 2: Overcharged So Bad?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

When I watched a bunch of videos of this mod on YT before playing it, I had the feeling this would legit be a true successor to SMOD in a way. It'd be fun, enjoyable, and a great way to play through the campaign. But because of all the points you listed in the video (and some gameplay imbalances), the mod just fell short in every aspect. I don't have any personal grudge against the devs. I WANT mods like these to succeed. Hell, I'm even ready to make another video about it and say "hey the mod's awesome now!" ONLY if they actually listen to feedback from the players and fix their mod. I don't see that happening anytime soon though. Especially after seeing those Discord messages at the end. Oh well...

[@maginekris]

hi radiation hazard how are you

[@morphinelover]

Hi

[@advancedmicrodevices3868]

I love what overcharge is doing but the execution is just terrible

[@AustinDallasPictures]

Ray dee ayshun haaazzaaard, my dude.

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

yo rad!

[@unoriginalperson72]

This mod is like a gmod npc battle except you're just a bystander on the way to the store

[@munastronaut8147]

I KEEP SEEING YOU EVERYWHERE

[@Sethilliano]

Legit lmao

[@Twistedrated]

6:14 "the sun is leaking" -DeadWaterGaming

[@gordonfreeman1163]

So that's where the meme was really conceived!

[@My.name.is.myname]

Bro predicted a future meme

[@agentfox7103]

5:15 "This mod is truly one of the mods out there." Truer words have never been spoken before, comrade

[@MondySpartan]

If they put this mod to Steam it would have one overcharged dollars.

[@p_filippouz]

Truly on of the reviews ever

[@sillyfella2009]

Its Overchargin Time

[@TammoKorsai]

It do be that way.

[@idkwhattotype4704]

Definitely one of the statements out there!

[@MTB396]

My friend LIL-PIF was once the weapon animator for this mod. He already did saw the red flags that the devs just want to add more things to the game without putting much thought into it. And im also pretty sure the creator of this mod had a bad history of making mods, there was one mod made by the same devs called arctic adventure or something.

[@kivnokai]

Arctic Adventure. Yep, played that on Steam, and it was a very boring and annoying mod. The level design was not very good and the voice acting was also shit in it.

[@average_pyro]

Wait, THOSE GUYS MADE THIS!?

[@NovidProkteps]

@@kivnokai That explains it then, I played AA as well, I couldn't understand a goddamn thing that was in that mod and it was generally just boring and extremely uninspired

[@dukenukem8735]

Did not expect a touhou KZbinr to be here

[@somefries3101]

Arctic adventure sucked :/

[@TheLmb10000]

I’m a friend of the mod developer. And I tried to talk to him about what’s happening around it and Arctic Adventures. I kept saying that most of the content must be reworked completely. Not just “fixed” because they are broken on the foundation level. I asked to focus on core features instead of adding more and more. That he must clearly see what is his mod about… but… it was completely unlucky attempt. I felt a lot of psin watching how these mods die on every step of development. Still remember our conversation during our walk in the park in 2018. - We’re adding barnacle weapon to the mod. - But why? Can’t you see it’ll useless or will break the game? You’ll have to add barnacle nodes everywhere or, if you make it stick to every surface, it’ll turn into out-of-bounds-gun? And he decided to stick to his idea anyway. I just don’t know what to do. I can’t reach him on this topic.

[@Boomrainbownuke9608]

some people are just stubborn. they refuse to listen to reason. that guy clearly has no business in making mods or games in general. there are idea's you have to scrap when making something. sometimes you dont have the budget or time to implement something and other times it just doesn't fit in what you are making. but they just want to throw in whatever their brain comes up with. making a huge mess that is just doomed to fail. and it definitely did fail.

[@derekbecker1965]

This reminds me of a person that I used to be friend with. He never listen whenever me and my other friend give constructive criticism. He expect us to be yes men which I refuse . I don’t like being fake .

[@theblackswordsman5039]

Maybe you should stop being friends with him if he’s just going to be irrational.

[@KingThrillgore]

Maybe he'll learn from all this feedback that excess is something that is readily apparent in game design, and absolutely difficult to re-balance in someone else's sandbox, and scale down Overcharged into just a "for kicks" fun mod like SMOD. You can slap all kinds of shit in your game but knowing if the sandbox works and is entertaining, enriching, and motivating is something you can't assume from throwing in 400 weapons and cut enemies, and testing for yourself.

[@diplodocus6969]

the funny mod developer should've developed his social skills first

[@SLayeR-ud9ji]

6:06 - "Oh god, I am next. I just know it." He really does know it.

[@tophat156]

the sun is leaking

[@KingThrillgore]

Modmakers are constantly relearning the lessons Valve did making HL2: you can have too much of a good thing.

[@mettawatkutaninwat5411]

Did you mean “can’t”?

[@DesolateLavender]

@@mettawatkutaninwat5411 No, they meant can.

[@KingThrillgore]

No, I meant can. Go back to the hydras for example. They were cool looking in the promo materials but difficult to make fun and Overcharged reaffirms it by making them break the pacing of Route Kanal.

[@NovidProkteps]

@@KingThrillgore not to mention the fact that they crash the game if you ram them with the airboat

[@christiancinnabars1402]

Well, you technically _can_ add as many good things as you want. But feature bloat is the main obstacle you'll face if you do so, and the _absolute worst_ thing to do in trying to combat that is to rush out your product. Good thing the MMod devs never did that...

