If you've actually gone outside, at night, under a full moon, there is enough moonlight to light up the entire place, and even cast shadow. If that's the setting for the majority of the levels I really hope they take that into account. A still fog for Ravenholm is fine and all, but imagine if there's rolling fog on the town, and your sight distance changes as you progress. That would be super cool.

Some of these comments about the city being "too bright" at night are quite puzzling. What the hell made people think the Combine give a single shit about the Citizen's electricity usage when they have thousands of reactors and they don't care if Eli nabs one and Kleiner steals power from the grid to power a teleport? When the citizens have their CRT TVs on all day listening to Breen and 80% of lightbulbs you see, even in Ravenholm, are on? What gave you the idea that the Combine don't maintain C17 infrastructure when we see that's exactly what they use Combine Workers and Vortigaunts for, keeping in mind that they USE the infrastructure. The combine USE the roads and the trains and the electrical grid. City 17 has a ton of people, I'd go as far as to say it's overpopulated (as seen in every bit where you enter one of the housing blocks), which is what allowed a successful rebellion in the first place. The combine don't care if people are using electricity. There's no reason that City 17 at night should look like a DayZ server.

2:56 Hell yeah, Ravenholm looking like Silent Hill is an AMAZING change imo.

This, now this feels like a mixture of old half life, and current half life. Mix of both world, looks amazing.

lead dev here, thanks so much for the vid ! it's almost been a year since we've had the idea on your old discord server, and i never imagined it would come all this way !

The only thing that doesn't really make much sense about this mod is the fact that like 90% of all the windows are lit up. I think one of the first things the Combine would do is restrict everyone's access to electricity, meaning each apartment has at most a single light bulb. So you'd see a small shimmer here and there, but not a full-on light show like here. It does however look really freaking cool, and I suppose it fits the skybox you see at the end of the original game, where the entire city looks like a metropolis from the US for some reason.

Imagine combining this mod with the mirrored mod, it would be like playing a completely new game.

I feel like ravenholm should have less mist because the experiment of making a daytime area scary is amazing,

I like how The Citadel has those search lights now, kinda reminiscent of the Beta Citadel designs

in my opinion this feels more sci-fi compared to retail one it really fits deus ex ravenholm does feel like a liminal space and a old indie horror game and i agree that it looks like silent hill and some chapters fit half-life 2 beta

This mod looks incredible so far! Can’t wait to see what they do with a nighttime highway 17 (especially the bridge section). I’m also curious how they’re going to pull off a daytime nova prospekt infiltration; a misty coastline lit up by the prison’s guard towers would be pretty cool!

having followed the entire development from day one, to being able to play the first private demo. I am truly proud of everyone in the Broken Light Studios team and what they have been able to make, I truly can't wait till it's in completion. also, c'mon Rad, did you really have to do him so dirty? right in the ass? (3:47)

A cool twist for the daytime Ravenholm section would be making it rainy for small section in the beginning before letting up the rain, then clearing up the sky after Gordon leaves the mines

Hello I'm a one of the devs on dark life, if it weren't for your channel bringing me to juko, and bour in your discord I doubt I would have been working on it today without it, so thank you for that, my name might be somewhat familiar since I've been in a few of your previous mapping competitions the map you might remember me from was called outskirts in the anomalous transports comp. overall I just wanted to thank you for bringing us the broken light studios team together.

Brilliant! The earlier stages actually remind me quite a bit of Cry of Fear and how the city sections had similar lighting those seen in Dark-Life 2

This mod perfectly encapsulates everything I wish they kept from the HL2 beta. All the story details and extra weapons and whatnot I can live without (tbh I actually prefer the story we got in the final game anyway). But the shift in aesthetic from nighttime environments to daytime ones is the one thing I plainly feel was a poor decision. These dark city maps just look absolutely beautiful and have such a rich atmosphere that I rarely see replicated in other games. EDIT: BTW, does anyone know how I'd play this with HL2 MMod?

I always appreciated how valve incorporated the passage of time into the story of HL2, it felt very natural and realistic the way it takes place over the course of several days. This mod looks like a love letter to that concept and I’m extremely excited for the finished product.

The ominous ambience created by this mod during the graveyard section reminds me a lot of that crypt entrance from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, that combined with the dynamic lighting surely adds a whole other layer of nostalgia to me, truly impressive stuff.

Imagine this: it is midnight in highway 17, and if you go too far into the shriveled up sea, instead of churning infernal leaches, the ichthyosaur stops you from going out of bounds.

