It was intense and it was very good! Thank you!

Amazing mod! The final defense section is balanced well on normal, not being too easy but not too difficult either. Though i got the exact same problem as the comment before me, i got softlocked because i got around the forcefield without opening it first.

ok big problem. I failed to open the gray cabinet under the metal staircase on the 2nd floor, which (i think) holds the circular 'tire' that goes in the apparatus that you spin so the laser goes through all 4 activating the machine that opens the force field leading to another point on that floor. Trouble is, not doing that, still allowed me to battle the Combine in the Dinosaur exhibit room, but now I'm trapped between the ground floor and 2nd floor. I have no way of getting up to the 3rd floor so I can't get to that metal staircase that would lead me to the compartment holding the wheel. Stuck at around 60pct map completion and I ain't going back. Dayum!

Absolute blast of a mod! Ending fight can be somewhat cheesed by camping at one of the spawning points for the waves as it's easy to see through and provides decent cover against enemies coming from the other side. Unblocking the last panel for me seemed a little glitched as no green light came on for it so I had to use trial and error; not a big deal but thought for a minute that I was soft-locked and had to load an older save or something.

Some tips for players:
- Look around everywhere for resources, at some point you will get more than enough health pens & ammo for pistol
- 2 lighting headcrabs game crash - you must block the hole in wall (look on right) before entering into lighting headcrabs room AND close the door behind you, so they stay inside room.
- Ending fight is hardest due to open space for enemies - remember about the iron wall behind control panel, and keep some grenades & health pens

this is super !!

That was a tough mod but really enjoyable.

Difficult game, I barely passed. On the whole, well done.

*****
One of the best HLA mods I have ever played, BAR NONE! With over 650 hrs played, your is one of the mods I've enjoyed the best, certainly 1 of the top 3. The great layout, design, quality of VR design, excellent, please, keep up the great work I haven't looked yet but I'm hoping you have other work I can explore...

My playthrough ----> https://youtu.be/gs66oBqb2Sw

@dalon222 Glad you found and enjoyed this challenging treasure. One of my favorite maps to this day.

Well, it took me awhile to find, then play this mod but, I agree with Skummeh, it's a 5/5 in my book! Thanks for the awesome play time! Yes it's a challenge, but not so bad if you're a scrounger/pack-rat like me!

Way too hard. So little health near the end and screwing you over on ammunition.

@Yuan_VR You might like to check out my review sheet to help decide what maps to play. I rate every map across several categories including difficulty. The original campaign is easy and I rate it as a 2/5, while this custom map is a 5/5. It took me at least 50 hours of Alyx gameplay before I could think about handling harder custom maps. Hopefully it's helpful to you. Field Studies is one of my favorite maps in the workshop, but I probably would have not enjoyed it at all if I tried it too soon after first playing this game. Here's my guide and you'll have to copy and paste the Google Sheet link within since Steam is now blocking all Google Drive links:
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2443128935

对于我这个已通关HL:A 5遍的人而言，最后的战斗太难了，躲在角落打也不是，出去打也不是，弹药不足，就等着被虐。
最恶心的是，收集了39个树脂，刚好不够升级榴弹发射器。
整体还不错，但绝对不推荐新手玩。

For someone like me who has cleared HL:A 5 times, the final battle is too difficult. It’s not good to hide in a corner, or to go out to fight. I’m running out of ammunition and just waiting to be abused.
The most disgusting thing is that 39 resins were collected, just not enough to upgrade the grenade launcher.
Overall not bad, but definitely not recommended for beginners.

This is better than most chapters in the main game.

Very good mood, but it cost me the glass in front of my new iMac 27" i7 octa core, 64gb, 5700xt with 16gb. :(

Just found this map today & loving it so far! One of the best by far!!!

Played on Merciless Mod and confirmed that everything works properly. The lightning dog battle in the beginning, as well as most of the Combine battles, were greatly enhanced by the mod. I felt that the range of combat on this map was ideal for Merciless. Here is my playthru: https://youtu.be/p-0SM150ryA

Still crashes at the lightning dogs but upto that point it was great .

this was absolutely amazing. Took me about 3 hours to complete on hard. Definitely recommend this and on the final mission I barely made it with one shot left. Had some good puzzles on this as well.