[@just_Sylvia]

6:02 - The sun is leaking 6:14 - The sun is leaking 6:54 - The sun is leaking 7:01 - The sun is leaking 7:50 - The sun is leaking

[@JackFoxtrotEDM]

“Well before I do sleep, let me ask this: What _are_ ‘good default settings’?” Gee I don’t know, MAYBE SETTINGS THAT DON’T GIVE MISSING TEXTURE TRACERS.

[@Predator20357]

A good default setting is one where you shouldn’t have to go into the settings unless it’s technical ones. But that requires play testing and they need to add more enemies in the bloated game

[@KingThrillgore]

The answer is "What you think is the best experience for your audience out of the box." This screams "We don't have an ideal experience, here's a box of extra crap on top of HL2."

[@DesolateLavender]

9:56 "YOU CAN TWEAK THE ENEMY SPAWNS! "It's right there! In "Advanced Options"! Hell, actual bullet physics! But noooooo, it's "just extra weapons and enemies"! God, these people infuriate me." And this infuriates me. To make the excuse that the game is good because after you tweak all 900 settings to your liking you'll like it (which I don't even think is true) is stupid. You're basically saying "You don't like our game? Make it yourself. From scratch. Painstakingly. For hours. Then it'll be fun. You can't criticize it." I don't need to explain why and how that's complete and utter bullshit. That doesn't make your game good. It makes it bad. I also want to add that there's always such a thing as "too much" of something. They didn't seem to realize this when giving the player 900 different small settings, or when they added 90 weapons, or when they added all of the enemies. I don't say this just to hate. I say this because it's true, and accepting that and fixing it would help the mod greatly. 10:06 Not having 900 of them.

[@kay1229]

that dm definitely gave me some sort of illness, 0 idea how that person thought saying that was a good idea

[@KingThrillgore]

Realistic bullet physics? What for? Even FEAR used raycast/hitscan. Realistic physics don't really add much to the experience, most combat in HL2 is in semi-closed/closed arenas and the largest is never bigger than 15 square meters. Bullet dropoff is not going to matter in HL2.

[@DesolateLavender]

@@KingThrillgore Also that, yeah.

[@Predator20357]

Imagine if Valve did the same thing to the base game and then told the players to fuck with the small settings to make it work. I feel like they should’ve taken notes from Half Life Opposing Forces when it comes to new weapons and new enemies.

[@aq_ua]

The dev does not care at all, he's just always right and everyone else is wrong from what I've seen LMAO

[@teh_supar_hackr]

This mod just feels like a save file someone made for HL2 maps with random NPCs thrown in from the workshop in Gmod.

[@ccmacl]

I feel as if the mod just doesn't have a sense of direction, which is why it feels like a mishmash of weapons, enemies and changes for the sake of change. However, if it was given more time in the oven some of these issues could have definitely been ironed out, but they weren't.

[@SomeGrunt_On_Youtube]

Honestly feels like abunch of GMOD addons that do the same thing

[@heftymagic4814]

@@SomeGrunt_On_KZbin ikr

[@Bolloxed]

I ditched it at Waterhazard too. Also had early access. Released version was worse.. as was the first update. It suffers the same fate as SMod... great mod and insanely fun looking, but far too buggy to be enjoyable nevermind trying to record anything. Sometimes less is more, especially when it comes to stability

[@morphinelover]

Holy smokes is that

[@BayAreaPolice]

Hm

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

SMOD was better.

[@alexanderscout]

i would say somehow smod comes on top of overcharged simply beacuse its easy to play and you don't have to tweak much

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

@@alexanderscout plus, Overcharged doesnt even have SMods gore

[@滝川洋平-c2z]

Fighting Gonome or Race X enemies in HL2 could've been a cool experience, but spawning them at random locations with their textures looking like they were copied straight out from Goldsrc models doesn't seem like a convincing and fun HL2 situation.

[@skaynne54]

Entropy Zero: 2 did their Gonome pretty well.

[@IXFlipyap]

@@skaynne54 Yeah, but they aren’t much of a threat after the boss fight. You can just one shot them with the ar2 balls

[@KingThrillgore]

Entropy Zero 2 did this better, creating whole new models within the Source design philosophy.

[@sermer6659]

@@skaynne54 The most fun part that they did it by same exact way, just instead of using SWEN coop model they use a slightly modified and retextured zombie assasin(cut enemy) model. And it still looks better than overcharged one.

[@stalagmite.5]

Yeah I heavily agree with the enemy placement thing. Plus, even if you put them in the right place, you'd need to have some way to introduce the player to what it does instead of just launching them into battle with said enemy. For example: the barnacle is introduced by showing you a crow flying into the tongue and getting eaten. Headcrabs are introduced by a friendly npc shooting one. Then, you see what they do when one latches onto an npc on the other side of a fence, and then you get to see your first zombie. With antlions, you see them attack someone who moves on the sand (poor lazlo) when you first see a fast zombie, you see it hopping roofs with speed, which is a teaching point for when you first find one. I could go on and on, but I feel like this speaks for itself. Don't just toss an enemy in with no type of introduction, because then it just doesn't work too well. Edit: i make source maps sometimes, although I haven't in a while :)

[@servo-skull9450]

When the devs said "Its Overchargin' time" I truly felt that they were gonna make the one of the mods out there.

