Alyxization | Infiltracja / Infiltration | No Failure Run
11There's the little giddy joy in my heart whenever I see a new gameplay mod to toy with in HL, and what an entry with this particular one. Some of the folks here might already be familiar with Doom mods that allow you to upgrade your weapons, from Trailblazer to Gun Bonsai, with varying levels of customization ranging from sidegrades to completely ludicrous versions of existing weaponry. Well, Alyxization gets pretty close to that. Not all the way there, but still remarkably close.
It's primarily inspired by, well, Half-Life: Alyx. As a result, a lot of the presentation are going to be very similar to that. Resins for upgrades, some upgrades that are 1:1, and so on. Granted, its attempt is hindered a notch by the devs' continued persistence in visual dissonance recognition failure (HD model sitting in LD hands), but that's standard practice by this point. The focus is on the positives, and we'll be delving deep to it for today. Cobbled up an addon and all that to help a bit with that.
You might notice the weapon sprites and upgrade menu being somewhat generiticized instead of naming specific weapons. With how this mod primarily uses vanilla assets (so far), it results in a neat effect where a lot of custom packs are compatible with it. Both sounds and models. Took the opportunity to mix in some that I found pretty neat, with a few tinkering for bits that I found not as satisfactory. Perfect opportunity to use those 9mmAR reskins that don't have UBGLs on 'em.
With this being a gameplay mod, you might be a pinch surprised to see Infiltracja / Infiltration having an addon here. None of the usual wirejams are being done, Alyxization works just fine with the ol' fallback_dir configuration. It's mainly to do with translations and a slight bit of spawn fixing with one of the alien controllers. You'll see the latter being broken here in this run, though it's really just one extra controller that's named wrong in the monstermaker value.
Mods Used:
Alyxization: https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-alyxization
Alyxization Personal Addon: https://www.mediafire.com/file/yy69p5wxs9fofsf/z_alyxization_addon.7z/file
Infiltracja / Infiltration: https://www.runthinkshootlive.com/posts/infiltracja-infiltration/
Infiltracja Personal Addon: https://www.mediafire.com/file/89iol2uwo2owhd8/z_infiltracja_addon.7z/file
3037 Arctic Weapons: https://gamebanana.com/mods/179805
3037A Alyxization Addon: https://www.mediafire.com/file/q9y3s3dy1pszem4/models_ebf61_alyxization.zip/file
MW2019 Sound Pack: https://gamebanana.com/sounds/57823
DNF2001 Weapon Sounds: https://gamebanana.com/sounds/77982
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