Half-Life 2 Immersion Mod

Release date: 2020-08-17

This is a mod for Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter tries to recreate an atmosphere of playing Half-Life 2 on Serious Engine with ported weapons, enemies, effects and a bunch of other features that mimic Half-Life 2 as closely as possible!

Features

• All main weapons from Half-Life 2 were ported as closely as possible.
  • Crowbar, Gravity Gun, USP, .357 Magnum, MP7, Pulse Rifle, SPAS-12, Crossbow, Grenade, RPG.
  • Also an extra temporary weapon from Counter-Strike: Source - G3SG1 auto-sniper.
• Completely new HUD, remade from scratch to look as similar to Half-Life 2 as possible [WIP].
• 8 ported enemies from Half-Life 2 + 1 bonus enemy from Team Fortress 2 (reskins of normal enemies).
  • Civil Protection, Manhack, Overwatch Soldier, Overwatch Elite, Standard Headcrab, Fast Zombie, Antlion Soldier, Antlion Guard.
  • A bonus boss from Team Fortress 2 - the one and only Merasmus!
• Surface configs that automatically assign materials to textures on levels (making use of new materials such as Metal and Glass) for better immersion (experimental feature).
• Various effects from Half-Life 2 such as bullet holes and stepping sounds [WIP].
• Flashlight and suit zoom similar to Half-Life 2 [WIP].
• Captions similar to Half-Life 2 that also display picked items (temporary).
• Several fun features:
  • Bunnyhopping immitation (continuous hopping with horizontal acceleration).
  • Speed & jump multipliers.
  • Improved enemies to be more like in Half-Life 2 with enemy drops.
  • Support for playing maps from Serious Sam: The First Encounter.
  • A few experimental gamemodes:
    • Arms Race: The primary weapon cycles between 7 different weapons every 3 kills.
    • Dissolvent: The only available weapon is the Pulse Rifle with unlimited energy balls.
    • Bunny Hunt: Increased movement speed with auto bunnyhopping; the only weapon is G3SG1.
    • Minekill: The only weapon is the Gravity Gun with roller mines instead of items.
• Bot support via Cecil's Bot Mod integration!

Known issues

• If player grabs an object with the gravity gun that someone else is holding, upon releasing it will be stuck in the air indefinitely.
• The game crashes on map loading if "Allow health" or "Allow armor" multiplayer options are set to "No".

All new console commands have an "hl2" prefix. Click here to learn about bot commands.

Reload default controls if you don't have new controls!