[@0uttaS1TE]

And then he Overcharged all over the bad guys

[@halfhawk718]

You can totally say that they go "full Morbius" with this one.

[@lnomata5470]

Overcharged before the leak of sun

[@nguyenquyetthang1326]

It already had

[@lambdrey]

Don't let this community fall to shreds by a mod. Let's just take some time and enjoy Half-Life on August 14th.

[@dusanziv5718]

thanks for the reminder

[@DesolateLavender]

Yeah, I've had so much going on, so I forgot about that. Now I'll be sure to #rememberfreeman

[@lambdrey]

@@dusanziv5718 You're welcome, mate.

[@lambdrey]

@@DesolateLavender You wasn't?!

[@DesolateLavender]

@@lambdrey No, I forgot. I'll make sure to remember now though.

[@Sierra19204]

Maybe that's the reason why Water Hazard in release is pretty empty, i mean no enemies in water. Because npcs can't swim, they walk underwater.

[@nakfoor1846]

The theme of the section isnt fighting, its driving. Enemies would be redundant.

[@Dr.Oofers]

@@nakfoor1846 Well the devs love to add random enemies in random places with little to no thought. So you can’t fault people for being surprised when they didn’t put any enemies in water hazard, plus the beta version would crash when reaching WH (which might be why they didn’t go insane with the enemy placements like they did with the rest of the game).

[@Definitelyhuman7]

Learned this when I spawned a rebel to fight against combine soldiers. They just walked underwater

[@tanybrachid]

This mod is the definition of quantity over quality. They just took vanilla Half-Life 2, threw in a whole bunch of half-assed content (Without having any consideration for the flow of gameplay, balance, polish, or even that the features they threw in actually worked) and called it a day. I'ts a perfect example of feature creep; they took an amazing game and turned it into a tasteless, overcrowded clusterfuck.

[@karisasani7006]

They basically went for the "Throw as much as we can and see if it sticks" approach, minus the "See if it sticks"

[@epj0211]

This mod suffers from something which I like to call the “Insanity’s Brutality” fallacy, named after a rather infamous Doom Mod of the same name. You get the feeling that the creator wanted to add a billion new weapons (for some reason, I personally think that HL2 is as close to a perfect weapon selection as possible) but has no clue of pacing or balance, so just tosses them in there willy-nilly. This leads to the player using only a few of the more powerful ones, due to the rest being redundant as they use the exact same ammo, or just randomly using them all for variety.

[@kannedkielbasa3182]

Aswell main weapons have good sprite sets and then you have those which are outdated, overused in other mods or simply look like shit.

[@markhirsch6301]

There's having a lot of weapons like in Project Brutality, then there's having too many

[@emperorfaiz]

Reminds me of Balan's Wonderworld with 80 costumes. Some are more powerful and some are exactly the same. Since all the levels are not designed to accommodate 80 costumes at once, you can break the game by skipping the whole place or couldn't pass the level due to not having a specific costume. What makes it worse is the weird-ass HP system or lack of it where the costume you're currently using will disappear when taking damage instead of the old fashioned HP system.

[@KingThrillgore]

Here's the thing though: I like wads with sick weapons. I play Russian Overkill all the time. Its a prime example of excess. But even PillowBlaster will recommend you use a megawad with it because it's not meant to be balanced with Vanilla Doom or even many other wads. It's excess and it makes no apology of what it is. Overcharged isnt.

[@epj0211]

@@KingThrillgore Thing is, RO and other PillowBlaster mods have some kind of thought put into the weapons. IB and this are just slap-dashes of weapons from other games.

[@MudkipWithShades]

If the devs don't take criticism to fix most of the issues with this mod, then there's no hope for it. Constructive criticism shouldn't be taken for granted. This mod has potential, but everything you describe in the video ruins the experience of replaying Half-Life 2 with new enemies and weapons.

[@combinemetrocop4213]

"Don't let it overcharge" "Wh- what do you mean overchar-"

[@darke1157]

I want a mod that actually thoughts well with everything about this game especially the enemy placements a example is a cremator in the canals with those burnt corpses which would make a lot of sense instead of it being a Hydra placed randomly there.

[@athl0n]

Good design is not when you are at the point where you don't know what to add, but when you cannot remove anything.

[@Brucewillis235]

I remember deadwater posting a tweet that said. "Source modders need to learn that there's nothing wrong with releasing betas, or even alphas." I feel like if the devs of Overcharged did this it would mean people would keep talking about it so people would still be exited for when it comes out and have not to worry about a release date and also have playtesters as they were making it. If they did maybe just maybe it would have gone better.

[@Dr.Oofers]

I think they did release a beta… but it would always crash at water hazard. Apparently, from those who playtested, the release is *worse* than the beta. Yes, having a beta didn’t even help the mod’s full release better.

[@Brucewillis235]

@@Dr.Oofers how can a mod be worse then it's beta?

[@aq_ua]

The dev does not care... Has never taken criticism or advice- it's like screaming at a brick wall

[@Dr.Oofers]

@@Brucewillis235My guess is that they added and/or changed tons of stuff between the beta and release. Which culminated into worse performance and a plethora of stuff that either was buggy, useless, or didn’t even work at all.