Dang dude, you’ve been uploading almost daily! And I’m loving it! You may work fast, but you sure as heck keep the quality of these videos super high!

1:52 it's quite ironic the fact that you're calling a map with night skyboxes a day

Some changes I would like (for me) Route Kanal: Make the skybox a bit darker. Ravenholm: Make it less foggy. Anticitizen: Nothing. It looks great.

I'd love to see an edit of this mod that makes every map take place at night permanently, an eternal night of sorts. Unrealistic but why not

Three Radhaz videos in just a couple days? I must be dreaming! I've been waiting for this mod for quite a while. The previews have been looking amazing

To what you said. "Change the skybox and call it a day". I actually did that and it kinda worked, except on highway 17. This would be great if it could be seamlessly added to the regular campaign.

Funny, we're in winter here in the south and is super foggy right now outside, I'm talking about some really thick fog here, you can't see even 1 meter ahead, it's just the perfect time to play through this demo and some Silent Hill too why not. Anyways I hope this mod gets improved and finished because this demo was very promising and the devs are very active.

Dude I absolutely love how the night levels look.

I literally feel the same with Ravenholm Altough not literally. It reminds me more of those autumn/winter mornings with fog and semi-cold temperatures

The right change in the wrong place, can make all the difference in a game.

I love that feeling that these mods give me just by changing the weather and time

Damn this is dark and gritty

Something that I would like in ravenholm is to have it feel colder, idk something like some post processing effect to make the colors seem cooler

Ravenholm looking like Silent Hill is the best shit I've ever seen and haters can cope and mald >:) Good job BLS

That one piece of Civil Protection promo art with blue lenses will never stop getting on my nerves. Everybody depicts them with blue lenses because of it.

Silent Ravenholm is fracking awwesome!!! But this way you lost one thing. After Ravenholm's dangeons Gordon rise up to the light on City-17's railway. And you are like "FINALLY!!!! This nightmare is over" But I believe is is unnecessary lost =)

It may be heresy but I think this would look really good in VR

It'd be pretty cool if there were flares being fired by artillery in Follow Freemen to give more dynamic lighting. Hopefully this mod is still being developed.

2:53 Ravenholm in Silent Hill mood is looking wonderful. can't wait to play!

damn dude your commentary sounds like a sick rap at times also Oh shit this makes the game feel like the Beta, while it being the retail. its like the best of both versions, at least for those chapters

Dude that is beatiful, driving on the shore at night would be so awesome

One “night time” error is that clouds of dust are usually not visible, they don’t light up like during the daytime. You can see this happen in movie making too, where they shoot a scene in daylight and then put a dark filter on .. but the characters still kick up little white dust clouds, and sky clouds are still light and fluffy.

I suggested them to make the sky orange during the uprising because of all the fires, it'll make it a lot more immersive. They liked the idea. I gave them some examples and it does look very dope.

-how did you get to the east Black Mesa so fast at night? -my vision is augmented

i saw this mod idea develop from a simple concept into a fully fledged mod,this is proof that simplicity can be executed properly kudos to the dev team !!💪

I absolutely love Anticitizen One in this setting, seeing the sunset after a rainy day while in the middle of a literal war makes it extremely atmospheric and apocalyptic... gives off a vibe I can't describe precisely

incredibly clever of them giving ravenholm fog like that, it really does keep the horror aesthetic in the chapter.

It's the faintest stars that shine on the darkest nights. Bright stars shine every night, because they are bright. Good on you for putting in the effort though, not many people take an interest in elegant and descriptive speech.

Would be cool if we would have a rainy day map, but if there are only a Ravenholm at day, maybe only the second half of the chapter will have rain?, rain and fog, just imagine how melancholic yet dramatic this would be.

5:41 This is like a rap song. Nice impro, man.

I want ravenholm to be even foggier, like silent hill one, I don't want to be able to see even a feet away from me, and I want it to scare the shit outta me, I want new spawn points so I can feel what is like to be at my neigborhood at night

I wonder if they'll do the episodes, not sure how they'd do EP1 since it's mostly smog out, but EP2 would be really interesting at night, making for a much more "covert" feeling moving from place to place evading Combine forces until you get to White Forest.

I liked the idea of making a sunlit Ravenholm more. Not a super sunny colorful Ravenholm, but a more cloudy one, with a dirty sun breaking through the clouds.

God, imagine if they remake Episode 2. The ominous glow of the superportal, Hunters at the dead of night, or God-forbid trying to land a Magnusson device on a Strider in the dark

Day Ravenholm also looks my hometown in Finland, except it's never foggy there.

