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Molten Steel
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Addon Type: Maps
Game Content: Custom Mechanics
Gameplay Genre: Action
Environment Types: Urban
Theme: Defense & Arenas, Vehicle, Sci-fi
Enemy & NPC Types: Combine Soldiers
Length: Short (less than 20m)
Tags: Alyx Addon, Other Enemies
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4 Feb, 2022 @ 10:04pm
8 Feb, 2022 @ 7:14am
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Description
What is this?
Many years since the events of Half-Life 2 have passed. The Resistance was futile and humanity remained in chains of the Universal Union. The Combine have re-established their dominance on Earth, stronger than ever before. A new Citadel was built. But... not all hope is lost!
A new foe to the Universal Union has emerged, destroying their fleet and freeing the civilisations that have been enslaved. Now their target is Earth.

Take control of a top-notch war machine - Mech - to capture Combine Sub-stations to weaken the defense of the Citadel, and then destoy it at last.


Controls
- Controller Trigger to fire(same as other weapons in HL:A)
- Controller Grip to Reload
- "Arm Grenade" / "Activate Health Needle" button to Switch Weapons
- Joystick to move


Detailed information
  • Map set in City 17

  • Hexagram-star symmetrical layout

  • Six districts with different themes and obstacles for the player

  • Main gameplay mechanic - Controllable Mech

  • View the world from inside the cockpit, that also serves as a HUD for monitoring of your health

  • Custom weapons - Flamethrower, Rocket Launcher, Railgun, Energy Sword and or your metal body to smash the enemies

  • Custom NPC - Combine Tank

  • High replayability with constant threat of Combine assault

  • Objective: Capture 6 Sub-stations to shut down the shield of a new Citadel, to destroy it once and for all and finally free City 17

  • Randomized Industrial soundtrack

  • And more...

Who made this possible?
Absolute Legends that volunteered to playtest this map:

- SIBBO
- Goblin
- Callumari
- Special thanks to FrostEpex and Harambelj for helping me with VScript
- And everyone else around the community for tips and feedback


Credits:
- Hava Nagila by the Jewish nation
- Water texture from gamebanana(mods/8935
- Ghosts 26 - by Nine Inch Nails
- Every Other Piece Of Music by TeknoAXE


What can I do if I liked this map?
If you liked the map please consider rating/adding it to favourites, It helps me as a creator to gather feedback and motivation for my future content - Thank you!



I appreciate any form of feedback, be it a rating or comment. I always want to improve my maps, so if you encounter any issues, let me know so I can fix them. Since this is a fairly experimental map, it's especially important.

Archived version for Judging purposes: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2743289449

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10 Feb, 2022 @ 6:38am
Feedback & Known Issues
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35% Luck 30 Oct, 2022 @ 1:04am 
I could not stand having so much of my view obscured. It really bothered me.

The game was crazy lag-town.

And normally, these two things together would automatically make me down-vote the mod; however, I like it enough to hope that you can fix it so that I can enjoy stomping on the tiny, little combine. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAhahahahahaahH!!!

Anyway, please fix it. I think you have something here.
CementStairs  [author] 13 Jun, 2022 @ 10:24am 
Hey, thanks for playing the mod!

I recommend to lower the graphics settings, as the map can be quite demanding. It should be stable apart from that.
Mr Poison Headcrab 13 Jun, 2022 @ 10:16am 
i like it, but it keeps crashing
CementStairs  [author] 3 Apr, 2022 @ 2:36am 
Hello dear players!

I want to remind everyone who played this map to share their feedback, at least in form of a like/dislike.

We're currently 5 ratings away from 25, at which point the mod receives visible rating in form of stars.

So if you belong in the few hundred people who played this mod or simply found it interesting, please consider rating the mod.

Thank you and have a nice day!
Official man 12 Mar, 2022 @ 1:01pm 
you should make it so that the UI isn't the way it looks like make it like you're viewing through a camera and try to have an effect where it's like the hud from halo or something. make the mech a bit like titanfalls mechs if you plan on making an improved version of this
Official man 12 Mar, 2022 @ 12:59pm 
someone should make a mod of this mod where you can be the armored titan from attack on titan
CementStairs  [author] 10 Feb, 2022 @ 6:13am 
@High speed, low drag

Thanks for more info, if you don't mind we can move to the pinned discussion above, that is primarily for longer feedback.

Do you by chance play on the Quest 2? Presumably they don't have correct binding on some of the player's actions by default, and so the "Grip" button on one hand isn't binded.

However, because of this I added an auto-reload that if you fire with an empty mag, will trigger a reload.
High speed, low drag 10 Feb, 2022 @ 4:47am 
you could receive some health for taking down a substation, in return for lowering max health a bit

what my experience was, i thought i was basically invincible until halfway through when i realized i have to be careful and ration health if i wanna get to the end. so i started avoiding enemies, spamming railgun from afar and being too careful which didn't really match the idea of a big badass mech
High speed, low drag 10 Feb, 2022 @ 4:39am 
yes i played post update

i didn't mean save reloading btw, but weapon reloading
CementStairs  [author] 10 Feb, 2022 @ 4:05am 
Healing wasn't necessary, because if it was present, I'd have to lower down the maximum health. There would be fairly large gaps between spots where player can heal if the healing stations were placed at the Sub-Stations or in the districts. I could do it like in Final Frontier, where killing enemies heals you, but here there are just so large numbers of respawning enemies that it wouldn't be very good.

I think the mod is best viewed as a playground(or a power fantasy) with fun weapons to use against many weak enemies, that'd normally in classic Alyx be hard to fight.