[@itsgeegra]

There's too many mods that have a strange slavish dedication go HL1/the Beta for the reason that they're cool - HL2 wasn't missing an AK, and it wouldn't be enriched with another 4 shotguns. Valve did the right thing by paring down the experience. Maybe, *maybe* greater enemy variety woulda been cool, but these mods so rarely make a convincing case for why we *need* to see the Cremator or the Guard in game, beyond ✨it's cool!✨

[@BeachioSandschannel]

Well, I think that it would be cool if a mod included cremators that were sent from the cities to Ravenholm to dispose of the zombies, and have the combine guards appear in the citadel.

[@johndoe8520]

I get what your saying but insurgency sandstorm has a mod called ismc that adds lots of guns(which are either reskins or existing guns or have no use case) and other stuff to the game Is the ismc guns cool? Yeah I like it a lot but I would not like it if they added to the base game

[@itsgeegra]

@@johndoe8520 I mean it more in the case of limited resources - you've got programmers and 3D artists who could spend their time better, imho!

[@zombieoutbreakprod]

@@johndoe8520 sandstorm only lets you carry a primary and a pistol though. You don't need 4 shotguns to scroll through in a classic shooter like hl2 where every gun has a specific role

[@CoolSs]

It's work if you want more of the same . did work for me . but i will agree it is a case of too many of things . become redundant .

[@lakotacorff4012]

Think about it like this. Base HL2 is like a pizza. Every topping is placed with care and regards towards the pizza as a whole, so they don't ruin the whole thing. Overcharged takes this pizza and dumps every foodstuff in the kitchen on it after being blindfolded and spun around 3 times.

[@jakeconer]

A perfect example of adding more doesn’t automatically equal better

[@spazjackrabbit61]

the mod's main problems of course are style over substance and quantity over quality

[@davidlnds1867]

for me Overcharged is one of the most disappointing mods of all time, not only because it has stuff every half life fan wanted to have in 2 but because it was one of the mods I've been waiting for since 2018 this is really sad because I was so excited for the game. mod, as I love the mod for making me replay half life 2 to see what's new in this mod, but I won't defend it at all costs for certain reasons it disappointed me a lot, on launch day I had a problem, that every time i tried to start the game it closed, i only noticed a few times that the reason for this was the game's graphical settings, the enemies are ok but the AI ​​i thought it was just bullsquid and houndeye but during i played the whole game i realized that EVERYBODY HAS A BROKEN AI, for me this is a joke because they simply confirm: alien growl, bullsquid, houndeye, metro cop elite, combine guard among other types, you realize they didn't know how to adapt these enemies on maps, the game's performance at launch for me was normal the game ran normally but with the arrival of the patch it started to crash very constantly,but the big mistake of this mod was to have stolen other people's models and weapons, even from valve itself, they could have at least asked your permission for them. for me overcharged is not a bad mod but it is a disappointing mod, not only because it promised a lot of things like maps, weapons, enemies, but also because they didn't know how to balance that much because the damage of enemies in this mod....... .overchaged is good to install it and only play it once in a lifetime because this mod only played it for 3 or 2 days and I already stopped playing it, well it's just very sad to see how it turned out

[@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525]

Wait, this was in development for 4 years?

[@davidlnds1867]

@@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525 yes it even shows in the dates of the first 3 teasers, it's amazing that they had all this time to fix the bugs, but it looks like they threw those 4 years away

[@Pacman009]

Keep in mind the mod is new so further patches will come soon like bug fixes also why do people complain about the huge selection of guns like the mod is literally called *OVERCHARGED*

[@davidlnds1867]

@@Pacman009 well I love the overcharged weapons, but the big problem is the game problems, such as the drop in FPS, lighting, enemy damage, the bug in the game scenes, the problem of the characters dying easily,Ridiculous and senseless enemy locations, broken AI, problems with viewbody, as I said overcharged always or it will be the best mod of half life 2 for me, but the big problem was they promised and created a lot of hype, I hope the patch and the next updates Fix the Game, don't get me wrong I played a lot in the first 3 days, but after the first patch came....., kind of when the second patch comes out I'll play again, because in the state the game is in it demotivated me to play

[@zk6905]

@@Pacman009 the hate reason people always give excuse that is because mele guns are useless(since the kick replaces them"what is true") and another is because basically firearms do the same things with a few changes , in general I also don't understand why they hate them so much

[@thatspacepirate]

This mod feels like something I could have accidentally made in Gmod by downloading 8 conflicting addons and trying to play through Half-Life 2. It's a shame it didn't turn out right, I would have absolutely loved to see more xen enemies in HL2.

[@CinderUnit]

When the mod is so bad the Bullsquid starts shooting the camera 0:27

[@RaidriarTheRadicalKing]

that one enemy that disappointed you the most (think it’s a combine guard) kinda can’t attack you if you’re close to him, but man did they make the citadel levels impossible in hard mode oneshoting me endlessly

[@derkaempfer_hd]

I really expected this to fail even if it had to hype. Adding so many new weapons and enemies to a otherwise perfect game won't give anyone a better result or more playable/fun experience.

