That takes weapons like the Glock, Shotgun and the sluggish Crossbow right out of the picture and places all the emphasis on the MP5, with its vast 30 bullet cartridge, and gaming the AI so it has to funnel through doorways one-by-one. When I put them in a standoff scenario, they zip between cover points like it’s no one’s business. They are probably moving at about 2x the speed of the Combine. To me, all the “new” AI moves and fires at a brisk pace, so to reload is to die. I think what it ultimately comes down to is that it is rarely advantageous to fight enemies in the arenas where you are supposed to be fighting them. I do think that the balance has a long way to go. It continues to baffle me why they went down the tangent of adding generic deathmatch rather than finishing off Xen and the rest of the campaign. In conclusion – what’s there is more polished than the mod version, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, the devs haven’t really supplied any example maps (and decompiling their maps is quite error-prone), so unless they get more active on that front, I have some doubts about its longevity. This has been rather slow to take off, however. You also get access to the Steam Workshop. In general, the HECU succeeds thanks to inhuman accuracy rather than clever tactics, so I think there’s still a lot of work to do. Now, Easy lives up to its name, but even Normal is quite challenging. In the original mod, they were incredibly frustrating to fight, even on Easy.

Gameplay tweaks are also subtle, but the most noticeable is that the HECU have been toned down. The version on their web site is the same release that came out 2-3 years ago.Īesthetically, there are a few general improvements, but they are quite subtle. The Replay Experience Experiment aka TREE.

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