A beta release, where you need to escape from a prison surrounded by ice and snow.
Important Notes
- I am unclear whether this release is part of the Detroit Mod. The author seems to be connected with it in some way. Can anybody provide some more information about it?
- I am sure this release contains a LOT of material that is not needed. Since I am not technically proficient with regard to modding I didn’t know what I could or couldn’t remove. It seems a very large file for such a short mod. If anybody can help remove the files please contact me and we can reduce the file size. Thank you.
Basic Details
- Title: Nova Prospekt Under Attack
- File Name: NPUA.exe
- Size : 176.99Mb
- Author: Detroit Mod Team?
- Date Released: 24 November 2007
- Source: Playground.ru (Translated into English)
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Installation Instructions
- Copy the npua folder into your SourceMods folder.
- Restart or start Steam.
- Nova Prospekt Under Attack should now be listed in your Library tab.
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Shortest: 0 Hours, 3 Mins by Reaven Teh Derg
Longest: 0 Hours, 25 Mins by JellyGal
Total Time Played: 0 Hours, 28 Mins
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Shortest: 0 Hours, 3 Mins by Reaven Teh Derg
Longest: 0 Hours, 25 Mins by JellyGal
Total Time Played: 0 Hours, 28 Mins
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Putting aside the file size for a moment, this “little” mod has some interesting areas. The first area you encounter gave my system a lot of trouble and I thought that if the problems continued I would have to stop playing. Fortunately things improved but I probably had trouble in the best part of the mod.
Of course, it’s a beta and that makes it obvious that as players we can’t be too hard on it.
Overall I quite enjoyed some sections and you should play it at some point in your week, just don’t drop whatever you are doing to play it.
5 Word Review
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Looks interesting. Too much light for a Nova Prospekt setting though.
Unable to change weapons
I think having a map compiled with at least a few lights is a must, even for a beta of any kind. The way lights and shadows define how a level looks is important not only for the fact itself of being visually pleasing, but for other purposes such as navigation and combat. Is the absolute absence of light something intentional in this map?
Too bright to be Nova Prospekt, along with poor looking graphic’s.. Not really my liking’s..
Phillip, man, you need to play Half-Life 2 Deathmatch. If you did, you’d notice that this level copies the dm_lockdown map verbatim, and then grafts on some hideous new areas.
This shouldn’t even count. Is that all it takes to get a “Play it Later” recommendation these days?
Yeah this map is a huge fake.All the author did was open up dm_lockdown in source sdk (the source of the map is provided by valve in the sdk) and edit it. Not even well I might add.
There was no lighting pass run, and probably no vvis run either, which would explain the bad performance for phillip.
Yeah this is definitely a Avoid It.
And I agree with Kyouryuu, what passes for “Good Maps” these days is ridiculous.
I’ve got no health status display, no weapon display, can’t change weapons, don’t know how much ammo I’ve got, following squad may or may not obey commands and may or may shoot at the enemy – enough!
There’s so many errors I think my download must be corrupt. And it is a shame “cos it looks interesting.
Well, I had another go at it – (can’t give in) — I’ve killed all the combine, turrets and manhacks, and I’ve reached outside where the box of rockets is up on a platform——–
Now what? is that the end? Anybody got further on than this? Have I missed something?
Phil
It’s a beta and it shows. It is important to us HL players to get the HEV suit as soon as we have more than one weapon so that we can change weapons.
With the suit I might have enjoyed it. No suit, no enjoyment. We can but hope that the authors read our comments.
I strongly recommend that you don’t play this one, to copy a couple of descriptive words unfairly used to review another mod, this one is both a mess and ugly.
The mixture of textures, lighting and block structures coupled with poorly designed and staged incidental content, all combine to produce one continues eyesore. The mess is complete with the overlay of mass enemy pointlessly arranged in gangs, which are too over bearing for the available ammo.
I played through on god mode just for the sake of determining whether it was all bad, it is. None of the levels load automatically and you need to load through the console and then assign yourself weapons. The technical boys will have a field day with is one and rightly so, although I doubt that few we bother wasting their time.
I also doubt that this will ever be reworked into an acceptable and worth playing state, just too many faults and the whole mod is flawed from conception.
I am trying to say something positive, so if you enjoy pointless gameplay set amidst hideous surroundings then all I can say is, go fill your boots with this one
I totally agree with Mel….DON”T PLAY IT ! I don’t care if it was a Deathmatch map ” rip off ” or not, it’s simply “appalling” ..
I’m sorry but these maps are absolutely terrible. Bad texturing, brushwork, and all fullbright! D:
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fullbright… *urks*
that fact alone would kill a good rating for this mod. and then it’s a shameless rip… no way to go, dudes!
Hey! Cool! It’s my mod!
Thanks to administration of this site! =)
The real Author is Detroit Team. You can get more about this mod on Detroit Team’s web-site.
Thanks again =)
Horrible, no redeeming features I can pick out. Perhaps if it was possible to change weapons, see what health was there (had the suit) it might have had its moments.
Take a pass.
Interestingly, when I started a new game the second time within the mod, fullbright was not on.
I went through this twice–once with god mode on (actually, that was the second time–the first time I died). The second/third time, I gave myself the suit, then all the weapons, and lots of health.
You don’t give us near enough ammo at first to get anywhere. Maybe if the squad would actually follow me and use their unlimited ammo it might have worked out, but they didn’t. (They probably would have died anyway.) If you’re going to deny the use of the suit, you need to carefully plan what weapons are going to be picked up. I recently played a map that did this well. This mod does not do it well. Why do I want the sniper rifle/crossbow when things are moving so quickly?
Right now, I have to say this is only for people who want to play everything out there, and even then you might have to cheat.
The download link for this one is broken.
The link has been fixed.
Well, the first map’s pretty fun. You can fix not having the suit and the fullbright with the dev console using the commands “give suit” and “mat_fullbright 0”. The enemy placement is pretty alright and the snow area’s a lot of fun. However, this map is a ripoff of the deathmatch map Lockdown… so how can the mapper(s) do on their own?
Well, the maps nua02a and nua02b answer that question, and the answer is not very good. It’s a linear level where the only enemies are zombies/zombine and barnacles; the zombies are all clumped together and the barnacles are all in a straight line. Some things are too big, I had to noclip over one spot. Also, there is no music or ambience.
So overall I don’t recommend it.
Manually
Medium
25 Minutes
No vrad, no vvis, copy paste from dm_lockdown.I just exited the map after 3 minutes ı couldnt take it.”Avoid it”
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Medium
3 Minutes