[@literallyvergil1686]

I wouldn't call half life's 2 gameplay "perfect" it's fine but it definitely lacked weapon and enemy variety especially compared to hl1 and opposing force and the ai was stupid and never challenging and made the game really easy even on hard, of course that didn't mean the mod was any good

[@carlobellic]

@@literallyvergil1686 that's the thing. Half Life 2 didn't need this huge abundance of weapons to provide more gameplay, because every single weapon in the game provides it's own uses throughout the game, being used for their own scenarios.

[@literallyvergil1686]

@@carlobellic it didn't need a huge abundance but it did need more weapons, almost all weapon just shoot bullets and you use the shotgun and ar exclusively with maybe some cross bow here and there, it also needed more enemies, you're acting like this is doom where weapons are extremely dinstinct with different uses which isn't the case

[@zorgapb4691]

Hopefully an upcoming steam release will fix most of the issues. Mod has great potential it is only bad at executing it.

[@Xspurr]

If the creators doesn't know how to fix it, then there is no "potential".

[@buddy1337]

We just hope they learned their errors and they will fix this mod

[@ishiddddd4783]

most of the issues are because of bad code and shitty design, not even because of the version its being used

[@PiuFan]

They will fix it ofc lol. They literally said that. Idk why so much people blind here

[@BeeVee231]

Tbh if this mod is applying for a steam release i doubt it will actually get accepted, the mod is just a cess pool of stolen assets, poor coding and some kid not know any kindve balance

[@keiko431]

This is what happens when someone trows a bunch of crap in the wall and everything sticking

[@GoodFishMan]

This is what it would be like if i went into gmod and downloaded a bunch of custom npcs to throw in a level to make a custom campaign lol.

[@Saturniidae_]

IDK, maybe I had luck on my side but I didn't experience any crashes when I played it. I also relaunched the mod before commenting to see if I could find the lighting errors and broken pathfinding because I don't remember experiencing it, I wasn't able to find any examples including the places you showcased. I do agree that the enemy placement and the amount of weapons the mod has is very poorly thought out, and that the devs themselves aren't the greatest, but overall I would say I had a really good time playing the mod.

[@KlazGuy]

Oh you lucky bastard...

[@woohoo2491]

Agreed, I didn't have many crashes playing this mod either. Honestly I thought it was a lot of fun until I got to the museum part where you first fight the striders. That place was so god damn hard I stopped playing and didn't come back.

[@FinnFann]

That actually begs the question if order of install or certain source games being installed/uninstalled can change its behavior. That's a whole extra issue unto itself that would need looking into. I had many bugs that couldn't be reproduced by a developer because their particular machine was setup in a way that concealed the bug or prevented it from happening. But if you threw it onto 10 random machines, at least 7 of them would be broken.

[@aq_ua]

With zero proof to show btw

[@p_filippouz]

Why the hell has gaming gone so much down in these years? I don't understand... It's kinda like after CP77 everything started to be shit

[@Dr.Oofers]

Been like this before Cyberpunk sadly.

[@TimSlee1]

6:03 First sighting of "The Sun Is Leaking" Incident

[@farkrits]

This looks like when you're fucking around in Gary's Mod and spawn a bunch of NPCs to see what happens.

[@protostar5946]

Stuff like this makes me really wonder how/why Jerek4GamingDragon even liked this mod and thought it was unironically good. :/

[@Dr.Oofers]

Probably came right off the high you get from first playing it. Yes, it’s fun and funny when it’s broken… but then you play it again (or get stuck) and your opinion changes.

[@SomeGrunt_On_Youtube]

5:03 This enemy placement doesn’t make any sense, why would the combine set up an ambush while also having an alien grunt attacking them, i really dont know how someone could think “hey an alien enemy near an ambush is a good idea”

[@SrVortigaunt884]

Well, i have to say that i like HL Overcharged, but its impossible to not rage when it comes to enemies that you dont have any place to defend yourself, or the trocendous ammount of weapons that was supposed to help with the enemies, but it doesnt change nothing, the placement of enemies is very unbalanced and strange, for example: hydras in the coast or voltigores in places that you dont have any element to take cover and defend yourself (walls, rocks or even cars). And not forgeting to mention the damage that the npc does to you, 90% of the times is unbalanced and it doesnt matter in wich dificulty you are playing (hard, normal or even easy), and because of the 10 bilion enemies that have in just one place makes it even more common Still, Half Life overcharged will still be kinda interesting (in my opinion)

[@tapset]

It looks horrible

[@aq_ua]

My condolences

[@SirPembertonS.Crevalius]

Shame that it was rushed just so it could be released on a neat day. We've seen what rushed games can turn out to be with these last few years. Folks need to slow down and just take their time.

[@MondySpartan]

But then there’s Cyberpunk 2077.

[@AC-ut3nk]

Don't let the bad mod distract you from the fact that the car ready for you now doctor freeman.

[@ThatVulcan]

Instead of cramming 500 things into the basegame, start making new levels, and split the weapons between the new levels. Make the Fire Extinguisher have a time to shine, make that Flashbang work on enemies, etc. Watching the random Combine Guard run around Nova Prospekt actually hurt. It's to the point I'm actually going to tear my eyes out after watching how bad this is. Have some levels themed around where these NPCs would've originally appeared, etc, etc. It's basically what happens when you ship spawning NPCs in GarrysMod as a Mod for basegame. AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T DIRECT PORT GLDSRC or HL:S into HL2, IT LOOKS AWFUL. IN-FACT PORTED CSGO WEAPONS ALSO LOOK AWFUL IN THE REGARD THEY DON'T FIT WITH THE VISUAL AESTHETIC OF HL2. Put it back in the oven. Put it back. Needs more time.