I have commited heresy and missed over 5 uploads, I shall atone, also love the music :)

I've been waiting for a mod like this for so many years now. A simple change, but a profound difference.

"We don't go to Ravenholm" by day.

Route Kanal at night looks EXACTLY like Dishonored. I love Viktor Antonov’s art style so iconic

I hope these maps are made into separate maps for Gmod. Yeah there's Stormfox 2, but these maps are made with night time in mind. The street lights are actually on.

God, HL2 is such a masterpiece. I remember playing it as a kid in total amazement at the physics engine. It still holds up to this day.

gman: rise and shine mister freeman gordon: just 5 more minutes 12 hours later:

The right mod with the wrong time, can make all the dif-ference in the world.

such a simple change can make a big difference

I can agree that lit up windows dose look a bit ood, it feels like completely different sci-fi world with its own life and infrastructure. But infrustractor was destroyed in 7 hour war. Its not a problem, its just a bit off for a HL 2 fan like me. And I also agree that overall this mod lock DAMN GOOD!

HL2 But Gordon come a few hours late:

Excellent video bro, thanks for posting

What would be a great touch in the canal level is, the moment a barrel goes off, every single unlit window becomes lit

You´are right. By Night it looks way more awesome.

fog? In the winter? Must be a waaarm country

3:22 "it gets foggy during the winter", then you live in ravenholm

Can wait for this to come out! Looks great. also my grammar makes me sound like a bot lol

Ravenholm looks fucking great, SH2 vibes

You don't need aliens to do this to you, when you have Klaus Schwab and the WEF!

Looks so good. Playing through the highway section of the game at night will be interesting.

Honestly this makes more sense than the original due to how tame the Combine in the game seem to be. Sneaking through the City-17 canals in the night seems more likely to work rather than doing it during the day when Gorgon is easy to see. Great mod!

Glad to see you're back at it radhaz! i'm loving these new videos

Every video you make is so satisfying to watch. Thank you!

Rad Chad killing it with videos lately! It made me nostalgic I have to say.

seeing ravenholm during the day gives me a very giddy and excited feeling that i don't quite understand

the times actually make more sense than the OG to me lol. escape sequence in the beginning would seem more probable at night. ravenholm fog too oof

Loving the amount of uploads recently but don't get yourself burnt out from making them

"I could change a skybox and environment light and could call it a day" what a pun

This is absolutely genius! really hope the whole game ends up getting this treatment! and heck while they are at it, let me play entirely Half-Life 2 night, it might not make sense!, but it will be dark, it will be glorious!.

Near the end, I think you wanted to say: The right change at the right place can make all the diffrence in the world, wake up and smell the hashes

the best part I would expect about this mod is the courtyard of Nova Prospekt during daytime, in Half-Life 2 Beta the courtyard was set during daytime, but Valve changed it into night time due to because they trying to add the creepy aesthetic of the prison. I really want to see how mod team will handle this scene on daytime.

That intro I don't know why was screaming silently "Get Your Free TV", that's all I could hear

Can't wait for Gritty-Life 2

Wow, what a simple yet amazing idea!! Highway 17 and Sand Traps probably feel cool and lonely at night. And Follow Freeman with the Sun rising will feel so epic and meaningful!! I wanna play this bad.

All the apartments are fully lit like theyre partying and having a good time in this world. Does not feel locked down or restricted

Zamn Ravenholm be looking good with that fog.

route kanal reminds me of RTBR’s canals with that lighting

No wonder HL is still alive in this very day, its community is basically its bloodline. Even for a mod as simple as this can still keep the game up and running at least for a little longer before the conclusive endgame eventually comes.

this + the hl2 vr mod would be such a new experience

this is phenomenal and needs more attention.... its changing so much in a very pleasant way i would not have thought about that.... while looking like it was intended by the developers like this.... crazy crazy i subscribed and liked lul

Idea: add spotlights to the hunter choppers, gunships, and strikers to add tension for whenever you see a light on you + the light in your eyes This would be great for also knowing where enemies would be aiming.

Absolutely loved that mod, as for Ravenholm i'd like to see less fog imo

As a north Indian i can confirm that the winter has 0 snow and lots of fog so it just feels like that ravenholm is at Pakistan-Indian border The fog still is in the mroning but after 2 pm We sometimes get to see the sun but after 6 its just dark

Lookin' good. I love games that are set at night, Deus Ex still being my favorite.

I love night in games,reminds me of 2001 beta

The mod looks very very good, can't wait to see other chapters of it! By the way, why is your discord server now deleted?