Half-Life: Abridged All-Stars – Map Labs #12

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

30th August 2023

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After the rousing success of Half-Life: Abridged, the Map Labs crew ran a broader challenge to abridge popular Half-Life mods instead of the official games. The list of mods available to entrants was huge (too long to list here!) but it covered a wide variety of HL1 mods, HL2 mods, and even several small and single-map mods.

So here’s Abridged All-Stars, with 11 entrants!

As always, if you’re interested in learning more about Map Labs and maybe even participate in their upcoming challenges, visit the Map Labs Discord.

Basic Details
  • Title: Half-Life: Abridged All-Stars
  • Filename: sdk-2013-sp-mlc-hlabridgedallstars.7z
  • Size : 656 MB
  • Author: Bogdan Barantiev, Gravity Cat, TankiFlo, Matt71490 AKA Event Horizon, Shalashaska, airrice, lukkasz323, Tacarish, Redzombie18, roman_memes, FloppyFins, beefbacon, Melomaniac
  • Date Released: 21 February 2021

Download Options

Download to your HD [656 MB]

Manual Installation Instructions
  • Make sure you have the Upcoming branch of the Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer installed in Steam and run at least once. (Properties – Betas – select upcoming from the dropdown list).
  • Copy the abridgedallstars, mapbase_shared, mapbase_hl2, and mapbase_episodic folders into your SourceMods folder.
  • Restart or start Steam.
  • Abridged All-Stars should now be listed in your Library tab.

Reviewing

If you decide to use the Per-Map Opinion Images, feel free to use the file below as a template:

AbridgedAllStars-Review-Template.txt

Entries

Listed as they are displayed in the mod itself:
Yellow = winning maps and recommended maps

Entropy: None by Bogdan Barantiev [Entropy: Zero]
Chinatown by Gravity Cat – 2nd Place [No More Room in Hell]
City Crateen by TankiFlo [Too Many Crates!]
Nightmare House: The Ride by Matt71490 AKA Event Horizon & Shalashaska [Nightmare House]
Implausible Signals by airrice – 1st Place [Mission Improbable]
Very Tall Tower by lukkasz323 [Hazardous Course 2]
Neighborhood Watch by Tacarish & Redzombie18 – 3rd Place [Entropy: Zero]
The Report by roman_memes (bonus map) [The Report]
Animus Abridged by FloppyFins (bonus map) [Transmissions: Element 120]
Equilibrium Flux by beefbacon (bonus map) [Entropy: Zero]
Liquids by Melomaniac (bonus map) [Azure Sheep]

Screenshots

WARNING: The screenshots contain spoilers.
Each map has 5 screenshots. Thanks to ArctixSnowPup for providing the screenshots!

1600 x 900

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3 recommendations, average score: 4.67 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22 (what's that?)
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Manually: 2 Users
Time Taken:
Average: 2 Hours, 10 Mins
Shortest: 1 Hours, 30 Mins by Da'Bean
Longest: 2 Hours, 50 Mins by Stef
Total Time Played: 4 Hours, 20 Mins
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4 Comments

  1. Da'Bean
    Play It Later

    Really enjoyed Abridged versions of quite popular mods.

    I assume Equilibrium Flux didn’t get any reward since it’s a bonus map (guess it was submitted late), but imho it should have been 3rd place at least.

    Overall, great maps; thanks to all authors!

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Hard
    Playtime:
    1 Hour, 30 Minutes
    Reply
  2. Hec
    Play It Now!

    Well, this one was a quick and cool map lab challenge, I think the winners are worthy, and most of the bonus entries were also pretty cool to play.

    Overall I enjoyed the neat and quick action in all these releases, and I think the entries reflected the mods that were supposed to pay tribute.

    I think it is a nice PN.

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  3. JetBlueChest
    Play It Now!
    It is great!

    Great map

    Playthrough here in Gmod

    Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdVLZqKFE-A&t=1139s

    Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGEjWAqTv-4

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  4. Stef
    It is great!

    A well balance release with really cool and fun map to playtrough defenitly a map lab to give a try

    Entropy : None by Bogdan Barantiev
    It is okay

    Playtime: 2 minutes

    you walk trough a museum, idea is interetsting but without any gameplay and quite short

    Chinatown by Gravity Cat
    It is great!

    Playtime: 25 minutes

    A sort of walking dead/Resident evil experience. I like to kill all zombies that why it took me sometimes…except at the end where you have a limited time to escape I find the concept
    and the design good and fun

    City Crateen by TankiFlo
    It is okay

    Playtime: 15 minutes

    Sort of concept map were crates from different color is your enemy design was ok gameplay a little bit odd

    Nightmare House: The Ride by Matt71490 AKA Event Horizon & Shalashaska
    It is great!

    Playtime: 10 minutes

    Cool concept for this one, you in a nightmare house in a mood of a theme park. It was short but I found it cool and enjoyable

    Implausible Signals by airrice
    It is WOW!

    Playtime: 25 minutes

    A short map in term of size but a great map in term of design and gameplay, everything was perfectly balanced in this one and really fun and sometime challenging

    Very Tall Tower by lukkasz323
    It is okay

    Playtime: 10 minutes

    Really interesting design and playtrough until reaching the end were the frustration and an abrupt ending ruin the quite enjoyable experience

    Neighborhood Watch by Tacarish & Redzombie18
    It is great!

    Playtime: 12 minutes

    You play as a metrocop and enter a rebel ‘facility’ concept is interesting gameplay and suprise were well put together really fun to playthrough

    The Report by roman_memes
    It is great!

    Playtime: 20 minutes

    Well balance map and really fun to playtrough in a coop experience (don’t loose Sebastian or you will have issue). End revisited theme was really great for me

    Animus Abridged by FloppyFins
    It is great!

    Playtime: 8 minutes

    Well design map with interesting progression until an end arena experience with a surprising and abrupt ending enjoyable experience

    Equilibrium Flux by beefbacon
    It is WOW!

    Playtime: 40 minutes

    Like always a great release from the author original approach and design challenging and immersive experience 5 stars without no doubt

    Liquids by Melomaniac
    It is okay

    Playtime: 3 minutes

    This one could hve been really fun but it’s sadly unfinished but everything look ok

    Summary

    A well balanced experience with lots of enjoyable creations

    Installed:
    Manually
    Difficulty Played At:
    Medium
    Playtime:
    2 Hours, 50 Minutes
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