[@DarkFlameVee]

Nah, it’s needs to be thrown out

[@Apocryphox]

The name fits well for this mod. It's completely overcharged with crap nobody really wanted.

[@Minersteev]

the bullsquid spitting at the camera during the flyby was pretty funny

[@Predator20357]

I like Half Life 1 and Half Life 2 because it never feels weapon bloated, the enemies weren’t mindlessly placed, and I didn’t need to fuck around with the options to get the “correct” experience.

[@akjackhd5804]

one of the biggest important things in game development no matter of its shape or form or platform is feedback, and criticism, if you cannot take a bit of people nitpicking on your project then imo its gonna turn to be a failure, i learned that with a few personal projects at 2020 and slowly grew more mature and understanding the viewpoint of people, but i genuinely do not have ANY sort of empathy towards people who genuinely think constructive criticism is people complaining!, it just makes my blood boil!!, anything posted online is due to receive criticism and it should be a known fact by now when going into the game development branch of online activities, mistakes are there to learn from, not to repeat them

[@bolthesnaphakker]

About lightning problems - It was done on projected texture technology or however that was called. If walls are too thin they'll get some lightning through them

[@abee2308]

Did no one mention that Strider and Gunship can be killed with normal weapons?

[@melonyswife]

From the looks of it this mod feels more like you got a gmod weapon pack and an enemy pack and scattered a bunch of the new enemies in a sandbox map and played it like a normal half life map

[@RedthegamingZoroark]

The M1014 shotgun in the mod is not from CSGO, but actually from Left 4 Dead 2

[@SodaMazing2]

Pretty sure this is just a Gmod mod pack with saves for the levels.

[@crispen_archives]

"the most unique thing about this mod is that it's bug-personalized" -Engineermain, 03/11/2022

[@higondal]

*this game almost overcharged my anger levels.*

[@jess648]

this is mod is the embodiment of the “more content=good” philosophy

[@bnepugga2357]

this feels like gmod with mods and playing hl2 maps

[@bnepugga2357]

oh i didnt watch the whole video and he said it lmao

[@SCP-vx3qj]

I'm pretty sure they ripped the enemies like the houndeyes from Half-Life: Source and just got them a new model, because Half-Life's AI is quite broken in Source like the houndeyes just standing there jumping and barking at the enemy.

[@JukoYT]

I encountered this after porting the hls houndeye to hl2, never figured out the ai and abandoned it lol, there is supposadly a fix hovewer

[@Bleplar]

One of the few good features is that there's no friendly fire

[@rickedysplit2458]

This mods reminds me of a problem I know HL2 beta recreation modders will eventually run into. A good amount of weapons in the HL2 beta were cut because there were too many automatic weapons. In HL2 there's just the SMG/MP7 and the AR2, which have different alt-fires and ammo sources which make them unique. If you have 10 Assault Rifles/SMGs, people will just use one or two, making the inclusion of the others completely pointless (and taking up ammo spawn spots on the map). Every weapon needs to have a utility, which all of the half life games are good at ensuring (Minus maybe the tripwires in HL1? But even then, you can be creative with them). Sometimes less is more.

[@mistercopper3469]

I remember making a thread on the devs' Discord server in which I posted my thoughts on the mod. This was around early March, although I cannot remember if it was before or after the patch was released. The only real things that surprised me were that A) the devs left my thread open for a while prior to me leaving the server, and B) one of the other users there actually agreed with what I have to say. Unfortunately, that also prompted someone else to step in and call me ableist slurs just for posting my thoughts on there, although the user who agreed with me called him out on it and told him it was constructive criticism. Wish I could talk to the guy who defended me on that, although he was more concerned with getting the mod patched to a playable state. Shame that it turned out like this, so I hate to see how he's handling the fallout going on in the server and elsewhere. Also, believe it or not, but I compared this to a Garry's Mod total conversion called Temporal Assassin, and all I can say is that Overcharged tries so hard to be the next SMOD while TA actually brings something new to the table. I would tell you to check out Temporal Assassin, but the setup process is a bit confusing. Still, worth checking out.

[@MrRulet550]

My favorite part of the mod when freeman went "..." and overcharged everyone on the map

[@aydinmakesthings]

For me, the new enemies don't make any sense as to why they are in certain places. Like Winged Houndeyes in canals? A Combine Guard in a prison shower? A Hydra in a small crampet sewer? Race X Soldiers in the wasteland? With base HL2, the enemies and their locations did make sense! Zombies in the small abandon parts of prospekt. Metro cops in the canals, on watch. Antilions in the city in EP1, from security failing. The Combine on the coast, trying to kill any rebels there.

