Half-Life: Absolute Zero News

The original Half-Life turned out to look and feel rather different than what originally shown before release. This fan project seeks to give players a different experience more inline with that original design.

• Fixed all monsters stuttering.
  
• Fixed standard blood particles emitting too much blood.
  
• Fixed silencer disappearing for a little bit after loading a save.
  
• The bleeding damage indicator will now not display on Easy.
  
• Re-added the light switch into the one room in “The Portal Device.”
  

• Fixed music cutting out on level change.
  
• Added in a workaround for the “SV_StartSound: Volume” crash.
  
• Fixed zombie state of the player when you’re dead, but not really.
  
• Barney will no longer charge at crouching Zombies indefinitely.
  
• Scientists will no longer have a chance to lag the game to a crawl when they fear you.
  
• Various scripted sequences should now play correctly, like the one seen in Footfall.
  
• General improvements and changes done to “The Portal Device”
  
• Implemented Preliminary Findings and October 1997 Heads Up Display.
  
• Implemented Retail Crosshair.
  
• Improved vertical display for battery charge on HUD.
  
• Fixed incorrect layering on the HUD.
  
• Removed references to deprecated file "640hud7mod.spr."
  
• Fixed bug with the Suit VOX being off upon revival with Adrenaline.
  
• Improved Suit VOX dialog.
  
• Increased alpha-style ladder climbing speeds.
  
• Decreased retail ladder climbing speeds to match timing with the increased alpha-style climbing speeds.
  
• Improved the Adrenaline pickup.
  
• Improved balancing of timed damages per difficulty.
  
• You can no longer take bleeding damage on Easy.
  
• Monsters will no longer drop their weapons on Hard.
  
• Weapons no longer lockup while reloading on level change.
  
• Improved accuracy on the Crowbar.
  
• Python’s laser sight will no longer crash the game upon pausing.
  
• Improvements on the programming of the Shotgun’s animations.
  
• Improved RPG laser sight logic.
  
• Implemented HL2 Grenade style tossing on right click for Grenades.
  
• All Monsters will now have pushback upon death.
  
• Fixed death blood particles playing on near death.
  
• Scientists will now only heal you on Easy.
  
• Scientists' textures have been updated to be more accurate to the original model.
  
• Barney’s model and textures have been updated.
  
• Scientist and Barney corpses now have their mouths open.
  
• Improved talker scripts for human monsters.
  
• Improvements to Zombie bullet resistance pushback.
  
• Zombies will no longer have bullet resistance pushback on headshots.
  
• Zombies now will shoot out red blood on body shots and yellow blood on headshots.
  
• Bullsquid’s spin attack will now make a sound.
  
• Improved Houndeye squad leader behavior.
  
• Improved Houndeye’s eye state.
  
• Removed some deprecated files.
  

• Players can no longer use the security officer’s control panel in “a1a0” to let themselves through without the HEV Suit equipped.
  
• Fixed a rare softlock that prevented the player from progressing beyond the level change from “a1a0” to “a1a0a.”
  
• Improved player clipping on maps “a1a0a” and “a1a0b.”
  
• Fixed inconsistent control panels in loading zones.
  
• Fixed a softlock where the doors would not reopen by the elevator to the Test Chamber.
  
• Fixed a softlock where you could leave the Test Chamber as the doors shut.
  
• Made the Crowbar in “a1a0c” much harder to miss.
  
• Fixed the 6th weapon slot not being bound on the keyboard and not being available to bind to a key in the options.
  
• Auto-aim is now off by default.
  
• Introduced the console command “cl_viewroll” to turn off the view tilting, command is on by default. Can be turned off in Advanced Options.
  
• Improved balancing on the Zombies.
  
• Improved the kickback effect on Zombies.
  
• Improved movement of pushable objects.
  

• Fixed Medical Stations in Unforeseen Consequences.
  
• Disabled Training Course in the New Game menu.