Half-Life: Insecure - Chapter 5 Design Finished news

Greetings!

Almost 2 years in the making, Chapter 5 is now playable from start to finish. Although, it still needs more work with fixing bugs, polishing some details and adjust the overall difficulty.

So, no demo will be announced any time soon. But in the meantime, i'm gonna share some of the progress regarding the design of the chapter:

The old intro of the chapter was a bit lacking and uninteresting; so with the redesign, the outside is now expanded, with a better sensation of being in a outside place with some story element highlighting the Grunts struggling with the Xen army.

With the redesigned, same as the prior screenshots; highlight the chaos and wreckage that the grunts and the Xen armies are leaving. and also, introduce some of the verticality that will become more prominent in this chapter.

Rather than a redesign, most of the map it's still intact after a year ago, i've just added more desert ground and another building so it doesn't feel big for no reason.

Up until this point, most of the screenshots seen in the article regarding the updated demo is still intact, so there's no point in showing them again, so instead, i'll jump on a few unseen screenshots:

That should be it. The overall duration of the chapter is roughly 1 hour and a few minutes, played in Medium difficulty and using most of the keycards. It can be longer when it's played on Hard, not using any keycard and have to scavenge ammo breaking crates.

And since it's not tested on Hard, i won't release a demo until most of the bugs and the difficulty are sorted out. Once finished with the polishing state, i will release a demo and start working with the last chapter of the mod and hopefully, the final release. So, stay tuned for more news.

So, take care and i'll see you soon.