[@Detah_]

and now Entropy Zero 2 is stomping this mod into the ground with superior quality lol

[@tpd1864blake]

I don’t think I noticed many problems with the AI when I played it, the main issue I had was that the enemy placement was way too much. For example in that one street of Uprising 17 where you have to go around the locked gate to open it, on the other side there were enemies in all directions. On the left, right, on the roof above, that I had to constantly peek out and shoot a few shots and then peek back in. I think the only major graphical glitch I remember was this mass of missing textures somewhere on Highway 17 which was fixed in the 1st update. Most of the other problems you listed I agree with

[@tpd1864blake]

I think most of the unusual enemy placements are just from the mapadd thing that they pushed so heavily. It seems to just have a list of enemies per map that are just placed randomly on any solid surface. In Route Canal I’ve seen combine soldiers and female assassins just hanging out on roofs of areas out of bounds where it feels a little early to introduce the soldiers

[@notgaben]

I always liked overcharged, I feel it's a mod about adjusting the settings to get your best experience, but most go into it vanilla without even digging that far.

[@noclick]

Changing Settings Simulator

[@dreamernawid]

@@noclick ☹️

[@notgaben]

@@noclick Yeah, maybe, but I don't see that as an issue, I always favour customizability if I can get it, overcharged is perfect for that.

[@Cogglesz]

Can we customise the AI to properly function and pathfind?

[@alanfran]

@@notgaben The problem is, the mod doesnt even run on most setting combinations, there's a very slim number of combinations that will *actually* let you load a map witout booting you out of the game, people want to jump right in and have fun, not spend hours tweaking the settings.

[@Valtremors]

This mod looks like it is from someone who has 50 hours in half life and 1000 hours in Gmod.

[@lazuardinadziva1298]

Watching how wacky this mod is, it feels like something i would make in a game with in-game map editor

[@aq_ua]

First time Gmod session ☠️

[@m.bukhori2304]

00:35 song name?

[@Brax64]

8:48 What's funny about this weapon is that if you change the viewmodel from right to left it completely breaks this weapon as well as scoping on every other weapon. What's weird about the scoping is that some weapons have two types of scopes in which one breaks by flipping viewmodels but the other isn't. There's also the grenade key bind that will cause the game to crash if you pick up any type of grenade after a certain point in the story; somewhere around episode 1 i believe.

[@plastiquemonk]

this looks like if i threw all my toys together in one big fight; you've got my stuffed bear having a swordfight with GI joe and they're fighting in my lego recreation of 2fort (that was really just the 2fort bridge and ramparts bc im a sniper main til i die) and there was never the question of why GI joe and stuffed bear would fight, it was just a foregone conclusion

[@paldinox1]

Exactly, why tf is the Race X stuff here at all? It just makes combat encounters too bloated and they dont fit into the games story at all. Why are there so many literally useless weapons that serve zero purpose other than to clog up the inventory? The devs learnt the wrong lesson from Half-Life 2, LESS IS MORE.

[@glez3711]

This mod is just horrible down to its own core. It is basically "conceptualize a bunch of ideas, implement them into Half-Life 2 and hope that everything works together to make a somewhat decent experience". You can't do this because it won't work, and it's exactly what the developers did. Basically nothing of vanilla Half-Life 2 has been designed with all of these new enemies, weapons and mechanics the developers of Overcharged have implemented in mind, and this has created the mess that Overcharged is.

[@conkface]

i hope they update the opposing force aliens, the goldsrc models are so out of place

[@morphinelover]

Holy crap is that

[@chesky-621]

I don’t remember there being a crown on Gordon and tears and some effects on the back of gordon in the background

[@EkoJr1337]

This is more like a customer complaint who has zero idea of the pettiness they demonstrate.

[@dauzlee2827]

About the displacer cannon, the dev might assume that the player already play opposing force before so maybe they wouldn't need to tell player about that. Also, for the inspection feature, I don't think you would make noises while inspecting a gun in real life

[@sovietpupper4000]

"Cars ready for you now Dr. Freeman!"

[@alyx724]

a thing i did not like was reusing things. like half of the items are from left 4 dead.

[@myo6038]

When I launched OV, I had to wait for about 10 mins while it loaded main menu. Ok, happens. Then I decided to take a look on map coast (3, I think, with bigass crane right after NLO) because all SMOD-like mods have broken triggers in this map on my end. I had to wait for effin 30 mins on first map load and when I spawned, I saw...BROKEN TRIGGERS. Applauses. Anyway, I managed to finish OV from d1_trainstation_01 till ep2_outland_12a and I must say, THAT was a challenge.

[@DoctorBreenBB]

Speaking of model choices, I wondered why they stick to that ugly Dota 2 Houndeye model, its game with top camera view and obviously models wont be very detailed, especially that one with the wings is most stupid one, that thin "Beta" houndeye model used in SMOD mods and Dark Interval is much better choice, why choose bad model despite alternative is exist is good question, why M32 is smeared in the dirt, and Alien Grunt model is cherry on the top of strange models. Also agree about FlashBang and Smoke grenade, what point of including them especially when they are not affect NPC at all? Even if leave them as NPC only weapon, they still be annoying if combine soldiers will constantly flash the player. Speaking of hoppers, I guess the idea is to give ability to carry them in inventory, but again, moments where you need to defend area already have them stashed. Also monster placement is just random, Hydra sticking out of concrete, Combine Guard in the cramped room where he barely fit, no wonder why NPCs behave bad in these areas.

[@SunburnOmori]

Half-life 2: Undercharged

[@BeachioSandschannel]

Or Half Life 2: Over-anticipated.