So nice to see an update for one of my favorite maps. I had a bit of minor feedback but nothing too overt. The main thing was the music cutting out too early before you use the yellow keycard to the roof, which I had mentioned previously. New playthru video here: https://youtu.be/mfRZBSMHzRY

Now that I've finally managed to make it past that show-stopper (dogs scene) all I can say is WOW!!! Great fun - really enjoyed this! Played on hard and barely made it to the end - perfect

It was a great MAP.
How can one assemble such an elaborate map?

I faced a problem at the last substation.
Every time I opened the lid of the electric head club, the frame rate dropped drastically.
Other than that, the map is very well made.

Easily one of the best maps in the workshop in all aspects of design excellence. Also I was fine playing it on Hard difficulty; there are no ammo scarcity issues: https://youtu.be/C0x5cVqEOUM

One of the best maps so far IMO. Loved the end fight.

Quite a challenge, (especially the lightening dogs...but it can be done!)...very clever maps, well thought out game play, definitely a keeper!

I stopped playing early on, there's TWO lighting dogs and you have limited to NO ammo it became insanely tedious.

Big pass.

The map looks great and I was looking forward to playing it but the game kept crashing at the 2 lightning dogs in the beginning like others have mentioned.

It's a free mod and a lot of love and time has been poured in to it, so can't complain :) I favorited it and will get back to it in the future to see if the issue is resolved.

Thank you!

One of the best mod i've played so far!
Really well done at all points. Ambiance, originality, puzzles, combat challenge...and with a pretty decent lenght!
Thank you for this amazing work :)

Superb mod, very original and also good puzzles. This could be an official DLC (could have been be part of the game). Thanks for this masterpiece

Very good map, it reminded me a lot of Resident Evil 2 with the hall and the big statue in the middle and all the key cards.

this map is great, but there are an incredibly small number of auto saves

Great game I enjoyed it very much thank you.
But performance improvement might be needed I have never seen a mod use(or at least allocate) 20GB of VRAM.
I too suffered from crashing at the twin electric dogs when I was using my 2070 super.

very well done

Yeah it's a bug. Found a play through of this. Somehow with the third wave of combine it didn't trigger the "next part". Was kinda wondering why the action music kept playing when I killed the last solder.

I get stuck in the later part (so I assume) of the map where you have to kill 4 lightning dogs by throwing a grenade in their container. First three I've dealt with and the combine that storm the place. With the fourth the switch that controls which lightning dog container I want to open isn't moving anymore. I can't figure it out.

Is this a bug or am I not just getting what to do? I've been running circles for a while now. Reading something about a lightning dog crash but I guess this isn't related?

Really awesome map and love the combat. Best one I've tried so far.

Can't sadly play this due to the lightning dog crash... performance problems too but still playable I guess

Can't fight the two lightning dogs without crashing no matter what I do.

I'm surprised this crash still exists 6 months later, just release a version of the map without the dogs or something.

First and only map I've ever crashed on.

far too laggy at places to be playable

Great job! Loved this one!

Really great, thanks for this!

I playtested this map! GJ man!

its the one inside a kitchen

I'm pretty sure a puzzle is broken. I have to open a door that requires me to move a sphere around with one of those tunnels in it. no matter how i position the tunnel so the laser goes through it, the puzzle will not work

I reached the final section with the grenades but was unable to open any of the other dog pens. The control panel wouldn't respond after that first wave of enemies. I guess one got stuck somewhere or the scripting went haywire. Still, this was excellent content and the early double lightning dog fight was hair raising. Man, HLA is amazing.

Excellent work! The difficulty does spike quite a lot near the ending half, but despite that this was a really fun romp.

Bravo ! more great than Original campaign Great Good Work !!

@Darcangel You should mention where the crashes happen. Some people are having issues with the Lightning Dogs when they first appear, and I noted an issue when picking up shotgun shells (not specific to this map; happens in a lot of custom ones).

@Viridian Not sure you saw the shotgun shell crash I mentioned, but a fix others have used is to just switch the loose shells to a 4-shell box. I don't think anyone has figured out the cause but perhaps on the Discord.

enjoying it but getting many many crashes requiring me to reload from last save