Half-Life - Residual Life - Between Worlds And Chaos - No Way Out
0You now play "W, Sora Kim", a female PhD, MIT, Theorical Physics Decided Assistant, working as a Reactor Operation Engineer in Lambda Complex.
Her trademark suit is not the HEV suit but the white "cleansuit" as introduced in OpFor, therefore the "White Force" in the title of their first mod (Residual Point and Life can be seen as White Force and 3)
Residual Life's plot takes several elements not only from usual Half-Life lore, but also from Marc Laidlaw's books Gadget, the Third Force but also borrow elements from mangas Full Metal Alchemist, Slayers, and sometimes not even official, but fan made material... which makes it a mish-mash of bizarre stuff.
In the Residual Universe, the Xen and Combine are depicted as the Sun Eater Pillar's Forces (see below), the two "paths" you can take in RL are deeply connected (the Sun Eater's Pillar, crystal processing led by the Tiny Dwarf, the Xen world, talisman system led by the Boo-Nihilanth) and in the end 2 sides of the same coin.BETWEEN WORLDS AND CHAOS : Xen level, bonus level with no enemies, but with ammo and health.
NO WAY OUT : Surface Tension/On a Rail mix level. You encounter "Zgrunts", enemies introduced in Residual Point wich are HECU experimented upon by Xenians, now they are fast zombies with guns. Don't bother to fight the Gargs at the beginning, it's a waste of ammo.
COUNTDOWN : Surface Tension 2.0. This ends with the place, where you have to choose between 2 paths, "Xen" or "Black Mesa". No turning back from that point.