[@cremjr]

And also, I got a bug in episode 1, when I started playing it, I went to the moment with a red car, and guess what? The car was invisible, cool, right? And when it happened, I just threw this bugged game

[@majortom1155]

from this video i think the mod feels like you just hanging out on gmod and throwing what ever the random shit you have install and watching them fight on the random map you pick, and sometime you have to pull out one of the gun mod you install cuz it looks cool to shoot them.

[@muratsmg62]

Overcharged failed like HDTF/Prospekt, I'm only certain and not 100% right

[@spazjackrabbit61]

hdtf is not a good example tho

[@BeachioSandschannel]

Prospekt only failed because it just felt… Lacking. But fortunately, I think the developer is improving on the mod.

[@friendly_pyro]

3:50 what the houndeye did seemed adorable to me and cute

[@Micha-Hil]

3:13 that is the... dusk logo?

[@Gtb-o7c]

I have a tone of problems in this mod I will tell you one by one 1) In the route Kanal the lighting fucks up, and sometimes the texture is broken for some reason. 2)Enemy placement is something complicated that just ruined the game. 3) And they just copied the whole SMOD. 3)The bullet tracers you told in your video are real and still there. And the last thing the lags, I can't understand one thing about this mod, I have GTX 1660, 16Gb ram, intel core I7, and ROG Zenith II Extreme. but it still proceeds the lag in my computer that is all the feedback to this mod. If any questions so comment or if I have said wrong about this mod.

[@LoganBakerBL]

The sun is leaking.

[@I_am_a_Cooler_Dude_Than_You]

Wow, they made Hunt Down the Freeman a Mod!

[@Tower8467]

0:28 bullsquid attacking the camera

[@Mono_Person]

Only positive I can think of is the combinified vector looks kinda cool. Though I wish something was done to the sights and main body's sticky-out-bolt-things to fit more into the sleek brutalist combine style

[@SamueltheHamuel]

That’s a bad mod sure, but the car is ready Dr. Freeman.

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

They couldve gone a long way to make the new enemy encounters fun and enjoyable, like editing the maps and making new areas and scenes specifically for the enemies, but instead they lazily created a system to just spawn them automatically, leading to all sorts of weird enemy placement (once in Our Benefactors, a Combine Guard spawned ontop of a gunship.)

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

Not to mention all the inconsistensies in enemy and weapon models, for a big mod team they sure seem to hate making their own assets (The Vector looks like something from HDTF, and ironically, I think they took HDTF's beretta model too) Like, it cant be that hard to hire someone to make your own weapons and enemy models, I just cant help but cringe when I see a highly detailed Half Life Alyx cremator shooting a low poly Goldsource port.

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

I also think the reason so many enemies just dont move is because the spawning system spawns them clipping into a ground or wall, or in a place with no nodes, they could easily program a safeguard for that, but they didnt

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

Truly, this mod looks like when you play the HL2 campaign in GMod and spawn random shit and weapons

[@TheKingofBunga2912]

Half - Life 2 Overcharged was actually meant to be a rip-off of Half - Life 2 MMod. Because in it's early stage of development, it had different weapon animations than the ones you see in the Overcharged you know now. The weapons look close to MMod and were in the style of MMod. But when I tried to play Overcharged myself, I literally had to use cheats and turn on godmode because the game literally spams to much enemies that I don't even know how your supposed to kill so many enemies without Godmode. I died so many times I had to turn on cheats to complete each chapter. And the game wasn't even on Hard mode. I put it on normal and still the game spams so much enemies that I die so many times while trying to get pass them. Even in godmode, I had speedrun some parts because there was to much enemies that I could not kill so I just had no choice but to run pass them and skip them There were so many bugs in my game that sometimes it would crash including the enemies. And also the broken AI is similar to Hunt Down the Freeman because in Overcharged, they are not even fixing the bugs or the AI but adding more to the game to make it have even more bugs, In Hunt Down the Freeman the developers did the exact same thing they didn't even try to fix any bugs or any errors they just added even more bugs to the game without even caring. And they still released it on steam. At least Black Mesa wasn't rushed or even MMod. Or that would be really bad.. EDIT: I also realized it's actually more like a SMOD ripoff than MMod now.

[@MrHds46]

Black Mesa took too much time releasing final chapters. They are selling it on steam yet it took so long to finish it. Many people hated devs for long wait and because they kept releasing parts and delaying updates. The result is also controversial. Many people stated that they didn't like xen levels or have many technical problems and bugs, some of them the devs didn't even bother fixing to this day.

[@thatdudemetro6271]

For the poor placement of enemies the only excuse i could think of the fact that any territory outside of combine cities is full of xen infestation, but because there is tons of it some of the xen creatures might have goten inside the city, weird that the civil protection did not hunt them down, still the placement could be in some better spots honestly, not sure why alien grunts are in nova prospekt tho that weirded me out. Now for the hopper weapon, in my opinion its actually nice to carry one or two hoppers around, not every level allows you to combat enemies while there are hoppers laying around, so carrying a few would help a lot, if anything its like carrying a claymore you can set up traps and all that shit. For sure tho ai needs fixing and ai pathing needs fixing. Not sure about discplacer cannon, if i saw it teleporting me to a location i never seen before i would soon catch up to whats going, if anything thats the player's fault for being oblivious and not understanding, if there is one thing half life has taught me is to always BUT ALWAYS look into the smallest of details you never know what you might find. It is sad to see half life mods failing, i do hope that the devs of the mod manage to rebuild it.