Edd Sted mod for Half-Life

It's a little buggy, but I had real fun playing it, it's a weird but worthwhile experience and absolutely worth playing! Props to the Radkoil team for such a wonderful and nuanced piece of work!

I haven't recorded a video of this, because it'd basically be 10 minutes of me wandering around trying to figure out what to do before giving up in frustration.

Doesn't mean I can't review it though!

This mod, along with its myriad of names (The mod page is called Edd Sted, the mod file is called mxstead and the mod's name that shows up in Steam is 'With your balls') comes to us from the creator of the Cartoon Violets series, and that should be immediately apparent just by looking at it - it reuses a ton of assets from those mods, all of which are awful. There's a few new ones here, namely a replacement model for the Spore Launcher from Opposing Force, because surprise! This mod's built on OpForce. Badly, but that should come as no surprise.

As far as I can tell there's only really a couple of maps here. The Training Course is literally just one corridor in a giant ring you'll run around for 30 seconds before realising you're wasting your time, and then the main meat of the mod, which is a single map set in what's supposed to resemble a block of flats in a city-type environment. You'd be forgiven for thinking that though, since as already established, everything looks terrible.

The goal of the mod is to... I dunno, run around and find switches that open new areas, rinse and repeat until you get hopelessly stuck and give up. Like with the Cartoon Violets series, logic is very loose in this mod, and it's really quite frustrating to try and decipher what you're actually supposed to do. I did figure out a couple of things: destroy the cubicle door in the women's toilets to reveal a ladder leading underground, destroy the fusebox down there to raise the parked cars, push open the door under those to reach the top of the toilet block (for some reason) where a radio explodes causing three pillars to rise... and that's where I got stuck.

I know there's a few more areas to get to - I was able to find a way into the room with three snipers (who promptly killed me because... well, they're SNIPERS), and I noclipped around to find a few more, but beyond confirming that they're there I couldn't actually decipher the intended path of progression. This mod technically beat me... and I will never forgive it for that.

So. In conclusion: a waste of everyone's time. I wouldn't bother.

(For those wondering: I played and reviewed the original file, which was taken down and replaced with the Pro version. The Pro version is basically exactly the same, with the tiny exception of the liblist.gam file being tweaked so the mod is now named 'Edd Sted' instead of 'With your balls'.

This could easily have been done with a miniscule patch, rather than forcing me to download the entire 220MB file over again.)