Half-Life and Aliens fans, here is something special for you today. Team Lambda has released the first episode of Solitary Echoes. Solitary Echoes is an Aliens-based total conversion mod for Half Life. This mod has been in development for a while. And, from what I can see, it looks pretty cool. So, if you are a fan of the Aliens franchise, I highly recommend trying it.
In Solitary Echoes, you assume the role of a technical support engineer on a geoforming outpost on LV-513. Your task is to change a lightbulb when the outpost gets overrun by a hostile alien lifeform.
In this TC Mod, weapons, ammo and healthkids are very scarce and often well hidden. Players will have to constantly organize their few resources, and always evaluate if the fight is worth spending the precious ammo, or if there’s a way to avoid it.
From what I could see, the 3D models for the aliens are from the Aliens vs Predator 2 game. If they are not, they look too similar. The outdoor environment also reminded me of the one from AVP2.
Since we won’t get a new Aliens game anytime soon, I suggest downloading the mod from this link. This first release has the Training Course and the first Episode.
Sadly, there is no ETA on when the rest of the episodes will come out. Still, I hope the team will keep working on it as everyone wants to play a new Aliens game.
Speaking of the first Half-Life game, there are some other cool mods that you can download for it. For instance, Black Mesa: Military lets you experience the events of Half-Life from the perspective of a Hazardous Environments Combat Unit Marine. Then we have a mod that adds Full Ray Tracing/Path Tracing to it. This is a must for everyone who wants to re-experience the main game, so be sure to download it.
Now, if you don’t want Path Tracing, you can use this AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack. This pack will overhaul all of the game’s textures. However, its lighting won’t change in any way. Thus, you’ll get an experience closer to the vanilla game.
Finally, we have Half-Life: Delta. Half-Life: Delta is a Total Conversion Mod, featuring 4 chapters and 31 gameplay maps.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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