Probably the first Half Life 2 source mod I've ever played, I started playing this in my childhood over a decade ago. I still hop on every now and then but you usually can only play on the weekends with about 30 other people. Similar to Natural Selection (which also used to be a source mod), each team has a commander who plays the game like an RTS and gives orders to the rest of the teams while placing buildings and researching new technologies. It gives a lot of the same vibes as Planetside in the aspect of emergent gameplay.

It's got great gameplay I haven't really experienced anywhere else, but unfortunately a lot of people expect you to be knowledgeable, and you'll maybe get yelled at for not following orders. I think this is mostly a side-effect of its tiny community, but it would be nice if people showed a bit more respect to new players. I still wouldn't describe it as being "toxic," but unfortunately a select few players are a bit of an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sometimes, and with a community this small, you have no choice but to play with them. The people at the top are trying to clamp down on this behaviour however and I think the gameplay is extremely worth it.

This mod used to be a lot bigger with hundreds of players playing at a time. Sadly its development has been extremely slow (I remember back when air vehicles were supposed to come out) but it's still maintained by an active development team. If more people started playing this, I definitely would be a lot more active, too, so I'm just going to leave this positive review and hope it convinces at least a few more people to join us.

Probably the first Half Life 2 source mod I've ever played, I started playing this in my childhood over a decade ago. I still hop on every now and then but you usually can only play on the weekends with about 30 other people. Similar to Natural Selection (which also used to be a source mod), each team has a commander who plays the game like an RTS and gives orders to the rest of the teams while placing buildings and researching new technologies. It gives a lot of the same vibes as Planetside in the aspect of emergent gameplay. It's got great gameplay I haven't really experienced anywhere else, but unfortunately a lot of people expect you to be knowledgeable, and you'll maybe get yelled at for not following orders. I think this is mostly a side-effect of its tiny community, but it would be nice if people showed a bit more respect to new players. I still wouldn't describe it as being "toxic," but unfortunately a select few players are a bit of an asshole sometimes, and with a community this small, you have no choice but to play with them. The people at the top are trying to clamp down on this behaviour however and I think the gameplay is extremely worth it. This mod used to be a lot bigger with hundreds of players playing at a time. Sadly its development has been extremely slow (I remember back when air vehicles were supposed to come out) but it's still maintained by an active development team. If more people started playing this, I definitely would be a lot more active, too, so I'm just going to leave this positive review and hope it convinces at least a few more people to join us.