I have a idea for Half Life2

[mstarget.tw]

at first i must tell you my english is very bad...i've very sorry...

i am very love to play your Half-Life, but i feel that i can't play it with my friend together in the story line is very lamented. i think you know what is my want to say. right. i wish i can fight to these aliens(and bad guys) with my friend and experience the great adventure in it's story stages. i don't think death match mode is the only choose of all FPS game. a truely multiplayer game that must have cooperation mode in story stages, if you worry about it might break it's balance in difficulty level, you can think that how many guns and bullets is a players can share to another one in the game. yes, resource is limited, maybe it is very much for one player but it is not also much enough for 2 players(or more players). if one player die, they maybe can load their save files to play again, so i think that every player can save their files in his/her hard disk in multiplay cooper mode game.

half life2 has few important NPC(Alyx Vance , Barney Calhoun). designer can let another player to control it in the game to help or to cover host player "Gordon Freeman". i think that is a good idea to increase it's gameplay.

i have a question very long time....why after Quake2, almost all Quake-Like FPS games have no multiplay cooperation mode in story stages? i know some friends like to play cooperation mode in story stages. what is the difficult point in this design direction?

 

[CTTcrew_MrBlue]

I wouldnt worry to much of the lack of Co-Op play in hl2, the Mod Sven co-op will makes ure we get plenty of hl2 co-op action :naughty:

 

[Mechagodzilla]

I'm fairly certain that there will be a co-op mod in the form of Sven Co-op 2.

Edit: bah, not fast enough!

 

[thefiznut]

I'm not entirely sure why game developers haven't been putting coop multiplayer modes into their games since then. I personally agree, coop games are a lot of fun, and would love to see more games come with coop multiplayer. Don't worry though, HL had Sven Coop, and HL2 will also have Sven Coop.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

I'm not entirely sure why game developers haven't been putting coop multiplayer modes into their games since then. I personally agree, coop games are a lot of fun, and would love to see more games come with coop multiplayer. Don't worry though, HL had Sven Coop, and HL2 will also have Sven Coop.

One problem stems from the fact that HL2 is designed specifically around one player.

Take the one bink where Alyx hands Gordon a gun after a long scripted sequence. That entire sequence would need heavy modification in order to work with more people. The entire game must be completely full of similar sequences that would require modifications. It's a whole ton of work.

 

[Dead-Inside]

Well, possibly then Sven Co-Op team could slightly redesign the game to fit two or more players. Of course you could still tower up and stuff and exploit bugs, but if it's fun then that's okay.

 

[PunisherUSA]

That's the beauty of sven coop. All those plugins completely mess with the gamplay. One plugin gives you chances of temporary no-clip or god-mode, getting stuck, dying slowly, dying and killing team mates. The no-clip can let you skip large portions of the levels, same with low gravity which is simply a vote by the players.

But all that counts is the funny stuff. You could play through the SP seriously with a small group of friends, but don't expect large online games to be so serious.