This is blamod - a HL2 mod geared towards speedrunning and tricking.
The original Blamod under development in 2013. The goal was to provide experience of older versions of HL2 (aka "Old engine" or "pre-OrangeBox") while retaining all the latest stability fixes of modern version of HL2. Unfortunatly development stopped and project was abandoned for 3 years.
In 2015 when I learned some speedrunning tricks of latest version HL2 (might be the same as available in Steam today). I was never happy with movement and available mechanics. Eventually old author of the project offered me to take over it's develoment ...
... that's how Blamod was reborn.
- Simplify controls for speedruning
- Add desired features and fix annoying bugs
- Mix tricks from multiple versions of HL2
- Make simple to install package (you will still need to own HL2 on Steam)
- Introduce new mechanics
New features are added if they are fun and challenging. Consistency with existing games is not as important, but still considered mostly because I just don't want to introduce new bugs into this already buggy game. Boring and excessively easy to perform features are most likely going to be thrown away.
Unclear. This is still alpha stage ... but it's already more stable than the original game :)