Beast

for Half-Life

6th February 2021

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Your problem: a gonarch. But direct confrontation is not an option. This interesting set of 7 maps lets you puzzle and fight through your mission to make it out alive with the trapped scientist.

The goal is to destroy a monster (Big Momma/Gonarch). Mission is complete if you escape on the train with the scientist alive.

Basic Details
  • Title: Beast
  • Filename: hl1-sp-beast.7z
  • Size : 2.3 MB
  • Author: Rich Maloon
  • Date Released: 13 December 2007

Download Options

Download to your HD [2.3 MB]

Manual Installation Instructions

If you require more help, please visit the Technical Help page.

  • Copy the maps folder into your …\Steam\SteamApps\common\Half-Life\valve\ folder. (The valve_addon\ folder may be used instead).
  • Launch Half-Life
  • Open the console and change the skill if you want by typing skill 2 for medium or skill 3 for hard and press ENTER.
  • In the console type map beast1a and press ENTER.

Screenshots

WARNING: The screenshots contain spoilers.

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10 recommendations, average score: 4.8 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.36 (what's that?)
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Manually: 9 Users
Time Taken:
Average: 0 Hours, 34 Mins
Shortest: 0 Hours, 10 Mins by PsyWarVeteran
Longest: 1 Hours by vancanucksfan
Total Time Played: 5 Hours, 44 Mins
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24 Comments

  1. Wesp5

    A great little mapset!

    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Thanks

      Reply
  2. vancanucksfan
    Play It Now!

    Quite enjoyable. It took me a while to figure out what exactly I needed to do. I spent a lot of time trying to get the scientist to go somewhere he refused to go. My only suggestion would be to SPOILER: make the big crate unbreakable so the player doesn’t go through that . It’s fun to see the old environments once in a while

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Easy
    Playtime:
    1 Hour
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Thanks

      Reply
  3. PsyWarVeteran
    Play It Now!

    Fun little mappack.

    Weird design but solid mapping. Some unnecessary invisible walls in the beginning. The creator clearly knows what he is doing. A potentially frustrating escort quest is made fun with the usage of info_nodes.

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    10 Minutes
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      I appreciate the review

      Reply
      1. PsyWarVeteran

        And I appreciate the mappack 👍

        Reply
  4. vengaswag

    Very fun little map pack. Only problem I had was where the scientist glitched out on me (he’s pivotal in this map), but I just reloaded a prior save and that fixed the problem. Creative pack. There is one section where, without having it happen to you once before and you trying again from an earlier save, your scientist will die regardless of what you do. But apart from that, enjoyable. Also, the explanations via text are really helpful, or at least I found them helpful.

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    33 Minutes
    Reply
  5. vengaswag
    Play It Now!

    Very fun little map pack. Only problem I had was where the scientist glitched out on me (he’s pivotal in this map), but I just reloaded a prior save and that fixed the problem. Creative pack. There is one section where, without having it happen to you once before and you trying again from an earlier save, your scientist will die regardless of what you do. But apart from that, enjoyable. Also, the explanations via text are really helpful, or at least I found them helpful.

    Double post to include my rating! (first time posting on here)

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    33 Minutes
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Thanks for playing

      Reply
  6. Avantgarde95
    Play It Now!

    Nice mod! It is fun to solve the little puzzles and escape the facility after killing the ‘beast’. Leading the scientist is a little bit annoying but I think it is not the fault of the mod.

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    1 Hour
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Thanks

      Reply
  7. Hec
    Play It Now!

    Great little map pack.

    Reminded me a lot of the very awesome entries of The Project Quantum Leap 1&2.

    Here the whole puzzle dynamic is greatly achieved. And the goal of killing Big Momma is just neat.

    The escape has some intense combat, beware to hit the fuses if you don’t want a swarm of Vorties striking on You!!!

    A solid Play it Now.

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    30 Minutes
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Thanks

      Reply
  8. TolisXTRM
    Play It Now!

    This is a very interesting mappack! And the reason I liked it is because it proved that an interesting concept and some smart design decisions are sometimes better than an insanely good-looking map.

    The idea of destroying the gonarch and having the whole mappack being around is handled really well, as that’s not the only thing you’ll be doing to destroy it. The maps are fun to explore and the enemies are finely placed. My only issue was that I was really confused at the beginning, since everywhere I went, it was either locked or inaccessible.

    My only “major” problem with this mappack is the sometimes odd mapping, but it didn’t bother me as much as it should, since I liked the concept so much.

    Overall, I would definitely recommend this mappack if you have 15-20 minutes to spare!

    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Glad you liked it.

      Reply
    2. richmaloon

      Thanks

      Reply
  9. De Bill
    Personal Favourite

    I really liked this map.
    At first, you might think that it would be an unremarkable map with puzzles, but in the end it just started chaos and I really liked it.
    I recommend this card to everyone, it is not very long.

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Hard
    Playtime:
    30 Minutes
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Much appreciated

      Reply
  10. ShawnHL
    Maybe?

    nice little map

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    30 Minutes
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Thanks for the review

      Reply
  11. Cardiomyopathy
    Play It Now!

    This is easily a Play it now! it’s short but really worth it if you a mix of puzzle and battle.

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Hard
    Playtime:
    35 Minutes
    Reply
  12. MeriMemes
    Play It Now!

    I loved this map especially for the number of puzzles it has

    It’s not a big deal but I like maps with puzzles.

    play it now!

    Installed:
    Using Gauge
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    23 Minutes
    Reply
    1. richmaloon

      Thanks!

      Reply

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