Half-Payne | Idol Hunt | No Failure Run

I'm a bit of a classic TR sucker, so when I saw Vilcabamba for HL1, I pretty much instantly adore it, even if it was a bit short. Imagine my face when I found out a bit later that it got an expansion of sorts called Idol Hunt, having you go through even more Peru-esque maps in the Goldsource engine.

With Half-Payne being the only mod to allow both dual pistols and dual Ingrams (or as some folks like to call it, Uzis, hohoh), it's pretty much a no brainer to mix the mod with this mapset. That, and because Payne is technically quite agile with his shootdodges. It actually saved my hide from Idol Hunt's trickiest jump with the broken bridge.

I wanted the theme to fit enough that I rigged up a silver Browning HP reskin for the pistols and quickly cobbled up a sound addon based off of the stuff I used for the HDest TR reskin set. It's not exactly perfect, but it didn't have to be. Close enough is good enough. Music not included, unfortunately. Idol Hunt doesn't really come with custom tracks, and Half-Payne's own music playback didn't play nice with my multitasking PC. Had to improvise.

I did hit some hiccups with Idol Hunt that I had to work around. First things first, the first map was too beefy for Half-Payne, crashing with an entity limit error. Thankfully, HPayne does come with Vilcabamba already included, so I just ran through that before skipping to Idol Hunt's new bits.

Also cobbled up a map_cfg to give me some stuff when the expansion bit starts. Used the same system to add some of the guns you wouldn't have seen otherwise like the Ingrams and the SAW. It's a tiny thing that's not really super necessary for the modmix, so I won't be uploading them here.


Mods Used:
Half-Payne: https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-payne/
Half-Payne | Remod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-payne...
Idol Hunt: https://www.runthinkshootlive.com/pos...
TR Themed Addon: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1mbyc9...